[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 134 (Thursday, August 10, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1023-D1024]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education and Related Agencies concluded hearings to 
examine the need to continue funding Title X and other Federal health 
programs that benefit women, after receiving testimony from Donna E. 
Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services; Judith M. DeSarno, 
National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, and 
Charmaine Yoest, on behalf of the Family Research Council, both of 
Washington, D.C.; Barbara Maves, Planned Parenthood of East Central 
Indiana, Muncie, and Kathleen Turner, New York, New York, both on 
behalf of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America; and Leon 
Eisenberg, Harvard University Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 1142, to authorize funds for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration, with an amendment. (As approved by the committee the 
bill authorizes $1.81 billion for fiscal year 1996, $2.02 billion for 
fiscal year 1997, and $2.03 billion for fiscal year 1998.);
  S. 1141, to authorize funds for the activities of the Under Secretary 
of Commerce for Technology, and for Scientific Research Services and 
Construction of Research Facilities activities of the National 
Institute of Standards and Technology. (As approved by the committee 
the bill authorizes $770 million for fiscal year 1996 and $765 million 
for each of the fiscal years 1997 and 1998 for Technology 
Administration, and $765 million for each of the fiscal years 1996, 
1997, and 1998 for the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology.);
  S. 470, to prohibit the distribution to the public of violent video 
programming during hours when children are reasonably likely to 
comprise a substantial portion of the audience;
  S. 772, to provide for an assessment of the violence broadcast on 
television;
  S. 604, to relieve farmers and retail farm suppliers from limitations 
on maximum driving and on-duty time in the transportation of 
agricultural commodities or farm supplies if such transportation occurs 
within 100-air mile radius of the source of the commodities or the 
distribution point for the farm supplies, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 1139, to revitalize and stabilize the maritime industry in the 
United States to insure national and economic security;
  S. 810, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to remove the Coastal 
Barrier Resources System a tract of land in South Carolina that was 
added to the System without notice to the county in which the tract is 
located, with an amendment;
  S. 1084, to provide for the conveyance of the C.S.S. Hunley to the 
State of South Carolina; and
  The nominations of Jay C. Ehle, of Ohio, to be a Member of the 
Advisory Board of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, 
and Robert Talcott Francis II, of Massachusetts, and John Goglia, of 
Massachusetts, each to be a Member of the National Transportation 
Safety Board.

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EMERGENCY SALVAGE TIMBER SALE PROGRAM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Lands Management concluded oversight hearings on the 
implementation of section 2001 (relating to emergency salvage of 
diseased dead timber on Federal forest lands) of the Fiscal Year 1995 
Emergency Appropriations Supplemental and Rescissions bill (P.L. 104-
19), after receiving testimony from James R. Lyons, Under Secretary of 
Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment.
NOMINATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
on the nomination of Greta Joy Dicus, of Arkansas, to be a Member of 
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, after the nominee, who was 
introduced by Senator Bumpers, testified and answered questions in her 
own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. Con. Res. 22, expressing the sense of the Congress that the United 
States should participate in Expo '98 in Lisbon, Portugal; and
  The nominations of David W. Burke, of New York, Cheryl F. Halpern, of 
New Jersey, Edward E. Kaufman, of Delaware, Tom C. Korologos, of 
Virginia, Bette Bao Lord, of New York, Alberto J. Mora, of Florida, 
Marc B. Nathanson, of California, and Carl Spielvogel, of New York, 
each to be a Member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, United 
States Information Agency, William H. Courtney, of West Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Georgia, Stanley T. Escudero, of Florida, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Uzbekistan, Mark D. Gearan, of 
Massachusetts, to be Director of the Peace Corps, and Joseph A. Presel, 
of Rhode Island, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of 
service as Special Negotiator for Nagorno-Karabakh.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. 868, to provide authority for leave transfer for Federal employees 
who are adversely affected by disasters or emergencies;
  S. 699, authorizing funds for the Office of Government Ethics;
  H.R. 2108, to permit the Washington Convention Center Authority to 
expend revenues for the operation and maintenance of the existing 
Washington Convention Center and for preconstruction activities 
relating to a new convention center in the District of Columbia, to 
permit a designated authority of the District of Columbia to borrow 
funds for the preconstruction activities relating to a sports arena in 
the District of Columbia and to permit certain revenues to be pledged 
as security for the borrowing of such funds;
  An original bill to revise and extend authorities for the 
Congressional Award Board; and
  The nominations of Jacob Joseph Lew, of New York, to be Deputy 
Director, Office of Management and Budget, William H. LeBlanc III, of 
Louisiana, to be a Commissioner of the Postal Rate Commission, Beth 
Susan Slavet, of Massachusetts, to be a Member of the Merit Systems 
Protection Board, Sheryl R. Marshall, of Massachusetts, to be a Member 
of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, Jerome A. Stricker, 
of Kentucky, to be a Member of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment 
Board, Roberta L. Gross, of the District of Columbia, to be Inspector 
General, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Stephen D. 
Potts, of Maryland, to be Director of the Office of Government Ethics.
U.S. COCAINE SENTENCING POLICY
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine United 
States Sentencing Commission recommendations for cocaine sentencing, 
receiving testimony from Jo Ann Harris, Assistant Attorney General, 
Criminal Division, Department of Justice; Richard P. Conaboy, Chairman, 
Michael Goldsmith, Commissioner, and Wayne A. Budd, Commissioner, all 
of the United States Sentencing Commission; Reuben Greenberg, 
Charleston Police Department, Charleston, South Carolina; and Arthur 
Curry, Silver Spring, Maryland.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
WHITEWATER
Special Committee to Investigate the Whitewater Development Corporation 
and Related Matters: Committee continued hearings to examine issues 
relative to the President's involvement with the Whitewater Development 
Corporation, focusing on certain events following the death of Deputy 
White House Counsel Vincent Foster, receiving testimony from David 
Margolis, Associate Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice; and 
receiving further testimony from Bernard W. Nussbaum, Wachtell, Lipton, 
Rosen & Katz, New York, New York, former White House Counsel.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.