[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 141 (Tuesday, September 12, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1076-D1077]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--COMMERCE/JUSTICE/STATE/JUDICIARY
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported, with 
amendments, H.R. 2076, making appropriations for the Departments of 
Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996.
APPROPRIATIONS--DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia 
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the 
government of the District of Columbia, receiving testimony from Mayor 
Marion S. Barry, and David A. Clarke, Chairman, Council of the District 
of Columbia, both of Washington, D.C.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, September 14.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations 
approved for full committee consideration, with amendments, H.R. 1868, 
making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and 
related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996.
GOALS 2000/FAMILY VIOLENCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education and Related Agencies concluded hearings on the 
implementation and future of the Goals 2000 education program, after 
receiving testimony from Richard W. Riley, Secretary of Education; and 
Ovide M. Lamontagne, New Hampshire State Board of Education, Concord.
  Also, committee concluded hearings to examine domestic violence 
issues, after receiving testimony from Denise Brown, The Nicole Brown-
Simpson Charitable Foundation, Los Angeles, California; Susan Kelly-
Dreiss, Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Harrisburg; 
Donna Lawson, Covington, Pennsylvania; Margaret Hintz, Lititz, 
Pennsylvania; and Colleen M. Burkett, York, Pennsylvania.

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SPECTRUM REFORM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on proposed legislation to reform Federal Communications 
Commission procedures with regard to their use of auctions for the 
allocation of radio spectrum frequencies for commercial use, after 
receiving testimony from Robert C. Wright, National Broadcasting 
Company, Inc., John S. Reidy, Smith Barney, Inc., and Lawrence K. 
Grossman, all of New York, New York; Thomas Hazlett, University of 
California, Davis; Ralph W. Gabbard, Gray Communications Broadcast 
Group, Lexington, Kentucky, on behalf of the National Association of 
Broadcasters; William F. Duhamel, Duhamel Broadcasting Enterprises, 
Rapid City, South Dakota; and Karen Kerrigan, Small Business Survival 
Committee, Washington, D.C.
ALASKA LANDS EXCHANGE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on H.R. 1266, to approve an agreement between the United States Forest 
Service and Kennecott Greens Creek Mining Company which provides for an 
exchange of lands within the Admiralty Island National Monument in 
Southeast Alaska, after receiving testimony from Jack Ward Thomas, 
Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; and Tom Albanese, 
Kennecott Corporation, Salt Lake City, Utah.
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine the 
status of religious liberty in the United States and whether there is a 
need for further legal protection, receiving testimony from Ralph M. 
Jennings, WFUV-FM/Fordham University, and Rev. James Forbes, Riverside 
Church, both of New York, New York; Colleen K. Pinyan, The Rutherford 
Institute, Washington, D.C.; Ronald W. Rosenberger, Great Falls, 
Virginia; and Lisa Herdahl, Ecru, Mississippi.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
RUBY RIDGE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and 
Government Information resumed hearings to examine certain Federal law 
enforcement actions with regard to the 1992 incident at Ruby Ridge, 
Idaho, receiving testimony from Henry Hudson, former Director, U.S. 
Marshals Service, Department of Justice; Michael Johnson, former United 
States Marshal for the District of Idaho; and in closed session a 
witness from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
  Hearings continue on Thursday, September 14.
NEWBORNS' AND MOTHERS' HEALTH PROTECTION ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 
969, to require that health plans provide coverage for a minimum 
hospital stay for a mother and child following the birth of the child, 
receiving testimony from Senator Bradley; Michael Mennuti, ACOG 
Committee on Obstetric Practice, Washington, D.C.; Richard Marshall, 
Harvard Community Health Plan, Boston, Massachusetts; Sharon Levine, 
The Permanente Medical Group, Inc., Oakland, California; Karen Davies, 
Lawrence, Kansas; Virginia Leigh Fallon, Petaluma, California; Michelle 
and Steve Bauman, Williamstown, New Jersey; Kathleen Fitzgerald, Rhode 
Island Medical Women's Society; Judith Frank, Lebanon, New Hampshire; 
and Palma E. Formica, Old Bridge, New Jersey, on behalf of the American 
Medical Association.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.