[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 142 (Wednesday, September 13, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1085-D1086]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--VA/HUD
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported, with 
amendments, H.R. 2099, making appropriations for the Departments of 
Veterans Affairs, and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry 
independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies approved for full 
committee consideration, with amendments, H.R. 2127, making 
Appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, 
and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1996.
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural 
Development, and Related Agencies approved for full committee 
consideration, with amendments, H.R. 1976, making appropriations for 
agriculture, rural development, Food and Drug Administration, and 
related agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
1996.
NINTH CIRCUIT COURT REORGANIZATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on proposals 
to divide the current United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth 
Circuit into two circuits, including S. 853 and S. 956, after receiving 
testimony from Senators Gorton, Burns, Inouye, Reid, and Murray; Chief 
Judge J. Clifford Wallace, United States Court of Appeals for the 

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Ninth Circuit, San Diego, California; Judge Diarmuid F. O. Scannlain, 
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Portland, Oregon; 
Chief Judge Gerald Bard Tjoflat, United States Court of Appeals for the 
Eleventh Circuit, Jacksonville, Florida; Arthur D. Hellman, University 
of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Charles E. 
Jones, Jennings, Strouss and Salmon, Phoenix, Arizona; and John McKay, 
Cairncross & Hempelmann, Seattle, Washington.
IMMIGRATION REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration held hearings 
on legal immigration reform proposals, receiving testimony from Mary A. 
Ryan, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs; Doris 
Meissner, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, 
Department of Justice; John Frazier, Deputy Administrator, Wage and 
Hour Division, Department of Labor; Vernon Briggs, Cornell University, 
Ithaca, New York; Phil Martin, University of California, Davis; 
Demetrios Papademitriou, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 
Jeffrey Passel, Urban Institute, Jackie Bernarz, Business Immigration 
Coalition, Rudy Oswald, Department of Economic Research (AFL-CIO), and 
Dan Stein, Federation for American Immigration Reform, all of 
Washington, D.C.; Michael Teitelbaum, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New 
York, New York; and Antonia Hernandez, Mexican American Legal Defense 
and Educational Fund, Los Angeles, California.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Paul M. Homan, of the District of Columbia, to be Special 
Trustee, Office of Special Trustee for American Indians, Department of 
the Interior, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his 
own behalf. Testimony was also received from Elouise C. Cobell, 
Browning, Montana, on behalf of the Intertribal Monitoring Association 
on Indian Trust Funds.