[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 158 (Thursday, October 12, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1197-D1198]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NATIONAL EXPORT STRATEGY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
International Finance concluded hearings to examine the Third Annual 
Report of the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee, focusing on the 
National Export Strategy and the future of American competitiveness, 
after receiving testimony from Ronald H. Brown, Secretary of Commerce, 
Kenneth D. Brody, President and Chairman, Export-Import Bank of the 
United States, and Philip Lader, Administrator, Small Business 
Administration, all on behalf of the Trade Promotion Coordinating 
Committee.
AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT REFORM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Aviation resumed hearings on S. 1239, to reform the Federal Aviation 
Administration's personnel and procurement operations, and regulatory 
and rulemaking procedures, and to enable the FAA to convert to a 
primarily user-funded entity, receiving testimony from Carol Hallett, 
Air Transport Association of America, and Patricia Friend, Association 
of Flight Attendants, both of Washington, D.C.; Rex McClelland, Delta 
Air Lines, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia; Robert L. Crandall, American 
Airlines, Inc., Ft. Worth, Texas; William Franke, America West 
Airlines, Phoenix, Arizona; Herbert D. Kelleher, Southwest Airlines 
Co., Dallas, Texas; and Frederick W. Smith, Federal Express 
Corporation, Memphis, Tennessee.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Jim Sasser, of Tennessee, to be Ambassador to the 
People's Republic of China, after the nominee, who was introduced by 
Vice President Gore, testified and answered questions in his own 
behalf.
CHINESE MILITARY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs concluded hearings to examine the growth and role of the 
Chinese military, after receiving testimony from Arthur Waldron, U.S. 
Naval War College, Providence, Rhode Island; Gary White, on behalf of 
the Wisconsin Project of Nuclear Arms Control, Keith W. Eirinberg, 
Center for Strategic and International Studies, and John J. 

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Schultz, all of Washington, D.C.; Ross H. Munro, Foreign Policy 
Research Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Chiu Hung-dah, 
University of Maryland Law School, College Park.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 1180, to increase State flexibility in the use of mental health 
and substance abuse block grant funds while improving program 
accountability, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Mel Carnahan, of Missouri, to be a Member of the 
Board of Trustees of the Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation, Chester 
A. Crocker, of the District of Columbia, Max M. Kampelman, of the 
District of Columbia, and Seymour M. Lipset, of Virginia, each to be a 
Member of the Board of Directors of the United States Institute of 
Peace, Marc R. Pacheco, of Massachusetts, to be a Member of the Board 
of Trustees of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation, and 
Eli J. Segal, of Massachusetts, to be a Member of the Board of 
Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service.