[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 167 (Thursday, October 26, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1260-D1261]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Development: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 1260, to reform and consolidate the public and assisted housing 
programs of the United States, and to redirect primary responsibility 
for these programs from the Federal Government to States and 
localities, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Dwight P. Robinson, of Michigan, to be Deputy 
Secretary, John A. Knubel, of Maryland, to be Chief Financial Officer, 
Hal C. DeCell III, of Mississippi, to be an Assistant Secretary, and 
Kevin G. Chavers, of Pennsylvania, to be President, Government National 
Mortgage Association, all of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development, Joseph H. Neely, of Mississippi, to be a Member of the 
Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Alicia 
Haydock Munnell, of Massachusetts, to be a Member of the Council of 
Economic Advisers, Norman S. Johnson, of Utah, and Isaac C. Hunt, Jr., 
of Ohio, both to be Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission, 
and Albert James Dwoskin, of Virginia, to be a Director of the 
Securities Investor Protection Corporation.
FEDERAL FOREST MANAGEMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management held oversight hearings to review alternatives 
to federal forest management and ownership, receiving testimony from 
Sally K. Fairfax, University of California, Berkeley; Jon A. Souder, 
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff; and Curtis Johnson, Pierre, 
South Dakota, and Jim Magagna, Cheyenne, Wyoming, both on behalf of the 
Western States Land Commissioners Association.
  Hearings continue on Thursday, November 2.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  The nominations of R. Guy Cole, Jr., of Ohio, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, Susan J. Dlott, to be United 
States District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio, Stephen M. 
Orlofsky, to be United States District Judge for the District of New 
Jersey, Barry Ted Moskowitz, to be United States District Judge for the 
Southern District of California, John R. Tunheim, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Minnesota, and Juan Abran DeHerrera, 
to be United States Marshal for the District of Wyoming;
  H.R. 660, to modify the exemption from certain familial status 
discrimination prohibitions granted to housing for older persons, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 848, to grant the consent of Congress to an amendment of the 
Historic Chattahoochee Compact between the States of Alabama and 
Georgia; and
  S. 1136, to control and prevent commercial counterfeiting, with an 
amendment.
SADDLEBACK MOUNTAIN--ARIZONA SETTLEMENT ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1341, 
to provide for the transfer of certain lands to the Salt River Pima-
Maricopa Indian Community and the city of Scottsdale, Arizona, after 
receiving testimony from Terrance L. Virden, Acting Director, Office of 
Trust Responsibilities, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the 
Interior; and Mayor Herbert R. Drinkwater, and Ivan Makil, Salt River 
Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, both of Scottsdale, Arizona.
MEDICAID REFORM: NURSING HOME QUALITY
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings on Medicaid 
reform issues, focusing on proposals to strengthen the enforcement of 
uniform Federal protections and standards for nursing home residents, 
after receiving testimony from Scott R. Severns, National Citizens' 
Coalition for Nursing Home Reform, and Sheldon L. Goldberg, American 
Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, both of Washington, 
D.C.; John F. Willis, Texas Department on Aging, Austin, on behalf of 
the National Association of State Ombudsman Program; Ellen T. Reap, 
Delaware Office of Health Facilities Licensing and Certification, 
Wilmington, on behalf of the Association of Health Facility Survey 
Agencies; Catherine Hawes, Research Triangle Institute, Research 
Triangle Park, North Carolina; Keith Weikel, Health Care and Retirement 
Corporation of America, 

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Toledo, Ohio, on behalf of the American Health Care Association; 
William M. Russell, St. Elizabeth Home, Baltimore, Maryland; Dorothy 
Garrison, Mobile, Alabama; Mildred Manning, New Market, Virginia; and 
Gloria Messerley, Linville, Virginia.
WHITEWATER
Special Committee To Investigate Whitewater Development Corporation and 
Related Matters: Committee met to continue to discuss the status of the 
hearings to examine issues relating to the President's involvement with 
the Whitewater Development Corporation.
  Committee recessed subject to call.