[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 171 (Wednesday, November 1, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1290-D1291]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MARITIME REGULATORY REFORM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on S. 1356, to deregulate the United States ocean shipping 
industry and sunset the Federal Maritime Commission, after receiving 
testimony from former Senator William D. Hathaway, Chairman, Austin 
Schmitt, Director, Bureau of Economics, and Robert D. Bourgon, General 
Counsel, all of the Federal Maritime Commission; Edward M. Emmett, 
National Industrial Transportation League, Arlington, Virginia; 
Geoffrey N. Giovanetti, Wine and Spirits Shippers Association, 

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Inc., Reston, Virginia, on behalf of the Shippers' Association 
Coalition; Bill McInerney, Phoenix International Freight Services, 
Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the American International Freight 
Association; Peter H. Powell Sr., C.H. Powell Company, Peabody, 
Massachusetts, on behalf of the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders 
Association of America, Inc.; Herzl S. Eisenstadt, Brooklyn, New York, 
on behalf of the International Longshoremen's Association; Christopher 
L. Koch, Sea-Land Service, Inc., Timothy J. Rhein, American President 
Companies, and Murray Graham, Council of European and Japanese National 
Shipowners' Association, all of Washington, D.C.; John P. LaRue, Port 
of Corpus Christi Authority, Corpus Christi, Texas; W. Don Welch, South 
Carolina State Ports Authority, Charleston; Brian McWilliams, 
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, San Francisco, 
California; and William P. Verdon, Crowley Maritime Corporation, 
Oakland, California.
WETLANDS PROTECTION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, 
Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety concluded hearings on S. 
851, to reform the Section 404 wetlands permitting program under the 
Clean Water Act to focus Federal regulatory authority on functioning 
wetlands and to ensure that citizens can obtain permits within a 
reasonable period of time, after receiving testimony from John H. 
Zirschky, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works; 
Robert Perciasepe, Assistant Administrator for Water, Environmental 
Protection Agency; Bernard N. Goode, former Chief, National Regulatory 
Program, United States Corps of Engineers; John D. Echeverria, National 
Audubon Society, Washington, D.C.; James S. Burling, Pacific Legal 
Foundation, Sacramento, California; Robert D. Sokolove, U.S. Wetland 
Services, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland; William D. Lane, Lane Corporation, 
Goldsboro, North Carolina; Steven N. Moyer, Trout Unlimited, Arlington, 
Virginia; and Kenneth F. Bierly, Oregon Division of State Lands, Salem, 
on behalf of the Association of State Wetland Managers.
PROLIFERATION OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations continued hearings to examine the threat of global 
proliferation of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons and weapons-
material, receiving testimony from Gordon C. Oehler, Director, 
Nonproliferation Center, Central Intelligence Agency; Connie J. 
Fenchel, Assistant Director, Strategic Investigations Division, Office 
of Investigations, U.S. Customs Service, Department of the Treasury; 
John P. O'Neill, Special Supervisory Agent, Chief, Counterterrorism 
Section, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; H. 
Allen Holmes, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and 
Low-Intensity Conflict; Frank E. Young, Director, National Disaster 
Medical System, Office of Emergency Preparedness, Public Health 
Service, Department of Health and Human Services; Amy E. Smithson, 
Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington, D.C.; Vil S. Mirzayanov, Moscow, 
Russia, on behalf of the State Research Institute of Organic Chemistry 
and Technology; Milton Leitenberg, University of Maryland, College 
Park; and Michael Moodie, Chemical and Biological Arms Control 
Institute, Alexandria, Virginia.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
WACO AFTERMATH
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
changes in Federal law enforcement as a result of the incident in Waco, 
Texas, after receiving testimony from Kenneth V. Lanning, Supervisory 
Special Agent, Behavioral Science Unit, Robin Montgomery, Special Agent 
in Charge, Critical Incident Response Group, Gary W. Noesner, 
Supervisory Special Agent, Critical Incident Response Group, and 
William J. Esposito, Assistant Director, Criminal Investigative 
Division, all of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of 
Justice; Frank A. Bolz, Frank A. Bolz Associates, Inc., Huntington 
Station, New York; Clint R. Van Zandt, Van Zandt & Associates, 
Fredericksburg, Virginia; Peter Smerick, The Academy Group, Manassas, 
Virginia; and Graeme Craddock, an incarcerated witness.