[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 177 (Thursday, November 9, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1331-D1332]
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 Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  The nominations of Jane Bobbitt, of West Virginia, to be Assistant 
Secretary of Commerce for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, 
Charles A. Hunnicutt, of Georgia, to be Assistant Secretary for 
International Aviation, Nancy Elizabeth McFadden, of California, to be 
General Counsel, and Gail Clements McDonald, of Maryland, to be 
Administrator, and George D. Milidrag, of Michigan, to be a Member of 
the Advisory Board, both of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development 
Corporation, all of the Department of Transportation, Ernest J. Moniz, 
of Massachusetts, to be an Associate Director of the Office of Science 
and Technology Policy, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration promotions list received in the Senate on October 13, 
1995, and certain United States Coast Guard promotions lists;
  S. 1396, to provide for the regulation of surface transportation, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1239, to amend title 49, United States Code, with respect to the 
regulation of interstate transportation by common carriers engaged in 
civil aviation, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1164, to amend the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 
1980 with respect to inventions made under cooperative research and 
development agreements, with an amendment; and
  S. 776, to authorize funds for programs of the Atlantic Striped Bass 
Conservation Act and the Anadromous Fish Conservation Act, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute.
PUBLIC LANDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Parks, 
Historic Preservation and Recreation held hearings on S. 342, to 
establish the Cache La Poudre River National Water Heritage Area in the 
State of Colorado, S. 364 and H.R. 629, bills to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to participate in the operation of certain 
visitor facilities associated with, but outside the boundaries of, 
Rocky Mountain National Park in the State of Colorado, S. 489, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into an appropriate 
form of agreement with the Town of Grand Lake, Colorado, authorizing 
the town to maintain permanently a cemetery in the Rocky Mountain 
National Park, S. 608, to establish the New Bedford Whaling National 
Historical Park in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and S. 231 and H.R. 562, 
bills to modify the boundaries of Walnut Canyon National Monument in 
the State of Arizona, after receiving testimony from Senators Kennedy 
and Kerry; Representatives Blute, Frank, Allard, and McInnis; Denis P. 
Galvin, Associate Director, Professional Services, National Park 
Service, Department of the Interior; Mark Reimers, Deputy Chief, 
Programs and Legislation, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; 
Mayor Gene M. Stover, Grand Lake, Colorado; William S. Carle, H.W. 
Stewart, Inc., Estes Park, Colorado; Curt W. Buchholtz, Estes Park, 
Colorado, on behalf of the Rocky Mountain National Park Associates, 
Inc. and the Rocky Mountain Nature Association; Brian Werner, Loveland, 
Colorado, on behalf of the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District 
and the Poudre River Trust; Anne B. Brengle, Old Dartmouth Historical 
Society Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts; and Betsy McKellar, 
Friends of Walnut Canyon, Flagstaff, Arizona.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nominations of Phillip A. Singerman, of Pennsylvania, to 
be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development, and Rear 
Adm. John Carter Albright, National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration, to be a Member of the Mississippi River Commission.
FAMILY PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on H.R. 
1271, to protect the privacy of families by requiring parental consent 
for certain types of information asked of minors in Federally funded 
surveys and evaluations, receiving testimony from Senator Grassley; 
Sally Katzen, Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory 
Affairs, Office of Management and Budget; Wade F. Horn, Gaithersburg, 
Maryland, on behalf of the National Fatherhood Initiative; Art Mathias, 
Christian Coalition of Alaska, Anchorage; Robert H. Knight, Family 
Research Council, and Felice J. Levine, American Sociological 
Association, on behalf of the Research and Privacy Coalition, both of 
Washington, D.C.; Lloyd D. Johnston, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; 
Sue Rusche, National Families in Action, Atlanta, Georgia; and Matthew 
Hilton, Springville, Utah.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items: 

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  The nominations of Sidney R. Thomas, of Montana, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Todd J. Campbell, to be United 
States District Judge for the Middle District of Tennessee, P. Michael 
Duffy, to be United States District Judge for the District of South 
Carolina, Kim McLane Wardlaw, to be United States District Judge for 
the Central District of California, and E. Richard Webber, to be United 
States District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri; and
  S.J. Res. 38, granting the consent of Congress to the Vermont-New 
Hampshire Interstate Public Water Supply Compact.
  Also, committee ordered reported H.J. Res. 79, proposing an amendment 
to the Constitution of the United States authorizing the Congress and 
the States to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the 
United States, and failed to approve S. Res. 104, referring S. 676 
entitled ``A bill for the relief of D.W. Jacobson, Roland Karkala, and 
Paul Bjorgen of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, and for other purposes'' to 
the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims for a 
report on the bill.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee will meet again on Wednesday, November 15.
WHITEWATER
Special Committee to Investigate Whitewater Development Corporation and 
Related Matters: Committee continued hearings to examine certain issues 
relative to Whitewater Development Corporation, focusing on the 
handling of certain documents following the death of Deputy White House 
Counsel Vincent Foster, receiving testimony from Jane C. Sherburne, 
Special Counsel to the President; and Lloyd Cutler, former Special 
Counsel to the President.
  Hearings continue on Tuesday, November 14.