[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 182 (Thursday, November 16, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1363-D1365]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on Commerce: Subcommittee on Health and Environment approved 
for full committee action the following bills: H.R. 325, to amend the 
Clean Air Act to provide for an optional provision for the reduction of 
work-related vehicle trips and miles traveled in ozone nonattainment 
areas designated as severe; and H.R. 1787, to amend the Federal Food, 
Drug, and Cosmetic Act to repeal the saccharin notice requirements.
OLDER AMERICANS AMENDMENTS
Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities: Subcommittees on 
Early Childhood, Youth and Families approved for full Committee action 
amended H.R. 2570, Older Americans Amendments of 1995.
MEDICARE TRANSACTION SYSTEM STATUS
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight: Subcommittee on Human 
Resources and Intergovernmental Relations and the Subcommittee on 
Government Management, Information, and Technology held a joint hearing 
on the Status of the Medicare Transaction System: The Health Care 
Financing Administration's Planned Data System to Control Fraud/Abuse. 
Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Health Care 
Financing Administration, Department of Health and Human Services: 
Bruce C. Vladek, Administrator; and Carol Walton, Director, Bureau of 
Program Operations; the following officials of the GAO: Frank Reilly, 
Director, Information Management and Technology Division; and 
Christopher Hoenig, Director, Information Management Policy Issues; and 
public witnesses.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Committee on House Oversight: Continued hearings on Campaign Finance 
Reform, with emphasis on Political Action Committees. Testimony was 
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Representatives Gilchrest, Dickey, Maloney, Lewis of Georgia, White, 
and Gutierrez; and public witnesses.
SNOWBASIN LAND EXCHANGE ACT
Committee on Resources: Ordered reported amended H.R. 2402, Snowbasin 
Land Exchange Act of 1995.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources held 
a hearing on the following: H.R. 1232, Reclamation Facilities Transfer 
Act; H.R. 2609, Texas Reclamation Projects Indebtedness Purchase Act; 
and H.R. 2644, Missouri River Basin, Pick-Sloan Projects Facility 
Transfers Act. Testimony was heard from Representatives Skeen and 
Laughlin; and public witnesses.
BOSNIA
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a modified closed rule 
providing for one hour of general debate on H.R. 2606, to prohibit the 
use of funds appropriated to the Department of Defense from being used 
for the deployment on the ground of United States Armed Forces in the 
Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of any peacekeeping 
operation, or as part of any implementation force, unless funds for 
such deployment are specifically appropriated by law. All points of 
order are waived against the consideration of the bill. The rule 
provides one motion to amend by the Minority Leader or his designee, 
which shall be in order without demand for division of the question, 
shall be considered as read and shall be debatable for one hour equally 
divided and controlled between a proponent and an opponent. The rule 
provides that if the minority amendment is not offered, debate time 
shall be extended for an additional hour. Finally, the rule provides 
one motion to recommit, with instructions only offered by the Minority 
Leader or his designee. Testimony was heard from Representatives 
Hefley, Dornan, Buyer, Bartlett, Cox, Rohrabacher, and Metcalf.
CONFERENCE REPORT--SEVEN YEAR BALANCED BUDGET RECONCILIATION ACT
Committee on Rules: Committee granted, by a vote of 9 to 4, a rule to 
vacate the proceedings by which the conference report on H.R. 2491, 
Seven-Year Balanced Budget Reconciliation Act was filed and authorizes 
the managers to immediately refile the report in the form actually 
signed and ordered reported, with the corrected part printed in section 
3 of the rule. The rule provides that the existing signatures of the 
conferees shall remain valid as authorizing the presentation of the 
conference report to the House in its corrected form. The rule waives 
all points of order against the new conference report and its 
consideration; and the conference report shall be considered as read. 
The rule provides two hours of general debate equally divided and 
controlled between the chairman and ranking minority member of the 
Committee on the Budget. The rule provides one motion to recommit which 
may not contain instructions. Finally, the rule provides that following 
the disposition of the conference report no further action on the bill 
is in order except by subsequent order of the House. Testimony was 
heard from Chairman Kasich and Representatives Sabo and Gibbons.
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
Committee on Science: Subcommittee on Energy and Environment held a 
hearing on Climate Models and Projections of Potential Impacts of 
Global Climate Change. Testimony was heard from Peter F. Guerrero, 
Director, Environmental Protection Issues, Resources, Community, and 
Economic Development Division, GAO; Jerry Mahlman, Director, 
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA, Department of Commerce; 
David Gardner, Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation, EPA; Robert 
T. Watson, Associate Director of Environment, Office of Science and 
Technology Policy; and public witnesses.
COMMITTEE BUSINESS
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct: Met in executive session to 
consider pending business.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES AND RESOLUTIONS
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Ordered reported the 
following: H.R. 2594, Railroad Unemployment Insurance Amendments Act of 
1995; H.R. 308, Hopewell Township Investment Act of 1995; H.R. 255, to 
designate the Federal Justice Building in Miami, FL, as the ``James 
Lawrence King Federal Justice Building;'' H.R. 395, to designate the 
U.S. courthouse and Federal building to be constructed at the 
southeastern corner of Liberty and South Virginia Streets in Reno, NV, 
as the ``Bruce R. Thompson United States Courthouse and Federal 
Building;'' H.R. 653, to designate the U.S. courthouse under 
construction in White Plains, NY, as the ``Thurgood Marshall United 
States Courthouse;'' H.R. 840, to designate the Federal building and 
U.S. courthouse located at 215 South Evans Street in Greenville, NC, as 
the ``Walter B. Jones Federal Building and United States Courthouse;'' 
H.R. 869, as amended, to designate the Federal building and U.S. 
courthouse located at 125 Market Street in Youngstown, OH, as the 
``Thomas D. Lambros Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse;'' H.R. 965, 
to designate the Federal building located at 600 Martin Luther King, 
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Place in Louisville, KY, as the ``Romano L. Mazzoli Federal Building;'' 
H.R. 1804, to designate the U.S. Post Office-Courthouse located at 
South 6th and Rogers Avenue, Fort Smith, AR as the ``Judge Isaac C. 
Parker Federal Building;'' and H.R. 2636, to transfer jurisdiction over 
certain parcels of Federal real property located in the District of 
Columbia.
  The Committee also approved 52 GSA resolutions.
FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY--IC21
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Continued hearings on IC21: 
The Intelligence Community in the 21st Century. Testimony was heard 
from Lt. Gen. James J. Clapper (Ret.), former Director of the Defense 
Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, and the following former 
Deputy Directors, CIA: Richard J. Kerr and John N. McMahon.

Joint Meetings
ALASKA NATIVES
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the 
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs concluded joint oversight hearings 
with the House Committee on Resources to examine the Federal-State 
Alaska Natives Commission report to Congress transmitted in May 1994 on 
the status of Alaska natives, after receiving testimony from Alaska 
Governor Tony Knowles, Juneau; Mary Jane Fate and John Schaeffer, both 
on behalf of the Alaska Natives Commission, Fairbanks; Julie E. Kitka 
and Harold Napoleon, both of Anchorage, Alaska, Walter Soboleff, 
Juneau, Alaska, and Rachael Craig, Kotzebue, Alaska, all on behalf of 
the Alaska Federation of Natives; Melissa Berns, Alaska Federation of 
Natives Youth Council, Old Harbor, Alaska; Sarah Scanlon, NANA Regional 
Corporation, Kotzebue, Alaska; and Doug Webb, Alyeska Pipeline Service 
Company, Anchorage, Alaska.
APPROPRIATIONS--VA/HUD
Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between 
the Senate- and House-passed versions of 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 fiscal year ending September 
30, 1996.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Conferees on Wednesday, November 15, agreed to file a conference report 
on the differences between the Senate- and House-passed versions of 
H.R. 2126, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 1996.
BUDGET RECONCILIATION
Conferees on Wednesday, November 15, agreed to file a conference report 
on the differences between the Senate- and House-passed versions of 
H.R. 2491, to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 105 of the 
concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1996.
NATIONAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM DESIGNATION ACT
Conferees on Wednesday, November 15, agreed to file a conference report 
on the differences between the Senate- and House-passed versions of S. 
440, to amend title 23, United States Code, to provide for the 
designation of the National Highway System.