[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 192 (Tuesday, December 5, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1415-D1416]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Maj. Gen. Thomas A. Schwartz, United States Army, for 
appointment to the grade of lieutenant general, and Lt. Gen. Paul E. 
Funk, United States Army, to be placed on the retired list of the 
United States Army in the grade indicated under section 1370 of title 
10, U.S.C., and 1,932 routine nominations in the Army, Navy, and Air 
Force.
OECD SHIPBUILDING AGREEMENT
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on S. 1354, to approve 
and implement the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development 
(OECD) Shipbuilding Trade Agreement, receiving testimony from Jeffrey 
M. Lang, Deputy United States Trade 

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Representative; Albert Bossier, Jr., Avondale Industries, Inc., New 
Orleans, Louisiana; R.T.E. Bowler, III, American Shipbuilding 
Association, Arlington, Virginia; John Dane, III, Trinity Marine Group, 
Inc., Gulfport, Mississippi, representing the American Waterways 
Shipyard Conference and the Shipbuilders Council of America; and Peter 
J. Finnerty, Sea-Land Service, Inc. and CSX Corporation, Washington, 
D.C., representing the American Institute of Merchant Shipping and the 
Coalition in Support of the OECD Commercial Shipbuilding Agreement.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of 
Joshua Gotbaum, of New York, to be an Assistant Secretary of the 
Treasury for Economic Policy, after the nominee testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
LOCAL EMPOWERMENT AND FLEXIBILITY ACT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 88, to 
increase the overall economy and efficiency of Government operations 
and enable more efficient use of Federal funding, by enabling local 
governments and private, nonprofit organizations to use amounts 
available under certain Federal assistance programs in accordance with 
approved local flexibility plans, receiving testimony from Senator 
Hatfield; Judy A. England-Joseph, Director, Housing and Community 
Development Issues, General Accounting Office; John A. Koskinen, Deputy 
Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget; Susan A. 
Cameron, Tillamook County Health Department, Tillamook, Oregon; and R. 
Scott Fosler, National Academy of Public Administration, and Charles 
Griffiths, Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, both of 
Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PARENTAL RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts concluded hearings on S. 984, to protect the fundamental 
right of a parent to direct the upbringing of a child of the parent, 
after receiving testimony from Representative Largent; Michael P. 
Farris, Home School Legal Defense Association, Purcellville, Virginia; 
Colleen K. Pinyan, The Rutherford Institute, Washington, D.C.; Sammy J. 
Quintana, Pojoaque Valley School Board, Santa Fe, New Mexico, on behalf 
of the National School Boards Association; Wade F. Horn, National 
Fatherhood Initiative, Gaithersburg, Maryland; Margaret F. Brinig, 
George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, Virginia; and E. W. 
Angell, Toccoa, Georgia.
WHITEWATER
Special Committee to Investigate the Whitewater Development Corporation 
and Related Matters: Committee resumed hearings to examine issues 
relative to the Whitewater Development Corporation, receiving testimony 
from Steven Irons, Supervisory Special Agent, Kevin Kendrick, 
Supervisory Special Agent, and Donald Pettus, former Special Agent in 
Charge, all of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Douglas Frazier, 
Assistant Director for Evaluation and Review, Executive Office of 
United States Attorneys, and Charles Banks, former United States 
Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, all of the Department of 
Justice; and William Kennedy, Rose Law Firm, Little Rock, Arkansas, 
former Associate Counsel to the President.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.