[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 193 (Wednesday, December 6, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1422-D1423]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BOSNIA
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to review the 
Bosnian Peace Agreement, the North Atlantic Council military plan and 
the proposed mission for United States military forces deployed with 
the Implementation Force (IFOR), receiving testimony from William J. 
Perry, Secretary of Defense; Richard C. Holbrooke, Secretary of State 
for European and Canadian Affairs; and Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, 
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following bills:
  S. 884, to designate certain public lands in the State of Utah as 
wilderness, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 2437, to provide for the exchange of certain lands in Gilpin 
County, Colorado, in lieu of S. 985;
  S. 342, to establish the Cache La Poudre River National Water 
Heritage Area in the State of Colorado, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute;
  H.R. 562, to modify the boundaries of Walnut Canyon National Monument 
in the State of Arizona; and
  S. 509, 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.
LANGUAGE OF GOVERNMENT ACT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 356, 
to make English the official language of the Federal Government, 
receiving testimony from Senator Shelby; Representatives Emerson and 
Roth; Mauro E. Mujica, U.S. English, Inc., Washington, DC; Lowell 
Gallaway, Ohio University, Athens; Sayyid Muhammad Syeed, Islamic 
Society of North America, Plainfield, Indiana; Shahab Oarni, Asian 
American Union, Baltimore, Maryland; and Miroslava Vukelich, Los 
Angeles, California.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
OSHA REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources/Committee on Small Business: 
Committees concluded joint hearings on S. 1423, to make modifications 
to certain provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 
1970, focusing on the needs of small businesses, after receiving 
testimony from Paul Middendorf, Georgia State OSHA Consultation 
Program, Atlanta; Mark Hyner, Whyco Chromium Company, Thomaston, 
Connecticut; Daniel E. Richardson, Latta Road Nursing Homes, Rochester, 
New York; Earl Bradley, EBAA Iron, Inc., Eastland, Texas; Mike 
McMichael, McMichael Company, Central, South Carolina; John Cheffer, 
American Society of Safety Engineers, Des Plaines, Illinois; David 
Carroll, Woodpro Cabinetry, Inc., Cabool, Missouri, on behalf of the 
Voluntary Protection Programs Participants' Association; and Robert A. 
Georgine, Building and Construction Trades Department (AFL-CIO), and 
Deborah Berkowitz, United Food and Commercial Workers International 
Union, both of Washington, DC.
NATIVE AMERICAN GRAVES PROTECTION AND REPATRIATION ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings on 
the implementation of the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (P.L. 101-601), after receiving testimony from 
Katherine H. Stevenson, Associate Director, Cultural Resource 
Stewardship and Partnerships, National Park Service, Department of the 
Interior; Tessie Naranjo, Santa Clara Pueblo, Espanola, New Mexico, and 
Dan L. Monroe, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, both on 
behalf of the National Review Committee for NAGPRA; Cecil F. Antone, 
Gila River Indian Community, Sacaton, Arizona; Elizabeth Blackowl, 
Pawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Pawnee, Oklahoma; Walter Echohawk, Native 
American Rights Fund, Boulder, Colorado; Jesse Taken Alive and Tim 
Mentz, both of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Fort Yates, North Dakota; 
and William J. Moynihan, Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.

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  Committee recessed subject to call.
WHITEWATER
Special Committee to Investigate the Whitewater Development Corporation 
and Related Matters: Committee resumed hearings to examine certain 
issues relative to the Whitewater Development Corporation, receiving 
testimony from John Keeney, Deputy Attorney General, Criminal Division, 
Joseph Gangloff, Principal Deputy Chief, Public Integrity Section, G. 
Allen Carver, Principal Deputy Chief, Frauds Section, and Gerald 
McDowell, Chief of Assets and Forfeiture, all of the Department of 
Justice.
  Committee will meet again tomorrow.