[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 193 (Wednesday, December 6, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1424-D1426]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
OFFICE OF RISK ASSESSMENT AND COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS
Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Department Operations, 
Nutrition, and Foreign Agriculture held a hearing to review the USDA's 
Office of Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis. Testimony was 
heard from the following officials of the USDA: Alwynelle Ahl, 
Director, Office of Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis; and 
Keith Collins, Chief Economist.
OVERSIGHT--PACIFIC NORTHWEST POWER SYSTEM
Committee on Commerce: Subcommittee on Energy and Power held an 
oversight hearing on the Pacific Northwest Power System. Testimony was 
heard from Randall W. Hardy, Administrator and CEO, Bonneville Power 
Administration, Department of Energy; and public witnesses.
PARENTS, SCHOOLS, AND VALUES
Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities: Subcommittee on 
Oversight and Investigations concluded hearings on Parents, Schools, 
and Values. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.
GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN: WHAT'S ESSENTIAL?
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight: Subcommittee on Civil 
Service held a hearing on Government Shutdown: What's Essential? 
Testimony was heard from Walter Broadnax, Deputy Secretary, Department 
of Health and Human Services; Dwight Robinson, Acting Deputy Secretary, 
Department of Housing and Urban Development; Thomas P. Glynn, Deputy 
Secretary, Department of Labor; George Munoz, Assistant Secretary, 
Management and Chief Financial Officer, Department of the Treasury; 
Eugene A. Brickhouse, Assistant Secretary, Human 

[[Page D 1425]]
Resources and Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs; Shirley 
A. Chater, Commissioner, SSA; John A. Koskinen, Deputy Director, 
Management, OMB; Christopher H. Schroeder, Deputy Assistant Attorney 
General, Office of Legal Policy, Department of Justice; and Allan D. 
Heuerman, Associate Director, Human Resources Systems Service, OPM.
D.C. FISCAL PROTECTION ACT
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight: Subcommittee on the 
District of Columbia held a hearing on H.R. 2661, District of Columbia 
Fiscal Protection Act of 1995. Testimony was heard from Representative 
Gekas; Edward DeSeve, Controller, OMB; Andrew Brimmer, Chairman, 
District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance 
Authority; the following officials of the District of Columbia: Marion 
Barry, Mayor; Anthony Williams, Chief Financial Officer; Michel Rogers, 
City Administrator; and Marlene Kelly, Deputy Commissioner for Public 
Health; and public witnesses.
UNITED STATES POLICY TOWARD BOSNIA
Committee on International Relations: Continued hearings on United 
States policy toward Bosnia. Testimony was heard from Jeane 
Kirkpatrick, former Permanent U.S. Representative to the United 
Nations; John Bolton, former Assistant Secretary, Department of State; 
and Brent Scowcroft, former National Security Advisor.
  The Committee also held a briefing on this subject. The Committee was 
briefed by Lt. Gen. Rupert Smith, USA, Commander, U.N. Protection Force 
in Bosnia; Adm. Eugene J. Carroll, USN (Ret.), former Director, 
Operations for the Commander-in-Chief, U.S. European Command; James 
Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defense; and Richard Perle, former 
Assistant Secretary, Department of Defense.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES; U.S. SECURITY INTERESTS IN SOUTH ASIA
Committee on International Relations: Subcommittee on Asia and the 
Pacific approved for full Committee action the following measures: H. 
Res. 274, amended, concerning Burma and the U.N. General Assembly; and 
H. Con. Res. 117, concerning writer, political philosopher, human 
rights advocate, and Nobel Peace prize nominee Wei Jingsheng.
  The Subcommittee also held a hearing on U.S. Security Interests in 
South Asia. Testimony was heard from Robin L. Raphael, Assistant 
Secretary, South Asian Affairs, Department of State; Bruce O. Riedel, 
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, 
Department of Defense; and public witnesses.
UNITED STATES GROUND FORCES IN BOSNIA
Committee on National Security: Continued hearings on the proposed 
deployment of United States ground forces to Bosnia. Testimony was 
heard from the following officials of the Department of Defense: Walter 
B. Slocombe, Under Secretary, Policy; and Lt. Gen. H.M. Estes, III, 
USAF, Director for Operations (J-3), The Joint Staff; and Christopher 
Hill, Director, Office of South Central European Affairs, Department of 
State.
RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL DISPOSAL
Committee on National Security: Subcommittee on Military Research and 
Development and Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans of the 
Committee on Resources held a joint hearing on the disposal of 
radioactive material and other toxic waste in oceans and tributaries. 
Testimony was heard from Ambassador David A. Colson, Acting Assistant 
Secretary, Oceans, International Environment, Department of State; from 
the following officials of the Department of Defense: Sherri W. 
Goodman, Deputy Under Secretary, Environmental Security; and RAdm. Marc 
Pelaez, USN, Chief, Naval Research, Department of the Navy; Lawrence K. 
Gershwin, National Intelligence Council, CIA; Philip Valant, Naval 
Research Laboratory, John C. Stennis Space Center, NASA; Lewis Nagy, 
Assistant Commissioner, Policy and Planning, Department of 
Environmental Protection, State of New Jersey; and public witnesses.
CONFERENCE REPORT--VA, HUD, AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a rule waiving all points 
of order against the conference report on 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 the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1996, and against its consideration. The rule further 
waives points of order against the motion printed in the joint 
explanatory statement of the committee on conference to dispose of the 
amendment of the Senate 63. Finally, the rule provides that if the 
conference report is adopted, then a motion that the House insist on 
its disagreement to Senate amendment 63 shall be debatable for 1 hour. 
Testimony was heard from Representative Lewis of California.
SUPERFUND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Science: Subcommittee on Energy and Environment held a 
hearing on Superfund Research and Development: The Role of R&D in a 
Reformed 

[[Page D 1426]]
Superfund. Testimony was heard from Robert J. Huggett, Assistant 
Administrator, Research and Development, EPA; and Lawrence J. Dyckman, 
Associate Director, Resources, Community, and Economic Development 
Division, GAO.
COMMITTEE BUSINESS
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct: Met in executive session to 
consider pending business.
CURRENT WELFARE REFORM SUCCESS STORIES
Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Human Resources held a 
hearing on current welfare reform success stories. Testimony was heard 
from Carmen Nazario, Secretary, Department of Health and Social 
Services, State of Delaware; Stephanie Comai-Page, Social Welfare 
Policy Advisor and Federal Liaison for the Director, Department of 
Social Services, State of Michigan; Joseph Gallant, Commissioner, 
Department of Transitional Assistance, State of Massachusetts; Edward 
L. Schilling, Director, Fond du Lac County, Department of Social 
Services, Fond du Lac, State of Wisconsin; and public witnesses.

Joint Meetings
TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPETITION AND DEREGULATION ACT
Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-
passed versions of S. 652, to provide for a pro-competitive, de-
regulatory national policy framework designed to accelerate rapidly 
private sector deployment of advanced telecommunications and 
information technologies and services to all Americans by opening all 
telecommunications markets to competition, but did not complete action 
thereon, and recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--VA/HUD
Conferees agreed to file a further 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.
BOSNIA
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission): 
Commission held hearings to examine the documentation of crimes against 
humanity in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, receiving testimony 
from David Rohde, Christian Science Monitor, Boston, Massachusetts; 
Barbara C. Wolf, Albany, New York, on behalf of AmeriCares; and Ivan 
Lupis, Human Rights Watch/Helsinki, New York, New York.
  Commission recessed subject to call.