[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 194 (Thursday, December 7, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1431-D1432]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
PROHIBITION OF RETROACTIVE TAX INCREASES
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 94, to 
prohibit the House of Representatives or the Senate from considering 
any measure that increases a tax and applies such increase to taxable 
years beginning before the date of the enactment of the law, receiving 
testimony from Senators Coverdell and Hutchison; Joseph E. Schmitz, 
Besozzi, Gavin, Craven, and Schmitz, Nancy L. Mitchell, Citizens for a 
Sound Economy, Peter Ferrara, Americans For Tax Reform, and Rick Rule, 
Covington and Burling, all of Washington, D.C.; Wayne Nelson, Winner, 
South Dakota, on behalf of Communicating for Agriculture, Inc.; and 
Robert J. Proctor, Southeastern Legal Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  The nominations of Hugh Lawson, to be United States District Judge 
for the Middle District of Georgia, Patricia A. Gaughan, to be United 
States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, John Thomas 
Marten, to be United States District Judge for the District of Kansas, 
and Tommy Edward Jewel III, of New Mexico, to be a Member of the Board 
of Directors of the States Justice Institute;

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  S. 956, to amend title 28, United States Code, to divide the ninth 
judicial circuit of the United States into two circuits, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  S. 1340, to direct the President to appoint a Commission on 
Concentration in the Livestock Industry to review and report on 
specified meat packing industry matters, including certain studies, 
effects of antitrust laws, and prices, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute.
SENATE TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings to 
examine information management issues relative to United States Senate 
technology, receiving testimony from Christopher Hoenig, Director of 
Information Management Issues, General Accounting Office; Commander 
Craig B. Luigart, Program Manager, Information Network Project Office, 
Department of the Navy; Kimberly Jenkins, Highway 1, Washington, D.C.; 
William A. Ruh, MITRE Corporation, McLean, Virginia; Ron J. Ponder, 
AT&T, Basking Ridge, New Jersey; and Carl B. Patch, Mobil Oil, Fairfax, 
Virginia.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.