[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 197 (Tuesday, December 12, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1448-D1449]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
IRAN FOREIGN OIL SANCTIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 
1228, to impose sanctions on foreign persons exporting petroleum 
products, natural gas, or related technology to Iran.
NATIONAL HERITAGE AREAS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Parks, 
Historic Preservation and Recreation concluded hearings on S. 873, to 
establish the South Carolina National Heritage Corridor, S. 944, to 
establish the Ohio River Corridor Study Commission, S. 945, to modify 
the boundaries of the Illinois and Michigan Canal Heritage Corridor, S. 
1020, to establish the Augusta Canal National Heritage Area in the 
State of Georgia, S. 1110, to establish guidelines for the designation 
of National Heritage Areas, S. 1127, to establish the Vancouver 
National Historic Reserve in the State of Washington, and S. 1190, to 
establish the Ohio and Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor, after 
receiving testimony from Senators Thurmond, Gorton, Coverdell, and 
DeWine; Representative Regula; Denis P. Galvin, Associate Director for 
Professional Services, National Park Service, Department of the 
Interior; Mayor Bruce E. Hagensen, Vancouver, Washington; Mayor Dannel 
McCollum, Champaign, Illinois; Grace G. Young, South Carolina 
Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, Columbia; Michael Conzen, 
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the Illinois and 
Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor Commission; Thomas H. 
Robertson, Augusta Canal Authority, Augusta, Georgia; Daniel M. Rice, 
Ohio & Erie Canal Corridor Coalition, Akron; Lisa M. Jaeger, Defenders 
of Property Rights, Patricia E. Williams, American Association of 
Museums, on behalf of the National Coalition for Heritage Areas, and R. 
J. Smith, Competitive Enterprise Institute, all of Washington, D.C.; 
and Myron Ebell, Frontiers of Freedom, Arlington, Virginia.
ATLANTIC STRIPED BASS CONSERVATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
on S. 776, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1995 through 1998 for 
programs of the Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation Act and amends the 
Act to include provisions of the Anadromous Fish Conservation Act 
relating to Atlantic striped bass research, after receiving testimony 
from Jamie Geiger, Assistant Regional Director for Fisheries, Northeast 
Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior; 
Richard H. Schaefer, Director, Office Fisheries Conservation and 
Management, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce; John H. Dunnigan, 
Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries 
Commission; Mark R. Gibson, Rhode Island Department of Environmental 
Management Division of Fish and Wildlife, Wickford; Damon M. Tatem, 
Jr., Tatem's Tackle Shop, Nags Head, North Carolina, on behalf of the 
Atlantic States Marine Fishery Commission; and Charles Bergmann, 
Axelsson and Johnson, Cape May, New Jersey.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  Treaty Between the United States of America and the Russian 
Federation on Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive 
Arms (the START II Treaty) (Treaty Doc. 103-1), with 6 conditions and 7 
declarations;
  S. 602, to amend the NATO Participation Act of 1994 to expedite the 
transition to full membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization 
of European countries emerging from communist domination, with an 
amendment;
  S. Con. Res. 14, urging the President to negotiate a new base rights 
agreement with the Government of Panama to permit United States Armed 
Forces to remain in Panama beyond December 31, 1999;
  S. Con. Res. 25, concerning the protection and continued viability of 
the Eastern Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate;
  H. Con. Res. 42, supporting a resolution to the long-standing dispute 
regarding Cyprus;

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  S. 1465, to extend au pair programs;
  S.J. Res. 43, expressing the sense of the Congress regarding Wei 
Jingsheng, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the next Panchen Lama of Tibet, and 
the human rights practices of the Government of the People's Republic 
of China; and
  The nominations of A. Peter Burleigh, of California, to be Ambassador 
to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, and to serve 
concurrently and without compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of 
Maldives, James Franklin Collins, of Illinois, to be Ambassador at 
Large and Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for the New 
Independent States, Frances D. Cook, of Florida, to be Ambassador to 
the Sultanate of Oman, Don Lee Gevirtz, of California, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Fiji, and to serve concurrently and without 
additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of Nauru, 
Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Tonga, and Ambassador to Tuvalu, 
Robert E. Gribbin, III, of Alabama, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Rwanda, William H. Itoh, of New Mexico, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom 
of Thailand, Richard Henry Jones, of Nebraska, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Lebanon, James A. Joseph, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of South Africa, Sandra J. Kristoff, of Virginia, for the 
rank of Ambassador during her tenure of service as U.S. Coordinator for 
the Asia Pacific Economic Corporation (APEC), John Raymond Malott, of 
Virginia, to be Ambassador to Malaysia, Joan M. Plaisted, of 
California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 
and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as 
Ambassador to the Republic of Kiribati, Kenneth Michael Quinn, of Iowa, 
to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia, David P. Rawson, of 
Michigan, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Mali, J. Stapleton Roy, 
of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia, Jim 
Sasser, of Tennessee, to be Ambassador to the People's Republic of 
China, Gerald Wesley Scott, of Oklahoma, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of The Gambia, Thomas W. Simons, Jr., of the District of 
Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Charles 
H. Twining, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Cameroon, 
and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as 
Ambassador to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea; Ralph R. Johnson, of 
Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Slovak Republic; and certain foreign 
service officers promotion lists.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  The nomination of David S. Wasserman, of the District of Columbia, to 
be a Member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority; and
  S. 1224, to amend subchapter IV of chapter 5 of title 5, United 
States Code, relating to alternative means of dispute resolution in the 
administrative process, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute.
SMALL BUSINESS INVESTMENT COMPANY PROGRAM
Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings on proposals to 
strengthen the Small Business Administration's small business 
investment program, receiving testimony from Patricia Forbes, Acting 
Associate Deputy Administrator for Economic Development, and Don A. 
Christensen, Associate Administrator for Investment, both of the Small 
Business Administration; C. Walter Dick, Pioneer Capital Corporation, 
Boston, Massachusetts; Keith R. Fox, Exeter Venture Lenders, New York, 
New York; George M. Miller, II, Sirrom Capital Corporation, Nashville, 
Tennessee; and Stanley W. Tucker, MMG Ventures, Baltimore, Maryland.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  S. 814, to provide for the reorganization of the Bureau of Indian 
Affairs, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  S. 1159, to establish an American Indian Policy Information Center.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on intelligence matters from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee will meet again on Thursday, December 14.