[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 199 (Thursday, December 14, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1467-D1468]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on S. 1271, to provide for the storage and disposal of spent nuclear 
fuel and high-level nuclear waste from the nation's defense program and 
commercial nuclear power plants, after receiving testimony from Idaho 
Governor Philip E. Batt, Boise; Hazel R. O'Leary, Secretary of Energy; 
Robert B. Pirie, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installations 
and Environment); Gary Gates, Omaha Public Power District, Omaha, 
Nebraska, on behalf of the American Public Power Association; William 
K. Sherman, Vermont Department of Public Health, Montpelier, on behalf 
of the Northeast High-Level Radioactive Waste Transportation Task 
Force; Dick Snell, Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, Phoenix, Arizona; 
and Corbin A. McNeill, Jr., PECO Energy Company, Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 1470, to provide for increases in the amounts of allowable 
earnings under the social security earnings limit for individuals who 
have attained retirement age, with amendments; and
  The nominations of Joshua Gotbaum, of New York, to be Assistant 
Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, and Jeffrey R. Shafer, 
of New Jersey, to be Under Secretary of the Treasury for International 
Affairs.
SOUTH AFRICA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine the 
status of United States assistance programs in South Africa, receiving 
testimony from John F. Hicks, Assistant Administrator for Africa, 
Leslie Dean, South African Mission Director, and William Ford, former 
South African Mission Director, all of the Agency for International 
Development.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FEDERAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on proposed 
legislation to improve financial management in the Federal Government, 
receiving testimony from Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the 
United States, and Gene Dodaro, Assistant Comptroller General, and 
Jeffrey Steinhoff, Director of Planning and Reporting, both of the 
Accounting and Information Management Division, all of the General 
Accounting Office; G. Edward DeSeve, Controller, Office of Federal 
Financial Management, Office of Management and Budget; California State 
Auditor Kurt R. Sjoberg, Sacramento; William R. Phillips, Coopers & 
Lybrand, McLean, Virginia; and Ted Sheridan, Sheridan Management 
Corporation, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Financial Executives 
Institute.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Merrick B. Garland, of Maryland, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit.
  Also, committee began consideration of S. 605, to establish a uniform 
and more efficient Federal process for protecting property owners' 
rights guaranteed by the fifth amendment, but did not complete action 
thereon, and will meet again on Wednesday, December 20.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following bills:
  S. 426, to authorize the establishment of a memorial to Martin Luther 
King, Jr., in the District of Columbia;
  H.R. 2527, to permit electronic filing of Federal Election Commission 
reports and to require members 

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of the House and those seeking election to the House to file directly 
with the FEC instead of filing with the House Clerk which is the 
current requirement;
  H.J. Res. 69, to provide for the reappointment of Homer Alfred Neal 
as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian 
Institution;
  H.J. Res. 110, to provide for the appointment of Howard H. Baker, 
Jr., as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian 
Institution;
  H.J. Res. 111, to provide for the appointment of Anne D'Harnoncourt 
as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian 
Institution;
  H.J. Res. 112, to provide for the appointment of Louis Gerstner as a 
citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution; 
and
  S. Con. Res. 34, to authorize the printing of ``Vice Presidents of 
the United States, 1789-1993'', with an amendment.
INTELLIGENCE
Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to receive a 
briefing on intelligence matters from officials of the intelligence 
community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
WHITEWATER
Special Committee To Investigate the Whitewater Development Corporation 
and Related Matters: Committee met and approved the recommendation to 
order and direct the compliance of a subpoena relative to the 
committee's Whitewater investigation.
  Committee recessed subject to call.