[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 204 (Tuesday, December 19, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1488]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BOSNIA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held 
hearings to examine the impact of United States participation in the 
economic reconstruction of Bosnia, receiving testimony from Richard C. 
Holbrooke, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian 
Affairs; and J. Brian Atwood, Administrator, Agency for International 
Development.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following bills:
  S. 776, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1995 through 1998 for 
programs of the Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation Act and provisions 
of the Anadromous Fish Conservation Act relating to Atlantic striped 
bass research;
  S. 1005, to improve the process of constructing, altering, 
purchasing, and acquiring public buildings, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 1315, to designate the Federal Triangle Project under construction 
at 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest, in the District of 
Columbia, as the ``Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade 
Center'';
  S. 1388, to designate the United States courthouse located at 800 
Market Street in Knoxville, Tennessee, as the ``Howard H. Baker, Jr. 
United States Courthouse'';
  H.R. 965, to designate the Federal building located at 600 Martin 
Luther King, Jr. Place in Louisville, Kentucky, as the ``Romano L. 
Mazzoli Federal Building'';
  H.R. 1253, to rename the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge 
as the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge;
  H.R. 2005, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to make technical 
corrections in maps relating to the Coastal Barrier Resources System; 
and
  S. 1406, to authorize the Secretary of the Army to convey to the city 
of Eufaula, Oklahoma, a parcel of land located at the Eufaula Lake 
project.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on the nominations 
of William A. Fletcher, of California, to be United States Circuit 
Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Bernice B. Donald, to be United States 
District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee, Barbara S. Jones 
and Jed S. Rakoff, each to be a United States District Judge for the 
Southern District of New York, Joan A. Lenard, to be United States 
District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, and C. Lynwood 
Smith, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of 
Alabama. Mr. Fletcher was introduced by Senator Feinstein, Ms. Donald 
was introduced by Senators Thompson and Frist, and Ms. Lenard was 
introduced by Senators Mack and Graham.
TEEN DRUG USE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
recent trends in drug use among American youth, focusing on prevention 
and treatment programs, after receiving testimony from Lloyd D. 
Johnston, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; James Alan Fox, 
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts; James N. Hall, Up Front 
Drug Information Center, Miami, Florida; James E. Burke, Partnership 
for a Drug-Free America, and Duane Garcia, both of New York, New York; 
and Tod Hedrick, Greenwich, Connecticut.