[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 9 (Wednesday, January 24, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D32-D33]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
TRAVEL AND TOURISM PARTNERSHIP ACT
Committee on Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Hazardous 
Materials and the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and 
Trade of the Committee on International Relations held a joint hearing 
on H.R. 2579, Travel and Tourism Partnership Act of 1995. Testimony was 
heard from Greg Farmer, Under Secretary, Department of Commerce; Judd 
Buchanan, Chairman, Tourism Commission, Canada; and public witnesses.
WHITE HOUSE TRAVEL OFFICE
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight: Continued hearings on the 
White House Travel Office. Testimony was heard from the following 
former officials of the White House Travel Office; Billy R. Dale, 
Director; Gary D. Wright, Assistant Director; Barnaby L. Brasseux, 
Assistant to the Director; John P. Dreylinger, Assistant to the 
Director; Robert T. Maughan, Communications Officer; John P. McSweeney, 
Assistant to the Director; and Robert S. Van Eimeren, Assistant to the 
Director.
LANDMINE THREAT IN BOSNIA
Committee on National Security: Subcommittee on Research and 
Development and the Subcommittee on Military Procurement held a joint 
hearing on the research and development response to the landmine threat 
in Bosnia. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the 
Department of Defense: Capt. Joseph Mazzafro, USN, Joint Staff (J-2); 
Maj. Gen. Clair F. Gill, USA, Commanding General, U.S. Army Engineer 
Central/School and Fort Leonard Wood; Thomas Reeder, Intelligence 
Analyst, National Ground Intelligence Center; Col. Dennis Barlow, USA, 
Director, Policy and Plans, Humanitarian and Refugee Affairs, Office of 
the Assistant Secretary, Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict; 
John M. Bachkosky, Deputy Under Secretary, Advanced Technology; George 
T. Singley, III, Deputy Director, Defense Research and Engineering; A. 
Fenner Milton, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Science and Technology, 
Department of the Army; Brig. Gen. Roy E. Beauchamp, USA, Deputy Chief 
of Staff, Research and Development and Engineering, U.S. Army Materiel 
Command; John Reingruber, Assistant for Science and Technology, Office 
of the Assistant Secretary, Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict; 
and Claude Manley, Deputy Director, Navy Joint Explosives Ordnance 
Technology Division, U.S. Navy Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head 
Division; and a public witness.
PROVIDING EXPEDITED PROCEDURES
Committee on Rules: Ordered reported, by voice vote, a resolution 
waiving clause 4(b) of rule XI (requiring a \2/3\ vote to consider a 
rule on the same day it is reported by the Committee on Rules) against 
certain resolutions reported by the Rules Committee before March 16, 
1996. The waiver applies to special rules providing for consideration 
or disposition of any measures, amendments, thereto, conference reports 
thereon, or amendments reported in disagreement from a conference that: 
(1) make general appropriations for the fiscal year 1996; (2) include 
provisions making further continuing appropriations for fiscal 

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year 1996; or (3) include provisions increasing or waiving the public 
debt limit.
COMMITTEE BUSINESS
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct: Met in executive session to 
appoint members to investigative subcommittees concerning the 
Preliminary Inquiry voted on Representative Barbara-Rose Collins and 
the Preliminary Inquiry voted on Representative Newt Gingrich.