[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 22 (Friday, February 23, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D87-D88]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MONETARY POLICY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Wednesday, 
February 21, committee concluded hearings to examine monetary policy 
issues, after receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board 
of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
GOVERNORS PROPOSAL ON WELFARE AND MEDICAID
Committee on Finance: On Thursday, February 22, committee held hearings 
on the bipartisan National Governors' Association proposals to reform 
the Federal Medicaid and welfare programs, receiving testimony from 
Wisconsin Governor Tommy G. Thompson, Madison; Nevada Governor Bob 
Miller, Carson City; Delaware Governor Tom Carper, Dover; Florida 
Governor Lawton Chiles, Tallahassee; Michigan Governor John Engler, 
Lansing; and Colorado Governor Roy Romer, Denver.
  Hearings continue on Wednesday, February 28.
INTERSTATE COMPACT FOR PAROLE AND PROBATION
Committee on the Judiciary: On Thursday, February 22, committee 
concluded hearings to assess problems in monitoring and enforcing 
parole under the Interstate Compact for Parole and Probation, after 
receiving testimony from Representative Chabot; William Ridgely, 
Compact Administrator for Wisconsin, Madison; Mario Paparozzi, Deputy 
Compact Administrator for New Jersey, Trenton; Susan F. Bishop, Compact 
Administrator for South Carolina, Columbia, and Ray Parra, Compact 
Administrator for Texas, Austin, both on behalf of the Parole and 
Probation Compact Administrators' Association; and Jill Goldhart, Ohio 
Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, Columbus.
FDA REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: On Wednesday and Thursday, 
February 21-22, committee concluded hearings on S. 1477, to improve the 
Federal regulation of food, drugs, devices, and biological products, 
after receiving testimony on Wednesday from David A. Kessler, 
Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and 
Human Services; Mary R. Hamilton, Director of Operations, Program, 
Evaluation and Methodology Division, General Accounting Office; Sherwin 
Gardner, Bethesda, Maryland, former Deputy Commissioner, Food and Drug 
Administration; Carl Peck, Georgetown University Medical Center, John 
Villforth, Food and Drug Law Institute, Lester Crawford, Association of 
American Veterinary Medical Colleges, Susan Abbott, American Spice 
Trade Association, and Carolyn Smith Dewall, Center for Science and the 
Public Interest, all of Washington, D.C.; Ellen Stovall, National 
Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, Silver Spring, Maryland; Derek Link, 
Gay Men's Health Crisis, New York, New York; Pam Walker, Mitretek 
Systems, McLean, Virginia; Neil 

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Kahanovitz, Center for Patient Advocacy, Arlington, Virginia; and Seth 
Rudnick, Leukemia Society of America, Providence, Rhode Island; and on 
Thursday from Senator Mack; William B. Schultz, Deputy Commissioner for 
Policy, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human 
Services; Gregory Reaman, Children's National Medical Center, Bernard 
Gersch, American Heart Association, Val D. Bias, National Hemophilia 
Foundation, Thomas J. Moore, George Washington University, and Raymond 
L. Woosley and Frederick Goodwin, both of the Georgetown University 
Medical Center, all of Washington, D.C.; Bruce Chabner, Massachusetts 
General Hospital, Boston; and Paul Stolley, University of Maryland 
School of Medicine, Baltimore.
WORLDWIDE SECURITY THREAT
Select Committee on Intelligence: On Thursday, February 22, committee 
concluded hearings to examine the threat to worldwide security, after 
receiving testimony from John M. Deutch, Director of Central 
Intelligence; Tobi Trister Gati, Assistant Secretary of State for 
Intelligence and Research; and Lt. Gen. Patrick Hughes, Director of the 
Defense Intelligence Agency.
WHITEWATER
Special Committee to Investigate the Whitewater Development Corporation 
and Related Matters: On Thursday, February 22, committee resumed 
hearings to examine issues relative to the Whitewater Development 
Corporation, receiving testimony from Harold Ickes, Deputy Chief of 
White House Staff.
  Hearings continue on Wednesday, February 28.