[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 25 (Wednesday, February 28, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D112-D114]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE JOINT REQUIREMENTS OVERSIGHT COUNCIL
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to review the 
role of the Department of Defense Joint Requirements Oversight Council 
(JROC), after receiving testimony from Adm. William A. Owens, Vice 
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
WHITEWATER
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Development: Committee ordered 
favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 227) to authorize 
the use of additional funds for salaries and expenses of the Special 
Committee to Investigate the Whitewater Development Corporation and 
Related Matters.
GOVERNORS PROPOSAL ON WELFARE AND MEDICAID
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on the bipartisan 
National Governors' Association proposals to reform the Federal 
Medicaid and welfare programs, focusing on the Administration's views, 
receiving testimony from Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of Health and 
Human Services.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of James E. Johnson, of New Jersey, to be Assistant 
Secretary of the Treasury for Enforcement, and Stuart E. Eizenstat, of 
Maryland, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade.
  Prior to this action, committee concluded hearings on the nomination 
of Mr. Johnson, after the nominee testified and answered questions in 
his own behalf.
UNITED STATES-EURATOM AGREEMENT FOR PEACEFUL NUCLEAR COOPERATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to review 
the proposed United States-European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) 
Agreement for peaceful nuclear cooperation, and to examine the ability 
of the United States to track exported U.S. nuclear materials, 
receiving testimony from Victor S. Rezendes, Director, Energy, 
Resources, and Science Issues, Resources, Community and Economic 
Development Division, General Accounting Office; Fred McGoldrick, 
Principal Deputy Director, Office of Nuclear Energy Affairs, Bureau of 
Political/Military Affairs, Department of State; Terry R. Lash, 
Director, Office of Nuclear Energy, Science 

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and Technology, Department of Energy; Norman A. Wulf, Deputy Assistant 
Director, Non-Proliferation and Regional Arms Control Bureau, United 
States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; James Schlesinger, former 
Secretary of Energy; and Marvin S. Fertel, Nuclear Energy Institute, 
and Paul Leventhal, Nuclear Control Institute, both of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Charles R. Stack, of Florida, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit, Joseph A. Greenaway, to be 
United States District Judge for New Jersey, Ann D. Montgomery, to be 
United States District Judge for Minnesota, James P. Jones, to be 
United States District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, and 
Gary A. Fenner, to be United States District Judge for the Western 
District of Missouri, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Stack was introduced by Senator 
Graham and Representative Meek, Mr. Greenaway was introduced by Senator 
Lautenberg, Ms. Montgomery was introduced by Senators Grams and 
Wellstone, Mr. Jones was introduced by Senator Robb and Representatives 
Boucher and Scott, and Mr. Fenner was introduced by Senators Bond and 
Ashcroft and Representatives Danner and McCarthy.
YOUTH VIOLENCE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Youth Violence concluded 
hearings to examine the current state of youth violence, focusing on 
its changing nature and juvenile intervention programs designed to 
prevent increased violence, after receiving testimony from James Alan 
Fox, Northeastern University, and Eugene F. Rivers, III, Harvard 
Divinity School, both of Boston, Massachusetts; Alfred Blumstein, 
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; John J. DiIulio, 
Jr., Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.; Illinois Circuit Court 
Judge Carol Kelly, Chicago; Tennessee Juvenile Court Judge C. Van 
Deacon, Jr., Cleveland; Stephen Hare, Faith City Baptist Church, Bear, 
Delaware; and Thomas P. Gordon, New Castle, Delaware.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee began consideration 
of S. 1423, to amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to 
make modifications to certain provisions, but did not complete action 
thereon, and recessed subject to call.
SMALL BUSINESS ADVOCACY ACT/SMALL BUSINESS REGULATORY FAIRNESS ACT
Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings on S. 917, to 
facilitate small business involvement in the regulatory development 
processes of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational 
Safety and Health Administration, and S. 942, to promote increased 
understanding of Federal regulations and increased voluntary compliance 
with such regulations by oversight boards to monitor the enforcement 
practices of certain Federal agencies with respect to small business 
concerns, and to provide relief from excessive and arbitrary regulatory 
enforcement actions against small entities, after receiving testimony 
from Senator Feingold; Rosemary Reed, Double R Productions, Washington, 
D.C., J. Scott George, Mid America Dental, Hearing, and Vision Center, 
Mount Vernon, Missouri, and Scott Holman, Bay Cast, Inc., Bay City, 
Michigan, on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, all on behalf of 
the White House Conference on Small Business; Kent P. Swanson, Nurses 
Available, Inc., Towson, Maryland, on behalf of the National Federation 
of Independent Business; Victor N. Tucci, Three Rivers Health and 
Safety, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on behalf of National Small 
Business United; H. Daniel Pincus, HDP Industries, Hilton Head, South 
Carolina, on behalf of the National Association of Home Builders; Wendy 
Lechner, Printing Industries of America, Alexandria, Virginia, on 
behalf of the Small Business Legislative Council; and James W. 
Morrison, National Association for the Self-Employed, Washington, D.C.
ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded joint hearings 
with the Committee on the Judiciary's Subcommittee on Terrorism, 
Technology, and Government Information on proposed legislation to 
combat economic espionage, after receiving testimony from Louis J. 
Freeh, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of 
Justice; Geoffrey S.L. Shaw, Global Commerce Link, Boulder, Colorado; 
and Raymond Damadian, Fonar Corporation, Melville, New York.
MENTAL DISORDERS IN THE ELDERLY
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
mental illness among the elderly and the potential savings to the 
overall health care system that can result from prompt, accurate 
diagnosis and treatment of mental diseases, after receiving testimony 
from Barry D. Lebowitz, Chief, Mental Disorders of the Aging Research 
Branch, National Institute of Mental Health (Rockville, Maryland), 
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Gene D. Cohen and Frederick Goodwin, both of the George Washington 
University Medical Center, and June Silverberg, all of Washington, 
D.C.; Ira R. Katz and Gary L. Gottlieb, both of the University of 
Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia; Dorothy P. Rice, 
University of California at San Francisco; Mike Wallace, New York, New 
York; and Anne O. Emery, Baltimore, Maryland.