[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 29 (Wednesday, March 6, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D144-D146]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
OMNIBUS APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original bill (S. 1594) making omnibus consolidated rescissions and 
appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996.

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APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1997 for the Department of 
Defense, receiving testimony from John J. Hamre, Under Secretary of 
Defense, Comptroller/Chief Financial Officer.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 20.
BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to review the 
current status of the ballistic missile defense program, after 
receiving testimony from Paul G. Kaminski, Under Secretary of Defense 
for Acquisition and Technology.
DOE DEFENSE PROGRAMS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces concluded 
hearings to examine the status of the Department of Energy 
Environmental Management Program and the activities of the Defense 
Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, after receiving testimony from Thomas 
P. Grumbly, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management; 
John T. Conway, Chairman, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board; 
Ambrose L. Schwallie, Westinghouse/Savannah River Co., Aiken, South 
Carolina; Lincoln E. Hall, Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, Oak Ridge, 
Tennessee; W. John Denson, Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies, Idaho 
Falls; William C. Moffitt, Westinghouse/Hanford Co., Hanford, 
Washington; Robert G. Card, Kaiser Hill Co., Golden, Colorado; and 
Donald Ofte, Fernald Environmental Restoration Management Corp., 
Fernald, Ohio.
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
state of the United States economy, economic impact of deficit 
reduction, and the role of fiscal policy in enhancing long-term 
prospects, after receiving testimony from Martin N. Baily, Member, 
Council of Economic Advisors; James R. Capra, Capra Asset Management, 
Inc., Rye, New York; and Mickey D. Levy, NationsBanc Capital Markets, 
Inc., New York, New York.
ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held oversight 
hearings on issues relating to competitive change in the electric power 
industry, and on S. 1526, to provide for retail competition among 
electric energy suppliers, and to provide for recovery of stranded 
costs attributable to an open access electricity market, receiving 
testimony from Charles B. Curtis, Deputy Secretary, and Elizabeth A. 
Moler, Chair, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, both of the 
Department of Energy; Cheryl L. Parrino, Wisconsin Public Service 
Commission, Madison, on behalf of the National Association of 
Regulatory Utility Commissioners; Daniel W. Fessler, California Public 
Utilities Commission, San Francisco; Lisa Crutchfield, Pennsylvania 
Public Utility Commission, Harrisburg; Richard H. Cowart, Vermont 
Public Service Board, Montpelier; and Robert W. Gee, Texas Public 
Utility Commission, Austin.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Rita Derrick Hayes, of Maryland, for the rank of 
Ambassador during her tenure of service as Chief Textile Negotiator, 
Department of State, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators 
Thurmond and Hollings, testified and answered questions in her own 
behalf.
MINORITIES IN SOUTH ASIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near East and South 
Asia concluded hearings to examine the treatment of minorities in South 
Asia, after receiving testimony from Robin Raphel, Assistant Secretary 
of State for South Asia; David Forte, Cleveland State University, 
Cleveland, Ohio; Anne Buwalda, The Jubilee Campaign, Vienna, Virginia; 
Patricia Gossman, Human Rights Watch Asia, Washington, D.C.; and 
Kristen Obadal, Obadal & McLeod, Alexandria, Virginia.
INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION OF HUMAN PATHOGENS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
issues relating to the interstate transportation of human pathogens, 
after receiving testimony from Representatives Markey and Joseph 
Kennedy; Mark M. Richard, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal 
Division, Department of Justice; James M. Hughes, Director, National 
Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services; David N. Sundwall, 
American Clinical Laboratory Association, Washington, D.C.; Kenneth I. 
Berns, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York, on 
behalf of the American Society of Microbiology; and L. Barth Reller, 
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, on behalf of 
the American Type Culture Collection.
NIH
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held oversight 
hearings on activities of the National Institutes of Health, receiving 
testimony from Harold E. Varmus, Director, Francis S. Collins, 
Director, National Center for Human Genome Research, Richard D. 
Klausner, Director, National Cancer Institute,

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Kenneth Olden, Director, National Institute of Environmental Health 
Sciences, Zach W. Hall, Director, National Institute of Neurological 
Disorders and Stroke, Carl Kupfer, Director, National Eye Institute, 
and Alan I. Leshner, Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse, all of 
the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human 
Services.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
SMALL BUSINESS REGULATORY FAIRNESS ACT
Committee on Small Business: Committee ordered favorably reported, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 942, to promote 
increased understanding of Federal regulations and increased voluntary 
compliance with such regulations by small entities, to provide for the 
designation of regional ombudsmen and 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.
U.S. INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded hearings on the 
future of United States intelligence, after receiving testimony from 
former Senator Rudman and former Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, 
both on behalf of the Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the 
United States Intelligence Community; former Senator Baker; Richard N. 
Haass, Director, National Security Programs and Senior Fellow, Council 
on Foreign Relations; and Richard K. Betts, Columbia University, New 
York, New York.
TELEMARKETING FRAUD
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
scope and trends of telemarketing fraud operations that target the 
elderly, after receiving testimony from Kathryn E. Landreth, United 
States Attorney, District of Nevada, and Charles L. Owens, Section 
Chief, Financial Crimes Section, Federal Bureau of Investigation, both 
of the Department of Justice; Jodie Bernstein, Director, Bureau of 
Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission; Agnes Johnson, 
Biddeford, Maine, on behalf of the American Association of Retired 
Persons; John F. Barker, National Fraud Information Center, and Peder 
Anderson, both of Washington, D.C.; Edward B. Gould, Jr., Las Vegas, 
Nevada; and Mary Ann Downs, Raleigh, North Carolina.