[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 30 (Thursday, March 7, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D153-D155]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Kenneth H. Bacon, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, Franklin D. Kramer, 
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the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for 
International Security Affairs, and Alvin L. Alm, of Virginia, to be 
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
  Also, committee met in closed session to consider pending military 
nominations, but made no announcements and recessed subject to call.
AIR BAG SAFETY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the performance of passenger air bags and other 
related safety issues, after receiving testimony from Ricardo Martinez, 
Administrator, Barry Felrice, Associate Administrator for Safety 
Performance Standards, William Boehly, Associate Administrator for 
Research and Development, Jim Headlund, Associate Administrator for 
Traffic Safety Programs, and Sam Dubbin, Chief Counsel, all of the 
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Department of 
Transportation; Richard Klimisch and Vann Wilber, both of the American 
Automobile Manufacturing Association, Washington, D.C.; and Brian 
O'Neill, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, and George Parker, 
Association of International Automobile Manufacturers, both of 
Arlington, Virginia.
NATIONAL PARKS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Parks, 
Historic Preservation and Recreation concluded hearings on S. 745, to 
require the National Park Service to eradicate brucellosis afflicting 
the bison in Yellowstone National Park, S. 796 and H.R. 238, bills to 
provide for the protection of wild horses within the Ozark National 
Scenic Riverways, Missouri, and prohibit the removal of such horses, 
and S. 1451, to authorize an agreement between the Secretary of the 
Interior and a State providing for the continued operation by State 
employees of national parks in the State during any period in which the 
National Park Service is unable to maintain the normal level of park 
operations, after receiving testimony from Senators McCain and Bond; 
John J. Reynolds, Deputy Director, National Park Service, Department of 
the Interior; Donald Luchsinger, Deputy Administrator for Veterinary 
Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Department of 
Agriculture; Bob R. Hillman, Idaho Department of Agriculture, Boise; 
Douglas R. Kennedy, Poplar Bluff, Missouri, and Jim Smith, Eminence, 
Missouri, both on behalf of the Missouri Wild Horse League; Philip H. 
Voorhees, National Parks and Conservation Association, D.J. Schubert, 
Meyer and Glitzenstein, on behalf of the Fund for Animals, both of 
Washington, D.C.; Clarence J. Siroky, Montana Department of Livestock, 
Helena; Paul Nicoletti, University of Florida College of Veterinary 
Medicine, Gainesville; Art Reese, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, 
Cheyenne; Del Hensel, National Bison Association, Denver, Colorado; and 
Mike Fox, InterTribal Bison Cooperative, Rapid City, South Dakota.
NATIONAL FORESTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management concluded hearings on S. 393 and H.R. 924, bills 
to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from transferring any national 
forest system lands in the Angeles National Forest in California out of 
Federal ownership for use as a solid waste landfill, after receiving 
testimony from Representatives McKeon and Moorhead; Gray Reynolds, 
Deputy Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Mayor Carl 
Boyer, Santa Clarita, California; Harry Grossman, Walt Disney Studios, 
Burbank, California; Frank Bernheisel, Gershman, Brickner and Bratton, 
Falls Church, Virginia; Kenneth Kazarian, BKK Corporation, Torrance, 
California; Jack R. Michael, Waste Management Programs, Modesto, 
California; Dean Hargos, Dames & Moore, Las Vegas, Nevada; and Harriet 
Burgess, American Land Conservancy, San Francisco, California.
LANGUAGE OF GOVERNMENT ACT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 356, 
to declare English as the official language of the Government of the 
United States, receiving testimony from Senators Simon and Bingaman; 
Representatives Mink, Velazquez, and Underwood; Iliodor Philemonof, St. 
George Tanaq Corporation, Anchorage, Alaska; Kauanoe Kamana and Namaka 
Rawlins, both on behalf of the Punana Leo Project, Hilo, Hawaii; 
Leonard Chee, Navajo Nation Council, Window Rock, Arizona; Joanne 
Chase, National Congress of American Indians, and Karen K. Narasaki, 
National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, both of Washington, 
D.C.; and Juan F. Perea, University of Florida College of Law, 
Gainesville.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
IMMIGRATION REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed markup of S. 269, to 
increase control over immigration to the United States by increasing 
border patrol and investigator personnel, improving the verification 
system for employer sanctions, increasing penalties for alien smuggling 
and for document fraud, reforming asylum, exclusion, and deportation 
law and procedures, instituting a land border user fee, and reducing 
the use of welfare by aliens, and S. 1394, to

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reform the legal immigration of immigrants and nonimmigrants to the 
United States, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again 
on Wednesday, March 13.
NIH
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded oversight 
hearings on activities of the National Institutes of Health, after 
receiving testimony from Ruth Kirschstein, Deputy Director, Judith 
Vaitukaitis, Director, National Center for Research Resources, Donald 
Lindberg, Director, National Library of Medicine, Claude Lenfant, 
Director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Stephen I. Katz, 
Director, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin 
Diseases, Richard J. Hodes, Director, National Institute on Aging, 
William Paul, Director, Office of AIDS Research, Anthony Fauci, 
Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and 
Duane F. Alexander, Director, National Institute of Child Health and 
Human Development, all of the National Institutes of Health, Department 
of Health and Human Services.