[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 31 (Friday, March 8, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D166]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
VA REORGANIZATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent 
Agencies held hearings to examine the status of the reorganization of 
the Veterans Health Administration and related initiatives to improve 
VA health care delivery methods, receiving testimony from Kenneth 
Kizer, Under Secretary for Health, and William Merriman, Acting 
Inspector General, both of the Department of Veterans Affairs; David 
Baine, Associate Director, Human Resources Division, General Accounting 
Office; and Richard Schultz, Disabled American Veterans, Washington, 
D.C.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
GOVERNMENT TRAVEL MANAGEMENT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management and the District of Columbia held oversight 
hearings to examine certain recommendations to improve travel 
management throughout the federal government, receiving testimony from 
Christopher W. Hoenig, Director, Edith A. Pyles, Assistant Director, 
and Shane D. Hartzler, Communications Analyst, all of the Information 
Resources Management, Policies and Issues, Accounting and Information 
Management Division, General Accounting Office; John J. Hamre, Under 
Secretary of Defense (Comptroller); G. Martin Wagner, Associate 
Administrator, Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation, General 
Services Administration; Tony Musick, Chief Financial Officer, Internal 
Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury; and Donald K. Charney, 
Director of Finance (Chief Financial Officer), U.S. Agency for 
International Development, on behalf of the Joint Financial Management 
Improvement Program.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AGE DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on 
S. 553 and H.R. 849, bills to amend the Age Discrimination in 
Employment Act of 1967 to reinstate an exemption for certain bona fide 
hiring and retirement plans applicable to State and local firefighters 
and law enforcement officers, after receiving testimony from Senator 
Moseley-Braun; Terrance W. Gainer, Illinois State Police, Springfield, 
on behalf of the International Association of Chiefs of Police; Robert 
M. O'Neil, University of Virginia, Charlottesville; Christopher 
Mackaronis, Bell, Boyd, and Lloyd, Washington, D.C.; Thomas Miller, 
Indiana Fire Department, on behalf of the International Association of 
Fire Fighters, and William H. Smith, Indiana State Police, on behalf of 
the American Association of Retired Persons, both of Indianapolis, 
Indiana; Frank J. Landy, Pennsylvania State University, University 
Park, on behalf of the American Psychological Association; and Loren G. 
Myhre, Biomedical Computer Systems, San Antonio, Texas.