[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 34 (Wednesday, March 13, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D187-D188]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on proposed 
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1997 for the Department 
of Defense and the future years defense plan, receiving testimony from 
Togo D. West, Jr., Secretary of the Army; and Gen. Dennis J. Reimer, 
USA, Chief of Staff of the Army.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel held hearings on 
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1997 for the 
Department of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on 
manpower, personnel, and compensation programs, receiving testimony 
from Edwin Dorn, Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and 
Readiness; Sara E. Lister, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower 
and Reserve Affairs; Bernard Rostker, Assistant Secretary of the Navy 
for Manpower and Reserve Affairs; and Rodney A. Coleman, Assistant 
Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, 
Installations and Environment.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 20.
ENERGY DEFENSE PROGRAMS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces held 
hearings to examine Department of Energy atomic energy defense 
programs, focusing on nuclear stockpile stewardship and management, 
receiving testimony from Charles B. Curtis, Deputy Secretary of Energy; 
Victor H. Reis, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Defense Programs; 
Harold P. Smith, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, 
Chemical and Biological Defense; Victor S. Rezendes, Director, Energy, 
Resources and Science Issues, General Accounting Office; Joan B. 
Rohlfing, Director, Office of Non-Proliferation and National Security; 
Siegfried S. Hecker, Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory, C. Bruce 
Tarter, Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and C. Paul 
Robinson, President, Sandia National Laboratories, all of the 
Department of Energy; Ambrose L. Schwallie, Westinghouse/Savannah River 
Co., Aiken, South Carolina; Karen K. Clegg, Allied Signal, Kansas City, 
Missouri; F.P. Gustavson, Lockheed Martin Energy System, Oak Ridge, 
Tennessee; and William A. Weinreich, Pantex Plant, Amarillo, Texas.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 1271, to amend the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to direct the 
Secretary of Energy to develop an integrated management system for 
spent nuclear fuel and high-level nuclear waste, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1596, to convey to the State of California certain land specified 
for the Ward Valley Low level Radioactive Waste facility;
  S. 1467, authorizing funds for the Federal portion of a rural water 
supply system within the service area of the Fort Peck Rural Water 
County District in Montana; and
  The nominations of Thomas Paul Grumbly, of Virginia, to be Under 
Secretary of Energy, Alvin L. Alm, of Virginia, to be Assistant 
Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management, and Charles William 
Burton, of Texas, and Christopher M. Coburn, of Ohio, each to be a 
Member of the Board of Directors of the United States Enrichment 
Corporation.
CONVENTION ON CHEMICAL WEAPONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on the 
Convention on the Prohibition of Development, Production, Stockpiling 
and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, opened for 
signature and signed by the United States at Paris on January 13, 1993 
(Treaty Doc. 103-21), receiving testimony from Amoretta Hoeber, former 
Deputy Under Secretary of the Army, Arlington, Virginia; Baker Spring, 
Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.; J.D. Crouch, Southwest Missouri 
State, Branson, former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense 
for International Security Policy; and Michael L. Moodie, Chemical and 
Biological Arms Control Institute, Alexandria, Virginia.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.

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WEAPONS PROLIFERATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations held hearings to examine the status of United States 
efforts to improve nuclear material controls in the Newly Independent 
States, receiving testimony from John F. Sopko, Deputy Chief Counsel to 
the Minority, and Alan Edelman, Counsel to the Minority, both of the 
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations; Harold J. Johnson, Associate 
Director, International Relations and Trade Issues, National Security 
and International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office; Glenn E. 
Schweitzer, Director, Office for Central Europe and Eurasia, National 
Research Council; Graham Allison, Harvard University, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts; William C. Potter, Monterey Institute of International 
Studies, Monterey, California; Sarah A. Mullen, Center for Strategic 
and International Studies, and Joshua Handler, Greenpeace, both of 
Washington, D.C.; Gary Bertsch, University of Georgia, Athens; and 
Andrei Y. Glukhov, Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 
Richland, Washington.
  Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 20.
IMMIGRATION REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Joseph A. Greenaway, to be United States District Judge 
for the District of New Jersey, Ann D. Montgomery, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of 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.
  Also, 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 reform the legal immigration of immigrants and 
nonimmigrants to the United States, but did not complete action 
thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee resumed hearings on 
proposals to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide 
for a voluntary system of spending limits and partial public financing 
of Senate primary and general election campaigns, to limit 
contributions by multicandidate political committees, and to reform the 
financing of Federal elections and Senate campaigns, receiving 
testimony from Representatives Shays, Meehan, and Linda Smith; David N. 
O'Steen, National Right to Life Committee, and Becky Cain, League of 
Women Voters of the United States, both of Washington, D.C.; John Dye, 
Lebanon, Virginia, on behalf of the Virginia Rural Letter Carriers' 
Association; James Bopp, Jr., Terre Haute, Indiana, on behalf of the 
Free Speech Coalition; Charles R. Serio, Linthicum Heights, Maryland; 
Col. Billie M. Bobbitt, USAF (Ret.), Sidney, Ohio; and Linda DeVries, 
Louisville, Kentucky.
  Hearings continue on Wednesday, April 17.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.