[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 39 (Wednesday, March 20, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D235-D236]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1997 for the Department of 
Defense, focusing on Ballistic Missile Defense, receiving testimony 
from Lt. Gen. Malcolm R. O'Neill, USA, Director, Ballistic Missile 
Defense Organization, Department of Defense.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 27.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1997 for foreign 
assistance programs, receiving testimony from J. Brian Atwood, 
Administrator, Agency for International Development.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Acquisition and Technology 
resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal 
year 1997 and the future years defense program, focusing on technology 
base programs, receiving testimony from Paul G. Kaminski, Under 
Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology; Gilbert F. Decker, 
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research, Development, and 
Technology; John W. Douglass, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for 
Research, Development, and Technology; Arthur L. Money, Assistant 
Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition; and Larry Lynn, Director, 
Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of Defense.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel resumed 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 Frederick F.Y. Pang, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force 
Management Policy; Lt. Gen. Theodore G. Stroup, Jr., USA, Deputy Chief 
of Staff of the Army for Personnel; Vice Adm. Frank L. Bowman, USN, 
Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel; Lt. Gen. Michael D. McGinty, Deputy 
Chief of Staff of the Air Force for Personnel; and Lt. Gen. George R. 
Christmas, USMC, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Marine Corps for Manpower 
and Reserve Affairs.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces resumed 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1997 
for the Department of Defense and the future years defense program, 
focusing on space programs and related issues, receiving testimony from 
Gen. Joseph W. Ashy, USAF, Commander in Chief, United States Space 
Command; Robert Davis, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Space; 
Maj. Gen. Robert F. Dickman, USAF, Space Architect, Department of 
Defense; and Keith Hall, Acting Director, National Reconnaissance 
Office.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 25.
1997 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings on the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1997 for the 
Federal Government, after receiving testimony from Alice M. Rivlin, 
Director, Office of Management and Budget.
HYDROGEN RESEARCH
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy 
Research and Development concluded hearings on S. 1077, S. 1153, and 
H.R. 655, bills to direct the Secretary of Energy to provide for a 
hydrogen energy research, development and demonstration program 
relating to production,

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storage, transportation, and use of hydrogen, after receiving testimony 
from Senator Harkin; Representative Walker; Allan Hoffman, Acting 
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for Utility Technologies; Richard 
E. Rocheleau, University of Hawaii, Manoa; Jerry Thomas, Montana 
Tradeport Authority, Helena; and Robert Gurule, Albuquerque, New 
Mexico.
TRADE DEFICIT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic 
Policy, Export and Trade Promotion held hearings to examine the impact 
of balancing the Federal budget on the United States trade deficit, 
receiving testimony from Paul Wonnacott, Middlebury College, 
Middlebury, Vermont; Rudolph G. Penner, Barents Group/KPMG Peat 
Marwick, Claude Barfield, American Enterprise Institute, and Robert A. 
Blecker, American University, all of Washington, D.C.; and I.M. Destler 
and Robert E. Scott, both of the University of Maryland, College Park.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
WEST BANK/GAZA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South 
Asian Affairs concluded hearings to examine the economic development 
situation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, after receiving testimony 
from Richard A. Roth, Director, Office of Israel and Arab-Israeli 
Affairs, Department of State; Terrence J. Brown, Deputy Assistant 
Administrator, Bureau for Asia and the Near East, U.S. Agency for 
International Development; Ruth R. Harkin, President and CEO, Overseas 
Private Investment Corporation; Ziad Karram, GRdG, Inc., Fairfax, 
Virginia; Omar M. Kader, PaL-Tech, Inc., Arlington, Virginia; and Peter 
Gubser, American Near East Refugee Aid, Washington, D.C., on behalf of 
InterAction West Bank/Gaza Committee.
WEAPONS PROLIFERATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations resumed hearings to examine the status of United States 
efforts to improve nuclear material control in the Newly Independent 
States, receiving testimony from John Deutch, Director, Central 
Intelligence Agency; Rolf Ekeus, United Nations Special Commission, New 
York, New York; Gary Milhollin, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms 
Control, Washington, D.C.; and David Kay, Hicks and Associates, Inc., 
McLean, Virginia.
  Hearings will continue on Friday, March 22.
IMMIGRATION REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed markup on 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 on tomorrow.
CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded oversight 
hearings to examine certain activities of the Congressional Research 
Service, after receiving testimony from Daniel P. Mulhollan, Director, 
Richard Price, Jennifer O'Sullivan, and Melvina Ford, each a Specialist 
in Social Legislation, Education and Public Welfare Division, Heidi 
Yacker, Information and Technical Research Specialist, Congressional 
Reference Division, Kathleen S. Swendiman, Legislative Attorney, 
American Law Division, Jean Yavis Jones, Specialist in Food and 
Agriculture, and Section Head, Food and Agriculture Section, Charles 
Hanrahan, Senior Specialist in Agricultural Policy, Ralph Chite, 
Specialist in Agricultural Policy, Diane T. Duffy, Legislative 
Attorney, and Sandra S. Osbourn, Specialist in American National 
Government, all of the Congressional Research Service, Library of 
Congress.
VA ELIGIBILITY REFORM
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee held hearings on proposals to 
reform eligibility rules for Department of Veterans Affairs health care 
benefits, focusing on the effects of veterans' health care eligibility 
priorities which govern all veterans' access to VA care and programs, 
including related measures S. 1345, S. 1359, S. 1563, and provisions of 
H.R. 1385, receiving testimony from David P. Baine, Director, Health 
Care Delivery and Quality Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services 
Division, Jim Linz, Assistant Director, Veterans Health Programs, and 
Terry Saiki, Senior Evaluator (Seattle, Washington), all of the General 
Accounting Office; John R. Vitikacs, The American Legion, James R. 
Currieo, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, David W. 
Gorman, Disabled American Veterans, Gordon H. Mansfield, Paralyzed 
Veterans of America, and Kelli R. Willard West and William L. Warfield, 
both of the Vietnam Veterans of America, all of Washington, D.C.; James 
J. Kenney, AMVETS, Lanham, Maryland; and Larry D. Rhea, Non 
Commissioned Officers Association of the United States of America, 
Alexandria, Virginia.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.