[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 40 (Thursday, March 21, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D244-D245]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1997 for Army and 
Navy military construction programs, receiving testimony from Robert M. 
Walker, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Logistics 
and Environment; and Robert B. Pirie, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the 
Navy for Installation and Environment.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 16.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on proposed 
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1997 for the Department 
of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on military 
strategies, operational requirements of the unified commands, receiving 
testimony from Gen. Joseph W. Ashy, USAF, Commander in Chief, United 
States Space Command; Gen. Eugene E. Habiger, USAF, Commander in Chief, 
United States Strategic Command; Gen. Robert L. Rutherford, USAF, 
Commander in Chief, United States Transportation Command; and Gen. 
Henry H. Shelton, Commander in Chief, United States Special Operations 
Command.
  Committee will meet again on Thursday, March 28.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Seapower resumed hearings 
on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1997 for the 
Department of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on 
Department of the Navy Shipbuilding programs, receiving testimony from 
John W. Douglass, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, 
Development and Acquisition; and Vice Adm. Thomas J. Lopez, USN, Deputy 
Chief of Naval Operations for Resources, Warfare Requirements and 
Assessments.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 26.
GUARD AND RESERVE READINESS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness held hearings to 
examine the readiness of the Guard and Reserve to support the National 
Military Strategy, receiving testimony from Richard Davis, Director, 
and Robert Pelletler, Assistant Director, both of the National Security 
Analysis, General Accounting Office; and Deborah Lee, Assistant 
Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
FANNIE MAE/FREDDIE MAC
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs:Subcommittee on HUD 
Oversight and Structure held oversight hearings on the implementation 
of the Federal Housing Enterprises Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 and 
its impact on the role the Federal National Mortgage Association 
(Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie 
Mac) have on the Nation's mortgage finance system, receiving testimony 
from Franklin D. Raines, Fannie Mae, and Leland C. Brendsel, Freddie 
Mac, both of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.

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PARKS/BATTLEFIELDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Parks, 
Historic Preservation and Recreation concluded hearings on S. 305, to 
establish the Shenandoah Valley National Battlefields and Commission in 
the Commonwealth of Virginia, H.R. 1091, to improve the National Park 
System in the Commonwealth of Virginia, S. 1225, to require the 
Secretary of the Interior to conduct an inventory of historic sites, 
buildings, and artifacts in the Champlain Valley and the Upper Hudson 
River Valley in Vermont, including the Lake George area, S. 1226, to 
require the Secretary of the Interior to prepare a study of 
battlefields of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, and to 
establish an American Battlefield Protection Program, and S.J. Res. 42, 
designating the Civil War Center at Louisiana State University as the 
United States Civil War Center, making the center the flagship 
institution for planning the sesquicentennial commemoration of the 
Civil War, after receiving testimony from Senators Breaux and Warner; 
Representatives Wolf and Bliley; Katherine H. Stevenson, Associate 
Director, Cultural Resource Stewardship and Partnerships, and Ed 
Bearss, Historian Emeritus, both of the National Park Service, 
Department of the Interior; Townsend H. Anderson, Vermont State Agency 
of Development and Community Affairs, Montpelier; Ann Sullivan Cousins, 
Lake Champlain Basin Program, Grand Isle, Vermont; Louise Ransom, Mount 
Independence Coalition, Williston, Vermont; David Madden, United States 
Civil War Center/Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Gabor Boritt, 
Civil War Institute/Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; 
Dennis E. Frye, Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites, 
Fredericksburg, Virginia; and James B. Donati, Jr., Henrico County 
Board of Supervisors, Richmond, Virginia; and Eileen Woodford, National 
Parks and Conservation Association, Washington, D.C.
CHEMICAL WEAPONS TREATY
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 Douglas J. Feith, Feith 
and Zell, Washington, D.C.; Kathleen C. Bailey, Lawrence Livermore 
National Laboratory, Livermore, California; Brad Roberts, Institute for 
Defense Analysis, Alexandria, Virginia; and Frederick L. Webber, 
Chemical Manufacturers Association, Arlington, Virginia.
  Hearings will continue on Thursday, March 28.
TENTH AMENDMENT ENFORCEMENT ACT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 1629, 
to protect the rights of the States and the people from abuse by the 
Federal Government, to strengthen the partnership and the 
intergovernmental relationship between State and Federal governments, 
to restrain Federal agencies from exceeding their authority, and to 
enforce the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, receiving 
testimony from Senators Dole, Hatch, and Nickles; Virginia Attorney 
General James S. Gilmore III, Richmond; South Carolina Attorney General 
Charles Molony Condon, Columbia; Colorado Solicitor General Timothy M. 
Tymkovich, Denver; Alaska State Representative Eldon Mulder, Juneau; 
Ohio State Representative Patrick Sweeney, Columbus; New York State 
Senator James Lack, Albany; Nelson Lund, George Mason University School 
of Law, Fairfax, Virginia; and John Kincaid, Lafayette College, Easton, 
Pennsylvania.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
IMMIGRATION REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original bill 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. (As approved by the 
committee, the bill incorporates the text of S. 269.)
AUTHORIZATION--INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES EDUCATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 1578, to 
authorize funds for programs of the Individuals With Disabilities 
Education Act.
HUBZONE ACT
Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings on S. 1574, to 
create new opportunities for growth and jobs in economically distressed 
urban and rural communities, receiving testimony from C. Austin Fitts, 
Hamilton Securities Group, Inc., and Marvin G. Harris, Bridget J.C. 
McLaurin, and Wanda Riddick, all of Edgewood Technology Services Inc., 
all on behalf of e.villages, and Raj Barr-Kumar, American Institute of 
Architects, all of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.