[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 43 (Tuesday, March 26, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D266-D267]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural 
Development, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 1997 for the Department of Agriculture, 
receiving testimony from Daniel R. Glickman, Secretary, Richard E. 
Rominger, Deputy Secretary, Keith Collins, Chief Economist, and Stephen 
B. Dewhurst, Director, Office of Budget and Program Analysis, all of 
the Department of Agriculture.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 28.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 
1997 for energy and water development programs, receiving testimony on 
behalf of funds for their respective activities from Patricia Beneke, 
Assistant Secretary for Land and Water, and Eluid Martinez, 
Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, both of the Department of the 
Interior; H. Martin Lancaster, Assistant Secretary of the Army for 
Civil Works; and Lt. Gen. Arthur Williams, Chief, and Maj. Gen. Stanley 
G. Genega, Director of Civil Works, both of the U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
Department of Energy atomic energy defense activities, after receiving 
testimony from Thomas P. Grumbly, Assistant Secretary of Energy for 
Environmental Management.
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 
the Department of the Navy Marine Corps programs, receiving testimony 
from John W. Douglass, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, 
Development and Acquisition; and Gen. Charles C. Krulak, USMC, 
Commandant of the Marine Corps.
  Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nominations of Alan Greenspan, of New York, to be 
Chairman, and Alice M. Rivlin, of Pennsylvania, and Laurence H. Meyer, 
of Missouri, both to be Members, all of the Board of Governors of the 
Federal Reserve System, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf. Testimony was also received from Ralph 
Nader, Washington, D.C.
NASA BUDGET
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings on the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration budget request for fiscal year 
1997 and on recent developments in the space station program, after 
receiving testimony from Daniel S. Goldin, Administrator, Malcolm 
Peterson, Comptroller, Franze Cordova, Chief Scientist, and Charles 
Kennell, Associate Administration, all of the National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration; Marcia Smith, Specialist in Aerospace and 
Telecommunications Policy, Congressional Research Service, Library of 
Congress; Lori Garver, National Space Society, Washington, D.C.; 
Nicholas L. Johnson, Kaman Sciences Corporation, Colorado Springs, 
Colorado; and Louis Friedman, Planetary Society, Pasadena, California.
CHEMICAL WEAPONS TREATY VERIFIABILITY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on the verifiability of the Convention on Chemical 
Weapons (Treaty Doc. 103-21) from John Lauder, Chief, Arms Control 
Intelligence Staff for the Director of Central Intelligence; and Maj. 
Gen. John Landry, National Intelligence Officer for General Purpose 
Forces, National Intelligence Council.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Henry McKoy, of North Carolina, and Ernest G. Green, of 
the District of Columbia, each to be a Member of the Board of Directors 
of the African Development Foundation, Lawrence Neal Benedict, of 
California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Cape Verde, Harold 
Walter Geisel, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Mauritius and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation 
as Ambassador to the Federal and Islamic Republic of The Comoros, 
Aubrey Hooks, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of the 
Congo, Robert Krueger, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Botswana, and David

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H. Shinn, of Washington, to be Ambassador to Ethiopia, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. 
McKoy was introduced by Senator Helms.
IRS MODERNIZATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine 
the status of the modernization of the Internal Revenue Service tax 
information system, receiving testimony from Gene L. Dodaro, Assistant 
Comptroller General, Accounting and Information Management Division, 
General Accounting Office; Margaret Milner Richardson, Commissioner of 
Internal Revenue, Department of the Treasury; Robert P. Clagett, 
Chairman, and Al Irvine, Member, both of the Committee on Continued 
Review of the Tax Systems Modernization of the Internal Revenue 
Service, National Research Council; and Stephen S. Street, Alaska 
Business Development Center, and Susan D. Anderson, Lower Yukon 
Economic Development Council, both of Anchorage, Alaska.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FUNDING OF SOCIAL PROGRAMS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children and 
Families concluded hearings to examine the capacity of American 
charitable organizations to fill the gap in the funding of certain 
social programs, after receiving testimony from Rev. Fred Kammer, 
Catholic Charities USA, Alexandria, Virginia; John C. Goodman, National 
Center for Policy Analysis, Dallas, Texas; Rev. Lee Earl, National 
Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, and Sara E. Melendez, Independent 
Sector, both of Washington, D.C.; and David Tuerck, Beacon Hill 
Institute/Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts.