[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 45 (Thursday, March 28, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D285-D288]
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 in behalf of funds for their respective activities 
from Michael Taylor, Acting Under Secretary for Food Safety, Michael 
Dunn, Assistant Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, Lonnie 
J. King, Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Lon 
S. Hatamiya, Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service, James R. 
Baker, Administrator, Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards 
Administration, and Dennis L. Kaplan, Deputy Director for Budget, 
Legislative, and Regulatory Systems, all of the Department of 
Agriculture.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 16.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on proposed 
legislation authorizing funds for

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fiscal year 1997 for the Department of Defense and the future years 
defense program, focusing on the military strategies and operational 
requirements of the unified commands, receiving testimony from Adm. 
Joseph W. Prueher, USN, Commander in Chief, United States Pacific 
Command; and Gen. Gary E. Luck, USA, Commander in Chief, United Nations 
Command, Commander in Chief, Combined Forces Command, and Commander, 
United States Forces Korea.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
C-17 PROCUREMENT
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Seapower held hearings on 
the multiyear procurement proposal for the C-17 strategic airlifter, 
receiving testimony from Paul G. Kaminski, Deputy Under Secretary of 
Defense for Acquisition and Technology; and Louis J. Rodrigues, 
Director, Defense Acquisition Issues, National Security and 
International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office; and Donald 
R. Kozlowski, C-17, McDonnell Douglas Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE TO MEXICO
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held 
hearings on S. 1547, to limit the provision of assistance to the 
Government of Mexico using the exchange stabilization fund established 
pursuant to section 5302 of title 31, United States Code, receiving 
testimony from Lawrence H. Summers, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury; 
Peter Tarnoff, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; Thomas 
A. Constantine, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration, and 
James E. Moody, Deputy Assistant Director, Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, both of the Department of Justice; California Deputy 
Attorney General James D. Dutton, and George J. Doane, California 
Department of Justice/Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement, both of 
Sacramento; Les Weidman, Stanislaus County Sheriff Department, Modesto, 
California; T.J. Bonner, National Border Patrol Council/AFL-CIO, 
Imperial Beach, California; and Charles Hill, San Diego Drug 
Enforcement Agency, San Diego, California.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  The nominations of Barry M. Goldwater Sr., of Arizona, to be a Member 
of the Board of Directors of the Communications Satellite Corporation 
until the date of the annual meeting of the Corporation in 1998, Peter 
S. Knight, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the Board of 
Directors of the Communications Satellite Corporation until the date of 
the annual meeting of the Corporation in 1999, William L. Wilson, of 
Minnesota, to be a Member of the Advisory Board of the Saint Lawrence 
Seaway Development Corporation, Vice Adm. Richard D. Herr, USCG, to be 
Vice Commandant, United States Coast Guard, with the grade of admiral 
while so serving, and certain U.S. Coast Guard promotion lists;
  S. 39, to authorize funds through fiscal year 2000 for programs of 
the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1149, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel Babs;
  S. 1272, to issue a certificate of documentation and coastwise trade 
endorsement for the vessel Billy Buck;
  S. 1281, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel Sarah-
Christen;
  S. 1282, to issue a certificate of documentation with the appropriate 
endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel Triad;
  S. 1298, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel 
Shooter;
  S. 1319, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel Too 
Much Fun;
  S. 1347, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
endorsement for the vessel Captain Daryl;
  S. 1348, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
endorsement for the vessel Alpha Tango;
  S. 1349, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
endorsement for the vessel Old Hat;
  S. 1358, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel 
Carolyn;
  S. 1362, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel Focus;
  S. 1383, to issue a certificate of documentation and coastwise trade 
endorsement for the vessel Westfjord;
  S. 1384, to issue a certificate of documentation and coastwise trade 
endorsement for the vessel God's Grace II;
  S. 1454, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade and fisheries for the 
vessel Joan Marie;

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  S. 1455, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel Movin 
On;
  S. 1456, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel Play 
Hard;
  S. 1457, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel 
Shogun;
  S. 1545, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel 
Moonraker;
  S. 1566, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel Marsh 
Grass Too;
  S. 1588, to issue a certificate of documentation and coastwise trade 
endorsement for the vessel Kalypso; and
  S. 1631, to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate 
endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel 
Extreme.
ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed oversight 
hearings on issues relating to competitive change in the electric power 
industry, and on S. 1526, to provide for retail competition among 
electric energy suppliers, and to provide for recovery of stranded 
costs attributable to an open access electricity market, receiving 
testimony from Marc D. Christensen, Public Service Company of New 
Mexico, Albuquerque; Pradeep Mehra, Dearborn, Michigan, on behalf of 
the Ford Motor Company and ELCON; Jerry Jackson, Entergy Corporation, 
New Orleans, Louisiana; Daniel W. Waters, Southern California Public 
Power Authority, Pasadena, on behalf of the American Public Power 
Association; Bruce L. Levy, Energy Initiatives, Inc., Parsippany, New 
Jersey, on behalf of the Electric Generation Association; John P. 
Galles, National Small Business United, Washington, D.C.; Roger F. 
Naill, AES Corporation, on behalf of the National Independent Energy 
Producers, and Glenn English, National Rural Electric Cooperative 
Association, both of Arlington, Virginia; and R. Steve Letbetter, 
Houston Lighting and Power Company, Houston, Texas.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following bills:
  H.R. 255, to designate the Federal Justice Building in Miami, 
Florida, as the ``James Lawrence King Federal Justice Building'';
  H.R. 869, to designate the Federal building and U.S. Courthouse 
located at 125 Market Street in Youngstown, Ohio, as the ``Thomas D. 
Lambros Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse'';
  H.R. 1804, to designate the United States Post Office-Courthouse 
located at South 6th and Rogers Avenue, Fort Smith, Arkansas, as the 
``Judge Isaac C. Parker Federal Building'';
  H.R. 2415, to designate the United States Customs Administration 
Building at the Ysleta/Zaragosa Port of Entry located at 797 South 
Ysleta in El Paso, Texas, as the ``Timothy C. McCaghren Customs 
Administration Building'';
  H.R. 2556, to redesignate the Federal building located at 345 
Middlefield Road in Menlo Park, California, and known as the Earth 
Sciences and Library Building, as the ``Vincent E. McKelvey Federal 
Building'';
  H.R. 1743, to authorize funds for fiscal years 1996 through 2000 for 
programs of the Water Resources Research Act, with an amendment;
  S. 811, to authorize funds for fiscal years 1996 through 2001 for 
research into the desalinization and reclamation of water and authorize 
a program for States, cities, or qualifying agencies desiring to own 
and operate a water desalinization or reclamation facility to develop 
such facilities, with an amendment;
  S. 1611, to establish the Kentucky National Wildlife Refuge;
  S. 1422, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire 
property in the town of East Hampton, Suffolk County, New York, for 
inclusion in the Amagansett National Wildlife Refuge; and
  H.R. 2243, to authorize funds through 1998 for fish and wildlife 
restoration programs of the Trinity River Basin Fish and Wildlife 
Management Act of 1984.
CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION 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 Warren M. Christopher, 
Secretary of State; William J. Perry, Secretary, and Ashton B. Carter, 
Assistant Secretary for International Security Policy, both of the 
Department of Defense; Lt. Gen. Wesley K. Clark, USA, Director of 
Strategic Plans and Policy, Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs; 
and John D. Holum, Director, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
RADIO IN AFRICA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs 
concluded hearings to examine the role

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and impact of radio in Africa, after receiving testimony from Geoffrey 
Cowan, Director, Voice of America; Thomas N. Hull III, Director, Office 
of African Affairs, United States Information Agency; Carol A. Peasley, 
Deputy Assistant Administrator for Africa, U.S. Agency for 
International Development; John Marks, Search for Common Ground, 
Washington, D.C.; Judith Moses, Mosaic Group, Inc., New York, New York; 
William H. Siemering, Open Society Foundation for South Africa, 
Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania; and Robert M. Press, Stetson University, 
DeLand, Florida.
IMMIGRATION REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reform 
the legal immigration of immigrants and nonimmigrants to the United 
States. (As approved by the committee, the bill incorporates provisions 
of S. 1394.)
FDA REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 1477, to 
amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Public Health 
Service Act to improve the regulation of food, drugs, devices and 
biological products.
NAVAJO/HOPI LAND SETTLEMENT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held oversight hearings to 
review the settlement and accommodation agreement in the dispute over 
the Navajo and Hopi land dispute, receiving testimony from Lois J. 
Schiffer, Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources 
Division, Department of Justice; Christopher J. Bavasi, Executive 
Director, Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation; Ferrell H. 
Secakuku, Hopi Tribe, Kykotsmovi, Arizona; Herb Yazzie, Navajo Nation, 
Window Rock, Arizona; and Roger Attakai, Teestoh, Arizona, and Mae Tso, 
Mosquito Springs, Arizona, both on behalf of the Navajo Families 
Mediation Team.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on intelligence matters from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AND THE ELDERLY
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
inappropriate use of prescription drugs among the elderly and their 
potential health and economic consequences, and the role of the health 
care industry in minimizing this risk, after receiving testimony from 
Sarah F. Jaggar, Director, Health Financing and Public Health Issues, 
Health, Education, and Human Services Division, General Accounting 
Office; Calvin H. Knowlton, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and 
Science, Lumberton, New Jersey, on behalf of the American 
Pharmaceutical Association; Linda F. Golodner, Washington, D.C., on 
behalf of the National Consumers League and the National Council on 
Patient Information and Education; Robert E. Vestal, American Society 
for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Boise, Idaho; Lynn 
Williams, Solutions, Boulder, Colorado, on behalf of the American 
Society of Consultant Pharmacists; Margaret G. McGlynn, Merck-Medco 
Managed Care, Inc., Montvale, New Jersey; Matthew Shimoda, Health Care 
Professionals, Baltimore, Maryland, on behalf of the Community Retail 
Pharmacy Coalition; and Colleen O'Brien-Thorpe, Annandale, Virginia.