[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 53 (Tuesday, April 23, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D353-D355]
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, receiving testimony in behalf of funds 
for their respective activities from Eugene Moos, Under Secretary, Farm 
and Foreign Agricultural Services, Grant B. Buntrock, Administrator, 
and David C. Hall, Director, Budget Division, both of the Farm Service 
Agency, August Schumacher, Jr., Administrator, Foreign Agricultural 
Service, and Dennis L. Kaplan, Deputy Director for Budget, Legislative, 
and Regulatory Systems, Office of Budget and Program Analysis, all of 
the Department of Agriculture.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 25.
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 the Department of Energy Office of Energy Research, receiving 
testimony from Martha A. Krebs, Director of Energy Research, Department 
of Energy.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 
1635, to establish a United States policy for the deployment of a 
national missile defense system.
SWISS BANK/JEWISH ASSETS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the status of assets deposited by European Jews and 
others into Swiss banks in the years preceding the Holocaust, after 
receiving testimony from Representative Gilman; Stuart E. Eizenstat, 
Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade; Edgar M. Bronfman, 
World Jewish Congress, New York, New York, on behalf of the World 
Jewish Restitution Organization; Hans J. Baer, Bank Julius Baer/Baer 
Holding Ltd., Zurich, Switzerland, on behalf of the Swiss Bankers 
Association; and Greta Beer, Flushing, New York.
CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce and Tourism concluded hearings on 
proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Consumer Product Safety 
Commission, after receiving testimony from Ann Brown, Chairman, Thomas 
Moore, Commissioner, Mary Sheila Gall, Commissioner, and David 
Schmeltzer, Director for Compliance and Administrative Litigation, all 
of the Consumer Product Safety Commission; David Miller, Toy 
Manufacturers Association, David Rohn, National Association of 
Manufacturers, Mary Ellen Fise, Consumer Federation of America, and 
Heather Paul, National SAFE KID'S Campaign, all of Washington, D.C.; 
and Robin Lanier, International Mass Retail Association, Arlington, 
Virginia.
AUTHORIZATION--SUPERFUND
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held hearings on 
S. 1285, to authorize funds for fiscal years 1996 through 2000 programs 
of the Comprehensive Environmental Recovery, Compensation, and 
Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund), receiving testimony from Carol M. 
Browner, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; Sherri W. 
Goodman, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Environmental Security; 
Lois J. Schiffer, Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division, Department of Justice; Thomas P. Grumbly, Acting 
Under Secretary of Energy; Douglas K. Hall, Assistant Secretary of 
Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere; J. Lawrence Wilson, Rohm

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& Haas Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Chemical 
Manufacturers Association; Karen Florini, Environmental Defense Fund, 
Washington, D.C.; Barbara J. Price, Phillips Petroleum Company, 
Bartlesville, Oklahoma, on behalf of the American Petroleum Institute; 
and John Spisak, Terranext Corporation, Lakewood, Colorado.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Prudence Bushnell, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Kenya, Charles O. Cecil, of California, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Niger, David C. Halsted, of Vermont, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Chad, Morris N. Hughes, Jr., of Nebraska, to be 
Ambassador to Republic of Burundi, Dane Farnsworth Smith, Jr., of New 
Mexico, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Senegal, George F. Ward, 
Jr., of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Namibia, and 
Sharon P. Wilkinson, of New York, to be Ambassador to Burkina Faso, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
VICTIMS' BILL OF RIGHTS AMENDMENT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S.J. Res. 
52, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
protect the rights of victims of crimes, after receiving testimony from 
Representative Hyde; Katherine Prescott, Mothers Against Drunk Driving 
(MADD), Greenville, North Carolina; Ralph Hubbard, Parents of Murdered 
Children of New York State, Inc., Brooklyn; Rita Goldsmith, Sedona, 
Arizona, on behalf of the National Organization of Parents of Murdered 
Children, Inc.; Steve Twist, Dial Corporation, Phoenix, Arizona, and 
Robert E. Preston, Denver, Colorado, both on behalf of the National 
Victim Constitutional Amendment Network (NVCAN); Paul G. Cassell, 
University of Utah College of Law, Salt Lake City; Jamin Raskin, 
American University, Washington, D.C.; John Walsh, Miami, Florida; 
Patricia Pollard, California; Collene Campbell, San Juan Capistrano, 
California; and Bruce Fein, Great Falls, Virginia.
ORGAN/TISSUE DONATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings to 
examine the increased need for organ and tissue donations, after 
receiving testimony from Senators DeWine and Dorgan; Representative 
Moakley; John D. Mahoney, Deputy Administrator, and Judith Braslow, 
Director, Division of Transplantation, both of the Health Resources and 
Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; 
Ronald M. Ferguson, Ohio State University, Columbus, on behalf of Ohio 
Transplant Consortium and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons; 
Howard M. Nathan, Delaware Valley Transplant Program, Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Coalition on Donation; Clive O. 
Callender, Howard University Hospital, Washington, D.C., on behalf of 
the National Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program; Bill 
Kemp, Sumner County, Tennessee, on behalf of the Tennessee County 
Clerks Organ Donor Awareness Foundation; Carl Lewis, Houston, Texas, on 
behalf of the Wendy Marx Foundation for Organ Donor Awareness and U.S. 
Sports Council on Organ Donation; Rex Scott, Wingo, Kentucky, Thomas L. 
Meredith, Antioch, Tennessee; and Nicole Brantley, Valdosta, Georgia.
HOME-BASED BUSINESS TRENDS
Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings to examine trends 
and issues affecting home-based business owners, focusing on the 
changing work environment, health insurance, and relevant tax laws, 
receiving testimony from Alice Bredin, WorkAnywhere, Inc., New York, 
New York; Priscilla Y. Huff, Little House Writing Services, 
Sellersville, Pennsylvania; Debbi-Jo Horton, Debbi-Jo Horton 
Accountant, East Providence, Rhode Island, on behalf of the 1995 White 
House Conference on Small Business; James M. Johnson, Jim Johnson 
Photography, on behalf of the National Federation of Independent 
Business, and Dianne Floyd Sutton, Sutton Enterprises, on behalf of the 
National Association of the Self-Employed, both of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee met and approved proposed 
estimates for Indian programs as contained in the President's budget 
request for fiscal year 1997, and agreed on recommendations which it 
will make to the Committee on the Budget.
HEALTH CARE CHANGES AND ALZHEIMERS
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
effects of the changing health care system on Alzheimer patients and 
their families, after receiving testimony from Stanley B. Jones, George 
Washington University/Health Insurance Reform Project, and Griff 
Steinke Healy, Alzheimer's Association, both of Washington, D.C.; Edith 
Eddleman-Robinson, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Los Angeles, 
California; Cheryl Phillips- Harris, Sutter/CHS, Sacramento, 
California; Deborah B. Marin, Bronx Veterans' Hospital and Mount Sinai 
Medical Center, New York, New York;

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Jessie E. Jacques, Alzheimer's Care Center, and Denise Reehl, both of 
Gardiner, Maine; Tim Ryan, Ketchum, Idaho; and Lois Rockhold, Mobile, 
Alabama.