[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 55 (Thursday, April 25, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D372-D374]
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

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year 1997 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in 
behalf of funds for rural programs from Jill Long Thompson, Under 
Secretary for Rural Development, Wally Beyer, Administrator, Rural 
Utilities Service, W. Bruce Crain, Director, Alternative Agriculture 
Research and Commercialization Center, Maureen A. Kennedy, 
Administrator, Rural Housing Service, Dayton J. Watkins, Administrator, 
Rural Business-Cooperative 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 Tuesday, April 30.
APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related 
Agencies held hearings to review proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 1997 for the Department of Transportation, receiving testimony 
from Federico Pena, Secretary, and Louise F. Stoll, Assistant 
Secretary, both of the Department of Transportation.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 2.
DOMESTIC AVIATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held 
hearings to examine changes that have occurred in domestic aviation 
since the deregulation of the airline industry, focusing on comparisons 
in airline fares, service quantity and quality, and safety for airports 
serving small, medium-sized, and large communities, receiving testimony 
from John H. Anderson, Jr., Director, Frank Mulvey, Assistant Director, 
and Timothy F. Hannegan, Senior Evaluator, all of the Transportation 
and Telecommunications Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic 
Development Division, General Accounting Office; Charles A. Hunnicutt, 
Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Aviation and International 
Aviation, Department of Transportation; former Mayor Donald Overman, 
Scottsbluff, Nebraska; Herbert D. Kelleher, Southwest Airlines Co., 
Dallas, Texas; Lewis Jordan, ValuJet Airlines, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia; 
Edward R. Beauvais, Western Pacific Airlines, Inc., Colorado Springs, 
Colorado; Douglas G. Voss, Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd., Bloomington, 
Minnesota; David J. Jagim, South Dakota Department of Transportation, 
Pierre; and Kyle Hopstad, Central Montana Medical Center, Lewistown.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Parks, 
Historic Preservation and Recreation concluded hearings on S. 902, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to assist in the construction 
of a building to be used jointly by the Secretary for park purposes and 
by the city of Natchez as an intermodal transportation center, S. 951, 
to commemorate the service of First Ladies Jacqueline Kennedy and 
Patricia Nixon to improving and maintaining the Executive Residence of 
the President and to authorize grants to the White House Endowment Fund 
in their memory to continue their work, S. 1098, to establish the 
Midway Islands as a National Memorial, H.R. 826, to extend the deadline 
for the completion of certain land exchanges involving the Big Thicket 
National Preserve in Texas, and H.R. 1163, to authorize the exchange of 
National Park Service land in the Fire Island National Seashore in the 
State of New York for land in the Village of Patchogue, Suffolk County, 
New York, after receiving testimony from Senators Helms and Hutchison; 
Representative Forbes; Denis P. Galvin, Associate Director, 
Professional Services, National Park Service, and Carolyn Bohan, Deputy 
Assistant Director for Refuges and Wildlife, United States Fish and 
Wildlife Service, both of the Department of the Interior; Adm. Thomas 
H. Moorer, USN (Ret.), former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Mayor 
Larry L. Brown, Natchez, Mississippi; Mayor Stephen E. Keegan, Village 
of Patchogue, New York; Neil W. Horstman, Washington, D.C., and Dottie 
Craig, Midland, Texas, both on behalf of the White House Endowment 
Fund; Glenn A. Chancellor, Temple-Inland Forest Products Corporation, 
Diboll, Texas; and James M. D'Angelo, Chevy Chase, Maryland, on behalf 
of the International Midway Memorial Foundation, Inc.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  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, with 7 conditions and 11 declarations;
  S. Con. Res. 56, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Chornobyl 
disaster; and
  The nominations of Kenneth C. Brill, of California, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Cyprus, Prudence Bushnell, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Kenya, Christopher Robert Hill, of Rhode 
Island, to be Ambassador to The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 
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 the 
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of Burundi, Princeton Nathan Lyman, of Maryland, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, Richard L. 
Morningstar, of Massachusetts, for the rank of Ambassador during his 
tenure of service as Special Advisor to the President and to the 
Secretary of State on Assistance to the New Independent States of the 
Former Soviet Union and Coordinator of NIS Assistance, Day Olin Mount, 
of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Iceland, 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.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  The nominations of Eric L. Clay, of Michigan, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, Charles N. 
Clevert, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Eastern 
District of Wisconsin, Nanette K. Laughrey, to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri, 
Donald W. Molloy, to be United States District Judge for the District 
of Montana, and Susan Oki Mollway, to be United States District Judge 
for the District of Hawaii;
  S. 1624, to permanently authorize funds for programs of the Hate 
Crime Statistics Act of 1990;
  S. 1090, to amend section 552 of title 5, United States Code 
(commonly known as the Freedom of Information Act), to provide for 
public access to information in an electronic format, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 966, for the relief of Nathan C. Vance; and
  S. Res. 217, to designate the first Friday in May 1996, as ``American 
Foreign Service Day'' in recognition of the men and women who have 
served or are presently serving in the American Foreign Service, and to 
honor those in the American Foreign Service who have given their lives 
in the line of duty.
WHITEWATER
Special Committee to Investigate the Whitewater Development Corporation 
and Related Matters: Committee resumed hearings to examine certain 
issues relative to the Whitewater Development Corporation, receiving 
testimony from Betsy Wright, Little Rock, Arkansas.