[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 58 (Wednesday, May 1, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D400-D402]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal

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year 1997 for Reserves and National Guard programs, receiving testimony 
from Maj. Gen. Max Baratz, USA, Chief, Army Reserve; Rear Adm. Thomas 
F. Hall, USN, Director, Naval Reserve; Maj. Gen. Robert A. McIntosh, 
USAF, Chief, Air Force Reserve; Maj. Gen. Thomas L. Wilkerson, 
Commanding General, Marine Forces Reserve; Lt. Gen. Edward D. Baca, 
USA, Chief, National Guard Bureau; Maj. Gen. William A. Navas, Jr., 
USA, Director, Army National Guard; and Maj. Gen. Donald W. Shepperd, 
USAF, Director, Air National Guard.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 8.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to mark up 
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1997 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
and to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed 
Forces, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again 
tomorrow.
AIRPORT REVENUE DIVERSION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Aviation concluded hearings to examine the effectiveness of certain 
provisions of the Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982 which 
requires airport sponsors receiving Federal assistance to use all 
airport-generated revenues for air transportation systems, after 
receiving testimony from A. Mary Schiavo, Inspector General, Todd J. 
Zinser, Assistant Inspector General for Investigations, Lawrence H. 
Weintrob, Deputy Assistant Inspector General for Auditing, Nancy E. 
McFadden, General Counsel, and Nicholas Garaufis, Chief Counsel, and 
David Bennett, Director, Office of Airport Safety and Standards, both 
of the Federal Aviation Administration, all of the Department of 
Transportation; Edward A. Merlis, Air Transport Association of America, 
Washington, D.C.; and James Frassett, Demaria Electric, Los Angeles, 
California, on behalf of Citizens for a Strong LAX.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 1425, to recognize the validity of rights-of-way for the 
construction of highways over public lands, not reserved for public 
uses, granted under section 2477 of the Revised Statutes, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1014, to improve the management of royalties from Federal and 
Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leases, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  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, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  S. 1627, to designate the visitor center at Jean Lafitte National 
Historical Park in New Orleans, Louisiana as the ``Laura C. Hudson 
Visitor Center''.
  Also, committee resumed consideration of S. 391, to protect and 
restore the health of Federal forest lands, but did not complete action 
thereon, and recessed subject to call.
AFRICA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs 
concluded hearings on proposed development assistance to Africa, after 
receiving testimony from David A. Lipton, Assistant Secretary of the 
Treasury for International Affairs; John F. Hicks, Sr., Assistant 
Administrator for Africa, Agency for International Development; Cindy 
Williams, Assistant Director, National Security Affairs, Congressional 
Budget Office; and Nicholas van de Walle, Overseas Development Council, 
and Tom Fox, World Resources Institute, both of Washington, D.C.
DRUG CONTROL STRATEGY
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to review the 
President's National Drug Control Strategy for 1996, receiving 
testimony from Barry R. McCaffrey, Director, Office of National Drug 
Control Policy; John P. Walters, New Citizenship Project, Washington, 
D.C., and former Action Director and Deputy Director for Supply 
Reduction, Office of National Drug Control Policy; and Peter Reuter, 
University of Maryland, College Park.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported a list of nominees in the regular corps of the Public Health 
Service received in the Senate on November 9, 1995.
  Also, committee resumed markup of S. 1643, to authorize funds for 
fiscal years 1997 through 2001 for programs of the Older Americans Act, 
but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION/SBA BUDGET
Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Ginger Ehn Lew, of California, to be Deputy Administrator 
of the Small Business Administration, after the nominee, who was

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introduced by Representative Pelosi, testified and answered questions 
in her own behalf. Testimony was also received from Philip Lader, 
Administrator, Small Business Administration.
  Also, committee held hearings to examine the President's proposed 
budget request for fiscal year 1997 for the Small Business 
Administration, receiving testimony from Philip Lader, Administrator, 
SBA.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
WHITEWATER
Special Committee to Investigate the Whitewater Development Corporation 
and Related Matters: Committee continued hearings to examine certain 
issues relative to the Whitewater Development Corporation, receiving 
testimony from Mort Hardwicke and George Wright, both of the Arkansas 
Development Finance Authority, Dan Lasater, Michael Drake, Linda 
Chandler, and Wooten Epes, all of Little Rock, Arkansas.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.