[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 90 (Tuesday, June 18, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D628-D631]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative approved for 
full Committee action the Legislative appropriations for fiscal year 
1997.
TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, 
and General Government approved for full committee action the Treasury, 
Postal Service and General Government appropriations for fiscal year 
1997.
PACIFIC NORTHWEST POWER SYSTEM
Committee on Commerce: Subcommittee on Energy and Power held an 
oversight hearing on the Pacific Northwest Power System. Testimony was 
heard from John Velehradsky, Director of Engineering and Technical 
Service, North Pacific Division, Corps of Engineers, Department of the 
Army; Donna Darm, Senior Policy Analyst, Northwest Region, National 
Marine Fisheries, NOAA, Department of Commerce; and public witnesses.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight: Subcommittee on the 
District of Columbia approved for full Committee action the following 
bills: H.R. 3663, District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority Act of 
1996; and H.R. 3664, District of Columbia Government Improvement and 
Efficiency Act of 1996.
AID WHISTLEBLOWER--ADMINISTRATION'S RESPONSE
Committee on International Relations: Held a hearing on the 
Administration's response to AID Whistle Blower Paul Neifert. Testimony 
was heard from Larry E. Byrne, Assistant Administrator, Management, 
AID, U.S. International Development Cooperation Agency.
CHINA MFN
Committee on International Relations: Subcommittee on International 
Operations and Human Rights held a hearing on China MFN: Human Rights 
Consequences. Testimony was heard from Representatives Wolf and Pelosi; 
and public witnesses.
BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE
Committee on National Security: Subcommittee on Military Procurement 
and the Subcommittee on Military Research and Development held a joint 
hearing on Ballistic Missile Defense. Testimony was heard from the 
following officials of the Department of Defense: RAdm. Richard D. 
West, USN, Acting Director, Ballistic Missile Defense Organization; 
Maj. Gen. Robert E. Linhead, USAF, Director of Plans, Department of the 
Air Force; and Lt. Gen. Jay M. Garner, USA, Commanding General, Space 
and Strategic Defense Command, Department of the Army.
  Hearings continue June 20.
FEDERAL LAND USE POLICIES
Committee on Resources: Held an oversight hearing on citizens' 
perspectives on Federal Land Use Policies. Testimony was heard from 
Melvin R. Brown, Speaker, House of Representatives, State of Utah; 
Frederick W. King, Sr., Senator, State of New Hampshire; and public 
witnesses.
INDIAN TRUST FUNDS
Committee on Resources: Task Force on Indian Trust Management held an 
oversight hearing on management of Indian Trust Funds. Testimony was 
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from Paul Homan, Special Trustee for American Indians, Department of 
the Interior; Linda Calbon, Director, Civil Audits, Accounting and 
Information Management Division, GAO; and public witnesses.
INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, an open rule providing 1 
hour of debate on H.R. 3662, making appropriations for the Department 
of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1997. The rule waives points of order against 
consideration of the bill for failure to comply with clause 2(l)(6) of 
rule XI (the three-day availability of the report) or clause 7 of rule 
XXI (the three-day requirement for the availability of printed hearings 
and reports on appropriations bills).
  The rule waives points of order against provisions in the bill (other 
than section 117 and the two provisos under the heading ``Strategic 
Petroleum Reserve'') for failure to comply with clause 2 of rule XXI 
(prohibiting unauthorized appropriations and legislation on general 
appropriations bills) or clause 6 of rule XXI (prohibiting transfers of 
unobligated balances). Where points of order are waived against part of 
a paragraph, points of order against a provision in another part of 
such paragraph may be made only against such provision and not against 
the entire paragraph.
  The rule provides that an amendment striking the last proviso under 
the heading ``Strategic Petroleum Reserve'' shall be considered as 
adopted in the House and in the Committee of the Whole.
  The rule accords priority in recognition to those amendments that are 
pre-printed in the Congressional Record. The rule allows the chairman 
of the Committee of the Whole to postpone votes during consideration of 
the bill, and to reduce votes to five minutes on a postponed question 
if the vote follows a fifteen minute vote.
  The rule provides that a motion to rise and report the bill to the 
House with such amendments as may have been adopted shall have 
precedence over a motion to amend, if offered by the Majority Leader or 
a designee after the reading of the final lines of the bill. Finally, 
the rule provides one motion to recommit, with or without instructions. 
Testimony was heard from Representatives Regula, Schaefer, Gilchrest, 
Yates and Furse.
COMMITTEE BUSINESS
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct: Met in executive session to 
consider pending business.
ISTEA REAUTHORIZATION
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Subcommittee on Surface 
Transportation continued hearings on ISTEA Reauthorization Maintaining 
Adequate Infrastructure: Federal Transit Grant Programs. Testimony was 
heard from the following officials of the Federal Transit 
Administration, Department of Transportation: Gordon J. Linton, 
Administrator; and Janette Sadik-Khan, Deputy Administrator; Frank J. 
Wilson, Chairman and Commissioner of Transportation, Department of 
Transportation, State of New Jersey; John B. Daly, Commissioner, 
Department of Transportation, State of New York; and public witnesses.
  Hearings continue June 27.
VETERANS LEGISLATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee on Hospitals and Health 
Care approved for full Committee action amended H.R. 3643, to amend 
title 38, United States Code, to extend through December 31, 1998, the 
period during which the Secretary of Veterans Affairs is authorized to 
provide priority health care to certain veterans who were exposed to 
Agent Orange or who served in the Persian Gulf War and to make such 
authority permanent in the case of certain veterans exposed to ionizing 
radiation.
DISAPPROVING MFN TREATMENT--PRODUCTS OF CHINA
Committee on Ways and Means: Ordered reported adversely H.J. Res. 182, 
disapproving the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment--most-
favored-nation treatment--to the products of the People's Republic of 
China.
INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION REGARDING HAITI
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Subcommittee on Human 
Intelligence, Analysis, and Counterintelligence met in executive 
session to continue hearings on the Politicization of Intelligence 
Collection regarding Haiti. Testimony was heard from departmental 
witnesses.

Joint Meetings
ALBANIAN ELECTIONS
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission): 
Commission met to receive a briefing on the impact of recent elections 
in Albania and prospects for its future from Robert Hand, Staff 
Advisor, Helsinki Commission; Albania Ambassador to the United States 
Lublin Dilja, Tirane; and Susan Atwood, National Democratic Institute 
for International Affairs, and Eric Jowett, International Republican 
Institute, both of Washington, D.C.
  Commission recessed subject to call.

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                         COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR

                        WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1996

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, business 
meeting, to consider recommendations which it will make to the 
Committee on the Budget with respect to spending reductions and 
revenue increases to meet reconciliation expenditures as imposed by 
H. Con. Res. 178, establishing the congressional budget for the 
United States Government for fiscal year 1997 and setting forth 
appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 1998, 1999, 2000, 
2001, and 2002, 9:30 a.m., SR-332.
  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on District of Columbia, 
to hold hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1997 
for the District of Columbia court system, 11 a.m., SD-138.
  Subcommittee on Defense, business meeting, to mark up H.R. 3610, 
making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 1997, 2 p.m., SD-192.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, business 
meeting, to mark up S. 1815, to provide for improved regulation of 
the securities markets, eliminate excess securities fees, and reduce 
the costs of investing, 9:30 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Subcommittee 
on Science, Technology, and Space, to hold hearings to examine 
issues relating to salmon recovery research, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, business meeting, to 
consider pending calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Finance, to resume hearings to examine proposals to 
reform the welfare and Medicaid system, focusing on S. 1795, 
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on the Judiciary, business meeting, to consider pending 
calendar business, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Rules and Administration, to continue hearings on 
public access to government information in the 21st century, 
focusing on the Government Printing Office depository library 
program, 9:30 a.m., SR-301.
  Committee on Indian Affairs, business meeting, to mark up Title 
III (Child Custody Proceedings Affected by the Indian Child Welfare 
Act of 1978) of H.R. 3286, Adoption Promotion and Stability Act, 
9:30 a.m., SR-485.
  Select Committee on Intelligence, to hold hearings to review 
claims against the United States by former Vietnamese operatives, 9 
a.m., SD-106.
  Full Committee, closed business meeting, to consider pending 
intelligence matters, 2 p.m., SH-219.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, to consider the following: H.R. 1627, 
Food Quality Protection Act of 1995; and other pending business, 2 
p.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, to consider the Transportation 
appropriations for fiscal year 1997, 8:30 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, Subcommittee on 
Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, hearing on Electronic 
Benefit Transfer Systems and Regulation E, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Budget, to markup Reconciliation Recommendations, 
11 a.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Power, oversight 
hearing on the Status of the International Global Climate Change 
Negotiations, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities, Subcommittee 
on Employer-Employee Relations, hearing on H.R. 3580, Worker Right 
to Know Act, 10:15 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, hearing on Security 
of FBI Background Files, 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, hearing to review the 
Administration's Nonproliferation Policy, 11 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific and the Subcommittee on 
International Economic Policy and Trade, joint hearing on U.S. 
Commercial Interests in Southeast Asia: Tapping the ``Big Merging 
Markets'', 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, hearing 
regarding federal record keeping and sex offenders, 9:30 a.m., 2237 
Rayburn.
  Committee on National Security, Subcommittee on Military 
Personnel, hearing on POW/MIA issues, 2 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, to markup the following bills: H.R. 3378, 
to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to extend the 
demonstration program for direct billing of Medicare, Medicaid, and 
other third party payors; H.R. 401, Kenai Natives Association Equity 
Act of 1995; H.R. 2941, Housing Improvement Act for Land Management 
Agencies; H.R. 3290, to authorize appropriations for the Bureau of 
Land Management for each of the fiscal years 1997 through 2002; H.R. 
3660, Reclamation Recycling and Water Conservation Act of 1996; H.R. 
3198, National Geologic Mapping Reauthorization Act of 1996; H.R. 
3249, to authorize appropriations for a mining institute to develop 
domestic technological capabilities for the recovery of minerals 
from the Nation's seabed; and H.R. 3024, United States-Puerto Rico 
Political Status Act, 11 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Native American and Insular Affairs, hearing and 
markup of the following: H.R. 3640, to settle a land claim for the 
Torres Martinez Indian Tribe; the United Houma Nation Recognition 
and Land Claims Settlement Act of 1996; and to mark up the 
following: H.R. 3642, California Indian Land Transfer Act; and H.R. 
2591, Indian Federal Recognition Administrative Procedures Act of 
1995, 2 p.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Committee on Rules, to consider a measure making appropriations 
for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and

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Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, 
boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for fiscal year 
ending September 30, 1997, 4 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Technology, to markup H.R. 
2779, Savings in Construction Act of 1995, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Aviation, hearing on Aviation Safety: Treatment of Families After 
Airline Accidents, 9:30 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Compensation, 
Pension, insurance and Memorial Affairs, hearing on the DVA computer 
modernization effort, 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.