[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 120 (Thursday, September 5, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D894-D895]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Vice Adm. Dennis C. Blair, USN, for reappointment to the 
grade of vice admiral in the United States Navy, Vice Adm. Harold W. 
Gehman, Jr., USN, for appointment to the grade of Admiral in the United 
States Navy, and Maj. Gen. David J. McCloud, for appointment to the 
grade of lieutenant general in the United States Air Force.
WATER RESOURCES AND RECLAMATION PROJECTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management concluded hearings on S. 931, to authorize the 
construction of the Lewis and Clark Rural Water System and to authorize 
assistance to the Lewis and Clark Rural Water System, Inc., a nonprofit 
corporation, for the planning and construction of a water supply 
system, S. 1564, to provide loan guarantees for water supply, 
conservation, quality and transmission projects, S. 1565, to supplement 
the Small Reclamation Projects Act and the Federal reclamation laws by 
providing for Federal cooperation in non-Federal projects and for 
participation by non- Federal agencies in Federal projects, S. 1649, to 
extend contracts between the Bureau of Reclamation and irrigation 
districts in Kansas and Nebraska, S. 1719, to require the Secretary of 
the Interior to offer to sell to certain public agencies the 
indebtedness representing the remaining repayment balance of certain 
Bureau of Reclamation projects in Texas, S. 1921, to transfer certain 
facilities at the Minidoka project to the Burley Irrigation District, 
S. 1986, to provide for the completion of the Umatilla Basin Project, 
and S. 2015, to convey certain real property located within the 
Carlsbad Project in New Mexico to the Carlsbad Irrigation District, 
after receiving testimony from Senators Daschle, Pressler, Grassley, 
Hutchison, and Kerrey; Representatives Cooley, Tim Johnson, and Ortiz; 
Eluid L. Martinez, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of 
the Interior; Mayor Mary Rhodes, Corpus Christi, Texas, on behalf of 
the Choke Canyon Reservoir System; Mayor Gary Hanson, Sioux Falls, 
South Dakota; Mayor William Weber, Luverne, Minnesota; Roger Ling and 
Randy Bingham, both representing the Burley Irrigation District, 
Burley, Idaho; Larry Libeu, Municipal Eastern Water District, Jacinto, 
California, on behalf of the Eastern and National Water Resources 
Associations; Dave McCullum, O'Livenhain Municipal Water District, 
Encinitas, California; John Williams, Canadian River Authority/Lake 
Meredith Reservoir; Ken Choffel, HDR Engineering, Inc., Austin, Texas; 
Kenneth Nelson, Kansas Bostick Irrigation District, Courtland, on 
behalf of the Irrigation Project Reauthorization Council; Reed Marbut, 
Oregon Water Resources Department, Salem; Donald G. Sampson, 
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, and Pete Wells, 
both of Pendleton, Oregon; Chester Prior, Westland Irrigation District, 
Stanfield, Oregon; Pamela Bonrud, Lewis and Clark Rural Water System, 
Inc., Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and Randy Van Dyke, Clay County Rural 
Water, Spencer, Iowa.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee on Foreign Relations 
concluded hearings on the nominations of John Francis Maisto, of 
Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Venezuela, Anne W. 
Patterson, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of El 
Salvador, Genta Hawkins Holmes, of California, to be Ambassador to 
Australia, Arma Jane

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Karaer, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, and to serve 
concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the 
Solomon Islands, and as Ambassador to the Republic of Vanuatu, and John 
Stern Wolf, of Maryland, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure 
of service as U.S. Coordinator for Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation 
(APEC), after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf.
FOREIGN POLICY NOTIFICATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held hearings to examine 
the need to improve procedures for notifying Congress of significant 
changes in United States foreign policy, receiving testimony from John 
M. Deutch, Director of Central Intelligence; Michael Matheson, Acting 
Legal Adviser, Department of State; Whit Peters, Deputy General 
Counsel, Department of Defense; and Lloyd Cutler, former Counsel to 
Presidents Carter and Clinton, and Morton Halperin, Council on Foreign 
Relations, both of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.