[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 135 (Thursday, September 26, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1008-D1009]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MEDICAL RESEARCH FUNDING
Committee on Appropriations/Special Committee on Aging: Committees 
concluded joint hearings to examine efforts to improve the health of 
all Americans through biomedical and behavioral research, focusing on 
health care cost savings resulting from medical research, after 
receiving testimony from Richard J. Hodes, Director, National Institute 
on Aging, National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland), 
Department of Health and Human Services; Gen. Norman H. Schwarzkopf, 
USA (Ret.), Tampa, Florida; Tadataka Yamada, SmithKline Beecham, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the American 
Gastroenterological Association; Jess G. Thoene, University of 
Michigan, Ann Arbor, on behalf of the National Organization for Rare 
Disorders, Inc.; Robert Lindsay, Helen Hayes Hospital, New York, New 
York, on behalf of the National Osteoporosis Foundation; Mary Woolley, 
Research! America, Alexandria, Virginia; Francis Harper, Dana Alliance 
for Brain Initiatives, and Daniel Perry, Alliance for Aging Research, 
both of Washington, D.C.; Joan I. Samuelson, Santa Rosa, California, on 
behalf of the Parkinson's Action Network; Rod Carew, Los Angeles, 
California; Travis Roy, Yarmouth, Maine; and Zenia Kim, Beaverton, 
Oregon.
NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Oversight 
and Investigations concluded hearings to examine efforts by the Federal 
land management agencies to strengthen the National Environmental 
Policy Act decision making process, after receiving testimony from 
Kathleen A. McGinty, Chair, Council on Environmental Quality; Jack Ward 
Thomas, Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; and Nancy K. 
Hayes, Chief of Staff and Counselor, Bureau of Land Management, 
Department of the Interior.

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BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the threat of ballistic missile attacks on the United States, the need 
for missile defenses, and proposals for the United States' withdrawal 
from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty arms control agreement, after 
receiving testimony from Henry F. Cooper, former Director, Strategic 
Defense Initiative Organization and Chief U.S. Negotiator to the Geneva 
Defense and Space Talks with the Soviet Union; William R. Graham, 
former Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy 
and Science Advisor to President Reagan; and Jack Mendelsohn, Arms 
Control Association, Washington, D.C.
POSTAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to 
review the annual report of the Postmaster General, after receiving 
testimony from Marvin Runyon, Postmaster General/Chief Executive 
Officer, and Michael S. Coughlin, Deputy Postmaster General, both of 
the United States Postal Service.
REFUGEE CONSULTATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to review the 
annual refugee consultation process, after receiving testimony from 
Timothy E. Wirth, Under Secretary for Global Affairs, and Phyllis E. 
Oakley, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees and 
Migration, both of the Department of State; Lavinia Limon, Director, 
Office of Refugee Resettlement, Administration for Children and 
Families, Department of Health and Human Services; and Phyllis Coven, 
Director, Office of International Affairs, Immigration and 
Naturalization Service, Department of Justice.