[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 41 (Wednesday, April 9, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D307-D309]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--NAVY/MARINE CORPS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1998 for Navy and Marine 
Corps programs, receiving testimony from John H. Dalton, Secretary of 
the Navy; Adm. Jay L. Johnson, Chief of Naval Operations; and Gen. 
Charles C. Krulak, Commandant of the Marine Corps.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 16.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland Forces held 
hearings on S. 450, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1998 and 1999 
for military activities of the Department of Defense, and to prescribe 
military personnel strengths for fiscal years 1998 and 1999, focusing 
on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle programs, operations and modernization 
efforts, receiving testimony from Gen. William W. Hartzog, USA, 
Commanding General, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command; Col. 
Thomas R. Goedkoop, USA, Commander, 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division; 
Col. Guy C. Swan, USA, Commander, 11th Armored Calvary Regiment; 
Charles Heber, Director, High Altitude/Endurance Unmanned Aerial 
Vehicle (HAE UAV), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; and Rear 
Adm. Barton D. Strong, USN, Program Executive Officer, Cruise Missiles 
and UAVs, Office of the Secretary of the Navy.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.

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PUBLIC HOUSING REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing Opportunity and Community Development concluded hearings on S. 
462, to reform and consolidate the public and assisted housing programs 
of the United States, and to redirect primary responsibility for these 
programs from the Federal Government to States and localities, after 
receiving testimony from Andrew Cuomo, Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development; Cushing N. Dolbeare, National Low Income Housing 
Coalition, David B. Bryson, National Housing Law Project, and Deepak 
Bhargava, Center for Community Change, all of Washington, D.C.; Ricardo 
Diaz, Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on behalf 
of the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities; Thomas R. Shuler, 
Insignia Residential Group, Greenville, South Carolina, on behalf of 
the National Multi Housing Council and National Apartment Association; 
David C. Morton, Housing Authority of the City of Reno, Nevada, on 
behalf of the Public Housing Authorities Directors Association; Billy 
Easton, New York State Tenants and Neighbors Coalition, Albany; and 
Deborah L. Vincent, Clearwater Housing Authority, Clearwater, Florida, 
on behalf of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment 
Officials.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nomination of Kenneth M. Mead, of Virginia, to be 
Inspector General, Department of Transportation, after the nominee 
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
AVIATION SAFETY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held 
hearings to examine the accident investigation process for major 
domestic aviation accidents and safety responses, receiving testimony 
from James E. Hall, Chairman, Bernard Loeb, Director, Division of 
Aviation Safety, and Dan Campbell, General Counsel, all of the National 
Transportation Safety Board; Guy S. Gardner, Associate Administrator 
for Regulation and Certification, and Dave Thomas, Director, Office of 
Accident Investigation, both of the Federal Aviation Administration, 
Department of Transportation; and Dale Watson, Section Chief, 
International Terrorism Operations Section, National Security Division, 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MEDICARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine Medicare fee-
for-service system policies, focusing on the growth in Medicare 
spending on post-acute care services and options to constrain that 
growth, and related Administrative proposals, receiving testimony from 
Joseph R. Antos, Assistant Director for Health and Human Resources, 
Congressional Budget Office; William J. Scanlon, Director, Health 
Financing and Systems Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services 
Division, General Accounting Office; Margaret J. Cushman, VNA Health 
Care, Inc., Hartford-Waterbury, Connecticut, on behalf of the National 
Association for Home Care; Thomas A. Scully, Federation of American 
Health Systems, Washington, D.C.; and Michael R. Walker, Genesis Health 
Ventures, Inc., Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the American 
Health Care Association.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
ratification of 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 (Treaty Doc. 103-21), after receiving 
testimony from Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, former U.S. Permanent 
Representative to the United Nations; Richard N. Perle, former 
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy; Fred 
C. Ikle, former Director, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; 
Douglas J. Feith, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for 
Negotiation Policy; Gen. Brent Scowcroft, former National Security 
Policy Advisor; Adm. E.R. Zumwalt, Jr., USN (Ret.), Member, President's 
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and former Chief of Naval 
Operations; and Edward L. Rowney, former Ambassador and Lt. General USA 
(Ret.) International Negotiation Consultant and former Chief Negotiator 
for START I and Special Arms Control Advisor.
INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FUNDING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic 
Policy, Export and Trade Promotion concluded hearings on the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1998 for the 
International Financial Institutions, including the Multilateral 
Development Bank and the International Monetary Fund, after receiving 
testimony from Lawrence H. Summers, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.

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FEDERAL STATISTICAL SYSTEM
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management, Restructuring, and the District of Columbia held 
hearings to examine the role of the Department of Commerce in Federal 
statistical gathering, analysis and dissemination, and opportunities 
for reform and consolidation, receiving testimony from Senator 
Moynihan; Representative Horn; L. Nye Stevens, Director, Federal 
Management and Workforce Issues, General Government Division, General 
Accounting Office; Janet L. Norwood, Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.; 
Vincent P. Barabba, General Motors Corporation, Capitola, California; 
Maurine A. Haver, Haver Analytics, New York, New York, on behalf of the 
National Association of Business Economists; and Leonard I. Nakamura, 
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee will meet again tomorrow.