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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D628-D630 on May 18, 1995.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for foreign assistance programs of the Department of State, receiving testimony from Warren Christopher, Secretary of State.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--NIH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the National Institutes of Health [NIH], after receiving testimony from Harold Varmus, Director, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services.
APPROPRIATIONS--TREASURY/FEC
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996, after receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Robert E. Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury; and Danny L. McDonald, Chairman, and Lee Ann Elliot and John W. McGarry, both Commissioners, all of the Federal Election Commission.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on SeaPower resumed hearings on S. 727, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for military activities of the Department of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on the Marine Corps modernization programs and current operations, receiving testimony from Gen. Carl E. Mundy, Jr., USMC, Commandant, United States Marine Corps.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces resumed hearings on S. 727, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for military activities of the Department of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on bomber force issues, receiving testimony from Paul G. Kaminski, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology; and Gen. John M. Loh, USAF, Commander, Air Combat Command.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded oversight hearings to review management issues with regard to the Tongass National Forest in Alaska and the implementation of the Tongass Timber Reform Act (P.L. 101-626), after receiving testimony from Senator Stevens; James R. Lyons, Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and the Environment; Alaska State Representative W.K. Williams, Mayor Alaire Stanton, Ralph D. Lewis, Ketchikan Pulp Company, Cliff Skillings, on behalf of the Alaska Lumbermen's Association, and Ernesta Ballard, on behalf of the Alaska Forest Association, all of Ketchikan, Alaska; John C. Wisenbaugh, Tenakee Springs City Council, Tenakee Springs, Alaska; Gary L. Paxton, City and Borough of Sitka, Florian Sever, and Franklin C. Roppel, Alaska Pulp Corporation, all of Sitka, Alaska; James S. Calvin, McDowell Group, Inc., and Bart Koehler, Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, both of Juneau, Alaska; Julie Fox Gorte, Wilderness Society, Washington, D.C.; Victor M. Sher, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, San Francisco, California; George Leonard, Vienna, Virginia; James Mackovjak, Gustavus, Alaska; and Bill Byford, Wrangell, Alaska.
HYDROELECTRIC PROJECT EXTENSIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Production and Regulation concluded hearings on S. 283, S. 468, S. 543, S. 547, S. 549 (pending on Senate Calendar), S. 552, S. 595, S. 611, and S. 801, bills to extend the deadlines applicable to certain hydroelectric projects under the Federal Power Act, after receiving testimony from Elizabeth A. Moler, Chair, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy.
Testimony was also received on S. 552 (listed above) from Arthur K. Neill, Montana Power Company, Butte; and Theodore Antionoli, Missoula, Montana.
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TAX REFORM: FLAT TAX
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on proposals to replace current income tax procedures with a flat rate tax, including S. 488, to impose a flat tax only on the earned income of individuals and the business taxable income of corporations, receiving testimony from Senator Specter; Representative Armey; Michael J. Graetz, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts; Sheldon D. Pollack, University of Delaware, Newark; and Alvin Rabushka, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
EXECUTIVE BRANCH REORGANIZATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee continued hearings to examine proposals to reorganize the Executive Branch of the Federal Government, receiving testimony from Senators Faircloth and Abraham; Representatives Walker, Gunderson, Klug, and Brownback; Donald F. Kettl, University of Wisconsin, Madison; and Murray Comarow, on behalf of former President Nixon's Advisory Council on Executive Organization
(Ash Council), Jeffrey A. Eisenach, Progress and Freedom Foundation, and Scott A. Hodge, Heritage Foundation, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 419, to grant the consent of Congress to the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact;
S. 677, to repeal a redundant venue provision of the Federal judicial code; and
The nominations of Mary Beck Briscoe, of Kansas, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit, Susan Y. Illston, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of California, John Garvan Murtha, to be United States District Judge for the District of Vermont, George A. O'Toole, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts, Patrick M. Ryan, to be United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, George K. McKinney, to be United States Marshal for the District of Maryland, and Rose Ochi, of California, to be an Associate Director for National Drug Control Policy.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings to examine management guidelines for the future of the Smithsonian Institution, after receiving testimony from Representative Sam Johnson, on behalf of the Board of Regents, Smithsonian Institution; Ira Michael Heyman, Secretary, and Tom Crouch, Chairman, Aeronautics Department of the National Air and Space Museum, both of the Smithsonian Institution; Edward T. Linenthal, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh; and Maxine F. Singer, Carnegie Institute of Washington, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Commission on the Future of the Smithsonian Institution.
SBA BUSINESS LOAN PROGRAM
Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings to examine Small Business Administration's implementation of their 7(a) Guaranty Business Loan Program, receiving testimony from Philip Lader, Administrator, Small Business Administration; John J. Canning, Morristown, New Jersey, on behalf of AT&T Capital Corporation and AT&T Small Business Lending Corporation; Gary V. Hoyer, Princeton Capital Finance Company, Princeton, New Jersey; Michael Gallagher, Wells Fargo Bank, San Jose, California; Anthony R. Wilkinson, National Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders, Inc., Stillwater, Oklahoma; Joe W. Scallorns, Farmers and Traders Bank, California, Missouri; and Lyle Frederickson, Bank One, Phoenix, Arizona.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS REORGANIZATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held oversight hearings to review certain recommendations on the reorganization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, receiving testimony from Stanley Speaks, Area Director
(Portland, Oregon), Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior; Kenneth Smith, Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Reservation, Warm Springs, Oregon, former Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; Eddie F. Brown, Tohono O'odham Nation, Sells, Arizona, former Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, and Wendell Chino, Mescalero Apache Tribe, Mescalero, New Mexico, both on behalf of the Joint Tribal/Bureau of Indian Affairs/
Department of the Interior Task Force; Phillip Martin, Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Philadelphia, Mississippi; A. Brian Wallace, Washoe Tribe of Nevada, Gardnerville; and Edward Thomas, Central Council Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, Juneau.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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Joint Meetings
ECONOMICALLY TARGETED INVESTMENTS
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine issues relating to the funding of certain social and political projects known as economically targeted investments, after receiving testimony from Olena Berg, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Pension and Welfare Benefits; former Representative Beau Boulter, on behalf of the United Seniors Association; John Langbein, Yale University Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; Charles Rounds, Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts; Ian Lanoff, Bredhoff & Kaiser, and Daniel J. Schulder, National Council of Senior Citizens, both of Washington, D.C.; Wayne Marr, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina; Edward Zelinsky, Yeshiva University Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, Manhattan, New York; James Z. Pugash, Hearthstone Advisors, San Francisco, California; and Kimberly Schuld, Seniors Coalition, Fairfax, Virginia.
