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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D266-D267 on March 26, 1996.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1997 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony from Daniel R. Glickman, Secretary, Richard E. Rominger, Deputy Secretary, Keith Collins, Chief Economist, and Stephen B. Dewhurst, Director, Office of Budget and Program Analysis, all of the Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 28.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1997 for energy and water development programs, receiving testimony on behalf of funds for their respective activities from Patricia Beneke, Assistant Secretary for Land and Water, and Eluid Martinez, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, both of the Department of the Interior; H. Martin Lancaster, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works; and Lt. Gen. Arthur Williams, Chief, and Maj. Gen. Stanley G. Genega, Director of Civil Works, both of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to examine Department of Energy atomic energy defense activities, after receiving testimony from Thomas P. Grumbly, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Seapower resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1997 for the Department of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on the Department of the Navy Marine Corps programs, receiving testimony from John W. Douglass, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition; and Gen. Charles C. Krulak, USMC, Commandant of the Marine Corps.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Alan Greenspan, of New York, to be Chairman, and Alice M. Rivlin, of Pennsylvania, and Laurence H. Meyer, of Missouri, both to be Members, all of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Testimony was also received from Ralph Nader, Washington, D.C.
NASA BUDGET
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration budget request for fiscal year 1997 and on recent developments in the space station program, after receiving testimony from Daniel S. Goldin, Administrator, Malcolm Peterson, Comptroller, Franze Cordova, Chief Scientist, and Charles Kennell, Associate Administration, all of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Marcia Smith, Specialist in Aerospace and Telecommunications Policy, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; Lori Garver, National Space Society, Washington, D.C.; Nicholas L. Johnson, Kaman Sciences Corporation, Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Louis Friedman, Planetary Society, Pasadena, California.
CHEMICAL WEAPONS TREATY VERIFIABILITY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive a briefing on the verifiability of the Convention on Chemical Weapons (Treaty Doc. 103-21) from John Lauder, Chief, Arms Control Intelligence Staff for the Director of Central Intelligence; and Maj. Gen. John Landry, National Intelligence Officer for General Purpose Forces, National Intelligence Council.
Committee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Henry McKoy, of North Carolina, and Ernest G. Green, of the District of Columbia, each to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the African Development Foundation, Lawrence Neal Benedict, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Cape Verde, Harold Walter Geisel, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Mauritius and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Federal and Islamic Republic of The Comoros, Aubrey Hooks, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo, Robert Krueger, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Botswana, and David H. Shinn, of Washington, to be Ambassador to Ethiopia, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. McKoy was introduced by Senator Helms.
IRS MODERNIZATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the status of the modernization of the Internal Revenue Service tax information system, receiving testimony from Gene L. Dodaro, Assistant Comptroller General, Accounting and Information Management Division, General Accounting Office; Margaret Milner Richardson, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Department of the Treasury; Robert P. Clagett, Chairman, and Al Irvine, Member, both of the Committee on Continued Review of the Tax Systems Modernization of the Internal Revenue Service, National Research Council; and Stephen S. Street, Alaska Business Development Center, and Susan D. Anderson, Lower Yukon Economic Development Council, both of Anchorage, Alaska.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FUNDING OF SOCIAL PROGRAMS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children and Families concluded hearings to examine the capacity of American charitable organizations to fill the gap in the funding of certain social programs, after receiving testimony from Rev. Fred Kammer, Catholic Charities USA, Alexandria, Virginia; John C. Goodman, National Center for Policy Analysis, Dallas, Texas; Rev. Lee Earl, National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, and Sara E. Melendez, Independent Sector, both of Washington, D.C.; and David Tuerck, Beacon Hill Institute/Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts.
