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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D648-D650 on May 23, 1995.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1995 FARM BILL: FOOD ASSISTANCE
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed hearings on proposed legislation to strengthen and improve United States agricultural programs, focusing on the Department of Agriculture food and nutrition assistance programs, receiving testimony from Representative Cunningham; Dan Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture; Ellen W. Haas, Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food and Consumer Services; Robert A. Robinson, Associate Director, Food and Agriculture Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office; Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, Des Moines; Florida Governor Lawton Chiles, Tallahassee; Gerald H. Miller, Michigan Department of Social Services, Lansing; J. Jean Rogers, Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services, Madison; Robert Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Timothy M. Hammonds, Food Marketing Institute, and Robert J. Fersh, Food Research and Action Center, all of Washington, D.C.; M. Anne Hill, City University of New York, Flushing; Linda Locke, Louisville, Kentucky, on behalf of the National Child and Adult Care Food Program Sponsors Forum; Vivian Pilant, South Carolina Department of Education, Columbia, on behalf of the American School Food Service Association; and James Richard, Alabama Department of Public Health, Montgomery, on behalf of the National Association of WIC Directors.
Committee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for financial management programs of the Department of Defense, receiving testimony from John J. Hamre, Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller); and Charles Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United States, General Accounting Office.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 6.
APPROPRIATIONS--DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the government of the District of Columbia, focusing on the District of Columbia public school system, receiving testimony from Michael Feuer, Director, Board on Testing and Assessment, National Research Council; Wilma Harvey, President, District of Columbia Board of Education, and Franklin Smith, Superintendent, District of Columbia Public Schools, both of the Government of the District of Columbia; and Daniel Koretz, Urban Institute, Carrie Thornhill, on behalf of the Committee on Public Education, Delabian Rice-Thurston, Parents United for the D.C. Public Schools, and Thriftone B. Jones, D.C. Congress of Parents and Teachers, all of Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call. APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for foreign assistance programs, receiving testimony from Lynn Davis, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Affairs, and John Shattuck, Assistant Secretary for Human Rights, both of the Department of State; Lt. Gen. Thomas Rhame, Director, Defense Security Assistance Agency, Department of Defense; and Lawrence J. Korb, Brookings Institution, Holly J. Burkhalter, Human Rights Watch, William Hartung, World Policy Institute, and Lora Lumpe, Federation of American Scientists, all of Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 2,020 military nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.
NASA SPACE STATION PROGRAM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings on the state and performance of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration space station program, after receiving testimony from J. Wayne Littles, Associate Administrator, Office of Space Flight, Harry Holloway, Associate Administrator, Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications, and Randy Brinkley, Space Station Program Manager
(Houston, Texas), all of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Marcia Smith, Space Policy Analyst, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; Lori B. Garver, National Space Society, and Alexander McPherson, Association of American Universities, both of Washington, D.C.; and Tom Rogers, Space Transportation Association, Arlington, Virginia.
RECLAMATION FACILITIES TRANSFER ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management held hearings on S. 620, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey, upon request, certain property in Federal reclamation projects to beneficiaries of the projects and to set forth a distribution scheme for revenues from reclamation project lands, receiving testimony from Daniel P. Beard, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; Roger Ling, Ling, Nielsen and Robinson, Rupert, Idaho; Thomas F. Donnelly, National Water Resources Association, Arlington, Virginia; Tom W. Davis, Carlsbad Irrigation District, Carlsbad, New Mexico; Gary Esslinger, Elephant Butte Irrigation District, and Steven L. Hernandez, Hubert & Hernandez, on behalf of the Elephant Butte Irrigation District and the Carlsbad Irrigation District, both of Las Cruces, New Mexico; and Kenneth Nelson, Courtland, Kansas, on behalf of the Irrigation Projects Reauthorization Council of Kansas and Nebraska.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
WOLVES IN YELLOWSTONE PARK
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Parks, Historic Preservation and Recreation concluded oversight hearings on the Department of the Interior's programs, policies and budget implications on the reintroduction of wolves in and around Yellowstone National Park, after receiving testimony from George T. Frampton, Jr., Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, and Mollie H. Beattie, Director, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, both of the Department of the Interior; Robert M. Ferris, Defenders of Wildlife, John Kostyack, National Wildlife Federation, William G. Myers, III, Public Lands Council, on behalf of the National Cattlemen's Association, Philip H. Voorhees, on behalf of the National Parks and Conservation Association, and Jon Doggett, American Farm Bureau Federation, all of Washington, D.C.; and Elaine Allestad, Big Timber, Montana, on behalf of the Montana Wool Growers Association and the American Sheep Industry Association.
AUTHORIZATION--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee began markup of proposed legislation to authorize reduced levels of appropriations for foreign assistance programs for fiscal years 1996 and 1997, but did not complete action thereon, and will continue tomorrow.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Robert F. Rider, of Delaware, and S. David Fineman, of Pennsylvania, each to be a Governor of the United States Postal Service, G. Edward DeSeve, of Pennsylvania, to be Controller, Office of Federal Financial Management, Office of Management and Budget, and John W. Carlin, of Kansas, to be Archivist of the United States, National Archives and Records Administration, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Fineman was introduced by Senator Specter and Representatives Borski and Fattah, Mr. DeSeve was introduced by Representative Borski, and Mr. Carlin was introduced by Senator Dole. Testimony was also received on the nomination of Mr. Carlin from Gaddis Smith, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, on behalf of [[Page D650]] the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association; Susan E. Davis, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, on behalf of the Society of American Archivists; Howard P. Lowell, Delaware State Archives, Dover, on behalf of the National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators; and Martha Joynt Kumar, Towson State University, Towson, Maryland, on behalf of the Presidency Research Group.
EEOC
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded oversight hearings on the state of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, focusing on EEOC's charge processing system and case backlog, after receiving testimony from Linda G. Morra, Director, Education and Employment Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division, General Accounting Office; Gilbert F. Casellas, Chairman, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Donald R. Livingston, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, and Stephen E. Tallent, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, both of Washington, D.C.; James A. Quirk, Computer Sciences Raytheon, Cocoa Beach, Florida, on behalf of the Society for Human Resource Management; and Nancy Kreiter, Women Employed Institute, Chicago, Illinois.
