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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1448-D1449 on Dec. 12, 1995.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
IRAN FOREIGN OIL SANCTIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 1228, to impose sanctions on foreign persons exporting petroleum products, natural gas, or related technology to Iran.
NATIONAL HERITAGE AREAS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Parks, Historic Preservation and Recreation concluded hearings on S. 873, to establish the South Carolina National Heritage Corridor, S. 944, to establish the Ohio River Corridor Study Commission, S. 945, to modify the boundaries of the Illinois and Michigan Canal Heritage Corridor, S. 1020, to establish the Augusta Canal National Heritage Area in the State of Georgia, S. 1110, to establish guidelines for the designation of National Heritage Areas, S. 1127, to establish the Vancouver National Historic Reserve in the State of Washington, and S. 1190, to establish the Ohio and Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor, after receiving testimony from Senators Thurmond, Gorton, Coverdell, and DeWine; Representative Regula; Denis P. Galvin, Associate Director for Professional Services, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; Mayor Bruce E. Hagensen, Vancouver, Washington; Mayor Dannel McCollum, Champaign, Illinois; Grace G. Young, South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, Columbia; Michael Conzen, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor Commission; Thomas H. Robertson, Augusta Canal Authority, Augusta, Georgia; Daniel M. Rice, Ohio & Erie Canal Corridor Coalition, Akron; Lisa M. Jaeger, Defenders of Property Rights, Patricia E. Williams, American Association of Museums, on behalf of the National Coalition for Heritage Areas, and R. J. Smith, Competitive Enterprise Institute, all of Washington, D.C.; and Myron Ebell, Frontiers of Freedom, Arlington, Virginia.
ATLANTIC STRIPED BASS CONSERVATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on S. 776, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1995 through 1998 for programs of the Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation Act and amends the Act to include provisions of the Anadromous Fish Conservation Act relating to Atlantic striped bass research, after receiving testimony from Jamie Geiger, Assistant Regional Director for Fisheries, Northeast Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior; Richard H. Schaefer, Director, Office Fisheries Conservation and Management, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce; John H. Dunnigan, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission; Mark R. Gibson, Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management Division of Fish and Wildlife, Wickford; Damon M. Tatem, Jr., Tatem's Tackle Shop, Nags Head, North Carolina, on behalf of the Atlantic States Marine Fishery Commission; and Charles Bergmann, Axelsson and Johnson, Cape May, New Jersey.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
Treaty Between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (the START II Treaty) (Treaty Doc. 103-1), with 6 conditions and 7 declarations;
S. 602, to amend the NATO Participation Act of 1994 to expedite the transition to full membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization of European countries emerging from communist domination, with an amendment;
S. Con. Res. 14, urging the President to negotiate a new base rights agreement with the Government of Panama to permit United States Armed Forces to remain in Panama beyond December 31, 1999;
S. Con. Res. 25, concerning the protection and continued viability of the Eastern Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate;
H. Con. Res. 42, supporting a resolution to the long-standing dispute regarding Cyprus;
S. 1465, to extend au pair programs;
S.J. Res. 43, expressing the sense of the Congress regarding Wei Jingsheng, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the next Panchen Lama of Tibet, and the human rights practices of the Government of the People's Republic of China; and
The nominations of A. Peter Burleigh, of California, to be Ambassador to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, and to serve concurrently and without compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of Maldives, James Franklin Collins, of Illinois, to be Ambassador at Large and Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for the New Independent States, Frances D. Cook, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman, Don Lee Gevirtz, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Fiji, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of Nauru, Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Tonga, and Ambassador to Tuvalu, Robert E. Gribbin, III, of Alabama, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Rwanda, William H. Itoh, of New Mexico, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand, Richard Henry Jones, of Nebraska, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Lebanon, James A. Joseph, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa, Sandra J. Kristoff, of Virginia, for the rank of Ambassador during her tenure of service as U.S. Coordinator for the Asia Pacific Economic Corporation (APEC), John Raymond Malott, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to Malaysia, Joan M. Plaisted, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of Kiribati, Kenneth Michael Quinn, of Iowa, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia, David P. Rawson, of Michigan, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Mali, J. Stapleton Roy, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia, Jim Sasser, of Tennessee, to be Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, Gerald Wesley Scott, of Oklahoma, to be Ambassador to the Republic of The Gambia, Thomas W. Simons, Jr., of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Charles H. Twining, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Cameroon, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea; Ralph R. Johnson, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Slovak Republic; and certain foreign service officers promotion lists.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
The nomination of David S. Wasserman, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority; and
S. 1224, to amend subchapter IV of chapter 5 of title 5, United States Code, relating to alternative means of dispute resolution in the administrative process, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
SMALL BUSINESS INVESTMENT COMPANY PROGRAM
Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings on proposals to strengthen the Small Business Administration's small business investment program, receiving testimony from Patricia Forbes, Acting Associate Deputy Administrator for Economic Development, and Don A. Christensen, Associate Administrator for Investment, both of the Small Business Administration; C. Walter Dick, Pioneer Capital Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts; Keith R. Fox, Exeter Venture Lenders, New York, New York; George M. Miller, II, Sirrom Capital Corporation, Nashville, Tennessee; and Stanley W. Tucker, MMG Ventures, Baltimore, Maryland.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the following bills:
S. 814, to provide for the reorganization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
S. 1159, to establish an American Indian Policy Information Center.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to receive a briefing on intelligence matters from officials of the intelligence community.
Committee will meet again on Thursday, December 14.
