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Interparliamentary Group during the 104th Congress. Page S6128

Treaty Approved: The following treaty having

passed through the various parliamentary stages, up

to and including the presentation of the resolution

of ratification, upon division, two-thirds of the Senators present and having voted in the affirmative, the

resolution of ratification was agreed to:

Extradition Treaty with Jordan. (Treaty Doc. 104–3) Page S6126

Messages From the President: Senate received the

following messages from the President of the United

States:

Transmitting, a draft of proposed legislation entitled ‘‘The Immigration Enforcement Improvements

Act of 1995’’; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

(PM–44). Pages S6079–80

Transmitting, a draft of proposed legislation entitled ‘‘The Antiterrorism Amendments Act of 1995’’;

to the Committee on the Judiciary. (PM–45).

 Page S6080

Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:

Charles T. Manatt, of the District of Columbia, to

be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Communications Satellite Corporation until the date of

the annual meeting of the Corporation in 1997.

 Page S6129

Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:

Timothy Michael Carney, of Washington, to be

Ambassador to the Republic of Sudan. Page S6129

Messages From the President: Pages S6079–80

Messages From the House: Page S6080

Measures Referred: Pages S6080–81

Measures Placed on Calendar: Page S6081

Communications: Pages S6081–82

Executive Reports of Committees: Page S6082

Statements on Introduced Bills: Pages S6082–S6108

Additional Cosponsors: Pages S6108–09

Amendments Submitted: Pages S6109–25

Notices of Hearings: Pages S6125–26

Authority for Committees: Page S6126

Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today.

(Total—147) Pages S6045, S6046, S6076

Recess: Senate convened at 9 a.m., and recessed at

7:28 p.m., until 9:30 a.m., on Thursday, May 4,

1995. (For Senate’s program, see the remarks of the

Acting Majority Leader in today’s RECORD on page

S6128.)

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 1996 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony from Daniel R. Glickman, Secretary,

Richard E. Rominger, Deputy Secretary, and Stephen

B. Dewhurst, Budget Officer, all of the Department

of Agriculture.

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday,

May 10.

PEACE OPERATIONS

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland

Forces held hearings to examine peace operations, receiving testimony from Edward L. Warner, III, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Requirements; Lt. Gen. Wesley K. Clark, USA, Director for

Strategic Plans and Policy (J–5), Office of the Joint

Chiefs of Staff; Lt. Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, USMC,

Commanding General, 1st Marine Expeditionary

Force; Gen. Joseph P. Hoar, USMC (Ret.), Delmar,

California; and Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, American Enterprise Institute, Jonathan Dean, Union of Concerned Scientists, and John R. Bolton, National Policy Forum, all of Washington, D.C.

Subcommittee recessed subject to call.

ECONOMIC GROWTH AND REGULATORY

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs:

Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Regulatory Relief concluded hearings on S. 650, to increase the amount of credit available to fuel local, regional, and national economic growth by reducing

the regulatory burden imposed upon financial institutions, after receiving testimony from Henry G.

Cisneros, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; James M. Culberson, Jr., First National Bank

and Trust Company, Ashboro, North Carolina, on

behalf of the American Bankers Association; Richard

L. Mount, Saratoga National Bank, Saratoga, California, on behalf of the Independent Bankers Association of America; Billy Don Anderson, Valley Federal

Savings Bank, Sheffield, Alabama, on behalf of the

America’s Community Bankers; Ralph Rohner,

Catholic University School of Law, on behalf of the

Consumer Bankers Association, Michelle Meier, Consumers Union, on behalf of the Consumer Federation

of America and the U.S. Public Interest Group,

Frances B. Smith, Consumer Alert, Irvin Henderson,

National Community Reinvestment Coalition, Allen
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J. Fishbein, Center for Community Change, Catherine P. Bessant, NationsBank, and Benson F. Roberts, Local Initiatives Support Corporation, all of

Washington, D.C.; Warren R. Lyons, Textron, Inc.,

Irvine, California, on behalf of the American Financial Services Association; Gale Cincotta, National

Training and Information Center and National People’s Action, and John P. Davey, Draper and Kramer, Inc., on behalf of the Mortgage Bankers Associations, both of Chicago, Illinois; Tess Canja, American Association of Retired Persons, Port Charlotte,

Florida; and George Butts, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania.

MEDICARE SOLVENCY

Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings to examine solvency in the Medicare program, focusing

on proposals to reform the Medicare system in an effort to ensure future health care benefits for the elderly, receiving testimony from David M. Walker

and Stanford G. Ross, each a Public Trustee, Social

Security and Medicare Board of Trustees, Baltimore,

Maryland; Roland E. (Guy) King, Ernst and Young,

and William L. Roper, The Prudential Insurance

Company of America, Inc., both a former Chief Actuary, Health Care Financing Administration, and

Deborah Steelman, Law Offices of Deborah Steelman,

former Associate Director for Human Resources, Office of Management and Budget, all of Washington,

D.C.; and Karen Davis, The Commonwealth Fund,

New York, New York.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

NATIONAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM

DESIGNATION ACT

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure approved for full committee consideration, with an

amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 440, to

provide for the designation of the National Highway

System.

ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM TAX

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to ex- amine the effectiveness of the alternative minimum

tax within the current Federal income tax system, receiving testimony from Leslie B. Samuels, Assistant

Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy; Andrew B.

Lyon, Brookings Institution, and Robert S. McIntyre, Citizens for Tax Justice, both of Washington,

D.C.; George A. Plesko, Northeastern University,

Boston, Massachusetts; and Thomas J. Usher, USX

Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on behalf of

the National Association of Manufacturers.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

NATO ENLARGEMENT

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs concluded hearings to examine proposals to expand the membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), focusing on security to current members and how an enlarged

NATO would be perceived by allies and Russia,

after receiving testimony from Ronald Asmus, The

RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California; Paula

J. Dobriansky, Hunton and Williams, Richard R.

Burt, International Equity Partners, and Dimitri K.

Simes, Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom, all of

Washington, D.C.; and Jack F. Matlock, Jr., Columbia University, New York, New York.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ANTITRUST

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, and Competition concluded

hearings to examine antitrust issues as contained in

proposals to reform the telecommunications industry,

focusing on provisions of S. 652, to provide for a

pro-competitive, de-regulatory national policy framework designed to accelerate rapidly private sector deployment of advanced telecommunications and information technologies and services to all Americans by

opening all telecommunications markets to competition, and S. 664, to ensure the competitive availability of consumer electronics devices affording access

to telecommunications system services, after receiving testimony from Senator Cohen; Anne K. Bingaman, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division,

Department of Justice; Larry Irving, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information; Howard H. Baker, Baker, Donelson,

Bearman and Caldwell, on behalf of the Competitive

Long Distance Coalition, Decker Anstrom, National

Cable Television Association, and Peter W. Huber,

Kellogg, Huber and Hansen, all of Washington,

D.C.; Lawrence A. Sullivan, Southwestern University

School of Law, Los Angeles, California; Royce J.

Holland, MFS Communications Company, Inc.,

Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois; James R. Young, Bell

Atlantic Corporation, Arlington, Virginia; and Richard Cowart, Vermont Public Service Board, Montpelier, on behalf of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.

NOMINATION

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee

concluded hearings on the nomination of Henry W.

Foster, Jr., of Tennessee, to be Medical Director in

the Regular Corps, and Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, Department of Health and

Human Services, after the nominee further testified

and answered questions in his own behalf.

NOMINATION

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of John M. Deutch,

of Massachusetts, to be Director of Central Intelligence.