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heard from Chairman Shuster and Representatives

Boehlert, Mineta, Borski, Hayes, and Pallone.

COMMITTEE BUSINESS

Committee on Standards of Official Conduct: Met in executive session to consider pending business.

ISSUES RELATING TO SEVERAL RECENTLY

EXPIRED TAX LAW PROVISIONS

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on

Oversight held a hearing on the Targeted Jobs Tax

Credit, and Exclusion for Employer-Provided Educational Assistance, the Orphan Drug Credit and

Other Temporary Tax Provisions. Testimony was

heard from Representatives Jacobs, Houghton,

Camp, Dunn of Washington, Collins of Georgia, and

Roth; Cynthia Beerbower, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Tax Policy, Department of the Treasury;

Doug Ross, Assistant Secretary, Employment and

Training, Department of Labor; Patrick V. Murphy,

Acting Assistant Secretary, Aviation and International Affairs, Department of Transportation; and

public witnesses.

INTELLIGENCE PERSONNEL

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Met in executive session to hold a hearing on Intelligence Personnel. Testimony was heard from departmental witnesses.

Joint Meetings

INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES

EDUCATION ACT

Joint Hearing: Committee on Labor and Human Resources’ Subcommittee on Disability Policy concluded

joint hearings with the House Committee on Economic

and Education Opportunity Subcommittee on Early

Childhood, Youth and Families on the 20th anniversary

of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, focusing on its implementation and recommendations for improvement, after receiving testimony from Senators Jeffords and Simon; Patricia Wald, Circuit Judge, United

States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit;

Thomas A. Masterson, Morgan, Lewis and Bochius,

Thomas K. Gilhool, Public Interest Law Center, and

Dennis Haggerty, all of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Julian Tepper, Levin and Tepper, Bethesda, Maryland; Jack

Duncan, Duncan and Associates, and Lisa Walker, Educational Writers Association, both of Washington, D.C.;

Frederick J. Weintraub, Council for Exceptional Children,

Reston, Virginia; Michael A. Resnick, National School

Boards Association, Alexandria, Virginia; Martha Ziegler,

Federation for Children with Special Needs, Boston, Massachusetts; and Marca Bristo, National Council on Disability, Chicago, Illinois.

COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR

WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1995

(Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)

Senate

Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies, to

hold hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year

1996 for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services, and

Food and Consumer Service, each of the Department of

Agriculture, 11 a.m., SD–138.

Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Airland

Forces, to hold open and closed (SR–222) 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 tactical intelligence

and related activities in the Army and Air Force, 3 p.m.,

SR–232A.

Committee on the Budget, business meeting, to continue

markup of a proposed concurrent resolution on the fiscal

year 1996 budget for the Federal Government, 10 a.m.,

SD–608.

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to hold hearings on the nomination of James John Hoecker, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Federal Emergency Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy, 9:30 a.m.,

SD–366.

Full Committee, to hold hearings on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Supplemental Proposed Rulemaking, Promoting Wholesale Competition Through Open-Access

Non-Discriminatory Transmission Services by Public

Utilities (Docket No. RM95–8–000), and Recovery

Stranded Costs by Public Utilities and Transmitting Utilities (Docket No. RM94–7–001), 2 p.m., SD–366.

Committee on Environment and Public Works, business

meeting, to mark up S. 440, to provide for the designation of the National Highway System, 10 a.m., SD–406.

Committee on Finance, to hold hearings on S. 16, to establish a commission to review the dispute settlement reports of the World Trade Organization, 9:30 a.m.,

SD–215.

Committee on Foreign Relations, to hold hearings on the

nominations of Larry C. Napper, of Texas, to be Ambassador to Latvia, Peter Tomsen, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Tajikistan, Lawrence Palmer

Taylor, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Estonia, Jenonne R. Walker, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Czech Republic, and

James Alan Williams, of Virginia, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as the Special Coordinator for Cyprus, 10 a.m., SD–419.

Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Immigration, to hold hearings on verification of applicant identity

for purposes of employment and public assistance, 9:30

a.m., SD–226.

Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the role

of the military in combatting terrorism, 1 p.m., SD–226.
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Select Committee on Intelligence, to hold closed hearings on intelligence matters, 2 p.m., SH–219.

House

Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Department

Operations, Nutrition, and Foreign Agriculture, hearing

on the Food Stamp Program and Electronic Benefit

Transfer Systems, 9:30 a.m., 1300 Longworth.

Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on National

Security, on Air Force Acquisition 10 a.m., H–140 Capitol.

Committee on the Budget, to mark up the fiscal year 1996

Budget Resolution, 10 a.m., 210 Cannon.

Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance, hearing on the following: H.R.

1555, Communications Act of 1995; H.R. 514, to repeal

the restrictions on foreign ownership of licensed telecommunications facilities; H.R. 912, to permit registered

utility holding companies to participate in the provision

of telecommunications services; H.R. 1556, to amend the

Communications Act of 1934 to reduce the restrictions

on ownership of broadcasting stations, and other media of

mass communications; and related telecommunications reform legislation, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.

Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities, to

mark up the following bills: H.R. 1557, to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1996, 1997, and 1998 for the

National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute for Museum

Services; and to repeal the National Foundation on the

Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 effective October

1, 1998; and H.R. 1045, to amend the Goals 2000: Educate America Act to eliminate the National Education

Standards and Improvement Council, 9:30 a.m., 2175

Rayburn.

Committee on House Oversight, to consider pending business, 10 a.m., 1310 Longworth.

Committee on International Relations, to mark up H.R.

1562, Foreign Affairs Agencies Consolidation Act of

1995, 10:30 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.

Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, hearing on authorization and oversight of the

Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Department of Justice, 10 a.m., 2237 Rayburn.

Committee on Resources, to mark up the following bills:

H.R. 39, Fishery Conservation and Management Amendments of 1995; H.R. 260, National Park System Reform

Act of 1995; H.R. 1077, to authorize the Bureau of Land

Management; and H.R. 1091, to improve the National

Park System in the Commonwealth of Virginia, 11 a.m.,

and to hold a hearing on the Endangered Species Act, 2

p.m., 1324 Longworth.

Subcommittee on Native American Affairs, hearing on

H.R. 1448, to amend the Indian Child Welfare Act of

1978 to require that determinations regarding status as

an Indian child and as a member of an Indian tribe be

prospective from the date of birth of the child and of

total membership of the member, 2 p.m., 1324 Longworth.

Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on

Human Resources, hearing on Federal Adoption Policy,

11 a.m., B–318 Rayburn.

Subcommittee on Oversight, hearing on the Research

and Experimentation Tax Credit and the Allocation of

Research Expenses Under Internal Revenue Code Section

861, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.

Joint Meetings

Joint Committee on the Library, to hold an organizational meeting, 3 p.m., S–128, Capitol.