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of the Air Force for Manpower, Reserve Affairs, Installation and Environment.

CARIBBEAN BASIN INITIATIVE

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International

Trade held hearings on S. 529, to provide, temporarily, tariff and quota treatment equivalent to that

accorded to members of the North American Free

Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to Caribbean Basin beneficiary countries, receiving testimony from Charlene

Barshefsky, Deputy United States Trade Representative; Alexander F. Watson, Assistant Secretary of

State for Inter-American Affairs; Noel Beasley,

Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union,

Chicago, Illinois; Fred O. Braswell, III, Russell Corporation, Alexander City, Alabama, on behalf of the

American Textile Manufacturers Institute; Jeffrey J.

Schott, Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C.; and William Woltz, Jr., Perry Manufacturing Company, Mt. Airy, North Carolina, on

behalf of the American Apparel Manufacturers Association.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

CONGRESSIONAL PENSION REFORM

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on

Post Office and Civil Service held hearings on S.

228, to amend certain provisions of title 5, United

States Code, relating to the treatment of Members of

Congress and Congressional employees for retirement

purposes, focusing on a comparison of congressional

and Federal retirement benefit programs, receiving

testimony from Senator Bryan; Representative

Moran; William E. Flynn, III, Associate Director,

Retirement and Insurance Service, Office of Personnel Management; and Johnny C. Finch, Assistant

Comptroller General for General Government Division, General Accounting Office.

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, May

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House of Representatives

Chamber Action

Bills Introduced: Six public bills, H.R. 1635–1640

were introduced. Pages H4957–58

Reports Filed: Reports were filed as follows:

H.R. 1590, to require the Trustees of the medicare trust funds to report recommendations on resolving projected financial imbalance in medicare

trust funds (H. Rept. 104–119, Pt. 1); and

H. Con. Res. 67, setting forth the congressional

budget for the United States government for fiscal

years 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and

2002 (H. Rept. 104–20). Page H4957

Speaker Pro Tempore: Read a letter from the

Speaker wherein he designates Representative

Funderburk to act as Speaker pro tempore.

 Page H4917

Recess: House recessed at 10:37 a.m. and reconvened at noon. Pages H4917–18

Recess: House recessed at 12:06 p.m. and reconvened at 12:23 p.m. Page H4918

Greens Creek Land Exchange: House voted to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 1266, amended to provide for the exchange of lands within the Admiralty

Island National Monument. Pages H4919–25

Recess: House recessed at 12:36 p.m. and reconvened at 12:43 p.m. Page H4926

New London Fish Hatchery Conveyance: House

agreed to H. Res. 146, providing for the consideration of H.R. 614, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the State of Minnesota the New

London Fish Hatchery production facility.

 Pages H4926–27

Fairport Fish Hatchery Conveyance: House agreed

to H. Res. 145, providing for the consideration of

H.R. 584, to direct the Secretary of Interior to convey a fish hatchery to the State of Iowa.

 Pages H4927–28

Corning Fish Hatchery Conveyance: House agreed

to H. Res. 144, providing for the consideration of

H.R. 535, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to

convey the Corning National Fish Hatchery to the

State of Arkansas. Pages H4928–30

Educate America Act Amendments: House voted

to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 1045, amended,

to amend the Goals 2000: Educate America Act to

eliminate the National Education Standards and Improvement Council. Pages H4930–31

Recess: House recessed at 1:36 p.m. and reconvened

at 5 p.m. Page H4934

Recess: House recessed at 5:02 p.m. and reconvened

at 6:03 p.m. Page H4934
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Committee to Sit: Committee on International Relations received permission to sit on May 16 during

proceedings of the House under the five-minute rule.

 Page H4934

Clean Water Amendments: House continued consideration of amendments to H.R. 961, to amend

the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; but came

to no resolution thereon. Consideration of amendments will resume on May 16. Pages H4934–56

Pending when the Committee of the Whole rose

was the Boehlert amendment that sought to define

‘‘wetland’’ as any area that is inundated or saturated

by surface water or ground water at a frequency and

duration sufficient to a prevalence of vegetation

adapted to such conditions; require EPA to initiate

a national wetland restoration strategy in cooperation

with other Federal agencies, State, and local government, and the private sector; direct EPA to establish

a Wetlands Coordinating Committee made up of

Federal, State, and local government officials and associations to integrate conservation efforts among

different levels of government and help develop national wetland strategy and policy implementation

and advise EPA and the Army Secretary in adopting

a regulatory program; direct EPA or the Corps of

Engineers, as appropriate, to provide technical assistance and training to State and local governments in

the development and implementation of wetlands

protection; authorizes $15 million annually for fiscal

year 1996 to 2000 for EPA to establish direct grants

to States and tribes for implementation and development of wetlands strategies, assistance to regional

and local governments to pursue the same objectives,

provide financing of State permits in support of Federal wetlands projects with no State receiving more

than $300 of each type of grant nor more then

$500,000 overall and with recipients sharing at least

25 percent of the costs of projects undertaken.

 Pages H4934–56

Late Report: Committee on the Budget received

permission to have until midnight tonight to file a

report on the concurrent resolution on the budget

for fiscal year 1996. Page H4956

Senate Messages: Messages received from the Senate

today appear on page H4918.

Amendments Ordered Printed: Amendments ordered printed pursuant to the rule appear on page

H4958.

Quorum Calls—Votes: No quorum calls or votes

developed during the proceedings of the House

today.

Adjournment: Met at 10:30 a.m. and adjourned at

8:40 p.m.

Committee Meetings

AMERICAN OVERSEAS INTERESTS ACT

Committee on International Relations: Ordered reported

amended H.R. 1561, American Overseas Interests

Act.

Joint Meetings

EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL

APPROPRIATIONS

Conferees continued to resolve the differences between

the Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 1158,

making emergency supplemental appropriations for

additional disaster assistance and making rescissions

for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, but

did not complete action thereon, and will meet again

tomorrow.

COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY,

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MAY 16, 1995

(Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)

Senate

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, to hold

hearings on the nominations of Karl N. Stauber, of Minnesota, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research,

Education, and Economics, and Eugene Branstool, of

Ohio, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the

Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, 9 a.m.,

SR–332.

Full Committee, to resume hearings on proposed legis- lation to strengthen and improve United States agricultural programs, focusing on rural development and credit,

9:30 a.m., SR–332.

Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Readiness, to resume 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 Department of Defense financial management, 9 a.m.,

SR–232A.

Subcommittee on SeaPower, to resume 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 the requirements for

continued production of nuclear submarines, submarine

industrial base issues, procurement strategy, and associated funding, 9:30 a.m., SR–222.

Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, to hold closed 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 the Department

of Energy weapons activities, non-proliferation and national security programs, 2:30 p.m., SR–222.

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space, to hold

hearings to examine NASA’s space shuttle and reusable

launch vehicle programs, 9:30 a.m., SR–253.