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nominee testified and answered questions in his own

behalf.

WTO DISPUTE SETTLEMENT REVIEW

COMMISSION ACT

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings

on S. 16, to establish a commission to review the

dispute settlement reports of the World Trade Organization, after receiving testimony from Stanley S.

Harris, United States District Judge for the District

of Columbia, on behalf of the Judicial Conference of

the United States; Curtis H. Barnette, Bethlehem

Steel Corporation, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the U.S. Member Companies of the American

Iron and Steel Institute; Alan F. Holmer, Sidley &

Austin, and Alan Wm. Wolff, Dewey Ballantine,

both former Deputy United States Trade Representatives, both of Washington, D.C.; Jerry R. Junkins,

Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, on behalf of

the Alliance for GATT NOW and the Business

Roundtable; and George A. Scalise, National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, California, on

behalf of the Semiconductor Industry Association

Public Policy Committee.

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded

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 Armenia, R. Grant Smith, of New Jersey, 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, after the

nominees testified and answered questions in their

own behalf.

COMBATTING TERRORISM

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings

to examine the role of the United States military in

combatting terrorism, including certain provisions of

S. 735, to prevent and punish acts of terrorism, and

certain provisions of S. 761, to improve the ability

of the United States to respond to the international

terrorist threat, receiving testimony from Kent

Markus, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Office

of Legislative Affairs, Department of Justice; John

H. McNeill, Senior Deputy General Counsel for

International Affairs and Intelligence, Department of

Defense; and Casper W. Weinberger, former Secretary of Defense.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration concluded hearings on issues relating to verification of applicant identity for purposes of employment and public assistance, focusing on certain

measures to reduce illegal immigration, after receiving testimony from Representative Horn; Mary A.

Ryan, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs; James A. Puleo, Executive Associate Commissioner for Programs, Immigration and Naturalization

Service, and Steven L. Pomerantz, Assistant Director,

Criminal Justice Information Services Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, both of the Department

of Justice; Gilbert C. Fisher, Assistant Deputy Commissioner, Social Security Administration (Baltimore,

Maryland), Department of Health and Human Services; Robert Rasor, Special Agent in Charge, Financial Crimes Division, United States Secret Service,

Department of the Treasury; Jack Scheidegger, California Department of Justice, on behalf of SEARCH,

the National Consortium for Justice Information and

Statistics, and Frank Ricchiazi, California State Department of Motor Vehicles, both of Sacramento;

Richard E. Jackson, Jr., New York State Department

of Motor Vehicles, Albany; and W. Marshall

Rickert, Maryland State Motor Vehicle Administration, Glen Burnie, on behalf of the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators.

INTELLIGENCE

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed

hearings on intelligence matters, receiving testimony

from officials of the intelligence community.

Committee will meet again on Wednesday, May

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House of Representatives

Chamber Action

Bills Introduced: 9 public bills, H.R. 1601–1609

were introduced. Page H4795

Committee Election: House agreed to H. Res. 143,

electing Representative Deal to the Committee on

Commerce of the House of Representatives.

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Earlier, read a letter to the Speaker from the

Chairman of the Democratic Caucus advising that

Representative Deal is no longer a member of the

Democratic Caucus; and Page H4679

Read a letter from the Speaker in which he vacates Representative Deal’s election to the Committee on Transportation and to the Committee on Resources. Pages H4679–80

Committees to Sit: The following committees and

their subcommittees received permission to sit today

during a proceedings of the House under the fiveminute rule: Committees on Agriculture, Banking

and Financial Services, Commerce, Economic and

Educational Opportunities, House Oversight, International Relations, and Resources. Page H4680

Presidential Messages—Read the following messages from the President:

Gun-Free school zones: Message wherein he transmits his proposed legislation providing the jurisdictional element for the Gun-Free School Zones Act of

1990 required by a recent Supreme Court decision—

referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered printed (H. Doc. 104–72); and Page H4680

National emergency regarding Yugoslavia: Message wherein he transmits his notice stating that the

emergency declared with respect to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) is to

continue in effect beyond May 30, 1995—referred to

the Committee on International Relations and ordered printed (H. Doc. 104–73). Page H4680

Clean Water Act Amendments: House completed

all general debate and begin consideration of amendments on H.R. 961, to amend the Federal Water

Pollution Control Act; but came to no resolution

thereon. Consideration of amendments will resume

on Thursday, May 11. Pages H4690–H4788

Agreed To:

The Shuster en bloc amendments that make certain technical corrections and provide clarifying language; lower the definition of ‘‘small community’’

from 20,000 to 10,000 people for the purpose of

granting permit modifications for innovative treatment technologies; eliminate the restriction that

only 20 percent of any country, borough, or parish

may be classified as Type A wetlands; lower the authorization for pollution prevention activities from

$50 million per year to $21.2 million, and stipulates

that no more than $10 million may be used each

year to provide technical assistance to small and

rural water treatment works; require written permission from private property owners for Federal employees to enter their property in order to identify

or classify wetlands; and clarify the definition of vernal ponds; Pages H4711–16

The Minge amendment to the rejected Saxton

amendment in the nature of a substitute that would

have authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to issue

permits for any activity resulting from, or incidental

to, normal farming, silviculture, aquaculture, and

ranching activities and practices carried out on agricultural lands; and would have deemed such to be

activity allowed by the Secretary without the necessity for additional requests for, or granting of permits from, other entities for this activity;

 Pages H4751–52

The Bachus amendment that provides that the

Administrator of the EPA, working in conjunction

with the Administrator of the Small Business Administration and the Small Business Ombudsman of

the Environmental Protection Agency, propose regulations not later than 6 months after the date of enactment and not later than one year after the date

of enactment, that define small businesses for storm

water management purposes; and Page H4781

The Boehlert amendment that strikes provisions

folding the Coastal Zone Management Program into

State nonpoint source management programs and,

instead, reauthorizes the Coastal Zone Act through

fiscal year 2000, amending it to require that any

State that has not received Federal approval for its

core coastal management program submit a coastal

non-point pollution program within 30 months of

such approval (agreed to by a recorded vote of 224

ayes to 199 noes, Roll No. 314). Pages H4781–88

Rejected:

The Saxton amendment in the nature of a substitute that sought to retain provisions regarding

Clean Water Act funding authorizations, assistance

to small and rural communities, control of water

pollution from combined sewer overflows (CSOs) and

consistency of State programs with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Great Lakes water quality guidance; replace wetlands language with provisions providing incentives for States to assume authority over wetlands regulation through delegation

from EPA; expedite the Federal wetlands permitting

process; make the Agriculture Department responsible for determining which areas to be designated

wetlands on all agriculture lands; require the establishment of a coordinating committee of Federal,

State, and local officials to help develop and fieldtest national wetlands policies and a strategy for restoration of wetlands ecosystems; strike provisions establishing new requirements to compensate landowners for losses in property value resulting from

Federal regulation; retain the special runoff control

provisions currently applicable to coastal areas, but

modify the current program in accordance with recommendations of the Coastal States Organization;
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allow affected States to target runoff control programs to the areas most threatened by pollution and

give greater authority to use incentive-based programs and planning and management measures in

lieu of enforceable requirements; retain the existing

storm water management program, making several

changes in the program, including placing a ten-year

moratorium on the implementation of any new

storm water requirements for light industries or

communities with a population of less than 100,000;

and prohibit the application of numeric effluent limits to municipal storm water permits (rejected by a

recorded vote of 184 ayes to 242 noes, Roll No.

312); and Page H4716–60

The Mineta amendment that sought to strike language that would remove the requirement that EPA

first list a pollutant before it or a State may allow

a permit-holder to comply with Best Practicable

Control Technology or water quality standards in

lieu of Best Available Technology; strike language

that would authorize EPA or States to modify effluent limitations in permits for coal remining, even if

the operations exceed State water quality standards

of the receiving waters did not meet water quality

standards prior to remining and the applicant submits a plan citing specific measures that will be used

to improve existing water quality; strike language

that would stipulate that a coal remining operation

that started prior to the adoption of new regulatory

standards is deemed to be in compliance as long as

post-mining discharges are the same or better than

before mining commenced, and remining was conducted under a Surface Mining Control an Reclamation permit; strike language that would provide

flexibility for permit holders to undertake innovative

pollution prevention measures; and strike language

that would revise the standards and procedures for

determining water quality standards on a State and

Federal level, but retain language providing for a review of such proposed revisions by the Administration (rejected by a recorded vote of 166 ayes to 260

noes, Roll No. 313). Pages H4778–81

H. Res. 140, the rule under which the bill is

being considered, was agreed to earlier by a yea-andnay vote of 414 yeas to 4 nays, Roll No. 311.

 Pages H4681–90

Committees to Sit: The following committees and

their subcommittees received permission to sit on

Thursday, May 11, during proceedings of the House

under the five-minute rule: Committees on Agriculture, Banking and Financial Services, Commerce,

Economic and Educational Opportunities, International Relations, Resources, Transportation and Infrastructure, Veterans’ Affairs, and Select Intelligence. Page H4788

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

H4796.

Quorum Calls—Votes: One yea-and-nay vote and

three recorded votes developed during the proceedings of the House today and are found on pages

H4689–90, H4760, H4780–81, and H4788. There

were no quorum calls.

Adjournment: Met at 11 a.m. and adjourned at

10:43 p.m.

Committee Meetings

FOOD STAMP PROGRAM AND ELECTRONIC

BENEFIT TRANSFER SYSTEMS

Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Department Operations, Nutrition, and Foreign Agriculture

held a hearing on the Food Stamp Program and

Electronic Benefit Transfer Systems. Testimony was

heard from Russell D. Morris, Commissioner, Financial Management Service, Department of the Treasury; Jack Radzikowski, Executive Director, Federal

Electronic Benefit Transfer Task Force; Melba Price,

Associate Director, Policy Coordination, Department

of Social Services, State of Missouri; Dale Brown,

EBT Systems Director, Department of Human Resources, State of Maryland; and public witnesses.

NATIONAL SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on National Security held a hearing on Air Force Acquisition. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Department of the Air Force: Darleen A.

Druyun, Acting Assistant Secretary (Acquisition); Lt.

Gen. Richard E. Hawley, USAF, Principal Deputy to

the Assistant Secretary (Acquisition); and Brig. Gen.

Kenneth B. Miller, USAF, Director for Supply, Office of the Chief of Staff (Logistics).

BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Began markup of the Fiscal

Year 1996 Budget Resolution.

COMMUNICATIONS LAW REFORM

PROPOSALS

Committee on Commerce: Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance held a 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