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Eugene Branstool, of Ohio, to be a Member of the

Board of Directors of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation.

Karl N. Stauber, of Minnesota, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and

Economics. (New Position)

Karl N. Stauber, of Minnesota, to be a Member

of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit

Corporation.

8 Air Force nominations in the rank of general.

1 Army nomination in the rank of Chief of Staff

of the Army.

6 Army nominations in the rank of general.

1 Marine Corps nomination in the rank of Commandant of the Marine Corps.

1 Navy nomination in the rank of admiral.

Routine lists in the Air Force, Army, Marine

Corps, Navy. Pages S7230–31, S7279–80

Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:

Routine lists in the Air Force, Army, and Navy.

 Pages S7268–79

Messages From the President: Page S7244

Executive Reports of Committees: Page S7244

Statements on Introduced Bills: Pages S7244–47

Additional Cosponsors: Pages S7247–48

Amendments Submitted: Pages S7248–57

Notices of Hearings: Page S7257

Authority for Committees: Page S7258

Additional Statements: Pages S7258–68

Record Votes: Five record votes were taken today. (Total—180) Pages S7197–98

Recess: Senate convened at 8:30 a.m., and recessed

at 10:35 p.m., until 8 a.m., on Wednesday, May 24,

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

Acting Majority Leader in today’s RECORD on page

S7268.)

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet)

1995 FARM BILL: FOOD ASSISTANCE

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed hearings on proposed legislation to

strengthen and improve United States agricultural

programs, focusing on the Department of Agriculture food and nutrition assistance programs, receiving testimony from Representative Cunningham;

Dan Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture; Ellen W.

Haas, Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food and

Consumer Services; Robert A. Robinson, Associate

Director, Food and Agriculture Issues, Resources,

Community, and Economic Development Division,

General Accounting Office; Iowa Governor Terry

Branstad, Des Moines; Florida Governor Lawton

Chiles, Tallahassee; Gerald H. Miller, Michigan Department of Social Services, Lansing; J. Jean Rogers,

Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services,

Madison; Robert Greenstein, Center on Budget and

Policy Priorities, Timothy M. Hammonds, Food

Marketing Institute, and Robert J. Fersh, Food Research and Action Center, all of Washington, D.C.;

M. Anne Hill, City University of New York, Flushing; Linda Locke, Louisville, Kentucky, on behalf of

the National Child and Adult Care Food Program

Sponsors Forum; Vivian Pilant, South Carolina Department of Education, Columbia, on behalf of the

American School Food Service Association; and

James Richard, Alabama Department of Public

Health, Montgomery, on behalf of the National Association of WIC Directors.

Committee recessed subject to call.

APPROPRIATIONS—DEFENSE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense

held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal

year 1996 for financial management programs of the

Department of Defense, receiving testimony from

John J. Hamre, Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller); and Charles Bowsher, Comptroller General

of the United States, General Accounting Office.

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June

6.

APPROPRIATIONS—DISTRICT OF

COLUMBIA

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the

District of Columbia held hearings on proposed

budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the government of the District of Columbia, focusing on the

District of Columbia public school system, receiving

testimony from Michael Feuer, Director, Board on

Testing and Assessment, National Research Council;

Wilma Harvey, President, District of Columbia

Board of Education, and Franklin Smith, Superintendent, District of Columbia Public Schools, both

of the Government of the District of Columbia; and

Daniel Koretz, Urban Institute, Carrie Thornhill, on

behalf of the Committee on Public Education,

Delabian Rice-Thurston, Parents United for the D.C.

Public Schools, and Thriftone B. Jones, D.C. Congress of Parents and Teachers, all of Washington,

D.C.

Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
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APPROPRIATIONS—FOREIGN ASSISTANCE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign

Operations held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for foreign assistance programs, receiving testimony from Lynn Davis, Under

Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Affairs, and John Shattuck, Assistant Secretary

for Human Rights, both of the Department of State;

Lt. Gen. Thomas Rhame, Director, Defense Security

Assistance Agency, Department of Defense; and Lawrence J. Korb, Brookings Institution, Holly J.

Burkhalter, Human Rights Watch, William

Hartung, World Policy Institute, and Lora Lumpe,

Federation of American Scientists, all of Washington, D.C.

Subcommittee recessed subject to call.

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 2,020 military nominations in the

Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.

NASA SPACE STATION PROGRAM

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings on the state and performance of the

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

space station program, after receiving testimony

from J. Wayne Littles, Associate Administrator, Office of Space Flight, Harry Holloway, Associate Administrator, Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences

and Applications, and Randy Brinkley, Space Station

Program Manager (Houston, Texas), all of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Marcia

Smith, Space Policy Analyst, Congressional Research

Service, Library of Congress; Lori B. Garver, National Space Society, and Alexander McPherson, Association of American Universities, both of Washington, D.C.; and Tom Rogers, Space Transportation

Association, Arlington, Virginia.

RECLAMATION FACILITIES TRANSFER ACT

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management

held hearings on S. 620, to direct the Secretary of

the Interior to convey, upon request, certain property

in Federal reclamation projects to beneficiaries of the

projects and to set forth a distribution scheme for

revenues from reclamation project lands, receiving

testimony from Daniel P. Beard, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior;

Roger Ling, Ling, Nielsen and Robinson, Rupert,

Idaho; Thomas F. Donnelly, National Water Resources Association, Arlington, Virginia; Tom W.

Davis, Carlsbad Irrigation District, Carlsbad, New

Mexico; Gary Esslinger, Elephant Butte Irrigation

District, and Steven L. Hernandez, Hubert & Hernandez, on behalf of the Elephant Butte Irrigation

District and the Carlsbad Irrigation District, both of

Las Cruces, New Mexico; and Kenneth Nelson,

Courtland, Kansas, on behalf of the Irrigation

Projects Reauthorization Council of Kansas and Nebraska.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

WOLVES IN YELLOWSTONE PARK

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Parks, Historic Preservation and

Recreation concluded oversight hearings on the Department of the Interior’s programs, policies and

budget implications on the reintroduction of wolves

in and around Yellowstone National Park, after receiving testimony from George T. Frampton, Jr., Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks,

and Mollie H. Beattie, Director, United States Fish

and Wildlife Service, both of the Department of the

Interior; Robert M. Ferris, Defenders of Wildlife,

John Kostyack, National Wildlife Federation, William G. Myers, III, Public Lands Council, on behalf

of the National Cattlemen’s Association, Philip H.

Voorhees, on behalf of the National Parks and Conservation Association, and Jon Doggett, American

Farm Bureau Federation, all of Washington, D.C.;

and Elaine Allestad, Big Timber, Montana, on behalf

of the Montana Wool Growers Association and the

American Sheep Industry Association.

AUTHORIZATION—FOREIGN ASSISTANCE

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee began

markup of proposed legislation to authorize reduced

levels of appropriations for foreign assistance programs for fiscal years 1996 and 1997, but did not

complete action thereon, and will continue tomorrow.

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Robert F.

Rider, of Delaware, and S. David Fineman, of Pennsylvania, each to be a Governor of the United States

Postal Service, G. Edward DeSeve, of Pennsylvania,

to be Controller, Office of Federal Financial Management, Office of Management and Budget, and John

W. Carlin, of Kansas, to be Archivist of the United

States, National Archives and Records Administration, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Fineman was introduced by Senator Specter and Representatives Borski

and Fattah, Mr. DeSeve was introduced by Representative Borski, and Mr. Carlin was introduced by

Senator Dole. Testimony was also received on the

nomination of Mr. Carlin from Gaddis Smith, Yale

University, New Haven, Connecticut, on behalf of
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the Organization of American Historians and the

American Historical Association; Susan E. Davis,

State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, on

behalf of the Society of American Archivists; Howard

P. Lowell, Delaware State Archives, Dover, on behalf

of the National Association of Government Archives

and Records Administrators; and Martha Joynt

Kumar, Towson State University, Towson, Maryland,

on behalf of the Presidency Research Group.

EEOC

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee

concluded oversight hearings on the state of the

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, focusing on EEOC’s charge processing system and case

backlog, after receiving testimony from Linda G.

Morra, Director, Education and Employment Issues,

Health, Education, and Human Services Division,

General Accounting Office; Gilbert F. Casellas,

Chairman, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Donald R. Livingston, Akin, Gump,

Strauss, Hauer & Feld, and Stephen E. Tallent, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, both of Washington, D.C.;

James A. Quirk, Computer Sciences Raytheon, Cocoa

Beach, Florida, on behalf of the Society for Human

Resource Management; and Nancy Kreiter, Women

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Employed Institute, Chicago, Illinois.

House of Representatives

Chamber Action

Bills Introduced: Seven public bills, H.R.

1683–1689; and three resolutions, H.J. Res. 90–91,

H. Con. Res. 71 were introduced. Pages H5470–71

Speaker Pro Tempore: Read a letter from the

Speaker wherein he designates Representative Kim

to act as Speaker pro tempore for today. Page H5379

Recess: House recessed at 11:10 a.m. and reconvened at noon. Page H5383

Committees To Sit: The following committees received permission to sit today during proceedings of

the House under the 5-minute rule: Committees on

Agriculture, Banking and Financial Services, Commerce, Economic and Educational Opportunities,

Government Reform and Oversight, House Oversight, Judiciary, National Security, Resources, Small

Business, and Select Intelligence. Page H5388

American Overseas Interests Act: House completed all general debate and began consideration of

amendments on H.R. 1561, to consolidate the foreign affairs agencies of the United States; to authorize appropriations for the Department of State and

related agencies for fiscal years 1996 and 1997; and

to responsibly reduce the authorizations for United

States foreign assistance programs for fiscal years

1996 and 1997; but came to no resolution thereon.

 Pages H5389–H5460

Agreed To:

The Brownback amendment that reduces the authorization level for fiscal year 1997 appropriations

for international affairs programs by $478 million to

conform with the authorization levels established by

the balanced budget resolution (agreed to by a recorded vote of 276 ayes to 134 noes, Roll No. 348);

and Pages H5450–55, H5459–60

The Burton of Indiana amendment, as modified,

that prohibits development assistance to countries

that oppose the United States position in the United

Nations General Assembly on 50 percent or more recorded plenary votes. Page H5460

The Funderburk amendment, as modified, was offered but subsequently withdrawn that sought to reduce further the salaries and expenses of the Department of State by an additional $17 million.

 Pages H5455–59

H. Res. 155, the rule under which the bill is

being considered, was agreed to earlier by a yea-andnay vote of 233 yeas to 176 nays, Roll No. 347.

 Pages H5389–97

Presidential Message—Romanian Emigration:

Read a letter from the President wherein he transmits a report concerning emigration policies of the

Republic of Romania—referred to the Committee on

Ways and Means and ordered printed (H. Doc.

104–78). Page H5460

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

pages H5472–83.

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

one recorded vote developed during the proceedings

of the House today and appear on pages H5397 and

H5459–60. There were no quorum calls.

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

7:07 p.m.