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[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 88 (Thursday, May 25, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D668-D669]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1995 FARM BILL: FARM EXPORT PROGRAMS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on 
Marketing, Inspection, and Product Promotion concluded hearings on 
proposed legislation to strengthen and improve United States 
agricultural programs, focusing on Federal farm export programs, after 
receiving testimony from Eugene Moos, Under Secretary of Agriculture 
for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services; Daniel Amstutz, North 
American Export Grain Association, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the 
Coalition for a Competitive Food and Agricultural System; Dwayne 
Andreas, Archer Daniels Midland Company, Decatur, Illinois, on behalf 
of the Coalition to Promote United States Agricultural Exports; Dan 
Blackshear, Carolina Turkeys, Mt. Olive, North Carolina, on behalf of 
the National Turkey Federation; Rob Paarlberg, Wellesley College, 
Wellesley, Massachusetts; Philip Johnston, CARE, Atlanta, Georgia, on 
behalf of the Coalition for Food Aid; and Brad Fay, North Dakota Grain 
Growers, Bismarck, on behalf of the United States Wheat Associates and 
the United States Feed Grains Council.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Bruce A. Morrison, of 
Connecticut, and J. Timothy O'Neill, of Virginia, each to be a Director 
of the Federal Housing Finance Board.
AUTHORIZATION--U.S. TERRITORIES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on S. 638, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1996 through 2001 for 
project development programs of United States insular areas, after 
[[Page D669]] receiving testimony from Allen P. Stayman, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Territorial and International 
Affairs; American Samoa Governor A.P. Lutali, and American Samoa 
Delegate Eni F.H. Faleomavaega, both of Pago Pago; Commonwealth of 
Northern Mariana Islands Resident Representative Juan N. Babauta; and 
Wendy L. Doromal, Daytona Beach, Florida, on behalf of the foreign 
contract workers of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Timothy Michael Carney, of Washington, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Sudan, Donald K. Steinberg, of California, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Angola, Mosina H. Jordan, of New York, to 
be Ambassador to the Central African Republic, and Lannon Walker, of 
Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Cote D'Ivoire, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nominations of Inez Smith Reid, to be an Associate Judge of the 
District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Ronna Lee Beck, Linda Kay Davis, 
and Eric T. Washington, each to be an Associate Judge of the Superior 
Court of the District of Columbia, 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.
CHILD PROTECTION REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children and 
Families concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds 
for programs of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, focusing 
on child protection reform measures, after receiving testimony from 
Richard Wexler, Pennsylvania State University, Beaver, on behalf of the 
National Coalition for Child Protection Reform; Betty S. Spivack, 
Hartford Hospital/University of Connecticut Health Center, Hartford; 
Michael W. Weber, St. Paul, Minnesota, on behalf of the Chapin Hall 
Center for Children at the University of Chicago; Carol L. Hopkins, San 
Diego, California; Thomas D. Morton, Child Welfare Institute, Atlanta, 
Georgia; and James B. Wade, Cabool, Missouri.
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, 
Arts, and Humanities concluded hearings on proposed legislation 
authorizing funds for programs of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and 
Applied Technology Act of 1990, focusing on the role of business in 
building a better workforce, after receiving testimony from Hedrick 
Smith, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, 
Washington, D.C.; Carver C. Gayton, The Boeing Company, Seattle, 
Washington; Rebecca J. Taylor, Vocational Foundation, Inc., New York, 
New York; John Hamill, Fleet Bank of Massachusetts, Boston; Dave 
Adomyetz, Rogers Group, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee; and Earl Jaskol, J 
& J Flock Products, Easton, Pennsylvania, and Elizabeth Volard, 
Virginia Council on Economic Education, Richmond, both on behalf of the 
National Council on Economic Education.
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