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[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 91 (Tuesday, June 6, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D685-D687]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1995 FARM BILL: RESOURCE CONSERVATION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on 
Forestry, Conservation, and Rural Revitalization concluded hearings on 
proposed legislation to strengthen and improve United States 
agricultural programs, focusing on the natural resources conservation 
provisions, including a related measure S. 854, after receiving 
testimony from Richard E. Rominger, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture; 
Ross Hansen, Genoa, Colorado, on behalf of the National Association of 
Wheat Growers; Bob Drake, Davis, Oklahoma, on behalf of the National 
Cattlemen's Association; Howard Schmid, North Dakota Farm Bureau, 
Oberon, on behalf of the American Farm Bureau Federation; Dallin Reese, 
Burley, Idaho, on behalf of the Northwest Farmers Union and the 
National Farmers Union; James R. Moseley, Purdue University, Lafayette, 
Indiana, on behalf of the National Association of State Departments of 
Agriculture; Gary Mast, Ohio Federation of Soil and Water Conservation 
Districts, Millersburg, on behalf of the National Association of 
Conservation Districts; Maureen Kuwano Hinkle, National Audubon 
Society, Washington, D.C.; Aggie Helle, Dillon, Montana, on behalf of 
the Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative Steering Committee; and Buddy 
Williams, Nashville Department of Water and Sewerage Services, 
Nashville, Tennessee, on behalf of the Association of Metropolitan 
Water Agencies.
INTELLIGENCE PROGRAMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense met in closed 
session to receive a briefing on intelligence programs from John M. 
Deutch, Director, Central Intelligence Agency.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS--INTERIOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related 
Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 1996 for the Department of the Interior, after receiving testimony 
from Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior.
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ELECTRIC UTILITY PURCHASE MANDATE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy 
Production and Regulation concluded hearings on S. 708, to repeal 
section 210 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 which 
requires the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to prescribe rules 
that require electric utilities to purchase electric energy from 
qualifying cogeneration and small power production facilities at 
avoided cost rates, after receiving testimony from Elizabeth A. Moler, 
Chair, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and Susan F. Tierney, 
Assistant Secretary for Policy, both of the Department of Energy; 
Robert Anderson, Montana Public Service Commission, Helena, Robert W. 
Gee, Texas Public Utilities Commission, Austin, and Cody L. Graves, 
Corporation Commission of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, all on behalf of the 
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners; Irwin A. 
Popowsky, Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate, Harrisburg; Albert 
J. Budney, Jr., Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, Syracuse, New York; 
Joseph P. Kearney, U.S. Generating Company, Bethesda, Maryland, on 
behalf of the National Independent Energy Producers and the Electric 
Generation Association; W. Henson Moore, American Forest and Paper 
Association, Washington, D.C.; Alan J. Noia, Allegheny Power System, 
Inc., New York, New York; James R. Niehaus, Oxy, U.S.A., Inc., Tulsa, 
Oklahoma, on behalf of the Natural Gas Supply Association; David L. 
Sokol, California Energy Company, Inc., Omaha, Nebraska, on behalf of 
the Geothermal Energy Association; and Edwin A. Guiles, San Diego, 
California, on behalf of the San Diego Gas and Electric Company and the 
Edison Electric Institute.
CONSUMER PRICE INDEX
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine the use of 
the Consumer Price Index as an indicator of inflation and changes in 
the cost of living, receiving testimony from Michael J. Boskin, 
Stanford University, Stanford, California; Ellen R. Dulberger, IBM 
Global I/T Services, White Plains, New York; Zvi Griliches, Harvard 
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Janet L. Norwood, Urban 
Institute, Washington, D.C.; and Robert A. Pollak, University of 
Washington, Seattle.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FEDERAL INSURANCE TRUST FUNDS
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on the 1995 Annual 
Reports of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and 
Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds, receiving testimony from 
Robert E. Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury; and Robert B. Reich, 
Secretary of Labor.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HONG KONG
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs concluded hearings to examine United States' interests in the 
future economic and political stability of Hong Kong after it reverts 
to the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China on July 1, 1997, 
after receiving testimony from Winston Lord, Assistant Secretary of 
State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; and Richard Thornburgh, 
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, former Attorney General of the United States, 
James R. Lilley, American Enterprise Institute, former Ambassador to 
the People's Republic of China, Gerrit W. Gong, Center for Strategic 
and International Studies, and Thomas A. Boasberg, Covington & Burling, 
all of Washington, D.C.; Gerald L. Murdock, Asia Power Group, Ltd., 
Hong Kong, on behalf of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong; 
and Andrew Au, Gaithersburg, Maryland, on behalf of the Alliance of 
Hong Kong Chinese in the United States.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Carlos K. Lucero, of Colorado, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit, Nancy Friedman Atlas, to be United 
States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas, Wiley Y. 
Daniel, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Colorado, Donald C. Nugent, to be United States District Judge for the 
Northern District of Ohio, and Andrew Fois, of New York, to be 
Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legislative Affairs, 
Department of Justice, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf. Messrs. Lucero and Daniel were 
introduced by Senators Brown and Campbell, and Representative Skaggs, 
Ms. Atlas was introduced by Senator Hutchison, Mr. Nugent was 
introduced by Senators DeWine and Glenn, and Mr. Fois was introduced by 
District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton.
FLAG DESECRATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Constitution, Federalism, 
and Property Rights concluded hearings on S.J. Res. 31, proposing an 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States to grant Congress 
and the States the power to prohibit the physical desecration of the 
flag of the United States, after receiving testimony from Senators 
Kerrey and Heflin; Walter Dellinger, Assistant Attorney General, Office 
of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice; William Detweiler, American 
Legion, Indianapolis, [[Page D687]] Indiana; Joseph R. Pinon, City of 
Miami Beach, Miami Beach, Florida; Stephen B. Presser, Northwestern 
University School of Law, and Cass R. Sunstein, University of Chicago 
School of Law, both of Chicago, Illinois; Charles Cooper, Shaw, 
Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge, Washington, D.C.; Richard D. Parker, 
Harvard University School of Law, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Gene 
Nichol, University of Colorado School of Law, Boulder; Rose Lee, 
Arlington, Virginia, on behalf of the Gold Star Wives of America, Inc.; 
and Bruce Fein, Great Falls, Virginia.
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