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of Insurance, Department of Insurance, State of

North Carolina; and public witnesses.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce,

Trade, and Hazardous Materials held an oversight

hearing to determine if ammonium nitrate fertilizer

used in the fatal bombing of the Alfred R. Murrah

Federal Building in Oklahoma City can be neutralized to prevent future tragedies. Testimony was

heard from Ralph C. Ostrowski, Chief, Arson and

Explosives Division, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,

and Firearms, Department of the Treasury; Tony

Fainburg, Senior Associate/Project Director, OTA;

and public witnesses.

AMERICAN OVERSEAS INTEREST ACT

Committee on Rules: Granted, by a voice vote, a modified open rule providing 2 hours of general debate

on H.R. 1561, American Overseas Interests Act of

1995.

The rule waives clause 2(l)(6) of rule XI (three day

availability for committee reports); section 302(f)

(prohibiting consideration of legislation providing

new entitlement authority in excess of a committee’s

allocation); 303(a) (prohibiting consideration of

budgetary legislation prior to the adoption of the

budget resolution); 308(a) requiring a CBO cost estimate in the committee report on legislation containing new entitlement, spending, or budget authority,

or a change in revenues); 402(a) (credit authority not

subject to appropriations in advance) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 against consideration of

the bill.

The rule makes in order the amendment in the

nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on International Relations as an original bill for

the purpose of amendment. The committee amendment shall be considered as read. The rule waives

clause 5(a) of rule XXI (prohibiting appropriations

on a legislative bill); section 302(f); 303(a); and

402(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974

against the committee amendment.

The rule requires that amendments be pre-printed

in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. The rule further

provides for consideration for amendment under the

5-minute rule for 10 hours, followed by debate as

guaranteed under clause 6 of rule XXIII (permitting

five minutes for and against each amendment). Consideration of the bill for amendment may not continue beyond 2:30 p.m., on Thursday, May 25,

1995. The rule allows the chairman of the International Relations Committee the authority to offer

certain pre-printed amendments en bloc or germane

modifications of any such amendment. The amendments shall not be subject to amendment or to a division of the question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole.

The rule deletes section 2210 from the committee

amendment in the nature of a substitute through a

self-executing provision. Section 2210 would establish a new scorekeeping system for certain lease purchasing agreements that is contrary to scorekeeping

under the Budget Act. As such, the provision violates section 306 of the Budget Act which prohibits

the consideration of amendments under the Budget

Committee’s jurisdiction if offered to bills not reported by the Budget Committee. Since the Budget

Committee has communicated opposition to waiving

points of order against the International Relations

Committee’s amendment in the nature of a substitute for this provision, the provision in the rule

would delete the offending section from the substitute.

Finally, the rule provides for one motion to recommit, with or without instructions. Testimony

was heard from Chairman Gilman and Representative Hamilton.

INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY—21ST

CENTURY

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Held a hearing on the Intelligence Community in the 21st Century. Testimony was heard from the following

former Directors of the CIA: Ambassador Richard

Helms; James R. Schlesinger; William Colby; Adm.

Stansfield Turner; William H. Webster, and R.

James Woolsey.

COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY,

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MAY 23, 1995

(Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)

Senate

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, to resume hearings on proposed legislation to strengthen and

improve United States agricultural programs, focusing on

Federal nutrition programs, 9:30 a.m., SR–328A.

Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Defense,

to hold hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal

year 1996 for the Department of Defense, focusing on financial management, 9:30 a.m., SD–192.

Subcommittee on District of Columbia, to hold hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for

the government of the District of Columbia, focusing on

the District of Columbia public schools, 9:30 a.m.,

SD–116.

Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, to hold hearings

to examine arms transfer policy, 9:30 a.m., SD–138.

Committee on Armed Services, closed business meeting, to

consider pending military nominations, 2:30 p.m.,

SR–222.

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

oversight hearings on NASA’s Space Station Program,

9:30 a.m., SR–253.

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Subcommittee

on Forests and Public Land Management, to hold 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, 9:30 a.m., SD–366.

Subcommittee on Parks, Historic Preservation and

Recreation, to hold hearings to review the Department of

the Interior’s programs, policies and budget implications

on the reintroduction of wolves in and around Yellowstone National Park, 2:30 p.m., SD–366.

Committee on Foreign Relations, business meeting, to

mark up proposed legislation authorizing funds for foreign assistance programs, 10 a.m., SD–419.

Committee on Governmental Affairs, to hold hearings on

the nominations of S. David Fineman, of Pennsylvania,

and Robert F. Rider, of Delaware, each to be a Governor

of the United States Postal Service, and G. Edward

Deseve, of Pennsylvania, to be Comptroller, Office of

Federal Financial Management, Office of Management

and Budget, 11 a.m., SD–342.

Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nomination

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

United States, National Archives and Records Administration, 2:30 p.m., SD–342.

Committee on Labor and Human Resources, to hold hearings on activities of the Equal Employment Opportunity

Commission, 9 a.m., SD–430.

NOTICE

For a listing of Senate Committee Meetings scheduled ahead, see pages E1094–95 in today’s RECORD.

House

Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Department

Operations, Nutrition, and Foreign Agriculture, to mark

up Titles I, II, and III of H.R. 1627, to amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, 2 p.m.,

1300 Longworth.

Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry, hearing on the impact of maintaining, reforming, or eliminating Federal Milk Marketing Orders (FMMOs), criteria for

the consolidation of FMMO order regions, revisions in

the pooling and sharing of FMMO receipts, proposals for

a single national order, and the continuation or preemption of state orders, 9 a.m., 1302 Longworth.

Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on the District of Columbia, on D.C. Finances, 10 a.m., H–144

Capitol.

Subcommittee on VA, HUD and Independent Agencies, on EPA, 10 a.m., and 1:30 p.m., 2360 Rayburn.

Committee on Banking and Financial Services, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, to

continue hearings on the broad issue of regulatory burden

relief as well as those matters addressed in H.R. 1362,

Financial Institutions Regulatory Relief Act of 1995, 10

a.m., 2128 Rayburn.

Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Commerce,

Trade, and Hazardous Materials, to continue hearings on

the reauthorization of the Superfund program, 10 a.m.,

2322 Rayburn.

Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities, Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations, hearing on

EEOC Administrative Reforms/Case Processing, 1 p.m.,

2261 Rayburn.

Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing

on the Federal Direct Student Loan program, 1:30 p.m.,

2175 Rayburn.

Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, Subcommittee on Government Management, Information,

and Technology, to continue hearings on Consolidating

Federal Programs and Organizations, Part 2, 10 a.m.,

2154 Rayburn.

Subcommittee on Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations, hearing on Waste and Fraud in the following Departments; Education; Health and Human

Services; Housing and Urban Development; Labor; and

Veterans Affairs, 10 a.m., 2247 Rayburn.

Subcommittee on Postal Service, oversight hearing on

the U.S. Postal Service, 10 a.m., 311 Cannon.

Committee on House Oversight, to consider pending business, 2 p.m., 1310 Longworth.

Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, hearing on the reform of laws governing lobbying, 1 p.m., 2237 Rayburn.

Committee on National Security, Subcommittee on Military Procurement, to mark up H.R. 1530, National Defense Authorization for fiscal year 1996, 2 p.m., 2118

Rayburn.

Subcommittee on Military Research and Development,

to mark up H.R. 1530, National Defense Authorization

for fiscal year 1996, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.

Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Procurement, Exports, and Business Opportunities, to continue

hearings on the appropriate role and the effectiveness of

various Federal Government programs in helping small

businesses find export opportunities around the world, 2

p.m., 2359 Rayburn.

Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, executive, to

consider pending business, 1 p.m., HT–2M Capitol.

Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Social

Security, hearing on Social Security Disability Insurance

Program, 10 a.m., B–318 Rayburn.

Subcommittee on Trade, hearing on United StatesChina Trade Relations and Renewal of China’s Most-Favored Nation Status, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, briefing on Guatemala, 9 a.m., H–405 Capitol.