June 8, 1995 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST D 701

must satisfy before being permitted to offer long distance services. Page S8014

Senate will resume consideration of the bill on

Friday, June 9.

Measure Indefinitely Postponed:

Paperwork Reduction Act: Senate indefinitely postponed further consideration of H.R. 830, to

amend chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code,

to further the goals of the Paperwork Reduction Act

to have Federal agencies become more responsible

and publicly accountable for reducing the burden of

Federal paperwork on the public. Page S8053

Committee Authority: The Committee on Finance

was authorized to have until 6 p.m., Friday, June 9,

1995, to file a report to accompany H.R. 4, to restore the American family, reduce illegitimacy, control welfare spending and reduce welfare dependence.

 Page S8053

Appointments:

Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress: The Chair, on behalf of the Democratic Leader, pursuant to Public Law 101–509, announced the appointment of John C. Waugh, of Texas, to the Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress.

 Page S8053

Messages From the House: Page S8023

Measures Referred: Page S8023

Petitions: Pages S8023–33

Executive Reports of Committees: Page S8033

Statements on Introduced Bills: Pages S8034–42

Additional Cosponsors: Page S8042

Amendments Submitted: Pages S8043–45

Authority for Committees: Page S8045

Additional Statements: Pages S8045–53

Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total—245) Pages S7971, S7990, S8000–01

Recess: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and recessed

at 10:17 p.m., until 9:15 a.m., on Friday, June 9,

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

Acting Majority Leader in today’s RECORD on page S8053.)

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet)

APPROPRIATIONS—MILITARY

CONSTRUCTION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held hearings on proposed budget

estimates for fiscal year 1996 for military construction programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds

for their respective activities from Robert M. Walker, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Logistics and

Environment, Bruce M. Carnes, Deputy Director for

Resource Management, Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Maj. Gen. G.K. Anderson, USAF,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Services, Operations, and Readiness; Brig. Gen. Harold E. Burch,

USA, Executive Director, Distribution, Defense Logistics Agency, and Millard Carr, Director, Energy

and Engineering, Office of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Installations, all of the Department of Defense.

Subcommittee recessed subject to call.

BOSNIA

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued

hearings to examine recent developments in Bosnia

and United States policy toward the conflict in the

region, receiving testimony from Alexander M.

Haig, Jr., Washington, D.C., former Secretary of

State.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

FINANCIAL SERVICES NEGOTIATIONS

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs:

Committee concluded oversight hearings to examine

the status of the financial services negotiations under

the newly created World Trade Organization and

market access barriers to United States securities

firms, after receiving testimony from Robert E.

Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury; Michael Kantor,

United States Trade Representative; James F.

Gwaltney, Ford Financial Services Group, Dearborn,

Michigan, on behalf of the Coalition of Service Industries, Inc.; and Carl A. Modecki, National Association of Insurance Brokers, F. William Hawley,

Citicorp/Citibank, on behalf of the Bankers’ Association for Foreign Trade, Paul Stevens, Investment

Company Institute, and Steve Judge, Securities Industry Association, all of Washington, D.C.

FOREST MANAGEMENT

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

resumed oversight hearings on Federal forest management issues, focusing on the Department of Agriculture’s proposal to reorganize the Forest Service,

the Forest Service proposal to revise the regulations

governing the development of national forest plans

under the National Forest Management Act of 1976,

and H.R. 529, to authorize the exchange of National

Forest System lands in the Targhee National Forest

in Idaho for non-Federal lands within the forest in

Wyoming, receiving testimony from Jack Ward

Thomas, Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; R. Max Peterson, Leesburg, Virginia, former
D 702 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST June 8, 1995

Chief, Forest Service; Mitch Friedman, Northwest

Ecosystem Alliance, Bellingham, Washington; Michael Medberry, Western Ancient Forest Campaign,

and James R. Woehr, Wildlife Management Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; Dan Tomascheski,

Sierra-Pacific Industries, Anderson, California;

Charles H. Burley, Northwest Forestry Association,

Bend, Oregon; and Donald Leal, Political Economy

Research Center, Bozeman, Montana.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably

reported the nominations of Ira S. Shapiro, of Maryland, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure

of service as Senior Counsel and Negotiator in the

Office of the United States Trade Representative,

John D. Hawke, Jr., of New York, to be Under Secretary, and Linda L. Robertson, of Oklahoma, to be

a Deputy Under Secretary, both of the Department

of the Treasury, and Stephen G. Kellison, of Texas,

and Marilyn Moon, of Maryland, each to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age

and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal

Disability Insurance Trust Fund. Prior to this action, the committee concluded

hearings on the aforementioned nominations, after

the nominees testified and answered questions in

their own behalf.

EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the scope and purpose of the earned income

tax credit, and proposals to modify and improve the

EITC, receiving testimony from Leslie B. Samuels,

Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy, and Margaret Milner Richardson, Commissioner, Internal Revenue

Service, both of the Department of the Treasury;

Lynda D. Willis, Associate Director, Tax Policy and

Administration Issues, General Government Division, General Accounting Office; Robert Greenstein,

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Marvin H.

Kosters, American Enterprise Institute, both of

Washington, D.C.; and George K. Yin, University

of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville. Hearings were recessed subject to call.

BOSNIA

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine the United States overall goals and

diplomatic strategy in Bosnia, receiving testimony

from Peter Tarnoff, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; Walter B. Slocombe, Under Secretary

of Defense for Policy; and Lt. Gen. Wesley K. Clark,

Director, Plans and Policy (J–5), Joint Chiefs of

Staff.

Committee will meet again tomorrow.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration approved for full committee consideration S.

457, to update references in the classification of children for purposes of United States immigration laws. Also, subcommittee began consideration of S. 269, to increase control over immigration to the United

States by increasing border patrol and investigator

personnel, improving the verification system for employer sanctions, increasing penalties for alien smuggling and for document fraud, reforming asylum, exclusion, and deportation law and procedures, instituting a land border user fee, and to reduce the use

of welfare by aliens, but did not complete action

thereon, and will meet again on Wednesday, June

14.

YOUTH DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY

BLOCK GRANT

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee

concluded hearings on S. 673, authorizing funds for

fiscal years 1996 through 1998 to establish a youth

development grant program, after receiving testimony from Philip Coltoff, Children’s Aid Society,

and Anthony P. Conza, Blimpie International, Inc.,

representing the Boys and Girls Clubs of America,

both of New York, New York; Michael J.

McClelland, Hardware Wholesalers, Inc., Fort

Wayne, Indiana, representing the Big Brothers/Big

Sisters of America; Michael L. Green, EverGreen

Capital Management, Omaha, Nebraska, representing the Camp Fire Boys and Girls; Randy Johnson,

Minneapolis, Minnesota, representing the National

Association of Counties and the Local Collaboration

on Children and Youth; William F. Wetzel, YMCA

of Metropolitan Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tennessee; John A. Johnson, New York State Division

for Youth, Rensselaer; and Beverly Watts Davis, San

Antonio Fighting Back, San Antonio, Texas.

VA REGULATIONS

Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee concluded

hearings to examine recent court decisions affecting

Department of Veterans Affairs’ regulations regarding veterans’ benefits, focusing on Gardner v. Brown,

115 S. Ct. 552 (1994), and Davenport v. Brown, 7

Vet. App. 476 (1995), after receiving testimony

from Mary Lou Keener, General Counsel, Department of Veterans Affairs, who was accompanied by

several of her associates.

NATIVE AMERICAN FINANCIAL SERVICES

ORGANIZATION ACT

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 436, to improve the economic conditions and

supply of housing in Native American communities

by creating the Native American Financial Services
June 8, 1995 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST D 703

Organization, receiving testimony from Joseph

Shuldiner, Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian

Housing, Dom Nessi, Director, Office of Native

American Programs, and Michael A. Stegman, Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, all of the Department of Housing and Urban

Development; Michael Mail, Quinault Indian Nation, Taholah, Washington; John SunChild Sr.,

Chippewa Cree Tribal Council, Box Elder, Montana;

Jacqueline L. Johnson, Tlingit-Haida Indian Housing Authority, Juneau, Alaska, on behalf of the National American Indian Housing Council; Robert

Gauthier, Salish-Kootenai Housing Authority, Pablo,

Montana, on behalf of the National Commission on

American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Housing; and Joel R. Thompson, Cherokee Nation Housing Authority, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

INTELLIGENCE

Select Committee on Intelligence: On Wednesday, June 7,

committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community.

h

Committee recessed subject to call.

House of Representatives

Chamber Action

Bills Introduced: Twenty-five public bills, H.R.

1786–1810; and one resolution, H. Res. 165 were

introduced. Pages H5752–53

Reports Filed: Reports were filed as follows:

H.R. 962, to amend the Immigration Act of 1990

relating to the membership of the United States

Commission on Immigration Reform (H. Rept.

104–135); and

H. Res. 164, providing for the consideration of

H.R. 1530, the National Defense Authorization Act

for fiscal year 1996 (H. Rept. 104–136). Page H5752

Committees to Sit: The following committees and

their subcommittees received permission to sit today

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

and Financial Services, Commerce, Economic and

Educational Opportunities, Judiciary, Resources,

Science, Small Business, and Transportation and Infrastructure. Page H5701

Budget: House disagreed to the Senate amendment

to H. Con. Res. 67, setting forth the congressional

budget for the United States Government for the fiscal years 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and

2002; and agreed to a conference. Appointed as conferees: Representatives Kasich, Hobson, Walker,

Kolbe, Shays, Herger, Allard, Franks of New Jersey,

Largent, Myrick, Parker, Sabo, Stenholm, Slaughter,

Coyne, Mollohan, Costello, Johnston of Florida, and

Mink. Pages H5701–10

Rejected the Sabo motion to instruct House conferees to agree to revenue levels (within the scope of

the conference) that exclude the revenue effects of

the Contract With America Tax Relief Act (H.R.

1215) and to insist on the House position regarding

the Earned Income Tax Credit (rejected by a yeaand-nay vote of 183 yeas to 233 nays, Roll No.

361). Pages H5702–09

American Overseas Interests Act: By a recorded

vote of 222 ayes to 192 noes, Roll No. 366, the

House passed 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 of appropriations

for United States foreign assistance programs for fiscal years 1996 and 1997. Pages H5710–34

Agreed to the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, as modified and amended.

 Page H5731

Rejected the Hamilton motion to recommit the

bill to the Committee on International Relations

with instructions to report it back forthwith containing an amendment that sought to strike language

abolishing the Agency for International Development, the United States Information Agency, the

United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and the International Development Cooperation

Agency and, instead, provide for the streamlining of

foreign affairs agencies by requiring the President to

review programs described in the Foreign Assistance

Act of 1961 and the Arms Export Control Act, as

well as other initiatives within the administration of

international affairs programs, determine how best to

achieve that cost savings and streamlining, and submit a report to the Committees on International Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the

House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations

of the Senate not later than six months after the date

of enactment on the results of this review; and retain