Volume 141, No. 64 covering the 1st Session of the 104th Congress (1995 - 1996) was published by the Congressional Record.
The Congressional Record is a unique source of public documentation. It started in 1873, documenting nearly all the major and minor policies being discussed and debated.
“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Environmental Protection Agency was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D494-D495 on April 6, 1995.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--NOAA/NIST
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary (and Related Agencies) held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, receiving testimony from D. James Baker, Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, Mary Lowe Good, Under Secretary for Technology, and Arati Prabhakar, Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology, all of the Department of Commerce.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 26.
APPROPRIATIONS--NAVY/MARINE CORPS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for Navy and Marine Corps programs, receiving testimony from John H. Dalton, Secretary of the Navy; Adm. Jeremy M. Boorda, Chief of Naval Operations; and Gen. Carl E. Mundy, Jr., USMC, Commandant.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 2.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Acquisition and Technology resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for the Department of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on the implementation of acquisition management reform, receiving testimony from Colleen Preston, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Reform; Robert Murphy, General Counsel, General Accounting Office; and Peter DeMayo, Lockheed-Martin Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities resumed hearings on proposals to reform the process of securities litigation, including related provisions of S. 240 and H.R. 1058, receiving testimony from Senator Mikulski; Arthur Levitt, Jr., Chairman, Richard C. Breeden, former Chairman, and Charles Cox, former Commissioner and former Acting Chairman, all of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 565, to regulate interstate commerce by providing for a uniform product liability law, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
The nomination of Charles Taylor Manatt, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Communications Satellite Corporation.
NATIONAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure concluded hearings on S. 440, to providing for the designation of the National Highway System, focusing on issues related to the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge and the innovative financing of transportation facilities, after receiving testimony from Jane F. Garvey, Deputy Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation; Jack F. Herrity, Interstate Transportation Study Commission, Fairfax, Virginia; Ann C. Stern, Financial Guaranty Insurance Corporation, New York, New York; Ralph L. Stanley, United Infrastructure Company, Chicago, Illinois; and Daniel V. Flanagan, Jr., Infrastructure Investment Commission, Arlington, Virginia.
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 Walter Erwin Diewert, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; Dale W. Jorgenson, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Ariel Pakes, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; and Joel Popkin, Joel Popkin and Company, Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
REGULATORY REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee continued in evening session to mark up S. 343, to reform the Federal regulatory process.
PROPERTY RIGHTS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S. 605, to establish a uniform and more efficient Federal process for protecting property owners' rights guaranteed by the fifth amendment, receiving testimony from Senator Gramm; John R. Schmidt, Associate Attorney General, Department of Justice; Loren A. Smith, Chief Judge, United States Court of Federal Claims; Raymond B. Ludwiszewski, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, former General Counsel, Environmental Protection Agency, Nancie G. Marzulla, Defenders of Property Rights, and Roger Marzulla, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, all of Washington, D.C.; Carol M. Rose, Yale University Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; Nellie Edwards, Provo, Utah; and John J. Chaconas, St. Amant, Louisiana.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee began markup of S. 454, to reform the health care liability system and improve health care quality through the establishment of quality assurance programs, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
FDA
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee continued hearings to examine activities of the Food and Drug Administration, focusing on the challenges and opportunities facing the pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and food industries, and FDA's regulation of these industries, receiving testimony from David A. Kessler, Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of Dennis M. Duffy, of Pennsylvania, to be an Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Policy and Planning.
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