Volume 141, No. 171 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 D1290-D1291 on Nov. 1, 1995.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MARITIME REGULATORY REFORM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1356, to deregulate the United States ocean shipping industry and sunset the Federal Maritime Commission, after receiving testimony from former Senator William D. Hathaway, Chairman, Austin Schmitt, Director, Bureau of Economics, and Robert D. Bourgon, General Counsel, all of the Federal Maritime Commission; Edward M. Emmett, National Industrial Transportation League, Arlington, Virginia; Geoffrey N. Giovanetti, Wine and Spirits Shippers Association, Inc., Reston, Virginia, on behalf of the Shippers' Association Coalition; Bill McInerney, Phoenix International Freight Services, Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the American International Freight Association; Peter H. Powell Sr., C.H. Powell Company, Peabody, Massachusetts, on behalf of the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America, Inc.; Herzl S. Eisenstadt, Brooklyn, New York, on behalf of the International Longshoremen's Association; Christopher L. Koch, Sea-Land Service, Inc., Timothy J. Rhein, American President Companies, and Murray Graham, Council of European and Japanese National Shipowners' Association, all of Washington, D.C.; John P. LaRue, Port of Corpus Christi Authority, Corpus Christi, Texas; W. Don Welch, South Carolina State Ports Authority, Charleston; Brian McWilliams, International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, San Francisco, California; and William P. Verdon, Crowley Maritime Corporation, Oakland, California.
WETLANDS PROTECTION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety concluded hearings on S. 851, to reform the Section 404 wetlands permitting program under the Clean Water Act to focus Federal regulatory authority on functioning wetlands and to ensure that citizens can obtain permits within a reasonable period of time, after receiving testimony from John H. Zirschky, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works; Robert Perciasepe, Assistant Administrator for Water, Environmental Protection Agency; Bernard N. Goode, former Chief, National Regulatory Program, United States Corps of Engineers; John D. Echeverria, National Audubon Society, Washington, D.C.; James S. Burling, Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, California; Robert D. Sokolove, U.S. Wetland Services, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland; William D. Lane, Lane Corporation, Goldsboro, North Carolina; Steven N. Moyer, Trout Unlimited, Arlington, Virginia; and Kenneth F. Bierly, Oregon Division of State Lands, Salem, on behalf of the Association of State Wetland Managers.
PROLIFERATION OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations continued hearings to examine the threat of global proliferation of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons and weapons-
material, receiving testimony from Gordon C. Oehler, Director, Nonproliferation Center, Central Intelligence Agency; Connie J. Fenchel, Assistant Director, Strategic Investigations Division, Office of Investigations, U.S. Customs Service, Department of the Treasury; John P. O'Neill, Special Supervisory Agent, Chief, Counterterrorism Section, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; H. Allen Holmes, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict; Frank E. Young, Director, National Disaster Medical System, Office of Emergency Preparedness, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services; Amy E. Smithson, Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington, D.C.; Vil S. Mirzayanov, Moscow, Russia, on behalf of the State Research Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology; Milton Leitenberg, University of Maryland, College Park; and Michael Moodie, Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute, Alexandria, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
WACO AFTERMATH
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine changes in Federal law enforcement as a result of the incident in Waco, Texas, after receiving testimony from Kenneth V. Lanning, Supervisory Special Agent, Behavioral Science Unit, Robin Montgomery, Special Agent in Charge, Critical Incident Response Group, Gary W. Noesner, Supervisory Special Agent, Critical Incident Response Group, and William J. Esposito, Assistant Director, Criminal Investigative Division, all of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; Frank A. Bolz, Frank A. Bolz Associates, Inc., Huntington Station, New York; Clint R. Van Zandt, Van Zandt & Associates, Fredericksburg, Virginia; Peter Smerick, The Academy Group, Manassas, Virginia; and Graeme Craddock, an incarcerated witness.
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