Volume 142, No. 25 covering the 2nd 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 D112-D114 on Feb. 28, 1996.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE JOINT REQUIREMENTS OVERSIGHT COUNCIL
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to review the role of the Department of Defense Joint Requirements Oversight Council
(JROC), after receiving testimony from Adm. William A. Owens, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
WHITEWATER
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Development: Committee ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 227) to authorize the use of additional funds for salaries and expenses of the Special Committee to Investigate the Whitewater Development Corporation and Related Matters.
GOVERNORS PROPOSAL ON WELFARE AND MEDICAID
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on the bipartisan National Governors' Association proposals to reform the Federal Medicaid and welfare programs, focusing on the Administration's views, receiving testimony from Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of James E. Johnson, of New Jersey, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Enforcement, and Stuart E. Eizenstat, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade.
Prior to this action, committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Mr. Johnson, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
UNITED STATES-EURATOM AGREEMENT FOR PEACEFUL NUCLEAR COOPERATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to review the proposed United States-European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) Agreement for peaceful nuclear cooperation, and to examine the ability of the United States to track exported U.S. nuclear materials, receiving testimony from Victor S. Rezendes, Director, Energy, Resources, and Science Issues, Resources, Community and Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office; Fred McGoldrick, Principal Deputy Director, Office of Nuclear Energy Affairs, Bureau of Political/Military Affairs, Department of State; Terry R. Lash, Director, Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology, Department of Energy; Norman A. Wulf, Deputy Assistant Director, Non-Proliferation and Regional Arms Control Bureau, United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; James Schlesinger, former Secretary of Energy; and Marvin S. Fertel, Nuclear Energy Institute, and Paul Leventhal, Nuclear Control Institute, both of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Charles R. Stack, of Florida, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit, Joseph A. Greenaway, to be United States District Judge for New Jersey, Ann D. Montgomery, to be United States District Judge for Minnesota, James P. Jones, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, and Gary A. Fenner, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Missouri, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Stack was introduced by Senator Graham and Representative Meek, Mr. Greenaway was introduced by Senator Lautenberg, Ms. Montgomery was introduced by Senators Grams and Wellstone, Mr. Jones was introduced by Senator Robb and Representatives Boucher and Scott, and Mr. Fenner was introduced by Senators Bond and Ashcroft and Representatives Danner and McCarthy.
YOUTH VIOLENCE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Youth Violence concluded hearings to examine the current state of youth violence, focusing on its changing nature and juvenile intervention programs designed to prevent increased violence, after receiving testimony from James Alan Fox, Northeastern University, and Eugene F. Rivers, III, Harvard Divinity School, both of Boston, Massachusetts; Alfred Blumstein, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; John J. DiIulio, Jr., Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.; Illinois Circuit Court Judge Carol Kelly, Chicago; Tennessee Juvenile Court Judge C. Van Deacon, Jr., Cleveland; Stephen Hare, Faith City Baptist Church, Bear, Delaware; and Thomas P. Gordon, New Castle, Delaware.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee began consideration of S. 1423, to amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to make modifications to certain provisions, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
SMALL BUSINESS ADVOCACY ACT/SMALL BUSINESS REGULATORY FAIRNESS ACT
Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings on S. 917, to facilitate small business involvement in the regulatory development processes of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and S. 942, to promote increased understanding of Federal regulations and increased voluntary compliance with such regulations by oversight boards to monitor the enforcement practices of certain Federal agencies with respect to small business concerns, and to provide relief from excessive and arbitrary regulatory enforcement actions against small entities, after receiving testimony from Senator Feingold; Rosemary Reed, Double R Productions, Washington, D.C., J. Scott George, Mid America Dental, Hearing, and Vision Center, Mount Vernon, Missouri, and Scott Holman, Bay Cast, Inc., Bay City, Michigan, on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, all on behalf of the White House Conference on Small Business; Kent P. Swanson, Nurses Available, Inc., Towson, Maryland, on behalf of the National Federation of Independent Business; Victor N. Tucci, Three Rivers Health and Safety, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on behalf of National Small Business United; H. Daniel Pincus, HDP Industries, Hilton Head, South Carolina, on behalf of the National Association of Home Builders; Wendy Lechner, Printing Industries of America, Alexandria, Virginia, on behalf of the Small Business Legislative Council; and James W. Morrison, National Association for the Self-Employed, Washington, D.C.
ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded joint hearings with the Committee on the Judiciary's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Government Information on proposed legislation to combat economic espionage, after receiving testimony from Louis J. Freeh, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; Geoffrey S.L. Shaw, Global Commerce Link, Boulder, Colorado; and Raymond Damadian, Fonar Corporation, Melville, New York.
MENTAL DISORDERS IN THE ELDERLY
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine mental illness among the elderly and the potential savings to the overall health care system that can result from prompt, accurate diagnosis and treatment of mental diseases, after receiving testimony from Barry D. Lebowitz, Chief, Mental Disorders of the Aging Research Branch, National Institute of Mental Health (Rockville, Maryland), Department of Health and Human Services; Gene D. Cohen and Frederick Goodwin, both of the George Washington University Medical Center, and June Silverberg, all of Washington, D.C.; Ira R. Katz and Gary L. Gottlieb, both of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia; Dorothy P. Rice, University of California at San Francisco; Mike Wallace, New York, New York; and Anne O. Emery, Baltimore, Maryland.
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