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“Senate Committee Meetings” published by the Congressional Record on April 26, 1995

Volume 141, No. 68 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 D515-D516 on April 26, 1995.

The publication is reproduced in full below:

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet)

APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1996 for the Department of Energy, focusing on energy conservation programs, receiving testimony from Christine A. Irvin, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

FEDERAL FOREST MANAGEMENT

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management resumed oversight hearings to review Federal forest management issues, focusing on the coordination of and conflicts between Federal forest management and general environmental statutes, receiving testimony [[Page D516]] from Jack Ward Thomas, Chief, and Gray Reynolds, Deputy Chief, both of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; George T. Frampton, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife, and Parks; Rolland Schmitten, Director, National Marine Fisheries Service; Dinah Bear, General Counsel, Council on Environmental Quality; Robert H. Wayland, III, Director, Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds, Environmental Protection Agency; William R. Murray, American Forest and Paper Association, and Mike Pieti, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, both of Washington, D.C.; Tom Geary, Idaho Farm Bureau Federation, Burley, on behalf of the American Farm Bureau Federation; Nathaniel Lawrence, Natural Resources Defense Council, San Francisco, California; Douglas L. Honnold, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Inc., Bozeman, Montana; Glen Spain, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, Eugene, Oregon; Olivia Falconer James, The River Company, Sun Valley, Idaho; Sue Kupillas, Jackson County, Oregon; and Jerry Rust, Lane County, Oregon.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on the implementation of the Child Welfare and Adoption Assistance Act (P.L. 96-272), and related provisions of H.R. 4, Personal Responsibility Act of 1995, receiving testimony from Peter M. DiBari, Child and Family Services of Newport County, Newport, Rhode Island; Peter Digre, Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, Los Angeles, California; Wade F. Horn, National Fatherhood Initiative, Gaithersburg, Maryland; and Ernestine Moore, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.

Committee will meet again tomorrow.

NOMINATION

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded hearings, in open and closed session, on the nomination of John M. Deutch, of Massachusetts, to be Director of Central Intelligence, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Domenici, Kerry, and Kennedy, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.

SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 141, No. 68