[Daily Digest]
[Pages D328-D329]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--OSTP/NSF
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD and Independent 
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 
1996, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective 
activities from John Gibbons, Director, Office of Science and 
Technology Policy; Neal Lane, Director, National Science Foundation; 
and Mary Ann Fox, Vice Chairman, National Science Board.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 16. [[Page D329]] 
MEXICAN ECONOMY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee continued 
hearings to examine the economic situation in Mexico and United States 
efforts to stabilize the peso, receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, 
Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Robert E. 
Rubin, Secretary, and Lawrence H. Summers, Under Secretary for 
International Affairs, both of the Department of the Treasury; Peter 
Tarnoff, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; Jack Kemp, 
Empower America, Washington, D.C.; and Paul A. Volcker, Princeton 
University, Princeton, New Jersey.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SUPERFUND REFORM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, 
Waste Control and Risk Assessment held oversight hearings on the 
implementation of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund), receiving testimony 
from Carol M. Browner, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; 
J. Winston Porter, Waste Policy Center, Sterling, Virginia; Edwin H. 
Clark II, Clean Sites, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia; Michael Steinberg, 
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, on behalf of the Hazardous Waste Cleanup 
Project, John C. Shanahan, Heritage Foundation, Don R. Clay, Don Clay 
Associates, Inc., and Katherine N. Probst, Resources for the Future, 
all of Washington, D.C.; and Lloyd S. Dixon, RAND Corp., Santa Monica, 
California.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
WELFARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee continued hearings on proposals to 
reform the national welfare system, receiving testimony from Donna E. 
Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services.
  Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 14.