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July 18, 1994 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16901
EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS CIVIC PRIDE BLOOMS IN ERITREA
HON. DAN BURTON OF INDIANA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Monday, July 18, 1994
Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, I rise to salute the government and people of Eritrea on the occasion of the first anniversary of their independence. In only 1 year of freedom, Eritrea has become an island of stability and a beacon of hope for Africa. Under the wise and humane leadership of President lssaias Afwerki and the Government of Eritrea, the Eritrean people are providing a shining example of what can be accomplished through hard work, dedication, self-reliance, and the pursuit of wise policies. Eritrea's freedom was hardearned and hard-fought. This milestone in the history of its people is truly a cause for celebration.
I would also like to pay my respects to the departing Ambassador of Eritrea, Hagos Ghebrehiwet. During his tenure in Washington, Hagos made many friends and won the respect, admiration, and affection of all who worked with him. He will be missed, but we wish him well in his new assignment in Asmara along with Abebech, his wife, and their son, Petros.
I commend to the attention of my colleagues an excellent article that appeared recently in the Los Angeles Times about the miracle of Eritrea, and an article from the Indianapolis Star about the independence celebration of Indianapolis' Eritrean community. [From the Los Angeles Times, June 28, 1994]
CIVIC PRIDE BLOOMS IN ERITREA (By David Lamb)
ASMARA, ERITREA.-"Kefela," the American said as he left the U.S. library on Alula Street for the last time, "take care of the books." With that the man was gone, joining the exodus of Americans expelled by Ethiopia's Marxist government from the northern province of Eritrea nearly 20 years ago.
No one would have dared imagine how seriously Kefela Kokobu would take those words. For single-handedly, and at considerable personal risk, Kefela ensured that an entire generation of young Eritreans would be raised on Hemingway instead of Mao, would have better access to Jefferson than to Lenin.
Ethiopian officials raged at Kokobu upon finding shelves devoted to O'Hara and Fitzgerald and a record cabinet featuring music by the Boston Pops and the Harvard Glee Club; they sent him the collected works of Communist authors by the box load. Kokobu put three or four of the books on display to appease the authorities and packed the rest away in storage.
Traces of the American presence in Eritrea disappeared fast under the Marxist regime that overthrew Emperor Haile Selassie: The U.S. Consulate was taken over by the Ethiopian navy, and Kagnew Station, a U.S. army
communications facility, became a base for the murderous Ethiopian army. But Kokobu's beloved American Library remained just a library-indeed, Asmara's only public library-though operated under the auspices of the local municipality, not the U.S. Information Service.
"I wanted my people to be educated, and I did not believe Mao and Lenin could provide that learning," said Kokobu, 55, who dumbfounded the returning Americans last year by escorting them through a spotless library where every volume had been kept safe and even the list of overdue borrowed books was up to date.
But if the Americans found Kokobu's diligence stunning, they would soon learn that in Eritrea-which just celebrated its first anniversary as Africa's newest country-the extraordinary is commonplace. As one American diplomat put it recently; "Eritrea reminds me of what Israel must have felt like in the '50s. There is an obsession with a single goal-to make it work."
The 3.5 million Eritreans, about evenly divided between Muslims and Christians, are keenly aware after winning a 30-year guerrilla war for independence that many people are echoing the diplomat's sentiments. They smile and give a knowing nod when told that what is happening here doesn't seem very, well, African.
Across a continent where concern for shared well-being often plays little role in national life, cities are decaying, social services crumbling, political foundations wobbling. But here in Eritrea's 7,000-foot-high capital, a kind of new African model is emerging, and common people like Habte Freizghy are helping create it.
"If I do not do my job right, if I do not show up for work on time," he said, "then Eritrea is worse off because of me." Freizghy is a street sweeper and, together with a legion of other elderly men who wield their brooms with unusual energy, he has helped make Asmars an immaculate city. His salary is $30 a month plus a daily ration of food.
No beggars are allowed in Asmara; they are sent to a training and schooling center outside the city. Western business people are stunned to learn that government officials are punctual and do not accept bribes.
Out by the airport, where minefields have been cleared, men and women work side by side tending rows of wheat-a rare sight in Africa where farm labor is usually left to women. A U.S. Embassy briefing packet for visitors contains this notation under the heading Security Awareness: "None." There is no fear of physical harm or crime anywhere in the country, it says.
Eritrea's guerrilla army-30% of whose combat troops were women-captured Asmara from Ethiopia and its Soviet advisers in May, 1991. But even before the celebration died down, Issaias Afewerki, then rebel leader and now president, had one last request to make of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF): Return to the countryside as unpaid volunteers for two years and build schools, repair roads, staff clinics, terrace the hills for farming.
Though not without grumbling that they already had sacrificed enough and been gone
from their families too long, the 95,000 soldiers obeyed.
"The odds were stacked against us during the war, and very few thought we could succeed," said former combatant Yemane Ghebreab, now a senior party official. "But the EDLF united the people because our leaders stayed inside the country. They lived the same as the rest. They suffered like the rest. And therefore they were sensitive to the sacrifice of the people."
During the colonial era, the ruling Italians built one of Africa's most industrialized colonies in this outpost that resembles the Badlands of South Dakota. There were factories, railroads, citrus plantations. Eritrea became an important export partner for the Middle East and southern Europe.
Britain took control of Eritrea in 1941. By 1952, Eritreans expected to be granted independence, like other European colonies. Instead, they were swallowed up by Ethiopia. Regardless of "the point of view of justice," U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told the United Nations at the time, America's strategic interests dictated that Eritrea "be linked without ally, Ethiopia."
Treated by the Ethiopians as colonial subjects, denied equal education and jobs, the Eritreans went to war in 1961, first against the emperor, then against a cabal of violent Communists. Never before had Africa seen such a resourceful, self-reliant band of guerrillas take to the bush.
With virtually no outside backing, the EPLF and two other rebel groups carved factories, schools and offices out of rock caves. Solar panels cooled their bloodbank refrigerators. Disposable hypodermic syringes were turned into light switches, shards of shrapnel into scythes.
Soldiers moved at night and carried blackboards into the trenches, to study by candlelight. But even when Ethiopia adopted communism and the Soviet Union joined the war against Eritrea, in the late 1970s, Western governments kept their distance. The EPLF's rhetoric sounded like it had been written in Albania.
"It's true that in the '60s and '70s we, as young fighters, embraced the school of Marxism," said Kidane Woldeyesus, head of the Americas section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "But I think Africa in that era called for that kind of radical thinking.
"Then came the Soviet intervention in '78. This MIGs tried to wipe us out. I mean, really wipe us out! It gave us the opportunity to rethink things. Since the '80s, we've clearly stated that we were going to a multi-party, democratic system."
This year, having defeated black Africa's largest army and won Ethiopia's blessing to secede, Eritrea observes its first anniversary of independence-formally proclaimed on May 24, 1993-with a palpable self-esteem that brings thousands of neatly dressed residents onto Liberation Boulevard each evening to stroll under palm trees and sip espresso in cafes.
The Peace Corps is coming back, and U.S. firms are exploring for oil and natural gas. The Ethiopian Airlines office now houses Eritrea Airlines, though no such company yet exists.
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16902 Daunting tasks remain, however. " Obser
vation alone will tell you that 30 years of war brought devastating suffering," said Saba Issays of the National Union of Eritrean Women. Agriculture was crippled by the war, the industrial sector destroyed. Per ca pi ta income is only $130 a year.
But Eritreans have only to look across their borders at the economic ruin, widespread wars, tribal animosity and official corruption that torment Africa to know what the alternative is. In few African countries could anyone say, as the Foreign Ministry's Kidane did the other day, " Being newcomers, we have had the opportunity to learn from history.''
[From the Indianapolis Star, May 29, 1994] LOCAL ERITREANS MARK FREEDOM OF THEIR
HOMELAND
(By James L. Patterson, Jr. ) Yonas Mengsteab knows a thing or two
about courage. Now 25, he fought for his country's inde
pendence from age 11 to 22. That was after he lost 14 members of his family to the confllct at age 7.
Although he was shot in the abdomen and foot during Eritrea's long bloody war to free itself from Ethiopian dominance, Mengsteab's worries are mostly behind him now.
He's just happy that it's over and his country, Eritrea, finally has its independence.
Mengsteab joined about 100 of his countrymen at Lawrence Park on Saturday to celebrate Eritrean Independence Day, which was Tuesday.
"I'm really happy that the war is over," he said. "Now we are free."
Eritrea is a northeast African nation of 3.5 million, bordered by the Red Sea, Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia. It was colonized by Italy in 1890 and federated with Ethiopia in 1952.
In 1961, Eritrea, outnumbered 4-1, began its armed struggle, which culminated in victory against the Ethiopian army 30 years later.
The war cost 70,000 Eritrean lives and wounded hundreds of thousands on both sides, said Tesfa Tesfaslase.
The 40-year-old native of Eritrea came to the United States in 1987 as a political refugee, as did most who attenged Saturday's picnic.
A resident of Indianapolis the past five years, Tesfaslase praised U.S. Rep. Dan Burton, R-Indianapolis, for trying to persuade the U.S. government to back his nation's struggle for independence.
Many of the women at Saturday's gathering wore braids and zuria, their native dress. After the Erl treans greeted each other with kisses on each cheek, they enjoyed both native and U.S. foods.
One offering from the Eritrean homeland was enjera, a spicy staple made of chicken, hot chili, butter, onions, tomatoes and eggs.
Later, with Eritrean music playing in the background, the women served bread and freshly ground coffee.
It was a time not only for remembering about how far Eritrea has come but also to be hopeful about its people 's future.
After the meal, the chairman of the Eritrean American Community Association, Yemane Teklezghi, spoke in Tigrigna, their native language, about the need to help rebuild his war-torn country.
Teklezghi, a bilingual teacher for Indianapolis Public Schools, will return to Eritrea this summer to gauge the condition of its infrastructure.
The Rev-- Rustol!l- G. Michael..-an-Erttrean and pastor of the Church of the Nazarene,
EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3101 E. 38th St., pleaded for people to make donations to Eritrea because the war has destroyed so many schools, churches and hospitals.
With a red, green and blue Eritrean flag flapping between two posts under a park shelter, Menghistab G. Christos said he was happy not only about his country's independence but also about the educational achievements of Eritrean children in the United States. Several others offered prayers of thanksgiving.
" The opportunities for educating our children, that's the most important thing," Christos said. And that is happening.
Christos' daughter, Eritrea Christos, and two others at the celebration, Aklilu Tedla and Alem Seyoumare, are among several young Eritreans who have attended or graduated from Indiana colleges.
TRIBUTE TO FRANKLIN LOEBE
HON. WIUJAM 0. LIPINSKI OF ILLINOIS
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Monday, July 18, 1994
Mr. LIPINSKI. Mr. Speaker, it gives me great pleasure to pay tribute to a member of the Third Congressional District of Illinois, Mr. Franklin Loebe. On August 1, 1994, Mr. Loebe will retire from his career as village treasurer of Orland Park, IL after 65 years of dedicated service. This is certainly an accomplishment worthy of special recognition.
A native of Orland Park, Mr. Loebe was born in 1906 and went to grade school in a little school house at 143d Street and Beacon Avenue. He attended Englewood High School in Chicago and went on to Northwestern University in 1925. Mr. Loebe studied accounting and business before returning home due to a family illness.
Mr. Loebe was running the general store when Mayor Ralph Jennings asked if he would like the job of village treasurer. Mr. Loebe became Orland Park's village treasurer at age 23, when the town had a total population of 450 residents and a $6,000 budget. As he retires 65 years later, Orland Park claims 40,000 residents and an estimated $20 million budget.
Mr. Loebe is well known for his exceptional ability to manage the village finances. His financial expertise will be sorely missed in the treasurer's office. His commitment to the village of Orland Park and its residents is certainly deserving of special recognition.
Mr. Loebe is married to Dorothea Loebe and is the father of two daughters. He is known for his special talent for storytelling about old Orland Park.
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to recognize Franklin Loebe for dedicating himself to the welfare and the betterment of our community. I am sure that my colleagues will join me in expressing congratulations to Mr. Loebe for his many years of selfless dedication, loyalty, and professionalism to our community. I wish him well on his retirement and hope his life
ntinues to be an adve_nture full of pleasant memories.
July 18, 1994 MTSU'S JOHN STANFORD: MOVING
MTSU TO THE HIGHEST LEVEL
HON. BART GORDON OF TENNESSEE
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Monday, July 18, 1994
Mr. GORDON. Mr. Speaker, I rise to thank one of the finest coaches and athletic directors in the history of Middle Tennessee State University, Mr. John Stanford, for his tremendous dedication and devotion to MTSU's sports program, and to congratulate him on becoming the university's first director of athletic relations.
In Mr. Stanford's 14 years as baseball coach of the Blue Raiders, he led the team to an astounding record of ~02 victories, 272 losses, and 4 ties, for a winning percentage of .596.
He took the Blue Raiders to the NCAA tournament four times, his teams won four Ohio Valley Conference championships and was named the OVC Southern Division Champions on five occasions. His 1982 team went all the way to the Midwest Regional Cl:lfilnpio~hip round, where it advanced to within one game of the College World Series.
In recognition, Coach Stan ore was voted the OVC Coach of the Year in 1976 and was cowinner of that honor in 1981, 1982, 1983, and 1987. He was also named South Region Coach of the Year in 1982 by his peers-the American Association of College Baseball Coaches.
His promotion to athletic director in 1987 was designed to spread Coach Stanford's winning ways to the entire university-and it succeeded. During his tenure the Blue Raiders won Ohio Valley Conference championships in five men's and three women's sports, with the MTSU women winning the OVC All-Sports trophy in 1990-91.
An even better measure of John's accomplishments at MTSU than his winning record, as impressive as it is, is the leg~cy he leaves for others to follow. John Stanford was the guiding force behind MTSU's master plan for athletics, appropriately called moving to the highest level.
Fortunately he will continue to develop and refine that master plan along with President James E. Walker in his new capacity as director of athletic relations.
That 20-year record of accomplishments explains why the entire MTSU community is honoring him with a roast on Wednesday, July 20, 1994-and why MTSU is so far in his debt.
HAROLD AND BETTY FISHER: A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN
HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL OF NEW YORK
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Monday, July 18, 1994
Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, I would li~<e to bring to your attention and to the attention of my colleagues here in the House, the story of a very special couple who will soon be celebrating the 60th anniversary of their marriage on July 24-Mr. and Mrs. Harold L. Fisher.
July 18, 1994 I'd like to share their story with you in honor
of this special occasion: BETTY KAHN ELOPES WITH HAROLD L. FISHER
In 1934, Harold L. Fisher was a handsome young promising lawyer with looks reminiscent of Douglas Fairbanks. Betty Kahn was a beautiful young woman with auburn hair, sparkling green eyes and an engaging smile. Betty worked as an Assistant Buyer for Bamberger's department store. She bought goods for the untrimmed millinery department. This department had an off-season in the late fall. During that time artificial cemetery wreaths were put on sale. Fall delivery dates had to be arranged in the summer. Betty told Harold that she was going to be buying wreaths in Philadelphia in July. Harold told her he would meet her and they would get married.
On July 24, 1934, Harold met Betty in Philadelphia. They went to Orphan's Court to obtain their marriage license. Then they located a Magistrate in a storefront. In this romantic setting, with the handyman who, momentarily, stopped mopping the floor, and a local newspaperman as their witnesses, Betty and Harold were married.
At the conclusion of the ceremony they affectionately shook hands. They then went to the railroad station to have a "nuptial" lunch before Harold returned to New York. Betty completed her buying trip and returned to her parents' home in New Jersey. A month or so later, Betty and Harold rented a furnished apartment in Brooklyn and began married life.
The early years were difficult financially, but the plucky couple never despaired. They began a family. Leonard was the first born in 1936. He grew up to be a physicist and academician in California, where he lives with his wife Yvonne. Leonard was followed three years later by the birth of the twins, Alice and Stephanie.
Alice, ls now an attorney and traffic court judge. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Lowell Rubin and is the mother of David and Emily.
Stephanie, is a North Carolina business owner and wife of Joseph Harrison. She is mother to her adopted children Neil, Edward, Jay and Gary Cooper.
The twins were followed nineteen months later by the birth of Andrew, now an attorney. He lives in Staten Island with his wife, Barbara and is the father of Elana, Jonathan and Matthew.
Kenneth, also an attorney and member of the New York City Council, was the bonus baby born in 1953, eleven years after Andrew. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Kirsten and their children, Jacob and Penny.
With the birth of four children in five years, Betty was needed at home full time. Her organizational skills, cooking and baking ability and good humor were essential for the family's growth and stability. She soon earned the affectionate nickname of "The Boss"!
The Fisher household was known to the local political community as the place to go for freshly baked apple pie, a decent cup of coffee, Harold's sound advice, and a gaggle of children always underfoot!
Harold's career began to prosper as his family grew. Always devoted to his law career, he was honored by the legal community when he was elected President of the Brooklyn Bar Association. This was a secondBetty had been a President first, when she headed the P.S. 156 PTA for several years.
Active in politics, Harold was "the" expert on election law. He was Chairman of the Kings County Democratic Organization Law
EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS Committee for many years. Still politically active, and holding the record for presiding over more Kings County Judicial Nominating Conventions than anyone else in history, Harold will chair the September, 1994 meeting.
Harold was Counsel to the NYS Assembly Speaker in 1966, where he worked closely with Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who later appointed him to the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Governor Hugh L. Carey named Harold Chairman of the MT A in 1977.
President Jimmy Carter paid Harold a singular honor when he requested that Harold be part of a United States mission to Egypt and Israel to meet with Anwar Sadat and Menachim Begin.
Despite Harold's involvement in international and local events, the family was not neglected. During the children's younger years, Betty would take the kids to visit Daddy, who was counting petitions or ballots at a variety of places. Harold also made sure that the children had a sample voting machine as a toy! When the children were old enough, they became involved in the political processes. Politics became a family enterprise, as normal to the Fishers as other family's visits to the zoo!
Betty and Harold are known throughout the political world as a devoted couple with strong family ties. Where Harold went, Betty was never far away. She enjoyed the hurlyburly world of politics as much as Harold did. Both Betty and Harold have been Presidential Electors and delegates to many national and state political conventions.
Life in the Fisher household was never dull. Visitors might be Governors or wannabe Governors, Congress members, Judges and other officials and the people who helped get these folks elected. The circle of friends widened considerably as Betty and Harold began to travel extensively. Friends from all over the world were brought into the warmth and laughter of the Fisher family.
Family and friends wish Betty and Harold L. Fisher a happy 60th anniversary of their marriage.
SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS Title IV of Senate Resolution 4,
agreed to by the Senate on February 4, 1977, calls for establishment of a system for a computerized schedule of all meetings and hearings of Senate committees, subcommittees, joint committees, and committees of conference. This title requires all such committees to notify the Office of the Senate Daily Digest-designated by the Rules Committee-of the time, place, and purpose of the meetings, when scheduled, and any cancellations or changes in the meetings as they occur.
As an additional procedure along with the computerization of this information, the Office of the Senate Daily Digest will prepare this information for printing in the Extensions of Remarks section of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD on Monday and Wednesday of each week.
Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, July 19, 1994, may be found in the Daily Digest of today's RECORD.
16903 MEETINGS SCHEDULED
JU:L.Y 20 9:30 a.m.
Energy and Natural Resources Business meeting, to consider pending
calendar business. SD-366
Governmental Affairs Federal Services, Post Office, and Civil
Service Subcommittee To hold hearings to examine the Federal
role in child support enforcement. SD-342
10:00 a.m. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
To hold hearings to review the Federal Reserve's semi-annual monetary policy report.
SD-538 2:00 p.m.
Environment and Public Works To hold hearings to review the Adminis
tratlon 's Floodplain Management Task Force report on the 1993 Midwest floods, and to examine the current flood situation in Georgia.
SD-406
JULY21 9:30 a.m.
Environment and Public Works Toxic Substances, Research and Develop
ment Subcommittee To hold hearings on S. 1545, to authorize
funds for fiscal years 1994 through 1996 for environmental research, development, and demonstration.
SD-406 10:00 a.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation To hold hearings on issues relating to
international fisheries. SR-253
Judiciary To hold hearings on the nominations of
Jose A. Cabranes, of Connecticut, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, Blanche M. Manning, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, and Mark W. Bennett, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Iowa.
SD-226 Labor and Human Resources
To hold hearings on the nominations of Gilbert F. Casellas, of Pennsylvania, Paul M. Igasaki, of California, and Paul Steven Miller, of California, each to be a Member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
SD-430 10:30 a.m.
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs To hold hearings to review the Depart
ment of the Treasury's report to Congress on international economic and exchange rate policy.
SD-538
JULY 22 9:00 a.m.
Joint Economic To hold open and closed hearings to ex
amine the economic conditions in China.
9:30 a.m. Labor and Human Resources Disab111ty Policy Subcommittee
SD-628
To hold hearings on S. 2140, to permit an individual to be treated by a health
16904 care practitioner with any method of medical treatment such individual requests.
SD-192 10:00 a.m.
Foreign Relations To hold hearings on the nominations of
Robert A. Pastor, of Georgia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Panama, and Curtis Warren Kamman, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Bolivia.
SD-419 Labor and Human Resources
To hold hearings to examine health insurance coverage for American and foreign employees of multinational corporations.
SD-430
JULY 25 2:00 p.m.
Foreign Relations To hold hearings on the nominations of
Dorothy Myers Sampas, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, E. Michael Southwick, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Uganda, Carl Burton Stokes, of Ohio, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Seychelles, and Brady Anderson, of Arkansas, to be Ambassador to the United Republic of Tanzania.
SD-419 Indian Affairs
To resume hearings on S. 2230, to revise the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. ·
SD-106
JULY 26 9:30 a.m.
Energy and Natural Resources To hold hearings on the nomination of
Elizabeth Anne Moler, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy.
SD-366 2:30 p.m.
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Agricultural Research, Conservation, For
estry and General Legislation Subcommittee
To hold hearings on the Administration's proposed legislation relating to meat and poultry inspection.
SR-332
EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS JULY27
2:00 p.m. Energy and Natural Resources Water and Power Subcommittee
To hold hearings on S. 2253, to modify the Mountain Park Project in Oklahoma, S. 2262, to amend the Elwha River Ecosystem and Fisheries Restoration Act, and S. 2266, to amend the Recreation Management Act of 1992.
SD-366
JULY 28 9:30 a.m.
Energy and Natural Resources Public Lands, National Parks and Forests
Subcommittee To hold hearings on S. 2121, to promote
entrepreneurial management of the National Park Service.
SD-366 Rules and Administration
To hold hearings on S. Res. 230, to designate and assign two permanent Senate offices to each State.
SR-301 2:30 p.m.
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Agricultural Research, Conservation, For
estry and General Legislation Subcommittee
To hold hearings on S. 985, S. 1478, and S. 2050, bills to improve existing legislative authority regulating the use of pesticides and to insure public health and environmental benefits.
SR-332
AUGUST 1 2:00 p.m.
Indian Affairs Business meeting, to mark up S. 2269, to
protect the Native American cultures and to guarantee the free exercise of religion by Native Americans, S. 2075, to authorize funds for and to strengthen programs of the Indian Child Protection and Family Violence Prevention Act, and S. 2036, to specify the terms of contracts entered into by the United States and Indian tribal organizations under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act.
AUGUST4 2:00 p.m.
Energy and Natural Resources Water and Power Subcommittee
SR-485
To hold joint hearings with the Committee on Indian Affairs on provisions of
July 18, 1994 S. 2259, to provide for the settlement of the claims of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation concerning their contribution to the production of the hydropower by the Grand Coulee Dam.
SD-366 Indian Affairs
To hold joint hearings with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources' Subcommittee on Water and Power on provisions of S. 2259, to provide for the settlement of the claims of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation concerning their contribution to the production of the hydropower by the Grand Coulee Dam.
SD-366
AUGUST 12 2:00 p.m.
Indian Affairs To hold hearings on the nomination of
Harold A. Monteau, of Montana, to be Chairman of the National Indian Gaming Commission, Department of the Interior.
SD-628
POSTPONEMENTS
JULY 19 2:30 p.m.
Labor and Human Resources To hold hearings on S. 1702, to amend the
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ensure that human tissue intended for transplantation is safe and effective.
SD-430
JULY 20 10:00 a.m.
Foreign Relations To hold hearings to examine the humani
tarian crisis in the Horn of Africa.
JULY22 9:30 a.m.
Labor and Human Resources Disability Policy Subcommittee
SD-419
To hold hearings on S. 2140, to permit an individual to be treated by a health care practitioner with any method of medical treatment such individual re-quests.
SD-430
