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January 2, 1997.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed
HOUSE COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY One Hundred Fourth Congress
FLOYD D. SPENCE, South Carolina, Chairman
RONALD V. DELLUMS, California BOB STUMP, Arizona
G.V. (SONNY) MONTGOMERY, Mississippi DUNCAN HUNTER, California
PATRICIA SCHROEDER, Colorado JOHN R. KASICH, Ohio
IKE SKELTON, Missouri HERBERT H. BATEMAN, Virginia
NORMAN SISISKY, Virginia JAMES V. HANSEN, Utah
JOHN M. SPRATT, Jr., South Carolina CURT WELDON, Pennsylvania
SOLOMON P. ORTIZ, Texas ROBERT K. DORNAN, California
OWEN PICKETT, Virginia JOEL HEFLEY, Colorado
LANE EVANS, Illinois JIM SAXTON, New Jersey
JOHN TANNER, Tennessee RANDY ``DUKE'' CUNNINGHAM,
GLEN BROWDER, Alabama California
GENE TAYLOR, Mississippi STEVE BUYER, Indiana
NEIL ABERCROMBIE, Hawaii PETER G. TORKILDSEN, Massachusetts
CHET EDWARDS, Texas TILLIE K. FOWLER, Florida
FRANK TEJEDA, Texas JOHN M. McHUGH, New York
MARTIN T. MEEHAN, Massachusetts JAMES TALENT, Missouri
ROBERT A. UNDERWOOD, Guam TERRY EVERETT, Alabama
JANE HARMAN, California ROSCOE G. BARTLETT, Maryland
PAUL McHALE, Pennsylvania HOWARD ``BUCK'' McKEON, California
PETE GEREN, Texas RON LEWIS, Kentucky
PETE PETERSON, Florida J.C. WATTS, Jr., Oklahoma
WILLIAM J. JEFFERSON, Louisiana MAC THORNBERRY, Texas
ROSA L. DeLAURO, Connecticut JOHN N. HOSTETTLER, Indiana
MIKE WARD, Kentucky SAXBY CHAMBLISS, Georgia
PATRICK J. KENNEDY, Rhode Island VAN HILLEARY, Tennessee
JOE SCARBOROUGH, Florida
WALTER B. JONES, Jr., North
Carolina
JAMES B. LONGLEY, Jr., Maine
TODD TIAHRT, Kansas
RICHARD ``DOC'' HASTINGS,
Washington
Andrew K. Ellis, Staff Director
Andrea K. Aquino, Professional
Staff Member
(ii)
LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
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House of Representatives,
Committee on National Security,
Washington, DC, January 2, 1997.
Hon. Robin H. Carle,
Clerk of the House of Representatives, Washington, DC.
Dear Ms. Carle: Pursuant to House Rule XI 1.(d), there is
transmitted herewith the report of activities of the Committee
on National Security for the 104th Congress.
Sincerely,
Floyd D. Spence, Chairman.
(iii)
C O N T E N T S
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Powers and Duties, Committee on National Security--104th Congress 1
Background................................................... 1
Constitutional Powers and Duties............................. 2
House Rules on Jurisdiction.................................. 3
Investigative Authority and Legislative Oversight............ 3
Committee Rules.................................................. 4
Rules Governing Procedure.................................... 4
Composition of the Committee on National Security--104th Congress 13
Subcommittees of the Committee on National Security--104th
Congress....................................................... 14
Military Installations and Facilities Subcommittee........... 14
Military Personnel Subcommittee.............................. 14
Military Procurement Subcommittee............................ 15
Military Readiness Subcommittee.............................. 15
Military Research and Development Subcommittee............... 16
Full Committee Panels............................................ 17
Special Oversight Panel on Morale, Welfare and Recreation.... 17
Special Oversight Panel on the Merchant Marine............... 17
Committee Staff.................................................. 19
Committee Meetings............................................... 21
Legislative Actions.............................................. 21
Legislation Enacted Into Law................................. 21
Public Law 104-93 (H.R. 1655)............................ 21
Public Law 104-106 (S. 1124)............................. 22
Public Law 104-201 (H.R. 3230)........................... 24
Public Law 104-208 (H.R. 2202)........................... 27
Public Law 104-239 (H.R. 1350)........................... 27
Public Law 104-293 (H.R. 3259)........................... 28
Legislation Vetoed by the President.......................... 28
H.R. 1530................................................ 28
Legislation Reported but Not Enacted......................... 29
H. Con. Res. 180......................................... 29
H. Con. Res. 200......................................... 29
H.J. Res. 102............................................ 29
H.R. 7................................................... 30
H.R. 256................................................. 30
H.R. 1141................................................ 30
H.R. 2754................................................ 31
H.R. 3142................................................ 31
H.R. 3144................................................ 31
H.R. 3237................................................ 32
H.R. 3308................................................ 32
H.R. 4000................................................ 33
Legislation Considered but Not Reported...................... 33
H.R. 1646................................................ 33
H.R. 1670................................................ 33
H.R. 3322................................................ 34
H.R. 4282................................................ 34
Oversight Activities............................................. 35
Summary of Oversight Plan.................................... 35
Actions and Recommendations.................................. 35
Additional Oversight Activities.............................. 39
Other Activities of the Full Committee........................... 45
Budget Activity.............................................. 45
Full Committee Hearings...................................... 45
Special Oversight Panel on Morale, Welfare and Recreation.... 50
Special Oversight Panel on the Merchant Marine............... 51
Other Activities of Subcommittees................................ 53
Military Installations and Facilities Subcommittee........... 53
Military Personnel Subcommittee.............................. 55
Military Procurement Subcommittee............................ 55
Military Readiness Subcommittee.............................. 56
Military Research and Development Subcommittee............... 56
Publications..................................................... 59
Committee Prints of Laws Relating to National Defense........ 59
Committee Prints............................................. 59
Published Proceedings........................................ 59
House Reports................................................ 63
Public Laws.................................................. 65
Vetoes....................................................... 65
Press Releases................................................... 67
Union Calendar No. 486
104th Congress Report
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
2d Session 104-884
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REPORT OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY FOR THE
104TH CONGRESS
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January 2, 1997.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
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Mr. Spence, from the Committee on National Security, submitted the
following
R E P O R T
ON
POWERS AND DUTIES, COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY--104TH CONGRESS
Background
The House Committee on National Security (formerly the
House Committee on Armed Services), a standing committee of
Congress, was established on January 2, 1947, as a part of the
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), by
merging the Committees on Military Affairs and Naval Affairs.
The Committees on Military Affairs and Naval Affairs were
established in 1882. In 1885, jurisdiction over military and
naval appropriations was taken from the Committee on
Appropriations and given to the Committees on Military Affairs
and Naval Affairs, respectively. This policy continued until
July 1, 1920, when jurisdiction over all appropriations was
again placed in the Committee on Appropriations.
In the 93rd Congress, following a study by the House Select
Committee on Committees, the House of Representatives passed H.
Res. 988, the Committee Reform Amendment, of 1974, to be
effective January 3, 1975. As a result of those amendments, the
jurisdictional areas of the Committee on Armed Services
remained essentially unchanged. However, oversight functions
were amended to require each standing committee to review and
study on a continuing basis all laws, programs, and government
activities dealing with or involving international arms control
and disarmament and the education of military dependents in
school.
The rules changes adopted by the House of Representatives
on January 4, 1977 as set forth in H. Res. 5, placed new
responsibilities in the atomic energy field in the Armed
Services Committee. Those responsibilities involved the
national security aspects of atomic energy theretofore under
the jurisdiction of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy.
Public Law 95-110, effective September 20, 1977, abolished the
Joint Committee on Atomic Energy.
With the adoption of H. Res. 658 on July 14, 1977, which
established the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence, the jurisdiction of the Armed Service Committee
over intelligence matters was diminished. That resolution gave
the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence oversight
responsibilities for intelligence and intelligence-related
activities and programs of the U.S. Government. Specifically,
the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence had exclusive
legislative jurisdiction regarding the Central Intelligence
Agency and the director of Central Intelligence, including the
authorization of funding and programs. Also, legislative
jurisdiction over all intelligence and intelligence-related
activities and programs was vested in the select committee
except that other committees with a jurisdictional interest
could request consideration of any such matters. Accordingly,
as a matter of practice, the Armed Services Committee shared
jurisdiction over the authorization process involving
intelligence-related activities.
The committee continues to have shared jurisdiction over
military intelligence activities as set forth in Rule X (10) of
the Rules of the House of Representatives.
H. Res. 5, adopted by the House on January 4, 1995,
established the Committee on National Security as the successor
committee to the Committee on Armed Services, and granted the
committee additional legislative and oversight authority over
merchant marine academies, national security aspects of the
merchant marine policy and programs, and interoceanic canals.
H. Res. 5 also codified the existing jurisdiction of the
committee over tactical intelligence matters and the
intelligence related activities of the Department of Defense.
Constitutional Powers and Duties
The powers and duties of Congress in relation to national
defense matters stem from Article I, section 8, of the
Constitution, which provides, among other things, that the
Congress shall have power to:
Raise and support armies;
Provide and maintain a navy;
Make rules for the government and regulation of the
land and naval forces;
Provide for calling forth the militia;
Provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the
militia, and for governing such part of them as may be
employed in the service of the United States;
Exercise exclusive legislation * * * over all places
purchased * * * for the erection of forts, magazines,
arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings; and
Make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for
carrying into execution the foregoing powers.
House Rules on Jurisdiction
Rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives
established the jurisdiction and related functions for each
standing committee. Under that rule, all bills, resolutions,
and other matters relating to subjects within the jurisdiction
of any standing shall be referred to such committee. The
jurisdiction of the House Committee on National Security,
pursuant to clause 2(k) of rule X is as follows:
(1) Ammunition depots; forts; arsenals; Army, Navy,
and Air Force reservations and establishments.
(2) Common defense generally.
(3) Conservation, development, and use of naval
petroleum and oil shale reserves.
(4) The Department of Defense generally, including
the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force
generally.
(5) Interoceanic canals generally, including measures
relating to the maintenance, operation, and
administration of interoceanic canals.
(6) Merchant Marine Academy, and State Maritime
Academies.
(7) Military applications of nuclear energy.
(8) Tactical intelligence and intelligence related
activities of the Department of the Defense.
(9) National security aspects of merchant marine,
including financial assistance for the construction and
operation of vessels, the maintenance of the U.S.
shipbuilding and ship repair industrial base, cabotage,
cargo preference and merchant marine officers and
seamen as these matters relate to the national
security.
(10) Pay, promotion, retirement, and other benefits
and privileges of members of the armed forces.
(11) Scientific research and development in support
of the armed services.
(12) Selective service.
(13) Size and composition of the Army, Navy, Marine
Corps, and Air Force.
(14) Soldiers' and sailors' homes.
(15) Strategic and critical materials necessary for
the common defense.
In addition to its legislative jurisdiction and general
oversight function, the committee has special oversight
functions with respect to international arms control and
disarmament and military dependents' education.
Investigative Authority and Legislative Oversight
During the 93rd Congress, H. Res. 988, the Committee Reform
Amendments of 1974, amended rule XI, clause 1(b), of the Rules
of the House of Representatives, to provide general authority
for each committee to investigate matters within its
jurisdiction. That amendment established a permanent
investigative authority and relieves the committee of the
former requirement of obtaining a renewal of the investigative
authority by a House resolution at the beginning of each
Congress. H. Res. 988 also amended rule X of the Rules of the
House of Representatives by requiring, as previously indicated,
that the standing committees are to conduct legislative
oversight in the area of their respective jurisdiction, and by
establishing specific oversight functions for the Committee on
National Security.
H. Res. 107, approved by the House on March 15, 1995,
provided funds for oversight responsibilities to be conducted
in the 104th Congress, pursuant to rule X, clause 2(b)(1), of
the Rules of the House of Representatives (relating to general
oversight responsibilities), clause 3(a) (relating to special
oversight functions), and rule XI, clause 1(b) (relating to
investigations and studies).
COMMITTEE RULES
The committee held its organizational meeting on January
10, 1995, and adopted the following rules governing procedure
and rules for investigative hearings conducted by
subcommittees.
(H.N.S.C. No. 1)
Rules Governing Procedure
RULE 1. APPLICATION OF HOUSE RULES
The Rules of the House of Representatives are the rules of
the Committee on National Security (hereafter referred to in
these rules as the ``Committee'') and its subcommittees so far
as applicable.
RULE 2. FULL COMMITTEE MEETING DATE
(a) The Committee shall meet every Tuesday at 10:00 a.m.,
and at such other times as may be fixed by the chairman of the
Committee (hereafter referred to in these rules as the
``Chairman''), or by written request of members of the
Committee pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XI of the Rules of
the House of Representatives.
(b) A Tuesday meeting of the committee may be dispensed
with by the Chairman, but such action may be reversed by a
written request of a majority of the members of the Committee.
RULE 3. SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING DATES
Each subcommittee is authorized to meet, hold hearings,
receive evidence, and report to the Committee on all matters
referred to it. Insofar as possible, meetings of the Committee
and its subcommittees shall not conflict. A subcommittee
chairman shall set meeting dates after consultation with the
Chairman and the other subcommittee chairmen with a view toward
avoiding simultaneous scheduling of committee and subcommittee
meetings or hearings wherever possible.
RULE 4. SUBCOMMITTEES
The Committee shall be organized to consist of five
standing subcommittees with the following jurisdictions:
Subcommittee on Military Installations and Facilities:
military construction; real estate acquisitions and disposals;
housing and support; base closure; and related legislative
oversight.
Subcommittee on Military Personnel: military forces and
authorized strengths; integration of active and reserve
components; military personnel policy; compensation and other
benefits; and related legislative oversight.
Subcommittee on Military Procurement: the annual
authorization for procurement of military weapon systems and
components thereof, including full scale development and
systems transition; military application of nuclear energy; and
related legislative oversight.
Subcommittee on Military Readiness: the annual
authorization for operation and maintenance; the readiness and
preparedness requirements of the defense establishment; and
related legislative oversight.
Subcommittee on Military Research and Development: the
annual authorization for military research and development and
related legislative oversight.
RULE 5. COMMITTEE PANELS
(a) The Chairman may designate a panel of the Committee
drawn from members of more than one subcommittee to inquire
into and take testimony on a matter or matters that fall within
the jurisdiction of more than one subcommittee and to report to
the Committee.
(b) No panel so appointed shall continue in existence for
more than six months. A panel so appointed may, upon the
expiration of six months, be reappointed by the Chairman.
(c) No panel so appointed shall have legislative
jurisdiction.
RULE 6. REFERENCE OF LEGISLATION AND SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS
(a) The Chairman shall refer legislation and other matters
to the appropriate subcommittee or to the full Committee.
(b) Legislation shall be taken up for hearing only when
called by the Chairman of the Committee or subcommittee, as
appropriate, or by a majority of the Committee or subcommittee.
(c) The Chairman, with approval of a majority vote of a
quorum of the Committee, shall have authority to discharge a
subcommittee from consideration of any measure or matter
referred thereto and have such measure or matter considered by
the Committee.
(d) Reports and recommendations of a subcommittee may not
be considered by the Committee until after the intervention of
3 calendar days from the time the report is approved by the
subcommittee and printed hearings thereon are available to the
members of the Committee, except that this rule may be waived
by a majority vote of a quorum of the Committee.
RULE 7. PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT OF HEARINGS AND MEETINGS
Pursuant to clause 2(g)(3) of rule XI of the Rules of the
House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Committee or of
any subcommittee or panel shall make public announcement of the
date, place, and subject matter of any committee, subcommittee
or panel hearing at least one week before the commencement of
the hearing. However, if the Chairman of the Committee or of
any subcommittee or panel, with the concurrence of the ranking
minority member of the Committee or of any subcommittee or
panel, determines that there is good cause to begin the hearing
sooner, or if the Committee subcommittee or panel so determines
by majority vote, a quorum being present for the transaction of
business, such chairman shall make the announcement at the
earliest possible date. Any announcement made under this rule
shall be promptly published in the Daily Digest and promptly
entered into the committee scheduling service of the House
Information Systems.
RULE 8. BROADCASTING OF COMMITTEE HEARINGS AND MEETINGS
Clause 3 of rule XI of the Rules of the House of
Representatives shall apply to the Committee.
RULE 9. MEETINGS AND HEARINGS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
(a) Each hearing and meeting for the transaction of
business, including the markup of legislation, conducted by the
Committee or a subcommittee shall be open to the public except
when the Committee or subcommittee, in open session and with a
majority being present, determines by rollcall vote that all or
part of the remainder of that hearing or meeting on that day
shall be closed to the public because disclosure of testimony,
evidence, or other matters to be considered would endanger the
national security, would compromise sensitive law enforcement
information, or would violate any law or rule of the House of
Representatives. Notwithstanding the requirements of the
preceding sentence, a majority of those present, there being in
attendance no less than two members of the committee or
subcommittee, may vote to close a hearing or meeting for the
sole purpose of discussing whether testimony or evidence to be
received would endanger the national security, would compromise
sensitive law enforcement information, or would violate any law
or rule of the House of Representatives. If the decision is to
close, the vote must be by rollcall vote and in open session,
there being a majority of the Committee or subcommittee
present.
(b) Whenever it is asserted that the evidence or testimony
at a hearing or meeting may tend to defame, degrade, or
incriminate any person, and notwithstanding the requirements of
(a) and the provisions of clause 2(g)(2) of rule XI of the
Rules of the House of Representatives, such evidence or
testimony shall be presented in closed session, if by a
majority vote of those present, there being in attendance no
less than two members of the Committee or subcommittee, the
Committee or subcommittee determines that such evidence may
tend to defame, degrade or incriminate any person. A majority
of those present, there being in attendance no less than two
members of the Committee or subcommittee, may also vote to
close the hearing or meeting for the sole purpose discussing
whether evidence or testimony to be received would tend to
defame, degrade or incriminate any person. The Committee or
subcommittee shall proceed to receive such testimony in open
session only if a majority of the members of the Committee or
subcommittee, a majority being present, determine that such
evidence or testimony will not tend to defame, degrade or
incriminate any person.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, and with the approval of
the Chairman, each member of the Committee may designate by
letter to the Chairman, a member of that member's personal
staff with Top Secret security clearance to attend hearings of
the Committee, or that member's subcommittee(s) which have been
closed under the provisions of rule 9(a) above for national
security purposes for the taking of testimony: Provided, That
such staff member's attendance at such hearings is subject to
the approval of the Committee or subcommittee as dictated by
national security requirements at the time: Provided further,
That this paragraph addresses hearings only and not briefings
or meetings held under the provisions of paragraph (a) of this
rule; and Provided further, That the attainment of any security
clearances involved is the responsibility of individual
members.
(d) Pursuant to clause 2(g)(2) of rule XI of the Rules of
the House of Representatives, no member may be excluded from
nonparticipatory attendance at any hearing of the Committee or
a subcommittee, unless the House of Representatives shall by
majority vote authorize the Committee or subcommittee, for
purposes of a particular series of hearings on a particular
article of legislation or on a particular subject of
investigation, to close its hearings to members by the same
procedures designated in this rule for closing hearings to the
public: Provided, however, That the Committee or the
subcommittee may by the same procedure vote to close up to 5
additional consecutive days of hearings.
RULE 10. QUORUM
(a) For purposes of taking testimony and receiving
evidence, two Members shall constitute a quorum.
(b) One-third of the Members of the Committee or
subcommittee shall constitute a quorum for taking any action,
with the following exceptions, in which case a majority of the
Committee or subcommittee shall constitute a quorum:
(1) Reporting a measure or recommendation;
(2) Closing committee or subcommittee meetings and
hearings to the public; and
(3) Authorizing the issuance of subpoenas.
(c) No measure or recommendation shall be reported to the
House of Representatives unless a majority of the Committee is
actually present.
RULE 11. THE FIVE-MINUTE RULE
(a) The time any one member may address the Committee or
subcommittee on any measure or matter under consideration shall
not exceed 5 minutes and then only when the member has been
recognized by the Chairman or subcommittee chairman, as
appropriate, except that this time limit may be exceeded by
unanimous consent. Any member, upon request, shall be
recognized for not to exceed 5 minutes to address the Committee
or subcommittee on behalf of an amendment which the member has
offered to any pending bill or resolution.
(b) Members present at a meeting of the Committee or
subcommittee when a meeting is originally convened will be
recognized by the Chairman or subcommittee chairman, as
appropriate, in order of seniority. Those members arriving
subsequently will be recognized in order of their arrival.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Chairman and the ranking
minority member will take precedence upon their arrival. In
recognizing members to question witnesses in this fashion, the
Chairman shall take into consideration the ratio of the
majority to minority members present and shall establish the
order of recognition for questioning in such a manner as not to
disadvantage the members of the majority.
RULE 12. SUBPOENA AUTHORITY
(a) For the purpose of carrying out any of its functions
and duties under rules X and XI of the Rules of the House of
Representatives, the Committee and any subcommittee is
authorized (subject to subparagraph (b)(1) of this paragraph):
(1) to sit and act at such times and places within
the United States, whether the House is in session, has
recessed, or has adjourned, and to hold hearings, and
(2) to require by subpoena, or otherwise, the
attendance and testimony of such witnesses and the
production of such books, records, correspondence,
memorandums, papers and documents as it deems
necessary. The Chairman of the Committee, or any member
designated by the Chairman, may administer oaths to any
witness.
(b)(1) A subpoena may be authorized and issued by the
Committee, or any subcommittee with the concurrence of the full
Committee Chairman, under subparagraph (a)(2) in the conduct of
any investigation, or series of investigations or activities,
only when authorized by a majority of the members voting, a
majority of the Committee or subcommittee being present.
Authorized subpoenas shall be signed only by the Chairman, or
by any member designated by the Chairman.
(2) Pursuant to clause 2(m) of rule XI of the Rules of the
House of Representatives, compliance with any subpoena issued
by the Committee or any subcommittee under subparagraph (a)(2)
may be enforced only as authorized or directed by the House.
(c) No witness served with a subpoena by the Committee
shall be required against his or her will to be photographed at
any hearing or to give evidence or testimony while the
broadcasting of that hearing, by radio or television, is being
conducted. At the request of any such witness who does not wish
to be subjected to radio, television, or still photography
coverage, all lenses shall be covered and all microphones used
for coverage turned off. This subparagraph is supplementary to
clause 2(k)(5) of rule XI of the Rules of the House of
Representatives, relating to the protection of the rights of
witnesses.
RULE 13. WITNESS STATEMENTS
(a) Any prepared statement to be presented by a witness to
the Committee or a subcommittee shall be submitted to the
Committee or subcommittee at least 48 hours in advance of
presentation and shall be distributed to all members of the
Committee or subcommittee at least 24 hours in advance of
delivery. If a prepared statement contains security information
bearing a classification of secret or higher, the statement
shall be made available in the Committee rooms to all members
of the Committee or subcommittee at least 24 hours in advance
of delivery; however, no such statement shall be removed from
the Committee offices. The requirement of this rule may be
waived by a majority vote of a quorum of the Committee or
subcommittee, as appropriate.
(b) The Committee and each subcommittee shall require each
witness who is to appear before it to file with the Committee
in advance of his or her appearance a written statement of the
proposed testimony and to limit the oral presentation at such
appearance to a brief summary of his or her argument.
RULE 14. ADMINISTERING OATHS TO WITNESSES
(a) The Chairman, or any member designated by the Chairman,
may administer oaths to any witness.
(b) Witnesses, when sworn, shall subscribe to the following
oath:
Do you solemnly swear (or affirm) that the testimony
you will give before this Committee (or subcommittee)
in the matters now under consideration will be the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so
help you God?
RULE 15. QUESTIONING OF WITNESSES
(a) When a witness is before the Committee or a
subcommittee, members of the Committee or subcommittee may put
questions to the witness only when they have been recognized by
the Chairman or subcommittee chairman, as appropriate, for that
purpose.
(b) Members of the Committee or subcommittee who so desire
shall have not to exceed 5 minutes to interrogate each witness
until such time as each member has had an opportunity to
interrogate such witness; thereafter, additional time for
questioning witnesses by members is discretionary with the
Chairman or subcommittee chairman, as appropriate.
(c) Questions put to witnesses before the Committee or
subcommittee shall be pertinent to the measure or matter that
may be before the Committee or subcommittee for consideration.
RULE 16. PUBLICATION OF COMMITTEE HEARINGS AND MARKUPS
The transcripts of those hearings and mark-ups conducted by
the Committee or a subcommittee which are decided to be
officially published will be published in verbatim form, with
the material requested for the record inserted at that place
requested, or at the end of the record, as appropriate. Any
requests to correct any errors, other than those in
transcription, or disputed errors in transcription, will be
appended to the record, and the appropriate place where the
change is requested will be footnoted.
RULE 17. VOTING AND ROLLCALLS
(a) Voting on a measure or matter may be by rollcall vote,
division vote, voice vote, or unanimous consent.
(b) A rollcall of the members may be had upon the request
of one-fifth of a quorum present.
(c) No vote by any member of the Committee or a
subcommittee with respect to any measure or matter may be cast
by proxy.
(d) In the event of a vote or votes, when a member is in
attendance at any other Committee, subcommittee, or conference
committee meeting during that time, the necessary absence of
that member shall be so recorded in the rollcall record, upon
timely notification to the Chairman by that member.
RULE 18. PRIVATE BILLS
No private bill may be reported by the Committee if there
are two or more dissenting votes. Private bills so rejected by
the Committee may not be reconsidered during the same Congress
unless new evidence sufficient to justify a new hearing has
been presented to the Congress.
RULE 19. COMMITTEE REPORTS
(a) If, at the time of approval of any measure or matter
by the Committee, any member of the Committee gives timely
notice of intention to file supplemental, minority, additional
or dissenting views, that member shall be entitled to not less
than 3 calendar days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal
holidays) in which to file such views, in writing and signed by
that member, with the staff director of the Committee. All such
views so filed by one or more members of the Committee shall be
included within, and shall be a part of, the report filed by
the Committee with respect to that measure or matter.
(b) With respect to each rollcall vote on a motion to
report any measure or matter, and on any amendment offered to
the measure or matter, the total number of votes cast for and
against, the names of those voting for and against, and a brief
description of the question, shall be included in the committee
report on the measure or matter.
RULE 20. POINTS OF ORDER
No point of order shall lie with respect to any measure
reported by the Committee or any subcommittee on the ground
that hearings on such measure were not conducted in accordance
with the provisions of the rules of the Committee; except that
a point of order on that ground may be made by any member of
the Committee or subcommittee which reported the measure if, in
the Committee or subcommittee, such point of order was (a)
timely made and (b) improperly overruled or not properly
considered.
RULE 21. PUBLIC INSPECTION OF COMMITTEE ROLLCALLS
The result of each rollcall in any meeting of the
Committee shall be made available by the Committee for
inspection by the public at reasonable times in the offices of
the Committee. Information so available for public inspection
shall include a description of the amendment, motion, order, or
other proposition and the name of each member voting for and
each member voting against such amendment, motion, order, or
proposition and the names of those members present but not
voting.
RULE 22. PROTECTION OF NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION
(a) All national security information bearing a
classification of secret or higher which has been received by
the Committee or a subcommittee shall be deemed to have been
received in executive session and shall be given appropriate
safekeeping.
(b) The Chairman of the Committee shall, with the approval
of a majority of the Committee, establish such procedures as in
his judgment may be necessary to prevent the unauthorized
disclosure of any national security information received
classified as secret or higher. Such procedures shall, however,
ensure access to this information by any member of the
Committee or any other Member of the House of Representatives
who has requested the opportunity to review such material.
RULE 23. COMMITTEE STAFFING
The staffing of the Committee and the standing
subcommittees shall be subject to the rules of the House of
Representatives.
RULE 24. COMMITTEE RECORDS
The records of the Committee at the National Archives and
Records Administration shall be made available for public use
in accordance with rule XXXVI of the Rules of the House of
Representatives. The Chairman shall notify the ranking minority
member of any decision, pursuant to clause 3(b)(3) or clause
4(b) of rule XXXVI, to withhold a record otherwise available,
and the matter shall be presented to the Committee for a
determination on the written request of any member of the
Committee.
RULE 25. INVESTIGATIVE HEARING PROCEDURES
Clause 2(k) of rule XI of the Rules of the House of
Representatives shall apply to the Committee.
COMPOSITION OF THE COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY--104TH CONGRESS
Pursuant to H. Res. 11, election of majority members, and
H. Res. 12, election of minority members (adopted January 4,
1995), the following members served on the Committee on
National Security in the 104th Congress:
FLOYD D. SPENCE, South Carolina,
Chairman
RONALD V. DELLUMS, California BOB STUMP, Arizona, Vice Chairman
G.V. (SONNY) MONTGOMERY, Mississippi DUNCAN HUNTER, California
PATRICIA SCHROEDER, Colorado JOHN R. KASICH, Ohio
IKE SKELTON, Missouri HERBERT H. BATEMAN, Virginia
NORMAN SISISKY, Virginia JAMES V. HANSEN, Utah
JOHN M. SPRATT, Jr., South Carolina CURT WELDON, Pennsylvania
SOLOMON P. ORTIZ, Texas ROBERT K. DORNAN, California
OWEN PICKETT, Virginia JOEL HEFLEY, Colorado
LANE EVANS, Illinois JIM SAXTON, New Jersey
JOHN TANNER, Tennessee RANDY ``DUKE'' CUNNINGHAM,
GLEN BROWDER, Alabama California
GENE TAYLOR, Mississippi STEVE BUYER, Indiana
NEIL ABERCROMBIE, Hawaii PETER G. TORKILDSEN, Massachusetts
CHET EDWARDS, Texas TILLIE K. FOWLER, Florida
FRANK TEJEDA, Texas JOHN M. McHUGH, New York
MARTIN T. MEEHAN, Massachusetts JAMES TALENT, Missouri
ROBERT A. UNDERWOOD, Guam TERRY EVERETT, Alabama
JANE HARMAN, California ROSCOE G. BARTLETT, Maryland
PAUL McHALE, Pennsylvania HOWARD ``BUCK'' McKEON, California
PETE GEREN, Texas RON LEWIS, Kentucky
PETE PETERSON, Florida J.C. WATTS, Jr., Oklahoma
WILLIAM J. JEFFERSON, Louisiana MAC THORNBERRY, Texas
ROSA L. DeLAURO, Connecticut JOHN N. HOSTETTLER, Indiana
MIKE WARD, Kentucky SAXBY CHAMBLISS, Georgia
PATRICK J. KENNEDY, Rhode Island VAN HILLEARY, Tennessee
JOE SCARBOROUGH, Florida
WALTER B. JONES, Jr., North
Carolina
JAMES B. LONGLEY, Jr., Maine
TODD TIAHRT, Kansas
RICHARD ``DOC'' HASTINGS,
Washington
SUBCOMMITTEES OF THE COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY--104TH CONGRESS
The following subcommittees were established at the
committee's organizational meeting on January 10, 1995:
Military Installations and Facilities Subcommittee
Jurisdiction pursuant to Committee Rule 4--Military
construction; real estate acquisitions and disposals; housing
and support; base closure; and related legislative oversight.
Mr. HEFLEY, Chairman
Mr. ORTIZ Mr. McHUGH
Mr. MONTGOMERY Mr. HOSTETTLER
Mr. BROWDER Mr. HILLEARY
Mr. ABERCROMBIE Mr. JONES, Vice Chairman
Mr. TEJEDA Mr. STUMP
Mr. UNDERWOOD Mr. HUNTER
Mr. PETERSON Mr. HANSEN
Mr. WARD Mr. SAXTON
Mrs. FOWLER
Military Personnel Subcommittee
Jurisdiction pursuant to Committee Rule 4--Military forces
and authorized strengths; integration of active and reserve
components; military personnel policy; compensation and other
benefits; and related legislative oversight.
Mr. DORNAN, Chairman
Mr. PICKETT Mr. BUYER
Mr. MONTGOMERY Mr. LEWIS
Mr. SKELTON Mr. WATTS, Vice Chairman
Ms. HARMON Mr. THORNBERRY
Mr. JEFFERSON \1\ Mr. CHAMBLISS
Ms. DeLAURO Mr. TIAHRT
Mr. WARD Mr. HASTINGS
Mr. PETERSON \2\ Mr. HUNTER
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\1\ Mr. Jefferson resigned from the Military Personnel Subcommittee on
May 24, 1995.
\2\ Mr. Peterson was assigned to the Military Personnel Subcommittee on
February 28, 1996.
Military Procurement Subcommittee
Jurisdiction pursuant to Committee Rule 4--Annual
authorization for procurement of military weapon systems and
components thereof, including full-scale development and
systems transition; military application of nuclear energy; and
related legislative oversight.
Mr. HUNTER, Chairman
Mr. SKELTON Mr. SPENCE
Mr. DELLUMS Mr. STUMP
Mr. SISISKY Mr. SAXTON
Mr. EVANS Mr. BUYER
Mr. TANNER Mr. TORKILDSEN
Mr. TAYLOR Mr. TALENT
Mr. ABERCROMBIE Mr. EVERETT
Mr. EDWARDS Mr. BARTLETT, Vice Chairman
Mr. GEREN Mr. McKEON
Mr. PETERSON Mr. LEWIS
Mr. JEFFERSON Mr. WATTS
Ms. DeLAURO Mr. THORNBERRY
Mr. CHAMBLISS
Mr. LONGLEY
Military Readiness Subcommittee
Jurisdiction pursuant to Committee Rule 4--Annual
authorization for operation and maintenance; the readiness and
preparedness requirements of the defense establishment; and
related legislative oversight.
Mr. BATEMAN, Chairman
Mr. SISISKY Mr. KASICH
Mr. SPRATT Mr. CUNNINGHAM
Mr. PICKETT Mrs. FOWLER, Vice Chairman
Mr. EVANS Mr. SCARBOROUGH
Mr. BROWDER Mr. WELDON
Mr. EDWARDS Mr. TORKILDSEN
Mr. TEJEDA Mr. TALENT
Mr. MEEHAN Mr. EVERETT
Mr. McHALE Mr. BARTLETT
Mr. McKEON
Military Research and Development Subcommittee
Jurisdiction pursuant to Committee Rule 4--Annual
authorization for military research and development and related
legislative oversight.
Mr. WELDON, Chairman
Mr. SPRATT Mr. HANSEN
Mrs. SCHROEDER Mr. TIAHRT
Mr. ORTIZ Mr. HASTINGS, Vice Chairman
Mr. TANNER Mr. KASICH
Mr. TAYLOR Mr. BATEMAN
Mr. MEEHAN Mr. DORNAN
Mr. UNDERWOOD Mr. HEFLEY
Ms. HARMAN Mr. CUNNINGHAM
Mr. McHALE Mr. McHUGH
Mr. GEREN Mr. HOSTETTLER
Mr. KENNEDY Mr. HILLEARY
Mr. SCARBOROUGH
Mr. JONES
FULL COMMITTEE PANELS
The following full committee panels were appointed during
the 104th Congress (appointed February 13, 1995; reappointed
August 11, 1995; February 20, 1996; and June 17, 1996):
Special Oversight Panel on Morale, Welfare and Recreation
Purpose--Oversight responsibility for all aspects of
nonappropriated fund activities, including appropriated funding
in support of those activities, within the Department of
Defense, including commissaries, exchanges, clubs and related
activities.
Mr. McHUGH, Chairman
Mr. BROWDER Mr. CHAMBLISS, Vice Chairman
Mr. SISISKY Mr. STUMP
Mr. ORTIZ Mr. BATEMAN
Mr. PICKETT Mr. WATTS
Mr. TANNER Mr. SCARBOROUGH
Mr. UNDERWOOD Mr. JONES
(vacancy)
Special Oversight Panel on the Merchant Marine
Purpose--Oversight responsibility for all issues, including
funding, related to the national security aspects of the
Merchant Marine.
Mr. BATEMAN, Chairman
Mr. TAYLOR Mr. CUNNINGHAM, Vice Chairman
Mr. PICKETT Mr. HUNTER
Mr. ABERCROMBIE Mr. WELDON
Ms. HARMAN Mr. SAXTON
Mr. KENNEDY Mr. SCARBOROUGH
Mr. JEFFERSON \3\ Mr. LONGLEY
Mrs. FOWLER \4\
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\3\ Mr. Jefferson was assigned to the Special Oversight Panel on the
Merchant Marine on May 10, 1995.
\4\ Mrs. Fowler was assigned to the Special Oversight Panel on the
Merchant Marine on May 10, 1995.
COMMITTEE STAFF
By committee resolution adopted at the organizational
meeting on January 10, 1995, or by authority of the Chairman,
the following persons were appointed to the staff of the
committee during the 104th Congress:
Andrew K. Ellis, Staff Director
Robert S. Rangel, Deputy Staff
Director
Henry J. Schweiter, General
Counsel
Nancy Jones, Professional Staff
Member (resigned December 31,
1996)
Rita D. Argenta, Professional
Staff Member
Brenda J. Wright, Professional
Staff Member
Kathleen A. Lipovac, Staff
Assistant
Frank A. Barnes, Staff Assistant
Betty B. Gray, Staff Assistant
Peggy Cosseboom, Staff Assistant
Marilyn A. Elrod, Professional
Staff Member
Peter M. Steffes, Professional
Staff Member
Ernest B. Warrington, Staff
Assistant
Diane W. Bowman, Staff Assistant
Steven A. Thompson, Professional
Staff Member
Michael R. Higgins, Professional
Staff Member
Mary E. Cotten, Staff Assistant
(resigned May 31, 1996)
William J. Andahazy, Professional
Staff Member (resigned August 31,
1996)
Tracy A. Finck, Staff Assistant
Jean D. Reed, Professional Staff
Member
Stephen O. Rossetti, Jr.,
Professional Staff Member
(resigned March 21, 1996)
Christopher A. Williams,
Professional Staff Member
Douglas C. Roach, Professional
Staff Member
Martha A. Westwater, Staff
Assistant (resigned June 6, 1996)
Mia C. Zur, Special Assistant
(resigned January 18, 1996)
Robert B. Brauer, Professional
Staff Member (resigned December
31, 1996)
George O. Withers, Professional
Staff Member
Sheila A. McDowell, Staff
Assistant
Karen V. Steube, Staff Assistant
Jeffrey M. Schwartz, Professional
Staff Member
Marcella A. Wilding, Staff
Assistant (resigned August 4,
1996)
Philip W. Grone, Professional
Staff Member
Andrea K. Aquino, Professional
Staff Member (appointed to
professional staff March 1, 1996)
Lee Halterman, Counsel
Larry G. Shockley, Counsel
(resigned April 16, 1995)
Curtis L. Banks, Staff Assistant
(resigned October 18, 1996)
Dudley L. Tademy, Professional
Staff Member
John D. Chapla, Professional Staff
Member
Hugh N. Johnston, Jr., Counsel
Stephen P. Ansley, Professional
Staff Member (appointed February
1, 1995)
Donna L. Hoffmeier, Professional
Staff Member (appointed February
1, 1995)
Douglas H. Necessary, Professional
Staff Member (appointed February
1, 1995)
Philip Peters, Communications
Director (appointed February 13,
1995; resigned January 31, 1996)
Dionel M. Aviles, Professional
Staff Member (appointed March 1,
1995)
Peter V. Pry, Professional Staff
Member (appointed March 1, 1995)
David J. Trachtenberg,
Professional Staff Member
(appointed March 1, 1995)
Jason E. Bruzdzinski, Professional
Staff Member (appointed April 12,
1995)
Thomas M. Donnelly, Professional
Staff Member (appointed April 24,
1995)
Rebecca J. Anfinson, Staff
Assistant (appointed May 8, 1995)
William M. Marsh, Staff Assistant
(appointed May 10, 1995)
Maureen P. Cragin, Press Secretary
(appointed May 22, 1995)
Laura R. Haas, Executive Assistant
to the Staff Director (appointed
February 25, 1996)
Heather L. Hescheles, Staff
Assistant (appointed April 9,
1996)
R. Christian Barger, Staff
Assistant (appointed April 23,
1996)
Roger M. Smith, Professional Staff
Member (appointed May 6, 1996)
B. Ryan Vaart, Press Assistant
(appointed June 24, 1996)
Laura M. Billings, Staff Assistant
(appointed July 17, 1996)
Bridget M. Keator, Staff Assistant
(appointed October 23, 1996)
Peter J. Berry, Professional Staff
Member (appointed December 30,
1996)
Robert W. Lauthrop, Professional
Staff Member (appointed January 1,
1996)
COMMITTEE MEETINGS
A total of 146 meetings and briefings were held by the
Committee on National Security, its subcommittees and panels
during the 104th Congress. The Committee held 13 joint
meetings. A breakdown of the meetings and briefings follows:
Full committee.................................................... 52
Subcommittees:
Military Installations and Facilities......................... 14
Military Personnel............................................ 25
Military Procurement.......................................... 24
Military Readiness............................................ 11
Military Research and Development............................. 22
Full committee panels:
Special Oversight Panel on Morale, Welfare and Recreation..... 5
Special Oversight Panel on the Merchant Marine................ 6
LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
Legislation Enacted Into Law
PUBLIC LAW 104-93 (H.R. 1655)
To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1996 for intelligence and
intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the
Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency
Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes
Public Law 104-93 authorizes appropriations and related
matters for fiscal year 1996 for intelligence and intelligence-
related activities of the United States Government, including
Department of Defense intelligence-related activities within
the jurisdiction shared by the Committee on National Security
and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Public Law 104-93 addresses the Community Management
Account and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and
Disability System. Among its general provisions is an amendment
to the National Security Act of 1947, which permits the
President to impose an economic, cultural, diplomatic or other
sanction in response to the compromise of an intelligence
source or method or an ongoing criminal investigation.
Referred sequentially to the Committee on National Security
and to the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, the
Committee on National Security was subsequently discharged from
further consideration on July 19, 1995. H.R. 1655 passed the
House on September 13, 1995. The bill was enacted into law
following conference between the House and Senate in which
conferees were appointed from the Committee on National
Security.
(H. Rept. 104-138; Part I and II; S. 922; H. Rept. 104-427)
Date of enactment: January 6, 1996.
PUBLIC LAW 104-106 (S. 1124)
To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1996 for military
activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military
personnel strengths for fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes
Public Law 104-106 authorizes funds totaling
$265,299,027,000 for national defense functions fiscal year
1996 and provides a budget authority level of $264,696,642,000.
Division A
Division A of Public Law 104-106 authorizes funds for
fiscal year 1996 for the Department of Defense.
Subtitle A of Title I authorizes $44,878,095,000 for
procurement of aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat
vehicles, ammunition, and other procurement for the armed
forces, Defense Agencies and reserve components of the armed
forces.
Subtitles B through E of Title I establish additional
program requirements, restrictions, and limitations, authorize
transfer of or earmark funds for specified programs for the
armed forces, including Army helicopter, armored vehicle and
small arms procurement; Navy ship, weapon and aircraft
programs; Air Force bomber and tactical programs, as well as
chemical demilitarization programs.
Subtitle A of Title II authorizes $35,730,400,000 for
research, development, test and evaluation for the armed forces
and the defense agencies, including amounts for basic research
and development-related matters.
Subtitle B of Title II establishes certain program
requirements, restrictions, and limitations on 17 separate
research and development-related matters.
Subtitles C through F of Title II address the Ballistic
Missile Defense Act of 1995, miscellaneous reviews, studies,
reports and other matters such as cruise missile defense
initiatives and manufacturing technology.
Subtitle A of Title III authorizes appropriations for
operation and maintenance (O&M) and working capital funds for
the armed forces and defense agencies, the Armed Forces
Retirement Home, the Civil Air Patrol and for the transfer from
National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund.
Subtitles B through G of Title III address depot-level
activities, environmental provisions, commissaries and
nonappropriated fund instrumentalities, miscellaneous reviews,
studies and reports as well as other matters such as the
Defense Business Operations Fund and Financial Management
Training.
Title IV provides military personnel authorizations for the
active and reserve forces and for military training student
loans for fiscal year 1996 and authorizes appropriations of
$69,191,008,000 for military personnel for fiscal year 1996.
The end strengths for active duty personnel for fiscal year
1996 are as follows:
Army, 495,000
Navy, 428,340
Marine Corps, 174,000
Air Force, 388,200
The Selected Reserve end strengths for fiscal year 1996 are
as follows:
Army National Guard, 373,000
Army Reserve, 230,000
Naval Reserve, 98,894
Marine Corps Reserve, 42,274
Air National Guard, 112,707
Air Force Reserve, 73,969
Coast Guard Reserve, 8,000
The end strengths for reserves on active duty in support of
the reserve components for fiscal year 1996 are as follows:
Army National Guard, 23,390
Army Reserve, 11,575
Naval Reserve, 17,587
Marine Corps Reserve, 2,559
Air National Guard, 10,066
Air Force Reserve, 628
Title V sets military personnel policy, including
provisions that address officer personnel policy; the reserve
components; decorations and awards; officer education programs
and other matters such as Army Ranger training and the HIV-1
virus.
Title VI addresses compensation and other personnel
benefits, including pay and allowances; bonuses and special and
incentive pays; travel and transportation allowances; retired
pay, survivor benefits and related matters among other things.
Title VII contains military health care provisions,
including health care services; the TRICARE program; uniformed
services treatment facilities; changes to existing laws
regarding health care management and other matters such as
Triservice nursing research.
Title VIII addresses acquisition policy, acquisition reform
and other matters such as procurement technical assistance.
Title IX contains Department of Defense organization and
management provisions, including organization of the Office of
the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Requirements Oversight
Council and financial management concerns such as the Defense
Modernization Account.
Title X addresses general provisions relating to financial
matters; naval vessels and shipyards; counter-drug activities;
civilian personnel; Department of Defense education programs,
and other matters.
Title XI addresses the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Title XII contains the Cooperative Threat Reduction Act.
Title XIII concerns matters relating to other nations
including humanitarian assistance programs; arms exports and
military assistance; burdensharing and other cooperative
activities involving allies and NATO.
Title XIV addresses arms control matters including
antipersonnel landmines; ABM treaty violations; as well as the
Chemical Weapons Convention and START II treaty.
Title XV contains technical and clerical amendments
relating to the Reserve Officer Personnel Management Act;
reflecting name change of Committee on Armed Services of the
House of Representatives; and other miscellaneous amendments.
Title XVI concerns the corporation for the promotion of
rifle practice and firearms safety.
Division B
Division B of Public Law 104-106 authorizes appropriations
in the amount of $11,177,009,000 for military construction and
family housing in support of the active forces, the reserve
components and the NATO infrastructure program for fiscal year
1996. In addition Division B contains miscellaneous and general
provisions that concern military housing privatization
initiatives; military construction programs and military family
housing changes; defense base closure and realignment; as well
as land conveyances--generally and those involving Joliet Army
Ammunition Plant, Illinois.
Division C
Division C of Public Law 104-106 authorizes appropriations
in the amount of $10,618,200,000 for Department of Energy
national security programs for fiscal year 1996. Division C
includes an authorization for the Defense Nuclear Facilities
Safety Board; the National Defense Stockpile, Naval Petroleum
Reserves, and the Panama Canal Commission.
Division D
Division D of Public Law 104-106 addresses Federal
Acquisition Reform. It contains provisions addressing
competition; commercial items and additional acquisition reform
provisions, including elimination of certain certification
requirements, procurement integrity and acquisition workforce.
Division E
Division E of Public Law 104-106 addresses information
technology management reform. Division E defines
responsibility, process and pilot programs for acquisitions of
information technology as well as additional information
resources management matters and procurement protest authority
of the comptroller general.
After the President vetoed H.R. 1530, provisions of H.R.
1530 were incorporated in S. 1124. S. 1124 passed the House,
amended, by voice vote on January 5, 1996 and was agreed to in
the Senate by unanimous consent, amended, on January 6, 1996.
Conferees filed a conference report on January 22, 1996, which
was agreed to in the House on January 24, 1996, and the Senate
on January 26, 1996. S. 1124 was signed by the President on
February 10, 1996.
(H. Rept. 104-131; S. Rept. 104-112; H. Rept. 104-406; H.
Doc. 104-155; H. Rept. 104-450; H.N.S.C. 104-3; H.N.S.C. 104-4;
H.N.S.C. 104-5; H.N.S.C. 104-6; H.N.S.C. 104-7; H.N.S.C. 104-8;
H.N.S.C. 104-10; H.N.S.C. 104-13) Date of enactment: February
10, 1996.
PUBLIC LAW 104-201 (H.R. 3230)
To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1997 for military
activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military
personnel strengths for fiscal year 1997, and for other purposes
Public Law 104-201 authorizes funds totaling
$265,960,520,000 for national defense functions fiscal year
1997 and provides a budget authority level of $265,576,949,000.
Division A
Division A of Public Law 104-201 authorizes funds for
fiscal year 1997 for the Department of Defense.
Subtitle A of Title I authorizes $45,272,100,000 for
procurement of aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat
vehicles, ammunition, and other procurement for the armed
forces, defense agencies and reserve components of the armed
forces.
Subtitles B through E of Title I establish additional
program requirements, restrictions, and limitations, and
authorize transfer of or earmark funds for specified programs
for the armed forces including Army Armed Kiowa Warrior
helicopter and Bradley TOW 2 Test Program sets; Navy attack
submarine, Penguin missile and T-39N aircraft programs; Air
Force F-15E and C-17 aircraft programs, and other matters such
as destruction of existing stockpile of lethal chemical agents
and munitions.
Subtitle A of Title II authorizes $37,296,573,000 for
research, development, test and evaluation for the armed forces
and the defense agencies, including amounts for basic and
applied research; dual-use technology programs and Defense
Special Weapons Agency.
Subtitle B of Title II establishes certain program
requirements, restrictions, and limitations on 21 separate
research and development-related matters.
Subtitles C through E of Title II address Ballistic Missile
Defense Programs and other matters such as maintenance and
repair at Air Force installations and the annual joint
warfighting science and technology plan.
Subtitle A of Title III authorizes $89,870,950,000 for
operation and maintenance (O&M) and $2,065,902,000 for working
capital funds for the armed forces and defense agencies,
including the Armed Forces Retirement Home, the Civil Air
Patrol and the SR-71 contingency reconnaissance force.
Subtitles B through F of Title III address depot-level
activities, environmental provisions, commissaries and
nonappropriated fund instrumentalities, performance of
functions by private-sector sources.
Title IV provides military personnel authorizations for the
active and reserve forces for fiscal year 1997 and authorizes
appropriations of $70,056,130,000 for military personnel for
fiscal year 1997. The end strengths for active duty personnel
for fiscal year 1997 are as follows:
Army, 495,000
Navy, 407,318
Marine Corps, 174,000
Air Force, 381,100
The Selected Reserve end strengths for fiscal year 1996 are
as follows:
Army National Guard, 366,758
Army Reserve, 215,179
Naval Reserve, 96,304
Marine Corps Reserve, 42,000
Air National Guard, 109,178
Air Force Reserve, 73,311
Coast Guard Reserve, 8,000
The end strengths for reserves on active duty in support of
the reserve components for fiscal year 1996 are as follows:
Army National Guard, 22,798
Army Reserve, 11,729
Naval Reserve, 16,603
Marine Corps Reserve, 2,559
Air National Guard, 10,403
Air Force Reserve, 655
Title V sets military personnel policy, including
provisions that address officer personnel policy; enlisted
personnel policy; activation and recall; reserve component
retirement; officer education programs; decorations and awards,
commissioned corps of the public health service and other
matters including hate crimes in the military.
Title VI addresses compensation and other personnel
benefits, including pay and allowances; bonuses and special and
incentive pays; travel and transportation allowances; retired
pay, survivor benefits and related matters among other things.
Title VII contains military health care provisions,
including health care services; the TRICARE program; Uniformed
Services Treatment Facilities; changes to existing laws
regarding health care management and other matters such as
independent research regarding Gulf War Syndrome.
Title VIII addresses acquisition policy, acquisition
management and other matters such as procurement technical
assistance and the Buy American Act.
Title IX contains Department of Defense organization and
management provisions, including the White House Communications
Agency and Force Structure Review.
Title X addresses general provisions relating to financial
matters; naval vessels and shipyards; counter-drug activities;
management of Armed Forces Retirement Home; reports and studies
such as the annual report on Operation Provide Comfort and
Operation Enhanced Southern Watch.
Title XI addresses the establishment and mission of the
National Imagery and Mapping Agency.
Title XII addresses reserve forces revitalization.
Title XIII concerns arms control and related matters
including counterproliferation activities and the Commission to
Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States.
Title XIV addresses defense against weapons of mass
destruction including domestic preparedness as well as
interdiction, control and disposition of weapons of mass
destruction and related materials threatening the United
States.
Title XV contains Cooperative Threat Reduction with States
of Former Soviet Union.
Title XVI concerns Department of Defense Civilian Personnel
including matters relating to personnel management, pay and
allowances.
Title XVII addresses Federal Employee Travel Reform.
Title XVIII contains the purpose, powers, restrictions and
membership of the Federal Charter for the Fleet Reserve
Association.
Division B
Division B of Public Law 104-201 authorizes appropriations
in the amount of $9,982,311,000 for military construction and
family housing in support of the active forces, the reserve
components and the NATO infrastructure program for fiscal year
1997. In addition, Division B contains miscellaneous and
general provisions that concern military construction program
and military family housing changes; defense base closure and
realignment; land conveyances; and military land withdrawals
including the El Centro Naval Air Facility Ranges.
Division C
Division C of Public Law 104-201 authorizes appropriations
in the amount of $11,399,543,000 for Department of Energy
national security programs for fiscal year 1997. Division C
includes authorization for the Defense Nuclear Environmental
Cleanup and Management, as well as Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Land Withdrawal Act Amendments.
The Committee on National Security reported H.R. 3230,
amended, to the House on May 7, 1996 and passed the House,
amended, on May 15, 1996. On July 10, 1996, the measure passed
in the Senate, amended, by unanimous consent. After the House
agreed to a conference report on August 1, 1996, and the Senate
on September 10, 1996, H.R. 3230 was signed by the President
and became law on September 23, 1996.
(H. Rept. 104-563; S. Rept. 104-267; H. Rept. 104-724;
H.N.S.C. 104-23; H.N.S.C. 104-24; H.N.S.C. 104-25; H.N.S.C.
104-26; H.N.S.C. 104-27; H.N.S.C. 104-28; H.N.S.C. 104-29;
H.N.S.C. 104-30; H.N.S.C. 104-31) Date of enactment: September
23, 1996.
public law 104-208 (h.r. 2202)
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to improve deterrence of
illegal immigration to the United States by increasing border control
and investigative personnel, by increasing penalties for alien
smuggling and for document fraud, by reforming exclusion and
deportation law and procedures, by improving the verification system
for eligibility of employment, and through other measures, to reform
the legal immigration system and facilitate legal entries into the
United States, and for other purposes
Referred to several committees, the Committee on National
Security was discharged from consideration on March 8, 1996.
H.R. 2202 was passed in the House on March 21, 1996 and after
passage in the Senate, the House agreed to a Conference Report
on September 25, 1996. Following this House action, a cloture
motion on the conference report was presented in the Senate.
H.R. 2202 was ultimately incorporated in Public Law 104-208,
Making Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations for Fiscal Year
1997.
(H. Rept. 104-469, Parts I, II, III, and IV; S. 1894)
public law 104-239 (h.r. 1350)
To amend the merchant Marine Act, 1936 to revitalize the United States-
flag merchant marine, and for other purposes
Public Law 104-201 authorizes a new Maritime Security
Program to assist in the retention of sufficient U.S. flag
vessel sealift capacity. The new program conditions financial
assistance on the requirement that U.S. flag operators make not
only their vessels available during an activation, but also
their entire intermodal network.
H.R. 1350, the Maritime Security Act, was introduced on
March 29, 1995 and an amendment in the nature of a substitute
was ordered favorably reported by the Committee on National
Security on May 24, 1995. On December 6, 1995, H.R. 1350 was
passed, amended, by the House. The bill was subsequently
enacted into law following its passage in the Senate without
amendment.
(H. Rept. 104-229) Date of enactment: October 8, 1996.
public law 104-293 (h.r. 3259)
To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1997 for intelligence and
intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the
Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency
Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes
Public Law 104-293 authorizes appropriations and related
matters for fiscal year 1997 for intelligence and intelligence-
related activities of the United States Government, including
Department of Defense intelligence-related activities within
the jurisdiction shared by the Committee on National Security
and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Public Law 104-293 addresses the Community Management
Account and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and
Disability System. Among its provisions it establishes the
Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government
to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Referred sequentially to the Committee on National
Security, the committee was subsequently discharged from
further consideration on May 16, 1996. H.R. 3259 passed the
House on May 22, 1996. The bill was enacted into law following
conference between the House and Senate in which conferees were
appointed from the Committee on National Security.
(H. Rept. 104-578, Part I; S. 1718; H. Rept. 104-832) Date
of enactment: October 11, 1996.
Legislation Vetoed by the President
h.r. 1530
To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1996 for military
activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military
personnel strengths for fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes
H.R. 1530 was referred to the Committee on National
Security and ordered to be reported, amended, on May 24, 1995.
Following passage in the House on June 15, 1995, the Senate
passed H.R. 1530 on September 6, 1995. The Conference Report
passed the House on December 15, 1995 and the Senate on
December 19, 1995.
On December 28, 1995, the President vetoed H.R. 1530,
citing that the legislation would restrict his ability to
implement national security programs and objectives, as well as
limit his authority as Commander in Chief with regards to
foreign affairs. Following this action, the House
reconsideration of the President's veto failed on January 3,
1996. (see Public Law 104-106 for further discussion).
(H. Rept. 104-131; S. Rept. 104-112; H. Rept. 104-406; H.
Doc. 104-155; H. Rept. 104-450; H.N.S.C. 104-3; H.N.S.C. 104-4;
H.N.S.C. 104-5; H.N.S.C. 104-6; H.N.S.C. 104-7; H.N.S.C. 104-8;
H.N.S.C. 104-10; H.N.S.C. 104-13)
Legislation Reported But Not Enacted
H. CON. RES. 180
Concurrent Resolution commending the members of the Armed Forces and
civilian personnel of the Government who served the United States
faithfully during the Cold War
H. Con. Res. 180 would have honored the many military
members and civilian employees of the Department of Defense,
the intelligence community, the foreign service community, and
other federal agencies whose personal commitment and sacrifices
contributed to the victory in the Cold War.
Referred jointly to the Committee on National Security and
to the Committees on International Relations and Intelligence
(Permanent Select), H. Con. Res. 180, was reported, amended, by
the Committee on National Security on September 12, 1996. H.
Con. Res. 180 passed the House, amended, under suspension of
the Rules on September 26, 1996. No further action was taken on
the resolution.
(H. Rept. 104-804, Part I)
H. CON. RES. 200
Honoring the victims of the June 25, 1996, Terrorist Bombing in
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
H. Con. Res. 200, as reported, amended, by the Committee on
National Security, would have recognized the importance of the
United States mission in Saudi Arabia, the threat posed by
global terrorism and would have honored the service and
sacrifice of those who died or were wounded in the bombing. In
addition, the resolution would have further extended the
sympathies of Congress to the families of those who died as a
result of the terrorist attack.
The resolution was agreed to in the House, amended, under
suspension of the Rules, on September 24, 1996. No further
action was taken on the resolution.
(H. Rept. 104-805)
H.J. RES. 102
Disapproving the recommendations of the Defense Base Closure and
Realignment Commission
H.J. Res. 102, after meeting the requirements for a
resolution of disapproval as provided in section 2908(a) of
Public Law 101-510, the Defense Base Closure and Realignment
Act of 1990, would have disapproved the recommendations of the
Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC).
H.J. Res. 102 was referred to the Committee on National
Security on July 18, 1995. On July 26, 1995, the committee
voted to report the resolution adversely to the House. The
resolution was subsequently rejected in the House on September
8, 1995.
(H. Rept. 104-220)
H.R. 7
To revitalize the national security of the United States
H.R. 7, as reported by the Committee on National Security,
would have served as the policy framework to guide the 104th
Congress through the annual defense authorization and
appropriation budget process. The bill would have established
an advisory commission to assess United States military needs
and would have committed the United States to accelerate the
development and deployment of theater and national missile
defense capabilities. Additionally, H.R. 7 sought to restrict
the deployment of United States forces and to maintain command
and control by United States personnel of its forces
participating in United Nations peacekeeping operations. If
enacted, the bill would have reformed the United Nations
management practices and reemphasized the commitment of the
United States to a strong North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Having been reported by the Committees on the Budget,
International Relations, National Security and Intelligence
(Permanent Select), H.R. 7 passed the House, amended, on
February 16, 1995. Referred and considered by the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, no further action was taken on
H.R. 7.
(H. Rept. 104-18, Parts I, II and III; H.N.S.C. 104-33)
H.R. 256
To withdraw and reserve certain public lands and minerals within the
State of Colorado for military uses, and for other purposes
H.R. 256, introduced as the Fort Carson-Pinon Military
Lands Withdrawal Act, would have withdrawn from appropriation
under public land, mining, mineral, geothermal leasing and
mineral materials disposal laws, and reserves for military use
by the Army, specified lands at the Fort Carson Military
Reservation and Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site.
Following its report from the Committees on National
Security and Resources, H.R. 256 was passed in the House on
March 28, 1995. No further action was taken on the measure in
the Senate. However, provisions of the Fort Carson-Pinon
Military Lands Withdrawal Act were included in Title 10 of the
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 (Public
Law 104-201).
(H. Rept. 104-28, Parts I and II; H. Rept. 104-563; S.
Rept. 104-267; H. Rept. 104-724)
H.R. 1141
To amend the Act popularly known as the ``Sikes Act'' to enhance fish
and wildlife conservation and natural resources management programs
H.R. 1141 would have enhanced fish and wildlife
conservation and natural resources management programs on
military installations. The bill also would have authorized
appropriations for titles I and II of the Sikes Act through
fiscal year 1998.
H.R. 1141 was referred to the Committee on Resources and
the bill, amended, was reported to the House. The Committee on
National Security requested and was granted sequential referral
of H.R. 1141, and subsequently ordered the bill, as amended,
favorably reported to the House on May 24, 1995. On July 11,
the House passed H.R. 1141, amended, by voice vote. Referred to
the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, no
further action was taken in the Senate on H.R. 1141. Although
the House-passed National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 1997 included the Sikes Act, these provisions were not
incorporated in Public Law 104-201. (H. Rept. 104-107, Parts I
and II; H. Rept. 104-563)
H.R. 2754
To approve and implement the OECD Shipbuilding Trade Agreement
H.R. 2754 would have implemented the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Agreement on
Shipbuilding, an international agreement designed to eliminate
shipbuilding subsidies granted by signatory countries either
directly to shipbuilders or indirectly to ship operators or
other entities.
H.R. 2754 was introduced on December 11, 1995, referred to
the Committee on Ways and Means, and reported by that committee
on April 18, 1996. The bill was sequentially referred to the
Committee on National Security, and the committee reported the
bill favorably to the House, with an amendment in the nature of
a substitute, on May 30, 1996. The committee amendment
addressed a number of concerns related to the lack of a
sufficient time period under the OECD Agreement for United
States-based shipbuilders to transition from the construction
of naval vessels to the construction of a combination of
commercial and naval vessels.
On June 13, 1996, H.R. 2754 was considered in the House.
The House adopted the Committee on National Security's
amendment and passed the bill, as amended, by a vote of 325-
100. The Senate took no action on H.R. 2754 before the
104<SUP>th Congress adjourned sine die.
(H. Rept. 104-524, Parts I and II)
H.R. 3142
To establish a demonstration project to provide that the Department of
Defense may receive Medicare reimbursement for health care services
provided for certain Medicare-eligible covered military beneficiaries
H.R. 3142 would have authorized a demonstration program to
provide for Medicare reimbursement to the Department of Defense
(DOD) for health care services to Medicare-eligible
beneficiaries through the Defense Health Program. The Military
Personnel Subcommittee held a hearing on H.R. 3142 on September
11, 1996. On September 12, 1996, the Committee on National
Security ordered the bill reported favorably to the House. No
further action was taken in the House on H.R. 3142 following
its report from the House Committee on National Security and
the Senate Committee on Armed Services.
(H. Rept. 104-27; S. Rept. 104-267)
H.R. 3144
To establish a United States policy for the development of a national
missile defense system, and for other purposes
H.R. 3144 would have established a United States missile
defense policy to deploy by the end of 2003 a national missile
defense system that would be capable of defending the United
States against ballistic missile attacks; would be augmented
over time to provide a layered defense against more
sophisticated threats; and which would not feature an
offensive-only form of deterrence. If enacted, the legislation
would have specified the architecture of the national missile
defense system and established a policy for amending the Anti-
Ballistic Missile Treaty.
On May 16, 1996, the Committee on National Security ordered
the bill reported favorably to the House. No further action was
taken in the House on H.R. 3144 following its report from the
Committee on National Security on May 16, 1996, and subsequent
granting of a Rule.
(H. Rept. 104-583, Part I)
H.R. 3237
To provide for improved management and operation of intelligence
activities of the Government by providing for a more corporation
approach to intelligence, to reorganize the agencies of the Government
engaged in intelligence activities so as to provide an improved
Intelligence Community for the 21st Century, and for other purposes
H.R. 3237, the Intelligence Community Act, would have made
broad structural and organizational reforms to the national
intelligence community. Specifically, H.R. 3237, as amended by
the House Committee on National Security, would have:
established a National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA),
created a second Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
(DDCI), promoted increased cooperation between the Defense
Human Intelligence Service (DHS) and the Directorate of
Operations (DO) of the Central Intelligence Agency, required
the Director of Central Intelligence and the Secretary of
Defense to report on the advisability of establishing a
Director in Military Intelligence, consolidated and streamlined
intelligence personnel authorities, and appropriately
recodified the National Security Act of 1947.
H.R. 3237 was ordered favorably reported by the Committee
on Intelligence (Permanent Select) on June 13, 1996, and, as
amended, by the Committee on National Security on July 23,
1996. The House took no further action on the measure.
(H. Rept. 104-620, Parts I and II; H.N.S.C. 104-9)
H.R. 3308
To amend title 10, United States Code, to limit the placement of United
States forces under United Nations operational or tactical control, and
for other purposes
Referred jointly to the Committees on National Security and
International Relations, H.R. 3308, as reported by the
Committee on National Security, would have stated congressional
findings and policy concerning the placement of United States
Armed Forces under the United Nations (UN) operational or
tactical control. Specifically, the bill would have prohibited
Department of Defense funds from being obligated or expended
for activities of any element of the Armed Forces that is
placed under UN operational or tactical control pending
specific Presidential certification. In addition, H.R. 3308
would have required that members of the Armed Forces be
informed of their unit's mission and their chain of command.
On September 5, 1996, the Committee on National Security
ordered the bill reported favorably to the House, and was
subsequently referred to the Senate Committee on Armed
Services. No further action was taken on this measure.
(H. Rept. 104-642, Part I)
H.R. 4000
To amend title 10, United States Code, to restore the provisions of
Chapter 76 of that title (relating to missing persons) as in effect
before the amendments made by the National Defense Authorization Act
for fiscal year 1997
H.R. 4000, as reported by the Committee on National
Security, would have restored provisions of Chapter 76 of title
10, United States Code (relating to prisoners of war and
missing in action), that were in effect before the amendment by
the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 1997.
The legislation would have ensured that missing members of the
Armed Forces (and those civilian employees accompanying them)
are fully accounted for by the United States and not declared
dead over time.
On September 27, 1996, the Committee on National Security
ordered the bill, as amended, reported favorably to the House,
and was subsequently referred to the Senate Committee on Armed
Services. No further action was taken on this measure.
(H. Rept. 104-806; H.N.S.C. 104-46)
Legislation Considered but not Reported
H.R. 1646
To revise and reform the statutes governing the organization and
management of the reserve components of the Armed Forces
The Subcommittee on Military Personnel held a hearing on
March 21, 1996 on H.R. 1646, ``The Reserve Forces
Revitalization Act of 1995''. Provisions of H.R. 1646 were
subsequently incorporated in H.R. 3230, as reported by the
committee on May 17, 1996, and ultimately in Title XII of the
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 (Public
Law 104-201).
(H. Rept. 104-563; S. Rept. 104-267; H. Rept. 104-724)
H.R. 1670
To revise and streamline the acquisition laws of the Federal
Government, to reorganize the mechanisms for resolving Federal
procurement disputes, and for other purposes
The Committee on National Security held a joint hearing
with the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight on H.R.
1670 on May 25, 1995, as well as a full committee hearing on
acquisition reform on August 2, 1995. The bill passed the House
on September 14, 1995, without consideration by the National
Security Committee, and no action was taken in the Senate on
H.R. 1670. However, the legislation was incorporated in
Division D and E of the National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 1996 (Public Law 104-106).
(H. Rept. 104-222, Part I; H. Rept. 104-131; S. Rept. 104-
112; H. Rept. 104-406; H.Doc. 104-155; H. Rept. 104-450;
H.N.S.C. 104-35)
H.R. 3322
To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1997 for civilian science
activities of the Federal Government, and for other purposes
The Committee on National Security was officially
discharged from consideration of H.R. 3322 on May 6, 1996. The
bill passed the House, as amended, on May 30, 1996. No further
action was taken on H.R. 3322 prior to adjournment.
H.R. 4282
To amend the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 to
make a technical correction relating to the provision of Department of
Defense Assistance to local education agencies.
Referred jointly to the Committee on Economic and
Educational Opportunities and to the Committee on National
Security, both committees were officially discharged from
further consideration of H.R. 4282. The bill passed the House,
as amended, on September 30, 1996. No further action was taken
in the Senate on this measure.
OVERSIGHT ACTIVITIES
The oversight responsibilities of the Committee on National
Security were conducted primarily within the context of the
committee's consideration of the annual defense authorization
bill, which covers the breadth of the operations of the
Department of Defense (DOD) as well as a significant portion of
the annual operating budget of the Department of Energy. The
DOD's roughly $265 billion annual budget involves millions of
military and civilian personnel, thousands of facilities, and
hundreds of agencies, departments, and commands located
throughout the world.
Additionally, H. Res. 5, adopted by the House on January 4,
1995, granted the Committee on National Security additional
legislative and oversight authority over merchant marine
academies, national security aspects of merchant marine policy
and programs, and interoceanic canals. H. Res. 5 also codified
the existing jurisdiction of the committee over tactical
intelligence matters and the intelligence related activities of
the Department of Defense. These additional oversight matters
were similarly covered during the course of the committee's
authorization and legislative activities.
Summary of Oversight Plan
The committee continued its oversight and assessment of
threats to U.S. national security and U.S. interests and the
preparedness of the U.S. armed forces to address these threats.
Throughout the 104th Congress, the committee received
classified and unclassified briefings on the international
threat environment. In consideration of the fiscal years 1996
and 1997 defense budget requests, the committee conducted
appropriate oversight hearings with the Secretary of Defense,
the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the individual
service Secretaries and Chiefs of Staff, regional Commanders-
in-Chief, other officials of the Department of Defense and the
military departments, officials of the Central Intelligence
Agency and other defense-related intelligence agencies, and
officials of the Department of Energy.
While most of the committee's oversight agenda was designed
to serve primarily in support of the annual authorization bill,
much of the committee's most demanding oversight activity was
event-driven and not subject to prior planning.
Actions and Recommendations
The following specific areas and subjects were designated
for special attention during the 104th Congress:
READINESS AND QUALITY OF LIFE
A primary focus of the committee during the 104th Congress
was the readiness of the armed services and the adequacy of the
Administration's defense spending priorities to support
sustained readiness and modernization of our military forces.
The committee took a comprehensive approach to begin addressing
both short and long-term readiness problems by applying
additional funds to key readiness accounts while protecting
core readiness accounts from the diversion of funds to pay for
unbudgeted contingency operations. Particular attention was
paid to quality of life programs supporting military personnel
and their families and the effect of those programs on military
readiness.
Additional attention was given to the following: an
examination of the current state of readiness and training of
the armed services; readiness of military forces from a joint
perspective and the readiness of commanders-in-chief charged
with warfighting missions; an assessment of the utility of
current methods of measuring the readiness of military units; a
continuing examination of the training required for the
maintenance of a high state of readiness and whether training
requirements are properly funded; integration of active and
reserve components; examination of the impact of the high pace
of deployments on service personnel and their families; officer
and enlisted recruiting, accessions, promotions, separations,
and retirements; assessment of pay, compensation, and other
benefits of military service; assessment of the current quality
of military health care; examination of family support
programs, including child care and dependent education; review
of the current quality and adequacy of the military family
housing supply; review of the current quality and adequacy of
barracks, bachelor enlisted quarters, and dormitories; and
examination of the backlog in the repair and maintenance of the
military housing supply.
Particular attention was also given to the oversight of
Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR) programs including the
examination of military exchanges and commissaries and
oversight of nonappropriated fund construction programs and
other nonappropriated fund instrumentalities. This active
oversight resulted in a number of initiatives contained in
National Defense Authorization Acts for Fiscal Years 1996 and
1997 (Public Laws 104-106 and 104-210). These included allowing
commissaries, exchanges and MWR activities to contract with
each other to achieve efficiencies; allowing commissaries and
exchanges to negotiate directly with private carriers for more
efficient transportation services; and conducting pilot
projects to achieve economies of scale by merging MWR
appropriated fund functions with the nonappropriated fund
function.
MILITARY MODERNIZATION
Recognizing that the 1991 Persian Gulf War clearly
demonstrated that maintaining technological superiority on the
battlefield depends upon a steady investment in research,
development, and procurement of weapons and equipment, the
committee devoted particular attention to modernization
shortfalls in three areas: modernization needs for which there
were both unfulfilled service requirements and industrial base
concerns; modernization programs which enhanced the military
services' ability to field sufficient forces to carry out the
national military strategy of fighting and winning two nearly
simultaneous major regional conflicts; and, finally, ensuring
that future military forces will have the technologically
advanced capabilities of new weapons systems. Specifically,
attention was given to the following: examination of projected
military equipment modernization on military capability;
evaluation of modernization shortfalls and the effect of not
funding these shortfalls on warfighting requirements and the
industrial base; nuclear attack submarine procurement strategy;
strategic airlift and sealift programs; heavy bomber forces and
the contribution of additional B-2 bombers to these forces;
National Guard and Reserve equipment; precision guided
munitions, ammunition; the chemical stockpile demilitarization
program; the landmine threat in Bosnia; and fighter and attack
aircraft as well as the modernization implications stemming
from Navy F-14/Marine Corps AV-8B aircraft accidents.
FORCE STRUCTURE
The end of the Cold War brought an assumption that the
demands on U.S. military forces would decline, which
accelerated ongoing reductions in both military spending and
personnel, to the point where active duty personnel have been
reduced by at least one third. The result has been a force
stretched to the breaking point. To adequately address these
issues, the committee focused particular attention on the
following: continuing oversight and examination of the Bottom
Up Review (BUR), including the strategic and tactical
assumptions supporting the BUR and the force structure designed
to support the ability of the United States to fight and win
two major regional contingencies nearly simultaneously; review
of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-Commander-in Chief
(CJCS-CINC) military requirements, examination of roles and
missions of the armed services, and their implications for
modernization requirements and the development of major weapons
systems.
BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE
The committee placed the highest priority on ensuring that
the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense program is well funded, well
managed and directed toward deployment of modern, highly
capable systems to protect the American people and our troops
abroad. Throughout the 104th Congress the committee conducted
11 hearings, devoting particular oversight attention to current
plans for conducting research and development on missile
defense systems; plans for deployment of national missile
defenses (NMD) and advanced theater missile defenses (TMD) for
forward deployed U.S. military forces and friendly forces and
allies; examining the long-range ballistic missile threat to
the United States--including the controversial National
Intelligence Estimate on this topic (NIE 95-19)--and the
requirement for a national missile defense system; ballistic
missile threats to the United States, specifically related to
the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, including its
continued relevance and utility in the post-Cold War world and
its present and projected impact on national and theater
missile defense programs.
BASE CLOSURE AND REALIGNMENT (BRAC)
Particular attention was given to the examination of the
management of the drawdown in defense infrastructure under the
base closure and realignment process and an assessment of the
adequacy of estimates provided to Congress on the costs and
savings associated with base closures and realignments in 1988,
1991, 1993, and 1995. Specifically, through hearings, member
and staff work, the committee undertook a thorough examination
of the impact of base realignment and closure actions on
affected local communities, including the effects of
Administration policy and statutory requirements concerning
base reuse, disposal, and community adjustment assistance.
These efforts resulted in a number of modifications to the
statutes governing BRAC, especially in the area of base reuse
and redevelopment (asset and property disposal, claimancy by
organizations representing the homeless, environmental
remediation and restoration, etc.).
INDUSTRIAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL BASE
Particular attention was given to the following: assessment
of current budget and policy priorities on the maintenance of
the defense industrial and technology base; termination of the
Technology Reinvestment Project; examination of the current
defense laboratory system, including an assessment of
redundancies with private sector laboratories; assessment of
the role of defense funding for university research in the
maintenance of the technology base. While the committee
recognized that many such dual-use programs are worthy of
federal funding, the committee believed that most would be more
appropriately funded in other functions of the federal budget.
These decisions were consistent with the committee's attempt to
focus DOD's resources on identified shortfalls in traditional
defense accounts.
MILITARY APPLICATIONS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY
Particular attention was given to the following: continuing
modernization and maintenance of U.S. defense nuclear structure
in support of national security requirements; assessment of
possible effects of a nuclear test ban, in whole or in part, on
the safety and security of the U.S. nuclear deterrent;
examination of the restructuring of the nuclear facility
workforce; and oversight of organizational issues affecting the
Department of Energy. The committee released a detailed paper,
``The Clinton Administration and Stockpile Stewardship: Erosion
by Design'', that was highly critical of the Clinton
Administration for not taking the necessary steps to ensure the
safety and reliability of the nuclear stockpile and long-term
viability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent. The paper included an
update on the status of the U.S. scientific and industrial
infrastructure for maintaining the safety and reliability of
U.S. nuclear weapons, and Administration plans for future
nuclear stockpile stewardship in the absence of nuclear
testing.
ACQUISITION REFORM
Public Law 103-355, the Federal Acquisition Streamlining
Act of 1994, provided for comprehensive, government-wide reform
of the federal acquisition process. The Committee on National
Security, which shares oversight of the defense procurement
process with the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight,
gave considerable attention to the implementation of Public Law
103-355 and conducted an assessment of possible further reforms
in the defense procurement system. The result of this
assessment led to a second round of comprehensive reforms of
the federal acquisition system enacted as part of the fiscal
years 1996 and 1997 defense authorization bills. These reforms
included: cutting costs and paperwork burdens and improving
business relationships between government and industry;
revising the current ``Procurement Integrity'' statutes to
focus on behavior rather than categories of individuals,
thereby protecting confidential procurement information by
prohibiting both the disclosure and receipt of such
information; eliminating the federal information technology
procurement authority under the General Services
Administration; doubling the existing Simplified Acquisition
Threshold (SAT) for overseas non-combat operations; granting
expanded authorities to waive or modify certain acquisition
laws in executing programs designated under the defense
acquisition pilot program; extending the streamlined
acquisition and prototyping authority currently available to
the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the
military services; eliminating and modifying defense ``plant
closings'' laws; and eliminating of government audit
duplication.
ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
The committee undertook an examination of the organization
and management of the Department of Defense, the military
departments, and the defense agencies with a view to improving
efficiency and reducing costs. The committee believed that,
despite declining budgets and shrinking forces, the Pentagon
has maintained unnecessarily high overhead, antiquated training
and organizational techniques, and outdated business practices.
Highlights of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997 Defense
authorization bills organizational and managerial reforms
included: mandated reductions in the acquisition workforce;
reductions in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD); a
reporting requirement on consolidation, streamlining, and
downsizing options for each military department's military
headquarters organization (both uniformed and civilian staff);
and the establishment of the National Imagery and Mapping
Agency (NIMA), which will allow DOD to harness, leverage, and
focus rapid technological developments to serve imagery,
imagery intelligence, and geospatial information customers.
Additional Oversight Activities
SAUDI ARABIA BOMBING
In the wake of the devastating terrorist bombing of the
Khobar Towers complex in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia that resulted in
the deaths of 19 American servicemen deployed in support of
Operation Southern Watch, the committee undertook a detailed
investigation of the incident, an effort that included the
dispatch of a staff delegation to the bombing site, a series of
briefings by DOD and intelligence personnel, a comprehensive
review of hundreds of documents related to the bombing, and
other inquiries. As a result of these findings, the committee
issued a report on the bombing concluding that intelligence,
organizational, and operational shortcomings contributed to the
unpreparedness for the tragedy. These activities culminated in
a hearing to assess the security situation leading up to and
subsequent to the bombing and exploring the findings of the
DOD's investigation of the bombing, many of which paralleled
the findings of the committee. The hearing also reviewed the
overall security situation within Saudi Arabia and issues
related to the redeployment of U.S. forces to a more remote
part of the country. The committee received testimony from the
Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, and retired Army General Wayne Downing, the Director of
the Downing Assessment Task Force. This initial investigation
has raised additional questions about the chain of command, its
responsibilities, and the adequacy of the legal authority
granted to operational commanders and is expected to result in
further oversight activity.
U.S. POLICY TOWARD BOSNIA
During the Second Session of the 104th Congress, the full
committee held 10 hearings exploring the evolution of U.S.
policy toward Bosnia and the former Yugoslavia. In addition, a
number of classified intelligence and operations briefings were
held as the crisis developed and as U.S. ground forces were
deployed to Bosnia. The committee participated in a number of
Congressional fact-finding delegations to the region, and
prepared a series of reports outlining and analyzing U.S.
policy toward Bosnia and the Balkans. These activities covered
every aspect of that policy; among the topics addressed were:
the Administration's plans to deploy U.S. forces to Bosnia in
support of NATO peace enforcement operations in the former
Yugoslavia; the circumstances surrounding the shootdown of an
American F-16 fighter over Bosnia; a review of the military and
political situation on the ground in Bosnia, including
intelligence assessments of the military capabilities and
deployments of the belligerent parties; military operational
issues connected to the U.S. force deployment, operations
within Bosnia, and overall readiness implications of the U.S.
deployment; the Clinton Administration's main arguments for
supporting the deployment; the provisions of the Dayton
agreement and progress in its implementation; the post-election
prospects for stability in Bosnia; the prospects of ``mission
creep''; the Administration's exit strategy; and the likelihood
of U.S. participation in a follow-on multinational peacekeeping
force.
As part of its efforts to gain a thorough understanding of
U.S. policy toward Bosnia and to provide comprehensive
oversight of U.S. military deployments to the former
Yugoslavia, the committee received testimony from the Secretary
of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the
Secretary of State, Department of Defense officials, the
intelligence community; former U.S. Ambassadors to Yugoslavia
and to the United Nations; active and retired U.S. military
commanders; the former United Nations commander of peacekeeping
forces in Sarajevo; and other former government officials and
non-governmental experts.
These hearings, briefings, reports and staff activities
formed the basis of Congressional legislative activities with
regard to Bosnia and are expected to lead to additional
oversight of budgeting, readiness, operational and strategic
issues related to the continuing deployment of U.S. forces in
Bosnia and the Balkans.
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE ON THE BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT
In response to widespread concerns regarding the analytical
rigor which was employed in compiling the Administration's 1995
National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), the committee tasked the
General Accounting Office (GAO) to research and report on the
matter. The report, ``Foreign Missile Threats: Analytic
Soundness of Certain National Intelligence Estimates'' (August
1996, GAO/NSIAD-96-225), provided a useful contribution to the
on-going debate by raising legitimate questions about the
assumptions, methodology, evidence and treatment of alternative
views in the 1995 NIE. In addition to the GAO report, the
committee included two provisions in the fiscal year 1997
Defense authorization bill to address this issue. The first,
section 1311, directs the Director of Central Intelligence to
convene a panel of independent, non-government experts to
review the 1995 NIE. The second, subtitle B of title 13,
directs the establishment of a commission to report on the
existing and emerging ballistic missile threat to the United
States.
CHINA
As one of several broad policy issues, the committee
focused on the emergence of China as a rising power and the
potential security challenge it poses to the United States and
its interests. Through hearings, staff and member briefings,
the committee gained a fuller understanding of China's national
military strategy, the direction of the force modernization
efforts of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and the
overall implications of China's military modernization which
began in the mid-1980s. In a hearing on China the committee
received testimony from a panel of leading outside experts on
these subjects, who underscored China's ascendancy to great
power status, its continuing development of military power
projection capabilities, and the likely impacts upon U.S.
national security interests. As part of the committee's
comprehensive examination of China's military modernization
efforts, the committee introduced legislation in 1996 mandating
that the Department of Defense submit a report to the Congress
on Chinese military capabilities and non-traditional, non-
linear modernization efforts. The committee also requested
three investigative reports from the General Accounting Office
to respectively review the potential national security
implications arising from DOD initiatives to enhance U.S.-PRC
military to military relations and cooperation, the sale of
U.S.-origin dual-use machine tools, and the transfer of state-
of-the-art telecommunications equipment that has both civil and
military applications. To augment the reports provided by the
General Accounting Office, and to illustrate China's efforts to
integrate its civilian and military economic sectors, the
committee requested that the Congressional Research Service
produce a report providing a comprehensive examination of
COSTIND, one of China's main military research and development
organs, and commission directly responsible to facilitating the
diversification the output of China's defense-industrial
sector's production lines. (These initiatives are discussed in
greater detail in the following section on technology
transfer). As a follow-up to China's March 1996 ballistic
missile firings into the Taiwan Strait, and China's 9601
military exercise which rehearsed an attack on the island of
Taiwan, the committee co-sponsored a seminar with the
Congressional Research Service, hosted by the National
Committee on U.S.-China Relations to consider ``Alternative
U.S. National Security Strategies for China.'' Also in response
to these developments, committee members and staff were briefed
by an outside expert on the status of China's missile
development programs, air force modernization efforts, and
current dependency upon foreign technology for military
modernization goals. Throughout 1996, the committee continually
protested China's illicit weapons proliferation and repeated
violation of international obligations, and also repeatedly
petitioned the Clinton Administration to properly address
Chinese policies and actions that violated U.S. and
international law.
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
The committee is concerned that the Administration's
technology transfer policy has the potential to jeopardize U.S.
superiority in military technology. In response to committee
and increasing Congressional interest, the committee addressed
three specific technology transfer issues: the Administration's
technology transfer policy toward China, the Export
Administration Act (EAA), and the proposed sale of
supercomputers to Russia.
The committee requested the General Accounting Office and
the Congressional Research Service to research whether China's
military is exploiting the existing international technology
transfer rules or breaking specific agreements and U.S. laws on
order to modernize more rapidly. The reports (three prepared by
the General Accounting Office and one by the Congressional
Research Service) concluded that China has been importing dual-
use technologies from the United States and using them for
military purposes. The GAO reports found that the
Administration has not properly enforced U.S. export control
law, that China's military has exploited vulnerabilities in the
U.S. export control process and using transferred technologies
in violation of U.S. export restrictions.
In accordance with its special oversight obligations with
respect to international arms control, the committee once again
acted to ensure that legislative re-writes of the Export
Administration Act (EAA) appropriately addressed national
security issues. During the 104th Congress the committee worked
with the House International Relations Committee in their
attempt to write a new EAA. While recognizing that the world
has changed since the original EAA was written, the resulting
bill contained protections sought by the committee for dual-use
technologies useful in the production of weapons of mass
destruction and advanced conventional weaponry. The bill
crafted by the committee and House International Relations
passed on the House floor by voice vote.
Concerned that the Administration was decontrolling
supercomputer exports for commercial reasons, while
disregarding the risk of potential adversaries using
supercomputers in the development and maintenance of nuclear
weapons, the committee began a monitoring effort in this area
during the 104th Congress. The committee tasked the
Administration to report on the potential increase in
proliferation resulting from the decontrol effort. The
committee also tasked GAO to review planned exports of
supercomputers to Russian nuclear weapons labs. GAO found that
in at least one case, the Russians sought a top-end
supercomputer to maintain their stockpile of nuclear weapons.
The committee will continue such monitoring in the 105th
Congress.
u.s. policy toward iraq
As developments in the Persian Gulf accelerated following
Iraq's invasion of the Kurdish stronghold of Irbil in northern
Iraq and the Administration's military retaliatory strike
against targets south of Baghdad, the committee conducted a
series of operational and intelligence briefings on the
evolving political and military situation in Iraq and U.S.
military activities in the region, followed by hearing on the
overall situation in Iraq and the Persian Gulf. The hearing
reviewed the impact of military developments on U.S. operations
and security goals, including the continued viability of the
Gulf War coalition to contain Iraq. The committee also focused
on Iraqi military activities in Kurdistan and southern Iraq and
the U.S. response.
extremist activity in the military
In the wake of the tragic killings of a black civilian
couple by three white soldiers from the Army's 82nd Airborne
Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, committee staff
conducted two separate fact finding trips to determine the
extent to which extremist behavior is present in the military.
In addition to the staff delegations, the committee conducted a
full committee hearing that focused on the extent to which
extremist activity directed at racial, ethnic, and religious
minorities is occurring in the military services; current
initiatives designed to combat the problem; and DOD initiatives
to monitor extremist activity in the military and to perform
oversight of each of the services' actions to prevent. The
committee received testimony from each of the military services
Secretaries, the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and
Readiness), and non-governmental experts.
shootdown of two blackhawk helicopters over iraq
The committee conducted an in-depth review of the April 14,
1994, downing of two Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters by Air
Force F-15 fighters over Northern Iraq. Following the review, a
hearing was conducted to: examine the causes of the accident
and assess the effectiveness of the corrective actions with a
view toward preventing similar accidents in the future; and to
examine the accident investigation and the judicial and
punitive actions that followed with a view toward assessing the
thoroughness of the investigation, the credibility of the
military legal system, and the sufficiency of the disciplinary
actions administered. Witnesses included family members of
those killed in the incident and Air Force officials. During
the hearing, the Air Force confirmed that a series of new
actions would be taken against the personnel responsible for
the incident to ensure that full accountability was achieved.
Following the hearing, the committee requested that the General
Accounting Office conduct a review of the incident and the
judicial and disciplinary actions that followed.
persian gulf illness
In the 104th Congress, committee members became
increasingly concerned about the possible harmful effects that
exposure to chemical warfare agents may have caused Persian
Gulf War veterans, particularly in light of the Department of
Defense's disclosure in May 1996 that some Persian Gulf War
veterans may have been exposed to chemical agents during the
war. As a result, the National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 1997 directs the Secretary of Defense to arrange
for independent research to determine whether exposure to low
levels of chemical warfare agents could have caused the wide
range of symptoms collectively referred to as ``gulf war
syndrome.'' Furthermore, the act directs the department to
study the possible health implications of administering a
``cocktail mix'' of inoculations and using investigational new
drugs, as was done during the Persian Gulf deployment. In
including these requirements into the bill, committee members
expressed their beliefs that the Department of Defense has a
responsibility to both current military members and former
members to fully investigate any possible links between
exposure to chemical agents or the use of combined inoculations
and illnesses suffered by these members or their offspring.
pow-mia
The committee conducted a series of eight hearings on
accounting for prisoners of war/missing in action (POWs/MIAs)
in Southeast Asia and Korea. The committee was concerned that
DOD procedures for processing of POW/MIA cases were flawed. The
hearings included analysis of individual POW/MIA cases to
assess the effectiveness of current and past policy and
procedures. The four hearings in the first session of the 104th
Congress led to a comprehensive package of reform measures to
ensure the accountability of POWs/MIAs that was included in the
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996.
Following an additional four hearings in the second session,
those procedures were amended in the Fiscal Year 1997 Act.
OTHER ACTIVITIES OF THE FULL COMMITTEE
Budget Activity
On February 24, 1995, the committee forwarded its views and
estimates regarding the budget for National Defense (function
050) for fiscal year 1996 to the Committee on the Budget. The
committee noted that spending constraints associated with
aggressive deficit reduction efforts would necessarily lead to
reductions in many discretionary programs, but that spending
for National Defense should be increased over the amount
requested by the President. The committee indicated that it
would focus its budgetary actions on the four primary areas of
military readiness, force modernization, quality of life for
service personnel, and streamlining inefficient Department of
Defense bureaucracies and processes.
On March 18, 1996, the committee forwarded its views and
estimates regarding the budget for National Defense (function
050) for fiscal year 1997 to the Committee on the Budget. The
committee noted that the President's Budget continued to
provide inadequate resources for National Defense and, when
adjusted for inflation, represented a reduction of over six
percent from fiscal year 1996 funding levels. The committee
reemphasized that its priorities would build upon the preceding
year's efforts in the areas of military readiness, force
modernization, quality of life for service personnel, and
streamlining inefficient Department of Defense bureaucracies
and processes. The committee further recommended National
Defense (function 050) authorization levels of $267.3 billion
in budget authority and $265.0 billion in outlays.
Full Committee Hearings
The Committee on National Security held numerous hearings
through the course of the 104th Congress consistent with its
legislative and oversight roles. Though the clarity of the
historical threat from the Soviet Union had ceased to exist,
worldwide power balances, geopolitical structures and the role
of the United States and its armed forces remained a matter of
debate and concern to many Americans. Through its hearings,
actions and oversight, the committee attempted to outline
proper strategic priorities for the nation and to establish
benchmarks for assessing the adequacy of U.S. military
resources to protect and advance American security interests in
the post-Cold-War world.
The end of Soviet communism did not bring about the end of
political conflict or military competition; rather, the post-
Cold-War world has been characterized by regional wars, tribal
and ethnic conflict, terrorism, the use of weapons of mass
destruction, as well as the outlines of potential new great
power conflicts that might directly threaten the United States
and its interests. Even as the Department of Defense continued
to have its budget reduced, American troops found themselves
increasingly employed in a lengthening list of contingency
peace-keeping, -making, and -enforcing missions around the
globe. The full committee's hearings addressed these threats,
trends, and conflicts and assessed the Administration's program
to meet the challenges they posed. In general, these hearings
fell into three categories: (1) hearings related directly to
the annual Defense Authorization process, (2) hearings related
to ongoing conflicts; (3) hearings focusing on the ability of
current and emerging great powers to confront U.S. national
security interests. In addition, the full committee held
hearings to examine potential Defense Department reforms,
social forces tearing at the fabric of the armed forces, and to
honor long-serving members of the National Security Committee
who retired at the end of the 104th Congress.
The full committee's overall work was guided by the
precepts laid out in H.R. 7, the National Security
Revitalization Act. On January 19, 1995, the committee received
testimony from the Administration on its defense budget request
for Fiscal Year 1996. On January 25, 1995, the committee heard
testimony from outside witnesses with regards to ballistic
missile defense provisions of H.R. 7. The committee met on
January 27, 1995, to mark up and report the bill to the House.
POSTURE HEARINGS
Early in each session of the 104th Congress, the committee
sought and received testimony from Secretary of Defense William
J. Perry, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General
John M. Shalikashvili, on the Administration's overall budget
plan and national security policy. They presented their
recommendations for the fiscal year. In each of the two
sessions, the committee also sought and received posture
statements from all of the service secretaries and chiefs of
staff.
In the first session, during deliberations on the Fiscal
Year 1996 Defense Authorization Bill (H.R. 1530), the committee
initially heard from Secretary Perry and General Shalikashvili
on February 8, 1995. They were followed by the uniformed
service chiefs on February 22, 1995 and the service secretaries
on May 3, 1995. During the second session, the committee began
its consideration of the Fiscal Year 1997 National Defense
Authorization Bill (H.R. 3230) with its first posture hearing
on March 6, 1996, taking testimony from Secretary Perry and
General Shalikashvili. On March 8, 1996 the committee received
posture statements from the service secretaries, followed by a
hearing March 13, 1996 with the service chiefs. The committee
concluded the posture hearings on March 27 and 28, 1996,
hearing from the Joint Requirements Oversight Council regarding
the Chairman's Program Assessment. This assessment identified
an annual shortfall in military procurement of approximately
$20 billion.
In addition to the views of leaders in the Pentagon, the
committee also sought during both sessions the perspectives of
regional commanders-in-chief. On February 23, 1995, the
committee met to receive testimony from General J.H. Binford
Peay, commander of United States Central Command (CENTCOM); on
February 28, 1995, from General Gary Luck, commander of United
States Forces Korea (USFK) and from Admiral Richard C. Macke,
commander of United States Pacific Command (PACOM); and on
March 2, 1995 from General George A. Joulwan, commander of
United Stated European Command (EUCOM). Finally, on March 8,
1995, the committee heard from the commander of United States
Atlantic Command (ACOM), General John Sheehan and United States
Southern Command (SOCOM), General Barry R. McCaffrey. In
addition, the committee also heard from retired four-star
generals and admirals on March 22, 1995, who supplied
independent assessments of military capabilities and readiness
of the U.S. armed forces. In the second session, the committee
heard from the regional commanders-in-chief on March 28, 1996,
receiving testimony from General Joulwan; General Peay; General
Luck; Admiral Joseph W. Prueher, the new commander-in-chief of
PACOM; and Vice Admiral Harold Gehman, deputy commander-in-
chief of ACOM.
U.S. TROOP DEPLOYMENTS
In addition to this first set of hearings directly linked
to each year's budgets, the committee conducted repeated
policy, investigation and oversight hearings on potential and
ongoing United States' troop deployments. Throughout the first
session of the 104th Congress, the committee held nine open-
session hearings and several closed briefings on the former
Yugoslavia, principally with regard to Bosnia-Herzegovina. It
explored the evolution of U.S. policy toward Bosnia and the
former Yugoslavia, including the Administration's plans to
deploy U.S. forces to Bosnia in support of NATO peace
enforcement operations in the former Yugoslavia; the
circumstances surrounding the shootdown of an American F-16
fighter over Bosnia; a review of the military and political
situation on the ground in Bosnia, including intelligence
assessments of the military capabilities and deployments of the
warring parties; military operational issues connected to the
U.S. force deployment, operations within Bosnia, and overall
readiness implications of the U.S. deployment; the
Administration's main arguments for supporting the deployment;
the provisions of the Dayton agreement and progress in its
implementation; the post-election prospects for stability in
Bosnia; the prospects of ``mission creep;'' the
Administration's exit strategy; and the likelihood of U.S.
participation in a follow-on multinational peacekeeping force.
As part of its efforts to gain a thorough understanding of
U.S. policy toward Bosnia and to provide comprehensive
oversight of U.S. military deployments to the former
Yugoslavia, the committee received testimony from the Secretary
of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the
Secretary of State, Department of Defense officials, the
intelligence community, former U.S. Ambassadors to Yugoslavia
and to the United Nations, active and retired U.S. military
commanders, the former United Nations commander of peacekeeping
forces in Sarajevo, and other former government officials and
outside experts.
The committee concluded hearings on the former Yugoslavia,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, stemming from the first session, on
September 25, 1996. The focus was on current and future United
States policy for Bosnia. It covered the progress of the Dayton
peace agreement, the status of opposing military forces and the
political situation within Bosnia. Additional focus was on the
presidential and parliamentary elections, the prospects of
``mission creep'', the Administrations exit strategy, and the
likelihood of participation in a follow-on multinational
peacekeeping force. Testimony was received by John P. White,
the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and General Joseph W. Ralston,
the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Late in the second session, the full committee convened to
focus on U.S. policy toward Iraq. In the fall of 1996, Iraqi
army forces moved against the Kurdish city of Irbil in northern
Iraq, which had been a semi-official ``safe haven'' for the
Kurds since the end of the 1990 Persian Gulf War. This action
resulted in the Administration's launching of retaliatory
missile strikes against targets south of Baghdad. In a
September 26, 1996, hearing, the committee met to discuss the
situation in Iraq and the Persian Gulf. It reviewed the impact
of military developments on U.S. operations and security goals,
including the continued viability of the Gulf War coalition to
contain Iraq. It also focused on Iraqi military activities in
Kurdistan and southern Iraq and the U.S. response. The
committee received testimony from a panel of outside experts
and a panel of Administration witnesses.
The committee had previously considered Gulf security in
the wake of the devastating terrorist bombing of the Khobar
Towers complex in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia that resulted in the
deaths of 19 American servicemen deployed in support of
Operation Southern Watch. On September 18, 1996, the committee
held a hearing to assess the security situation leading up to
and since the bombing. In light of a committee staff report,
which concluded that intelligence, organizational, and
operational shortcomings contributed to the unpreparedness for
the tragedy, the hearing explored the findings of the
Department of Defense's investigation of the bombing, many of
which paralleled the committee's findings. The hearing also
reviewed the overall security situation within Saudi Arabia,
and issues related to the redeployment of U.S. forces to a more
remote part of the country. The committee received testimony
from Secretary Perry, General Shalikashvili, and retired Army
General Wayne Downing, the director of the Downing Assessment
Task Force, appointed by Secretary Perry to conduct the
department's investigation.
BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT
In addition to examining ongoing crises, the committee
devoted considerable effort to understanding the larger,
longer-range threats to U.S. national security interests.
Primary among these was the threat posed to the American
homeland, U.S allies and military expeditionary forces by
ballistic missiles. Early in the second session, the committee
conducted two hearings on the U.S. ballistic missile defense
program. The first hearing, on February 28, 1996, examined the
long-range ballistic missile threat to the United States--
including the recent controversial National Intelligence
Estimate on this topic (NIE 95-19)--and the requirement for a
national missile defense system. The second hearing, on March
14, 1996, also dealt with ballistic missile threats to the
United States and focused on issues related to the 1972 Anti-
Ballistic Missile Treaty, including its continued relevance and
utility in the post-Cold War world and its present and
projected impact on national and theater missile defense
programs. Witnesses testifying before the Committee included
current and former intelligence officials and outside experts.
emerging and future threats
In a June 6, 1996, hearing, the committee directly focused
on the issue of U.S. security interests in the post-Cold War
world. This session explored issues related to the changed
security environment since the collapse of the Soviet Union,
the emergence of China as a rising power, the changing
geopolitical structure in the Persian Gulf and elsewhere in the
oil-exporting regions of Central Asia, and addressed the
inherent dangers associated with international stability from
failed states, ethnic conflicts, and terrorism.
This broad strategic view also was framed by more focused
looks at other regional great powers. On March 20, 1996, the
committee held a hearing on the potential security challenge
posed to the United States and its interests by China. At a
time when the Chinese army was conducting exercises designed to
demonstrate its growing power projection capabilities, the
committee attempted to gain a fuller understanding of China's
national military strategy, the direction of the force
modernization efforts of the Chinese People's Liberation Army,
and the implications of China's military modernization. The
committee received testimony from a panel of leading outside
experts on these subjects, who underscored China's ascendancy
to great power status, its continuing development of military
power projection capabilities, and the likely impacts upon U.S.
national security interests.
On June 13, 1996, the eve of Russia's closely contended
presidential elections, the committee held a hearing on whether
Russia is now or may in the future become a threat to the
United States and its allies. The committee explored Russia's
domestic and foreign policy goals and its strategy for
achieving those goals. A panel of high-ranking former
intelligence officials and outside experts examined Russian
threat perceptions, Russian military doctrine and capabilities,
and the stability of Russian political and military
institutions.
dod reform
The full committee also conducted hearings to examine
various options for making the operations of the Department of
Defense more efficient and effective. On May 25, 1995, the full
committee joined with the Committee on Government Reform and
Oversight to receive testimony on H.R. 1670, The Federal
Acquisition Reform Act of 1995. The bill was introduced by
Chairman Floyd Spence of the Committee on National Security and
Chairman William Clinger of the Committee on Government Reform
and Oversight. The intent of H.R. 1670 was to initiate
fundamental government-wide reform of the Federal acquisition
system. On August 2, 1995, the committee continued its revision
of Federal Acquisition Policy by receiving additional testimony
from outside experts, the Office of Management and Budget, and
the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Reform.
The committee's reform efforts also included consideration of
H.R. 3237, a bill to reorganize the U.S. intelligence
community.
other matters
On June 25, 1996, the committee held a hearing to learn
more about extremist activity and race relations in the
military. Testifying were each of the service secretaries and
outside experts. Each secretary discussed their efforts in
determining the extent to which extremist activity directed at
racial, ethnic and religious minorities is occurring within the
military services. Additional discussions focused on current
initiatives designated to combat the problem. The Under
Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness also provided
a general overview of the department's efforts to monitor
extremist activity in the military and what oversight each of
the services possessed in taking action to prevent it.
Finally, on September 25, 1996, the committee met to honor
Members leaving the House of Representatives at the end of the
104th Congress.
(H.N.S.C.104-1; H.N.S.C. 104-3; H.N.S.C. 104-9; H.N.S.C.
104-17; H.N.S.C. 104-23; H.N.S.C. 104-33; H.N.S.C. 104-35;
H.N.S.C. 104-36; H.N.S.C. 104-37; H.N.S.C. 104-38; H.N.S.C.
104-39; H.N.S.C. 104-40; H.N.S.C. 104-43; H.N.S.C. 104-44;
H.N.S.C. 104-45)
Special Oversight Panel on Morale, Welfare and Recreation
The Special Oversight Panel On Morale, Welfare And
Recreation was appointed for the 104th Congress on February 13,
1995, and most recently was reappointed on June 17, 1996.
The panel conducted three hearings under its jurisdiction
during the 104th Congress. Reviews of the fiscal year 1996 and
1997 budgets requests for morale, welfare and recreation (MWR)
programs were conducted on March 29, 1995 and March 27, 1996,
respectively. The panel continued its oversight of the military
services' MWR programs and operations of the Defense Commissary
Agency (DeCA) and the military exchanges. Issues examined
included the effects of the military drawdown on the morale and
welfare of our military personnel and the extent to which MWR
programs served to mitigate drawdown stresses; the impact of
the drawdown on commissaries and exchanges; the nomination of
DeCA by the Secretary of Defense to be a performance-based
organization; and efforts and options for improving
efficiencies in the operation of commissaries, exchanges and
MWR activities.
This active oversight resulted in a number of initiatives
contained in National Defense Authorization Acts for Fiscal
Years 1996 and 1997 (Public Laws 104-106 and 104-210). These
included allowing commissaries, exchanges and MWR activities to
contract with each other to achieve efficiencies; allowing
commissaries and exchanges to negotiate directly with private
carriers for more efficient transportation services; and
conducting pilot projects to achieve economies of scale by
merging MWR appropriated fund functions with nonappropriated
fund function.
The panel also continued its annual review of the
commissary surcharge and nonappropriated funded construction
program.
(H.N.S.C. 104-10; H.N.S.C. 104-30)
Special Oversight Panel on the Merchant Marine
The Special Oversight Panel on the Merchant Marine was
established on February 13, 1995, and was reappointed on July
17, 1996. Jurisdiction over the national security aspects of
the merchant marine, including financial assistance for the
construction and operation of vessels, the maintenance of the
U.S. shipbuilding and ship repair industrial base, cabotage,
cargo preference, and merchant marine officers and seaman were
transferred from the former Committee on Merchant Marine and
Fisheries to the Committee on National Security at the
beginning of the 104th Congress. The Committee on National
Security also assumed jurisdiction over the U.S. Merchant
Marine Academy and the six maritime training academies as well
as annual authorization responsibility for the Panama Canal
Commission. Matters within the above subjects were assigned to
the panel for appropriate consideration.
On March 28, 1995 and April 6, 1995, the panel held two
days of hearings to address the continuing decline of the U.S.
flag merchant fleet and its role in the Department of Defense's
sustainment sealift plans. On the first day of hearings, the
panel received testimony from the U.S. Maritime Administrator
and the Commander of the Military Sealift Command. On April 6,
1995, the panel received testimony from the maritime industry
and shipboard labor.
On March 29, 1995, H.R. 1350, the Maritime Security Act was
introduced and on May 17, 1995, the panel recommended by voice
vote that a substitute to H.R. 1350 be forwarded to the full
committee for further consideration. On May 24, 1995, the
substitute was ordered favorably reported by the House
Committee on National Security by unanimous voice vote (H.
Rept. 104-229). On December 6, 1995, H.R. 1350 was passed by
the House of Representatives after the adoption of an amendment
offered by the panel's Chairman. On September 24, 1996, the
Senate passed H.R. 1350 without amendment. H.R. 1350 was signed
into law by the President on October 8, 1996 (Public Law 104-
239).
During the March 28, 1995 hearing, the panel also received
testimony on the budget request for fiscal year 1996 for the
Panama Canal Commission and on legislative proposals to ease
the transition of the canal to the government of Panama on
December 31, 1999. Representatives of the Panama Canal
Commission and the Departments of Defense and State testified
on these matters. On May 17, 1995, the panel recommended
authorization levels for the Panama Canal Commission for fiscal
year 1996 as well as changes to the Canal Commission organic
statute. These recommendations were adopted by the Committee on
National Security on May 24, 1995, and were subsequently
included in title XXXV of Division C of the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 (Public Law 104-106).
On March 5, 1996, the panel held a hearing on the budget
request for the Maritime Administration and the Panama Canal
Commission for the fiscal year 1997. On April 24, 1996, the
panel provided recommendations to the committee on
authorization levels for the Maritime Administration and for
the Panama Canal Commission. The panel also provided
recommendations for additional changes to the Commission's
organic statute to ease the transition. These recommendations
were adopted by the House Committee on National Security on May
1, 1996, by unanimous voice vote. The recommendations with
respect to the Panama Canal Commission were contained in title
XXXV of Division C of the National Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 1997 (Public Law 104-201).
On May 22, 1996, the Special Oversight Panel on the
Merchant Marine held a hearing to examine the impact of H.R.
2754, legislation to implement the OECD shipbuilding trade
agreement which had been introduced on December 11, 1995. The
Committee on National Security received sequential referral of
H.R. 2754 and the panel received testimony at a May 22, 1996,
hearing from members of Congress, the United States Trade
Representative, a number of large and small U.S. based
shipbuilders, and U.S. flag vessel operators. On May, 29, 1996,
the committee agreed to an amendment in the nature of a
substitute to H.R. 2754 and ordered the bill favorably reported
to the House (Rept. 104-524, Part 2). On June 6, 1996, the
Committee on Rules met and agreed to make the amendment in the
nature of a substitute as recommended by the Committee on Ways
and Means as the original bill for the purpose of amendment.
The Committee on National Security substitute was made in order
as an amendment to the Ways and Means substitute. The House
agreed to adopt H.R. 2754, as amended, but the Congress did not
act further on H.R. 2754.
(H.N.S.C. 104-13; H.N.S.C. 104-31; H.N.S.C. 104-52)
OTHER ACTIVITIES OF SUBCOMMITTEES
Military Installations and Facilities Subcommittee
The Military Installations and Facilities Subcommittee held
several hearings in support of its consideration of the fiscal
year 1996 and fiscal year 1997 budget request for the military
construction, military family housing, and other related
programs of the Department of Defense and the military
services. In addition to its consideration of the annual budget
request, the subcommittee considered and reported legislation
in each session of the 104th Congress which was included in
division B of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 1996 (Public Law 104-106) and the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 (Public Law 104-201). In
both instances, the legislation included alterations to the
management of the military construction program and the
military family housing program, modifications to the defense
base closure and realignment process, and provisions affecting
the conveyance, exchange, transfer of jurisdiction, or
modification to existing statutory authority on the disposition
of real property. The subcommittee also reported legislation to
establish the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, to
reauthorize the Sikes Act, and to provide for military land
withdrawals at Fort Carson and the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Range
in the State of Colorado and at El Centro Naval Air Facility in
the State of California
The subcommittee took testimony from senior officials of
the Department of Defense and senior officials and active and
reserve component officers of the Department of Defense, the
Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, including
the Marine Corps, the Department of the Air Force, the General
Accounting Office, the Air Force Sergeants Association, the
Fleet Reserve Association, the National Military Family
Association, the Non-Commissioned Officers Association, the
Reserve Officers Association, and members of Congress.
(H.N.S.C. 104-8; H.N.S.C. 104-28)
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
The subcommittee met jointly with the Readiness
Subcommittee on March 24, 1996 to conduct an oversight hearing
on the management of environmental remediation and restoration
by the Department of Defense. The subcommittee took testimony
from senior officials of the Department of Defense, the
military departments, the General Accounting Office, and the
Congressional Budget Office.
(H.N.S.C. 104-6)
BASE CLOSURE AND REALIGNMENT
The subcommittee met on February 23, 1995 to conduct an
oversight hearing on the management of the drawdown in defense
infrastructure under the base closure and realignment process
and to assess the adequacy of estimates provided to Congress on
the costs and savings associated with base closure and
realignment. The subcommittee took testimony from senior
officials of the Department of Defense and the General
Accounting Office.
(H.N.S.C. 104-2)
FUTURE MILITARY HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE REQUIREMENTS IN THE ROCKY
MOUNTAIN REGION
The subcommittee met on April 12, 1995, in Aurora,
Colorado, at the Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, to conduct an
oversight hearing on future military construction requirements
to support the health care needs of military personnel and
their families and the military retiree community which may be
required as a result of the closure of the Fitzsimons Army
Medical Center. The subcommittee took testimony from senior
officials of the Department of Defense, the Commander of
Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, elected officials of the City
of Aurora and the City of Denver, and representatives of the
Future of Fitzsimons Initiative, the Retired Officers
Associations, and the Retired Enlisted Association.
(H.N.S.C. 104-14)
PRIVATIZATION OF MILITARY HOUSING
The subcommittee met on March 7, 1996 to conduct an
oversight hearing on the implementation by the Department of
Defense of the Military Housing Privatization Initiative
(section 2801 of the National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 1996 (Public Law 104-106)). The subcommittee took
testimony from senior officials of the Department of Defense
and the military departments.
(H.N.S.C. 104-28)
recapitalization and modernization of facilities
During the 104th Congress, the subcommittee conducted a
series of hearings on the recapitalization and modernization of
military installations, including the condition of military
housing for unaccompanied personnel and military families, the
condition of facilities supporting the operational mission of
the military services, and the state of basic infrastructure
such as electrical systems, water, sewage and sanitation, and
roads. The subcommittee took testimony from senior officials of
the Department of Defense, senior officials and officers,
including the senior enlisted officers, of the Department of
the Army, the Department of the Navy, including the Marine
Corps, the Department of the Air Force, a panel of military
spouses, and the National Military Family Association.
(H.N.S.C. 104-8; H.N.S.C. 104-32)
army strategic mobility program
The subcommittee met on September 12, 1996 to conduct an
oversight hearing on the adequacy of current defense planning
to support infrastructure requirements related to the Army
Strategic Mobility Program. The subcommittee took testimony
from senior officers of the Department of the Army.
(H.N.S.C. 104-42)
Military Personnel Subcommittee
The Military Personnel Subcommittee held a series of
hearings to review the manpower portion of the fiscal years
1996 and 1997 defense budget requests: March 7, 1995, (joint
hearing with Military Readiness Subcommittee) readiness and
personnel issues related to high pace of operations; March 14,
1995, personnel OPTEMPO; March 16, 1995, quality of life
issues; March 23, 1995, reserve component issues; March 28,
1995, TRICARE managed health care program; March 30, 1995,
wartime vs. peacetime medical requirements; April 4, 1995,
manning the force; March 7, 1996, Department of Defense TRICARE
and alternatives for retiree health care; March 12, 1996,
quality of life issues; March 15, 1996 (field hearing), use of
military personnel to increase security at U.S. borders; March
21, 1996, Reserve Forces Revitalization Act of 1995; medicare
subvention, September 11, 1996; and National Guard Youth
Challenge Program, September 24, 1996. The subcommittee also
held a series of eight hearings on accounting for prisoners of
war/missing in action (POW/MIAs) in Southeast Asia and Korea,
and one on August 3, 1995, friendly fire shootdown of Army
helicopters over northern Iraq. Four member briefings were
held: April 6, 1995, ranger training deaths; February 29, 1996,
gender performance standards; September 10 and October 1, 1996,
POW/MIA issues.
(H.N.S.C. 104-7; H.N.S.C. 104-11; H.N.S.C. 104-12; H.N.S.C.
104-18; H.N.S.C. 104-19; H.N.S.C. 104-22; H.N.S.C. 104-27;
H.N.S.C. 104-46; H.N.S.C. 104-47; H.N.S.C. 104-50; H.N.S.C.
104-51)
Military Procurement Subcommittee
The Subcommittee on Military Procurement conducted
numerous oversight hearings during the 104th Congress in its
deliberations of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997 Department of
Defense (DOD) and Department of Energy (DOE) budget requests.
Many of these hearings were held jointly, either with the
Subcommittee on Military Research and Development or with the
Subcommittee on Military Readiness.
Topics for DOD hearings included: modernization shortfalls
and the effect of not funding these shortfalls on warfighting
requirements and the industrial base; nuclear attack submarine
procurement strategy (two hearings); strategic airlift and
sealift programs; heavy bomber forces and the contribution of
additional B-2 bombers to these forces (two hearings); the
chemical stockpile demilitarization program; the landmine
threat in Bosnia; and modernization implications stemming from
Navy F-14/Marine Corps AV-8B aircraft accidents.
Topics for DOE hearings included: an overview of the
department's budget requests for atomic energy activities (two
hearings); a review of future plans, programs, and policies for
nuclear testing, tritium production, and infrastructure
consolidation/modernization; and a review of environmental
remediation/management issues.
(H.N.S.C. 104-4; H.N.S.C. 104-15; H.N.S.C. 104-16; H.N.S.C.
104-20; H.N.S.C. 104-24; H.N.S.C. 104-29; H.N.S.C. 104-48;
H.N.S.C. 104-49; H.N.S.C. 104-53; H.N.S.C. 104-54)
Military Readiness Subcommittee
In addition to its review of the operations and maintenance
portion of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997 Department of Defense
authorization requests, the subcommittee held a series of
hearings within its jurisdiction. Major areas of the
subcommittee's examinations included: readiness and training
for the armed forces; readiness of military forces from a joint
perspective and the readiness of commanders in chief charged
with warfighting missions; efforts to accurately measure,
assess, and monitor readiness; shortfalls in military readiness
and their causes; military contingency operations and their
effect on military readiness; infrastructure reductions and
other cost reduction issues; civilian personnel management
within the Department of Defense; financial management and
improvement shortcomings within the DOD; logistics management
and computer information management reforms and improvements;
environmental restoration activities of the DOD; and issues
concerning the National Defense Stockpile of critical and
strategic materials.
In addition, the subcommittee undertook a detailed and
extensive examination of issues concerning the military depot
maintenance functions and infrastructure of the Department of
Defense. In the first session of the 104th Congress, a major
legislative initiative was developed by the subcommittee to
permanently change DOD policy for the accomplishment of depot
maintenance. In the succeeding session, the subcommittee held
extensive hearings on DOD's response to these policy changes.
The subcommittee held hearings on the administration's
proposal to change the operation of Naval Petroleum Reserve
number 1 located at Elk Hills, California to a public
corporation. A legislative package was developed by the
subcommittee for the public sale of this reserve.
(H.N.S.C. 104-6; H.N.S.C. 104-24; H.N.S.C. 104-26)
Military Research and Development Subcommittee
In addition to the traditional oversight hearings held to
review the fiscal years 1996 and 1997 research and development
budget request for the Department of Defense during the 104th
Congress, the Subcommittee on Military Research and Development
(R&D) participated in series of joint hearings on Ballistic
Missile Defense with the Military Procurement Subcommittee. The
subcommittees also examined the recent developments in
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic
missiles, near term national missile defense, and tactical
aviation modernization.
During the 104th Congress, the R&D subcommittee also held
joint hearings on oceanographic capabilities and the disposal
of radioactive material and other toxic waste in the world's
oceans and tributaries with the House Science Committee,
Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
The R&D subcommittee also received testimony on detection
of terrorist threats, safety and survivability, federally
funded research and development centers, and the chemical-
biological defense program and response to urban terrorism.
(H.N.S.C. 104-4; H.N.S.C. 104-5; H.N.S.C. 104-21; H.N.S.C.
104-24; H.N.S.C. 104-25; H.N.S.C. 104-34; H.N.S.C. 104-41;
H.N.S.C. 104-49; H.N.S.C. 104-54)
PUBLICATIONS
Committee Prints of Laws Relating to National Defense
To assist individuals in referencing statutes that are
frequently under consideration by the Committee on National
Security and the Department of Defense and others in looking
for statutory guidance, the committee printed three volumes
pertaining to current law during the 104th Congress.
Title 10, United States Code--Armed Forces (as
amended through December 31, 1996).
Compilation of Defense-Related Federal Laws (other
than title 10, United States Code) (as amended through
December 31, 1996).
Laws Relating to Federal Procurement (as amended
through December 31, 1996).
(Committee Prints 5, 6 and 7)
Committee Prints
1. Committee rules, adopted January 10, 1995.
2. Title 10, United States Code, Armed Forces (as amended
through December 31, 1994). March 1995.
3. Laws relating to federal procurement (as amended through
December 31, 1994). March 1995.
4. A ceremony unveiling the portrait of the Honorable Les
Aspin. July 17, 1996.
5. Title 10, United States Code, Armed Forces (as amended
through December 31, 1996). January 1997.
6. Compilation of Defense-Related Federal Laws (other than
Title 10, United States Code) (as amended through December 31,
1996). January 1997.
7. Laws relating to federal procurement (as amended through
December 31, 1996). January 1997.
Published Proceedings
H.N.S.C. 104-1--Full committee organization and oversight.
January 10 and February 14, 1995.
H.N.S.C. 104-2--Military Installations and Facilities
Subcommittee oversight hearing on base closure and realignment
process. February 23, 1995.
H.N.S.C. 104-3--Full committee hearing on H.R. 1530, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1996 for military
activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military
personnel strengths for fiscal year 1996, and for other
purposes. February 8, 22, 23, 28; March 2, 8, 22; May 3 and
July 2.
H.N.S.C. 104-4--Military Procurement Subcommittee hearings
on Title I--Procurement of H.R. 1530, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 1996 for military activities of
the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel
strengths for fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes. March
7, 9, 15, 16, 29, 30 and April 6, 1995. [March 7, 9 and 15
hearings joint sessions with Military Research and Development
Subcommittee.]
H.N.S.C. 104-5--Military Research and Development
Subcommittee hearing on Title II--Research and Development of
H.R. 1530, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1996 for
military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe
military personnel strengths for fiscal year 1996, and for
other purposes. March 28, 1995.
H.N.S.C. 104-6--Military Readiness Subcommittee hearings on
Title III--Operation and Maintenance of H.R. 1530, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 1996 for military activities of
the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel
strengths for fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes. March
7, 9, 16, 22, 23 and 24, 1995. [March 24 hearing joint session
with Military Installations and Facilities Subcommittee.]
H.N.S.C. 104-7--Military Personnel Subcommittee hearings on
Title IV--Personnel Authorizations, Title V--Military Personnel
Policy, Title VI--Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits,
and Title VII--Health Care Provisions of H.R. 1530, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1996 for military
activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military
personnel strengths for fiscal year 1996, and for other
purposes. March 7, 14, 16, 23, 28, 30; April 4 and May 18,
1995. [March 7 hearing joint session with Military Readiness
Subcommittee.]
H.N.S.C. 104-8--Military Installations and Facilities
Subcommittee hearings on Division B--Military Construction
Authorizations (H.R. 1529) of H.R. 1530, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 1996 for military activities of
the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel
strengths for fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes. March
14, 24, 28 and April 4, 1995. [March 24 hearing joint session
with Readiness Subcommittee and published with Readiness
Subcommittee volume, H.N.S.C. 104-6.]
H.N.S.C. 104-9--Full committee hearing on H.R. 3237,
intelligence reorganization. July 11, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-10--Morale, Welfare and Recreation Special
Oversight Panel hearings on morale, welfare and recreation and
commissary issues. March 29 and April 6, 1995.
H.N.S.C. 104-11--Military Personnel Subcommittee hearing on
friendly fire shootdown of Army helicopters over Northern Iraq
in April 1994. August 3, 1995.
H.N.S.C. 104-12--Military Personnel Subcommittee hearing on
accounting for U.S. POW/MIA's in Southeast Asia. June 28, 1995.
H.N.S.C. 104-13--Special Oversight Panel on the Merchant
Marine hearings on annual authorization of the Panama Canal
Commission and annual authorization for the United States
Maritime Administration. March 28 and April 6, 1995.
H.N.S.C. 104-14--Military Installations and Facilities
Subcommittee field hearing in Aurora, Colorado, on future
military health infrastructure requirements in the Rocky
Mountain region. April 12, 1995.
H.N.S.C. 104-15--Military Procurement Subcommittee hearing
on B-2 bomber. September 12, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-16--Military Procurement Subcommittee hearing
on the new attack submarine. September 7, 1995.
H.N.S.C. 104-17--Full committee hearing on United States
security interests in the Post-Cold-War world. June 6, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-18--Military Personnel Subcommittee hearing on
U.S. and Vietnamese Government knowledge and accountability for
U.S. POW/MIA's. November 14, 1995.
H.N.S.C. 104-19--Military Personnel Subcommittee hearing on
Department of Defense's comprehensive review of POW/MIA cases.
November 20 and 30, 1995.
H.N.S.C. 104-20--Military Procurement Subcommittee hearing
on chemical stockpile demilitarization program. July 13, 1995.
H.N.S.C. 104-21--Military Research and Development
Subcommittee and Military Procurement Subcommittee joint
hearing on response to the landmine threat in Bosnia. January
24, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-22--Military Personnel Subcommittee hearing on
Department of Defense's comprehensive review of Indochina POW/
MIA cases. December 14, 1995.
H.N.S.C. 104-23--Full committee hearings on H.R. 3230, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1997 for military
activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military
personnel strengths for fiscal year 1997, and for other
purposes. March 6, 8, 13, 27, and 28, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-24--Military Procurement Subcommittee,
Military Readiness Subcommittee and Military Research and
Development Subcommittee hearings on Titles I, II and III--
Procurement, Operations and Maintenance, and Research and
Development of H.R. 3230, to authorize appropriations for
fiscal year 1997 for military activities of the Department of
Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal
year 1997, and for other purposes. March 19, 21, 22 and 29,
1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-25--Military Research and Development
Subcommittee hearings on Title II--Research and Development of
H.R. 3230, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1997 for
military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe
military personnel strengths for fiscal year 1997, and for
other purposes. March 5 and 12, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-26--Military Readiness Subcommittee hearings
on Title III--Operation and Maintenance of H.R. 3230, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1997 for military
activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military
personnel strengths for fiscal year 1997, and for other
purposes. March 19 and April 16, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-27--Military Personnel Subcommittee hearings
on Title IV--Personnel Authorizations, Title V--Military
Personnel Policy, Title VI--Compensation and Other Personnel
Benefits, and Title VII--Health Care Provisions of H.R. 3230,
to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1997 for military
activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military
personnel strengths for fiscal year 1997, and for other
purposes. March 7, 12, 15, 21; September 11 and 24, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-28--Military Installations and Facilities
Subcommittee hearings on Division B--Military Construction
Authorizations (H.R. 3231) of H.R. 3230, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 1997 for military activities of
the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel
strengths for fiscal year 1997, and for other purposes. March
7, 13, 19, 21 and April 16, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-29--Military Procurement Subcommittee hearing
on Title I--(DOE) Procurement of H.R. 3230, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 1997 for military activities of
the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel
strengths for fiscal year 1997, and for other purposes. March
12, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-30--Morale, Welfare and Recreation Special
Oversight Panel hearing on morale, welfare and recreation and
commissary issues. March 27, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-31--Special Oversight Panel on the Merchant
Marine hearings on annual authorization of the Panama Canal
Commission and annual authorization for the United States
Maritime Administration. March 5, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-32--Military Installations and Facilities
Subcommittee hearing on military housing and other quality of
life infrastructure. July 30, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-33--Full committee hearings on H.R. 7, to
revitalize the national security of the United States. January
19, 25 and 27, 1995.
H.N.S.C. 104-34--Subcommittee on Military Research and
Development joint hearing with Subcommittee on Energy and
Environment and Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans
on leveraging national oceanographic capabilities. January 25,
1996. [Printed by Committee on Science]
H.N.S.C. 104-35--Full committee joint hearing with
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight on H.R. 1670, to
revise and streamline the acquisition laws of the Federal
Government, to reorganize the mechanisms for resolving Federal
procurement disputes, and for other purposes. May 25, 1995.
[Printed by Committee on Government Reform and Oversight]
H.N.S.C. 104-36--Full committee hearings on the United
States policy towards the former Yugoslavia. June 7; July 11;
October 17, 18; November 2, 8, 15, 30 and December 6, 1995;
September 25, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-37--Full committee hearings on ballistic
missile defense. February 28 and March 14, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-38--Full committee hearing on United States
policy toward Iraq. September 26, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-39--Full committee hearing on United States
security challenges posed by China. March 20, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-40--Full committee hearing on challenges posed
by Russia to United States national security interests. June
13, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-41--Subcommittee on Military Research and
Development joint hearing with Subcommittee on Fisheries,
Wildlife and Oceans on oceanography. December 6, 1995.
H.N.S.C. 104-42--Military Installations and Facilities
Subcommittee hearing on infrastructure requirements to support
the Army strategic mobility program. September 12, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-43--Full committee hearing on the June 25,
1996, terrorist attack against United States military forces in
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. September 18, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-44--Full committee hearing to honor retiring
members. September 25, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-45--Full committee hearing on extremist
activity in the military. June 25, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-46--Military Personnel Subcommittee on H.R.
4000, restoration of missing persons act. September 10, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-47--Military Personnel Subcommittee hearing on
the status of POW/MIA negotiations with North Korea. June 20,
1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-48--Military Procurement Subcommittee hearing
on accident investigations of recent F-14 and AV-8B mishaps.
April 16, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-49--Military Research and Development
Subcommittee and Military Procurement Subcommittee joint
hearings on proliferation threats and missile defense
responses. April 4, 1995; February 29; March 7, 21; June 18,
20; September 27, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-50--Military Personnel Subcommittee hearing on
the presidential determination of ``full faith cooperation'' by
Vietnam on POW/MIA matters. June 19, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-51--Military Personnel Subcommittee hearing on
POW/MIA matters. September 17, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-52--Merchant Marine Special Oversight Panel
hearing on H.R. 2754, OECD Shipbuilding Trade Agreement. April
22, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-53--Military Procurement Subcommittee hearing
on Department of Energy oversight. September 19, 1996.
H.N.S.C. 104-54--Military Research and Development
Subcommittee and Military Procurement Subcommittee joint
hearing on TACAIR. June 27, 1996.
HOUSE REPORTS
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Report number Date filed Bill number Title
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104-18, part 1.................... Feb. 6, 1995......... H.R. 7............... To revitalize the national
security of the United
States.
104-28, part 2.................... Feb. 14, 1995........ H.R. 256............. To withdraw and reserve
certain public lands and
minerals within the State of
Colorado for military uses,
and for other purposes.
104-107, part 2................... June 1, 1995......... H.R. 1141............ To amend the Act popularly
known as the ``Sikes Act'' to
enhance fish and wildlife
conservation, and natural
resources management
programs.
104-131........................... June 1, 1995......... H.R. 1530............ To authorize appropriations
for fiscal year 1996 for
military activities of the
Department of Defense, to
prescribe military personnel
strengths for fiscal year
1996, and for other purposes.
104-220........................... Aug. 1, 1995......... H.J. Res. 102........ Disapproving the
recommendations of the
Defense Base Closure and
Realignment Commission.
104-229........................... Aug. 3, 1995......... H.R. 1350............ To amend the Merchant Marine
Act, 1936 to revitalize the
United States-flag merchant
marine, and for other
purposes.
104-280, Volumes I and II......... Oct. 17, 1995........ H.R. 2491............ To provide for reconciliation
pursuant to section 105 of
the concurrent resolution on
the budget for fiscal year
1996. [Volume I contains
Titles I-XII; Volume II
contains Titles XIII-XX.
Title VIII is National
Security Committee title.]
104-350, parts 1 and 2............ Nov. 16, 1995........ H.R. 2491, conference To provide for reconciliation
report. pursuant to section 105 of
the concurrent resolution on
the budget for fiscal year
1996. [Part 1 contains
conference report; Part 2
contains statement of
managers.]
104-406........................... Dec. 13, 1995........ H.R. 1530, conference To authorize appropriations
report. for fiscal year 1996 for
military activities of the
Department of Defense, for
military construction, and
for defense activities of the
Department of Energy, to
prescribe personnel strengths
for such fiscal year for the
Armed Forces, and for other
purposes.
104-427........................... Dec. 20, 1995........ H.R. 1655, conference To authorize appropriations
report. for fiscal year 1996 for
intelligence and intelligence-
related activities of the
United States Government, the
Community Management Account,
and the Central Intelligence
Agency Retirement and
Disability System, and for
other purposes.
104-450........................... Jan. 22, 1996........ S. 1124 (H.R. 1530), To authorize appropriations
conference report. for fiscal year 1996 for
military activities of the
Department of Defense, to
prescribe personnel strengths
for such fiscal year for the
Armed Forces, and for other
purposes.
104-524, part 2................... May 30, 1996......... H.R. 2754............ To approve and implement the
OECD Shipbuilding Trade
Agreement.
104-563........................... May 7, 1996.......... H.R. 3230............ To authorize appropriations
for fiscal year 1997 for
military activities of the
Department of Defense, to
prescribe military personnel
strengths for fiscal year
1997, and for other purposes.
104-583, part 1................... May 16, 1996......... H.R. 3144............ To establish a United States
policy for the deployment of
a national missile defense
system, and for other
purposes.
104-620, part 2................... July 23, 1996........ H.R. 3237............ To provide for improved
management and operation of
intelligence activities of
the Government by providing
for a more corporate approach
to intelligence, to
reorganize the agencies of
the Government engaged in
intelligence activities so as
to provide an improved
Intelligence Community for
the 21st century, and for
other purposes.
104-642, part 1................... June 27, 1996........ H.R. 3308............ To amend title 10, United
States Code, to limit the
placement of United States
forces under United Nations
operational or tactical
control, and for other
purposes.
104-724........................... July 30, 1996........ H.R. 3230, conference To authorize appropriations
report. for fiscal year 1997 for
military activities of the
Department of Defense, for
military construction, and
for defense activities of the
Department of Energy, to
prescribe personnel strengths
for such fiscal year for the
Armed Forces, and for other
purposes.
104-804, part 1................... Sept. 17, 1996....... H. Con. Res. 180..... Commending the Americans who
served the United States
during the period known as
the Cold War.
104-805........................... Sept. 17, 1996....... H. Con. Res. 200..... Expressing the sense of the
Congress regarding the
bombing in Dhahran, Saudi
Arabia.
104-806........................... Sept. 17, 1996....... H.R. 4000............ To amend title 10, United
States Code, to restore the
provisions of chapter 76 of
that title (relating to
missing persons) as in effect
before the amendments made by
the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 1997.
104-832........................... Sept. 24, 1996....... H.R. 3259, conference To authorize appropriations
report. for fiscal year 1997 for
intelligence and intelligence-
related activities of the
United States Government, the
Community Management Account,
and the Central Intelligence
Agency Retirement and
Disability System, and for
other purposes.
104-837, part 1................... Sept. 25, 1996....... H.R. 3142............ To establish a demonstration
project to provide that the
Department of Defense may
receive Medicare
reimbursement for health care
services provided to certain
Medicare-eligible covered
military beneficiaries.
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PUBLIC LAWS
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Law number Date approved Bill number Title
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104-93............................ Jan. 6, 1996......... H.R. 1655............ To authorize appropriations
for fiscal year 1996 for
intelligence and intelligence-
related activities of the
United States Government, the
Community Management Account,
and the Central Intelligence
Agency Retirement and
Disability System, and for
other purposes.
104-106........................... Feb. 10, 1996........ S. 1124.............. To authorize appropriations
for (H.R. 1530) fiscal year
1996 for military activities
of the Department of Defense,
for military construction,
and for defense activities of
the Department of Energy, to
prescribe personnel strengths
for such fiscal year for the
Armed Forces, to reform
acquisition laws and
information technology
management of the Federal
Government, and for other
purposes.
104-201........................... Sept. 23, 1996....... H.R. 3230............ To authorize appropriations
for fiscal year 1997 for
military activities of the
Department of Defense, for
military construction, and
for defense activities of the
Department of Energy, to
prescribe personnel strengths
for such fiscal year for the
Armed Forces, and for other
purposes.
104-239........................... Oct. 8, 1996......... H.R. 1350............ To amend the merchant Marine
Act, 1936 to revitalize the
United States-flag merchant
marine, and for other
purposes.
104-293........................... Oct. 11, 1996........ H.R. 3259............ To authorize appropriations
for fiscal year 1997 for
intelligence-related
activities of the United
States Government, the
Community Management Account,
and the Central Intelligence
Agency Retirement and
Disability System, and for
other purposes.
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VETOES
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Document number Date transmitted Bill number Title
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104-155........................... Dec. 28, 1995........ H.R. 1530............ To authorize appropriations
for fiscal year 1996 for
military activities of the
Department of Defense, for
military construction, and
for defense activities of the
Department of Energy, to
prescribe personnel strengths
for such fiscal year for the
Armed Forces, and for other
purposes.
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HOUSE NATIONAL SECURITY COMMITTEE PRESS RELEASES, 104TH CONGRESS
First Session
January 5, 1995--Spence Announces Leadership of House
National Security Committee.
January 10, 1995--Statement of Floyd Spence, Chairman,
House Committee on National Security, on CBO's Analysis of the
Defense Budget Shortfall.
January 24, 1995--Spence Announces Additional National
Security Committee Assignments.
February 1, 1995--National Security Committee Adopts H.R. 7
on Bipartisan Vote, Statement of Chairman Floyd Spence.
February 13, 1995--Chairman Spence Announces Panel
Assignments.
February 17, 1995--Spence Statement on House Passage of the
National Security Revitalization Act.
February 22, 1995--Spence Asks Hunter and Weldon to Lead
Missile Defense Efforts.
February 24, 1995--Chairmen Clinger and Spence Announce
Acquisition Reform Effort.
March 16, 1995--Congressional Leadership to Clinton:
Suspend Intelligence Sharing with UN.
March 29, 1995--Army Concludes Investigation of Ranger
Training Fatalities.
April 4, 1995--Spence Outlines ``Second Hundred Days''
Defense Agenda: Pentagon Reform, Weapons Modernization Top
Priorities.
April 7, 1995--National Security Committee Delegation
Departs for Asia, Persian Gulf.
April 25, 1995--National Security Committee Delegation to
Visit Guantanamo, Central America.
May 3, 1995--Spence on Bomber Study: An Endorsement of the
Status Quo.
May 4, 1995--House Chairman to Clinton: Don't Limit Theater
Defense in ABM Treaty.
May 10, 1995--Spence Supports Budget Committee Defense
Plan.
May 15, 1995--House Chairmen Oppose Limits on Missile
Defenses.
May 17, 1995--National Security Subcommittees Advance
Quality of Life Initiatives.
May 18. 1995--Readiness, Reform, Quality of Life
Initiatives Approved in National Security Subcommittees.
May 19, 1995--Federal Acquisition Reform Act of 1995 Cuts
Red Tape, Will Cut Cost of Federal Purchasing.
May 25, 1995--Statement of Chairman Floyd Spence: At the
Conclusion of the House National Security Committee Markup of
the Fiscal 1996 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 1530).
May 26, 1995--1996 Defense Bill Funds South Carolina
Projects.
May 26, 1995--FY 1996 National Defense Authorization Act in
Brief Restoring Our National Defense.
June 7, 1995--Spence to Administration: Stop Conducting
Bosnia Policy ``On the Fly''.
June 13, 1995--Spence Applauds House B-2 Decision.
June 14, 1995--Spence Applauds House Action on Missile
Defense.
June 15, 1995--House Endorses National Security Committee
Defense Priorities.
June 23, 1995--Statement by Chairman Floyd D. Spence on
Defense Budget Compromise.
June 29, 1995--Armey, Spence Urge President to Keep
Politics Out of BRAC Process.
June 30, 1995--National Security Committee Hearing to
Examine Blackhawk Shootdown.
July 13, 1995--Spence Letter: Defense Bills Improve Quality
of Service Life.
August 1, 1995--Fact Sheet: Budget Reconciliation Actions
in National Security Committee, Markup of H. Con. Res. 67.
August 1, 1995--National Security Committee Completes FY96
Budget Reconciliation Action.
September 14, 1995--Spence Works Out Alternative to ``High
One'' Military Retirement Problem.
September 20, 1995--National Security Committee Votes to
Kill ``High One''.
October 6, 1995--Statement by Floyd D. Spence on the
Decision to Relax Supercomputer Export Restriction.
October 16, 1995--National Security Committee to Hold
Hearings on Bosnia.
November 27, 1995--Spence: ``Unconvinced'' by President's
Bosnia Speech.
December 13, 1995--Statement of Chairman Floyd Spence at
the Conclusion of the House-Senate Conference on the National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996.
December 13, 1995--National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 1996: Summary of Conference Report.
December 15, 1995--1996 Defense Bill Funds South Carolina
Projects.
December 15, 1995--1996 Defense Bill Conference Report
Clears House.
December 22, 1995--Speaker, Majority Leader to President:
Sign Defense Authorization Bill.
December 28, 1995--Spence Response to Clinton Veto.
Second Session
January 3, 1996--House Votes on Clinton Veto on Defense
Bill.
January 19, 1996--Statement of Chairman Floyd Spence at the
Conclusion of the House-Senate Conference on S. 1124, the
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996.
February 16, 1996--Spence Statement on Administration BMD
Announcement.
March 1, 1996--Chairman Spence Responds to Pentagon Budget
Request.
March 7, 1996--Statement by U.S. Rep. Floyd Spence,
Chairman of the House National Security Committee, on the
Firing of Chinese Missiles Against the Coast of Taiwan.
March 14, 1996--Statement of Honorable Floyd D. Spence,
Full Committee Hearing on BMD.
March 21, 1996--Spence Responds to the Secretary of the
Army's Task Force on Extremist Activities.
March 21, 1996--Spence Cosponsors ``Defend America Act of
1996''.
March 28, 1996--Spence Statement on DIA Report on North
Korea.
April 18, 1996--Spence Appoints Submarine Panel Members.
May 1, 1996--Summary of Major Provisions: National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 as Reported by the House
Committee on National Security.
May 1, 1996--Statement of Chairman Floyd D. Spence at the
Conclusion of the Mark-up for the Fiscal Year 1997 National
Defense Authorization Act.
May 1, 1996--Statement of Chairman Floyd D. Spence Upon the
Mark-up of H.R. 3144, the Defend America Act of 1996, and H.R.
3308, the United States Armed Forces Protection Act of 1996.
May 14, 1996--Opening Remarks by the Honorable Floyd
Spence, Chairman, House National Security Committee, on H.R.
3230, FY 97 DOD Authorization Bill.
May 15, 1996--House Votes to Revitalize National Defense.
June 6, 1996--CBO Scores Limited NMD Systems.
June 6, 1996--Opening Statement, Chairman Floyd D. Spence,
Full Committee Hearing on Post-Cold War/ National Strategy.
June 12, 1996--Spence Responds to Second Bosnia Mission.
June 13, 1996--Statement by Chairman Floyd Spence, Full
Committee Hearing, Challenges Posed by Russia to U.S. National
Security Interests.
June 25, 1996--Chairman Spence Opening Statement Hearing on
extremist Activity in the Military.
July 30, 1996--H.R. 3230, Fiscal Year 1997 National Defense
Authorization Act, Conference Report, Summary of Major
Provisions.
July 31, 1996--National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 1997: South Carolina Projects.
August 14, 1996--Statement of Floyd D. Spence on the Report
on the Bombing of Khobar Towers.
September 3, 1996--Statement by Chairman Floyd D. Spence on
the U.S. Attack on Iraq.
September 5, 1996--House Votes to Protect U.S. Armed
Forces.
September 12, 1996--Statement of Chairman Floyd D. Spence
upon the Mark-up of H.R. 4000, Amending Current Law to Restore
Certain Provisions of U.S. Code Relating to Missing Persons.
September 12, 1996--Statement of Chairman Floyd D. Spence
upon the Mark-up of H.R. 3142, the Uniformed Services Medicare
Subvention Demonstration Project Act.
September 12, 1996--GAO Report Validates GOP Concerns on
Foreign Missile Threats.
September 16, 1996--Statement of Chairman Floyd D. Spence,
Reaction to Release of Downing Report on Saudi Bombing.
September 18, 1996--Statement of Chairman Floyd Spence,
Full Committee Hearing on Khobar Towers Bombing.
September 24, 1996--Statement of Chairman Floyd Spence as
Delivered for Floor Consideration of H. Con. Res. 200.
September 25, 1996--Spence Calls for Clinton Administration
to Come Clean on Bosnia Policy.
September 25, 1996--Statement by Floyd Spence, Chairman,
House National Security Committee, Hearing on Future of U.S.
Policy in Bosnia.
September 26, 1996--Spence Calls Administration's Iraq
Policy a Failure.
September 26, 1996--Opening Statement of Chairman Floyd
Spence, Hearing on Iraq.
October 30, 1996--Spence Blasts Administration's Management
of Nuclear Stockpile.
November 14, 1996--Statement by U.S. Rep. Floyd D. Spence,
Chairman, House National Security Committee, on the Continued
Commitment of U.S. Ground Forces to Bosnia.
November 19, 1996--Chairman Spence Responds to Allegations
of Sexual Misconduct in the U.S. Army.
November 21, 1996--Administration China Export Policy
Jeopardizes U.S. National Security.
November 21, 1996--Press Availability on Oversight into
Allegations of Sexual Misconduct in the U.S. Army.
December 5, 1996--Statement of Chairman Floyd Spence on the
White House Nomination of Senator Bill Cohen as Secretary of
Defense.
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