This collection of statements focuses on Title 2 of S. 1067, which calls for the National Science Foundation to establish a National Research and Education Network (NREN) by 1996. This is one of several titles in a bill to provide for a coordinated federal research program to ensure continued U.S. leadership in high performance computing. The network proposed in Title 2 will link government, industry, and higher education; be developed in close cooperation with the computer and telecommunications industry; and be designed and developed with the advice of potential users in government, industry, and higher education. A total of 24 representatives of these three groups presented testimony and prepared statements at the hearings: (1) James H. Billington; (2) John Seely Brown; (3) James H. Clark; (4) A. Gray Collins, Jr.; (5) Craig Fields; (6) John N. Fischer; (7) O. Gene Gabbard; (8) Sheryl L. Handler; (9) Robert E. Kahn; (10) Richard T. Liebhaber; (11) Robert W. Lucky; (12) Daniel S. Masys; (13) David Nagel; (14) Ted Nelson; (15) J. William Poduska, Sr.; (16) Ray Reddy; (17) John A. Rollwagen; (18) Roger Schwantes; (19) Jacob T. Schwartz; (20) Karl-Heinz A. Winkler; (21) Irving Wladawaky; (22) Richard T. Wood; (23) William Wulf; and (24) Joe Wyatt. This report includes opening statements by Senators Gore and Pressler, the text of S. 1067, a transcript of questions addressed to the witnesses together with their responses, the prepared statements from the witnesses, and additional statements from the Association of American Publishers and Robert Kerry, U.S. Senator from Nebraska. (DB)