[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 137 (Tuesday, September 27, 1994)]
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                         COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR

                     WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1994

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Armed Services, open and closed briefing on the 
situation in Haiti, 1 p.m., SR-222.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, to hold hearings 
to examine the condition of the United States capital markets and 
globalization of world capital markets, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to hear and consider 
the nomination of Rhea Lydia Graham, of New Mexico, to be Director 
of the United States Bureau of Mines, Department of the Interior, 
9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Finance, business meeting, to mark up S. 1834, 
authorizing funds for programs of the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund), 10 a.m., SD-
215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations, to hold hearings on the nomination 
of David G. Newton, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Yemen, 9:30 a.m., S-116, Capitol.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings on the Convention on the 
Conservation and Management of Pollock Resources in the Central 
Bering Sea (Treaty Doc. 103-27), and Two Treaties with the United 
Kingdom Establishing Caribbean Maritime Boundaries (Treaty Doc. 103-
23), 10:30 a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nominations of Geraldine 
A. Ferraro, of New York, for the rank of Ambassador during her 
tenure of service as U.S. Representative on the Human Rights 
Commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations; 
Thomas E. McNamara, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant 
Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs; Robert B. Fulton, 
of Pennsylvania, to be Associate Director for Information of the 
U.S. Information Agency; and Vonya B. McCann, of Maryland, for the 
rank of Ambassador during her tenure of service as Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of State for International Communications and Information 
Policy, 2 p.m., SD-419.
  Subcommittee on African Affairs, to hold hearings on the proposed 
African conflict resolution, 2 p.m., SD-430.
  Committee on the Judiciary, business meeting, to consider pending 
calendar business, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nominations of Sheldon C. 
Bilchik, of Maryland, to be Administrator of the Office of Juvenile 
Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Department of Justice, and Rose 
Ochi, of California, to be Associate Director for National Drug 
Control Policy, 10:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nominations of Fred I. 
Parker, of Vermont, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Second 
Circuit, Helen W. Gillmor, to be United States District Judge for 
the District of Hawaii; David A. Katz, to be United States District 
Judge for the Northern District of Ohio; Sean J. McLaughlin, to be 
United States District Judge for the Western District of 
Pennsylvania; William T. Moore Jr., to be United States District 
Judge for the Southern District of Georgia; Roslyn Moore-Silver, to 
be United States District Judge for the District of Arizona; and 
Alvin W. Thompson, to be United States District Judge for the 
District of Connecticut, 2 p.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Labor and Human Resources, to hold hearings on 
Federal job training programs, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Select Committee on Intelligence, to hold closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, 4 p.m., SH-219.
  Committee on Agriculture, to consider the following bills: H.R. 
4379, Farm Credit System Agricultural Export and Risk Management 
Act; H.R. 5065, Beginning Farmer Technical Corrections Act of 1994; 
and H.R. 4196, to ensure that all timber-dependent communities 
qualify for loans and grants from the Rural Development 
Administration, 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Livestock, hearing on the following bills: H.R. 
3646, Meat and Poultry Inspection Act Technical Amendments; H.R. 
4625, Egg Products Inspection Act Technical Amendments; H.R. 559, 
Downed Animal Protection Act; and H.R. 649, Humane Methods of 
Poultry Slaughter Act, 1 p.m., 1302 Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal 
Service, General Government, hearing on U.S. Postal Operations, 10 
a.m., 2358 Rayburn.
  Committee on Armed Services, executive, to receive a classified 
briefing on Haiti, 9:30 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, Subcommittee on 
Consumer Credit and Insurance, hearing on the community investment 
practices of mortgage bank, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, to mark up the Uruguay Round 
Implementation Act, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, to consider the following: a measure 
to extend the Export Administration Act for 1 year; H. Con. Res. 
286, recognizing the contribution of President Alfredo Christiani of 
El Salvador to achieve peace and national reconciliation in El 
Salvador; H. Con. Res. 279, condemning the July 13, 1994, sinking of 
the ``13th of March,'' a tugboat carrying 72 unarmed Cuban citizens, 
by vessels of the Cuban Government; and a joint resolution 
concerning Haiti, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Africa, hearing on Recent Developments in North 
Africa, 2 p.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Operations, Subcommittee on Human 
Resources and Intergovernmental Relations, hearing on Chemical 
Residues and Contaminants in Food, 9:45 a.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Legislation and National Security, hearing on Cold 
War Era Human Subject Experimentation, 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Civil and 
Constitutional Rights, oversight hearings on Fair Housing Issues, 10 
a.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Economic and Commercial Law, to mark up the 
following: H.R. 4781, International Antitrust Enforcement Assistance 
Act of 1994; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994; H.R. 4994, Baseball Fans 
and Communities Protection Act of 1994; and H.R. 546, to limit State 
taxation of certain pension income, 2:30 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Subcommittee on 
Merchant Marine and the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Navigation, 
joint hearing on Cruise Ship Health and Safety Practices, 10 a.m., 
1334 Longworth.
  Committee on Natural Resources, to consider the following: H.R. 
4814, Central Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact 
Amendments Consent Act of 1994; H.R. 1181, to increase Federal 
payments in lieu of taxes to units of general local government; H.R. 
3954, Mni Wiconi Act Amendments of 1994; H.R. 4439, to expand the 
scope of the Belle Fourche irrigation project; H.R. 4615, to make 
the provisions of the Act commonly known as the ``Warren Act'' 
applicable to the Central Utah Project, UT; H.R. 4925, to extend for 
1 year the authority of the Bureau of Reclamation to sell certain 
loans to the Redwood Valley Water District; H.R. 4833, American 
Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 1994; H.R. 4842, Indian 
Self-Determination Act Amendments of 1994; H.R. 4462, Indian Federal 
Recognition Administrative Procedures Act of 1994; S. 1784, to 
restore the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of 
Alaska to the Department of the Interior list of Indian entities 
recognized and eligible to receive Services from the United States 
Bureau of Indian Affairs; H.R. 4180, to prohibit the withdrawal of 
acknowledgement or recognition of an Indian tribe or Alaska Native 
group or of the leaders of an Indian tribe or Alaska Native group, 
absent an Act of Congress; S. 720, Indian Lands Open Dump Cleanup 
Act of 1994; H.R. 3612, to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement 
Act; H.R. 3613, Kenai Natives Association Equity Act of 1993; H.R. 
4665, to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act; H.R. 4944, 
Water Desalination Act of 1994; S. 986, Corinth, Mississippi, 
Battlefield Act of 1993; H.R. 4642, to provide for the restoration 
of Washington Square in Philadelphia and for its inclusion within 
Independence National Historical Park; S. 316, Saguaro National Park 
Establishment Act of 1994; H.R. 4697, to modify the boundaries of 
Walnut Canyon National Monument in the State of Arizona; S. 1233, 
Arizona Wilderness Land Title Resolution Act of 1994; H.R. 4746, 
Anaktuvuk Pass Exchange and Wilderness Redesignation Act of 1994; 
H.R. 4754, Anaktuvuk Pass Land Exchange Wilderness Redesignation Act 
of 1994; H.R. 233, to apply certain provisions of the Wild and 
Scenic Rivers Act to a segment of the North Fork of the Payette 
River in Idaho; H.R. 4083, Lower Salmon River Recreation and Scenic 
Rivers Act of 1994; S. 1919, Rio Puerco Watershed Act of 1994; H.R. 
4010, Rio Puerco Watershed Act of 1994; H.R. 3554, to require the 
exchange of National Forest System lands within the forest in 
Wyoming; H.R. 3204, to transfer a parcel of land to the Taos Pueblo 
Indians of New Mexico; H.R. 4533, National Park Service 
Entrepreneurial Management Reform Act; H.R. 359, to improve the 
administration of the Women's Rights National Historical Park in the 
State of New York; H.R. 4435, Manassas National Battlefield Park 
Amendments of 1994; H.R. 3559, to amend the Dayton Aviation Heritage 
Preservations Act of 1992; H.R 4599, to authorize the lease of 
certain property transferred to the District of Columbia; H.R. 4974, 
to amend the Mississippi River Corridor Study Commission Act of 1989 
to extend the term of the commission established by such Act; a 
measure to amend the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation Act 
of 1972 to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1995 for 
operating and administrative expenses and to require a plan for the 
orderly dissolution of the Corporation; H.J. Res. 406, to approve 
the location of a World War II Memorial in the Nation's Capitol; 
H.R. 2966, to amend the National Trails Systems Act to designate the 
route from Selma to Montgomery as a national historic trail; H.R. 
4784, Mountain Park Project Act of 1994; H.R. 1474, to increase the 
irrigable acreage for the San Angelo Federal reclamation project, 
TX; S. 1146, Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe Water Rights Settlement 
Act of 1994; H.R. 4525, Stagecoach Reservoir Project Act of 1994; S. 
2067, to elevate the position of Director of Indian Health Service 
to Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, to provide for 
the organizational independence of the Indian Health Service within 
the Department of Health and Human Services; and a measure to amend 
the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 to 
provide a loan to the Madera-Chowchilla Water Authority, 9:15 a.m., 
1324 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing on the Fort 
Peck Indian Tribes-Montana Compact Act of 1994, 2 p.m., 1324 
Longworth.
  Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, Sucommittee on Census, 
Statistics and Postal Personnel, to mark up H.R. 5084, Census 
Address List Improvement Act of 1994, 9:15 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Subcommittee on Compensation and Employee Benefits, to mark up 
H.R. 4488, to amend the Federal Workforce Restructuring Act of 1994 
to provide that the duties performed by individuals separating from 
Government service in order to receive a voluntary separation 
incentive payment may not be performed by any person under contract 
with the United States, 3 p.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on Public Works and Transportation, to consider the 
following: H.R. 4704, to provide for the conveyance of certain lands 
and improvements in Hopewell Township, PA, to a nonprofit 
organization known as the Beaver County Corp. for Economic 
Development to provide a site for economic development; H.R. 4967, 
to designate the Federal building and U.S. courthouse in Detroit, 
MI, as the ``Theodore Levin Federal Building and United States 
Courthouse''; H.R. 4910, to designate the U.S. courthouse under 
construction in White Plains, NY, as the ``Thurgood Marshall United 
States Courthouse''; H.R. 4939, to designate the U.S. courthouse 
located at 201 South Vine Street in Urbana, IL, as the ``Frederick 
S. Green United States Courthouse''; H.R. 4495, Airliner Cabin Air 
Quality Act of 1994; H.R. 4394, Comprehensive One-Call Notification 
Act of 1994; H.R. 2873, Natural Disaster Protection Act of 1993; 
H.R. 4460, Water Resources Development Act of 1994; GSA, Corps of 
Engineers Survey and Soil Conservation Service Small Watershed 
Protection resolutions, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, to consider the Conference Report to accompany 
H.R. 4650, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, 1 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, hearing on Gene 
Therapy--Status, Prospects for the Future, and Government Policy 
Implications, 1:30 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, hearing on Telemarketing Fraud: 
Putting Phone Scams on Hold, 10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Sucommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, hearing on Hispanic Veterans: Contributions to the 
Nation and Community, Receipt of Federal Veterans Benefits and 
Related Issues, 9 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, to consider Uruguay Round 
Implementation Act, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.


                             Joint Meetings

  Office of Technology Assessment, board meeting, to consider 
pending business, 9 a.m., EF-100, Capitol.