[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 165 (Tuesday, October 24, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1246-D1247]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                         COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR

                      WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1995

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Armed Services, closed business meeting, to consider 
certain pending military nominations, 10 a.m., SR-222.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to resume hearings to examine the 
status of religious liberty in the United States and whether there 
is a need for further legal protection, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Veterans Affairs, to hold hearings on S. 293, to 
authorize the payment to States of per diem for veterans receiving 
adult day health care, S. 403, to provide for the organization and 
administration of the Readjustment Counseling Service, to improve 
eligibility for readjustment counseling and related counseling, S. 
425, to require the establishment in the Department of Veterans 
Affairs of mental illness research, education, and clinical centers, 
S. 548, to provide quality standards for mammograms performed by the 
Department of Veterans Affairs, S. 612, to provide for a hospice 
care pilot program for the Department of Veterans Affairs, and S. 
644, to reauthorize the establishment of research corporations in 
the Veterans Health Administration, 10 a.m., SR-418.
  Select Committee on Intelligence, to hold hearings to examine 
intelligence's support to law enforcement, 10 a.m., SD-G50.
  Special Committee To Investigate Whitewater Development 
Corporation and Related Matters, to resume hearings to examine 
issues relating to the President's involvement with the Whitewater 
Development Corporation, 10:30 a.m., SH-216.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Resource Conservation, 
Research and Forestry, hearing to consider rural development reforms 
and the Agricultural Relief and Trade Act of 1995, 3 p.m., 1300 
Longworth.
  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, Subcommittee on 
Capital Markets, Securities and Government Sponsored Enterprises, 
hearing on H.R. 718, Markets and Trading Reorganization and Reform 
Act, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 657, 
to extend the deadline under the Federal Power Act applicable to the 
construction of three hydroelectric projects in the State of 
Arkansas; H.R. 680, to extend the time for construction of certain 
FERC licensed hydro projects; H.R. 1011, to extend the deadline 
under the Federal Power Act applicable to the construction of a 
hydroelectric project in the State of Ohio; H.R. 1014, to authorize 
extension of time limitation for a FERC-issued hydroelectric 
license; H.R. 1051, to provide for the extension of certain 
hydroelectric projects located in the State of West Virginia; H.R. 
1290, to reinstate the permit for, and extend the deadline under the 
Federal Power Act applicable to the construction of, a hydroelectric 
project in Oregon; H.R. 1335, to provide for the extension of a 
hydroelectric project located in the State of West Virginia; H.R. 
1366, to authorize the extension of time limitation for the FERC-
issued hydroelectric license for the Mt. Hope waterpower project; 
and H.R. 1835, to extend the deadline under the Federal Power Act 
applicable to the construction of a hydroelectric project in Oregon, 
2 p.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities, Subcommittee 
on Workforce Protections, oversight hearing on the Fair Labor 
Standards Act of 1938, 10:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, Subcommittee on 
Civil Service, to continue hearings on Civil Service Reform I: NPR 
and the Case for Reform, 10 a.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs, and 
Criminal Justice, oversight hearings on Census Bureau: Preparations 
for the 2000 Census, 12 p.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on House Oversight, to consider pending business, 11 
a.m., 1310 Longworth.
  Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Asia and the 
Pacific, hearing on United States-Japan Relations and American 
Interests in Asia: Striking a New Balance, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade and the 
Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs, joint hearing on Trade 
Issues Regarding Chile and other Latin American Countries in Light 
of the NAFTA Experience, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade, hearing 
on the Impact on U.S. Exporters of the New GATT Patent Accord, 1 
p.m., 2255 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, 
hearing regarding the Economic and Social Impact of Race and Gender 
Preference Programs, 10 a.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 826, 
to extend the deadline for the completion of 

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certain land exchanges involving the Big Thicket National Preserve in 
Texas; H.R. 924, to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from 
transferring any National Forest System lands in the Angeles 
National Forest in California out of Federal ownership for use as a 
solid waste landfill; H.R. 1838, to provide for an exchange of lands 
with the Water Conservancy District of Washington County, UT; H.R. 
1581, to require the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain 
lands under the jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture to the 
city of Sumpter, OR; H.R. 207, Cleveland National Forest Land 
Exchange Act of 1995; H.R. 1163, to authorize the exchange of 
National Park Service land in the Fire Island National Seashore in 
the State of New York for land in the Village of Patchogue; H.R. 
1585, Modoc National Forest Boundary Adjustment Act; H.R. 1784, to 
validate certain conveyances made by the Southern Pacific 
Transportation Company within the cities of Reno, NV, and Tulare, 
CA; H.R. 2437, to provide for the exchange of certain lands in 
Gilpin County, CO; and H.R. 2402, Snowbasin Land Exchange Act of 
1995, 11 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Rules, to consider H.R. 2491, Seven-Year Balanced 
Budget Reconciliation Act of 1995, 10 a.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, to mark up H.R. 2196, National Technology 
Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995; and to consider Committee 
business, 10:30 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, oversight hearing on ``IRS 
Initiatives to Reduce Regulatory and Paperwork Burdens on Small 
Business,'' 10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, executive, to consider 
pending business, 10 a.m., HT-2M Capitol.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Hospitals and 
Health Care, oversight hearing concerning issues at the Harry S 
Truman VA Medical Center in Columbia, Missouri, 9:30 a.m., 334 
Cannon.


                             Joint Meetings

  Conferees, on S. 652, to provide for a pro-competitive, de-
regulatory national policy framework designed to accelerate rapidly 
private sector deployment of advanced telecommunications and 
information technologies and services to all Americans by opening 
all telecommunications markets to competition, 9 a.m., S-SC-5, 
Capitol.
  Conferees, on H.R. 1905, making appropriations for energy and 
water development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, 10 
a.m., S-128, Capitol.
  Conferees, on H.R. 2020, making appropriations for the Treasury 
Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office 
of the President, and certain Independent Agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 1996, 2:30 p.m., H-140, Capitol.