[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 195 (Friday, December 8, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1439-D1441]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                  Week of December 11 through 16, 1995

                             Senate Chamber

  On Monday and Tuesday, Senate will resume consideration of S.J. Res. 
31, Flag Desecration Constitutional Amendment.
  During the week, Senate expects to also consider the further 
conference report on H.R. 2099, VA-HUD Appropriations, legislation 
relative to Bosnia, continuing appropriations, further conference 
reports (when available), and any cleared legislative business.

  (Senate and House will hold a joint meeting to receive an address by 
Shimon Peres, Prime Minister of Israel, at 11 a.m., on Tuesday, 
December 12, 1995)
  (Senate will recess on Tuesday, December 12, 1995, from 12:30 p.m. 
until 2:15 p.m. for respective party conferences.)


                           Senate Committees

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
  Committee on Armed Services: December 12, to hold hearings on the 
nomination of H. Martin Lancaster, of North Carolina, to be an 
Assistant Secretary of the Army, 10 a.m., SR-222.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: December 12, 
business meeting, to mark up S. 1228, to impose sanctions on foreign 
persons exporting petroleum products, natural gas, or related 
technology to Iran, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: December 12, 
Subcommittee on Parks, Historic Preservation and Recreation, to hold 
hearings on S. 873, to establish the South Carolina National 
Heritage Corridor, S. 944, to provide for the establishment of the 
Ohio River Corridor Study Commission, S. 945, to amend the Illinois 
and Michigan Canal Heritage Corridor Act of 1984 to modify the 
boundaries of the corridor, S. 1020, to establish the Augusta Canal 
National Heritage Area in the State of Georgia, S. 1110, to 
establish guidelines for the designation of National Heritage Areas, 
S. 1127, to establish the Vancouver National Historic Reserve, and 
S. 1190, to establish the Ohio and Erie Canal National Heritage 
Corridor in the State of Ohio, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  December 13, Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management, 
to hold hearings on S. 901, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to participate in the design, planning, and construction of 
certain water reclamation and reuse projects and desalination 
research and development projects, S. 1013, to acquire land for 
exchange for privately held land for use as wildlife and wetland 
protection areas, in connection with the Garrison Diversion Unit 
Project, S. 1154, to authorize the construction of the Fort Peck 
Rural Water Supply System, S. 1169, to amend the Reclamation 
Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize 
construction of facilities for the reclamation and reuse of 
wastewater at McCall, Idaho, and S. 1186, to provide for the 
transfer of operation and maintenance of the Flathead irrigation and 
power project, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  December 14, Full Committee, to hold hearings on S. 1271, to amend 
the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: December 12, to hold 
hearings on provisions of S. 776, to reauthorize the Atlantic 
Striped Bass Conservation Act and the Anadromous Fish Conservation 
Act, 2:30 p.m., SD-406.
  December 13, Full Committee, to hold hearings on proposed 
legislation authorizing funds for the Clean Water Act, focusing on 
municipal issues, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: December 12, business meeting, to 
consider pending calendar business, 2 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: December 12, business meeting, 
to consider pending calendar business, 9 a.m., SD-342.
  December 14, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine Federal 
Government financial management, 9:30 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Labor and Human Resources: December 13, business 
meeting, to mark up proposed legislation to authorize funds for the 
Older Americans Act, and to consider pending nominations, 9:30 a.m., 
SD-430.
  Committee on Small Business: December 12, to hold hearings on 
proposals to strengthen the Small Business Investment Company 
program, 9:30 a.m., SR-428A.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: December 12, business meeting, to 
mark up S. 814, to provide for the reorganization of the Bureau of 
Indian Affairs, and S. 1159, to establish an American Indian Policy 
Information Center, 9:30 a.m., SR-485.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: December 13, to hold closed 
hearings on intelligence matters, 2 p.m., SH-219.

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  Special Committee To Investigate Whitewater Development 
Corporation and Related Matters: December 11, to resume hearings to 
examine certain issues relative to the Whitewater Development 
Corporation, 11 a.m., SH-216.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Agriculture, December 12, to consider the following 
bills: H.R. 2029, Farm Credit System Regulatory Relief Act of 1995; 
and H.R. 2130, Farmer Mac Reform Act of 1995, 10 a.m., 1300 
Longworth.
  December 14, full Committee, the Subcommittee on Risk Management 
and Specialty Crops, and the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims 
of the Committee on the Judiciary, joint hearing on H-2A Temporary 
Worker Program and its impact on American Agriculture, 10 a.m., 1300 
Longworth.
  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, December 13, hearing 
on the Treasury Department's use of Federal Trust Funds, 1 p.m., 
2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities, December 13, 
Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, to mark up the following 
bills: H.R. 2391, Compensatory Time for All Workers Act of 1995; 
H.R. 1227, to amend the Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947 relating to the 
payment of wages to employees who use employer owned vehicles; and 
H.R. 2531, to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to clarify 
the exemption for houseparents from the minimum wage and maximum 
hours requirements of that Act, 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, December 13, 
Subcommittee on Civil Service, hearing on FEHB/MSA: Adding Medical 
Savings Accounts-Broadening Employee Options, 9:30 a.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  December 13, Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural 
Resources and Regulatory Affairs, hearing on Disinvestment of 
Government Pension Funds, 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  December 14, full Committee, to consider pending business, 10 
a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  December 14, Subcommittee on Civil Service, hearings on Government 
Shutdown II, 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on House Oversight, December 12, to continue hearings on 
Campaign Finance Reform: The Role of Political Parties, 10 a.m., 
1310 Longworth.
  December 13, full Committee, to consider pending business, 11 
a.m., 1310 Longworth.
  Committee on International Relations, December 12, Subcommittee on 
Africa and the Subcommittee on International Operations, joint 
hearing on Recent Developments in Nigeria, 1 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  December 12, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific and the 
Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade, joint 
hearing on U.S. Commercial and Economic Interests in South Asia, 2 
p.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  December 14, full Committee, to mark up the following resolutions: 
H. Res. 274, concerning Burma and the U.N. General Assembly; and H. 
Con. Res. 91, expressing the sense of the Congress that the United 
States should participate in Expo '98 in Lisbon, Portugal; and to 
hold a hearing on U.S.-Europe: Prospects for Transatlantic Economic 
Cooperation, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  December 15, full Committee, hearing on the Newly Independent 
States of the Former Soviet Union: United States Policy and 
Assistance, Part II, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, December 13, Subcommittee on 
Commercial and Administrative Law, oversight and reauthorization 
hearing of the Administrative Dispute Resolution Act, 2 p.m., 2226 
Rayburn.
  December 13, Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, to 
mark up the following bills: H.R. 2511, Anticounterfeiting Consumer 
Protection Act of 1995 and H.R. 1861, to make technical corrections 
in the Satellite Home Viewer Act of 1994 and other provisions of 
title 17, United States Code, 10 a.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  December 13, Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims and the 
Subcommittee on the Constitution, joint hearing on societal and 
legal issues surrounding children born in the United States to 
illegal alien parents, 10 a.m., 2325 Rayburn.
  December 14, Subcommittee on Crime, oversight hearing on the U.S. 
Sentencing Commission, 9:30 a.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Committee on National Security, December 13, executive, to receive 
a classified briefing on the proposed deployment of United States 
ground forces to Bosnia, 9:30 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  December 14, Subcommittee on Military Personnel, hearing on the 
Department of Defense's comprehensive review of Indochina POW/MIA 
cases, 10 a.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  December 14, Subcommittee on Military Research and Development, 
hearing on United States-Russian cooperative Ballistic Missile 
Defense projects, 1 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, December 12, Subcommittee on Fisheries, 
Wildlife and Oceans, hearing on H.R. 2655, Atlantic Striped Bass 
Preservation Act of 1995, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  December 13, full Committee, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 
2726, to make certain technical corrections in laws relating to 
native Americans; S. 1341, Saddleback Mountain-Arizona Settlement 
Act of 1995; H.R. 377, Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians 
Act; H.R. 2100, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to make 
technical corrections to maps relating to the Coastal Barrier 
Resources System; and H.R. 2738, Central Valley Project Reform Act 
of 1995, 11 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  December 14, Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans, 
hearing on the following bills: H.R. 1772, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to acquire certain interests in the Waihee 
Marsh for inclusion in the Oahu National Wildlife Refuge Complex; 
H.R. 1836, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire 
property in the town of East Hampton, Suffolk County, New York, for 
inclusion in the Amagansett National Wildlife Refuge; H.R. 2660, to 
increase the amount authorized to be appropriated to the Department 
of the Interior for the Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge; and 
H.R. 2679, 

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to revise the boundary of the North Platte National Wildlife Refuge, 10 
a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  December 14, Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Lands, 
to consider pending business, 10 a.m. 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Science, December 13, Subcommittee on Energy and 
Environment, hearing on Scientific Integrity and Federal Policies 
and Mandates: EPA's Dioxin Reassessment, 9:30 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, December 13, hearing on a recent GAO 
report documenting misuse of the program's sole-source contracting 
authority, management errors, and falsification of eligibility 
documents, 9:30 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, December 13 and 
14, Subcommittee on Aviation, hearings on Aviation Safety: Should 
Airlines Be Required to Share Pilot Performance Records? 9:30 a.m., 
2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, December 13, Subcommittee on Trade, 
to mark up the Shipbuilding Trade Agreement Act, 10 a.m., 1100 
Longworth.