[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 70 (Friday, May 17, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D495-D497]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                    Week of May 20 through 25, 1996

                             Senate Chamber

  On Monday and Tuesday, Senate will resume consideration of S. Con. 
Res. 57, Concurrent Budget Resolution.
  During the balance of the week Senate may consider H.R. 3230, 
National Defense Authorization Act, and any legislative or executive 
item cleared for consideration.

  (Senate will recess on Tuesday, May 21, 1996, from 12:30 p.m. until 
2:15 p.m. for respective party conferences.)


                             House Chamber

  Monday, No legislative business is scheduled.
  Tuesday, Consideration of the following 7 suspensions:
  1. H.R. 1483, Revision of Veterans Benefits Decisions Based on Clear 
and Unmistakable Error;
  2. H.R. 3373, Veterans' Benefits Amendments of 1996;
  3. H.R. 2594, Railroad Unemployment Insurance Amendments of 1996;
  4. H. Con. Res. 154, Congratulating the Republic of China on Taiwan 
on the Occasion of its First Presidential Democratic Election;
  5. H. Con. Res. 160, Congratulating the People of Sierra Leone on the 
Success of their Recent Democratic Multiparty Elections;
  6. H. Con. Res. 165, Saluting and Congratulating Polish People Around 
the World as they Commemorate the 205th Anniversary of Poland's First 
Constitution; and
  7. H. Con. Res. 167, Recognizing the Tenth Anniversary of Chornobyl 
Nuclear Disaster.
  Consideration of H. Res. 437, rule providing for consideration of 
H.R. 3259, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997; and
  Consideration of H.R. 3415, to Repeal the 4.3 Cent Increase in 
Transportation Motor Fuels Excise Tax (closed rule, 1 hour of debate).
  Wednesday, Consideration of H.R. 1227, Relating to Payment of Wages 
to Employees Who Use Employer-Owned Vehicles and Consideration of H.R. 
3448, the Small Business Job Protection Act (subject to the same rule); 
and
  Consideration of H.R. 3259, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 1997 (modified open rule, 1 hour of general debate).
  Thursday, Consideration of H.R. 3144, Defend America Act of 1996 
(modified closed rule, 2 hours of debate).
  Friday, No legislative business is scheduled.
  Note.--Conference reports may be brought up at any time. Any further 
program will be announced later.


                           Senate Committees

(Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: May 21, to hold 
hearings on the nominations of Brooksley Elizabeth Born, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Chairman, and David D. Spears, of 
Kansas, to be a Commissioner, both of the Commodity Futures Trading 
Commission, 11 a.m., SR-332.
  May 22, Full Committee, to hold hearings on S. 1166, to improve 
the registration of pesticides, to provide minor use crop 
protection, and to improve pesticide tolerances to safeguard infants 
and children, 9:30 a.m., SR-332.
  Committee on Appropriations: May 21, 22 and 23, Subcommittee on 
Foreign Operations, to hold hearings on proposed budget estimates 
for fiscal year 1997, Tuesday, for foreign assistance programs, 
focusing on international financial institutions, 10:30 a.m.; 
Wednesday, for foreign assistance programs, focusing on peacekeeping 
and international organizations and programs, 10 a.m.; Thursday, for 
foreign assistance programs, 10 a.m.; Tuesday in SD-138, Wednesday 
in SD-G50 and Thursday in SD-106.

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  May 22, Subcommittee on Defense, to hold hearings on proposed 
budget estimates for fiscal year 1997 for the Department of Defense, 
focusing on the United States Pacific Command, 10 a.m., SD-192.
  May 22, Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies, to hold 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1997 for the 
Environmental Protection Agency, 2 p.m., SD-138.
  May 23, Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, to hold hearings on 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1997 for the Congressional 
Budget Office and the Capitol Police, 10 a.m., S-128, Capitol.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: May 21, to hold 
hearings on S. 1511, to impose sanctions on Burma, 2:30 p.m., SD-
538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: May 22, to 
hold open and closed hearings on broadcast spectrum issues (closed 
in S-407, Capitol), 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  May 22, Full Committee, to hold hearings on S. 1645, to regulate 
United States scientific and tourist activities in Antarctica and to 
conserve Antarctic resources, and related programs, 2:30 p.m., SR-
253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: May 22, business 
meeting, to consider pending calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Finance: May 20, Subcommittee on Social Security and 
Family Policy, to hold hearings on proposals to create personal 
savings accounts under Social Security, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: May 22, Subcommittee on Near 
Eastern and South Asian Affairs, to hold hearings to examine 
prospects for peace in Afghanistan, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: May 22, Permanent Subcommittee 
on Investigations, to hold hearings to examine security in 
cyberspace, 9:30 a.m., SD-342.
  May 23, Full Committee, to resume hearings to examine the status 
of the modernization of the Internal Revenue Service tax 
modernization system, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: May 21, to hold hearings to examine 
the American Bar Association and its role in the selection of 
Federal judges, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  May 21, Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts, 
to hold hearings on S. 582, to provide that certain voluntary 
disclosures of violations of Federal laws made pursuant to an 
environmental audit shall not be subject to discovery or admitted 
into evidence during a Federal judicial or administrative 
proceeding, 2 p.m., SD-226.
  May 23, Full Committee, business meeting, to consider pending 
calendar business, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Labor and Human Resources: May 21, to hold oversight 
hearings on the Corporation for National and Community Service, 9:30 
a.m., SD-430.
  May 23, Subcommittee on Children and Families, to hold hearings to 
examine methods of encouraging responsible fatherhood, 9:30 a.m., 
SD-430.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: May 22, to resume hearings 
on issues with regard to the Government Printing Office, focusing on 
public access to Government information in the 21st century and 
GPO's depository library program, 9:30 a.m., SR-301.
  Committee on Small Business: May 22, business meeting, to mark up 
proposed legislation to strengthen, expand, and improve the Small 
Business Investment Company program, and to consider the nomination 
of Ginger Ehn Lew, of California, to be Deputy Administrator of the 
Small Business Administration, 9:30 a.m., SR-428A.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: May 23, to hold hearings on 
miscellaneous veterans bills, including S. 281, S. 749, S. 1131, S. 
1342, S. 1711, S. 993, S. 994, S. 995, S. 996, S. 1748, S. 1749, S. 
1750, S. 1751, S. 1752, and S. 1753, 10 a.m., SR-418.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: May 21, to hold hearings on 
Iranian arms shipments to Bosnia, 11 a.m., SD-G50.
  Special Committee on Aging: May 23, to hold hearings to examine 
how the Supplemental Security Income and the Disability Income 
programs can be reformed to encourage more people to enter into 
productive employment, 9:30 a.m., SD-562.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Agriculture, May 22, Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy 
and Produce, hearing on seafood inspection programs, 9 a.m., 1300 
Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, May 21, Subcommittee on Military 
Construction, to mark up appropriations for fiscal year 1997, 10:30 
a.m., B-300 Rayburn.
  May 21, Subcommittee on National Security, to mark up 
appropriations for fiscal year 1997, 2 p.m., H-140 Capitol.
  May 22, Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing and 
Related Programs, to mark up appropriations for fiscal year 1997, 4 
p.m., H-144 Capitol.
  Committee on Commerce, May 22, Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, 
and Hazardous Materials, hearing and markup of H.R. 3431, Armored 
Car Industry Reciprocity Improvement Act of 1996, 10 a.m., 2322 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities, May 23, to 
mark up H.R. 3268, IDEA Improvement Act of 1996, 10 a.m., 2175 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, May 22, Subcommittee 
on the District of Columbia, hearing on Conditions within the 
District of Columbia Department of Corrections, 2:30 p.m., 311 
Cannon.
  May 23, Subcommittee on Civil Service, hearing on Reinventing 
Downsizing the Reinvention, 9 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  May 23, Subcommittee on Human Resources and Intergovernmental 
Relations, oversight hearing on the monitoring of food-borne 
pathogens by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the 
FDA, 10 a.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, May 21, hearing on AID 
Whistleblower: Paul Neifert, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  May 21, Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Subcommittee on 
National Security, International Affairs, and Criminal Justice of 
the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, joint hearing on 
War on Drugs

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in the Western Hemisphere: Fact or Fiction, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  May 22, Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights, 
hearing on Forced Migration in the Newly Independent States of the 
former Soviet Union, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, May 21, oversight hearing on Church 
fires in the South, 9:30 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  May 23, Subcommittee on Crime, hearing regarding the Nature, 
Extent, and Proliferation of Federal Law Enforcement--Part II: State 
and Local Law Enforcement Perspectives, 9:30 a.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  May 23, Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims, to mark up the 
following: H.R. 2587, War Crimes Act of 1995; H.R. 740, to confer 
jurisdiction on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims with respect to 
land claims of Pueblo of Isleta Indian Tribe; private immigration 
bills; and private claims bills, 10 a.m., B352 Rayburn.
  Committee on National Security, May 22, Special Oversight Panel on 
the Merchant Marine, hearing on H.R. 2754, Shipbuilding Trade 
Agreement Act, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, May 21, Subcommittee on National Parks, 
Forests and Lands, oversight hearing on several ecoregion-based 
assessments currently being conducted by the U.S. Forest Service, 10 
a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  May 21, Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources, oversight 
hearing on Bonneville Power Administration operations and status of 
the Comprehensive Review of the Northwest Energy System, 10 a.m., 
1334 Longworth.
  May 22, full Committee, to consider pending business, 11 a.m., 
1324 Longworth.
  May 23, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, to mark up 
H.R. 2372, Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Amendments Act of 
1995, 2 p.m., 1334 Longworth.
  May 23, Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Lands, to mark 
up the following bills: H.R. 639, West Virginia National Rivers 
Technical Amendments Act of 1995; H.R. 640, West Virginia National 
Rivers Boundry Modifications Act of 1995; H.R. 1825, to amend the 
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to limit acquisition of land on the 39-
mile headwaters segment of the Missouri River, Nebraska and South 
Dakota, designated as a recreation river, to acquisition from 
willing sellers; H.R. 2255, Lamprey Wild and Scenic River Act; H.R. 
2292, Hanford Reach Preservation; H.R. 3127, Southern Nevada Public 
Land Management Act of 1996; H.R. 2466, to improve the process for 
land exchanges for the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land 
Management; H.R. 3031, to amend the Act of October 15, 1966 (80 
Stat. 915), as amended, establishing a program for the preservation 
of additional historic property throughout the Nation; and H.R. 
2528, to require the Secretary of the Interior to renew to the heirs 
of permitees permits for historic cabins located in the Mineral King 
Addition of the Sequoia National Park, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Rules, May 21, to consider the following: 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. 3448, 
Small Business Job Promotion Act of 1996, 5 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  May 24, Subcommittee on Rules and Organization of the House, 
hearing on Legislating in the 21st Century Congress: Assessing the 
Impact of Information Technology on the Legislative Process, 10 
a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, May 23, 
Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Economic Development, hearing 
on FDA Consolidation; and to mark up the following: H. Con. Res. 
172, authorizing the 1996 Summer Olympic Torch Relay to be run 
through the Capitol Grounds; H.R. 3186, to designate the Federal 
building located at 1655 Woodson Road in Overland, MO, as the 
``Sammy L. Davis Federal Building;'' H.R. 3364, to designate a U.S. 
Courthouse in Scranton, PA, as the ``William J. Nealon United States 
Courthouse;'' and H.R. 3400, to designate the United States 
courthouse to be constructed at a site on 18th Street between Dodge 
and Douglas Streets in Omaha, NE, as the ``Roman L. Hruska United 
States Courthouse,'' 9 a.m., 2253 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, May 22, Subcommittee on 
Compensation, Pension, Insurance and Memorial Affairs, to mark up 
H.R. 3458, Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 
1996; and other pending legislation, 10:30 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, May 22 and 23, Subcommittee on Human 
Resources, hearings on welfare reform, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth and 
B-318 Rayburn on May 23.
  May 22, Subcommittee on Trade, hearing on H.R. 3107, Iran Oil 
Sanctions Act of 1996, 2 p.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, May 22, executive, 
hearing on Bosnia/Iran Arms, 10 a.m., H-405 Capitol.


                             Joint Meetings

  Conferees: May 21, on H.R. 1617, to consolidate Federal employment 
training, vocational education, and adult education programs and 
create integrated statewide workforce development systems, 4 p.m., 
S-207, Capitol.