[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 93 (Friday, June 21, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D654-D657]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                    Week of June 24 through 29, 1996

                             Senate Chamber

  On Monday and Tuesday, Senate will resume consideration of S. 1219, 
Campaign Finance Reform, with a cloture vote to occur thereon on 
Tuesday, June 25, 1996, at 2:15 p.m.

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  During the balance of the week, Senate expects to complete 
consideration of S. 1745, DOD Authorizations, and consider any cleared 
executive and legislative business, and conference reports, when 
available.
  (Senate will recess on Tuesday, June 25, 1996, 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 Appropriations: June 27, Subcommittee on Treasury, 
Postal Service, and General Government, to hold hearings on proposed 
budget estimates for fiscal year 1997 for the Office of National 
Drug Control Policy, 10 a.m., SD-138.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: June 25, to 
hold closed hearings on broadcast spectrum issues, 9:30 a.m., S-407, 
Capitol.
  June 26, Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space, to resume 
hearings on S. 1726, to promote electronic commerce by facilitating 
the use of strong encryption, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  June 27, Full Committee, to hold oversight hearings on Federal 
Aviation Administration safety issues, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: June 26, to hold 
hearings on S. 1804, to make technical and other changes to the laws 
dealing with the territories and freely associated States of the 
United States, on a proposed amendment relating to Bikini and 
Enewetak medical care, and to hold oversight hearings on the law 
enforcement initiative in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands, and S. 1889, to authorize the exchange of certain lands 
conveyed to the Kenai Native Association pursuant to the Alaska 
Native Claims Settlement Act, and to make adjustments to the 
National Wilderness System, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: June 25, Subcommittee 
on Transportation and Infrastructure, to hold oversight hearings on 
the impact of Federal streamlining efforts on General Services 
Administration leasing activities, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: June 25, business meeting, to mark up S. 
1795, Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, and to 
consider recommendations which it will make to the Committee on the 
Budget with respect to spending reductions and revenue increases to 
meet reconciliation expenditures as imposed by H. Con. Res. 178, 
establishing the congressional budget for the United States 
Government for fiscal year 1997 and setting forth appropriate 
budgetary levels for fiscal years 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002, 
10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: June 25, to hold hearings on the 
nominations of Leslie M. Alexander, of Florida, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Ecuador, James Francis Creagan, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Honduras, and Lino Gutierrez, of 
Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Nicaragua, 10 a.m., SD-
419.
  June 25, 26, and 27, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian 
Affairs, to resume hearings to examine prospects for peace in 
Afghanistan, 2 p.m., SD-106.
  June 26, Full Committee, business meeting, to consider pending 
calendar business, 10:30 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: June 25, Permanent Subcommittee 
on Investigations, to resume hearings to examine the security status 
of national computer information systems and networks, 9:30 a.m., 
SD-342.
  June 26, Full Committee, business meeting, to mark up S. 1376, to 
terminate unnecessary and inequitable Federal corporate subsidies, 
and S. 1629, to protect the rights of the States and the people from 
abuse by the Federal Government, to strengthen the partnership and 
the intergovernmental relationship between State and Federal 
governments, to restrain Federal agencies from exceeding their 
authority, and to enforce the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, 
9:30 a.m., SD-342.
  June 26, Full Committee, to hold hearings on S. Res. 254, 
expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the reopening of 
Pennsylvania Avenue, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  June 27, Full Committee, to hold hearings on improving management 
and organization in Federal natural resources and environmental 
functions, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: June 25, to hold hearings on pending 
nominations, 2 p.m., SD-226.
  June 26, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
Department of Justice's handling of ``Project Special Delivery'', 10 
a.m., SD-226.
  June 27, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the recent 
incidents of church burnings, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Labor and Human Resources: June 26, business meeting, 
to mark up S. 1221, to authorize funds for fiscal years 1996 through 
2000 for the Legal Services Corporation, S. 1400, to require the 
Secretary of Labor to issue guidance as to the application of the 
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to insurance company 
general accounts, and pending nominations, 9:30 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: June 26, to hold hearings 
on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Federal Election 
Commission, and on campaign finance reform proposals, 9:30 a.m., SR-
301.
  Committee on Veterans Affairs: June 25, business meeting, to mark 
up S. 1791, to increase, effective as of December 1, 1996, the rates 
of disability compensation for veterans with service-connected 
disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation 
for survivors of such veterans, and other pending legislation, 10 
a.m., SR-418.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: June 26, to hold hearings on 
proposals to reform the Indian Child Welfare Act, 9:30 a.m., SH-216.


                             House Chamber

  Monday, No legislative business is scheduled.
  Tuesday, Consideration of H.R. 2531, House Parent Exemption Act 
(Corrections Day);
  Consideration of H.R. 3604, Safe Drinking Water Act (Suspension); and

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  Consideration of H.R. 3666, VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies 
Appropriations Act for FY 1997 (open rule, 1 hour of general debate).
  Wednesday and the Balance of the Week, Consideration of H.R. 3675, 
Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act 
for FY 1997 (subject to a rule being granted); and
  Consideration of H.R     , Departments of Labor, Health and Human 
Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for FY 1997 
(subject to a rule being granted).


                            House Committees

  Committee on Appropriations, June 25, to continue markup of the 
Labor, Health and Human Services, Education appropriations for 
fiscal year 1997, 10 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  June 26, to consider the Legislative appropriations for fiscal 
year 1997, 8:30 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  June 26, Subcommittee on the District of Columbia, on 1997 Budget 
Overview, 10 a.m., 2362A Rayburn.
  June 27, full Committee, to consider the Treasury, Postal Service, 
and General Government appropriations for fiscal year 1997, 8:30 
a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, June 26, Subcommittee 
on Capital Markets, Securities and Government Sponsored Enterprises, 
hearing regarding practices of FDIC-Insured Institutions Selling 
Nondeposit Investment Products, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, June 27, Subcommittee on Energy and Power, 
oversight hearing on the One-Call Notification Program, 10 a.m., 
2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities, June 26, 
Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations, hearing on Promoting 
Expansion of Pensions for American Workers, 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  June 27, full Committee, to markup the following bills: H.R. 2391, 
Working Families Flexibility Act; and H.R. 2428, to encourage the 
donation of food and grocery products to nonprofit organizations for 
distribution to needy individuals by giving the Model Good Samaritan 
Food Donation Act the full force and effect of law, 10 a.m., 2175 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, June 25, 
Subcommittee on Government Management, Information, and Technology, 
hearing on H.R. 3452, Presidential and Executive Office 
Accountability Act, 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  June 25, Subcommittee on Human Resources and Intergovernmental 
Relations, hearing on ``The Status of Efforts to Identify Persian 
Gulf War Syndrome, Part III'', 2 p.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  June 26, full Committee, hearing on Security of FBI Background 
Files, 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  June 27, Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs, 
and Criminal Justice, hearing on Corporate America and the War on 
Drugs, 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, June 25, Subcommittee on 
International Operations and Human Rights, hearing on International 
Exchanges, 2 p.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  June 26, full Committee, hearing on Administration Actions and 
Political Murders in Haiti, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  June 26, Subcommittee on Africa, hearing on Bloody Hands: Foreign 
Support for Liberian Warlords, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  June 27, full Committee, to mark up the Exports, Jobs and Growth 
Act of 1996, 10:30 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  June 27, Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights 
and the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, joint hearing on 
Human Rights Violations In Castro's Cuba: The Repression Continues, 
11 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, June 26, Subcommittee on Commercial 
and Administration Law, oversight hearing regarding the Legal 
Services Corporation, 10 a.m., 2226 Rayburn.
  June 27, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, 
hearing regarding the oversight and reauthorization of the 
Negotiated Rulemaking Act; also on the following: H.J. Res. 113, 
granting the consent of Congress to the compact to provide for joint 
natural resource management and enforcement of laws and regulations 
pertaining to natural resources and boatings at the Jennings 
Randolph Lake Project lying in Garrett County, MD, and Mineral 
County, WV, entered into between the States of West Virginia and 
Maryland; and H.J. Res. 166, granting the consent of Congress to the 
mutual aid agreement between the city of Bristol, VA, and the city 
of Bristol, TN; 10 a.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  June 27, Subcommittee on Crime, hearing regarding the following 
bills: H.R. 3565, Violent Youth Predator Act of 1996; and H.R. 3445, 
Balanced Juvenile Justice and Crime Prevention Act of 1996, 9:30 
a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  June 27, Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims, to mark up H.R. 
3680, War Crimes Act of 1996, 9:30 a.m., 2226 Rayburn.
  Committee on National Security, June 25, hearing on extremist 
activity in the military, 2 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  June 26, hearing on H.R. 3237, Intelligence Community Act, 9:30 
a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  June 27, Subcommittees on Military Procurement and the 
Subcommittee on Military Research and Development, joint hearing on 
tactical aviation programs, 1 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, June 25, oversight hearing on lifting the 
moratorium on listings of species under the Endangered Species Act, 
11 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  June 26, full Committee, to markup the following bills: H.R. 3024, 
United States-Puerto Rico Political Status Act; H.R. 1786, to 
regulate fishing in certain waters in Alaska; H.R. 2505, to amend 
the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to make certain 
clarifications to the land bank protection provisions; H.R. 3006, to 
provide for disposal of public lands in support of the Manzanar 
Historic Site in the State of California; H.R. 2636, to transfer 
jurisdiction over certain parcels of Federal real property located 
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H.R. 2292, Hanford Reach Preservation Act, 11 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  June 26, Subcommittee on Native American and Insular Affairs, 
hearing on the following bills: H.R. 3634, to amend provisions of 
the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands which relate to the 
temporary absence of executive officials and the priority payment of 
certain bonds and other obligations; and H.R. 3635, to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to enter into an agreement with the 
Governor of the Virgin Islands, upon request, that provides for the 
transfer of the authority to manage Christiansted National Historic 
site; and to hold an oversight hearing on Northern Mariana Islands 
issues, 2 p.m., 1334 Longworth.
  June 27, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, oversight 
hearing on Royalty-In-Kind for natural gas (lessons learned from the 
Gulf of Mexico pilot program), 2 p.m., 1324 Longworth.
  June 27, Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Lands, to 
markup the following bills: H.R. 2122, to consolidate the management 
of the national forests in the Lake Tahoe region from four forests 
to one; H.R. 2438, to provide for the conveyance of lands to certain 
individuals in Gunnison County, Colorado; H.R. 2518, to authorize 
the Secretary of Agriculture to exchange certain lands in the 
Wenatchee National Forest for certain lands owned by Public Utility 
District No. 1 of Chelan County, Washington; H.R. 2693, to make a 
minor adjustment in the exterior boundary of Hells Canyon Wilderness 
in Oregon and Idaho; H.R. 2709, to provide for the conveyance of 
certain land to the Del Norte County Unified School District of Del 
Norte County, California; H.R. 3146, to provide for two exchanges of 
certain lands in the Sierra National Forest for certain non-federal 
lands; H.R. 3547, to provide for the conveyance of a parcel of real 
property in the Apache National Forest in Arizona to the Alpine 
Elementary School District 7 to be used for the construction of 
school facilities and related playing fields; H.R. 3147, to provide 
for the exchange of certain lands in the State of California managed 
by the Bureau of Land Management for certain non-federal lands; H.R. 
2135, to provide for the correction of boundaries of certain lands 
in Clark County, Nevada, acquired by persons who purchased such 
lands in good faith reliance on existing private land surveys; H.R. 
2711, to provide for the substitution of timber for the canceled 
Elkhorn Ridge Timber Sale; and H.R. 2466, Federal Land Exchange 
Improvement Act of 1995, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Rules, June 25, to consider H.R. 3575, making 
appropriations for the Department of Transportation and related 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, 4 p.m., H-
313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, June 25, Subcommittee on Technology, 
oversight hearing on research Laboratory programs at NIST, 1 p.m., 
2325 Rayburn.
  June 26, full committee, hearing on the effects of a six-year 
balanced budget on civilian research and development, 10 a.m., and 
to mark up the following bills: H.R. 2779, Savings in Construction 
Act of 1996; and H.R. 3604, Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 
1996, 1 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, June 26, Subcommittee on Government 
Programs, hearing on the Department of Labor's compliance with the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  July 27, full Committee, hearing on Small business Competition for 
Federal Contracts: The Impact of Federal Prison Industries, 10 a.m., 
2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, June 27, executive, to 
consider pending business, 1 p.m., HT-2M Capitol.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, June 25, 
Subcommittee on Aviation, hearing on Aviation Safety: Issues Raised 
by the Crash of Valujet Flight 592, 11 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  June 26, Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, 
oversight hearing on Federal requirements for evidence of financial 
responsibility under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 10 a.m., 2167 
Rayburn.
  June 27, full Committee, to markup the following bills: H.R. 3592, 
Water Resources Development Act of 1996; and H.R. 2940, Deepwater 
Port Modernization Act, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  June 27, Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Economic 
Development, hearing on GSA Leasing Program, 8:30 a.m., 2253 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, June 26 and 27, Subcommittee on 
Hospitals and Health Care, hearings on the future of health care 
provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs, 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, June 27, Subcommittee on Human 
Resources, hearing on Barriers to Adoption, 1 p.m., 1100 Longworth.
  June 27, Subcommittee on Social Security, to continue hearings on 
the use of Social Security Trust Fund money to finance union 
activities at the Social Security Administration, 10 a.m., B-318 
Rayburn.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, June 26, executive, 
hearing on Digital Telephony, 3 p.m., H-405 Capitol.


                             Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: June 26, to hold 
hearings to examine whether the conditions in Bosnia-Herzegovina 
will allow free and fair elections to be held in mid-September and, 
if not, whether the Dayton Agreement-mandated elections should be 
postponed until such conditions exist, 1:30 p.m., 311 Cannon 
Building.