[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 54 (Wednesday, April 30, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D412-D413]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





              COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1997

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural 
Development, and Related Agencies, to hold hearings on proposed 
budget estimates for fiscal year 1998 for the Commodity Futures 
Trading Commission, and the Food and Drug Administration, Department 
of Health and Human Resources, 10 a.m., SD-124.
  Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies, to hold 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1998 for the 
Department of Veterans Affairs, 2 p.m., SD-124.
  Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Readiness, to resume 
hearings on S. 450, the National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Years 1998 and 1999, focusing on the Department of Defense 
Depot maintenance privatization initiatives, 10 a.m., SD-628.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Subcommittee on 
Financial Institutions and Regulatory Relief, to hold oversight 
hearings on the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, 
Department of the Treasury, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, business 
meeting, to consider pending calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Subcommittee on 
National Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation, to hold 
hearings on S. 357, to authorize the Bureau of Land Management to 
manage the Grand Staircase- Escalante National Monument, 2 p.m., SD-
366.
  Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and 
South Asian Affairs, to hold hearings to examine the extent of 
religious persecution in the Middle East, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nomination of Stuart E. 
Eizenstat, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary of State for Economic, 
Business and Agricultural Affairs, 2 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs, to hold hearings on proposals 
to develop and implement management reforms to provide the 
Department of Defense with strategies and techniques to increase 
effectiveness, reduce costs, and minimize risks associated with 
program and administrative management, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation and Federal 
Services, to hold hearings to discuss certain issues with regard to 
the ABM Treaty, focusing on the national missile defense program, 2 
p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary, business meeting, to consider pending 
calendar business, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Subcommittee on Immigration, to hold oversight hearings on the 
Immigration and Naturalization Service, focusing on criminal record 
verification process for citizenship applicants, 11:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Labor and Human Resources, Subcommittee on Public 
Health and Safety, to hold hearings to examine biomedical research 
priorities, 9:30 a.m., SD-430.


                                 NOTICE

  For a listing of Senate committee meetings scheduled ahead, see pages 
E807-08 in today's Record.


                                 House

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Labor-Health and 
Human Services, and Education, on SSA, 10 a.m., and on the 
Corporation for National and Community Service, 2 p.m., 2358 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies, on public 
witnesses, 10 a.m., and 2 p.m., H-143 Capitol.
  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, Subcommittee on 
Domestic and International Monetary Policy, hearing on Computer 
Generated Check Fraud, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Finance and Hazardous 
Materials, hearing on Financial Services Reform, focusing on ``A Two 
Way Street'' and Functional Regulation, 10 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Health and Environment and the Subcommittee on 
Oversight and Investigations, to continue joint hearings on Review 
of EPA's Proposed Ozone and Particulate Matter NAAQS Revisions: 
Perspectives of State and Local Elected Officials, 9:30 a.m., 2123 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on 
Oversight and Investigations and the Subcommittee on the District of 
Columbia of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, joint 
hearing on ``Education at a Crossroads, What Works, What's Wasted in 
the D.C. School System?'' 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.

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  Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, Subcommittee on 
Government Management, Information, and Technology, hearing on the 
following: Presidential and Executive Office Financial 
Accountability Act of 1997; and Special Government Employee Act of 
1997, 2 p.m., 311 Cannon.
  Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs and 
Criminal Justice, hearing on Reauthorization of the Office of 
National Drug Control Policy, 11 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, to continue markup of the 
Foreign Policy Reform Act, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, oversight hearing on the provision in the 
1997 Omnibus Appropriations Act which removed the Narragansett 
Indian Tribe of Rhode Island from the coverage of the Indian Gaming 
Regulatory Act, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Rules, Subcommittee on Rules and Organization of the 
House, to continue hearings on Civility in the House of 
Representatives, 9:30 a.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Tax, Finance, and 
Exports, hearing on ``Why Exports Matter,'' 10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Aviation, hearing on Reauthorization of the War Risk Insurance 
Program, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Oversight, to 
continue hearings on the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, 10 a.m., 
1100 Longworth.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, briefing on 
Chinese Counterintelligence Issues, 9 a.m., and, executive, Budget 
hearing on Legislative Issues, 10 a.m., H-405 Capitol.