[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 58 (Wednesday, May 7, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D446-D447]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                              MAY 8, 1997

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Military 
Construction, to hold hearings on proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 1998 for Army and defense military construction 
programs, 9:30 a.m., SD-138.
  Committee on Armed Services, closed business meeting, to consider 
pending military nominations, 5 p.m., SR-222.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, business 
meeting, to mark up S. 462, to reform and consolidate the public and 
assisted housing programs of the United States, and to redirect 
primary responsibility for these programs from the Federal 
Government to States and localities, 2 p.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Subcommittee 
on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine, to hold hearings on 
proposed legislation authorizing funds for hazardous materials 
transportation, 10:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to hold a workshop to 
examine competitive change in the electric power industry, focusing 
on the effects of competition on fuel use and types of generation, 
9:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Foreign Relations, business meeting, to consider the 
Document Agreed Among the States Parties to the Treaty on 
Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) of November 19, 1990, 
adopted at Vienna on May 31, 1996 (``the Flank Document'') (Treaty 
Doc. 105-5), and other pending calendar business, 10:30 a.m., SD-
419.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs, Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia, 
to resume hearings to examine the Government's impact on television 
programming, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary, business meeting, to consider pending 
calendar business, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings on S. 191, to throttle criminal 
use of guns, 2 p.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Rules and Administration, to resume hearings to 
discuss revisions to Title 44, relating to the operations of the 
Government Printing Office, 9:30 a.m., SR-301.


                                 NOTICE

  For a listing of Senate committee meetings scheduled ahead, see pages 
E871-72 in today's Record.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and 
Poultry, hearing to review the status and future prospects for trade 
in livestock, dairy, and poultry products between the United States 
and the European Union, 1 p.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on District of Columbia, 
on D.C. Privatization of the Financial Management System, 10 a.m., 
H-144 Capitol.
  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, Subcommittee on 
Domestic and International Monetary Policy, to markup the following 
bills: H.R. 1370, to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank of the 
United States; and H.R. 1488, to authorize U.S. participation in 
various international financial institutions, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Health and Environment and 
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, to continue joint 
hearings on Review of EPA's Proposed Ozone and Particulate Matter 
NAAQS Revisions, 9:30 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on 
Employer-Employee Relations, hearing on H.R. 1515, Expansion of 
Portability and Health Insurance Coverage Act of 1997, 10 a.m., 2175 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing on Dollars 
to the Classroom, 1 p.m., 2261 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, Subcommittee on 
Government Management, Information and Technology, hearing on 
``Oversight of the GPO'', 9:30 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Subcommittee on Human Resources, oversight hearing of the NIH and 
FDA: Bio-Ethics and the Adequacy of Informed Consent, 10 a.m., 2247 
Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on 
International Economic Policy and Trade, hearing on Encryption: 
Individual Right to Privacy vs. National Security, 9:30 a.m., 2172 
Rayburn.

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  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, to 
markup H.J. Res. 54, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of 
the United States authorizing the Congress to prohibit the physical 
desecration of the flag of the United States, 10 a.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Committee on National Security, Subcommittee on Military 
Installations and Facilities, hearing on the fiscal year 1998 
military construction budget, 2 p.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Military Personnel, hearing on the status of the 
Ready Reserve Mobilization Insurance Program, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, 
to markup the following: H.R. 985, to provide for the expansion of 
the Eagles Nest Wilderness within Arapaho and White River National 
Forests, CO, to include the lands known as the Slate Creek Addition 
upon the acquisition of the lands by the United States; H.R. 1019, 
to provide for a boundary adjustment and land conveyance involving 
the Raggeds Wilderness, White River National Forest, CO, to correct 
the effects of earlier erroneous land surveys; H.R. 1020, to adjust 
the boundary of the White River National Forest in the State of 
Colorado to include all National Forest System lands within Summit 
County, CO, which are currently part of the Dillon Ranger District 
of the Arapaho National Forest; H.R. 1439, to facilitate the sale of 
certain land in Tahoe National Forest, in the State of California to 
Placer County, California; and H.R. 79, Hoopa Valley Reservation 
South Boundary Adjustment Act, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands, to markup the 
following bills: H.R. 765, to ensure maintenance of a herd of wild 
horses in Cape Lookout National Seashore; and H.R. 1127, National 
Monument Fairness Act of 1997, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Health, hearing on 
the following: H.R. 1362, Veterans Medicare Reimbursement 
Demonstration Act of 1997; and proposals on both Medical Care Cost 
Recovery and physician's special pay, 9:30 a.m., 340 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, hearing on the Internal Revenue 
Service's 1995 Earned Income Tax Credit Compliance Study, 10 a.m., 
1100 Longworth.