[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 61 (Monday, May 12, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D466-D467]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY,

                              MAY 13, 1997

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and 
Independent Agencies, to hold hearings on proposed budget estimates 
for fiscal year 1998 for the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development, 9:30 a.m., SD-138.

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  Subcommittee on Defense, to hold hearings on proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 1998 for the Department of Defense, 
focusing on environmental programs, 10 a.m., SD-192.
  Full Committee, to hold open and closed (SD-124) hearings on 
counterterrorism issues, 2 p.m., SD-192.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Subcommittee 
on Aviation, to hold hearings to examine barriers to entry at 
airports, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to hold hearings on S. 
416, to extend the expiration dates of existing authorities and 
enhance U.S. participation in the energy emergency program of the 
International Energy Agency, S. 417, to extend energy conservation 
programs under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act through 
September 30, 2002, S. 186, to amend the Energy Policy and 
Conservation Act with respect to purchases from the Strategic 
Petroleum Reserve by entities in the insular areas of the United 
States, and S. 698, to authorize the Secretary of Energy, by lease 
or otherwise, to store in underutilized Strategic Petroleum Reserve 
facilities petroleum products owned by foreign governments or their 
representatives, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Foreign Relations, to hold hearings to examine the 
situation of Tibet and its people, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs, Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia, 
to hold hearings on the President's proposal and alternative 
approaches for the District of Columbia, 1:30 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to hold hearings on S. 610, to 
implement the obligations of the United States under the Convention 
on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and 
Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, known as ``the 
Chemical Weapons Convention'' and opened for signature and signed by 
the United States on January 13, 1993, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Indian Affairs, to hold oversight hearings on the 
implementation of the Indian Employment, Training and Related 
Services Demonstration Act of 1992 (P.L. 102-477), 10:30 a.m., SR-
485.


                                 NOTICE

  For a listing of Senate committee meetings scheduled ahead, see pages 
E894-95 in today's Record.


                                 House

  Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Power, hearing 
on H.R. 629, Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact 
Consent Act, 3 p.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on Early 
Childhood, Youth and Families and the Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, joint hearing on the Endowment for the Arts, 10 
a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, hearing on the treatment of 
inside sales personnel and public sector volunteers under the Fair 
Labor Standards Act, 10 a.m., 2261 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on 
International Economic Policy and Trade, hearing on the Future of 
the Export Trade Administration, 2:30 p.m., 2172, Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to mark up the following measures: 
H.R. 911, Volunteer Protection Act of 1997; H.R. 695, Security and 
Freedom Through Encryption (SAFE) Act; 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; and a private immigration bill, 3 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Crime, oversight hearing on the activities of the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, 9 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims, hearing on the following 
bills: H.R. 231, to improve the integrity of the Social Security 
card and to provide for criminal penalties for fraud and related 
activity involving work authorization documents for purposes of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act; H.R. 429, NATO Special Immigration 
Amendments of 1997; H.R. 471, Illegal Alien Employment Disincentive 
Act of 1997; and H.R. 1493, to require the Attorney General to 
establish a program in local prisons to identify, prior to 
arraignment, criminal aliens and aliens who are unlawfully present 
in the United States, 10 a.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, to consider H.R. 1469, 1997 Emergency 
Supplemental Appropriations Act for Recovery from Natural Disasters, 
and for Overseas Peacekeeping Efforts, Including Those in Bosnia, 2 
p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Empowerment, hearing 
on regulatory, tax, and licensing initiatives that empower 
businesses and citizens in impoverished communities, 11 a.m., 2359 
Rayburn.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, briefing on 
China, 3 p.m., H-405 Capitol.


                             Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, to resume 
hearings to examine the process to enlarge the membership of the 
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 10 a.m., SD-538.