[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 82 (Thursday, June 12, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D612-D615]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                    Week of June 16 through 21, 1997

                             Senate Chamber

  On Monday, Senate will begin consideration of Foreign Relations 
Authorizations Act.
  During the balance of the week, Senate expects to complete 
consideration of Foreign Relations Authorizations Act, and consider 
Defense Authorization

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Act, and any cleared executive and legislative business.
  (Senate will recess on Tuesday, June 17, 1997 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 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: June 18, to 
hold hearings on United States farms exports, 9 a.m., SR-332.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: June 17, 
Subcommittee on Housing Opportunity and Community Development, to 
hold hearings on S. 513, to reform the multifamily rental assisted 
housing programs of the Federal Government, and maintain the 
affordability and availability of low-income housing, 10 a.m., SD-
538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: June 17, 
business meeting, 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. 84, establishing the congressional budget for the 
United States Government for the fiscal year 1998 and setting forth 
appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 1999, 2000, 2001, and 
2002, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  June 17, Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce, and 
Tourism, to hold hearings to examine liability reform proposals for 
charitable organizations, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  June 18, Full Committee, to resume hearings to examine emerging 
trade issues in China, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  June 18, Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space, to hold 
hearings on NASA's international space station, 2 p.m., SR-253.
  June 19, Full Committee, business meeting, to consider pending 
calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  June 19, Subcommittee on Aviation, to hold hearings to examine 
United States-Japan aviation relations, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: June 18, Subcommittee 
on Forests and Public Land Management, to hold hearings on S. 587, 
to provide for an exchange of lands located in Hinsdale County, 
Colorado, S. 588, to provide for the expansion of the Eagles Nest 
Wilderness within the Arapaho National Forest and the White River 
National Forest in Colorado, S. 589, to provide for a boundary 
adjustment and land conveyance involving the Raggeds Wilderness, 
White River National Forest in Colorado, S. 590, to provide for a 
land exchange within the Routt National Forest in Colorado, S. 591, 
to transfer the Dillon Ranger District in the Arapaho National 
Forest to the White River National Forest in Colorado, S. 541, to 
provide for an exchange of lands with the city of Greely, Colorado, 
S. 750, to consolidate certain mineral interests in the National 
Grasslands in Billings County, North Dakota, and S. 785, to convey 
certain land to the city of Grants Pass, Oregon, 2 p.m., SD-366.
  June 19, Subcommittee on National Parks, Historic Preservation, 
and Recreation, to hold hearings on entrance and special use fees 
for units of the National Park System and the status of the Fee 
Demonstration Program implemented by the National Park Service in 
1996, 2 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: June 17, business meeting, to 
mark up H.R. 173, to amend the Federal Property and Administrative 
Services Act of 1949 to authorize donation of surplus Federal law 
enforcement canines to their handlers, and to consider 
recommendations which it will make to the Committee on the Budget 
with respect to spending reduction and revenue increases to meet 
reconciliation expenditures as imposed by H. Con. Res. 84, 
establishing the congressional budget for the United States 
Government for fiscal year 1998 and setting forth appropriate 
budgetary levels for fiscal years 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002, 10 
a.m., SD-342.
  June 18, Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, 
Restructuring and the District of Columbia, to hold hearings on S. 
314, to require that the Federal Government procure from the private 
sector the goods and services necessary for the operations and 
management of certain Government agencies, 9 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: June 16, to hold hearings to examine 
State-sanctioned discrimination issues in America, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  June 17, Full Committee, to hold hearings on baseball antitrust 
reform issues, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  June 18, Subcommittee on Immigration, to hold hearings to examine 
visa issues for Chinese immigrants, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Labor and Human Resources: June 17, Subcommittee on 
Public Health and Safety, to hold hearings to examine human cloning 
ethics and theology issues, 9:30 a.m., SD-430.
  June 18, Full Committee, business meeting, to resume markup of S. 
830, to improve the regulation of food, drugs, devices, and 
biological products, 9:30 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: June 18, to hold joint hearings with 
the House Committee on Resources on S. 569 and H.R. 1082, bills to 
amend the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, 10:30 a.m., SD-106.
  Special Committee on Aging: June 16, to hold hearings to examine 
the problem of pension miscalculations, focusing on methods for 
educating people on the steps they can take to protect themselves 
and their pension benefits, 2 p.m., SD-628.


                             House Chamber

  Monday, No Legislative Business.
  Tuesday, Consideration of S. 768 from the Private Calendar; and 
Consideration of 5 Suspensions:
  1. H.J. Res. 56, Celebrating the End of Slavery in the United States;
  2. H.R. 1057, Designating the Andrew Jacobs, Jr. Post Office 
Building;
  3. H.R. 1058, Designating the John T. Myers Post Office Building;

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  4. H.R. 1747, John F. Kennedy Center Parking Improvement Act; and
  5. H.R. 985, Eagles Nest Wilderness Expansion.
  Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, Consideration of H.R. 437, National 
Sea Grant College Program Reauthorization Act of 1997 (open rule, 1 
hour of debate); and
  Consideration of H.R. 1119, National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Years 1998 and 1999 (subject to a rule).


                            House Committees

  Committee on Agriculture, June 17, Subcommittee on Forestry, 
Resource Conservation, and Research, hearing on the role of federal, 
state, and private agricultural research, 9:30 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  June 18, Subcommittee on Forestry, Resource Conservation, and 
Research, hearing on public and private partnership efforts in 
agricultural research, 9:30 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  June 19, full Committee, hearing on forest ecosystem health in the 
Inland West and Northeast, 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, June 17, to markup 
Financial Modernization legislation, 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, June 18, Subcommittee on Health and 
Environment, hearing on Reauthorization of Transportation-Related 
Air Quality Improvement Programs, 10 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  June 19, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing on 
Continued Management Concerns at the National Institutes of Health, 
10 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, June 17 and 19, 
Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Training and Life-Long 
Learning, hearings on H.R. 6, Higher Education Act Amendments of 
1998, 9:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  June 18, full Committee, to markup the following measures: H.R. 
1853, Carl D. Perkins Vocation and Applied Technology Act Amendments 
of 1997; H.R. 1818, Juvenile Crime Control and Delinquency 
Prevention Act of 1997; and H. Res. 139, expressing the sense of the 
House of Representatives that the Department of Education, States, 
and local education agencies should spend a greater percentage of 
Federal education tax dollars in our children's classrooms, 10 a.m., 
2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, June 18, 
Subcommittee on Government Management, Information, and Technology, 
hearing on Oversight of Electronic Funds Transfer, 10 a.m., 2247 
Rayburn.
  June 19, Subcommittee on Human Resources, to continue oversight 
hearings on Health Care Fraud in Nursing Homes--Part 2, 10 a.m., 
2247 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, June 18, Subcommittee on 
Asia and the Pacific, hearing on the Future of U.S.--Vietnam 
Relations, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, June 17, Subcommittee on Crime, 
hearing regarding gang-related witness intimidation and retaliation, 
9:30 a.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  June 17, Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims, oversight hearing 
regarding the Visa Waiver Pilot Program, 9:30 a.m., 2226 Rayburn.
  June 19, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, 
hearing and markup of H.R. 1596, Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 1997; 
followed by markup of the following bills: H.R. 865, to provide that 
Kentucky may not tax compensation paid to a resident of Tennessee 
for services as a Federal employee at Fort Campbell, Kentucky; H.R. 
874, to provide that Oregon may not tax compensation paid to a 
resident of Washington for services as a Federal employee at a 
Federal hydroelectric facility located on the Columbia River; and 
H.R. 764, Bankruptcy Amendments of 1996, 10 a.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, June 17, Subcommittee on National Parks 
and Public Lands, hearing on the following bills: H.R. 1051, New 
Mexico Statehood and enabling Act Amendments of 1997; and H.R. 1567, 
to provide for the designation of additional wilderness lands in the 
eastern United States, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  June 18, Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife & 
Oceans, hearing on Volunteers for Wildlife Act of 1997, 11 a.m., 
1334 Longworth.
  June 19, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, oversight 
hearing on Bureau of Land Management's hard rock mining bonding 
regulations, 1 p.m., 1334 Longworth.
  June 19, Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, oversight 
hearing on Resident Exotic Plants and Pests threatening the health 
of the National Forests, 10 a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  June 19, Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands, to mark 
up the following bills: H.R. 882, to facilitate a land exchange 
involving private land within the exterior boundaries of Wenatchee 
National Forest in Chelan County, WA.; H.R. 951, to require the 
Secretary of the Interior to exchange certain lands located in 
Hinsdale, Colorado; H.R. 960, to validate certain conveyances in the 
city of Tulare, Tulare County, California; H.R. 1110, Sudbury, 
Assabet, and Concord Wild and Scenic Rivers Act; and H.R. 1198, to 
direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey land to the City of 
Grants Pass, Oregon, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Science, June 19, Subcommittee on Technology, hearing 
on Computer Security Enhancement Act of 1997, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, June 19, 
Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Economic Development, hearing 
to review the Budget scoring rules as they relate to real estate 
transactions, 9 a.m., 2253 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, June 19, Subcommittee on Health, 
hearing on the VA's provision of treatment for Persian Gulf War 
veterans with difficult to diagnose and ill-defined conditions, 9:30 
a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, June 17, Subcommittee on Trade, 
hearing on U.S.-China Trade Relations, and renewal of China's Most-
Favored-Nation Status, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.

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                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Economic Committee: June 17, to hold hearings to examine the 
current technology transfer policy of the United States, and the 
issue of the recent removal of export restrictions and the expansion 
of foreign intelligence operations in the United States, 10 a.m., 
SD-138.
  Joint Hearing: June 18, Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, to 
hold joint hearings with the House Committee on Resources on S. 569 
and H.R. 1082, bills to amend the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, 
10:30 a.m., SD-106.