[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 90 (Tuesday, June 24, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D668-D669]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                         COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR

                        WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1997

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on District of Columbia, 
to hold hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1998 
for the District of Columbia, 10 a.m., SD-192.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Subcommittee on 
Securities, to resume oversight hearings to examine Social Security 
investment in the securities markets, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Subcommittee 
on Science, Technology, and Space, to hold hearings on proposed 
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1998 for the United 
States Fire Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency and 
the Office of Associate Administration for Commercial Space 
Transportation, 2 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Foreign Relations, to hold hearings on pending 
nominations, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs, Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations, to hold hearings to examine waste within the 
Medicare's durable medical equipment program, 9:30 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to hold hearings to examine 
encryption, key recovery, and privacy protection in the information 
age, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings on pending nominations, 2 p.m., 
SD-226.
  Committee on Rules and Administration, to hold hearings to examine 
campaign financing, focusing on whether political contributions are 
voluntary, 9:30 a.m., SR-301.

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  Committee on Veterans Affairs, to hold hearings to review a recent 
General Accounting Office (GAO) report entitled ``Gulf War 
Illnesses: Improved Monitoring of Clinical Progress and Re-
examination of Research Emphasis Needed'', 9:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Indian Affairs, to hold oversight hearings on the 
Administration's proposal to restructure Indian gaming fee 
assessments, 2 p.m., SD-562.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and 
Poultry, hearing to review the current status and future prospects 
of livestock, dairy, and poultry trade between the United States and 
Asia, 10:00 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, to 
markup appropriations for fiscal year 1998, 9:30 a.m., 2362A 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related 
Programs, to markup appropriations for fiscal year 1998, 3 p.m., H-
144 Capitol.
  Subcommittee on VA, HUD and Independent Agencies, to markup 
appropriations for fiscal year 1998, 12:30 p.m., H-140 Capitol.
  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, hearing on the 
Eizenstat Report and related issues concerning U.S. and Allied 
efforts to restore gold and other assets looted by Nazis in World 
War II, 9 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, to markup the following: H.R. 629, Texas 
Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Consent Act; H.R. 1276, 
Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization 
Act of 1997; and a measure to waive temporarily the Medicaid 
enrollment composition rule for the Better Health Plan of Amherst, 
New York, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, to markup the following 
measures: H.R. 1853, Carl D. Perkins Vocation and Applied Technology 
Act Amendments of 1997 Act, 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, 10:00 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, Subcommittee on 
National Security, International Affairs, and Criminal Justice, 
hearing on Effectiveness of Counterdrug Technology Coordination at 
ONDCP, 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, hearing on United States 
Policy Toward Lebanon, 10:00 a.m., and to markup the following: H. 
Con. Res. 88, congratulating the Government and the people of the 
Republic of El Salvador on sucessfully completing free and 
democratic elections on March 16, 1997; H. Con. Res. 81, calling for 
a United States initiative seeking a just and peaceful resolution of 
the situation on Cyprus; a measure to transfer naval vessels to 
certain foreign countries; H. Con. Res. 99, expressing concern over 
recent events in the Republic of Sierra Leone in the wake of the 
recent military coup d'etat of that country's first democratically 
elected President; a resolution urging a restoration of peace in 
Congo-Brazzaville; and H.R. 1432, African Growth and Opportunity 
Act, 4 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, hearing to review issues 
in Central America, 1:30 p.m., 2255 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, hearing on proposals to provide rights 
to Victims of Crime, including the following measures: H.J. Res. 71, 
proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
protect the rights of crime victims; and H.R. 1322, Victims' Rights 
Constitutional Amendment Implementation Act of 1997, 9:30 a.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, to markup H.R. 
764, Bankruptcy Amendments of 1997, 1 p.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims, hearing on the following 
bills: H.R. 7, Citizenship Reform Act of 1997; and H.R. 1428, Voter 
Eligibility Verification Act, 10 a.m., 2226 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, to markup the following measures: S.J. 
Res. 29, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to design and 
construct a permanent addition to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt 
Memorial in Washington, D.C.; H.R. 765, Shackleford Banks Wild 
Horses Protection Act; H.R. 799, to require the Secretary of 
Agriculture to make a minor adjustment in the exterior boundary of 
the Hells Canyon Wilderness in the States of Oregon and Idaho to 
exclude an established Forest Service road inadvertently included in 
the wilderness; H.R. 822, to facilitate a land exchange involving 
private land within the exterior boundaries of Wenatchee National 
Forest in Chelan County, Wa.; H.R. 838, to require adoption of a 
management plan for the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area that 
allows appropriate use of motorized and nonmotorized river craft in 
the recreation area; H.R. 901, American Land Sovereignty Protection 
Act; 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. 1127, National Monument Fairness Act of 1997; H.R. 
1198, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey land to the 
City of Grants Pass, Oregon; and H.R. 1658, Atlantic Striped Bass 
Conservation Act Amendments of 1997, 11 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Aviation, hearing on market-based solutions to air service problems 
for medium-sized communities,9:30 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.