[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 98 (Friday, July 11, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D741-D745]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                    Week of July 14 through 19, 1997

                             Senate Chamber

  On Monday, Senate will consider S. 1005, Department of Defense 
Appropriations, 1998. Senate will

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also resume consideration of the nomination of Joel I. Klein, of the 
District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Attorney General, with a 
cloture vote to occur thereon at 6 p.m.
  During the balance of the week, Senate expects to complete 
consideration of S. 1005, and consider S. 1004, Energy and Water 
Appropriations, 1998, S. 955, Foreign Operations Appropriations, 1998, 
conference reports, when available, and any cleared executive and 
legislative business.

  (Senate will recess on Tuesday, July 15, 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: July 16, to 
hold hearings to examine the importance of alternative fuels in 
addressing future national security concerns, focusing on 
agriculture's vulnerability to energy price volatility, the 
contribution of home-grown renewable alternative fuels, and the role 
of new technologies in making agriculture more energy efficient 
while increasing yields, 9 a.m., SR-332.
  July 17, Subcommittee on Forestry, Conservation, and Rural 
Revitalization, to hold hearings on the implementation of the 
Northern Forestry Stewardship Act, 2:30 p.m., SR-332.
  Committee on Appropriations: July 15, Subcommittee on Agriculture, 
Rural Development, and Related Agencies, business meeting, to mark 
up an original bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural 
Development, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 1998, 9 a.m., SD-138.
  July 15, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and 
Education, business meeting, to mark up an original bill making 
appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
1998, 9:15 a.m., SD-192.
  July 15 and 17, Full Committee, Tuesday, business meeting, to mark 
up proposed legislation making appropriations for fiscal year 1998 
for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, 
and related agencies, proposed legislation making appropriations for 
fiscal year 1998 for the Department of the Treasury, U.S. Postal 
Service, and General Government, and proposed legislation making 
appropriations for fiscal year 1998 for the Legislative Branch, 9:30 
a.m.; Thursday, business meeting, to markup proposed legislation 
making appropriations for fiscal year 1998 for the Department of 
Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies, proposed 
legislation making appropriations for fiscal year 1998 for military 
construction programs, proposed legislation making appropriations 
for fiscal year 1998 for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and 
Housing and Urban Development and related agencies, and proposed 
legislation making appropriations for fiscal year 1998 for the 
Department of Transportation and related agencies, 2 p.m., SD-106.
  July 15, Subcommittee on Transportation, business meeting, to mark 
up an original bill making appropriations for the Department of 
Transportation and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1998, 2 p.m., SD-116.
  July 16, Subcommittee on District of Columbia, to hold hearings on 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1998 for the District of 
Columbia Department of Corrections and the Metropolitan Police 
Department, 10 a.m., SD-192.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: July 15, 
Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Regulatory Relief and 
Subcommittee on Housing Opportunity and Community Development, to 
resume hearings on problems surrounding the mortgage origination 
process and the implementation of the Real Estate Settlement 
Procedures Act and the Truth in Lending Act, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: July 17, to 
hold hearings on S. 625, to provide for competition between forms of 
motor vehicle insurance, to permit an owner of a motor vehicle to 
choose the most appropriate form of insurance for that person, to 
guarantee affordable premiums, and to provide for more adequate and 
timely compensation for accident victims, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: July 17, to hold 
hearings on the nominations of Patrick A. Shea, of Utah, to be 
Director of the Bureau of Land Management, and Robert G. Stanton, of 
Virginia, to be Director of the National Park Service, both of the 
Department of the Interior, Kneeland C. Youngblood, of Texas, to be 
a Member of the Board of Directors of the United States Enrichment 
Corporation, and Kathleen M. Karpan, of Wyoming, to be Director of 
the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, Department 
of the Interior, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  July 17, Subcommittee on National Parks, Historic Preservation, 
and Recreation, to hold hearings on S. 895, to designate the 
reservoir created by Trinity Dam in the Central Valley project, 
California, as ``Trinity Lake'', S. 931, to designate the Marjory 
Stoneman Douglas Wilderness and the Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center, 
and S. 871, to establish the Oklahoma City National Memorial as a 
unit of the National Park System and to designate the Oklahoma City 
Memorial Trust, 2 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: July 16, to hold 
hearings on the nomination of Jamie Rappaport Clark, of Maryland, to 
be Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 
Department of the Interior, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  July 17, Full Committee, to resume hearings to examine issues 
relating to climate change, 10 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: July 15, to hold hearings on the 
nominations of A. Peter Burleigh, of California, to be the Deputy 
Representative of the United States of America to the United 
Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador, David J. Scheffer, 
of Virginia, to be Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues, 
Richard Sklar,

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of California, to be Representative of the United States to the 
United Nations for U.N. Management and Reform, with the Rank of 
Ambassador, and Linda Jane Zack Tarr Whelan, of Virginia, for the 
rank of Ambassador during her tenure of service as United States 
Representative to the Commission on the Status of Women of the 
Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  July 15, Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nominations of 
James Franklin Collins, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to the Russian 
Federation, Marc Grossman, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of 
State for European and Canadian Affairs, John Christian Kornblum, of 
Michigan, to be Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, and 
Stephen R. Sestanovich, of the District of Columbia, as Ambassador 
at Large and Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for the New 
Independent States, 2 p.m., SD-419.
  July 15, Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nomination of 
Gordon D. Giffin, of Georgia, to be Ambassador to Canada, 4 p.m., 
SD-419.
  July 16, Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, 
Narcotics and Terrorism, to hold hearings to examine the threat of 
drug cartels and narco-violence in the United States, 2 p.m., SD-
419.
  July 17, Full Committee, business meeting, to mark up S. Res. 98, 
expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the conditions for the 
United States becoming a signatory to any international agreement on 
greenhouse gas emissions under the United National Framework 
Convention on Climate Change, a proposed concurrent resolution 
expressing the sense of the Congress that the OAS-CIAV Mission in 
Nicaragua is to be congratulated for its defense of human rights, 
promotion of peaceful conflict resolution, and contribution to the 
development of freedom and democracy in Nicaragua, and to consider 
the Agreement with Hong Kong for the Surrender of Fugitive Offenders 
(Treaty Doc. 105-3), and pending nominations, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  July 17, Subcommittee on European Affairs, to hold hearings to 
examine the status of Bosnia non-compliance with the Dayton Accords, 
2 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: July 15, 16 and 17, to resume 
hearings to examine certain matters with regard to the committee's 
special investigation on campaign financing, 10 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on the Judiciary: July 15, Subcommittee on Constitution, 
Federalism, and Property Rights, to hold hearings on assessing the 
impact of judicial activism, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  July 15, Full Committee, business meeting, to resume markup of S. 
10, to reduce violent juvenile crime, promote accountability by 
juvenile criminals, and punish and deter violent gang crime, 2 p.m., 
SD-226.
  July 16, Full Committee, to hold hearings to review the Global 
Tobacco settlement, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  July 16, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, and 
Competition, to hold hearings on S. 539, to exempt agreements 
relating to voluntary guidelines governing telecast material from 
the applicability of the antitrust laws, 2 p.m., SD-226.
  July 17, Full Committee, business meeting, to resume markup of S. 
10, to reduce violent juvenile crime, promote accountability by 
juvenile criminals, and punish and deter violent gang crime, 10 
a.m., SD-226.
  July 17, Subcommittee on Immigration, to hold hearings on 
proposals to extend the Visa Waiver Pilot Program, including S. 290, 
to establish a visa waiver pilot program for nationals of Korea who 
are traveling in tour groups to the United States, 2 p.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Labor and Human Resources: July 17, to hold hearings 
to examine the quality of child care, 2 p.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: July 16, to resume a 
briefing on the status of the investigation into the contested U.S. 
Senate election held in Louisiana in November 1996, 2:30 p.m., SR-
301.


                             House Chamber

  Monday, No legislative business.
  Tuesday, Consideration of measures from the Private Calendar;
  Consideration of three Suspensions:
  1. H.R. 1818, Juvenile Crime Control and Delinquency Prevention Act 
of 1997;
  2. H.R. 765, Shackleford Banks Wild Horses Protection Act;
  3. H.R. 2035, Authorize the transfer of naval vessels to certain 
foreign countries; and
  Consideration of H.R. 2158, VA/HUD Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 
1998 (subject to a rule).
  Wednesday and Thursday, Consideration of H.R.       , Agriculture, 
Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1998;
  Consideration of H.R.       , Foreign Operations, Export Financing 
and Related Programs Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1998 (subject to a 
rule); and
  Consideration of H.R. 1853, Carl D. Perkins Vocational-Technical 
Education Act Amendments of 1997 (subject to a rule).
  Friday, No Legislative Business.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Agriculture, July 15, hearing on Review of Wildfire 
Management in the United States, 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  July 16, Subcommittee on Forestry, Resource Conservation, and 
Research, hearing on reauthorization proposals in agricultural 
research, 10:30 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  July 17, full Committee, hearing to review the USDA's Civil Rights 
Action Team Report, 2 p.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, July 16, Subcommittee on the District 
of Columbia, on Fiscal Year 1998 D.C. Budget, 1 p.m., H-144 Capitol.
  July 17, Subcommittee on the District of Columbia, on 
Congressional and Public Witnesses, 11 a.m., H-144 Capitol.

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  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, July 16, Subcommittee 
on Capital Markets, Securities and Government Sponsored Enterprises 
and the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and 
Technology of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, 
joint oversight hearing on Government Sponsored Enterprises, 2 p.m., 
2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, July 15, Subcommittee on Energy and Power, 
on the Economic and Environmental Impact of the Proposed 
International Global Climate Change Agreement, 1 p.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  July 17, Subcommittee on Finance and Hazardous Materials, hearing 
on H.R. 10, Financial Services Competitiveness Act of 1997, 10 a.m., 
2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, July 15, Subcommittee on 
Postsecondary Education, Training and Life-Long Learning, hearing on 
the Education of the Deaf Act and Title V of the Higher Education 
Act, 9:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  July 16, Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families, to 
continue hearings on the Authorization of the Older Americans Act, 
10:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  July 16, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing on 
Ergonomics: A Question of Feasibility, 10:30 a.m., 2261 Rayburn.
  July 17, Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Training and 
Life-Long Learning, to continue hearings on H.R. 6, Higher Education 
Act of 1997, 9:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, July 17, 
Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs, and 
Criminal Justice, to continue hearings on National Drug Control 
Policy: Drug Interdiction Efforts in Florida and the Caribbean, 1 
p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, July 15, Subcommittee on 
Africa and the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human 
Rights, joint hearing on the Impact of Radio on African Democracy, 1 
p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  July 16, full Committee, hearing on the Democratic Republic of 
Congo: Problems and Prospects, 10:15 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  July 16, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, hearing on Familiar 
Ground: The Breakdown in Democracy in Cambodia and Implications for 
U.S. Foreign Policy, 2 p.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  July 16, Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, hearing on the 
Anti-Drug Effort in the Americas: A Mid-Term Report, 1:30 p.m., 2172 
Rayburn.
  July 17, full committee, hearing on Inspector General's Oversight 
of the Department of State and Agency for International Development, 
10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, July 14, Subcommittee on the 
Constitution, hearing on Protecting Religious Freedom after Boerne 
v. Flores, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  July 15, Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims, to mark up the 
following bills: H.R. 1109, to amend the Immigration and Nationality 
Technical Corrections Act of 1994 to eliminate the special 
transition rule for issuance of a certificate of citizenship for 
certain children born outside the United States; H.R. 1348, Expanded 
War Crimes Act of 1997; and H.R. 2027, to provide for the revision 
of the requirements for a Canadian border boat landing permit 
pursuant to section 235 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, and 
to require the Attorney General to report to the Congress on the 
impact of such revision; to consider a motion to request a report on 
a private immigration bill; followed by an oversight hearing on the 
Institutional Hearing Program, 9:30 a.m., 2226 Rayburn.
  July 17, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, 
hearing on H.R. 1054, Internet Tax Freedom Act, 10 a.m., 2237 
Rayburn.
  July 17, Subcommittee on the Constitution, oversight hearing on 
the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 2 p.m., B-352 Rayburn.
  July 17, Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, 
oversight hearing on Fairness in Music Licensing, 9 a.m., 2226 
Rayburn.
  Committee on National Security, July 16, Subcommittee on Military 
Research and Development, hearing on threats posed by 
electromagnetic pulse to U.S. military systems and civilian 
infrastructure, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  July 17, full Committee, hearing on NATO expansion, 9:30 a.m., 
2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, July 15, oversight hearing on the 
Administration's Proposal regarding the American Heritage Rivers 
Initiative, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  July 17, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 700, to remove the 
restriction on the distribution of certain revenues from the Mineral 
Springs parcel to certain members of the Agua Caliente Band of 
Cahuilla Indians; 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. 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. 948, Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians Act; 
H.R. 976, Mississippi Sioux Tribes Judgment Fund Distribution Act of 
1997; H.R. 1460, to allow for election of the Delegate from Guam by 
other than separate ballot; H.R. 1604, to provide for the division, 
use, and distribution of judgment funds of the Ottawa and Chippewa 
Indians of Michigan pursuant to dockets numbered 18-E, 58, 364, and 
18-R before the Indian Claims Commission; H.R. 1663, to clarify the 
intent of the Congress in Public Law 93-632 to require the Secretary 
of Agriculture to continue to provide for the maintenance of 18 
concrete dams and weirs that were located in the Emigrant Wilderness 
at the time the wilderness area was designated as wilderness in that 
Public Law; and H.R. 1944, Warner Canyon Ski Hill Land Exchange Act 
of 1997, 11 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  July 17, Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and 
Oceans, oversight hearing to review the final outcome of the Tenth 
Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on 
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Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), 10 a.m., 1334 
Longworth.
  July 17, Subcommittee on Water and Power, oversight hearing on 
Government Performance and Results Act status--Bureau of 
Reclamation, USGS, Water Resources and the Power Marketing 
Administration, 2 p.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Rules, July 14, H.R. 2158, making appropriations for 
the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban 
Development, and for sundry independent agencies, commissions, 
corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
1998, 6 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  July 15, to consider a measure making appropriations for foreign 
operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 1998, 4 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, July 15, Subcommittee on Technology, hearing 
on Meeting the Needs of the Physically Challenged Through Federal 
Technology Transfer, 2 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  July 16, full Committee, hearing on Science, Math, Engineering and 
Technology Education, 2 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, July 15, Subcommittee on Tax, 
Finance, and Exports, hearing on Does Ex-Im Help Small Business 
Exporters? 2 p.m., 311 Cannon.
  July 16, full Committee, hearing on credit subsidy rates for the 
Section 7(a) general business loan program and the Section 504 
Certified Development Company program, 10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, July 16, 
Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, to mark up 
the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1997, 10:30 a.m., 2253 Rayburn.
  July 17, Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, hearing on Road 
Rage: Causes and Dangers of Aggressive Driving, 9:30 a.m., 2167 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, July 16, Subcommittee on Benefits, 
hearing on pending proposals in the areas of education, training and 
employment, 9:30 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  July 17, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, to continue 
hearings on sexual harassment issues involving senior career 
managers within the Department of Veterans Affairs and H.R. 1703, 
the Department of Veterans Affairs Employment Discrimination 
Prevention Act, 9:30 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, July 15, Subcommittee on Trade, to 
mark up the following bills: H.R. 2133, to authorize the extension 
of nondiscriminatory treatment--most-favored-nation treatment--to 
the products of Mongolia; and H.R. 2132, to extend nondiscriminatory 
treatment--most-favored-nation treatment--to the products of the Lao 
People's Democratic Republic, 2 p.m., 1100 Longworth.
  July 17, full Committee, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 
2133, to authorize the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment--
most-favored-nation treatment--to the products of Mongolia; and H.R. 
2132, to extend nondiscriminatory treatment--most-favored-nation 
treatment--to the products of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, 
9:30 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  July 17, Subcommittee on Health, hearing on the Inspector General 
Audit of Health Care Financing Administration's Financial 
Statements, 11 a.m., 1100 Longworth.