[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 99 (Monday, July 14, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D750-D751]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY,

                             JULY 15, 1997

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations, 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.
  Full Committee, 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., SD-106.
  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.
  Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies, business 
meeting, to mark up proposed legislation making appropriations for 
the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban 
Development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, 4 p.m., 
SD-124.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, 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, 10:30 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Foreign Relations, 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, 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.
  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.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nomination of Gordon D. 
Giffin, of Georgia, to be Ambassador to Canada, 4 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs, 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, Subcommittee on Constitution, 
Federalism, and Property Rights, to hold hearings on assessing the 
impact of judicial activism, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  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.


                                 NOTICE

  For a listing of Senate committee meetings scheduled ahead, see pages 
E1422-23 in today's Record.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, hearing on Review of Wildfire Management 
in the United States, 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education, to mark up appropriations for fiscal 
year 1998, 10 a.m., 2358 Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Power, hearing 
on the Economic and Environmental Impact of the Proposed 
International Global Climate Change Agreement, 1 p.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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.
  Committee on International Relations, 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.
  Committee on the Judiciary, 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

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an oversight hearing on the Institutional Hearing Program, 9:30 
a.m., 2226 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, oversight hearing on the Administration's 
Proposal regarding the American Heritage Rivers Initiative, 10 a.m., 
1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Rules, to consider H.R. 2159, making appropriations 
for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, 5:30 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Technology, hearing on 
Meeting the Needs of People with Disabilities Through Federal 
Technology Transfer, 2 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Tax, Finance, and 
Exports, hearing on Does Ex-Im Help Small Business Exporters? 2 
p.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, 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.