[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 100 (Tuesday, July 15, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D760-D761]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                         COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR

                        WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1997

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, 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.
  Committee on Appropriations, 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 Environment and Public Works, 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.
  Committee on Foreign Relations, 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.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs, to continue 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, to hold hearings to review the Global 
Tobacco settlement, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  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.
  Committee on Rules and Administration, 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

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on the District of 
Columbia, on Fiscal Year 1998 D.C. Budget, 1 p.m., H-144 Capitol.
  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, Subcommittee on 
Capital Markets, Securities and Government Sponsored Enterprises and 
the Subcommittee on Government

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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, Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, 
and Consumer Protection, to markup H.R. 1839, National Salvage Motor 
Vehicle Consumer Protection Act of 1997, 2 p.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on Early 
Childhood, Youth and Families, to continue hearings on the 
Authorization of the Older Americans Act, 10:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing on 
Ergonomics: A Question of Feasibility, 10:30 a.m., 2261 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, hearing on the Democratic 
Republic of Congo: Problems and Prospects, 10:15 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, hearing on Familiar Ground: 
The Breakdown of Democracy in Cambodia and Implications for U.S. 
Foreign Policy, 2 p.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade, to markup 
H.R. 2064, Jobs and Exports Renewal Act of 1997, 2 p.m., 2237 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, hearing on the Anti-Drug 
Effort in the Americas: A Mid-Term Report, 1:30 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to markup the following bills: H.R. 
764, Bankruptcy Amendments of 1997; H.R. 1596, Bankruptcy Judgeship 
Act of 1997; and H.R. 1953, to clarify State authority to tax 
compensation paid to certain employees, 10:30 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Crime, to markup the following: H.R. 424, to 
provide for increased mandatory minimum sentences for criminals 
possessing firearms; and the Witness Protection and Interstate 
Relocation Act of 1997, 4 p.m., 2226 Rayburn.
  Committee on National Security, 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.
  Committee on Resources, to markup 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; 
H.R. 1944, Warner Canyon Ski Hill Land Exchange Act of 1997; and 
H.R. 1855, to establish a moratorium on large fishing vessels in 
Atlantic herring and mackerel fisheries; and to consider a 
resolution to authorize the Chairman to issue a subpoena concerning 
the matter of the committee review of hardrock bonding mining 
regulations, 11 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Rules, to consider H.R. 1853, Carl D. Perkins 
Vocational-Technical Education Act Amendments of 1997, 2 p.m., H-313 
Capitol.
  Committee on Science, hearing on Science, Math, Engineering and 
Technology Education, 2 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, 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, Subcommittee on 
Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, to markup the Coast Guard 
Authorization Act of 1997, 10:30 a.m., 2253 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Benefits, hearing 
on pending proposals in the areas of education, training and 
employment, 9:30 a.m., 334 Cannon.