[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 104 (Tuesday, July 22, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D800-D801]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                         COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR

                        WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1997

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, to hold 
hearings on the nominations of Catherine E. Woteki, of the District 
of Columbia, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety, 
and Shirley Robinson Watkins, of Arkansas, to be Under Secretary of 
Agriculture for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services, 9 a.m., SR-
332.
  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on District of Columbia, 
to resume hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1998 
for the government of the District of Columbia, focusing on the 
Departments of Health, Human Services, and Public Works, 10 a.m., 
SD-192.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, to hold 
oversight hearings on the Federal Reserve's monetary policy report 
to Congress pursuant to the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act 
of 1978, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, business 
meeting, to consider the nomination of Jane Garvey, of 
Massachusetts, to be Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
Administration, Department of Transportation, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, business meeting, to 
consider pending calendar business; to be followed by hearings to 
examine natural gas issues, focusing on the world energy supply and 
demand to the year 2015, the role of government in large scale gas 
projects in foreign countries, and emerging technologies in gas 
field development that are making natural gas more economical to 
market, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  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, to hold hearings on proposed 
legislation to authorize funds for the Office of National Drug 
Control Policy, 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, and to mark up 
S. 53, to require the general application of the antitrust laws to 
major league baseball, 2 p.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Labor and Human Resources, business meeting, to mark 
up S. 1020, proposed Arts and Humanities Amendments of 1997, S. 
1046, proposed National Science Foundation Authorization of 1997, 
proposed Workforce Improvement Partnership Act, and to consider 
pending nominations, 9:30 a.m., SD-430.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Risk Management and 
Specialty Crops, hearing on the Commodity Futures Trading 
Commission's proposal to lift the prohibition on agricultural trade 
options, 1:30 p.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, hearing on the 
Conduct of Monetary Policy, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
Committee on Commerce, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 1262, 
Securities and Exchange Commission Authorization Act of 1997; H.R. 
1839, National Salvage Motor Vehicle Consumer Protection Act of 1997; 
and H.R. 2032, to make correct certain provisions of the Safe Drinking 
Water Act, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on 
Workforce Protections, hearing to examine the Occupational Safety 
and Health Administration's reinvention project, 10:30 a.m., 2175 
Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, hearing on Iran Libya 
Sanctions Act--One Year Later, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade, hearing 
on Microcredit and Microenterprise: The Road to Self-Reliance, 2 
p.m. 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to mark up the following; H.R. 1109, 
to amend the Immigration and Nationality

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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; 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; H.R. 2181, Witness Protection and Interstate 
Relocation Act of 1997; and private measures, 10:30 a.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, to consider H.R. 2203, making appropriations 
for energy and water development for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1998, 4 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, hearing on Science, Math Engineering and 
Technology Education, 1 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to mark up the 
following: H.R. 2036, Aviation Insurance Reauthorization Act of 1997; 
H.R. 2005, to amend title 49, United States Code, to clarify the 
application of the Act popularly known as the ``Death on the High Seas 
Act'' to aviation incidents; H.R. 2204, Coast Guard Authorization Act 
of 1997; Water Resources Survey Resolutions; Ocean Pollution Reduction 
Act of 1997; H.R. 29, to designate the Federal building located at 290 
Broadway in New York, NY, as the ``Ronald H. Brown Federal Building''; 
H.R. 81, to designate the U.S. courthouse located at 401 South Michigan 
Street in South Bend, IN, as the ``Robert K. Rodibaugh United States 
Bankruptcy Courthouse''; H.R. 548, to designate the U.S. courthouse 
located at 500 Pearl Street in New York City, NY, as the ``Ted Weiss 
United States Courthouse''; H.R. 595, to designate the Federal building 
and U.S. courthouse located at 475 Mulberry Street in Macon, GA, as the 
``William Augustus Bootle Federal Building and United States 
Courthouse''; H.R. 613, to designate the Federal building located at 
100 Alabama Street NW, in Atlanta, GA, as the ``Sam Nunn Federal 
Center''; H.R. 643, to designate the U.S. courthouse to be constructed 
at the corner of Superior and Huron Roads, in Cleveland, OH, as the 
``Carl B. Stokes United States Courthouse''; H.R. 824, to redesignate 
the Federal building located at 717 Madison Place, NW., in the District 
of Columbia, as the ``Howard T. Markey National Courts Building''; H.R. 
892, to redesignate the Federal building located at 223 Sharkey Street 
in Clarksdale, MS, as the ``Aaron Henry United States Post Office''; 
H.R. 962, to redesignate a Federal building in Suitland, MD, as the 
``W. Edwards Deming Federal Building''; H.R. 994, to designate the U.S. 
border station located in Pharr, TX, as the ``Kika de la Garza United 
States Border Station''; H.R. 1479, to designate the Federal building 
and U.S. courthouse located at 300 Northeast First Avenue in Miami, FL, 
as the ``David W. Dyer Federal Courthouse''; H.R. 1484, to redesignate 
the Dublin Federal courthouse building located in Dublin, GA, as the 
``J. Roy Rowland Federal Courthouse''; H.R. 1502, to designate the U.S. 
courthouse located at 301 West Main Street in Benton, IL, as the 
``James L. Foreman United States Courthouse''; H.R. 1851, to designate 
the U.S. courthouse located at 200 South Washington Street in 
Alexandria, VA, as the ``Martin V.B. Bostetter, Jr., U.S. Courthouse''; 
H. Con. Res. 98, authorizing the use of the Capitol grounds for the 
Safe Kids Buckle Up Car Seat Safety Check; Courthouse Design 
Prospectuses from fiscal year 1997; Amendments to two prior Committee 
resolutions; Construction Prospectuses; and two 11(b) Resolutions, 10 
a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Social Security, 
hearing on Barriers Preventing Social Security Disability Recipients 
from Returning to Work, 10:00 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Trade, hearing on the New Transatlantic Agenda, 
2:00 p.m., B-318 Rayburn.
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Subcommittee on Human 
Intelligence, Analysis, and Counterintelligence, executive, briefing on 
Foreign Counterintelligence Threat Against Congress, 4:30 p.m., H-405 
Capitol.


                             JOINT MEETINGS

  Conferees, on H.R. 1757, to consolidate international affairs 
agencies and to authorize appropriations for the Department of State 
and related agencies for the fiscal years 1998 and 1999, 4 p.m., H-
140, Capitol.