[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 105 (Wednesday, July 23, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D810-D811]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                             JULY 24, 1997

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations, business meeting, to mark up proposed 
legislation making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, 9:30 a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Armed Services, to hold hearings on the nomination of 
John J. Hamre, of South Dakota, to be Deputy Secretary of Defense, 
9:30 a.m., SR-222.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Subcommittee on 
Securities, to hold hearings to examine securities litigation 
abuses, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, to hold 
hearings to review a General Accounting Office report relating to 
program efficiencies at the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration (NASA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), 
9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Forests 
and Public Land Management, to hold hearings on S. 1028 and H.R. 
858, bills to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a pilot 
project on designated lands within Plumas, Lassen, and Tahoe 
National Forests in California to demonstrate the effectiveness of 
the resource management activities proposed by the Quincy Library 
Group and to amend current land and resource management plans for 
these national forests to consider the incorporation of these 
resource management activities, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  Subcommittee on National Parks, Historic Preservation, and 
Recreation, to hold hearings to review the process by which the 
National Park Service determines the suitability and feasibility of 
new areas to be added to the National Park System, and to examine 
the criteria used to determine national significance, 2 p.m., SD-
366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works, business meeting, to 
consider the nomination of Jamie Rappaport Clark, of Maryland, to be 
Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 9:30 a.m., 
SD-406.
  Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear 
Safety, to hold hearings to examine ozone and particulate matter 
standards promulgated by the Environmental Protection Agency, 9:45 
a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Foreign Relations, to hold hearings on the 
nominations of David Andrews, of California, to be Legal Adviser, 
Bonnie R. Cohen, of the District of Columbia, to be Under Secretary 
for Management, Edward William Gnehm, Jr., of Georgia, to be 
Director General of the Foreign Service, James P. Rubin, of New 
York, to be Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, and Wendy Ruth 
Sherman, of Maryland, to be Counselor, with the rank of Ambassador 
during her tenure of service, all of the Department of State, 9:30 
a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nomination of George 
Munoz, of Illinois, to be President of the Overseas Private 
Investment Corporation, United States International Development 
Cooperation Agency, 11:30 a.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, 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, 9 a.m., SD-226.
  Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, and Competition, to 
hold hearings to examine proposals on defense consolidation, 
focusing on antitrust and competitions issues, 2:00 p.m., SD-124.
  Committee on Labor and Human Resources, to hold hearings on 
proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Higher 
Education Act, focusing on title IV, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Subcommittee on Public Health and Safety, to hold hearings on 
proposed legislation authorizing funds for the National Institutes 
of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, 2 p.m., SD-430.
  Select Committee on Intelligence, to hold closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                                 NOTICE

  For a listing of Senate committee meetings scheduled ahead, see page 
E1503 in today's Record.


                                 House

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on the District of 
Columbia, on D.C. Public Safety, 10 a.m., H-144 Capitol.
  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, Subcommittee on 
Capital Markets, hearing on the GAO Report on

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the Merger of Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) 
and the Federal Housing Finance Board, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on Early 
Childhood, Youth and Families, hearing on Focus on Fatherhood, 9:30 
a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing on the 
Accounting and Management Practices of the Corporation for National 
Service, 9:30 a.m., 2261 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, Subcommittee on 
Human Resources, oversight hearing on the National Labor Relations 
Board, 11 a.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs, and 
Criminal Justice, hearing on Reforming Inventory Management Through 
Innovative Business Practices, 12 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, hearing on Global Climate 
Negotiations: Obligations of Developed and Developing Countries, 10 
a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, to markup the following 
measures: a resolution concerning the Crisis in Cambodia; H. Con. 
Res. 74, concerning the situation between the Democratic People's 
Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea; and H. Res. 157, 
congratulating the people of India and Pakistan on the occasion of 
the 50th anniversary of their nations' independence, 3 p.m., 2255 
Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Commercial and 
Administrative Law, to markup H.R. 872, Biomaterials Access 
Assurance Act of 1997, 10 a.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Crime, hearing on the nature and extent of 
domestic and international money laundering, its role in the 
international drug trade, and methods of combating the problem, 9:30 
a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims, hearing on the following 
bills: H.R. 967, to prohibit the use of United States funds to 
provide for the participation of certain Chinese officials in 
international conferences, programs, and activities and to provide 
that certain Chinese officials shall be ineligible to receive visas 
and be excluded from admission to the United States; H.R. 1543, to 
amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit certain 
nonimmigrant aliens to study in publicly funded adult education 
programs if the alien provides reimbursement for such study; H.R. 
2172, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to make the 
restrictions on foreign student study at a public elementary or 
secondary school inapplicable in cases where the school evidences a 
desire for such result, and to prohibit the use of Federal funds to 
pay the cost of such study; followed by a markup of H.R. 1493, to 
require the Attorney General to establish a program in local prisons 
to identify, prior to arraignment, criminal aliens and aliens who 
are unlawfully present in the United States, 9:30 a.m., 2226 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, 
Wildlife & Oceans oversight hearing on review of the authority and 
decision making processes of the National Marine Fisheries Service 
Northwest Region, 10 a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Committee on Rules, to consider H.R. 2209, making appropriations 
for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
l998, 11 a.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Empowerment, hearing 
on the impact proposed tax changes will have on minority owned 
businesses, 10:00 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Health, to markup 
H.R. 2206, Veterans Health Programs Improvement Act of 1997, 9:15 
a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Subcommittee on Health and the Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, joint hearing to review the process by which VA is 
consolidating VA medical facility managements and their clinical and 
support services, and the results of such initiatives, 9:30 a.m., 
334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Oversight, hearing on 
the Report of the National Commission on Restructuring the Internal 
Revenue Service, 10:00 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Social Security, to continue hearings on Barriers 
Preventing Social Security Disability Recipients from Returning to 
Work, 1 p.m., B-318 Rayburn.


                             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, 2 p.m., 
room to be announced.