[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 109 (Tuesday, July 29, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D850-D851]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                         COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR

                        WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1997

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, business 
meeting, to mark up proposed legislation authorizing funds for 
agricultural research programs of the 1996 Farm Bill, and to 
consider the nominations of August Schumacher Jr., of Massachusetts, 
to be Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services and 
a Member of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit 
Corporation, Catherine E. Woteki, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Under Secretary for Food Safety, I. Miley Gonzalez, of New Mexico, 
to be Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics, and 
Shirley Watkins, Arkansas, to be Under Secretary for Food, 
Nutrition, and

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Consumer Services and a Member of the Board of Directors for the 
Commodity Credit Corporation, all of the Department of Agriculture, 
9 a.m., SR-332.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Subcommittee on 
Financial Services and Technology, to resume hearings to review 
information processing challenges of the Year 2000 for certain 
financial institutions, 9 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Subcommittee 
on Communications, to hold hearings on the regulation of 
international satellites, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, business meeting, to 
consider pending calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  Subcommittee on National Parks, Historic Preservation, and 
Recreation, to hold hearings to review the management and operations 
of concession programs within the National Park System, 2 p.m., SD-
366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works, to hold hearings on S. 
1059, to amend the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration 
Act of 1066 to improve the management of the National Wildlife 
Refuge System, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Foreign Relations, business meeting, to consider the 
Agreement between the Government of the United States and the 
Government of Hong Kong for the Surrender of Fugitive Offenders 
signed at Hong Kong on December 20, 1996 (Treaty Doc. 105-3), S. 
Con. Res. 39, expressing the sense of the Congress that the German 
Government should expand and simplify its reparations system, 
provide reparations to Holocaust survivors in Eastern and Central 
Europe, and set up a fund to help cover the medical expenses of 
Holocaust survivors, and pending nominations, 10 a.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, to resume hearings to examine certain 
issues with regard to the proposed Global Tobacco Settlement which 
will mandate a total reformation and restructuring of how tobacco 
products are manufactured, marketed and distributed in America, 10 
a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Rules and Administration, business meeting, to 
consider the status of the investigation into the contested Senate 
election in Louisiana, 2:30 p.m., SR-301.
  Committee on Indian Affairs, business meeting, to mark up S. 569, 
to amend the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 to provide for 
retention by an Indian tribe of exclusive jurisdiction over child 
custody proceedings involving Indian children and other related 
requirements; to be followed by an oversight hearing on the Bureau 
of Indian Affairs Special Trustee's strategic plan to reform the 
management of Indian trust funds, 9:30 a.m., SD-106.
  Select Committee on Intelligence, to hold closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, 2 p.m., SH-219.


                                 House

  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, Subcommittee on 
General Oversight and Investigations, hearing to review the 
Department of the Treasury's Proposed Regulations for Money Service 
Businesses, 1 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Finance and Hazardous 
Materials, to continue hearings on H.R. 10, Financial Services 
Competitiveness Act of 1997, 10:00 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Health and Environment, hearing on Title VI of the 
Clean Air Act and the Ninth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal 
Protocol, 10:00 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on 
Workforce Protections and the Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, joint hearing to review the Davis-Bacon Act, 10:00 
a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, hearing on the Threat to the 
United States from Emerging Infectious Diseases, 10:30 a.m., 2172 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Africa, hearing on Kenya's Election Crisis, 2 
p.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, to continue 
oversight hearings on the activities of the FBI, focusing on the 
Olympic Park bombing and the investigation of Richard Jewell, 9:30 
a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on National Security, hearing on H.R. 695, Security and 
Freedom Through Encryption Act, and its impact on U.S. national 
security, 10:00 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, hearing on H.R. 1948, Hood Bay Land 
Exchange Act of 1997, 11:00 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Rules, to consider H.R. 2267, making appropriations 
for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, 
and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, l998, 
10:30 a.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, hearing on Demanding Results: Implementing 
the Government Performance and Results Act, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, to mark up the reauthorization of the 
SBA, 10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to mark up H.R. 
2247, Amtrak Reform and Privatization Act of 1997, 11 a.m., 2167 
Rayburn.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Subcommittee on 
Technical and Tactical Intelligence, executive, hearing on Defense 
Airborne Reconnaissance Office (DARO), 10 a.m., H-405 Capitol.


                             Joint Meetings

  Conferees, on H.R. 1757, to consolidate international affairs 
agencies and to authorize funds for fiscal years 1998 and 1999 for 
the Department of State and related agencies, 11 a.m., S-116, 
Capitol.