[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 117 (Monday, September 8, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D912-D913]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                         COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR

                       TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1997

                                 Senate

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
  Committee on Appropriations, business meeting, to mark up an 
original bill making appropriations for the government of the 
District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, 
4 p.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Armed Services, to hold hearings on the nomination of 
Gen. Henry H. Shelton, USA, to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of 
Staff, 10 a.m., SR-253.

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  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 Immigration, to hold 
hearings to examine the economic and fiscal impact of immigration, 
focusing on the report of the National Academy of Sciences, 10:30 
a.m., SD-226.
  Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, and Competition, to 
hold hearings to examine the operation of the antitrust division of 
the Department of Justice, focusing on the Hart-Scott-Rodino process 
which requires companies to notify the Government of perspective 
mergers, 2 p.m., SD-226.


                                 NOTICE

  For a listing of Senate Committee Meetings scheduled ahead, see pages 
E1690-91 in today's Record.


                                 House

  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, hearing and markup of 
H.R. 2343, Thrift Depositor Protection Oversight Board Abolishment 
Act; and to consider pending Committee business, 2 p.m., 2128 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on Early 
Childhood and Families, hearing on School Choice legislative 
proposals, 9 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, hearing on the Freedom from 
Religious Persecution Act of 1997, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to mark up the following: H.R. 1683, 
Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent 
Offenders Registration Improvements Act of 1997; H.R. 424, to 
provide for increased mandatory minimum sentences for criminals 
possessing firearms; 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; H.R. 2412, to amend the Immigration and 
Nationality Act to modify the religious worker visa programs and to 
extend the visa waiver pilot programs, and to amend the Illegal 
Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to 
modify the effective date for certain paperwork changes in the 
employer sanctions program; H.R. 2413, Immigration Technical 
Corrections Act of 1997; and a private claims bill, 2:30 p.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  Committee on National Security, to mark up H.R. 695, Security and 
Freedom Through Encryption (SAFE) Act, 1 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, 
hearing on the following bills: H.R. 1739, BWCAW Accessibility and 
Fairness Act of 1997; and H.R. 2149, BWCA Wilderness Legacy Act, 2 
p.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands, hearing on H.R. 
1849, Oklahoma City National Memorial Act of 1997, 10 a.m., 1324 
Longworth.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Aviation, hearing on H.R. 99l, to amend the Railway Labor Act 
concerning the applicability of requirements of that Act to U.S. air 
carriers and flight deck crews engaged in flight operations outside 
the United States, 2 p.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Oversight, to 
continue hearings on the Recommendations of the National Commission 
on Restructuring the Internal Revenue Service to expand Electronic 
Filing of Tax Systems Improvements 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, hearing on 
Encryption legislation, 10 a.m., H-405 Capitol.


                             Joint Meetings

  Conferees, on H.R. 2016, making appropriations for military 
construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for 
the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
1998, 2 p.m., H-140, Capitol.