[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 122 (Monday, September 15, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D946-D947]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY,

                           SEPTEMBER 16, 1997

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Armed Services, to hold hearings on the nominations 
of General Michael E. Ryan, USAF, to be Chief of Staff, United 
States Air Force, Adm. Harold W. Gehman, Jr., USN, to be Commander-
in-Chief, United States Atlantic Command, and Lt. Gen. Charles E. 
Wilhelm, USMC, to be Commander-in-Chief, United States Southern 
Command and for appointment to the grade of general, 10 a.m., SR-
222.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Subcommittee on 
Financial Services and Technology, to hold hearings to examine the 
widespread growth of fraud using financial institutions, focusing on 
national security implications and organized crime involvement, and 
the types of counterfeit financial instruments being circulated, 10 
a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, to hold 
hearings to examine tobacco advertising and its impact on youth, 
9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  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.


                                 NOTICE

  For a Listing of Senate Committee Meetings scheduled ahead, see pages 
E1752-53 in today's Record.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, hearing to review EPA's National Ambient 
Air Quality Standards and the potential effects on U. S. 
agriculture, 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, Subcommittee on 
Domestic and International Monetary Policy, hearing on the Federal 
Reserve's payment system, 1:30 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Power, hearing 
on a measure to extend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act; 
followed by a markup of that measure and H.R. 2165, to extend the 
deadline under the Federal Power Act applicable to the construction 
of FERC Project Number 3862 in the State of Iowa, 1 p.m., 2322 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on Early 
Childhood, Youth and Families, hearing on Charter Schools, 10 a.m., 
2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on House Oversight, to consider the following: Committee 
on Science's reserve fund request; information security policy; 
pension forfeiture; and other pending business, 5 p.m., 1310 
Longworth.
  Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on 
International Economic Policy and Trade, hearing on Fast Track: On 
Course or Derailed? Necessary or Not? 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts and 
Intellectual Property, hearing on the following bills: H.R. 2281, 
WIPO Copyright Treaties Implementation Act; and H.R. 2180, On-Line 
Copyright Liability Limitation Act, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, 
oversight hearing on H.R. 817, to require the appointment of the 
Chief of the Forest Service by the President, by and with the advice 
and consent of the Senate, 2 p.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands, hearing on the 
following bills: H.R. 351, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to make appropriate improvements to a county road located 
in the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, and to prohibit 
construction of a scenic shoreline drive in that national lakeshore; 
H.R. 1714, to provide for the acquisition of the Plains Railroad 
Depot at the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site; H.R. 2186, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide assistance to the 
National Historic Trails Interpretive Center in Casper, Wyoming; 
H.R. 2136, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey, at 
fair market value, certain properties in Clark County, Nevada, to 
persons who purchased adjacent properties in good faith reliance on 
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surveys that were subsequently determined to be inaccurate; and H.R. 
2283, Arches National Park Expansion Act of 1997, 10 a.m., 1324 
Longworth.
  Committee on Rules, to consider H. Res 168, to implement the 
recommendations of the bipartisan House Ethics Reform Task Force, 
5:30 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Ways and Means, hearing to examine the 
recommendations of the National Commission on Restructuring the IRS 
with regard to Executive Branch governance and Congressional 
oversight of IRS, 1 p.m., 1100 Longworth.


                             Joint Meetings

  Conferees, closed, on S. 858, to authorize appropriations for 
fiscal year 1998 for intelligence and intelligence-related 
activities of the United States Government, the Community Management 
Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and 
Disability System, 4 p.m., S-407, Capitol.