[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 126 (Friday, September 19, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D978-D981]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                 Week of September 22 through 27, 1997

                             Senate Chamber

  On Monday, Senate will not be in session.
  On Tuesday, Senate will resume consideration of S. 830, Food and Drug 
Administration Modernization and Accountability Act and amendments 
pending thereto, with a vote on a motion to close further debate on the 
bill to occur thereon.
  During the week, Senate will also consider S. 1156, D.C. 
Appropriations, 1998, conference reports, when available, and consider 
any cleared legislative and executive business.

  (Senate will recess on Tuesday, September 23, 1997 from 12:30 p.m. 
until 2:15 p.m. for respective party conferences.)


                             House Chamber

  Monday, No legislative business.
  Tuesday, Consideration of 1 corrections Day bill, H.R. 2343, Thrift 
Depositor Protection Oversight Board Abolishment Act;
  Consideration of 14 suspensions:
  1. H.R. 2414, 50 states Commemorative Coin Program Act;
  2. H.R. 2261, Small Business Programs Reauthorization and Amendments 
Act of 1997;
  3. S. 996, to provide for the authorization for arbitration in United 
States District Courts;
  4. H.R. 1683, the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and 
Sexually Violent Offenders Registration Improvements Act;
  5. H.R. 2027, regarding Canadian Border Boat Landing Permit;
  6. H.R. 643, designating the Carl B. Stokes U.S. Courthouse;
  7. H.R. 824, designating the Howard T. Markey National Courts 
Building;
  8. S. 1000, designating the Robert J. Dole U.S. Courthouse;
  9. H.R. 994, designating the Kika de la Garza U.S. Border Station;
  10. H.R. 29, designating the Ronald H. Brown Federal Building;
  11. H.R. 1948, Hood Bay Land Exchange Act;
  12. S. 871, Oklahoma City National Memorial Act of 1997;
  13. H.R. 1460, allowing the election of the delegate from Guam by 
other than separate ballot; and
  14. Agree to Senate amendment to H.R. 1420, the National Wildlife 
Refuge Improvement Act;
  Consideration of the conference report on H.R. 2160, Agriculture 
Appropriations for FY 1998 (rule waiving points of order);
  Motion to go to conference on H.R. 2264, Labor, HHS, and Education 
Appropriations Act for FY 1998;
  Motion to go to conference on H.R. 2378, Treasury, Postal 
Appropriations Act for FY 1998.
  Note: No votes are expected before 5:00 p.m.
  Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday: Consideration of H.R. 2267, 
Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary Appropriations Act for FY 
1998 (subject to a rule);
  Consideration of the conference report on H.R. 2209, Legislative 
Branch Appropriations Act for FY 1998 (subject to a rule); and
  Consideration of H.R. 901, American Land Sovereignty Protection Act.


                           Senate Committees

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: September 24, 
Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Regulatory Relief, to 
oversight hearings on the operation of the Federal Housing Finance 
Board, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  September 25, Full Committee, business meeting, to mark up 
proposed legislation to authorize funds for the

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transit provisions of the Intermodal Surface Transportation 
Efficiency Act (ISTEA), 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: September 23, 
business meeting, to mark up S. 1193, to extend the authorization of 
the aviation insurance program, and S. 1196, to require the National 
Transportation Safety Board and individual foreign air carriers to 
address the needs of families of passengers involved in aircraft 
accidents involving foreign air carriers, and to consider the 
nominations of W. Scott Gould, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary, and Robert L. 
Mallett, of Texas, to be Deputy Secretary, both of the Department of 
Commerce, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: September 24, business 
meeting, to consider pending calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  September 25, Full Committee, to hold oversight hearings on the 
Federal agency energy management provisions of the Energy Policy Act 
of 1992, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  September 25, Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management, 
to hold hearings on S. 799, to direct the Secretary of the Interior 
to transfer to the personal representative of the estate of Fred 
Steffens of Big Horn County, Wyoming, certain land compromising the 
Steffens family property, S. 814, to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to transfer to John R. and Margaret J. Lowe of Big Horn 
County, Wyoming, certain land so as to correct an error in the 
patent issued to their predecessors in interest, and H.R. 960, to 
validate certain conveyances in the City of Tulare, Tulare County, 
California, 2 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: September 23, to hold 
hearings on S. 1180, to authorize funds for programs of the 
Endangered Species Act, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: September 23, 24 and 25, to hold hearings to 
examine the practices and procedures of the Internal Revenue 
Service, 9 a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: September 23, to hold hearings on 
the nominations of Corinne Claiborne Boggs, of Louisiana, to be 
Ambassador to the Holy See, R. Nicholas Burns, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to Greece, Thomas M. Foglietta, of Pennsylvania, to be 
Ambassador to Italy, and Mark Robert Parris, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  September 24, Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nominations 
of Thomas S. Foley, of Washington, to be Ambassador to Japan, and 
Alphonse F. La Porta, of New York, to be Ambassador to Mongolia, 10 
a.m., SD-419.
  September 24, Full Committee, business meeting, to consider 
pending calendar business, 2:15 p.m., S-116, Capitol.
  September 25, Subcommittee on African Affairs, to hold hearings to 
examine religious persecution in Sudan, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  September 25, Full Committee, to hold hearings on the Maritime 
Boundary Treaty with Mexico (Treaty Doc. 96-6), Protocol Amending 
the 1916 Convention for the Protection of Migratory Birds (Treaty 
Doc. 104-28), and Protocol with Mexico Amending Convention for 
Protection of Migratory Birds and Gam Mammals (Treaty Doc. 105-26), 
2 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: September 22, Subcommittee on 
International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services, to hold 
hearings to examine proliferation in the information age, 10 a.m., 
SD-342.
  September 22, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, to hold 
hearings to examine fraud in the micro-cap securities industry, 1:30 
p.m., SD-342.
  September 23 and 24, Full Committee, to resume hearings to examine 
certain matters with regard to the committee's special investigation 
on campaign financing, 10 a.m., SH-216.
  September 25, Full Committee, 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: September 22, Subcommittee on 
Administrative Oversight and the Courts, to hold hearings to examine 
the bankruptcy code's effect on religious freedom, and to review the 
Judicial Conference request for additional bankruptcy judges, 2 
p.m., SD-226.
  September 23, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine Federal 
antitrust policy in the healthcare marketplace, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Labor and Human Resources: September 24, business 
meeting, to mark up the proposed Workforce Investment Partnership 
Act, and to consider pending nominations, 9:30 a.m., SD-430.
  September 25, Full Committee, to resume hearings to examine the 
scope and depth of the proposed settlement between State Attorneys 
General and tobacco companies to mandate a total reformation and 
restructuring of how tobacco products are manufactured, marketed, 
and distributed in America, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: September 25, to hold 
hearings to examine U.S. Capitol security issues, 9:30 a.m., SR-301.
  Special Committee on Aging: September 23, to hold hearings to 
examine screening and treatment options for prostate cancer, 10 
a.m., SD-628.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Agriculture, September 23, Subcommittee on General 
Farm Commodities, hearing to review fast-track authority, 9:30 a.m., 
1300 Longworth.
  September 24, full Committee, to consider H.R. 2493, Forage 
Improvement Act of 1997, 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  September 25, Subcommittee on Forestry, Resource Conservation, and 
Research, to consider legislation to reauthorize Title VIII of the 
Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act, 10 a.m., 1300 
Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, September 23, to consider revised 
Section 302(b) budget allocations for fiscal year 1998, 1 p.m., 2359 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, September 24, 
Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, hearing 
on issues relating to debit

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cards and unsolicited loan checks, 9:30 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  September 25, full Committee, hearing on the Department of the 
Treasury's proposed rules regarding the management of federal agency 
payments through the use of Electronic Funds Transfer, 9:30 a.m., 
2128 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development, to mark up H.R. 
2447, Multifamily Housing Restructuring and Affordability Act of 
1997, 9:30 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Budget, September 24, hearing on Protecting the 
Future of Social Security, 10 a.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on Commerce, September 23, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, hearing on Adequacy of Access to Investigative Drugs 
for Seriously Ill Patients, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  September 24, Subcommittee on Energy and Power, hearing on 
Electricity Competition: Necessary Federal and State Roles, 10:30 
a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, September 23, 
Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations, hearing on Review of 
the National Labor Relations Board, 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, September 25, 
Subcommittee on Civil Service, to continue hearings on Employment 
Discrimination in the Federal Workplace, Part II, 9 a.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  September 25, Subcommittee on Human Resources, hearing on 
Pfiesteria and Food Safety: The Federal and State Response, 10 a.m., 
2247 Rayburn.
  Committee on House Oversight, September 24, to consider Contested 
Election in the Forty-sixth District of California and other pending 
business, 2 p.m., 1310 Longworth.
  Committee on International Relations, September 24, Subcommittee 
on International Economic Policy and Trade, to continue hearings on 
Fast Track: On Course or Derailed? Necessary or Not? 2 p.m., 2200 
Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, September 23, Subcommittee on the 
Constitution, hearing on State Approaches to Protecting Private 
Property Rights, 1 p.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  September 24, full Committee, oversight hearing on the State of 
Competition in the Cable Television Industry, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  September 24, Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims, hearing on 
H.R. 2377, Temporary Agricultural Worker Act of 1997, 10 a.m., 2226 
Rayburn.
  September 25, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, 
oversight hearing on the Role of Congress in Monitoring 
Administrative Rulemaking, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  September 25, Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, 
hearing on the following bills: H.R. 1063, to amend the Webb-Kenyon 
Act to allow any State, territory, or possession of the United 
States to bring an action in Federal court to enjoin violations of 
that Act or to enforce the laws of such State, territory, or 
possession with respect to such violations; and H.R. 1534, Private 
Property Rights Implementation Act of 1997, 10 a.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, September 23, Subcommittee on Forests and 
Forest Health, hearing on the Community Protection and Hazardous 
Fuels Reduction Act of 1997, 2 p.m., 1334 Longworth.
  September 23, Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands and 
the Subcommittee on Water and Power, joint oversight hearing on the 
proposal to drain Lake Powell or reduce its water storage 
capability, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  September 24, full Committee, hearing on H.R. 1842, to terminate 
further development and implementation of the American Heritage 
Rivers Initiative, 11 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  September 25, Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and 
Oceans, hearing on H.R. 2376, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation 
Establishment Act Amendments of 1997, 10 a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  September 25, Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, hearing 
on H.R. 434, to provide for the conveyance of small parcels of land 
in the Carson National Forest and the Santa Fe National Forest, NM, 
to the village of El Rito and the town of Jemez Springs, NM, 2 p.m., 
1324 Longworth.
  September 25, Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands, 
oversight hearing on Everglades National Park and the Miccosukee 
Tribe of Indians in Florida, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Rules, September 23, to consider the following: 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, 1998; and the Conference Report to 
accompany H.R. 2209, making appropriations for the Legislative 
Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, 5 p.m., H-313 
Capitol.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, September 24, to 
mark up H.R. 2400, Building Efficient Surface Transportation and 
Equity Act of 1997, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, September 25, Subcommittee on 
Oversight and Investigations, hearing on the Year 2000 (Y2K) 
computer compliance issues and their impact on the Department of 
Veterans Affairs, 9:30 a.m., 340 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, September 23, to mark up the 
following: H.R. 2487, Child Support Incentive Act of 1997; a measure 
to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore and modify the 
provision of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 relating to exempting 
active financing income from foreign personal holding income; a 
measure to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for 
the non-recognition of gain on the sale of stock in agricultural 
processors to certain farmers' cooperatives; and H.R. 2444, 
Disapproving the cancellations transmitted by the President on 
August 11, 1997, regarding Public Law 105-34, 2 p.m., 1100 
Longworth.
  September 23, Subcommittee on Trade, hearing on the use and effect 
of unilateral trade sanctions, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.

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  September 25, on Health, hearing on implementation of the Health 
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, 10 a.m., 1310 
Longworth.
  September 25, Subcommittee on Social Security, oversight hearing 
on the SSA's progress in conducting continuing disability reviews, 1 
p.m., 1100 Longworth.
  September 26, Subcommittee on Oversight, to continue hearings on 
the Recommendations of the National Commission on Restructuring the 
Internal Revenue Service with regard to taxpayer protections and 
rights, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.