[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 127 (Monday, September 22, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D984-D985]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY,

                           SEPTEMBER 23, 1997

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, 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, 10 a.m., SR253.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works, to hold hearings on S. 
1180, to authorize funds for programs of the Endangered Species Act, 
9:30 a.m., SD406.
  Committee on Finance, to hold hearings to examine the practices 
and procedures of the Internal Revenue Service, 9 a.m., SD106.
  Committee on Foreign Relations, 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., SD419.
  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., SH216.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to hold hearings to examine Federal 
antitrust policy in the healthcare marketplace, 10 a.m., SD226.
  Committee on Veterans Affairs, to hold joint hearings with the 
House Committee on Veterans Affairs on the legislative 
recommendations of the American Legion, 9:30 a.m., 345 Cannon 
Building.
  Special Committee on Aging, to hold hearings to examine screening 
and treatment options for prostate cancer, 10 a.m., SD628.


                                 NOTICE

  For a listing of Senate committee meetings scheduled ahead, see pages 
E1816-17 in today's Record.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on General Farm 
Commodities, hearing to review fast-track authority, 9:30 a.m., 1300 
Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, to consider revised Section 302(b) 
budget allocations for fiscal year 1998, 1 p.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, hearing on Adequacy of Access to Investigative Drugs 
for Seriously Ill Patients, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on 
Employer-Employee Relations, hearing on Review of the National Labor 
Relations Board, 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, 
hearing on State Approaches to Protecting Private Property Rights, 1 
p.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, 
hearing on H.R. 2458, Community Protection and Hazardous Fuels 
Reduction Act of 1997, 2 p.m., 1334 Longworth.
  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.
  Committee on Rules, 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.

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  Committee on Ways and Means, to markup 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.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, to hold 
joint hearings with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs on the 
legislative recommendations of the American Legion, 9:30 a.m., 345 
Cannon Building.