[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 137 (Monday, October 6, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1068-D1069]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY,

                            OCTOBER 7, 1997

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, to hold 
hearings on the nomination of Sally Thompson, of Kansas, to be Chief 
Financial Officer, Department of Agriculture, and on other pending 
nominations, 9 a.m., SR-332.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Subcommittee on 
Securities to hold joint hearings with the Committee on Finance's 
Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy and the Committee 
on Finance's Subcommittee on Health Care, to examine investment 
based alternatives to the current pay-as-you-go method of financing 
Social Security and Medicare, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, to hold 
hearings on the nominations of Terry D. Garcia, of California, to be 
Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, and Raymond G. 
Kammer, of Maryland, to be Director of the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, both of the Department of Commerce, 10 
a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Water 
and Power, to hold hearings on S. 725, to convey the Collbran 
Reclamation Project to the Ute Water Conservancy District and the 
Collbran Conservancy District, S. 777, to authorize the construction 
of the Lewis and Clark Rural Water System and to authorize 
assistance to the Lewis and Clark Rural Water System, Inc., H.R. 
848, to extend the deadline under the Federal Power Act applicable 
to the construction of the AuSable Hydroelectric Project in New 
York, H.R. 1184, to extend the deadline under the Federal Power Act 
for the construction of the Bear Creek Hydroelectric Project in the 
State of Washington, H.R. 1217, to extend the deadline under the 
Federal Power Act for the construction of a hydroelectric project in 
the State of Washington, S. 1230, to provide for Federal cooperation 
in non-Federal reclamation projects, and S. 841, to authorize 
construction of the Fort Peck Reservation Rural Water System in the 
State of Montana, 2 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Finance, Subcommittee on Social Security and Family 
Policy and Subcommittee on Health Care and the Committee on Banking, 
Housing, and Urban Affairs' Subcommittee on Securities, to examine 
investment based alternatives to the current pay-as-you-go method of 
financing Social Security and Medicare, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations, to hold hearings to examine the 
strategic rationale for NATO enlargement, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings on the Taxation Convention with 
Austria (Treaty Doc. 104-31), Tax Convention with Ireland (Treaty 
Doc. 105-31), Taxation Convention with Luxembourg (Treaty Doc. 104-
33), Tax Convention with South Africa (Treaty Doc. 105-9), Tax 
Convention with Swiss Confederation (Treaty Doc. 105-8), Taxation 
Convention with Thailand (Treaty Doc. 105-2), Taxation Agreement 
with Turkey (Treaty Doc. 104-30), and Protocol Amending Tax 
Convention with Canada (Treaty Doc. 105-29), 2 p.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 hold hearings on improving citzens' 
access to justice, focusing on vindication of property rights, 10 
a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Labor and Human Resources, to hold hearings on the 
nomination of Charles N. Jeffress, of North Carolina, to be an 
Assistant Secretary of Labor, 9:45 a.m., SD-430.

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  Committee on Veterans Affairs, business meeting, to mark up 
miscellaneous veterans health and benefits bills, including S. 987, 
S. 714, S. 986, S. 309, S. 464, S. 623, S. 730, S. 801, S. 813, and 
S. 999, 3 p.m., SR-418.


                                 NOTICE

  For a listing of Senate committee meetings scheduled ahead, see pages 
E1940-41 in today's Record.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, hearing on the Review of the Forest 
Recovery and Protection Act of 1997, 10:00 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, to consider the 
following: motion to authorize the issuance of subpoenas for 
testimony in hearings on the Invalidated 1996 Teamster Election; and 
other pending Committee business, 11 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, to consider pending 
business, 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, hearing on Implementation of 
the U.S.-China Nuclear Cooperation Agreement: Whose Interests Are 
Served? 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to markup the following bills: H.R. 
1085, to revise, codify, and enact without substantive change 
certain general and permanent laws, related to patriotic and 
national observances, ceremonies, and organizations, as title 36, 
United States Code, ``Patriotic and National Observances, 
Ceremonies, and Organizations''; H.R. 2578, to amend the Immigration 
and Nationality Act to extend the visa waiver pilot program, and to 
provide for the collection of data with respect to the number of 
non-immigrants who remain in the United States after the expiration 
of the period of stay authorized by the Attorney General; H.R. 1534, 
Private Property Rights Implementation Act of 1997; H.R. 992, Tucker 
Act Shuffle Relief Act of 1997; H.R. 1967, to amend title 17, United 
States Code, to provide that the distribution before January 1, 
1978, of a phonorecord shall not for any purpose constitute a 
publication of the musical work embodied therein; and H.R. 2265, No 
Electronic Theft (NET) Act, 9:30 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Forest and Forest Health, 
to markup the following bills: H.R. 1739, BWCAW Accessibility and 
Fairness Act of 1997; H.R. 1309, to provide for an exchange of lands 
with the city of Greeley, Colorado, and The Water Supply and Storage 
Company to eliminate private inholdings in wilderness areas; and 
H.R. 434, to provide for the conveyance of small parcels of land in 
the Carson National Forest and the Santa Fe National Forest, New 
Mexico, to the village of El Rito and the town of Jemez Springs, New 
Mexico, 10:00 a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands, to hold a hearing 
on the following bills: H.R. 2313, to prohibit the construction of 
any monument, memorial, or other structure at the site of the Iwo 
Jima Memorial in Arlington, Virginia; S. 731, to extend the 
legislative authority for construction of the National Peace Garden 
memorial; and S. 423, to extend the legislative authority for the 
Board of Regents of Gunston Hall to establish a memorial to honor 
George Mason; followed by a markup of the following bills: 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 land 
surveys that were subsequently determined to be inaccurate; H.R. 
1714, to provide for the acquisition of the Plains Railroad Depot at 
the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site; H.R. 2283, Arches National 
Park Expansion Act of 1997; H.R. 755, to amend the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 to allow individuals to designate any portion of their 
income tax overpayments, and to make other contributions, for the 
benefit of units of the National Park System; and H.R. 1635, 
National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Act of 1997, 10:00 
a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Rules, to consider the following: Conference Report 
to accompany H.R. 2107, making appropriations for the Department of 
the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1998; Conference Report to accompany H.R. 2158, making 
appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing 
and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, 
commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1998; and Senate amendments to H.R. 1122, Partial 
Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1997, 1 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, 
hearing on Countdown to Kyoto Part I: The Science of the Global 
Climate Change Agreement, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, October 7, 
Subcommittee on Human Intelligence, Analysis, and 
Counterintelligence, executive, to hold a briefing on the Caspian 
Sea Oil Field/Pipeline, 3 p.m., H-405 Capitol.


                             Joint Meetings

  Conferees, on H.R. 2264, making appropriations for the Departments 
of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, 3:30 p.m., 
S-128, Capitol.