[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 147 (Tuesday, October 28, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1160-D1161]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                         COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR

                      WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1997

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development, to hold hearings to examine the maintenance of the U.S. 
nuclear weapons stockpile without testing, 2:30 p.m., SD-124.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Subcommittee on 
Securities, to hold oversight hearings on securities litigation 
abuses, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on the Budget, to hold hearings to examine U.S. policy 
implications for NATO enlargement, European Union expansion and the 
European Monetary Union, 10 a.m., SD-608.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Subcommittee 
on Oceans and Fisheries, to hold hearings to examine the future of 
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Corps, and S. 
877, to disestablish the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration Corps of Commissioned Officers, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings on S. 943 and H.R. 2005, bills to 
revise Federal aviation law to declare that nothing in such law or 
in the Death on the High Seas Act shall affect any remedy existing 
at common law or under State law with respect to any injury or death 
arising out of any aviation incident occurring on or after January 
1, 1995, 2 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Subcommittee on 
National Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation, to hold 
hearings on S. 638, to provide for the expeditious completion of the 
acquisition of private mineral interests within the Mount St. Helens 
National Volcanic Monument mandated by the 1982 Act that established 
the monument, 2 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works, business meeting, to 
consider pending calendar and committee business, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance, to hold hearings on the nominations of David 
L. Aaron, of New York, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for 
International Trade, Mary Ann Cohen, of California, to be a Judge of 
the United States Tax Court, Margaret Ann Hamburg, of New York, to 
be an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, Stanford G. 
Ross, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the Social 
Security Advisory Board, Social Security Administration, and David 
W. Wilcox, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of the 
Treasury, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations, to hold hearings on the 
nominations of Amy L. Bondurant, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Representative of the United States of America to the Organization 
for Economic Cooperation and Development, with the rank of 
Ambassador, Terrence J. Brown, of Virginia, to be Assistant 
Administrator for Management, Thomas H. Fox, of the District of 
Columbia, to be an Assistant Administrator for Policy and Program 
Coordination, and Harriet C. Babbitt, of Arizona, to be Deputy 
Administrator, all of the Agency for International Development, and 
Kirk K. Robertson, of Virginia, to be Executive Vice President of 
the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, all of the Department 
of State, 11 a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nominations of Joseph A. 
Presel, of Rhode Island, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Uzbekistan, Stanley Tuemler Escudero, of Florida, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Azerbaijan, B. Lynn Pascoe, of Virginia, for the 
rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as Special 
Negotiator for Nagorno-Karabakh, Steven Karl Pifer, of California, 
to be Ambassador to Ukraine, Kathryn Linda Haycock Proffitt, of 
Arizona, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Malta, James Catherwood 
Hormel, of California, to be Ambassador to Luxembourg, David B. 
Hermelin, of Michigan, to be Ambassador to Norway, Lyndon Lowell 
Olson, Jr., of Texas, to be Ambassador to Sweden, and Gerald S. 
McGowan, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Portugal, 
2 p.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, to hold joint hearings with the United States 
Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, to examine United 
States-Mexican cooperation in efforts to combat drugs, 2 p.m., SD-
106.
  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 Antitrust, Business 
Rights, and Competition, to hold hearings to examine antitrust 
implications of the proposed settlement between the 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-226.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings on pending nominations, 2 p.m., 
SD-226.
  Committee on Indian Affairs, to hold hearings on S. 1077, to amend 
the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, 9:30 a.m., SD-106.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, hearing on H.R. 2534, Agricultural 
Research Extension and Education Reauthorization Act of 1997, 9:30 
a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty Crops, hearing on 
the Review of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Government 
Performance Results Act Report, 1 p.m., 1302 Longworth.

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  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Interior, hearing on 
Park Service Housing and Construction, 10 a.m., B-308 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, 
hearing on Child Health, 10:00 a.m., and 1:30 p.m., 2358 Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, hearing on Medicare Home Health, 10:30 a.m., 2322 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer 
Protection, hearing and markup of H.R. 2691, National Highway 
Traffic Safety Administration Reauthorization Act of 1997; and to 
markup H.R. 2369, Wireless Privacy Enhancement Act of 1997, 10:30 
a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on 
Oversight and Investigations, hearing on the American Worker at a 
Crossroads Project, ``Future of Work in America'', 10:30 a.m., 2175 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, Subcommittee on 
Human Resources, will meet to consider an oversight report on 
Persian Gulf War veterans' illnesses, 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, hearing on Recent 
Developments in Europe, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, to markup the following 
measures: a resolution Congratulating the Association of Southeast 
Asian Nations (ASEAN) on the occasion of its 30th Anniversary; H. 
Con. Res. 172, expressing the sense of Congress in support of 
efforts to foster friendship and cooperation between the United 
States and Mongolia; H. Res. 231, urging the President to make clear 
to the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam the 
commitment of the American people in support of democracy and 
religious and economic freedom for the people of the Socialist 
Republic of Vietnam; a resolution relating to the recent 
developments toward normalization of relations between India and 
Pakistan; and H. Con. Res. 156, expressing concern for the continued 
deterioration of human rights in Afghanistan and emphasizing the 
need for a peaceful political settlement in that country, 2 p.m., 
2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to markup the following: H.R. 1023, 
Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act of 1997; H.R. 1753, to provide 
for the establishment of not less than 2,500 Boys and Girls Clubs of 
America facilities by the year 2000; H.R. 2460, Wireless Telephone 
Protection Act; H.R. 429, NATO Special Immigration Amendments of 
1997; H.J. Res. 91, granting the consent of Congress to the 
Apalachicola-Chattahoocee-Flint River Basin Compact; H.J. Res. 92, 
granting the consent of Congress to the Alabama-Cossa Tallapoose 
River Basin Compact; H.J. Res 95, granting the consent of Congress 
to the Chickasaw Trail Economic Development Compact; H.J. Res 96, 
granting the consent and approval of Congress for the State of 
Maryland, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the District of Columbia 
to amend the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Regulation 
Compact; and private immigration bills, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, hearing on the following bills: H.R. 100, 
Guam Commonwealth Act; H.R. 2370, Guam Judicial Empowerment Act of 
1997; and S. 210, to amend the Organic Act of Guam, the Revised 
Organic Act of the Virgin Islands, and the Compact of Free 
Association Act, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Rules, to consider H.R. 2616 Charter Schools 
Amendments Act of 1997 and H.R. 2746, Helping Empower Low-income 
Parents (HELP) Scholarships Amendments of 1997, 1:30 p.m., H-313 
Capitol.
  Committee on Science, hearing on Science, Math, Engineering, and 
Technology Education (SMET) in America--Collaboration and 
Coordination of Federal Agency Efforts in SMET K-12 Education, 10 
a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, hearing on SBA implementation of the 
Results Act, 11 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to markup the 
following: H.R. 2626, to make clarifications to the Pilot Records 
Improvement Act of 1996; H.R. 2476, to amend title 49, United States 
Code, 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; Water Resources Survey Resolution; and impending GSA 
resolutions, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, hearing on 
superfund reauthorization and reform proposals, 1 p.m., 2167 
Rayburn.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Economic Committee, to hold hearings to examine the role of 
monetary policy in a healthy economic expansion, 10 a.m., SD-G50.