[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 54 (Tuesday, May 5, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D460-D461]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                         COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR

                         WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1998

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Defense, to hold 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1999 for the 
Department of Defense, focusing on the U.S. Pacific Command, 10 
a.m., SD-192.
  Committee on Armed Services, closed business meeting, to mark up a 
proposed National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999, 10 
a.m., SR-222.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Subcommittee 
on Communications, to hold oversight hearings on the Common Carrier 
Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Forests 
and Public Land Management, to hold hearings on S. 94 and H.R. 449, 
bills to provide for the orderly disposal of Federal lands in 
Nevada, and for the acquisition of certain environmentally sensitive 
lands in Nevada, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on European Affairs, 
to hold hearings to examine the crisis in Kosovo, 2 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Indian Affairs, to resume hearings to examine the 
status of tribal sovereign immunity and the role it plays to 
preserve the Federal Government's protection of tribal self-
government, and its impact on Indian economic development, 
commercial dealings, and taxation, focusing on S. 1691, to provide 
for Indian legal reform, 10 a.m., SD-106.
  Select Committee on Intelligence, closed business meeting, to mark 
up a proposed National Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 1999, 10 a.m., SH-219.
  Special Committee on Aging, to hold hearings on the status of the 
Health Care Financing Administration's development of its 
information campaign and recommendations on how to make seniors 
better aware of this and other health care resources, 2 p.m., SD-
562.


                                 House

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education, on the National Labor Relations 
Board, 2 p.m., 2358 Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Health and Environment, 
hearing on Regulatory Efforts to Phaseout Chlorofluorocarbon-Based 
Metered-Dose Inhalers, 10:30 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, Subcommittee on 
Government Management, Information, and Technology, to mark up H.R. 
7l6, Freedom From Government Competition Act of 1997, 2 p.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on the Western 
Hemisphere, hearing on Latin America and the Carribean: An Update 
and Summary of the Summit of the Americas, 1:30 p.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 
2431, Freedom From Religious Persecution Act of 1997; H.R. 3494, 
Child Protection and Sexual Predator Punishment Act of 1998; H.R. 
3168, Citizen Protection Act and Sexual Predator Punishment Act of 
1998; H.R. 3723, United States Patent and Trademark Office 
Reauthorization Act, Fiscal Year 1999; and H.R. 1690, to amend title 
28 of the United States Code regarding enforcement of child custody 
orders, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.

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  Committee on National Security, to mark up H.R. 3616, National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999, 10 a.m., 2118 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, to consider H.R. 3694, Intelligence 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 and to mark up H.R. 3534, 
Mandates Information Act of 1998, 11:30 a.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, oversight hearing on the International Space 
Station: Problems and Options, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to mark up the 
following: H.R. 2730, to designate the Federal building located at 
309 North Church Street in Dyersburg, Tennessee, as the ``Jere 
Cooper Federal Building;'' H.R. 2225, to designate the Federal 
building and United States courthouse to be constructed on Las Vegas 
Boulevard between Bridger Avenue and Clark Avenue in Las Vegas, NV, 
as the ``Lloyd D. George Federal Building and United States 
Courthouse;'' H.R. 3453, to designate the Federal Building and Post 
Office located at 100 East B Street, Casper, Wyoming, as the ``Dick 
Cheney Federal Building;'' H.R. 3295, to designate the Federal 
building located at 1301 Clay Street in Oakland, California, as the 
``Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building;'' H.R. 3504, amended, John F. 
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Authorization Act; H. Con. 
Res. 255, amended, authorizing the use of the Capitol grounds for 
the Greater Washington Soap Box Derby; H. Con. Res. 265, authorizing 
the use of the East Front of the Capitol Grounds for performances 
sponsored by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; H. 
Con. Res. 262, amended, authorizing the 1998 District of Columbia 
Special Olympics Law Enforcement Torch Run to be run through the 
Capitol Grounds; H. Con. Res. 263, amended, authorizing the use of 
the Capitol Grounds for the seventeenth annual National Peace 
Officers' Memorial Service; Corps of Engineers Survey resolutions; 
and other pending measures, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Railroads, hearing on Surface Transportation Board 
Reauthorization: Inter-carrier Transactions, Construction and 
Abandonments, 10:30 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 
3433, Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Act of 1998; and H.R. 
2431, Freedom From Religious Persecution Act of 1998, 1:30 p.m., 
1100 Longworth.


                             Joint Meetings

  Conferees, on H.R. 2400, to authorize funds for Federal-aid 
highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, 4 p.m., SD-
406.