[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 78 (Tuesday, June 16, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D646-D647]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                         COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR

                        WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1998

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, to hold hearings 
on H.R. 10, to enhance competition in the financial services 
industry by providing a prudential framework for the affiliation of 
banks, securities firms, and other financial service providers, 9:30 
a.m., SD-G-50.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Subcommittee 
on Communications, to hold hearings to examine proposals to deter 
the problem of junk e-mail, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Forests 
and Public Land Management, to resume hearings on S. 1253, to 
provide to the Federal land management agencies the authority and 
capability to manage effectively the federal lands in accordance 
with the principles of multiple use and sustained yield, 2 p.m., SD-
366.
  Committee on Finance, to hold hearings on S. 1432, to authorize a 
new trade and investment policy for sub-Saharan Africa, 10 a.m., SD-
215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations, to resume hearings on S. 1868, to 
express United States foreign policy with respect to, and to 
strengthen United States advocacy on behalf of, individuals 
persecuted for their faith worldwide; and to establish an Ambassador 
at Large on International Religious Freedom within the Department of 
State, a Commission on International Religious Persecution, and a 
Special Adviser on International Religious Freedom within the 
National Security Council, focusing on views from the religious 
community, 10:30 a.m., SD-419.
  Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Export and Trade 
Promotion, to hold hearings on the implementation of United States 
policy on Caspian Sea oil exports, 2 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs, business meeting, to mark up 
the proposed Federal Vacancies Reform Act, and S. 712, to provide 
for a system to classify information in the interests of national 
security and a system to declassify such information, to consider 
the nominations of G. Edward DeSeve, of Pennsylvania, to be Deputy 
Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget, and Deidre 
A. Lee, of Oklahoma, to be Administrator for Federal Procurement 
Policy, and to consider other pending calendar business, 9:30 a.m., 
SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to hold hearings to examine the extent 
of drug abuse among children, 9 a.m., SD-226.
  Subcommittee on Constitution, Federalism, and Property Rights, 
business meeting, to consider pending calendar business, 9:15 a.m., 
SD-226.
  Select Committee on Intelligence, to hold closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, hearing to review the 1999 Multilateral 
Negotiations on Agricultural Trade--Africa and the Middle East, 10 
a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, to mark up the following 
appropriations for fiscal year 1999: Treasury, Postal Service, and 
General Government; and Defense, 9:30 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Interior, to mark up appropriations for fiscal 
year 1999, 2 p.m., B-308 Rayburn.
  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, Subcommittee on 
Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, hearing on the 
reauthorization of the Community Development Financial Institutions 
Fund, 2:30 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, to receive subpoenaed documents in connection with 
the ongoing Portals investigation and/or to consider legal 
objections to their production, 10:30 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer 
Protection, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 2921, Multichannel 
Video Competition and Consumer Protection Act of 1997; H.R. 2281, to 
amend title 17, United States Code, to implement the World 
Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty and Performances 
and Phonograms Treaty; and H.R. 872, Biomaterials Access Assurance 
Act of 1998, 2:30 p.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on 
Oversight and Investigations to continue hearings on International 
Brotherhood of Teamsters Financing Reporting and Pension 
Disclosures, 10:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, Subcommittee on 
National Economic Growth, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs, 
hearing on the White House Global Climate Change Initiative and 
Congressional Review Act Implementation: Is OMB Hiding the Truth 
About New Regulations, 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, hearing on Worldwide Review 
of the Administration's POW/MIA Policies and Programs, 3 p.m., 2172 
Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 
3682, Child Custody Protection Act; H.R. 3849, Internet Tax Freedom 
Act; H.R. 3529, Internet Tax Freedom Act; H.R. 2592, Private Trustee 
Reform Act of 1997; H.R. 3891, Trademark Anticounterfeiting Act of 
1998; H.R. 3898, Speed Trafficking Life in Prison Act of 1998; H.R. 
2070, Correction Officers Health and Safety Act of 1997; and H.R. 
371, Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 1997; and to consider 
private immigration bills and other pending Committee business, 10 
a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on National Security, and the Committee on International 
Relations, joint hearing on U.S. policy regarding the export of 
satellites to China, 9:30 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, to consider the following measures: H.J. 
Res. 113, approving the location of a Martin Luther King, Jr. 
Memorial in the Nation's Capitol; H.R.

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1659, Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument Completion Act; 
H.R. 1728, National Park Service Administrative Amendment of 1997; 
H.R. 1983, Narragansett Justice Act; H.R. 2291, to amend the Fish 
and Wildlife Improvement Act of 1978 to enable the Secretary of the 
Interior to more effectively utilize the proceeds of sales of 
certain items; H.R. 2993, to provide for the collection of fees for 
the making of motion pictures, television productions, and sound 
tracks in National Park System and National Wildlife Refuge System 
units; H.R. 3445, Oceans Act of 1998; H.R. 3460, to approve a 
governing international fishery agreement between the United States 
and the Republic of Latvia; H.R. 3498, Dungeness Crab Conservation 
and Management Act; H.R. 3625, San Rafael Swell National Heritage 
and Conservation Act; H.R. 3830, Utah Schools and Lands Exchange Act 
of 1998; and H.R. 3903, Glacier Bay National Park Boundary 
Adjustment Act of 1998; and to consider a resolution authorizing the 
Chairman to issue subpoenas regarding matters under review 
associated with the Warner Creek timber sale and protest, 11 a.m., 
1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Rules, to consider H. Res. 463, to establish the 
Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial 
Concerns With the People's Republic of China, 1:30 p.m., H-313 
Capitol.
  Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, 
oversight hearing on The Humane Genome Project: How Private Sector 
Developments Affect the Government Program, 1 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Health, hearing on 
the Future of the VA Health Care System, 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Trade, hearing on 
U.S.-China trade relations and renewal of China's most-favored 
nation (MFN) status, 1 p.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, hearing on 
Update on Alleged Efforts by Peoples Republic of China to influence 
U.S. Electoral Process, 2:30 p.m., H-405 Capitol.