[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 84 (Wednesday, June 24, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D702-D703]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





             COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1998

          (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, business meeting, to 
mark up proposed legislation authorizing funds for child nutrition 
programs, including the Women, Infants and Children program, time and 
room to be announced.
  Committee on Appropriations, business meeting, to mark up proposed 
legislation making appropriations for the Department of Interior and 
related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and 
proposed legislation making appropriations for the Departments of 
Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary, and related agencies for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, 2 p.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, to continue 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; to be followed by a 
business meeting to consider the nominations of Michael J. Copps, of 
Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary for Trade Development, and Awilda 
R. Marquez, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary, and Director General 
of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service, both of the 
Department of Commerce, and to mark up S. 1283, the ``Little Rock Nine'' 
Congressional Gold Medal Act, and the proposed ``International Anti-
Bribery Act of 1998'', 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to hold hearings on the 
nomination of William Lloyd Massey, of Arkansas, to be a Member of the 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management, to hold hearings on 
S. 2146, to provide for the exchange of certain lands within the State of 
Utah, 2 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Foreign Relations, to hold closed hearings to examine 
Chinese missile proliferation, 2 p.m., S-407, Capitol.

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  Committee on Governmental Affairs, to hold hearings to examine the 
Defense Technology Security Administration's role in approving critical 
technology exports, 10:30 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary, business meeting, to consider pending 
calendar business, 9 a.m., SD-226.
  Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts, to hold 
hearings to review the judgeship needs of the 6th and 7th Circuits, 2 
p.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Labor and Human Resources, to hold hearings to examine 
health insurance coverage for older workers, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Select Committee on Intelligence, to hold closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, 10 a.m., SH-219.


                                 NOTICE

  For a listing of Senate committee meetings scheduled ahead, see page E1217 
in today's Record


                                  House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Department Operations, 
Nutrition, and Foreign Agriculture, hearing to review the implementation 
of the Food Quality Protection Act, 9 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, hearing to review the 
Administration's use of agricultural export programs, 10:30 a.m., 1302 
Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, to mark up the following appropriations 
for fiscal year 1999: Interior; and VA, HUD and Independent Agencies, 
9:30 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, to mark up H.R. 219, 
Homeowners' Insurance Availability Act of 1997, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and 
Consumer Protection, hearing on Electronic Commerce: Consumer Protection 
in Cyberspace, 10:30 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on Employer-
Employee Relations, to continue hearings on Impediments to Union 
Democracy, Part II: Right to Vote in the Carpenter's Union? 1 p.m., 2175 
Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, hearing on Prospects for 
Democracy in Nigeria, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, hearing on the 
following bills; H.R. 4100, Free Market Prison Industries Reform Act of 
1998; and H.R. 2758, Federal Prison Industries Competition in Contracting 
Act of 1997, 2 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Immigration, hearing on H.R. 3539, Radiation Workers 
Justice Act of 1998, 10 a.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, 
oversight hearing on Forest Service Training, 10 a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Water and Power, oversight hearing on the status of the 
Auburn Dam Site and the potential to transfer the Federal interest to the 
State of California and to mark up the following: a measure concerning 
the Auburn Dam site; H.R. 1282, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to convey certain facilities of the Minidoka project to the 
Burley Irrigation district; H.R. 1943, to convey certain real property 
within the Carlsbad Project in New Mexico to the Carlsbad Irrigation 
District; H.R. 2161, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey 
the Palmetto Bend Project to the State of Texas; H.R. 2506, to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to convey the Collbran Reclamation Project to 
the Ute Water Conservancy District and the Collbran Conservancy District; 
H.R. 3056, to provide for the preservation and sustainability of the 
family farm through the transfer of responsibility for operation and 
maintenance of the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project; H.R. 3677, to 
authorize and direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain 
works, facilities, and titles of the Gila Project, and Designated Lands 
within or adjacent to the Gilda Project, to the Wellton Mohawk Irrigation 
and Drainage District; H.R. 3687, to authorize prepayment of amounts due 
under a water reclamation project contract for the Canadian River 
Project, Texas; H.R. 3706, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
implement the provisions of the Agreement conveying title to a 
Distribution System from the United States to the Clear Creek Community 
Services District; H.R. 3715, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior 
to convey the facilities of the Pine River Project, to allow 
jurisdictional transfer of lands between the Department of Agriculture, 
Forest Service, and the Department of the Interior, Bureau of 
Reclamation, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs; and H.R. 4048, to convey 
the Sly Park Dam and Reservoir to the El Dorado Irrigation District, 10 
a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Science, oversight hearing on China: Dual-Use Space 
Technology, 9:30 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, to mark up H.R. 4078, Women's Small 
Business Expansion Act of 1998, 10 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to mark up the 
following: Public Building Resolutions (construction, advance design, 
repair and alteration); H.R. 2379, to designate the Federal building and 
U.S. courthouse located at 251 North Main Street in Winston-Salem, NC, as 
the ``Hiram H. Ward Federal Building and United States Courthouse''; H.R. 
2787, amended, to designate the United States courthouse located in New 
Haven, Connecticut, as the ``Richard C. Lee United States Courthouse''; 
H.R. 3696, to designate the Federal Courthouse located at 316 North 26th 
Street in Billings, Montana, as the ``James F. Battin Federal 
Courthouse''; H.R. 3223, to designate the Federal building located at 300 
East 8th Street in Austin, Texas, as the ``J.J. `Jake' Pickle Federal 
Building''; and S. 1800, to designate the Federal building and United 
States courthouse located at 85 Marconi Boulevard in Columbus, Ohio, as 
the ``Joseph P. Kinneary United States Courthouse''; Corps of Engineers 
Survey Resolutions; NRCS Small Watershed Project Resolutions; H.R. 3869, 
Disaster Mitigation Act of 1998; H.R. 4058, to amend title 49, United 
States Code, to reauthorize programs of the Federal Aviation 
Administration; H.R. 2748, amended, Airline Service Improvement Act; and 
H.R. 4057, amended, Airport Improvement Program Reauthorization Act of 
1998, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, oversight 
hearing of the U.S. Role in the International Maritime Organization, 1 
p.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, to mark up the following measures: H.R. 
3249, Federal Retirement Coverage Corrections Act; H.J. Res. 120, 
disapproving the extension of the waiver authority contained in section 
402(c) of the Trade Act of 1974 with respect to Vietnam; and H.J. Res. 
121, disapproving the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (most-
favored-nation treatment) to the products of the People's Republic of 
China, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.