[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 87 (Monday, July 6, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D723-D724]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                    Week of July 7 through 11, 1998

                             Senate Chamber

  On  Tuesday,  Senate will vote on a motion to close further debate on 
the motion to proceed to consideration of S. 648, Product Liability, 
and resume consideration of S. 2168, VA/HUD Appropriations.
  During the balance of the week, Senate may consider any of the 
following:
  Conference report on H.R. 2676, IRS Reform;
  Further Conference reports and appropriation bills, when available; 
and
  Any cleared legislative or executive business.

   (Senate will recess on Tuesday, July 7, 1998, from 12:30 p.m. until 
2:15 p.m. for respective party conferences.)


                           Senate Committees

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
  Committee on Armed Services:  July 9, to hold hearings to examine 
United States export control and nonproliferation policy and the 
role and responsibility of the Department of Defense, 10 a.m., SR-
222.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs:  July 9, 
business meeting, to mark up S. 1405, to provide for improved 
monetary policy and regulatory reform in financial institution 
management and activities, to streamline financial regulatory agency 
actions, and to provide for improved consumer credit disclosure, 10 
a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation:  July 8, to 
hold hearings to examine the transition to high definition 
television, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  July 8, Full Committee, to hold hearings on S. 2107, to enhance 
electronic commerce by promoting the reliability and integrity of 
commercial transactions through establishing authentication 
standards for electronic communications, 2 p.m., SR-253.
  July 9, Full Committee, business meeting, to consider pending 
calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources:  July 9, Subcommittee 
on National Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation, to hold 
hearings on S. 1333, to amend the Land and Water Conservation Act of 
1965 to allow national park units that cannot charge an entrance or 
admission fee to retain other fees and charges, S. 2129, to 
eliminate restrictions on the acquisition of certain land contiguous 
to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, S. 2232, to establish the Little 
Rock Central High School National Historic Site in Arkansas, and S. 
2106 and H.R. 2283, bills to expand the boundaries of Arches 
National Park, Utah, to include portions of certain drainages that 
are under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, and to 
include a portion of Fish Seep Draw owned by the State of Utah, 2 
p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works:  July 7, to hold 
hearings on miscellaneous wildlife bills, including S. 2094, S. 361, 
H.R. 2807, H.R. 3113, S. 263, S. 659, S. 2244, and S. 1970, 9 a.m., 
SD-406.
  July 9, Full Committee, to hold hearings on S. 1222, Estuary 
Habitat Restoration Partnership Act, S. 1321, National Estuary 
Conservation Act, and H.R. 2207, Coastal Pollution Reduction Act, 9 
a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance:  July 7, Subcommittee on International 
Trade, to hold hearings on S.J. Res. 47, disapproving the extension 
of the waiver authority contained in section 402(c) of the Trade Act 
of 1974 with respect to Vietnam, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  July 7, Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy, to hold 
oversight hearings on the status of Supplemental Security Income for 
disabled children, 2 p.m., SD-215.
  July 9, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
President's proposed renewal of normal trade relations with China, 
9:30 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations:  July 8, Subcommittee on 
International Economic Policy, Export and Trade Promotion, to hold 
hearings on the implementation of United States policy on Caspian 
Sea oil exports, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs:  July 8, Subcommittee on 
International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services, to 
resume hearings to examine whether the Department of Commerce's 
commercial satellite export control policy and process toward China 
is adequate to prevent technology transfers which pose a threat to 
United States security, 2 p.m., SD-342.

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  July 9, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, to resume 
hearings to examine the adequacy of procedures and systems used by 
the Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service and 
the Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug 
Administration to oversee the safety of food imported into the 
United States, focusing on the outbreak of Cyclospora associated 
with fresh raspberries imported into the U.S. from Central America, 
9:30 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary:  July 7, Subcommittee on Antitrust, 
Business Rights, and Competition, to hold hearings to examine the 
future of convergence and consolidation in the entertainment and 
information industries, 9 a.m., SD-342.
  July 7 and 9, Full Committee, business meeting, to consider 
pending calendar business, Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. and Thursday at 9 
a.m., SD-226.
  July 8, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine certain 
provisions of S.J. Res. 40, proposing an amendment to the 
Constitution of the United States authorizing Congress to prohibit 
the physical desecration of the flag of the United States (pending 
on Senate calendar), 9 a.m., SD-226.
  July 8, Full Committee, to hold hearings on S. 1529, to enhance 
Federal enforcement of hate crimes, 1 p.m., SD-226.
  July 9, Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nomination of Beth 
Nolan, of New York, to be an Assistant Attorney General, Department 
of Justice, 2 p.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Indian Affairs:  July 8, to hold hearings on S. 1905, 
to provide for equitable compensation for the Cheyenne River Sioux 
Tribe, H.R. 700, to remove the restriction on the distribution of 
certain revenues from the Mineral Springs parcel to certain members 
of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, S. 391, to provide 
for the disposition of certain funds appropriated to pay judgment in 
favor of the Mississippi Sioux Indians, and S. 1419, to deem the 
activities of the Miccosukee Tribe on the Tamiami Indian Reserve to 
be consistent with the purposes of the Everglades National Park, 
9:30 a.m., SR-485.
  Select Committee on Intelligence:  July 8, to resume closed 
hearings on the investigation of the impacts to United States 
national security from advanced satellite technology exports to 
China and Chinese efforts to influence United States policy, 10 
a.m., SH-219.
  July 8, Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nomination of L. 
Britt Snider, of Virginia, to be Inspector General, Central 
Intelligence Agency, 2:30 p.m., SH-216.


                                 NOTICE

  For a listing of Senate committee meetings scheduled ahead, see pages 
E1279-80 in today's Record.


                             House Chamber

  To be announced.


                            House Committees

  No Committee meetings are scheduled.