[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 93 (Tuesday, July 14, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D757-D758]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Ordered reported the Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education appropriations for fiscal year 1999.
ADMINISTRATION'S PROPOSED CONTRACTING REGULATIONS
Committee on Education and the Workforce: Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations held a hearing on ``The Administration's Proposed 
Contracting Regulations: `Good Government' or `Blacklisting'?'' 
Testimony was heard from Edward DeSeve, Controller and Acting Deputy 
Director, Management, OMB; Cornelia Blanchette, Associate Director, 
Education and Employment Issues, GAO; and public witnesses.
NAZI WAR CRIMES DISCLOSURE ACT
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, Subcommittee on 
Government Management, Information, and Technology held a hearing on 
H.R. 4007 and S. 1379, Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. Testimony was 
heard from Senator DeWine; William Z. Slany, Historian, Department of 
State; Lewis J. Bellardo, Deputy Archivist, National Archives and 
Records Administration; former Representative Elizabeth Holtzman of New 
York; and public witnesses.
OVERSIGHT--FEDERAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight: Subcommittee on 
Government Management, Information, and Technology held an oversight 
hearing on the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Testimony was heard from 
L. Nye Stevens, Director, Federal Management and Workforce Issues, GAO; 
G. Martin Wagner, Associate Administrator, Governmentwide Policy, GSA; 
Ruth L. Kirschstein, Deputy Director, NIH, Department of Health and 
Human Services; Jim Solit, Committee Management Officer, Department of 
Energy; Bruce Alberts, President, National Academy of Sciences; and 
public witnesses.
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY PROTECTION ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution held a 
hearing on H.R. 4019, Religious Liberty Protection Act of 1998. 
Testimony was heard from public witnesses.
LETHAL DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution held a 
hearing on H.R. 4006, Lethal Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 1998. 
Testimony was heard from John A. Kitzhaber, Governor, State of Oregon; 
and public witnesses.
CHILD CUSTODY PROTECTION ACT
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a closed rule providing for 
consideration in the House of H.R. 3682, Child Custody Protection Act, 
with 2 hours of debate. The rule provides that the Judiciary Committee 
amendment now printed in the bill will be considered as adopted. 
Finally, the rule provides one motion to recommit with or without 
instructions. Testimony was heard from Representatives Canady, Ros-
Lehtinen, Watt of North Carolina and Jackson Lee of Texas.
SONNY BONO MEMORIAL SALTON SEA RECLAMATION ACT
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a modified closed rule 
providing 1 hour of debate on H.R. 3267, Sonny Bono Memorial Salton Sea 
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Act. The rule waives all points of order against consideration in the 
House. The rule provides, in lieu of the Resources Committee amendment, 
that an amendment in the nature of a substitute printed in the report 
of the Committee on Rules shall be considered as adopted. The rule 
provides for an amendment to be offered by Representative Miller of 
California or his designee printed in the Congressional Record, which 
shall be considered as read, and shall be debatable for 1 hour equally 
divided and controlled by the proponent and the opponent. Finally, the 
rule provides for one motion to recommit, with or without instructions. 
Testimony was heard from Representatives Radanovich, Lewis of 
California and Miller of California.
TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, an open rule providing 1 
hour of debate on H.R. 4104, making appropriations for the Treasury 
Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of 
the President, and certain Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 1999. The rule waives points of order against 
consideration of the bill for failure to comply with section 306 of the 
Congressional Budget Act (prohibiting consideration of legislation 
within the Budget Committee's jurisdiction, unless reported by the 
Budget Committee). The rule waives points of order against section 628 
for failure to comply with clause 2 of rule XXI (prohibiting 
unauthorized or legislative provisions in a general appropriation 
bill).
  The rule authorizes the Chair to accord priority in recognition to 
Members who have preprinted their amendments in the Congressional 
Record. The rule allows for the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole 
to postpone votes during consideration of the bill, and to reduce 
voting time to five minutes on a postponed question if the vote follows 
a fifteen minute vote. Finally, the rule provides one motion to 
recommit with or without instructions.

Joint Meetings
TEXAS LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL COMPACT
Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-
passed versions of H.R. 629, to grant the consent of the Congress to 
the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact, but did not 
complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call.