[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 94 (Wednesday, July 15, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D768-D769]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


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                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                             JULY 16, 1998

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Armed Services, to resume hearings on the nomination 
of Daryl L. Jones, of Florida, to be Secretary of the Air Force, 
9:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, to hold 
hearings to examine the General Accounting Office's investigation of 
the Universal Service, Schools and Libraries program, 9:30 a.m., SR-
253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Subcommittee on 
National Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation, to hold 
hearings on S. 155, to redesignate General Grant National Memorial 
as Grant's Tomb National Monument, S. 1408, to establish the Lower 
East Side Tenement National Historic Site, S. 1718, to amend the 
Weir Farm National Historic Site Establishment Act of 1990 to 
authorize the acquisition of additional acreage for the historic 
site to permit the development of visitor and administrative 
facilities and to authorize appropriation of additional amounts for 
the acquisition of real and personal property, and S. 1990, to 
authorize expansion of Fort Davis National Historic Site in Fort 
Davis, Texas, 2 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Finance, to hold hearings to examine tax and trade 
issues related to the internet, including related provisions of S. 
442 and H.R. 4105, proposed Internet Tax Freedom Acts, 9:30 a.m., 
SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations, to hold hearings on the 
nominations of Hugh Q. Parmer, of Texas, to be an Assistant 
Administrator of the Agency for International Development, and Mary 
Beth West, of the District of Columbia, for the rank of Ambassador 
during her tenure of service as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State 
for Oceans and Space, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nominations of John Bruce 
Craig, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman, 
Theodore H. Kattouf, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the United 
Arab Emirates, Elizabeth Davenport McKune, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the State of Qatar, and David Michael Satterfield, of 
Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Lebanon, 2 p.m., SD-
419.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nominations of James 
Howard Holmes, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Latvia, Steven Robert Mann, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Turkmenistan, Richard Nelson Swett, of New Hampshire, to 
be Ambassador to Denmark, and Melissa Foelsch Wells, of Connecticut, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Estonia, 4 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on the Judiciary, business meeting, to consider pending 
calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SD-226.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings on pending nominations, 2 p.m., 
SD-226.


                                 NOTICE

  For a listing of Senate committee meetings scheduled ahead, see pages 
E1315-16 in today's Record.


                                 House

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Transportation, to 
mark up appropriations for fiscal year 1999, 10 a.m., 2358 Rayburn.
  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, Subcommittee on 
Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, hearing on streamlining 
bank regulatory oversight, 9:30 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, to mark up H.R. 2281, Digital Millennium 
Copyright Act of 1998, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on 
Workforce Protections, hearing on H.R. 2710, Rewarding Performance 
in Compensation Act, 10:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, Subcommittee on 
Human Resources, oversight hearing on Early Childhood Interventions: 
Public-Private Partnerships, 9:30 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, hearing on U.S. and Russia: 
Assessing the Relationship, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Asia, to mark up H. Res. 459, commemorating 50 
years of relations between the United States and the Republic of 
Korea, 9:30 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to mark up the following: 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; H.R. 4090, Public Safety Act Officer Medal of Valor Act 
of 1998; H.R. 3789, Class Action Jurisdiction Act of 1998; and 
private immigration bills, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on National Security, hearing on the findings and 
conclusions of the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat 
to the United States, 9:30 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, 
Wildlife and Oceans, to mark up H.R. 1481, Great Lakes Fish and 
Wildlife Restoration Act of 1997; and to hold an oversight hearing 
on Pilot Program to Control Non-Indigenous Species Nutria at the 
Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Maryland, 2 p.m., 1334 
Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, oversight hearing on 
Regional Haze, 10 a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands, hearing on the 
following bills: H.R. 3981, to modify the boundaries of the George 
Washington Birthplace National Monument; H.R. 4109, to authorize the 
Gateway Visitor Center at Independence National Historical Park; 
H.R. 4141, to amend the Act authorizing the establishment of the 
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Area to modify the boundaries of the Area, and to provide for the 
protection of lands, waters, and natural, cultural, and scenic 
resources within the national recreation area; and H.R. 4158, 
National Park Enhancement and Protection Act, 10 a.m., 1324 
Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Water and Power, to mark up the following bills: 
H.R. 2161, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey the 
Palmetto Bend Project to the State of Texas; 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 Gila Project, to the Wellton-Mohawk 
Irrigation and Drainage District; H.R. 3706, Clear Creek 
Distribution System Conveyance Act; H.R. 3715, Pine Ridge Project 
Conveyance Act; and H.R. 2506, Collbran Project Unit Conveyance Act, 
2 p.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Empowerment, hearing 
on the social and economic costs of teenage pregnancy, 10 a.m., 2360 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Government Programs and Oversight, hearing with 
respect to the SBA's Proposed New Automated Loan Monitoring System, 
2 p.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Public Buildings and Economic Development, hearing on the Status of 
the Courthouse Construction Program, U.S. Mission to the United 
Nations Construction Request and comments on H.R. 2751, General 
Services Administration Improvement Act of 1997, 9 a.m., 2253 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Benefits, 
oversight hearing on the standards for adjudicating claims presented 
by veterans suffering from hepatitis C, cerebral malaria and Persian 
Gulf illnesses, 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Health, hearing on 
the Administration's Plan to Delay Implementation of the Balanced 
Budget Act of 1997, 11 a.m., 1100 Longworth.