[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 97 (Monday, July 20, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D796-D797]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


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                     COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY,

                              JULY 21, 1998

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

    Committee on Appropriations,  business meeting, to mark up 
proposed legislation making appropriations for foreign operations, 
export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1999, and proposed legislation making appropriations 
for the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 1999, 2:30 p.m., SD-192.
    Committee on Armed Services,  closed business meeting, to 
consider pending nominations, 5:30 p.m., SR-222.
    Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs,  to hold 
hearings to examine the monetary policy report to Congress pursuant 
to the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978, 10 a.m., SD-
106.
    Committee on the Budget,  to hold hearings to examine issues 
associated with implementing personal savings accounts as part of 
social security reform, 10 a.m., SD-608.
    Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation,  to hold 
hearings to examine discretionary spending activities within the 
Department of Transportation and the Department of Commerce, 9:30 
a.m., SR-253.
    Committee on Finance,  business meeting, to consider pending 
calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SD-215.
    Committee on Labor and Human Resources,  to hold hearings on S. 
766, to require equitable coverage of prescription contraceptive 
drugs and devices, and contraceptive services under health plans, 10 
a.m., SD-430.
    Committee on Rules and Administration,  to hold hearings on the 
nominations of Scott E. Thomas, of the District of Columbia, David 
M. Mason, of Virginia, Darryl R. Wold, of California, and Karl J. 
Sandstrom, of Washington, each to be a Member of the Federal 
Election Commission, 9 a.m., SR-301.


                                 NOTICE

   For a listing of Senate committee meetings scheduled ahead, see 
pages E1358-59 in today's Record.


                                  House

    Committee on Commerce,  Subcommittee on Energy and Power, 
hearing on H.R. 2568, Energy Policy Act Amendments of 1997, 10 a.m., 
2322 Rayburn.
   Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer 
Protection, to continue hearings on Electronic Commerce: Privacy in 
Cyberspace, focusing on data privacy measures, including H.R. 2368, 
Data Privacy Act of 1997, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
    Committee on Government Reform and Oversight,  Subcommittee on 
Civil Service, to mark up the following: H.R. 2526, to amend title 
5, United States Code, to make the percentage limitations on 
individual contributions to the Thrift Savings Plan more consistent 
with the dollar amount limitation on elective deferrals; H.R. 2566, 
Civil Service Retirement System Actuarial Redeposit Act of 1997; the 
Federal Employees Child Care Affordability Act; H.R. 2943, to amend 
title 5, United States Code, to increase the amount of leave time 
available to a Federal employee in any year in connection with 
serving as an organ donor; and H.R. 4259, Haskell Indians Nations 
University and Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute 
Administrative Systems Act of 1998, 10:30 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
   Subcommittee on Postal Service, to mark up the following bills:  
H.R. 3725, Postal Service Health and Safety Promotion Act; H.R. 
2623, to designate the United States Post Office located at 16250 
Highway 603 in Kiln, Mississippi, as the ``Ray J. Favre Post Office 
Building''; H.R. 3167, to designate the United States Post Office 
located at 297 Larkfield Road in East Northport, New York, as the 
``Jerome Anthony Ambro, Jr. Post Office Building''; and H.R. 4052, 
to establish designations for United States Postal Service buildings 
located in Coconut Grove, Opa Locks, Carol City, and Miami, Florida, 
2 p.m., 2247 Rayburn.
    Committee on International Relations,  to mark up the following 
measures:  H.J. Res. 125, finding the Government of Iraq in material 
and unacceptable breach of its international obligations; H.R. 4095, 
International Arms Sales Code of Conduct Act of 1998; H. Res. 459, 
commemorating 50 years of relations between the United States and 
the Republic of Korea; H. Con. Res. 277, concerning the New Tribes 
Mission hostage crisis; H. Res. 469, expressing the sense of the 
House of Representatives regarding assistance to Mexico to combat 
wildfires; H. Con. Res. 292, calling for an end to the recent 
conflict between Eritrea and Ethiopia; H. Con. Res. 224, urging 
international cooperation in recovering children abducted in the 
United States and taken to other countries; H. Res. 421, expressing 
the sense of the House of Representatives deploring the tragic and 
senseless murder of Bishop Juan Jose Gerardi, calling on the 
Government of Guatemala to expeditiously bring those responsible for 
the crime to justice, and calling on the people of Guatemala to 
reaffirm their commitment to continue to implement the peace accords 
without interruption; H.R. 3636, Africa: Seeds of Hope Act of 1998; 
H. Res. 415, to promote independent radio broadcasting in Africa; 
H.R. 3743, Iran Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Act of 1998; H. 
Con. Res. 254, calling on the Government of Cuba to extradite to the 
United States convicted felon Joanne Chesimard and all other 
individuals who have fled the United States to avoid prosecution or 
confinement for criminal offenses and who are currently living 
freely in Cuba; and H. Res. 362, commending the visit of His 
Holiness Pope John Paul II to Cuba, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
    Committee on the Judiciary,  to continue mark up of H.R. 3898, 
Speed Trafficking Life in Prison Act of 1998; and to mark up the 
following bills: H.R. 2592, Private Trustee Reform Act of 1997; H.R. 
2070, Correction Officers Health and Safety Act of 1997; and H.R. 
3789, Class Action Jurisdiction Act of 1998, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
    Committee on Resources,  Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral 
Resources, hearing on the following bills: H.R. 1467, to provide for 
the continuance of oil and gas operations pursuant to certain 
existing leases in the Wayne National Forest; H.R. 3878, to subject 
certain reserved mineral interests of the operation of the Mineral 
Leasing

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Act; and H.R. 3972, to amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act 
to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from charging State and 
local government agencies for certain uses of the sand, gravel, and 
shell resources of the Outer Continental Shelf, 2 p.m., 1324 
Longworth.
   Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, hearing and markup of 
the following bills: H.R. 4021, Interstate 90 Land Exchange Act of 
1998; and H.R. 4023, to provide for the conveyance of the Forest 
Service property in Kern County, California, in exchange for county 
lands suitable for inclusion in Sequoia National Forest and to mark 
up H.R. 3187, to amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 
1976 to exempt not-for-profit entitles that hold rights-of-way on 
public lands from certain strict liability requirements imposed in 
connection with such rights-of-way, 2 p.m., 1334 Longworth.
    Committee on Science,  Subcommittee on Technology, oversight 
hearing on Community Colleges in the 21st Century: Tackling 
Technology, 12 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
    Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure,  Subcommittee on 
Public Buildings and Economic Development, to mark up the Economic 
Development Partnership Act of 1998, 10 a.m., 2253 Rayburn.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,  executive, hearing on 
Economic Intelligence, 10 a.m., H-405 Capitol.