[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 120 (Friday, September 11, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D964-D967]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                 Week of September 14 through 19, 1998

                             Senate Chamber

  On Monday, Senate will vote on a motion to close further debate on 
the motion to proceed to consideration of S. 1981, Truth in Employment 
Act, and resume consideration of S. 2237, Interior Appropriations, 
1999.
  On Tuesday, Senate will continue consideration of S. 2237, Interior 
Appropriations, 1999, and may consider S. 1301, Consumer Bankruptcy 
Reform.
  During the balance of the week, Senate may also consider S. 1645, 
Child Custody Protection Act, the President's veto of H.R. 1122, 
Partial-Birth Abortion Ban, further appropriations bills, and any 
legislative or executive items cleared for action, including conference 
reports, when available.
  (Senate will recess on Tuesday, September 15, 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: September 15, to hold hearings on the 
nominations of Bernard D. Rostker, of Virginia, to be Under 
Secretary of the Army, James M. Bodner, of Virginia, to be Deputy 
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and Vice Adm. Dennis C. 
Blair, USN, for appointment to the grade of Admiral, and to be 
Commander-in-Chief of United States Pacific Command, 10 a.m., SR-
222.
  Committee on the Budget: September 17, to hold joint hearings with 
the Committee on Foreign Relations' Subcommittee on International 
Operations to examine Department of State management and budget 
issues, 10 a.m., SD- 419.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: September 15, 
to hold hearings on the nominations of Robert Clarke Brown, of Ohio, 
John Paul Hammerschmidt, of Arkansas, and Norman Y. Mineta, of 
California, each to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the 
Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, Eugene A. Conti, Jr., of 
Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of Transportation for 
Transportation Policy, and Peter J. Basso, Jr., of Maryland, to be 
Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Budget and Programs, 10 
a.m., SR-253.
  September 15, Full Committee, to hold hearings on S. 2390, to 
permit ships built in foreign countries to engage in coastwise in 
the transport of certain products, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  September 16, Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant 
Marine, to hold hearings to examine the extent of fatigue of 
transportation operators in the trucking and rail industries, 2:30 
p.m., SR-253.
  September 17, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
Department of Commerce involvement in the

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transfer of satellite technology to China, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: September 17, to hold 
hearings on the nominations of Gregory H. Friedman, of Colorado, to 
be Inspector General, Department of Energy, Charles G. Groat, of 
Texas, to be Director of the United States Geological Survey, 
Department of the Interior, and other pending nominations, 9:30 
a.m., SD-366.
  September 17, Subcommittee on National Parks, Historic 
Preservation, and Recreation, to hold hearings on miscellaneous 
bills, including S. 1175, S. 1641, S. 1960, S. 2086, S. 2133, S. 
2239, S. 2240, S. 2241, S. 2246, S. 2247, S. 2248, S. 2285, S. 2297, 
S. 2309, S. 2401, and H.R. 2411, 2 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: September 16, to hold 
hearings on S. 1576, to permit the exclusive application of 
California State regulations regarding reformulated gasoline in 
certain areas within the State, focusing on the use of methyl 
tertiary-butyl ether in gasoline, 2 p.m., SD-406.
  September 17, Full Committee, to hold hearings on the General 
Services Administration's fiscal year 1999 capital investment and 
leasing programs, the fiscal year 1999 courthouse construction 
requests of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, 
and proposed legislation relating to public buildings reform, 9 
a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: September 15, to hold hearings on 
certain extradition and mutual legal assistance treaties, 10 a.m., 
SD-419.
  September 16, Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, 
Narcotics and Terrorism, to hold joint hearings with the United 
States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control to examine 
anti-drug interdiction efforts, 9:30 a.m., SH-216.
  September 17, Subcommittee on International Operations, to hold 
joint hearings with the Committee on the Budget to examine 
Department of State management and budget issues, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: September 16, Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations, to hold hearings to examine the 
National Cancer Institute's management of radiation studies, 9:30 
a.m., SD-342.
  September 17, Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nominations 
of Kenneth Prewitt, of New York, to be Director of the Census, 
Department of Commerce, and Robert M. Walker, of Tennessee, to be 
Deputy Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, 10 a.m., 
SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: September 15, Subcommittee on 
Antitrust, Business Rights, and Competition, to hold hearings to 
examine consolidation issues within the telecommunications industry, 
10 a.m., SD-226.
  September 16, Subcommittee on Immigration, to hold oversight 
hearings on the implementation of the Immigration and Naturalization 
Service and proposed reform issues, 2 p.m., SD-226.
  September 17, Full Committee, business meeting, to consider 
pending calendar business, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Labor and Human Resources: September 17, to hold 
hearings to examine professional developments incorporating advances 
and teaching, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: September 16, to hold 
hearings to examine issues with regard to the proposed renovation of 
the United States Capitol dome and the Dirksen Senate Office 
Building, 9:30 a.m., SR-301.
  September 16, Full Committee, to resume hearings on S. 2288, to 
provide for the reform and continuing legislative oversight of the 
production, procurement, dissemination, and permanent public access 
of the Government's publications, 10 a.m., SR-301.
  Committee on Small Business: September 15, business meeting, to 
consider pending calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SR-428A.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: September 16, business meeting, to 
consider pending calendar business; to be followed by a hearing on 
the nomination of Montie R. Deer, of Kansas, to be Chairman of the 
National Indian Gaming Commission, Department of the Interior, 10 
a.m., SR-485.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: September 16, to hold closed 
hearings on intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  Special Committee on Aging: September 14, to hold hearings to 
examine the need for a national criminal background check system for 
nursing home employees, 1 p.m., SD-628.
  United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: 
September 16, to hold joint hearings with the Committee on Foreign 
Relations' Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, 
Narcotics and Terrorism to examine anti-drug interdiction efforts, 
9:30 a.m., SH-216.


                             House Chamber

  To be announced.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, September 14, 15 and 
16, hearings on International Economic Turmoil, 10 a.m., on 
September 14, 2 p.m., on September 15 and 1 p.m., on September 16, 
2128 Rayburn.
  September 16, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer 
Credit and the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development, 
joint hearing on the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act and the 
Truth in Lending Act, and reforms to mortgage lending disclosure 
requirements, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  September 17, full Committee, hearing on Preparing for the Year 
2000: Financial Institutions, Customers, Telecommunications, and 
Power, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, September 15 and 17, Subcommittee on 
Oversight and Investigations, to continue hearings on the 
circumstances surrounding the FCC's planned relocation to the 
Portals, including the efforts of Franklin L. Haney and his 
representatives with respect to this matter and the circumstances 
surrounding the payments of fees to those representatives, 9:30 
a.m., on September 15 and 10 a.m., on September 17, 2322 Rayburn.

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  September 16, full Committee and the Committee on Education and 
the Workforce, joint hearing on Education and Technology 
Initiatives, 10:30 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  September 17, Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and 
Consumer Protection, hearing on Spectrum Management Oversight, 2 
p.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  September 18, Subcommittee on Health and Environment, hearing on 
The State Children's Health Insurance Program: A Progress Report, 10 
a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  September 18, Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and 
Consumer Protection, hearing on Protecting Consumers Against 
Cramming and Spamming, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, September 17, 
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing on the Review 
of the Management of the Year 2000 Problem by the Department of 
Labor and the Department of Education, 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, September 14, 
Subcommittee on Government Management, Information, and Technology, 
hearing on H.R. 2939, Federal Sunset Act of 1998, 10 a.m., 2247 
Rayburn.
  September 16, Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural 
Resources, and Regulatory Affairs, to continue hearings on ``The 
Kyoto Protocol: Is the Clinton-Gore Administration Selling Out 
Americans? Part V1'' 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  September 17, Subcommittee on Census, hearing on ``Oversight of 
the 2000 Census: Serious Problems with Statistical Adjustment 
Remain,'' 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  September 17, Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural 
Resources, and Regulatory Affairs, hearing on ``A National ID Card: 
Big Government at its Worst or Technological Efficiency?'' 10 a.m., 
2247 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, September 15, hearing on 
Disarming Iraq: The Status of Weapons Inspections, 10:30 a.m., 2172 
Rayburn.
  September 15, Subcommittee on Africa, hearing on Democratic 
Republic of Congo in Crisis, 2 p.m., 2255 Rayburn.
  September 16, full Committee, hearing on the Spread of AIDS in the 
Developing World, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  September 17, hearing on the United States and Russia, Part II: 
Russia in Crisis, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, September 17, Subcommittee on 
Commercial and Administrative Law, hearing and mark up of S.J. Res. 
51, granting the consent of Congress to the Potomac Highlands 
Airport Authority Compact entered into between the States of 
Maryland and West Virginia; and to mark up the following; H.R. 4049, 
Regulatory Fair Warning Act of 1998; H.R. 4096, Taxpayers Defense 
Act; and a measure clarifying that the limitation on state income 
taxation of governmental pension income applies to possessions of 
the United States, 10 a.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  September 17, Subcommittee on Crime, hearing on H.R. 4258, No 
Second Chances for Murderers, Rapists, or Child Molesters Act of 
1998, 9:30 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  September 17, Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims, oversight 
hearing on the Institutional Removal Program, 9:30 a.m., 2226 
Rayburn.
  Committee on National Security, September 16, hearing on the U.S. 
policy on Iraq, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, September 15, Subcommittee on Forests and 
Forest Health, oversight hearing on Forest Roads Management and 
Obliteration, 2 p.m., 1334 Longworth.
  September 16, full Committee, to consider the following: H.R. 
1608, to authorize the Pyramid of Remembrance Foundation to 
establish a memorial in the District of Columbia or its environs to 
soldiers who have died in foreign conflicts other than declared 
wars; H.R. 3088, to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, 
regarding Huna Totem Corporation public interest land exchange; H.R. 
4223, Colusa Basin Watershed Integrated Resources Management Act; 
the North Pacific Rationalized Fishing Act; and a report concerning 
the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, 11 a.m., 1324 
Longworth.
  September 17, Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and 
Oceans, to mark up H.R. 4337, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to provide financial assistance to the State of Maryland 
for a pilot program to develop measures to eradicate or control 
nutria and restore marshland damaged by nutria; followed by a 
hearing on the following bills: H.R. 2304, to direct the Secretary 
of the Interior to make technical corrections to a map relating to 
the Coastal Barrier Resources System; and H.R. 4248, Migratory Bird 
Hunting and Conservation Stamp Promotion Act; and H.R. 4517, 
Neotropical Migratory Bird Habitat Enhancement Act, 10 a.m., 1324 
Longworth.
  September 17, Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, oversight 
hearing on Forest Service--Backcountry Airstrip Management, 10 a.m., 
1334 Longworth.
  Committee on Rules, September 14, to consider the following: H.J. 
Res. 117, expressing the sense of Congress that marijuana is a 
dangerous and addictive drug and should not be legalized for 
medicinal use; and H.R. 4006, Lethal Drug Abuse Prevention Act, 5:30 
p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  September 15, to consider the following: H.R. 4300, Western 
Hemisphere Drug Elimination Act; and H.R. 4550, Drug Demand 
Reduction Act of 1998, 10:30 a.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, September 15, Subcommittee on Energy and 
Environment, hearing on S. 1418, Methane Hydrate Research and 
Development Act of 1998, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  September 17, Subcommittee on Technology, oversight hearing on 
Industrial Biotechnology: A Solution for the Future? 1 p.m., 2318 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, September 16, hearing on H.R. 3659, 
Farm and Ranch Risk Management Act, 1:30 p.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  September 16, Subcommittee on Tax, Finance, and Exports, hearing 
on pension reform for small businesses, 10 a.m., 311 Cannon.

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  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, September 17, 
Subcommittee on Railroads, hearing on H. Con. Res. 52, urging that 
the railroad industry, including rail labor, management and retiree 
organizations, open discussions for adequately funding an amendment 
to the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 to modify the guaranteed 
minimum benefit for widows and widowers whose annuities are 
converted from a spouse to a widow or widower annuity, 10 a.m., 2167 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Health, to mark up 
the following: H.R. 4377, to amend title XVIII of the Social 
Security Act to expand the membership of the Medicare Payment 
Advisory Commission to 17; H.R. 3511, to amend title XI of the 
Social Security to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services to provide additional exceptions to the imposition of civil 
money penalties in cases of payments to beneficiaries; and a measure 
to refine the Medicare home health interim payment system, 11:30 
a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  September 15, Subcommittee on Human Resources, to mark up the 
Welfare, Noncitizen, and Unemployment Insurance Technical Amendments 
Act of 1998, 10:30 a.m., and to hold a hearing on the Implementation 
of the Interethnic Adoption Amendments, 11 a.m., B-318 Rayburn.
  September 17, full Committee, to mark up the Taxpayer Relief Act 
of 1998, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  September 18, to mark up the following: Welfare, Noncitizen, and 
Unemployment Insurance Technical Amendments Act of 1998; H.R. 4377, 
to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand the 
membership of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission to 17; H.R. 
3511, to amend title XI of the Social Security Act to authorize the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide additional 
exceptions to the imposition of civil money penalties in cases of 
payments to beneficiaries; and a measure to refine the Medicare home 
health interim payment system, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.