[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 121 (Monday, September 14, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D972-D973]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY,

                           SEPTEMBER 15, 1998

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Armed Services, 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-

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Chief of United States Pacific Command, 10 a.m., SR-222.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, 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.
  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.
  Committee on Foreign Relations, to hold hearings on certain 
extradition and mutual legal assistance treaties, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Subcommittee on European Affairs, to hold hearings to examine 
policy option for the United States with regard to the current 
situation in Russia, 2:15 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business 
Rights, and Competition, to hold hearings to examine consolidation 
issues within the telecommunications industry, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Small Business, business meeting, to consider pending 
calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SR-428A.


                                 NOTICE

  For a listing of Senate committee meetings scheduled ahead, see pages 
E1715-16 in today's Record.


                                 House

  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, to continue hearings 
on International Economic Turmoil, 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, 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., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, hearing on Disarming Iraq: 
The Status of Weapons Inspections, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Africa, hearing on Democratic Republic of Congo in 
Crisis, 2 p.m., 2255 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, 
oversight hearing on Forest Roads Management and Obliteration, 2 
p.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Committee on Rules, to consider the following: H.R. 4300, Western 
Hemisphere Drug Elimination Act; and H.R. 4550, Drug Demand 
Reduction Act of 1998, 11 a.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, 
hearing on S. 1418, Methane Hydrate Research and Development Act of 
1998, 10 a.m., 2318 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.
  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.


                             Joint Meetings

  Conferees, on H.R. 6, Higher Education Amendments, 2 p.m., SD-430.