[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 127 (Tuesday, September 22, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1018-D1019]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                         COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR

                     WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1998

                                 Senate

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, to hold 
hearings to examine public and private forestry issues, 2 p.m., SR-
328A.
  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education, to hold hearings to examine issues 
regarding the global eradication of polio and measles, 10:30 a.m., 
SD-124.
  Committee on Armed Services, to hold closed hearings on North 
Korea's ballistic missile and weapons of mass destruction programs, 
10 a.m., SH-219.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, to hold hearings 
on the nominations of John D. Hawke, Jr., of the District of 
Columbia, to be Comptroller of the Currency, Department of the 
Treasury, and Saul N. Ramirez, Jr., of Texas, to be Deputy 
Secretary, William C. Apgar, Jr., of Massachusetts, to be Assistant 
Secretary for Housing and Federal Housing Administrator, Cardell 
Cooper, of New Jersey, to be Assistant Secretary for Community 
Planning and Development, and Harold Lucas, of New Jersey, to be 
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing, all of the 
Department of Housing and Urban Affairs, 11 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on the Budget, to hold hearings on global economic 
issues, 2 p.m., SD-608.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Subcommittee 
on Communications, to hold hearings to examine Internet privacy 
issues, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space, to hold hearings 
to examine United States commercial space launch industry 
activities, 2 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, business meeting, to 
consider pending calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works, business meeting, to 
consider pending calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to hold 
hearings on the proposed consolidation of the Patent and Trademark 
Office, 4 p.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Foreign Relations, to hold hearings on the 
nominations of Richard Henry Jones, of Nebraska, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Kazakhstan, Robert Patrick John Finn, of New York, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Tajikistan, John Shattuck, of 
Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to the Czech Republic, and Michael 
J. Sullivan, of Wyoming, to be Ambassador to Ireland, 10:30 a.m., 
SD-419.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs, to resume hearings to examine 
information security issues, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Constitution, 
Federalism, and Property Rights, to hold hearings to examine issues 
regarding the right to keep and bear arms, focusing on the Second 
Amendment as a source to individual rights, 2 p.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Labor and Human Resources, business meeting, to 
consider pending calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Indian Affairs, to hold hearings on H.R. 1833, to 
provide for further self-governance by Indian tribes, 9 a.m., SD-
562.
  Select Committee on Intelligence, to hold closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.

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                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Department Operations, 
Nutrition, and Foreign Agriculture, hearing to review the Emergency 
Food Assistance Program Enhancement Act of 1998, 10 a.m., 1300 
Longworth.
  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, hearing on H.R. 4179, 
to authorize qualified organizations to provide technical assistance 
and capacity building services to microenterprise development 
organizations and programs and to disadvantaged entrepreneurs using 
funds from the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, 
12:00 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Water and Power, hearing 
on H.R. 3658 Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy's Reservation 
Indian Reserved Rights Settlement Act of 1998, 2:00 p.m., 1334 
Longworth.
  Committee on Rules, to consider the following: Conference Report 
to accompany H.R. 3616, making appropriations for the Department of 
Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999; and the 
Conference Report to accompany H.R. 4112, making appropriations for 
the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
1999, 5 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Basic Research and the 
Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, joint oversight hearing on 
the GAO Report on Department of Energy National Laboratory 
Management Reform, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Government Programs 
and Oversight, hearing with respect to the SBA Secondary Market in 
Guaranteed Portion of 7(a) Loans, 2 p.m., 2360 Rayburn.


                             Joint Meetings

  Conferees, closed, on H.R. 4103, making appropriations for the 
Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, 
1 p.m., S-5, Capitol.