[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 29 (Wednesday, February 24, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D171-D173]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                           FEBRUARY 25, 1999

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, General 
Government and Civil Service, to hold hearings on proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the Internal Revenue Service, 
Department of the Treasury, 10 a.m., SD-138.

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  Subcommittee on Transportation, to hold hearings on Department of 
Transportation management issues, 10 a.m., SD-192.
  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings on U.S. policy 
regarding Kosovo, 9:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: to hold hearings 
on proposed legislation to enhance competition in the financial 
services industry by providing a prudential framework for the 
affiliation of banks, securities firms, and other financial service 
providers, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Full Committee, to continue hearings on proposed legislation to 
enhance competition in the financial services industry by providing 
a prudential framework for the affiliation of banks, securities 
firms, and other financial service providers, 4 p.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: business meeting to 
consider pending committee business; to be followed by oversight 
hearings on the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 
2000 for the Department of Energy and the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission, 9 a.m., SD-366.
  Full Committee, to hold oversight hearings on the President's 
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2000 for the Forest Service, 
Department of Agriculture, 2 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and 
Pacific Affairs, to hold hearings to examine Asian trade barriers to 
United States soda ash exports, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee 
on Public Health, to hold hearings on antimicrobial resistance, 9:30 
a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider the 
committee's rules of procedure for the 106th Congress and 
subcommittee membership, and to markup S. 247, to amend title 17, 
United States Code, to reform the copyright law with respect to 
satellite retransmissions of broadcast signals, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, and Competition, to 
hold hearings to review competition and antitrust issues relating to 
the Telecommunications Act, 2 p.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: business meeting to 
consider committee business matters, 9:30 a.m., SR-301.
  Committee on Veterans Affairs: to hold joint hearings with the 
House Committee on Veterans Affairs to review the legislative 
recommendations of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, the Fleet 
Reserve, the Retired Enlisted Association, the Gold Star Wives of 
America, and the Air Force Sergeants Association, 9:30 a.m., 345 
Cannon Building.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, to approve Committee Budget Views and 
Estimates for Fiscal Year 2000 for submission to the Committee on 
the Budget, 10:30 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Defense, executive, 
on U.S. Southern Command, 9:30 a.m., H-140 Capitol.
  Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, 
on National Human Genome Research Institute, the National Institute 
of Dental and Craniofacial Research and on National Library of 
Medicine, 10 a.m., on National Institute of Child Health and Human 
Development, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, and on 
Fogarty International Center, 2 p.m., 2358 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Military Construction, on Deputy Secretary of 
Defense, 9:30 a.m., B-300 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on VA, HUD and Independent Agencies, on Neighbor 
Reinvestment Corporation, 9:30 a.m., on National Credit Union 
Association, 10:30 a.m., and on the Community Development Financial 
Institute, 11:30 a.m., H-143 Capitol.
  Committee on Armed Services, to markup H.R. 4, to declare it to be 
the policy of the United States to deploy a national missile 
defense, 9 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Military Installations and Facilities, hearing on 
the fiscal year 2000 budget request for military construction and 
military family housing of the Department of Defense, 1 p.m., 2212 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Military Personnel, hearing on pay and retirement 
reform proposals, 10 a.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Military Readiness, hearing on logistics 
capabilities and/or shortfalls, 2 p.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Military Research and Development, hearing on 
ballistic missile defense programs, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, to consider the 
Committee Budget Views and Estimates for Fiscal Year 2000 for 
submission to the Committee on the Budget, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Finance and Hazardous 
Materials, hearing on The Market Impact of the Administration's 
Social Security Proposal, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Health and Environment, hearing on 
Medicare+Choice: An Examination of the Risk Adjustor, 10 a.m., 2322 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on Early 
Childhood, Youth, and Families, hearing on Putting Performance 
First: Ed-Flex and Its Role in Improving Student Performance and 
Reducing Bureaucracy, 9:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on Civil Service, 
hearing on Federal Reserve Board Retirement Portability; followed by 
a markup regarding the Federal Reserve Board Retirement Portability 
Act, 10 a.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human 
Resources, hearing on Oversight of the 1999 National Drug Control 
Strategy, 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and 
International Relations, hearing on Vulnerabilities to Waste, Fraud 
and Abuse: Inspector General and GAO Views on the Departments of 
Defense, State and Veterans Affairs, 10 a.m., 2203 Rayburn.

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  Committee on International Relations, hearing on the 
Administration's Fiscal Year 2000 International Affairs Budget 
Request, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, to mark up the following: 
the United States-Macau Policy Act of 1999; H. Res. 32, expressing 
support for, and calling for actions in support for, free, fair, and 
transparent elections in Indonesia; and H. Con. Res. 28, expressing 
the sense of Congress that the United States should introduce and 
make all efforts necessary to pass a resolution criticizing the 
People's Republic of China for its human rights abuses in China and 
Tibet at the annual meeting of the United Nations Commission on 
Human Rights, 4 p.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade, hearing 
on Brazil's Economic Crisis: Implications for International Trade, 2 
p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts and 
Intellectual Property, hearing on H.R. 768, Copyright Compulsory 
License Improvement Act, 10 a.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims, oversight hearing on 
recent INS decisions impacting the Agency's ability to control 
criminal and illegal aliens, 9:30 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral 
Resources, oversight hearing on the Fiscal Year Budget request of 
the U.S. Geological Survey, the Office of Surface Mining, the 
Minerals Management Service and the energy and minerals programs of 
the Bureau of Land Management, 2 p.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans, to 
mark up H.R. 39, Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act; 
followed by an oversight hearing on Coastal Zone Management Act, 10 
a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands, to mark up the 
following: H.R. 15, Otay Wilderness Act of 1999; H.R. 54, to extend 
the authorization for the Upper Delaware Citizens Advisory Council; 
H.R. 150, Education Land Grant Act; H.R. 154, to provide for the 
collection of fees for the making of motion pictures, television 
productions, and sound tracks in National Park System and National 
Wildlife Refuge System units; H.R. 449, Gateway Visitor Center 
Authorization Act of 1999; H.R. 509, to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to transfer to the personal representative of the estate of 
Fred Steffens of Big Horn County, Wyoming, certain land comprising 
the Steffens family property; and H.R. 510, to direct the Secretary 
of the Interior to transfer to John R. and Margaret J. Lowe of Big 
Horn County, Wyoming, certain land so as to correct an error in the 
patent issued to their predecessors in interest, 10 a.m., 1324 
Longworth.
  Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, 
oversight hearing on fiscal year 2000 Budget: Human Space Flight, 1 
p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Technology, hearing on Unscrewing the Fastener 
Quality Act, 10:30 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, to consider Committee's Budget Views 
and Estimates for fiscal year 2000 for submission to the Committee 
on the Budget; and to mark up proposed legislation concerning the 
SBA's Disaster Loan Program and the SBA's Women's Business Center 
Program, 10 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Oversight, hearing on 
Incentives for Domestic Oil and Gas Production and Status of the 
Industry, 9 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Trade, hearing on Steel Trade Issues, 1 p.m., 1100 
Longworth.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, briefing on 
Iraqi Developments: An Intelligence Update, 2 p.m., H-405 Capitol.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Meetings: Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, to hold 
joint hearings with the House Committee on Veterans Affairs to 
review the legislative recommendations of the Military Order of the 
Purple Heart, the Fleet Reserve, the Retired Enlisted Association, 
the Gold Star Wives of America, and the Air Force Sergeants 
Association, 9:30 a.m., 345, Cannon Building.