[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 38 (Wednesday, March 10, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D253-D255]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





            COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1999

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development, to hold hearings on proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Energy, focusing on defense 
programs, materials disposition, and non-proliferation, 9:30 a.m., 
SD-124.
  Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies, to hold 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for 
Corporation for National and Community Service, 9:30 a.m., SD-116.
  Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary, to 
hold hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for 
the Department of Commerce, 10 a.m., S-146, Capitol.
  Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic, to hold 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 
2000 for the Department of Defense focusing on ballistic missile 
defense programs and management, and the future years defense 
program, 10 a.m., SR-222.
  Subcommittee on Personnel, to hold hearings on proposed 
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2000 for the 
Department of Defense focusing on the defense health program, and 
the future years defense program, 2 p.m., SR-222. Subcommittee on 
Emerging Threats and Capabilities, to hold hearings on Department of 
Defense policies and programs to combat terrorism, 3 p.m., SR-232A.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings on S. 383, to establish a national policy of basic consumer 
fair treatment for airline passengers, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests 
and Public Land Management, 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-628.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: to hold hearings on S. 
507, to provide for the conservation and development of water and 
related resources, to authorize the Secretary of the Army to 
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improvements to rivers and harbors of the United States, 9:30 a.m., 
SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: to hold hearings to explore the 
ramifications of the changing world economy and the reforms that are 
needed in the international tax area, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine 
embassy security for a new millennium, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to hold 
hearings to examine patients' health protections, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business Meeting to mark up S. 461, to 
assure that innocent users and businesses gain access to solutions 
to the year 2000 problem-related failures through fostering an 
incentive to settle year 2000 lawsuits that may disrupt significant 
sectors of the American economy, and other pending calendar 
business, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts, to hold 
joint hearings with the House Committee on the Judiciary's 
Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law on bankruptcy 
reform issues, 2 p.m., 2237, Rayburn Building.
  Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem: to hold 
hearings to explore claims that failures caused by the Y2K computer 
glitch will result in a large number of lawsuits that could 
negatively impact the courts and business community, 9:30 a.m., SD-
106.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Department Operations, 
Oversight, Nutrition, and Forestry, hearing on Review of Forest 
Service fiscal year 2000 Budget, 10:30 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, to mark up Supplemental 
Appropriations for fiscal year 1999, 1 p.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary, on the 
Attorney General, 10 a.m., 2358 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Defense, on fiscal year 2000 Navy/Marine Corps 
Budget, 9:30 a.m., and, executive, on fiscal year 2000 Navy/Marine 
Corps Acquisition Programs, 1:30 p.m., H-140 Capitol.
  Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, on Energy Resources 
and Science, 10 a.m., 2362-A Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related 
Programs, on Security Assistance, 10 a.m., H-144 Capitol.
  Subcommittee on Interior, on the Smithsonian, 10 a.m., B-308 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Labor, Heath and Human Services, and Education, on 
Postsecondary Education, and Special Institutions for the Disabled, 
10 a.m., and on Secretary of Labor, 2 p.m., 2358 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Military Construction, on Navy Construction, 9:30 
a.m., B-3000 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies, to continue 
Department of Housing and Urban Development, 9:30 a.m., 2359 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Armed Services, hearing on the various combatant 
commanders-in-chief (CINC's) on their geographic areas of 
responsibility and assess the impact of the fiscal year 1999 defense 
budget request on their respective missions, 9:30 a.m., 2118 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Military Research and Development, hearing on the 
federal response to domestic terrorism involving weapons of mass 
destruction--increasing the effectiveness of the domestic emergency 
preparedness program, 2 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, to continue markup of 
the Financial Services Act of 1999, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Budget, hearing on ``The Clinton Defense Plan: 
Shipshape or Treading Water?'' 10 a.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Power, to 
continue hearings on the Exxon-Mobil merger, 10:30 a.m., 2123 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing on ``Date 
Rape'' Drugs, 9:15 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on Early 
Childhood, Youth, and Families, hearing on School Violence: 
Protecting our Children, 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on Census, to 
consider the following bills: H.R. 928, 2000 Census Mail Outreach 
Improvement Act; H.R. 929, 2000 Census Language Barrier Removal Act; 
H.R. 1009, to authorize the awarding of grants to cities, counties, 
tribal organizations, and certain other entities for the purpose of 
improving public participation in the 2000 decennial census; and 
H.R. 1010, to improve participation in the 2000 decennial census by 
increasing the amounts available to the Bureau of the Census for 
marketing, promotion, and outreach, 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and 
International Relations, hearing on ``Government-wide Spending to 
Combat Terrorism: GAO Views on the President's Annual Report'', 1 
p.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, to continue markup of H. 
Con. Res. 24, expressing congressional opposition to the unilateral 
declaration of a Palestinian state and urging the President to 
assert clearly United States opposition to such a unilateral 
declaration of statehood; followed by a hearing on U.S. Policy 
Considerations on the Fortieth Anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising 
and the Dalai Lama's Flight into Exile, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts and 
Intellectual Property, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 768, 
Copyright Compulsory License Improvement Act; H.R. 850, Security and 
Freedom through Encryption (SAFE) Act; H.R. 769, Madrid Protocol 
Implementation Act; and H.R. 771, to amend rule 30 of the Federal 
Rules of Civil Procedure to restore the stenographic preference for 
recording depositions; and H.R. 1027, Satellite Television 
Improvement Act, 9 a.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Crime, to continue oversight hearings on putting 
consequences back into juvenile justice, Federal, State, and local 
efforts, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.

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  Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims, to mark up H.R. 441, 
Nursing Relief for Disadvantaged Areas Act of 1999; and to hold an 
oversight hearing on the impact of immigration on low-skilled 
American workers and on American minority communities, 10 a.m., 2226 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, 
Wildlife and Oceans, hearing on the reauthorization of the Yukon 
River Salmon Act, the Fishermen's Protective Act of 1967, and the 
Intergovernmental Consultative Committee Agreement Between the 
Government of the United States and the Government of the Union of 
Soviet Socialist Republics on Mutual Fisheries Relations of May 31, 
1988, 10 a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands, hearing on the 
following bills: H.R. 66, to preserve the cultural resources of 
Route 66 Corridor and to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
provide assistance; and H.R. 659, to authorize appropriations for 
the protection of Paoli and Brandywine Battlefields in Pennsylvania, 
to direct the National Park Service to conduct a special resource 
study of Paoli and Brandywine Battlefields, to authorize the Valley 
Forge Museum of the American Revolution at Valley Forge National 
Historical Park, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Water and Power, to mark up the following bills: 
H.R. 992, to convey the Sly Park Dam and Reservoir to the El Dorado 
Irrigation District; H.R. 1019, to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to convey lands and interests comprising the Carlsbad 
Irrigation Project to the Carlsbad Irrigation District; H.R. 841, 
Welton-Mohawk Transfer Act; and H.R. 862, Clear Creek Distribution 
System Conveyance Act, 2 p.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, 
oversight hearing on fiscal year 2000 Budget: Regulations and 
Operations, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform and 
Paperwork Reduction and the Subcommittee on Government Programs and 
Oversight, joint hearing on the Small Business Advocacy Review 
Panels created by the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness 
Act, 10 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to mark up the 
following measures: H.R. 1000, Aviation Investment and Reform Act 
for the 21st Century; H.R. 130, to designate the United States 
Courthouse located at 40 Centre Street in New York, New York, as the 
``Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse''; H.R. 751, to 
designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located 
at 504 Hamilton Street in Allentown, Pennsylvania, as the ``Edward 
N. Cahn Federal Building and United States Courthouse;'' H.R. 717, 
National Parks Air Tour Management Act of 1999; H.R. 820, Coast 
Guard Authorization Act of 1999; H. Con. Res. 44, authorizing the 
use of the Capitol Grounds for the 18th annual National Peace 
Officers' Memorial Service; H. Con. Res. 47, authorizing the use to 
the Capitol grounds for the Greater Washington Soap Box Derby; H. 
Con. Res. 48, authorizing the use of the Capitol Grounds for the 
opening ceremonies of Sunrayce 99; and other pending business, 10 
a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, Hazardous 
Materials and Pipeline Transportation, to mark up the following: 
H.R. 130, to designate the United States Courthouse located at 40 
Centre Street in New York, New York as the ``Thurgood Marshall 
United States Courthouse; H.R. 751, to designate the Federal 
building and United States courthouse located at 504 Hamilton Street 
in Allentown, Pennsylvania, as the ``Edward N. Cahn Federal Building 
and United States Courthouse;'' an 11(b) resolution ; and other 
pending resolutions, 9 a.m., 2253 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, to consider the Committee's Budget 
Views and Estimates for fiscal year 2000 for submission to the 
Committee on the Budget, 1:30 p.m., 334 Cannon.
  Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing on 
whistleblowing and retaliation in the Department of Veterans 
Affairs, 9:30 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Social Security, 
hearing on Barriers Preventing Disability Beneficiaries from 
Returning to Work, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, briefing on 
Findings of the Cox/Dicks Committee, 3 p.m., H-405 Capitol.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Meetings: Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on 
Administrative Oversight and the Courts, to hold joint hearings with 
the House Committee on the Judiciary's Subcommittee on Commercial 
and Administrative Law on bankruptcy reform issues, 2 p.m., 2237, 
Rayburn Building.