[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 55 (Wednesday, April 21, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D420-D421]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                             APRIL 22, 1999

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior, to hold 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the 
Department of the Interior, 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 the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development, 9:30 a.m., SD-138.
  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings on worldwide threats 
to United Sates national security interests, 10 a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
International Trade and Finance, with the Subcommittee on Economic 
Policy, to hold joint hearings on issues relating to the official 
dollarization in emerging-market countries, 10 a.m., SH-216.
  Subcommittee on Economic Policy, with the Subcommittee on 
International Trade and Finance, to hold joint hearings on issues 
relating to the official dollarization in emerging-market countries, 
10 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on the Budget: to hold hearings to examine the status of 
the Medicare trust fund, 10 a.m., SD-608.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings to examine boxing industry regulations, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: to hold a closed 
briefing on the damage to the national security from Chinese 
espionage at the Department of Energy nuclear weapons laboratories, 
9:30 a.m., SH-219.
  Subcommittee on National Parks, Historic Preservation, and 
Recreation, to hold hearings on S. 441, to amend the National Trails 
System Act to designate the route of the War of 1812 British 
invasion of Maryland and Washington, District of Columbia, and the 
route of the American defense, for study for potential addition to 
the national trails system; S. 548, to establish the Fallen Timbers 
Battlefield and Fort Miamis National Historical Site in the State of 
Ohio; S. 581, to protect the Paoli and Brandywine Battlefields in 
Pennsylvania, to authorize a Valley Forge Museum of the American 
Revolution at Valley Forge National Historical Park; and S. 700, to 
amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Ala Kahakai 
Trail as a National Historic Trail, 2 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and 
Pacific Affairs, to hold hearings to examine North Korea's prison 
camps, 10 a.m., SD-562.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: to hold hearings on S. 59, to 
provide Government-wide accounting of regulatory costs and benefits, 
and other regulatory reform legislation, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to hold 
hearings on issues relating to the Elementary Secondary Education 
Act, 10 a.m., SD-628.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings on 
pending intelligence matters, 2 p.m., SH-219.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to resume 
consideration of S. 625, to amend title 11, United States Code, and 
other pending calendar business, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem: to hold 
hearings on issues relating to the oil industry and Y2K, 9:30 a.m., 
SD-538.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Department Operations, 
Oversight, Nutrition, and Forestry, hearing to review the 
implementation of the Food Quality Protection Act, 10:30 a.m., 1300 
Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Interior, on Florida 
Initiative, 10 a.m., B-308 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, 
on Members of Congress, 10 a.m., and 2 p.m., 2358 Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Power, hearing 
on Electricity Competition: Reliability

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and Transmission in Competitive Electricity Markets, 10 a.m., 2322 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection 
and the Subcommittee on Finance and Hazardous Materials, joint 
hearing on Identity Theft: Is There Another You? 10 a.m., 2123 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on Early 
Childhood, Youth, and Families, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 
905, Missing, Exploited, and Runaway Children Protection Act; and 
H.R. 1150, Juvenile Crime Control and Delinquency Prevention Act of 
1999, 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, hearing on Welfare Reform is 
Working: A Report on State and Local Initiatives, 10 a.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans' Affairs and 
International Relations, oversight hearing to examine the Department 
of Veterans Affairs implementation of the Persian Gulf War Veterans 
Act of 1998, 2 p.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, to continue markup of H. 
Con. Res. 82, directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of 
the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from 
their positions in connection with the present operations against 
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 8:30 a.m., and to hold a hearing 
on the Need for New and Effective Policing in Northern Ireland, 10 
a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to continue markup of H.R. 833, 
Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1999; and to mark up H.R. 771, to amend 
rule 30 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to restore the 
stenographic preference for recording depositions, 10 a.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Crime, to mark up H.R. 1501, Consequences of 
Juvenile Offenders Act of 1999, 9:15 a.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, 
Wildlife and Oceans, to mark up H.R. 1110, Coastal Enhancement Act 
of 1999; and to hold a hearing on the following bills: H.R. 34, to 
direct the Secretary of the Interior to make technical corrections 
to a map relating to the Coastal Barrier Resources System; H.R. 535, 
to direct the Secretary of the Interior to make corrections to a map 
relating to the Coastal Barrier Resources System; H.R. 1431, Coastal 
Barrier Resources Reauthorization Act of 1999; and a measure to 
direct the Secretary of the Interior to make corrections to a map 
relating to the Coastal Barrier Resources System, 10 a.m., 1334 
Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, hearing on H.R. 898, 
Spanish Peaks Wilderness Act of 1999; and an oversight hearing on a 
proposed measure on Forest Roads, Community Right to Know, 10 a.m., 
1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to mark up the 
following bills: H.R. 1480, Water Resources Development Act of 1999; 
Corps of Engineers Survey Resolutions; H.R. 118, to designate the 
Federal building at 300 East 8th Street in Austin, Texas, as the 
``J.J. `Jake' Pickle Federal Building''; H.R. 560, amended, to 
designate the Federal building located at 300 Recinto Sur Street in 
Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, as the ``Jose V. Toledo United States 
Post Office and Courthouse''; H.R. 686, to designate a United States 
courthouse in Brownsville, Texas, as the ``Garza-Vela United States 
Courthouse''; H.R. 1121, to designate the Federal building and 
United States courthouse located at 18 Greenville Street in Newnan, 
Georgia, as the ``Lewis R. Morgan Federal Building and United States 
Courthouse''; S. 453, to designate the Federal building located at 
709 West 9th Street in Juneau, Alaska, as the ``Hurff A. Saunders 
Federal Building''; S. 460, to designate the United States 
courthouse located at 401 South Michigan Street in South Bend, 
Indiana, as the ``Robert K. Rodibaugh United States Bankruptcy 
Courthouse''; H.R. 1034, to declare a portion of the James River and 
Kanawha Canal in Richmond, Virginia, to be nonnavigable waters of 
the United States for purposes of title 46, United States Code, and 
other maritime laws of the United States; and H.R. 1162, to 
designate the bridge on United States Route 231 that crosses the 
Ohio River between Maceo, Kentucky, and Rockport, Indiana, as the 
``William H. Natcher Bridge''; 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Health, hearing on 
the issue of long-term care for veterans, 9:30 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Health, hearing on 
Medicare Coverage Decisions and Beneficiary Appeals, 1 p.m., 1100 
Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Human Resources, oversight hearing on Child 
Protection, 10 a.m., B-318 Rayburn.