[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 64 (Wednesday, May 5, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D488-D489]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





              COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1999

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education, to hold hearings on proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 2000 for National Institutes of Health, 
Department of Health and Human Services, focusing on disease 
research, 9 a.m., SD-124.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee 
on Oceans and Fisheries, to hold hearings to examine coastal zone 
management, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: to hold hearings to 
examine the results of the December 1998 plebiscite on Puerto Rico, 
9:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold closed hearings to examine 
the growing threat of biological weapons, 2 p.m., SH-219.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: to hold hearings on Federalism 
and crime control, focusing on the increasing Federalization of 
criminal law and its impact on crime control and the criminal 
justice system, 9:30 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to resume 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of 
the Elementary Secondary Education Act, focusing on safety programs, 
10 a.m., SD-628.
  Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business 
Rights, and Competition, business meeting to consider S. 467, to 
establish time limits on Federal Communications Commission review of 
telecommunications mergers, 2 p.m., SD-226.


                                 House

  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, hearing on the 
President's Working Group Study on Hedge Funds, 10 a.m., 2128 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Power, hearing 
on Electricity Competition: Market Power, Mergers, and PUHCA, 10 
a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Health and Environment, hearing on H.R. 11, to 
amend the Clean Air Act to permit the exclusive application of 
California State regulations regarding reformulated gas in certain 
areas within the State, 9:30 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on 
Employer-Employee Relations, hearing on Impact of External Review on 
Health Care Quality, 9:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, oversight 
hearing on Crime, Criminal Fines, and Restitution: Are Federal 
Offenders Compensating Victims? 9:30 a.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, 
Wildlife, and Oceans, to markup the following bills: H.R. 1552, 
Marine Research and Related Environmental Research and Development 
Programs Authorization Act of 1999; H.R. 1643, to establish a 
moratorium on large fishing vessels in Atlantic herring and mackerel 
fisheries; H.R. 1651, to amend the Fishermen's Protective Act of 
1967 to extend the period during which reimbursement may be provided 
to owners of United States fishing vessels for costs incurred when 
such a vessel is seized and detained by a foreign country; H.R. 
1652, Yukon River Salmon Act of 1999; and H.R. 1653, to approve a 
governing international fishery agreement between the United States 
and the Russian Federation; followed by a hearing on the following 
bills: H.R. 1243, National Marine Sanctuaries Enhancement Act of 
1999; H.R. 34, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to make

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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. 1489, to clarify boundaries on maps related 
to the Coastal Barrier Resources System; and H.R. 1431, to 
reauthorize and amend the Coastal Barrier Resources System Act, 11 
a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on National Parks, and Public Lands, hearing on H.R. 
1165, Black Canyon National Park and Gunnison Gorge National 
Conservation Area Act of 1999, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Aviation, hearing on Reauthorization of the National Transportation 
Safety Board, 9:30 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, hearing on 
Kosovo, 2:30 p.m., H-405 Capitol.


                             Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: to hold hearings 
on the state of democratization and human rights in Kazakhstan, 10 
a.m., SR-485.