[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 132 (Monday, October 4, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1085]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1999

          (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Armed Services: to hold closed hearings on issues relating 
to the Department of Energy and Intelligence Community witnesses on 
military implications of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, 9:30 a.m., S-
407, Capitol.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing and Transportation, to hold hearings on S. 1452, to modernize the 
requirements under the National Manufactured Housing Construction and 
Safety Standards of 1974 and to establish a balanced consensus process 
for the development, revision, and interpretation of Federal construction 
and safety standards for manufactured homes, 9:30 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management, to hold hearings on S. 1608, to provide annual 
payments to the States and counties from National Forest System lands 
managed by the Forest Service, and the revested Oregon and California 
Railroad and reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands managed 
predominately by the Bureau of Land Management, for use by the counties 
in which the lands are situated for the benefit of the public schools, 
roads, emergency and other public purposes; to encourage and provide new 
mechanism for cooperation between counties and the Forest Service and the 
Bureau of Land Management to make necessary investments in federal lands, 
and reaffirm the positive connection between Federal Lands counties and 
Federal Lands; and for other purposes, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, 
Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety, to hold hearings on the 
Environmental Protection Agency's Blue Ribbon Panel findings on methyl 
tertiary-butyl ether, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings on the Convention On 
Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry 
Adoption, Adopted and Opened for Signature at the Conclusion of the 
Seventeenth Session of the Hague Conference on Private International Law 
on May 29, 1993 (Treaty Doc. 105-51); and S. 682, to implement the Hague 
Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of 
Intercountry Adoption, 10:30 a.m., SD-419.
  Subcommittee on African Affairs, to hold hearings to examine 
development assistance to Africa and the implementation of United States 
foreign policy, 2:45 p.m., SD-419.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings on pending 
intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., room to be announced.
  Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts, to hold hearings on S. 758, to establish legal standards 
and procedures for the fair, prompt, inexpensive, and efficient 
resolution of personal injury claims arising out of asbestos exposure, 10 
a.m., SD-226.


                                  House

  Committee on Armed Services, hearing on the U.S. Commission on National 
Security/21st Century, 9:30 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Power, hearings on 
H.R. 2944, Electricity Competition and Reliability Act of 1999, 10 a.m., 
2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, to mark up H.R. 2, to send 
more dollars to the classroom, 10:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to mark up the following: H.R. 2886, to 
amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that an adopted 
alien who is less than 18 years of age may be considered a child under 
such Act if adopted with or after a sibling who is a child under such 
Act; H.R. 1520, Child Status Protection Act of 1999; H.R. 2961, 
International Patient Act; and two private relief bills, 10 a.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on National Parks and Public 
Lands, hearing on H.R. 2932, to authorize the Golden Spike/Crossroads of 
the West National Heritage Area, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Basic Research, hearing on Plant 
Genome Science: From the Lab to the Field to the Market, Part 2, 2 p.m., 
2318 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, hearing on Fuels for Future, 10 
a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Human Resources, hearing 
on fatherhood legislation, 12 p.m., B-318 Rayburn.