[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 134 (Wednesday, October 6, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1100-D1101]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                            OCTOBER 7, 1999

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: to hold 
hearings to review public policy related to biotechnology, focusing 
on domestic approval process, benefits of biotechnology and an 
emphasis on challenges facing farmers to segregation of product, 9 
a.m., SR-328A.
  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings on the ability of 
the Stockpile Stewardship Program to adequately verify the safety 
and reliability of the United States nuclear deterrent under a 
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty; to be followed by a closed hearing 
(SR-222), 9:30 a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy 
Research, Development, Production and Regulation, to hold hearings 
on S. 1183, to direct the Secretary of Energy to convey to the city 
of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, the former site of the NIPER facility of 
the Department of Energy; and S. 397, to authorize the Secretary of 
Energy to establish a multiagency program in support of the 
Materials Corridor Partnership Initiative to promote energy 
efficient, environmentally sound economic development along the 
border with Mexico through the research, development, and use of new 
materials, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: to hold hearings on S. 
188, to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize 
the use of State revolving loan funds for construction of water 
conservation and quality improvements; S. 968, to authorize the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants 
to State agencies with responsibility for water source development, 
for the purposes of maximizing the available water supply and 
protecting the environment through the development of alternative 
water sources; and S. 914, to amend the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act to require that discharges from combined storm and 
sanitary sewers conform to the Combined Sewer Overflow Control

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Policy of the Environmental Protection Agency, 10 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade, to hold 
hearings on the United States agricultural negotiating objectives 
for the Seattle World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference, 10 
a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings on comprehensive 
Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, opened for signature and signed by the 
United States at New York on September 24, 1996. Treaty includes two 
Annexes, a Protocol, and two Annexes to the Protocol (Treaty Doc. 
105-28), 10:30 a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, to continue hearings on comprehensive Nuclear 
Test-Ban Treaty, opened for signature and signed by the United 
States at New York on September 24, 1996. Treaty includes two 
Annexes, a Protocol, and two Annexes to the Protocol (Treaty Doc. 
105-28), 2 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on International 
Security, Proliferation and Federal Services, to hold hearings to 
examine guidelines for the relocation, closing, consolidation or 
construction of Post Offices, 2 p.m., SD-608.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider the 
nomination of Ronald A. Guzman, of Illinois, to be United States 
District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois; the nomination 
of William Joseph Haynes, Jr., of Tennessee, to be United States 
District Judge for the Middle District of Tennessee vice Thomas A. 
Higgins, retired; the nomination of Barbara M. Lynn, of Texas, to be 
United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas; the 
nomination of Diana E. Murphy, of Minnesota, to be a Member of the 
United States Sentencing Commission; the nomination of Ruben 
Castillo, of Illinois, to be a Member of the United States 
Sentencing Commission; the nomination of Sterling R. Johnson, Jr., 
of New York, to be a Member of the United States Sentencing 
Commission; the nomination of Joe Kendall, of Texas, to be a Member 
of the United States Sentencing Commission; the nomination of 
Michael O'Neill, of Maryland, to be a Member of the United States 
Sentencing Commission; the nomination of William Sessions, III, of 
Vermont, to be a Member of the United States Sentencing Commission; 
and the nomination of John R. Steer, of Virginia, to be a Member of 
the United States Sentencing Commission for the remainder of the 
term expiring October 31, 1999, 10 a.m., SD-226.


                                 House

  Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Military Readiness, 
hearing on spare and repair parts shortages, 9 a.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Research and Development, hearing on 
electromagnetic pulse (EMP) threats to U.S. military and civilian 
infrastructure, 10:30 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Finance and Hazardous 
Materials, hearing on PUHCA Repeal: Is The Time Now? 10 a.m., 2123 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, to continue markup of 
H.R. 2, to send more dollars to the classroom, and other pending 
business, 9 a.m.; and to hold a hearing on Examining the Impact of 
Minimum Wage on Welfare to Work, 3 p.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, to continue hearings on U.S. 
Policy Toward Russia, Part II: Corruption in the Russian Government, 
10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts and 
Intellectual Property, to mark up H.R. 1714, Electronic Signatures 
in Global and National Commerce Act, 10 a.m., 2226 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Crime, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 1887, 
to amend title 18, United States Code, to punish the depiction of 
animal cruelty; and H.R. 1869, Stalking Prevention and Victim 
Protection Act of 1999, 2 p.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Water and Power, to hold a 
hearing on the following: H.R. 2994, Sugar Pine Dam and Reservoir 
Conveyance Act; H.R. 1696, to direct the Secretary of the Interior 
to convey the Griffith Project to the Southern Nevada Water 
Authority; H.R. 2674, providing for conveyance of the Palmetto Bend 
project to the State of Texas; H.R. 2984, Middle Loup Conveyance 
Act; H.R. 2974, Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project Facilities 
Conveyance Act of 1999; H.R. 2889, to amend the Central Utah Project 
Completion Act to provide for acquisition of water and water rights 
for Central Utah Project purposes, completion of Central Utah 
project facilities, and implementation of water conservation 
measures; and H.R. 1235, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior 
to enter into contracts with the Solano County Water Agency, 
California, to use Solano Project facilities for impounding, 
storage, and carriage of nonproject water for domestic, municipal, 
industrial, and other beneficial purposes, 10 a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, hearing on Cruise Ship 
Safety, 10 a.m., 2253 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Ground Transportation, hearing on the Effect of 
the Fiscal Year 2000 Department of Transportation Appropriations Act 
on Motor Carrier Safety Enforcement, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Emergency 
Management, hearing on GSA's Federal Building Security Program, 2 
p.m., 2167 Rayburn.