[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 24 (Tuesday, March 7, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D169-D171]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                             MARCH 8, 2000

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on 
Forestry, Conservation, and Rural Revitalization, to hold hearings 
on issues relating to the national rural development partnership, 
2:30 p.m., SR-328A.
  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense, to hold 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the 
Department of Defense, focusing on medical programs, 10 a.m., SD-
192.
  Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland, to hold 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 
2001 for the Department of Defense and the Future Years Defense 
Program, focusing on Army transformation, 9:30 a.m., SR-232A.
  Subcommittee on Strategic, to hold hearings on proposed 
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2001 for the 
Department of Defense and the Future Years Defense Program, focusing 
on National Security Space programs, policies, and operations, 2 
p.m., SR-222.

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  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: business meeting 
to consider S. 2097, to authorize loan guarantees in order to 
facilitate access to local television broadcast signals in unserved 
and underserved areas; 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; the nomination of 
Kathryn Shaw, of Pennsylvania, to be a Member of the Council of 
Economic Advisers; and the nomination of Jay Johnson, of Wisconsin, 
to be Director of the Mint, 10 a.m., SD-628.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee 
on Communications, to hold hearings to examine recent hacker attacks 
on popular websites, and examine the coordination of federal and 
industry efforts to heighten Internet security, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: to hold oversight 
hearings to examine energy supply and demand issues, focusing on the 
rise in price of crude oil, heating oil, and transportation fuels, 
9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  Subcommittee on National Parks, Historic Preservation, and 
Recreation, to hold hearings on S. 1705, to direct the Secretary of 
the Interior to enter into land exchanges to acquire from the 
private owner and to convey to the State of Idaho approximately 
1,240 acres of land near the City of Rocks National Reserve, Idaho; 
S. 972, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to improve the 
administration of the Lamprey River in the State of New Hampshire; 
S. 1727, to authorize for the expansion annex of the historic Palace 
of the Governors, a public history museum located, and relating to 
the history of Hispanic and Native American culture, in the 
Southwest and for other purposes; S. 1849, to designate segments and 
tributaries of White Clay Creek, Delaware and Pennsylvania, as a 
component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System; S. 1910, to 
amend the Act establishing Women's Rights National Historical Park 
to permit the Secretary of the Interior to acquire title in fee 
simple to the Hunt House located in Waterloo, New York; and 
H.R.1615, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to extend the 
designation of a portion of the Lamprey River in New Hampshire as a 
recreational river to include an additional river segment, 2:30 
p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Finance: to hold hearings to examine penalty and 
interest provisions in the Internal Revenue Code, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International 
Operations, to hold hearings on the President's proposed budget 
request for fiscal year 2001 for foreign aid, 10:30 a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, business meeting to consider pending calendar 
business, 2:30 p.m., S-116, Capitol.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: business 
meeting to continue markup S. 2, to extend programs and activities 
under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, 10 a.m., 
SD-430.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: to hold hearing on the 
reauthorization of the Health Care Improvement Act, 2:30 p.m., SR-
485.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings on 
pending intelligence matters, 2 p.m., SH-219.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: to hold hearings on the 
nomination of Danny Lee McDonald, of Oklahoma, to be a Member of the 
Federal Election Commission; and Bradley A. Smith, of Ohio, to be a 
Member of the Federal Election Commission; hearing to be followed by 
a business meeting, 9:30 a.m., SR-301.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Department Operations, 
Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry, hearing to Review the U.S. Forest 
Service budget request for Fiscal Year 2001, 10 a.m., 1300 
Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, on 
Research, Education and Extension, 10 a.m., 2362-A Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary, on 
Attorney General, 10 a.m., 2226 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Defense, on Fiscal Year 2001 Air Force Budget 
Overview, 9:30 a.m., 2212 Rayburn, and, executive, on Fiscal Year 
2001 Air Force Acquisition Program, 1:30 p.m., H-140 Capitol.
  Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, on Secretary of 
Energy, 10 a.m., 2362-B Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Interior, oversight hearing on Bureau of Indian 
Affairs Reorganization/National Academy of Public Administration 
Report, 10 a.m., and on Bureau of Indian Affairs, 11 a.m., and on 
Smithsonian, 1:30 p.m., B-308 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, 
on public witnesses, 10 a.m., and on National Institute of Arthritis 
and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases; Director, NIH and Office of 
Director Panel, 2 p.m., 2358 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Transportation, on Federal Transit Capital 
Project, 10 a.m., 2358 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on VA, HUD and Independent Agencies, on Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development, 10:30 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Military Personnel, 
hearing on Sustaining the All Volunteer Force and Reserve Component 
Issues, 1 p.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Military Readiness and the Subcommittee on 
Research and Development, joint hearing on information superiority 
and information assurance, 3 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, hearing on the Global 
AIDS crisis and pandemic in Africa, including H.R. 3519, World Bank 
AIDS Prevention Trust Fund Act, 9:30 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on Early 
Childhood, Youth, and Families, hearing on Technology in Education, 
1 p.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on the Census, 
oversight hearing of the 2000 Census: Status of Bureau Census 
Operations and Activities, 1 p.m., 2247 Rayburn.

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  Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans' Affairs and 
International Relations, hearing on Combating Terrorism: Management 
of Medical Stockpiles, 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on House Administration, to consider pending business, 4 
p.m., 1310 Longworth.
  Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Asia and the 
Pacific, hearing on U.S. Security Concerns in Asia, 12:30 p.m., 2318 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights, hearing 
on Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 1999, 10 a.m., 2360 
Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to continue markup of H.R. 2372, 
Private Property Rights Implementation Act of 1999, and to mark up 
the following bills: H.R. 1283, Fairness in Asbestos Compensation 
Act of 1999; H.R. 1304, Quality Health-Care Coalition Act of 1999; 
and H.R. 3660, Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2000, 2 p.m., 2141 
Rayburn
  Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims, to mark up the following 
bills: H.R. 3244, Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 1999; and 
H.R. 238, to amend section 274 of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act to impose mandatory minimum sentences, and increase certain 
sentences, for bringing in and harboring certain aliens and to amend 
title 18, United States Code, to provide enhanced penalties for 
persons committing such offenses while armed, 1 p.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, to consider the following: H.R. 3081, Wage and 
Employment Growth Act of 1999; H.R. 1695, Ivanpah Valley Airport 
Public Lands Transfer Act; the Conference Report to accompany S. 
376, Communications Satellite Competition and Privatization Act; and 
H.R. 3833, to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase 
the minimum wage, 2:30 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Ground Transportation, hearing on Implementation of the 
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century by the Department of 
Transportation, 2 p.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, to mark up the 
following: H.R. 910, San Gabriel Basis Water Quality Initiative; 
H.R. 2328, to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to 
reauthorize the Clean Lakes Program; and other pending business; 
followed by a hearing on proposals for a Water Resources Development 
Act of 2000, 11:30 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, hearing on 
Kosovo, 2 p.m., H-405 Capitol.