[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 60 (Tuesday, May 16, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D476-D477]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                              MAY 17, 2000

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense, business 
meeting to mark up proposed legislation making appropriations for 
fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Defense, 11 a.m., SD-192.

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  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings to examine global warming issues, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: business meeting to 
consider pending calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  Subcommittee on Water and Power, to hold oversight hearings on the 
operation, by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, of the Flathead 
Irrigation Project in Montana, 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 proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of 
the Clean Air Act, focusing on an incentive-based utility emissions 
reduction approach, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: business meeting to markup proposed 
legislation extending Permanent Normal Trading Relations to China, 
10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International 
Economic Policy, Export and Trade Promotion, to hold oversight 
hearings to examine satellite export controls, 2:30 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: to hold oversight hearings on Indian 
arts and crafts programs, 2 p.m., SD-562.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings on S. 1148, to provide for the 
Yankton Sioux Tribe and the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska certain 
benefits of the Missouri River Basin Pick-Sloan project; and S. 
1658, to authorize the construction of a Reconciliation Place in 
Fort Pierre, South Dakota, 2 p.m., SR-485.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: to hold hearings on S. 
1816, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide 
meaningful campaign finance reform through requiring better 
reporting, decreasing the role of soft money, and increasing 
individual contribution limits, 9:30 a.m., SR-301.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, hearing to review the Administration's 
proposal for permanent normal trade relations with China, 10 a.m., 
1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Interior, to mark up 
appropriations for fiscal year 2001, 10 a.m., B-308 Rayburn.
  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, to mark up H.R. 4209, 
Bank Reserves Modernization Act of 2000, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 3383, 
to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to remove separate treatment 
or exemption for nuclear safety violations by nonprofit 
institutions; H.R. 3906, to ensure that the Department of Energy has 
appropriate mechanisms to independently assess the effectiveness of 
its policy and site performance in the areas of safeguards and 
security and cyber security; H.R. 3852, to extend the deadline for 
commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project in the State 
of Alabama; S. 1236, to extend the deadline under the Federal Power 
Act for commencement of the construction of the Arrowrock Dam 
Hydroelectric Project in the State of Idaho; a measure concerning 
the authority of the Secretary of Energy under the Price-Anderson 
Act; H.R. 4201, Noncommercial Broadcasting Freedom of Expression Act 
of 2000; H.R. 3489, Wireless Telecommunications Sourcing and Privacy 
Act; and H.R. 2498, Cardiac Arrest Survival Act of 1999, 10:30 a.m., 
2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, hearing on the Status of 
Embassy Security Enhancements, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, hearing on the U.S. and 
the Caribbean in the New Millennium: What is the Agenda? 1:30 p.m., 
2200 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to continue markup of H.R. 4227, 
Technology Worker Temporary Relief Act, 1:30 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, hearing on the 
following bills: H.R. 4267, Internet Tax Reform and Reduction Act; 
and H.R. 4460, Internet Tax Simplification Act of 2000, 10 a.m., 
2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, to mark up H.R. 297, Lewis and Clark Rural 
Water System Act of 1999, followed by a hearing on H.R. 3999, Virgin 
Islands and Guam Constitutional Self-Government Act of 2000, 11 
a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, oversight hearing on 
Assessing future needs and uses of the Abandoned Mine Reclamation 
Fund established under Title IV of the Surface Mining Control and 
Reclamation Act of 1977, 2:30 p.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Committee on Science, hearing on a Plan to Renew Science, Math, 
Engineering and Technology Education in Kindergarten through 12th 
Grade: H.R. 4271, National Science Education Act, 10 a.m., 2318 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Health, hearing on 
VA/DOD health care sharing, 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 
4444, to authorize extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (normal 
trade relations treatment) to the People's Republic of China; and 
H.R. 3916, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 
excise tax on telephone and other communication services, 12:30 
p.m., 1100 Longworth.