[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 74 (Wednesday, June 14, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D600-D601]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                             JUNE 15, 2000

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: business 
meeting to consider pending calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: to hold hearings on 
certain provisions of S. 2557, to protect the energy security of the 
United States and decrease America's dependency on foreign oil 
sources to 50 percent by the Year 2010 by enhancing the use of 
renewable energy resources, conserving energy resources, improving 
energy efficiencies, and increasing domestic energy supplies, 
mitigating the effect of increases in energy prices on the American 
consumer, including the poor and the elderly, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  Subcommittee on National Parks, Historic Preservation, and 
Recreation, to hold hearings on the United States General Accounting 
Office March 2000 report entitled ``Need to Address Management 
Problems that Plague the Concessions Program'', 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 proposed highway 
diesel fuel sulfur regulations, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine issues 
dealing with the changing threat of international terrorism, 
focusing on the report of the National Commission on Terrorism, 
10:30 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider pending 
calendar business, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nomination of Paul C. 
Huck, of Florida, to be United States District Judge for the 
Southern District of Florida; the nomination of Joan Humphrey 
Lefkow, of Illinois, to be United States District Judge for the 
Northern District of Illinois; the nomination of George Z. Singal, 
of Maine, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Maine; the nomination of John W. Darrah, of Illinois, to be United 
States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois; and the 
nomination of Johnnie B. Rawlinson, of Nevada, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, 5 p.m., SD-226.

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                                 House

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, 
Export Financing and Related Program, to mark up appropriations for 
fiscal year 2001, 9 a.m., H-140 Capitol.
  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, Subcommittee on 
Capital Markets, Securities and Government Sponsored Enterprises, to 
continue hearings on improving regulation of housing Government 
Sponsored Enterprises, Housing, focusing on H.R. 3703, Housing 
Finance Regulatory Improvement Act, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, 
and Consumer Protection, hearing on H.R. 3125, Internet Gambling 
Prohibition Act of 1999, 11 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, hearing entitled: ``FACA: 
Conflicts of Interest and Vaccine Development-Preserving the 
Integrity of the Process,'' 1 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and 
International Relations, hearing on ``F-22 Cost Controls: Will 
Production Cost Savings Materialize?'' 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, to mark up the following 
measures: a concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the 
Congress regarding manipulation of the mass media and intimidation 
of the independent press in the Russian Federation, expressing 
support for freedom of speech and the independent media in the 
Russian Federation, and calling on the President of the United 
States to express his strong concern for freedom of speech and the 
independent media in the Russian Federation; H. Con. Res. 297, 
congratulating the Republic of Hungary on the millennium of its 
foundation as a state; H. Res. 500, expressing the sense of the 
House of Representatives concerning the violence, breakdown of rule 
of law, and troubled pre-election period in the Republic of 
Zimbabwe; H. Con. Res. 275, expressing the sense of the Congress 
with regard to Iraq's failure to release prisoners of war from 
Kuwait and nine other nations in violation of international 
agreements; and H. Res. 259, supporting the goals and ideals of the 
Olympics; followed by a hearing on Implementing Overseas Presence 
Advisory Panel Recommendations, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts and 
Intellectual Property, oversight hearing on Copyrighted Webcast 
Programming on the Internet, 9 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Crime, to mark up the following bills: 4033, 
Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 2000; and H.R. 4640, DNA 
Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000; followed by an oversight 
hearing on ``The Threat Posed by the Illegal Importation, 
Trafficking, and Use of Ecstasy and Other `Club' Drugs,'' 9:30 a.m., 
2237 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims, hearing on H.R. 4548, 
Agricultural Opportunities Act, 11 a.m., 2226 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral 
Resources, to mark up H.R. 3432, to direct the Minerals Management 
Service to grant the State of Louisiana and its lessees a credit in 
the payment of Federal offshore royalties to satisfy the 
authorization for compensation contained in the Oil Pollution Act of 
1990 for oil and gas drainage in the West Delta Field; followed by a 
hearing on the following bills: S. 1030, to provide that the 
conveyance by the Bureau of Land Management of the surface estate to 
certain land in the State of Wyoming in exchange for certain private 
land will not result in the removal of the land from operation of 
the mining laws; and H.R. 4340, Mineral Revenue Payments 
Clarification Act of 2000, 2 p.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans, 
hearing on H.R. 4442, National Wildlife Refuge System Centennial 
Act, 10 a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Water and Power, to mark up the following bills: 
S. 1275, Hoover Dam Miscellaneous Sales Act; H.R. 2984, to direct 
the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Reclamation, to 
convey to the Loup Basin Reclamation District, the Sargent River 
Irrigation District, and the Farwell Irrigation District, Nebraska, 
property comprising the assets of the Middle Loup Division of the 
Missouri River Basin Project, Nebraska; H.R. 3595, to increase the 
authorization of appropriations for the Reclamation Safety of Dams 
Act of 1978; H.R. 2674, Palmetto Bend Conveyance Act; H.R. 3112, 
Colorado Ute Settlement Act Amendments of 1999; S. 986, Griffin 
Project Prepayment and Conveyance Act; H.R. 1787, Deschutes 
Resources Conservancy Reauthorization Act of 1999; H.R. 4389, to 
direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain water 
distribution facilities to the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy 
District; H.R. 1113, Colusa Basin Watershed Integrated Resources 
Management Act; and H.R. 2348, to authorize the Bureau of 
Reclamation to provide cost sharing for the endangered fish recovery 
implementation programs for the Upper Colorado and San Juan River 
Basins, 2 p.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform and 
Paperwork Reduction, hearing on the Small Business Ombudsman and the 
Regulatory Fairness Program, 10 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to continue 
hearings on the Proposed United-US Airways Merger, 10 a.m., 2167 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Trade, hearing on 
United States-Vietnam Relations, including the renewal of Vietnam's 
waiver under the Jackson-Vanik amendment to the Trade Act of 1974, 
10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.