[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 78 (Tuesday, June 20, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D630-D631]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                         COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR

                        WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 2000

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: with the 
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, to hold joint 
hearings on S. 2697, to reauthorize and amend the Commodity Exchange 
Act to promote legal certainty, enhance competition, and reduce 
systemic risk in markets for futures and over-the-counter 
derivatives, 10 a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings to examine security 
failures at Los Alamos National Laboratory; to be followed by a 
closed hearing (SH-219), 9:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: with the 
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, to hold joint 
hearings on S. 2697, to reauthorize and amend the Commodity Exchange 
Act to promote legal certainty, enhance competition, and reduce 
systemic risk in markets for futures and over-the-counter 
derivatives, 10 a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings to examine the proposed United-US Airways merger, focusing 
on its effect on competition in the industry, and the likelihood it 
would trigger further industry consolidation, 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 hearings on S. 1848, to 
amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and 
Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
participate in the design, planning, and construction of the Denver 
Water Reuse project; S. 1761, to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior, through the Bureau of Reclamation, to conserve and enhance 
the water supplies of the Lower Rio Grande Valley; S. 2301, to amend 
the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act 
to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the 
design, planning, and construction of the Lakehaven water 
reclamation project for the reclamation and reuse of water; S. 2400, 
to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey

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certain water distribution facilities to the Northern Colorado Water 
Conservancy District; S. 2499, to extend the deadline for 
commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project in the State 
of Pennsylvania; and S. 2594, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to contract with the Mancos Water Conservancy District to 
use the Mancos Project facilities for impounding, storage, 
diverting, and carriage of nonproject water for the purpose of 
irrigation, domestic, municipal, industrial, and any other 
beneficial purposes, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  Full Committee, with the Select Committee on Intelligence, to hold 
closed hearings on intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on 
Fisheries, Wildlife, and Drinking Water, to hold hearings on S. 
1787, to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to improve 
water quality on abandoned or inactive mined land, 10 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings on the 
nominations of John Edward Herbst, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Uzbekistan; Carlos Pascual, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Ambassador to Ukraine; Lawrence George Rossin, of 
California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Croatia; and Ross L. 
Wilson, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Azerbaijan, 
4:30 p.m., SD-419.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: with the Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources, to hold closed hearings on intelligence matters, 
2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings on improving the 
National Instant Criminal Background Check System, 10 a.m., SD-226. 
Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts, to resume 
oversight hearings to examine the 1996 campaign finance 
investigations, 2 p.m., SD-226.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, hearing to review the USDA's export and 
market promotion programs, 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Armed Services, hearing on the strategic intentions 
and goals of China, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  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, focusing on H.R. 3703, Housing Finance 
Regulatory Improvement Act, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, to mark up H.R. 3462, 
Wealth Through the Workplace Act of 1999, 10:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security, 
Veterans Affairs, and International Relations, hearing on Force 
Protection: Current Individual Protective Equipment, 10 a.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on 
International Economic Policy and Trade, hearing on International 
Trade and the Environment, 2 p.m., 2255 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 
3380, Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act of 1999; H.R. 3485, 
Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act; H.R. 1349, Federal Prisoner 
Health Care Copayment Act of 1999; H.R. 1248, Violence Against Women 
Act; H.R. 3918, Immigration Reorganization and Improvement Act of 
1999; and H.R. 4194, Small Business Merger Fee Reduction Act of 
2000, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, to mark up the following bills: S. 986, 
Griffith Project Prepayment and Conveyance Act; H.R. 1113, Colusa 
Basin Watershed Integrated Resources Management Act; H.R. 1142, 
Landowners Equal Treatment Act of 1999; S. 1275, Hoover Dam 
Miscellaneous Sales Act; H.R. 1787, Deschutes Resources Conservancy 
Reauthorization Act of 1999; 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. 3160, Common Sense Protections 
for Endangered Species Act; H.R. 3241, to direct the Secretary of 
the Interior to recalculate the franchise fee owed by Fort Sumter 
Tours, Inc., a concessioner providing service to Fort Sumter 
National Monument in South Carolina; H.R. 3595, to increase the 
authorization of appropriations for the Reclamation Safety of Dams 
Act of 1978; H.R. 4148, Tribal Contract Support Cost Technical 
Amendments of 2000; and H.R. 4389, to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to convey certain water distribution facilities to the 
Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District, 11 a.m., 1324 
Longworth.
  Committee on Small Business, hearing on Improving SBA's Office of 
Advocacy, 10 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to mark up the 
following: H.R. 4210, Preparedness Against Terrorism Act of 2000; 
H.R. 1959, to designate the Federal building located at 743 East 
Durango Boulevard in San Antonio, Texas, as the ``Adrian A. Spears 
Judicial Training Center''; H.R. 3323, to designate the Federal 
building located at 158-15 Liberty Avenue in Jamaica, Queens, New 
York, as the ``Floyd H. Flake Federal Building''; H.R. 4519, 
Baylee's Law; H.R. 4608, to designate the United States courthouse 
located at 220 West Depot Street in Greeneville, Tennessee, as the 
``James H. Quillen United States Courthouse''; GSA's repair and 
alteration; GSA's design program; GSA's non-courthouse construction 
program; Three out-of-cycle leases; Corps of Engineers Survey 
Resolutions; and other pending business, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, to mark up H.R. 4680, Medicare RX 
2000 Act, 2 p.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, to consider 
pending business, 12:30 p.m., H-405 Capitol.