[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 83 (Tuesday, June 27, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D676-D677]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                         COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR

                        WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 2000

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings to examine airline customer service, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: business meeting to 
mark up S. 2437, to provide for the conservation and development of 
water and related resources, to authorize the Secretary of the Army 
to construct various projects for improvements to rivers and harbors 
of the United States; and other pending calendar business, 9:30 
a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: business meeting to mark up proposed 
legislation relating to the marriage tax penalty, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and 
South Asian Affairs, to hold hearings to examine the liberation of 
Iraq, 9 a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, business meeting to consider pending calendar 
business, 11 a.m., SD-419.
  Subcommittee on European Affairs, to hold hearings to examine the 
treatment of U.S. business in Central and Eastern Europe, 2 p.m., 
SD-419.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: to hold hearings on S. 2283, to amend 
the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to make certain 
amendments with respect to Indian tribes, 2:30 p.m., SR-485.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings on the struggle for 
justice for former U.S. World War II POW's, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and Government Information, 
to hold hearings on countering the changing threat of international 
terrorism, 2 p.m., SD-226.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, hearing on the following: H.R. 4502 
Water Pollution Program Improvement Act of 2000; and EPA's proposed 
Total Maximum Daily Load rules on agriculture and silviculture, 10 
a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Armed Services, hearing on the National Missile 
Defense Program, 10 a.m., and to mark up the following measures: a 
resolution expressing the Sense of the House on the security 
situation involving the missing computer hard drives at Los Alamos 
National Laboratory; 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. 4446, to ensure 
that the Secretary of Energy may continue to exercise certain 
authorities under the Price-Anderson Act through the Assistant 
Secretary of Energy for Environment, Safety, and Health; H.R. 3383, 
to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to remove separate treatment 
or exemption for nuclear safety violations by nonprofit 
institutions; and H.R. 4737, Nuclear Secrets Safety Act, 2118 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, to mark up H.R. 4419, 
Internet Gambling Funding Prohibition Act, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, hearing on Summer Energy Concerns for the 
American Consumer, 9 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, hearing on Rising Fuel Prices and 
the Appropriate Federal Response, 1 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.

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  Subcommittee on the Postal Service, to mark up H.R. 4437, 
Semipostal Authorization Act, 12 p.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  Committee on House Administration, to consider pending business, 3 
p.m., 1310 Longworth.
  Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Asia and the 
Pacific, hearing on U.S. Assistance to Micronesia and the Marshall 
Islands; A Question of Accountability, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights, to mark 
up the following measures: H.R. 4528, International Academic 
Opportunity Act of 2000, H. Con. Res. 328, expressing the sense of 
the Congress in recognition of the 10th anniversary of the free and 
fair elections in Burma and the urgent need to improve the 
democratic and human rights of the people of Burma; H. Con. Res. 
257, Concerning the emancipation of the Iranian Baha'i community; S. 
Con. Res. 81, expressing the sense of the Congress that the 
Government of the People's Republic of China should immediately 
release Rabiya Kadeer, her secretary, and her son, and permit them 
to move to the United States if they so desire; and H. Con. Res. 
348, expressing condemnation of the use of children as soldiers and 
expressing the belief that the United States should support and, 
where possible, lead efforts to end this abuse of human rights, 
10:30 a.m., 2255 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, hearing on Development, 
Growth and Poverty Reduction in Latin America: Assessing the 
Effectiveness of Assistance, 1:30 p.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to continue oversight hearings on 
Solutions to Competitive Problems in the Oil Industry: Part 3, 9:30 
a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, to mark up the following: a motion to 
sustain rulings by Chairman Don Young on objections to the 
production of records subject to subpoenas issued by Chairman Don 
Young under the authority of a resolution adopted by the Committee 
on Resources on June 9, 1999, which objections were raised by Robert 
Berman, Henry M. Banta, Danielle Brian Stockton, Keith Rutter, and 
the Project on Government Oversight; H.R. 755, Guam War Restitution 
Act; 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; S. 1288, 
Community Forest Restoration Act; S. 1508, Indian Tribal Justice 
Technical and Legal Assistance Act of 1999; S. 1705, Castle Rock 
Ranch Acquisition Act of 2000; H.R. 2296, to amend the Revised 
Organic Act of the Virgin Islands to provide that the number of 
members on the legislature of the Virgin Islands and the number of 
such members constituting a quorum shall be determined by the laws 
of the Virgin Islands; H.R. 2462, Guam Omnibus Opportunities Act; 
H.R. 2671, Yankton Sioux Tribe and Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska 
Development Trust Fund Act; H.R. 3033, to direct the Secretary of 
the Interior to make certain adjustments to the boundaries of 
Biscayne National Park in the State of Florida; 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. 4148, Tribal 
Contract Support Cost Technical Amendments of 2000; H.R. 4275, 
Colorado Canyons National Conservation Area and Black Ridge Canyons 
Wilderness Act of 2000; H.R. 4286, to provide for the establishment 
of the Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge in Bibb County, 
Alabama; H.R. 4340, Mineral Revenue Payments Clarification Act of 
2000; H.R. 4404, to permit the payment of medical expenses incurred 
by the United States Park Police in the performance of duty to be 
made directly by the National Park Service, to allow for waiver and 
indemnification in mutual law enforcement agreements between the 
National Park Service and a State or political subdivision when 
required by State law; H.R. 4442, National Wildlife Refuge System 
Centennial Act; and H.R. 4579, Utah West Desert Land Exchange Act of 
2000, 11 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Ways and Means, to mark up H.J. Res. 99, disapproving 
the extension of the waiver authority contained in section 402(c) of 
the Trade Act of 1974 with respect to Vietnam, 10:30 a.m., 1100 
Longworth.