[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 117 (Wednesday, September 27, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D986-D987]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                         COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR

                      THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2000

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Special Committee on Aging: to hold hearings to examine nursing 
home initiatives, 8:30 a.m., SD-562.
  Committee on Armed Services: to resume hearings on United States 
policy towards Iraq, 9:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Securities, to hold hearings on the proposal by the Securities and 
Exchange Commission to promulgate agency regulations that would 
restrict the types of non-audit services that independent public 
accountants may provide to their audit clients, 9:30 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: to oversight hearings 
to examine the impacts of the recent United States Federal Circuit 
Court of Appeals decisions regarding the Federal Government's breach 
of contract for failure to accept high level nuclear waste by 
January 1998, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  Full Committee, with the Committee on Foreign Relations, to hold 
joint hearings to examine the status of the Kyoto protocol after 
three years, 3 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: business meeting to 
consider pending calendar business, 8:55 a.m., SD-406.
  Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to hold 
hearings on H.R. 809, to amend the Act of June 1, 1948, to provide 
for reform of the Federal Protective Service, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: business meeting to mark up H.R. 4844, to 
modernize the financing of the railroad retirement system and to 
provide enhanced benefits to employees and beneficiaries; and 
proposed legislation to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to 
provide tax incentives for the renewal of distressed communities, to 
provide for 9 additional empowerment zones and increased tax 
incentives for empowerment zone development, to encourage 
investments in new markets, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine 
slavery throughout the world, 10:30 a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, with the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources, to hold joint hearings to examine the status of the Kyoto 
protocol after three years, 3 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider pending 
calendar business, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, and Competition, to 
hold hearings to examine agricultural competition, 1:30 p.m., SD-
226.


                                 House

  Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Power, hearing 
on Ongoing Energy Concerns for the American Consumer: Natural Gas 
and Heating Oil, 10 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, hearing on the Success 
of Charter Schools, 9:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, to mark up the following: H. 
Res. 577, to honor the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 
(UNHCR) for its role as a protector of the world's refugees, to 
celebrate UNHCR's 50th anniversary, and to praise the High 
Commissioner Sadako Ogata for her work with UNHCR for the past ten 
years; H. Con. Res. 397, voicing concern about serious violations of 
human rights and fundamental freedoms in

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most states of Central Asia, including substantial noncompliance 
with their Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe 
(OSCE) commitments on democratization and the holding of free and 
fair elections; S. 2682, to authorize the Broadcasting Board of 
Governors to make available to the Institute for Media Development 
certain materials of the Voice of America; S. 1453. Sudan Peace Act; 
and H. Res. 398, United States Training on and Commemoration of the 
Armenian Genocide Resolution, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Immigration and 
Claims, hearing on H.R. 5285, Serious Human Rights Abusers 
Accountability Act of 2000, 10:15 a.m.; and to mark up the 
following: H.R. 5285; H.R. 5293, to amend the Immigration and 
Nationality Act to improve provisions relating to inadmissibility 
and detention of, and cancellation of removal for, aliens who have 
committed crimes; and to consider INS reports for private relief 
bills, 11:30 a.m., 2226 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, 
Wildlife and Oceans, oversight hearing to review the final outcome 
of proposals and resolutions offered by the U.S. and other countries 
at the Eleventh Regular Meeting of CITES (COP11), 10 a.m., 1334 
Longworth.
  Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, 
hearing on Range Privatization: How Fast, How Soon and How Much? 10 
a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Government Programs 
and Oversight, hearing on the Future of Small Business in America, 
10 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Aviation, hearing on Airline Delays: The Summer of our Discontent, 
9:30 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, hearing on Human Subjects Protections in VA Medical 
Research, 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, to mark up H.R. 4857, Privacy and 
Identity Protection Act of 2000, 1:30 p.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Oversight, to continue hearings on the Tax Code 
and the New Economy, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.


                             Joint Meetings

  Conference: meeting of conferees on H.R. 3244, to combat 
trafficking of persons, especially into the sex trade, slavery, and 
slavery-like conditions in the United States and countries around 
the world through prevention, through prosecution and enforcement 
against traffickers, and through protection and assistance to 
victims of trafficking, 12:30 p.m., H-139, Capitol. Next Meeting of 
the Senate 9:30 a.m., Thursday, September 28, 2000.