[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 24 (Tuesday, February 27, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D144-D145]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                           FEBRUARY 28, 2001

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: organizational 
business meeting to consider proposed legislation requesting funds 
for the committee's operating expenses, subcommittee assignments, 
rules of procedure for the 107th Congress; to be followed by 
hearings to examine statutes of conservation programs in the current 
farm bill, 9 a.m., SR-328A.
  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense, to hold 
hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2002 
for defense health programs, 10 a.m., SD-192.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: organizational business 
meeting to consider proposed legislation requesting funds for the 
committee's operating expenses, subcommittee assignments, and rules 
of procedure for the 107th Congress, 10:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: organizational business meeting to consider 
proposed legislation requesting funds for the committee's operating 
expenses, subcommittee assignments, and rules of procedure for the 
107th Congress, 2 p.m., SD-215.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine certain revenue 
proposals within the President's proposed budget request for fiscal 
year 2002, 2:30 p.m., SD-215.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nomination of Mark A. 
Weinberger, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of the 
Treasury, 4:30 p.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: organizational business meeting to 
consider proposed legislation requesting funds for the committee's 
operating expenses, 10:45 a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the report of the 
Independent Task Force cosponsored by the Council on Foreign 
Relations and the Center for Strategic and International Studies on 
State Department Reform, 11 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: 
organizational business meeting to consider proposed legislation 
requesting funds for the committee's operating expenses, 
subcommittee assignments, and rules of procedure for the 107th 
Congress, 9:30 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: organizational business meeting to 
consider proposed legislation requesting funds for the committee's 
operating expenses; to be followed by hearings to receive the views 
of the Department of the Interior on matters of Indian Affairs, 9 
a.m., SR-485.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, 2 p.m., SH-219.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to resume markup of 
an original bill to amend title 11, United States Code, relating to 
bankruptcy reform, 9:30 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: organizational business 
meeting to consider pending committee business, 9:30 a.m., SR-301.
  United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: to 
hold hearings to examine Plan Colombia and to make an initial 
assessment of the current drug situation, including human rights 
issues, future budget needs, Embassy staffing issues, potential for 
regional spillover, and any associated time lines and goals, 10 
a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Small Business: organizational business meeting to 
consider proposed legislation requesting funds for the committee's 
operating expenses and rules of procedure for the 107th Congress, 9 
a.m., SR-428A.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: to hold joint hearings with the 
House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to examine the legislative 
recommendations of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, 10 a.m., 345, 
Cannon Building.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, hearing to review federal farm commodity 
programs with the American Farm Bureau Federation, 10 a.m., 1300 
Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, to hold an organizational meeting, 2 
p.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, to mark up the following: H.R. 
90, Know Your Caller Act of 2001; H.R. 496, Independent 
Telecommunications Consumer Enhancement Act of 2001; H.R. 624, to 
amend the Public Health Service Act to promote organ donation; H. 
Con. Res. 31, expressing the sense of the Congress regarding the 
importance of organ, tissue, bone marrow, and blood donation and 
supporting National Donor Day; H.R. 727, to amend the Consumer 
Product Safety Act to provide that low-speed electric bicycles are 
consumer products subject to such Act; H.R. 725, Made in America 
Information Act; H.R. 724, authorizing appropriations to carry out 
part B of title I of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, 
relating to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve; and H.R. 723, to amend 
the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to remove separate treatment or 
exemption for nuclear safety violations by nonprofit institutions, 
10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.

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  Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, hearing on National Energy 
Policy, focusing on natural gas issues, 1 p.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, hearing on Monetary Policy and 
the State of the Economy, 9:30 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, hearing on ``Special Education-Is 
IDEA Working as Congress Intended?'' 1 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on 
International Operations and Human Rights, hearing on International 
Broadcasting: Its Mission, Budget and Future, 2 p.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, 
oversight hearing on ``The Presidential Pardon Power,'' 11 a.m., 
2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, to consider H.R. 333, Bankruptcy Abuse 
Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2001, 2 p.m., H-313 
Capitol.
  Committee on Science, hearing on the Nation's Energy Future: Role 
of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, to hold an organizational meeting, 2 
p.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Water Resources and Environment, hearing on Improving Water Quality: 
State Perspectives on the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 10 
a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Health, hearing on 
Medicare Reform, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Social Security, hearing on the SSA's Proposal to 
Implement Return to Work Legislation, 2 p.m., B-318 Rayburn.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Meetings: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, to hold 
joint hearings with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to 
examine the legislative recommendations of the Veterans of Foreign 
Wars, 10 a.m., 345 Cannon Building.