[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 33 (Tuesday, March 13, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D206-D207]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                             MARCH 14, 2001

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense, to hold 
closed hearings to review intelligence programs, 10 a.m., S-407, 
Capitol. Subcommittee on Interior, to hold joint hearings with the 
House Committee on Appropriations' Subcommittee on the Interior on 
issues dealing with the wildfire program, 10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn 
Building.
  Committee on the Budget: to resume hearings to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2002, 10 a.m., 
SD-608.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings on whether Congress should allow states to require all 
remote sellers to collect and remit sales taxes on deliveries into 
that state, provided that states and localities dramatically 
simplify their sales and use tax systems, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: business meeting to 
consider their fiscal year 2002 budgetary views and estimates on 
programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the committee and 
agree on recommendations it will make thereon to the Committee on 
the Budget; S. 230, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to 
convey a former Bureau of Land Management administrative site to the 
City of Carson City, Nevada, for use as a senior center; S. 254, to 
provide further protections for the watershed of the Little Sandy 
River as part of the Bull Run Watershed Management Unit, Oregon; S. 
329, to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a theme 
study on the peopling of America; S. 498, entitled ``National 
Discovery Trails Act of 2001''; S. 506, to amend the Alaska Native 
Claims Settlement Act, to provide for a land exchange between the 
Secretary of Agriculture and the Huna Totem Corporation; S. 507, to 
implement further the Act (Public Law 94-241) approving the covenant 
to establish a commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in 
Political Union with the United States of America; and S. 509, to 
establish the Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm National Heritage Area 
in the State of Alaska, 9:30 a.m., SD-628.

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  Committee on Finance: to hold hearings on issues relating to 
encouraging charitable giving, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: business meeting to consider 
committee's budgetary views and estimates on the President's fiscal 
year 2002 budget request for Indian programs; to be followed by 
hearings on S. 211, to amend the Education Amendments of 1978 and 
the Tribally Controlled Schools Act of 1988 to improve education for 
Indians, Native Hawaiians, and Alaskan Natives, 9:30 a.m., SR-485.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, 2 p.m., SH-219.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine drug 
treatment, education, and prevention programs, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: to hold hearings on 
election reform issues, 9:30 a.m., SR-301.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: to hold joint hearings with the 
House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to examine the legislative 
recommendations of the Disabled American Veterans, 10 a.m., 345 
Cannon Building.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, to continue hearings on federal farm 
commodity programs, 9:30 a.m., Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug and Related Agencies, on Inspector 
General, USDA, 9:30 a.m., 2362A Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Defense, executive, on U.S. Space Command, 9:30 
a.m., and executive, on U.S. European Command, 1:30 p.m., H-140 
Capitol.
  Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education, to 
continue on public witnesses, 10 a.m., 2358 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Military Construction, on European Military 
Construction, 9:30 a.m., B-300 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Transportation, on Members of Congress, 10 a.m., 
2358 Rayburn.
  Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Military Personnel, 
hearing on implementation of TRICARE benefits for Medicare-eligible 
military retirees, 2 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Budget, hearing on the Department of Agriculture 
Budget Priorities for Fiscal Year 2002, 1 p.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on 
Education Reform, hearing on Empowering Success: Flexibility and 
School Choice, 10:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Air 
Quality, oversight hearing on National Energy Policy: Coal, 1 p.m., 
2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services,, Subcommittee on Capital Markets, 
Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises, hearing on Public 
Access to Stock Market Data-Improving Transparency and Competition, 
10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Africa, 
hearing on Confronting Liberia, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, to mark up H. Con. Res. 41, 
expressing sympathy for the victims of the devastating earthquakes 
that struck El Salvador on January 13, and February 13, 2001, and 
supporting ongoing aid efforts; followed by a hearing on Prospects 
for Free and Fair Elections in Peru, 2 p.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Immigration and 
Claims, to consider Rules of Procedure for Private Immigration Bills 
and Private Claims Bills and Policy on Federal Charters and to act 
on Private Bills, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, to consider the following: Committee Budget 
Views and Estimates for Fiscal Year 2002 for submission to the 
Committee on the Budget; and H.R. 327, Small Business Paperwork 
Relief Act, 2 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, hearing entitled: ``Climate Change: The 
State of the Science,'' 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, to consider Committee Budget Views 
and Estimates for Fiscal Year 2002 for submission to the Committee 
on the Budget, 10 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Aviation hearing on the FAA's efforts to modernize the Air Traffic 
Control system, with emphasis on the Standard Terminal Automation 
Replacement System (STARS), 1:30 p.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, to consider Committee Budget Views 
and Estimates for Fiscal Year 2002 for submission to the Committee 
on the Budget; followed by hearing on the Administration's Health 
and Welfare Priorities, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Subcommittee on 
International Policy and National Security and the Subcommittee on 
Human Intelligence, Analysis and Counterintelligence, executive, 
joint briefing on Covert Action Capabilities, 10 a.m., H-405 
Capitol.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Meetings: Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee 
on Interior, to hold joint hearings with the House Committee on 
Appropriations' Subcommittee on the Interior on issues dealing with 
the wildfire program, 10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn Building.
  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 Disabled American 
Veterans, 10 a.m., 345 Cannon Building.