[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 99 (Tuesday, July 17, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D718-D719]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                             JULY 18, 2001

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Special Committee on Aging: to resume hearings to examine long 
term care issues, focusing on costs and demands including state 
initiatives to shift Medicaid services away from institutional care 
and toward community based services, 10 a.m., SD-628.
  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education, to hold hearings to examine stem cell 
research issues, focusing on the National Institute of Health report 
entitled ``Stem Cells: Scientific Progress and Future Research 
Directions'', 9:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel, to hold 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 
2002 for the Department of Defense and the Future Years Defense 
Program, focusing on active and reserve military and civilian 
personnel programs, 9:30 a.m., SR-222.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: business meeting 
to mark up proposed legislation authorizing funds for the U.S. 
Export-Import Bank, proposed legislation authorizing funds for the 
Iran and Libya Sanctions Act; the nomination of Mark B. McClellan, 
of California, to be a Member of the Council of Economic Advisers; 
and the nomination of Sheila C. Bair, of Kansas, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions, 10 a.m., SD-
538.
  Committee on the Budget: to hold hearings to examine defense 
spending and budget outlook, 9:30 a.m., SD-608.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings to examine safety of cross border trucking and bus 
operations and the adequacy of resources for compliance and 
enforcement purposes, focusing on the impact on United States 
communities, businesses, employees, and the environment as well as 
the application of U.S. laws to the operations, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: to hold hearings on the 
nomination of Dan R. Brouillette, of Louisiana, to be Assistant 
Secretary of Energy for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, 
9 a.m., SD-366.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings on proposals related to energy 
and scientific research, development, technology deployment, 
education, and training, including Sections 107, 114, 115, 607, 
Title II, and Subtitle B of Title IV of S. 388, the National Energy 
Security Act of 2001; Titles VIII, XI, and Division E of S. 597, the 
Comprehensive and Balanced Energy Policy Act of 2001; Sections 111, 
121, 122, 123, 125, 127, 204, 205, Title IV and Title V of S. 472, 
the Nuclear Energy Electricity Supply Assurance Act of 2001; S. 90, 
the Department of Energy Nanoscale Science and Engineering Research 
Act; S. 193, the Department of Energy Advanced Scientific Computing 
Act; S. 242, the Department of Energy University Nuclear Science and 
Engineering Act; S. 259, the National Laboratories Partnership 
Improvement Act of 2001; S. 636, a bill to direct the Secretary of 
Energy to establish a decommissioning pilot program to decommission 
and decontaminate the Sodium-cooled fast breeder experimental test-
site reactor located in northwest Arkansas; S. 1130, the Fusion 
Energy Sciences Act of 2001; and S. 1166, to establish the Next 
Generation Lighting Initiative at the Department of Energy, 9:30 
a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine the 
Putin administration policies toward the non-Russian regions of the 
Russian Federation, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: to hold hearings on S. 1008, to 
amend the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to develop the United States 
Climate Change Response Strategy with the goal of stabilization of 
greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that 
would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate 
system, while minimizing adverse short-term and long-term economic 
and social impacts, aligning the Strategy with United States energy 
policy, and promoting a sound national environmental policy, to 
establish a research and development program that focuses on bold 
technological breakthroughs that make significant progress toward 
the goal of stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations, and to 
establish the National Office of Climate Change Response within the 
Executive Office of the President, 9:30 a.m., SD-342.
  Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, to hold hearings to 
examine past and current U.S. efforts to convince offshore tax 
havens to cooperate with U.S. efforts to stop tax evasion, the role 
of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development tax 
haven project in light of U.S. objectives, and the current status of 
U.S. support for the project, in particular for the core element 
requiring information exchange, 2 p.m., SD-628.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee 
on Employment, Safety and Training, to hold hearings to examine the 
protection of workers from ergonomic hazards, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: to hold oversight hearings on tribal 
good governance practices and economic development, 9:30 a.m., SR-
485.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine reforming 
the Federal Bureau of Investigation management reform issues, 10 
a.m., SD-226.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nomination of James W. 
Ziglar, of Mississippi, to be Commissioner of Immigration and 
Naturalization, Department of Justice, 2:30 p.m., SD-226.

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                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, to continue hearings to review Draft 
Farm Bill Concept, 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and 
Forestry, hearing to review school pesticide provision included in 
Senate amendment to H.R. 1, No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, 10 
a.m., 1302 Longworth.
  Committee on Armed Services, to continue hearings on the Fiscal 
Year 2002 National Defense Authorization Budget Request, 10 a.m., 
2118 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Military Personnel, hearing on the Fiscal Year 
2002 National Defense Authorization Budget request, 2 p.m., 2118 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, to continue markup of the Energy 
Advancement and Conservation Act of 2001; and to mark up the 
following measures: to amend the Public Health Service Act to 
redesignate a facility as the National Hansen's Disease Programs 
Center; H.R. 1340, Biomedical Research Assistance Voluntary Option 
Act (BRAVO Act); H.R. 717, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Childhood 
Assistance, Research and Education Amendments of 2001; H.R. 943, Flu 
Vaccine Availability Act of 2001; H. Con. Res. 61, expressing 
support for a National Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) Awareness 
Month; H. Con. Res. 36, urging increased Federal funding for 
juvenile (Type 1) Diabetes research; H. Con. Res. 25, expressing the 
Sense of the Congress regarding Tuberous Sclerosis; and H. Con. Res. 
84; supporting the goals of Red Ribbon Week in promoting drug-free 
communities, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, hearing on Monetary Policy and 
the State of the Economy, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on Government 
Efficiency, Financial Management and Intergovernmental Relations and 
the Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans' Affairs and 
International Relations, joint, hearing on Is the CIA's refusal to 
cooperate with Congressional inquiries a threat to effective 
oversight of the operations of the Federal Government?'' 10 a.m., 
2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on East Asia 
and the Pacific, hearing on Indonesia in Transition: Implication for 
U.S. Interests, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights, and the 
Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia, joint hearing on 
Silencing Central Asia: the Voice of Dissidents, 2 p.m., 2172 
Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Commercial and 
Administrative Law, hearing on H.R. 1410, Internet Tax Moratorium 
and Equity Act, 2 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, to consider the following: H.R. 2506, making 
appropriations for Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related 
Programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002; and the 
Conference Report to accompany H.R. 2216, making supplemental 
appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, 4 
p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 2460, 
Comprehensive Energy Research and Technology Act of 2001; and H.R. 
2275, Voting Technology Standards Act of 2001, 10 a.m., 2318 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, hearing entitled ``A Review of Direct 
Government Competition with Private Sector Small Businesses,'' 10 
a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to mark up the 
following bills: H.R. 2481, Omnibus Maritime Improvements Act of 
2001, H.R. 2501, Appalachian Regional Development Reauthorization 
Act of 2001; and H.R. 988, to designate the United States courthouse 
located at 40 Centre Street in New York, New York, as the ``Thurgood 
Marshall United States Courthouse;'' and to consider pending 
committee business, 11 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, oversight hearing on NAFTA: 
Arbitration Panel Decision and Safety Issues with Regard to Opening 
the U.S./Mexican Border to Motor Carriers, 2 p.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, to mark up the Energy Tax Policy Act 
of 2001, 4 p.m., 1100 Longworth.