[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 129 (Monday, October 1, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D954-D956]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

               Week of October 2 through October 6, 2001

                             Senate Chamber

  On Tuesday, Senate will continue consideration of S. 1438, Department 
of Defense Authorization, with a vote on the motion to close further 
debate on the bill to occur at 10 a.m.
  During the balance of the week, Senate may consider any other cleared 
legislative and executive business, including appropriation bills when 
available.


                           Senate Committees

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
  Committee on Appropriations: October 3, Subcommittee on Treasury 
and General Government, to hold hearings to examine northern border 
security status, 9:30 a.m., SD-124.
  October 3, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and 
Education, to hold hearings to examine bioterrorism issues, 10:30 
a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Armed Services: October 4, to hold hearings to 
examine the Department of Defense's Quadrennial Defense Review, 9:30 
a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: October 2, to 
hold oversight hearings to examine the activities of the Trade 
Promotion Coordinating Committee, 10 a.m., SD-538.

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  October 4, Full Committee, business meeting to mark up the 
proposed International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-Terrorist 
Financing Act of 2001, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  October 4, Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation, to hold 
hearings to examine current transit safety issues, 2:30 p.m., SD-
538.
  Committee on the Budget: October 2, to hold hearings to examine 
the economic outlook of the United States, 10 a.m., SD-562.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: October 2, 
Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine, to hold 
hearings to examine passenger and cargo security issues in the 
railroad and maritime industries, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: October 2, to hold 
hearings to examine the status of proposals for the transportation 
of natural gas from Alaska to markets in the lower forty-eight 
states and on proposed legislation that may be required to expedite 
the construction of a pipeline from Alaska, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  October 2, Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests, to hold 
oversight hearings to examine the interaction of old-growth forest 
protection initiatives and national forest policy, 2:30 p.m., SD-
366.
  October 3, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nomination of Jeffrey D. Jarrett, of Pennsylvania, to be Director of 
the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement; and the 
nomination of Harold Craig Manson, of California, to be Assistant 
Secretary for Fish and Wildlife, both of the Department of the 
Interior, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Finance: October 3, to hold hearings to examine the 
need for an economic stimulus package and its potential components, 
11 a.m., SD-215.
  October 4, Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nomination of 
Jo Anne Barnhart, of Delaware, to be Commissioner of Social 
Security, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: October 4, to resume hearings 
to examine the security of critical governmental infrastructure, 
9:30 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: October 2, to 
hold hearings to examine the nomination of Eugene Scalia, of 
Virginia, to be Solicitor for the Department of Labor, 10:30 a.m., 
SD-430.
  October 4, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine current job 
training issues relative to a fragile economy, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  October 5, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
economic security of working Americans and those out of work, 9:30 
a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on the Judiciary: October 3, Subcommittee on 
Constitution, Federalism, and Property Rights, to hold hearings to 
examine how to protect Constitutional freedoms in the face of 
terrorism, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  October 4, Full Committee, business meeting to mark up pending 
calendar business, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  October 4, Full Committee, to hold hearings on pending 
nominations, 2 p.m., SD-226.


                             House Chamber

  Monday, the House was not in session;
  Tuesday, consideration of Suspensions:
  (1) H.R. 169, Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination 
and Retaliation;
  (2) H.J. Res. 42, establishing that the American flags on all Federal 
office buildings will be lowered to half-staff each year in honor of 
the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service in Emittsburg, 
Maryland;
  (3) H.R. 203, National Small Business Regulatory Assistance;
  (4) H.R. 2666,Vocational and Technical Entrepreneurship Development;
  (5) H. Res.   , Congratulating Cal Ripken;
  (6) H. Res. 198, Congratulating Tony Gwynn;
  (7) H.R. 2385, Virgin River Dinosaur Footprint Preserve;
  (8) H.R. 1161, Tomas G. Masaryk Memorial;
  (9) H.R. 1456, Booker T. Washington National Monument Boundary 
Adjustment; and
  (10) H.R. 1384, Navajo Long Walk National Historic Trail.
  Wednesday and the Balance of the Week, consideration of H.R. 2646, 
Farm Security Act (subject to a rule); and
  Consideration of H.R. 2883, Intelligence Authorization Act (subject 
to a rule).


                            House Committees

  Committee on Education and the Workforce, October 4, hearing on 
Over Identification Issues within the Individuals with Disabilities 
Education Act and the Need for Reform, 9:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, October 3, to mark up the 
following: a measure to amend the Antiterrorism and Effective Death 
Penalty Act of 1996 with respect to the responsibilities of the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services regarding biological agents 
and toxins, and to amend title 18, United States Code, with respect 
to such agents and toxins; a measure to strengthen security at 
certain nuclear facilities; and a measure to clarify the application 
of cable television system privacy requirements to new cable 
services, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  October 3, Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer 
Protection, to mark up the American Spirit Fraud Prevention Act, 1 
p.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, October 3, hearing entitled 
``Dismantling the Financial Infrastructure of Global Terrorism,'' 10 
a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, October 3, Subcommittee on 
Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources, hearing on 
``Drug Trade and the Terror Network,'' 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.

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  October 4, Subcommittee on Technology and Procurement Policy, 
hearing on ``Transforming the IT and Acquisition Workforces: Using 
Market-Based Pay, Recruiting Strategies to Make the Federal 
Government an Employer of Choice for IT and Acquisition Employees,'' 
2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  October 5, Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Financial 
Management and Intergovernmental Relations, hearing on ``A Silent 
War: Are Federal, State, and Local Governments Prepared for 
Biological and Chemical Attacks?'' 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, October 3, hearing on Al 
Qaeda and the Global Research of Terrorism, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  October 3, Subcommittee on International Operations and Human 
Rights, hearing on the Role of the International Atomic Energy 
Agency in Safeguarding Against Acts of Terrorism, 1 p.m., 2172 
Rayburn.
  October 4, Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia, hearing 
on U.S. Policy Toward Iraq, 1 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, October 2, Subcommittee on Water and 
Power, to mark up H.R. 2115, to amend the Reclamation Wastewater and 
Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of 
the Interior to participate in the design, planning, and 
construction of a project to reclaim and reuse wastewater within and 
outside of the service area of the Lakehaven Utility District, 
Washington, 2 p.m., 1324 Longworth.
  October 3, full Committee, to mark up the following measures: H.R. 
400, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to establish the 
Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home National Historic Site; H.R. 980, to 
establish the Moccasin Bend National Historic Site in the State of 
Tennessee; H.R. 1576, James Peak Wilderness, Wilderness Study, and 
Protection Area Act; H.R. 1776, Buffalo Bayou National Heritage Area 
Study Act; H.R. 2488, to designate certain lands in the Pilot Range 
in the State of Utah as wilderness; H.R. 2924, to provide authority 
to the Federal Power Marketing Administration to reduce vandalism 
and destruction of property; H.R. 2925, to amend the Reclamation 
Recreation Management Act of 1992 in order to provide for the 
security of dams, facilities, and resources under the jurisdiction 
of the Bureau of Reclamation; the Healing Opportunities in Parks and 
the Environment Pass Act; and to consider the issuance of a 
subpoena; to be followed by an oversight hearing on Potential 
Alternative Energy Sources Available on National Public Lands, 10 
a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  October 4, Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public 
Lands, hearing on the following bills: H.R. 38, Homestead National 
Monument of America Additions Act; and H.R. 1925, to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility 
of designating the Waco Mammoth Site Area in Waco, Texas, as a unity 
of the National Park System, 10 a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Committee on Rules, October 2, to consider H.R. 2646, Farm 
Security Act of 2001, 3 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  October 3, to consider H.R. 2883, Intelligence Authorization Act 
for Fiscal year 2001 and to mark up H.R. 981, Budget Responsibility 
and Efficiency Act of 2001, 2:30 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, October 3, to mark up H.R. 64, to provide 
for the establishment of the position of Deputy Administrator for 
Science and Technology of the Environmental Protection Agency, 10 
a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  October 4, Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards, 
hearing on Arsenic in Drinking Water: An Update on the Science, 
Benefits and Cost, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, October 2, 
Subcommittee on Railroads, hearing on H.R. 2950, Rail Infrastructure 
Development and Expansion Act of the 21st Century, 2 p.m., 2167 
Rayburn.
  October 3, Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, 
hearing on the Wetlands Permitting Process: Is it Working Fairly? 10 
a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, October 4, Subcommittee on Health, 
to mark up pending business, 2 p.m., 334 Cannon.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, October 3, 
Subcommittee on Intelligence Policy and National Security, 
executive, briefing on Financial Intelligence Issues, 2 p.m., H-405 
Capitol.
  October 3, Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security, 
hearing on ``Defending the Homeland: Reports of the Defense Science 
Board on biological, chemical, nuclear and other asymmetric threats 
and defenses,'' 10 a.m., room to be announced.


                             Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: October 3, to 
hold hearings to examine United States policy toward the 
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the 
institution which evolved from the Helsinki process, 10 a.m., SR-
485.