[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 147 (Tuesday, October 30, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1071]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                            OCTOBER 31, 2001

          (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: business meeting to 
consider S. 1519, to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development 
Act to provide farm credit assistance for activated reservists, focusing 
on credit title provisions, and subcommittee assignments, 2:30 p.m., SR-
328A.
  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education, to hold hearings to examine the progress in 
making stem cells available to federally-funded researchers, 9 a.m., SD-
124.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Fisheries, 
Wildlife, and Water, to hold hearings to examine innovative financing 
mechanisms related to the drinking water and clean water state revolving 
fund, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings on the nomination of 
George L. Argyros, Sr., of California, to be Ambassador to Spain, and to 
serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to 
Andorra; the nomination of Robert M. Beecroft, of Maryland, for the rank 
of Ambassador as Head of Mission, Organization for Security and 
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Bosnia and Herzegovina; the nomination of 
Lyons Brown, Jr., of Kentucky, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Austria; the nomination of Stephan Michael Minikes, of the District of 
Columbia, to be U.S. Representative to the Organization for Security and 
Cooperation in Europe, with the rank of Ambassador; the nomination of 
William D. Montgomery, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Federal 
Republic of Yugoslavia; the nomination of Melvin F. Sembler, of Florida, 
to be Ambassador to Italy; and the nomination of Ronald Weiser, of 
Michigan, to be Ambassador to the Slovak Republic, 2 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: with the Subcommittee on 
International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services, to continue 
joint hearings to examine terrorism through the mail, focusing on the 
protection of postal workers and the public, 9:30 a.m., SD-342.


                                  House

  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on Select 
Education and the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness, joint 
hearing on Tracking International Students in Higher Education-Policy 
Options and Implications for Students, 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 
2983, Price-Anderson Reauthorization Act of 2001; and H.R. 3046, Medicare 
Regulatory, Appeals, Contracting, and Education Reform Act of 2001, 10 
a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, to consider the following measures: 
H.R. 2871, amended, Export-Import Bank Reauthorization Act of 2001; H.R. 
2604, amended, to authorize the United States to participate in and 
contribute to the seventh replenishment of the resources of the Asia 
Development Fund and the fifth replenishment of the resources of the 
International Fund for Agricultural Development, and to set forth 
additional policies of the United States towards the African Development 
Bank, the African Development Fund, the Asian Development Fund, the 
Inter-American Development Bank, and the European Bank for Reconstruction 
and Development; and H.R. 556, Unlawful Internet Gambling Funding 
Prohibition Act, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on International 
Operations and Human Rights, hearing on the Afghan People vs. the 
Taliban: the Struggle for Freedom Intensifies, 3 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 2873, 
Promoting Safe and Stable Families Amendments of 2001; and H.R. 3129 
Customs Border Security Act of 2001, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.


                             Joint Meetings

  Conference: closed meeting of conferees on S. 1438, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2002 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense, for military constructions, and for defense 
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths 
for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., SC-5, 
Capitol.
  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: to hold hearings on 
the Romanian leadership of the Organization for Security and Cooperation 
in Europe (OSCE), focusing on the work of the OSCE in strengthening 
security, preventing conflict and management crises in the OSCE region, 
as well as promoting respect for human rights and democratic values in 
the OSCE participating states under Romania's Chairmanship, 9:30 a.m., 
SR-385.