[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 57 (Wednesday, May 8, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D458-D459]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                              MAY 9, 2002

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Armed Services: closed business meeting to continue 
to mark up proposed legislation authorizing appropriations for 
fiscal year 2003 for military activities of the Department of 
Defense, 9:30 a.m., SR-222.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee 
on Oceans, Atmosphere, and Fisheries, to hold oversight hearings to 
examine management issues at the National Marine Fisheries Services, 
9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public 
Lands and Forests, to hold hearings on S. 454, to provide permanent 
funding for the Bureau of Land Management Payment in Lieu of Taxes 
program and for other purposes; S. 1139, to direct the Secretary of 
Agriculture to convey certain land to Lander County, Nevada, and the 
Secretary of the Interior to convey certain land to Eureka County, 
Nevada, for continued use as cemeteries; S. 1325, to ratify an 
agreement between the Aleut Corporation and the United States of 
America to exchange land rights received under the Alaska Native 
Claims Settlement Act for certain land interests on Adak Island; S. 
1497/H.R. 2385, to convey certain property to the city of St. 
George, Utah, in order to provide for the protection and 
preservation of certain rare paleontological resources on that 
property; S. 1711/H.R. 1576, to designate the James Peak Wilderness 
and the James Peak Protection Area in the State of Colorado; and S. 
1907, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain land 
to the city of Haines, Oregon, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: to hold hearings on S. 
2118, to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act and the Federal 
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to implement the 
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants and the 
Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants to the Convention on Long-
Range Transboundary Air Pollution, and a related Administrative 
proposal, 2 p.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: to hold hearings to examine revenue issues 
related to the Highway Trust Fund, 9:30 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to hold 
hearings to examine consolidated student loans, focusing on variable 
rates, 10 a.m., SD-430.

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  Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative 
Oversight and the Courts, to hold hearings to examine past 
nomination procedures, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nomination of Richard R. 
Clifton, of Hawaii, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth 
Circuit; the nomination of Christopher C. Conner, to be United 
States District Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania; the 
nomination of Joy Flowers Conti, to be United States District Judge 
for the Western District of Pennsylvania; and the nomination of John 
E. Jones III, to be United States District Judge for the Middle 
District of Pennsylvania, 2 p.m., SD-226.


                                 House

  Committee on Appropriations, to mark up the supplemental 
appropriations for fiscal year 2002, 9:30 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, 
to continue on Public Witnesses, 12 p.m., 2358 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, 
and Consumer Protection, to mark up H.R. 2037, Protection of Lawful 
Commerce in Arms Act, 9:30 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Financial 
Institutions and Consumer Credit, hearing on Recovering Dictators' 
Plunder, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on Government 
Efficiency, Financial Management and Intergovernmental Relations, 
hearing on ``Oversight of the Management Practices of the Office of 
Workers Compensation: Are the Complaints Justified?'' 10 a.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, 
hearing on H.J. Res. 91, proposing an amendment to the Constitution 
of the United States to protect the rights of crime victims, 12 
p.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, hearing 
and markup of the following bills: H.R. 4623, Child Obscenity and 
Pornography Prevention Act of 2002; H.R. 4477, Sex Tourism 
Prohibition Improvement Act of 2002; H.R. 4658, Truth in Domain 
Names Act; H.R. 3726, Video Voyeurism Act of 2002; H.R. 4640, to 
provide criminal penalties for providing false information in 
registering a domain name on the Internet; and H.R. 4679, Lifetime 
Consequences for Sex Offenders Act of 2002, 10 a.m., and 2 p.m., 
2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, Subcommittee on Legislation and Budget 
Process, to continue hearings on ``Assessing the Accuracy of Federal 
Budget Estimating,'' Part 11, 10:30 a.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Research, hearing on H.R. 
4664, National Science Foundation Reauthorization Act of 2002; 
followed by a markup of the following bills: H.R. 3130, Technology 
Talent Act of 2001 and H.R. 4664, 9:30 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, hearing on NASA's Science 
Priorities, 2 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, to mark up the following bills: 
H.R. 4015, Jobs for Veterans Act; H.R. 4085, Veterans' and 
Survivors' Benefits Expansion Act of 2002; H.R. 4514, Veterans Major 
Medical Facilities Construction Act of 2002; H.R. 3253, Department 
of Veterans Affairs Emergency Preparedness Research, Education, and 
Bio-Terrorism Prevention Act of 2002, and H.R. 4608, to name the 
Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Wichita, Kansas, as 
the ``Robert J. Dole Department of Veterans Affairs Medical 
Center,'' 3 p.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Select Revenue 
Measures, to continue hearings on the Extraterritorial Income (ETI) 
Regime, 2 p.m., 1100 Longworth.


                             Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: to hold hearings 
to examine developments in the conflict in Chechnya, 2 p.m., 340 
Cannon Building.