[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 79 (Friday, June 14, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D617-D621]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                 Week of June 17 through June 22, 2002

                             Senate Chamber

  On Monday, at 2 p.m., Senate will resume consideration of S. 2600, 
Terrorism Risk Insurance Act.
  On Tuesday, at 9:30 a.m., Senate will continue consideration of S. 
2600, Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, with a vote on the motion to close 
further debate to occur thereon.

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  During the balance of the week, Senate also expects to consider S. 
2514, National Defense Authorization Act, and any other cleared 
legislative and executive business.


                           Senate Committees

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
  Special Committee on Aging: June 20, to hold hearings to examine 
long-term care financing, 9:30 a.m., SD-628.
  Committee on Appropriations: June 19, Subcommittee on Treasury and 
General Government, to hold hearings to examine the effectiveness of 
the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, 2:30 p.m., SD-192.
  June 20, Subcommittee on Transportation, to hold hearings to 
examine Amtrak's financial condition, 10:30 a.m., SD-192.
  Committee on Armed Services: June 20, to hold hearings on the 
nomination of Gen. Ralph E. Eberhart, USAF, for reappointment to the 
grade of general and to be Commander in Chief, United States 
Northern Command/Commander, North American Aerospace Defense 
Command, 9:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: June 18, 
business meeting to mark up the proposed Public Company Accounting 
Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: June 18, 
Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce, and Tourism, to 
hold hearings to examine steroid use in professional baseball and 
anti-doping issues in amateur sports, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  June 19, Subcommittee on Communications, to hold hearings to 
examine future sufficiency and stability of the Universal Service 
Fund, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  June 19, Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space, to hold 
hearings to examine the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration, focusing on education programs, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  June 20, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine global 
climate change, focusing on the U.S. Climate Action Report, 10 a.m., 
SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: June 18, Subcommittee 
on Public Lands and Forests, to hold hearings on S. 198, to require 
the Secretary of the Interior to establish a program to provide 
assistance through States to eligible weed management entities to 
control or eradicate harmful, nonnative weeds on public and private 
land; S. 1846, to prohibit oil and gas drilling in Finger Lakes 
National Forest in the State of New York; S. 1879, to resolve the 
claims of Cook Inlet Region, Inc., to lands adjacent to the Russian 
River in the State of Alaska; S. 2222, to resolve certain 
conveyances and provide for alternative land selections under the 
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act related to Cape Fox Corporation 
and Sealaska Corporation; S. 2471, to provide for the independent 
investigation of Federal wildland firefighter fatalities; and S. 
2482, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to grant to Deschutes 
and Crook Counties in the State of Oregon a right-of-way to West 
Butte Road, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  June 19, Full Committee, to hold hearings on S. 2473, to enhance 
the Recreational Fee Demonstration Program for the National Park 
Service; and S. 2607, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior and 
the Secretary of Agriculture to collect recreation fees on Federal 
lands, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  June 20, Subcommittee on National Parks, to hold hearings on S. 
139/H.R. 3928, to assist in the preservation of archaeological, 
paleontological, zoological, geological, and botanical artifacts 
through construction of a new facility for the University of Utah 
Museum of Natural History, Salt Lake City, Utah; S. 1609/H.R. 1814, 
to amend the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of 
the Interior to conduct a study on the feasibility of designating 
the Metacomet-Monadnock-Mattabesett Trail extending through western 
Massachusetts and central Connecticut as a national historic trail; 
S. 1925, to establish the Freedom's Way national Heritage Area in 
the States of Massachusetts and New Hampshire; S. 2196, to establish 
the National Mormon Pioneer Heritage Area in the State of Utah; 
S.2388, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to study certain 
sites in the historic district of Beaufort, South Carolina, relating 
to the Reconstruction Era; S. 2519, to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to conduct a study of Coltsville in the State of 
Connecticut for potential inclusion in the National Park System; and 
S. 2576, to establish the Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area 
in the State of New Mexico, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: June 18, to hold 
hearings to examine water resources development programs within the 
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 2:30 p.m., SD-406.
  June 20, Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics, Risk, and Waste 
Management, to hold hearings to examine lessons learned from 
asbestos remediation activities in Libby, Montana, as well as home 
insulation concerns relating to asbestos, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: June 18, to hold hearings to examine the 
protection of seniors from abuse and neglect, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  June 18, Full Committee, business meeting to resume markup of H.R. 
7, to provide incentives for charitable contributions by individuals 
and businesses, to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of 
government program delivery to individuals and families in need, and 
to enhance the ability of low-income Americans to gain financial 
security by building assets; and to begin markup of S. 2498, to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require adequate 
disclosure of transactions which have a potential for tax avoidance 
or evasion; and S. 2119, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
to provide for the tax treatment of inverted corporate entities and 
of transactions with such entities, 2:30 p.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: June 19, Subcommittee on Western 
Hemisphere, Peace Corps and Narcotics Affairs, to hold hearings on 
S. 1017, to provide the people of Cuba with access to food and 
medicines from the United States, to ease restrictions on travel to 
Cuba, to provide scholarships for certain Cuban nationals, 2:30 
p.m., SD-419.

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  Committee on Governmental Affairs: June 19, to hold hearings on 
the nomination of Michael D. Brown, of Colorado, to be Deputy 
Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, 10:30 a.m., SD-
342.
  June 20, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
President's proposal to create a Department of Homeland Security, 
9:30 a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: June 19, 
business meeting to consider S. 2184, to provide for the reissuance 
of a rule relating to ergonomics; S. 2558, to amend the Public 
Health Service Act to provide for the collection of data on benign 
brain-related tumors through the national program of cancer 
registries; S. 2328, to amend the Public Health Service Act and the 
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ensure a safe pregnancy for 
all women in the United States, to reduce the rate of maternal 
morbidity and mortality, to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities 
in maternal health outcomes, to reduce pre-term, labor, to examine 
the impact of pregnancy on the short and long term health of women, 
to expand knowledge about the safety and dosing of drugs to treat 
pregnant women with chronic conditions and women who become sick 
during pregnancy, to expand public health prevention, education and 
outreach, and to develop improved and more accurate data collection 
related to maternal morbidity and mortality; S. 1115, to amend the 
Public Health Service Act with respect to making progress toward the 
goal of eliminating tuberculosis; S. 710, to require coverage for 
colorectal cancer screenings; and pending nominations, 9:30 a.m., 
SD-430.
  June 19, Full Committee, to hold hearings on proposed legislation 
authorizing funds for the National Science Foundation, focusing on 
math and science research, development, and education in the 21st 
century, 1:45 p.m., SD-430.
  June 20, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine workers 
freedom of association, focusing on obstacles to forming unions, 10 
a.m., SD-430.
  June 21, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
importance of summer school to student achievement and well being, 
9:30 a.m., SD-430.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: June 17, closed business meeting 
to consider pending intelligence matters, 11 a.m., SH-219.
  June 18, Full Committee, to hold joint closed hearings with the 
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to examine certain 
events surrounding September 11, 2001, 10 a.m., S-407 Capitol.
  June 18, Full Committee, to hold joint closed hearings with the 
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to examine certain 
events surrounding September 11, 2001, 2:30 p.m., S-407, Capitol.
  June 19, Full Committee, to hold joint closed hearings with the 
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to examine certain 
events surrounding September 11, 2001, 10 a.m., S-407, Capitol.
  June 19, Full Committee, to hold joint closed hearings with the 
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to examine certain 
events surrounding September 11, 2001, 2:30 p.m., S-407, Capitol.
  June 20, Full Committee, to hold joint closed hearings to examine 
certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  Committee on the Judiciary: June 18, to hold hearings to examine 
proposals to reform the death penalty, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  June 19, Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs, to hold hearings to 
examine penalties for white collar offenses, 10:30 a.m., SD-226.


                             House Chamber

  To be announced.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Appropriations, June 18, Subcommittee on the 
Treasury, Postal Service and General Government, on OPM, 10 a.m., 
2359 Rayburn.
  June 20, Subcommittee on Transportation, on Transportation 
Security Administration, 10 a.m., 2358 Rayburn.
  June 20, Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service and General 
Government, on Office of National Drug Control Policy, 10 a.m., 2359 
Rayburn.
  June 21, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State and Judiciary, 
on FBI Reorganization, 10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Budget, June 19, hearing on Social Security: The 
Long-Term Budget Implications, 10 a.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, June 18, Subcommittee on 
Employer-Employee Relations, hearing on ``The Rising Cost of Health 
Care: How are Employers and Employees Responding?'' 2 p.m., 2175 
Rayburn.
  June 20, Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, hearing on ``An 
Assessment of the Use of Union Dues for Political Purposes: Is the 
Law Being Followed or Violated?'' 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  June 21, Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations, hearing on 
``Expanding Access to Quality Health Care: Solutions for Uninsured 
Americans,'' 10:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, June 18, Subcommittee on Capital 
Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises, to continue 
hearings entitled ``Insurance Regulation and Competition for the 
21st Century,'' Part III, 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, June 17, Subcommittee on Criminal 
Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources, hearing on ``Homeland 
Security Reorganization: What Impact on Federal Law Enforcement and 
Drug Interdiction?'' 2:30 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  June 19, full Committee, hearing on ``The Status of Research Into 
Vaccine Safety and Autism,'' 11 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  June 20, hearing on ``The Department of Homeland Security: An 
Overview of the President's Proposal,'' 1 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, June 18, Subcommittee on 
Middle East and South Asia, hearing on Recent Developments in the 
Middle East, 1:30 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.

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  June 19, full Committee, hearing on Foreign Government Complicity 
in Human Trafficking: A Review of the State Department's 2002 
Trafficking in Persons Report, 1 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  June 19, Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific, hearing on 
Recent Developments in Burma, 10 a.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  June 19, Subcommittee on Europe, hearing on ``NATO and 
Enlargement: A United States and NATO Perspective,'' 10 a.m., 2172 
Rayburn.
  June 20, full Committee, hearing on Oil Diplomacy: Facts and Myths 
Behind Foreign Oil Dependency, 10:45 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, June 18 and 19, to continue markup of 
H.R. 3215, Combating Illegal Gambling Reform and Modernization Act; 
and to mark up the following bills: H.R. 1452, Family Reunification 
Act of 2001; H.R. 4623, Child Obscenity and Pornography Prevention 
Act of 2002; H.R. 4477, Sex Tourism Prohibition Improvement Act of 
2002; H.R. 4679, Lifetime Consequences for Sex Offenders Act of 
2002; H.R. 4858, to improve access to physicians in medically 
underserved areas; H. Res. 417, recognizing and honoring the career 
and work of Justice C. Clifton Young; and H.R. 4864, Anti-Terrorism 
Explosives Act of 2002, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  June 18, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, 
hearing on H.R. 912, Innocence Protection Act of 2001, 4 p.m., 2237 
Rayburn.
  June 19, Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims, 
oversight hearing on ``The Immigration and Naturalization Service's 
(INS's) Interior Enforcement Strategy,'' 2 p.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  June 20, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, 
oversight hearing on ``Litigation and its Effect on the Rails-To-
Trails Program,'' 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  June 20, Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual 
Property, oversight hearing on ``Patent Reexamination and Small 
Business Innovation,'' 2 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, June 18 and 19, hearings on H.R. 4840, 
Sound Science for Endangered Species Act Planning Act of 2002, 2 
p.m., 1334 Longworth.
  June 19, oversight hearing on the Washington Aqueduct and the 
effects of its discharge on the C&O Canal National Historic Park and 
the endangered shortnose sturgeon, 10 a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  June 20, Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and 
Oceans, to mark up the following measures: H. Con. Res. 408, 
honoring the American Zoo and Aquarium Associate for their continued 
service to animal welfare, conservation education, conservation 
research, and wildlife conservation programs; H.R. 3937, to revoke a 
Public Land Order with respect to certain lands erroneously included 
in the Cibola National Wildlife Refuge, California; H.R. 4807, 
Susquehanna National Wildlife Refuge Expansion Act; H.R. 4882, to 
revise and modernize the provision of law governing the commissioned 
officer corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration; and H.R. 4883, Hydrographic Services Improvement Act 
Amendments of 2002, 11 a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  June 20, Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, hearing on the 
following: H.R. 4870, Mount Naomi Wilderness Boundary Adjustment 
Act; a measure to provide for the conveyance of the Mount Wilson 
Observatory in the Angeles National Forest, California, to the 
nonprofit organization currently operating the observatory under 
long-term lease; H.R. 3802, to amend the Education Land Grant Act to 
require the Secretary of Agriculture to pay the costs of 
environmental reviews with respect to conveyances under that Act; a 
measure to provide for the exchange of certain lands in the Coconino 
and Tonto National Forests in Arizona; and the Los Padres National 
Forest Land Exchange Act of 2002, 9:30 a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Committee on Rules, June 17, to consider the following: a 
resolution relating to consideration of the Senate amendment to H.R. 
3009, Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act; and H.R. 327, 
Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, 5:30 p.m., H-313 
Capitol.
  June 18, to consider the following: H.R. 2114, National Monument 
Fairness Act; H.R. 3389, National Sea College Program Act Amendments 
of 2002; H.R. 1979, Small Airport Safety, Security, and Air Service 
Improvement Act of 2002; and H.R. 4931, Permanent Retirement 
Security and Pension Reform Act of 2002, 4:30 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, June 20, Subcommittee on Environment, 
Technology, and Standards, hearing on Research Priorities for 
Aquatic Invasive Species, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, June 19, hearing on How Limiting 
International Visitor Visas Hurts Small Business Tourism, 10 a.m., 
2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, June 18, 
Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, hearing on Intermodalism: 
Moving America's People and Goods, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  June 19, Subcommittee on Aviation, to mark up H.R. 4635, Arming 
Pilots Against Terrorism Act, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  June 20, Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, hearing on Federal 
Transit Capital Grants Programs, 2 p.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, June 18, Subcommittee on Oversight, 
hearing on Retirement Security and Defined Benefit Pension Plans, 11 
a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  June 18, Subcommittee on Social Security, to continue hearings on 
Social Security Disability Programs' Challenges and Opportunities, 2 
p.m., B-318 Rayburn.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Meetings: June 18, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 
to hold joint closed hearings with the House Permanent Select 
Committee on Intelligence to examine certain events surrounding 
September 11, 2001, 10 a.m., S-407, Capitol.
  Joint Meetings: June 18, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 
to hold joint closed hearings with the House Permanent Select 
Committee on Intelligence to examine

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certain events surrounding September 11, 2001, 2:30 p.m., S-407, 
Capitol.
  Joint Meetings: June 19, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 
to hold joint closed hearings with the House Permanent Select 
Committee on Intelligence to examine certain events surrounding 
September 11, 2001, 10 a.m., S-407, Capitol.
  Joint Meetings: June 19, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 
to hold joint closed hearings with the House Permanent Select 
Committee on Intelligence to examine certain events surrounding 
September 11, 2001, 2:30 p.m., S-407, Capitol.
  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: June 19, to hold 
hearings to examine the current human rights atmosphere in Kosovo, 
focusing on the rights of ethnic minorities to return home, human 
trafficking, and the rising tensions between the region's ethnic 
minorities, 9:30 a.m., SD-124.
  June 20, Full Committee, to hold joint hearings to examine human 
rights in Greece, focusing on minority rights, religious liberty, 
freedom of the media, human trafficking, and domestic terrorism, 
9:30 a.m., 334, Cannon Building.