[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 87 (Wednesday, June 26, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D692-D693]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                              JUNE 27, 2002

          (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation, with the 
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Subcommittee on 
Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine, to hold joint hearings to 
examine cross border trucking issues, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Subcommittee on Interior, business meeting to mark up proposed 
legislation making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and 
related agencies for the fical year ending September 30, 2003, 10 a.m., 
S-128, Capitol.
  Full Committee, business meeting to mark up proposed legislation making 
appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2003, proposed legislation 
making appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base 
realignment and closure for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2003, and 302(b) subcommittee allocations for fiscal 
year 2003, 2 p.m., S-128, Capitol.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: to hold oversight 
hearings to examine the preliminary findings of the Commission on 
Affordable Housing and Health Facility Need for Seniors in the 21st 
Century, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine, with the Committee on 
Appropriations, Subcommittee on Transportation, to hold joint hearings to 
examine cross border trucking issues, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: business meeting to consider 
pending calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: to hold hearings on the nomination of Charlotte 
A. Lane, of West Virginia, to be a Member of the United States 
International Trade Commission, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Central Asia and South 
Caucasus, to hold hearings to examine the balancing of military 
assistance and support for human rights in central Asia, 2:30 p.m., SD-
419.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: to continue hearings to examine the 
relationship between a Department of Homeland Security and the 
intelligence community, 1 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to hold hearings 
to examine Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972, focusing on 
30 years of progress, 2:30 p.m., SD-430.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider H.R. 3375, to 
provide compensation for the United States citizens who were victims of 
the bombings of United States embassies in East Africa on August 7, 1998, 
on the same basis as compensation is provided to victims of the 
terrorist-related aircraft crashes on September 11, 2001; S. 2134, to 
allow American victims of state sponsored terrorism to receive 
compensation from blocked assets of those states; S. 486, to reduce the 
risk that innocent persons may be executed; S. 2633, to prohibit an 
individual from knowingly opening, maintaining, managing, controlling, 
renting, leasing, making available for use, or profiting from any place 
for the purpose of manufacturing, distributing, or using any controlled 
substance; S. 862, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2002 through 2006 to carry out 
the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program; S. 1339, to amend the Bring 
Them Home Alive Act of 2000 to provide an asylum program with regard to 
American Persian Gulf War POW/MIAs; S. 2395, to prevent and punish 
counterfeiting and copyright piracy; S. 2513, to asses the extent of the 
backlog in DNA analysis of rape kit samples, and to improve investigation 
and prosecution of sexual assault cases with DNA evidence; S. Res. 281, 
designating the week beginning August 25, 2002, as ``National Fraud 
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Citizens Awareness Week''; S. Res. 284, expressing support for ``National 
Night Out'' and requesting that the President make neighborhood crime 
prevention, community policing, and reduction of school crime important 
priorities of the Administration; and the nominations of Lavenski R. 
Smith, of Arkansas, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth 
Circuit, and the nomination of John M. Rogers, of Kentucky, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nominations of Dennis W. Shedd, 
of South Carolina, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth 
Circuit; Terrence F. McVerry, to be United States District Judge for the 
Western District of Pennsylvania; and Arthur J. Schwab, to be United 
States District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania, 2 p.m., 
SD-226.


                                  House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Department Operations, 
Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry, hearing on Roadless areas in our 
National Forests, 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export 
Financing and Related Programs, on the President's proposed Millennium 
Challenge, 10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Legislative, to mark up appropriations for fiscal year 
2003, 10 a.m., H-140 Capitol.
  Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Military Procurement and 
the Subcommittee on Military Research and Development, joint hearing on 
missile defense, 1 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on Employer-
Employee Relations, hearing on Union Reporting and Disclosure: 
Legislative Reform Proposals, 10:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, to continue consideration of H.R. 
1701, Consumer Rental Agreement Act, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, hearing on Promoting Economic 
Development in Africa Through Accountability and Good Governance, 10 
a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, oversight hearing on ``The Revisions to the 
Attorney General's Investigative Guidelines,'' 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, 
oversight hearing on ``Unpublished Judicial Opinions,'' 2 p.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims, hearing on 
H.R. 5005, Homeland Security Act of 2002, 3 p.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, 
Wildlife and Ocean's, to mark up H. Con. Res. 419, requesting the 
President to issue a proclamation in observance of the 100th Anniversary 
of the founding of the International Association of Fish and Wildlife 
Agencies; followed by an oversight hearing on the Coral Reef Conservation 
Act of 2000, Executive Order 13089, and the oceanic conditions 
contributing to coral reef decline, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands, hearing on 
H.R. 4968, to provide for the exchange of certain lands in the State of 
Utah, 2 p.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Committee on Science, hearing on H.R. 5005, Homeland Security Act, 10 
a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Highways and Transit, hearing on various approaches to Improving Highway 
Safety, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, hearing on 
Creation of the Department of Homeland Security, 2 p.m., H-405 Capitol.


                             Joint Meetings

  Conference: meeting of conferees on H.R. 4, to enhance energy 
conservation, research and development and to provide for security and 
diversity in the energy supply for the American people, 9:30 a.m., 2123 
Rayburn Building.