[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 104 (Friday, July 26, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D843-D845]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                 Week of July 29 through August 3, 2002

                             Senate Chamber

  On Monday, at approximately 5:30 p.m., Senate will vote on 
confirmation of the nomination of Julia Smith Gibbons, of Tennessee, to 
be United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit; following which, 
Senate will consider the nominations of Joy Flowers Conti, to be United 
States District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania, and 
John E. Jones III, to be United States District Judge for the Middle 
District of Pennsylvania, with votes to occur thereon; following which, 
Senate will resume consideration of S. 812, Greater Access to 
Affordable Pharmaceuticals Act.
  On Tuesday, Senate will continue and expects to complete 
consideration of S. 812, Greater Access to Affordable Pharmaceuticals 
Act.
  During the balance of the week, Senate will consider any other 
cleared legislative and executive business, including appropriations 
bills, and conference reports, when available.


                           Senate Committees

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
  Committee on Armed Services: July 30, Subcommittee on Emerging 
Threats and Capabilities, to hold hearings to examine the report of 
the General Accounting Office on nuclear proliferation and efforts 
to help other countries combat nuclear smuggling, 2:30 p.m., SR-
232A.
  July 31, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the status of 
Operation Enduring Freedom, 3 p.m., SD-106.
  August 1, Full Committee, to resume open and closed (in Room SR-
222) hearings to examine the implications of the Strategic Offensive 
Reductions Treaty (Treaty Doc. 107-8), 9 a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: July 30, to hold 
hearings on the nominations of Ben S. Bernanke, of New Jersey, and 
Donald L. Kohn, of Virginia, each to be a Member of the Board of 
Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  August 1, Subcommittee on International Trade and Finance, to hold 
oversight hearings to examine the role of charities and non-
governmental organizations in the financing of terrorist activities, 
2:30 p.m., SD-538.

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  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: July 30, to 
hold hearings to examine finances in the telecommunications 
marketplace, focusing on maintaining the operations of essential 
communications facilities, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  July 30, Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce, and 
Tourism, to hold hearings to examine improvement in consumer choice 
with regard to automobile repair shops, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  July 31, Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nomination of 
Rebecca Dye, of North Carolina, to be a Federal Maritime 
Commissioner, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  July 31, Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant 
Marine, to hold hearings to examine railroad shipper issues, 9:45 
a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: July 30, Subcommittee 
on Public Lands and Forests, to hold hearings on S. 2016, to 
authorize the exchange of lands between an Alaska Native Village 
Corporation and the Department of the Interior; S. 2565, to enhance 
ecosystem protection and the range of outdoor opportunities 
protected by statute in the Skykomish River valley of the State of 
Washington by designating certain lower-elevation Federal lands as 
wilderness; S. 2587, to establish the Joint Federal and State 
Navigable Waters Commission of Alaska; S. 2612, to establish 
wilderness areas, promote conservation, improve public land, and 
provide for high quality development in Clark County, Nevada; S. 
Con. Res. 107, expressing the sense of Congress that Federal land 
management agencies should fully support the Western Governors 
Association ``Collaborative 10-year Strategy for Reducing Wildland 
Fire Risks to Communities and the Environment'', as signed August 
2001, to reduce the overabundance of forest fuels that place 
national resources at high risk of catastrophic wildfire, and 
prepare a National prescribed Fire Strategy that minimizes risks of 
escape; and S. 2652, to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to 
sell or exchange certain land in the State of Florida, 2:30 p.m., 
SD-366.
  July 31, Full Committee, business meeting to consider pending 
calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  July 31, Subcommittee on Water and Power, to hold hearings on S. 
1577, to amend the Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources 
Conservation and Improvement Act of 2000 to authorize additional 
projects under that Act; S. 1882, to amend the Small Reclamation 
Projects Act of 1956; S. 934, to require the Secretary of the 
Interior to construct the Rocky Boy's North Central Montana Regional 
Water System in the State of Montana, to offer to enter into an 
agreement with the Chippewa Cree Tribe to plan, design, construct, 
operate, maintain and replace the Rocky Boy's Rural Water System, 
and to provide assistance to the North Central Montana Regional 
Water Authority for the planning, design, and construction of the 
noncore system; S. 2556, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior 
to convey certain facilities to the Fremont-Madison Irrigation 
District in the State of Idaho; S. 2696, to clear title to certain 
real property in New Mexico associated with the Middle Rio Grande 
Project; S. 2773, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
cooperate with the High Plains Aquifer States in conducting a 
hydrogeologic characterization, mapping, modeling and monitoring 
program for the high Plains Aquifer and for other purposes; and H.R. 
2990, to amend the Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources 
Conservation and Improvement Act of 2000 to authorize additional 
projects under that Act, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: July 30, to hold 
hearings to examine the effectiveness of the current Congestion 
Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) program, conformity, and the role 
of new technologies, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  July 31, Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics, Risk, and Waste 
Management, to hold oversight hearings to examine the Environmental 
Protection Agency Inspector General's Report on the Superfund 
Program, 10 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: July 30, to hold hearings to examine the 
role of the Extraterritorial Income Exclusion Act (P.L. 106-519) in 
the international competitiveness of U.S. companies, 10 a.m., SD-
215.
  August 1, Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nomination of 
Pamela F. Olson, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of the 
Treasury, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: July 30, business meeting to 
consider the Protocol Concerning Specially Protected Areas and 
Wildlife to the Convention for the Protection and Development of the 
Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region, done at Kingston 
on January 18, 1990, with accompanying papers (Treaty Doc. 103-5); 
Protocol to Amend the 1949 Convention on the Establishment of an 
Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, done at Guayaquil, June 11, 
1999, and signed by the United States, subject to ratification, in 
Guayaquil, Ecuador, on the same date (Treaty Doc. 107-02); the 
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against 
Women, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 
18, 1979, and signed on behalf of the United States of America on 
July 17, 1980 (Treaty Doc. 96-53); S. 1777, to authorize assistance 
for individuals with disabilities in foreign countries, including 
victims of landmines and other victims of civil strife and warfare; 
and pending nominations, 9:30 a.m., SD-419.
  July 30, Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nominations of 
Nancy J. Powell, of Iowa, to be Ambassador to the Islamic Republic 
of Pakistan, and Richard L. Baltimore III, of New York, to be 
Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman, 11 a.m., SD-419.
  July 31, Full Committee, business meeting to consider pending 
calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SD-419.
  July 31, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine threats, 
responses, and regional considerations surrounding Iraq, 10:30 a.m., 
SD-419.
  July 31, Full Committee, to continue hearings to examine threats, 
responses, and regional considerations surrounding Iraq, 2:30 p.m., 
SD-419.
  August 1, Full Committee, business meeting to consider pending 
calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SD-419.
  August 1, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine national 
security perspectives regarding Iraq, 10 a.m., SD-419.

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  August 1, Full Committee, to continue hearings to examine national 
security perspectives regarding Iraq, 2 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: July 29, Subcommittee on 
International Security, Proliferation, and Federal Services, to hold 
hearings to examine certain measures to strengthen multilateral 
nonproliferation regimes, 2:30 p.m., SD-342.
  July 30, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, to resume 
hearings to examine the role of financial institutions in the 
collapse of Enron Corporation, focusing on the contribution to 
Enron's use of complex transactions to make the company look better 
financially than it actually was, 9:30 a.m., SD-342.
  July 31, Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, 
Restructuring, and the District of Columbia, to hold hearings to 
examine consumer safety and weight loss supplements, focusing on the 
extent of the use of supplements for weight loss purposes, the 
validity of claims currently being made for and against weight loss 
supplements, and the structure of the current federal system of 
oversight and regulation for dietary supplements, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: July 31, 
business meeting to consider 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. 
2394, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require 
labeling containing information applicable to pediatric patients; S. 
2758, entitled ``The Child Care and Development Block Grant 
Amendments Act''; S. 1998, to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 
with respect to the qualifications of foreign schools; S. 2054, to 
amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a Nationwide Health 
Tracking Network; S. 2053, to amend the Public Health Service Act to 
improve immunization rates by increasing the distribution of 
vaccines and improving and clarifying the vaccine injury 
compensation program; S. 2246, to improve access to printed 
instructional materials used by blind or other persons with print 
disabilities in elementary and secondary schools; S. 2549, to ensure 
that child employees of traveling sales crews are protected under 
the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938; proposed legislation regarding 
the National Science Foundation Doubling Act; and the nominations of 
Edward J. Fitzmaurice, Jr., of Texas, and Harry R. Hoglander, of 
Massachusetts, each to be a Member of the National Mediation Board, 
10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: July 30, to hold hearings on proposed 
legislation concerning the Department of the Interior/Tribal Trust 
Reform Task Force; and to be followed by S. 2212, to establish a 
direct line of authority for the Office of Trust Reform 
Implementations and Oversight to oversee the management and reform 
of Indian trust funds and assets under the jurisdiction of the 
Department of the Interior, and to advance tribal management of such 
funds and assets, pursuant to the Indian Self-Determinations Act, 10 
a.m., SD-106.
  August 1, Full Committee, to hold oversight hearings to examine 
the Secretary of the Interior's Report on the Hoopa Yurok Settlement 
Act, 10 a.m., SR-485.
  August 1, Full Committee, to hold oversight hearings to examine 
problems facing Native youth, 2 p.m., SR-485.
  August 2, Full Committee, to hold hearings on S. 958, to provide 
for the use and distribution of the funds awarded to the Western 
Shoshone identifiable group under Indian Claims Commission Docket 
Numbers 326-A-1, 326-A-3, 326-K, 2 p.m., SD-106.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: July 31, to hold hearings to 
examine S. 2586, to exclude United States persons from the 
definition of ``foreign power'' under the Foreign Intelligence 
Surveillance Act of 1978 relating to international terrorism, and S. 
2659, to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to 
modify the standard of proof for issuance of orders regarding non-
United States persons from probable cause to reasonable suspicion, 
2:30 p.m., SDG-50.
  Committee on the Judiciary: July 30, Subcommittee on Crime and 
Drugs, to hold hearings to examine criminal and civil enforcement of 
environmental laws, 10:30 a.m., SD-226.
  July 31, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine class action 
litigation issues, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  July 31, Full Committee, to hold hearings on S. 2619, to provide 
for the analysis of the incidence and effects of prison rape in 
Federal, State, and local institutions and to provide information, 
resources, recommendations, and funding to protect individuals from 
prison rape, 1:30 p.m., SD-226.
  August 1, Full Committee, to hold hearings on pending judicial 
nominations, 2 p.m., SD-226.


                             House Chamber

  The House is not in session. Pursuant to the provisions of S. Con. 
Res. 132, the House stands adjourned for the Summer District Work 
Period. It will reconvene at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, September 4.


                            House Committees

  No committee meetings are scheduled.