[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 105 (Monday, July 29, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D848-D849]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY,

                             JULY 30, 2002

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Armed Services: 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.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: 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, 2 p.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: 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.
  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.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: 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

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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.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: 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.
  Committee on Finance: 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.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: 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 a.m., SD-419.
  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.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: 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.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: 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.
  Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs, to 
hold hearings to examine criminal and civil enforcement of 
environmental laws, 2:15 p.m., SD-226.


                                 House

  No committee meetings are scheduled.