[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 116 (Friday, September 13, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D933-D935]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

            Week of September 16 through September 21, 2002

                             Senate Chamber

  On Monday, Senate will not be in session.
  On Tuesday, At 10:30 a.m., and at 4:15 p.m., Senate will resume 
consideration of H.R. 5093, Department of the Interior Appropriations 
Act, with a vote on the motion to close further debate on Byrd 
Amendment No. 4480 (to Amendment No. 4472), to occur at 5:15 p.m., and 
at 2:15 p.m., resume consideration of H.R. 5005, Homeland Security Act.
  During the balance of the week, Senate will also 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)
  Special Committee on Aging: September 19, to hold hearings to 
examine disease management and coordinating care, focusing on the 
quality of life for Medicare patients, 9:30 a.m., SD-628.
  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: September 17, 
to hold hearings to examine the implementation of the 2002 Farm Bill 
(P.L. 107-171), 10 a.m., SR-328A.
  Committee on Armed Services: September 17, to hold closed hearings 
to examine the situation in Iraq, 9:30 a.m., S-407, Capitol.
  September 19, Full Committee, to hold open and closed hearings to 
examine U.S. policy on Iraq, 2:30 p.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: September 17, to 
hold hearings to examine financial disclosure in relation to the 
Tennessee Valley Authority, 10:30 a.m., SD-538.
  September 18, Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation, to hold 
oversight hearings to examine transportation security one year after 
September 11, 2001, 2:30 p.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: September 17, 
Subcommittee on Aviation, to hold closed hearings to examine 
aviation cargo security, 10:30 a.m., SR-253.
  September 17, Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space, to 
hold hearings to examine nanotechnology, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  September 19, Full Committee, business meeting to consider pending 
calendar business, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: September 17, to hold 
hearings to examine the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's 
notice of proposed rulemaking, entitled ``Remedying Undue 
Discrimination through Open Access Transmission Service and Standard 
Electricity Market Design'', 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  September 18, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
effectiveness and sustainability of U.S. technology transfer 
programs for energy efficiency, nuclear, fossil and renewable energy 
and to identify necessary changes to those programs to support U.S. 
competitiveness in the global marketplace, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  September 19, Subcommittee on National Parks, to hold hearings to 
examine S. 2623, to designate the Cedar Creek Battlefield and Belle 
Grove Plantation National Historical Park as a unit of the National 
Park System; S. 2640 and H.R. 321, bills to provide for adequate 
school facilities in Yosemite National Park; S. 2776, to provide for 
the protection of archaeological sites in the Galisteo

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Basin in New Mexico; S. 2788, to revise the boundary of the Wind 
Cave National Park in the State of South Dakota; S. 2880, to 
designate Fort Bayard Historic District in the State of New Mexico 
as a National Historic Landmark; H.R. 3786, to revise the boundary 
of the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in the States of Utah 
and Arizona; and H.R. 3858, to modify the boundaries of the New 
River Gorge National River, West Virginia, 2:15 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: September 19, to hold 
hearings to examine progress on environmental streamlining under the 
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21), 9:30 a.m., 
SD-406.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: September 19, to hold hearings to 
examine certain law enforcement treaties, 11 a.m., SD-419.
  September 19, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of C. William Swank, of Ohio, Ned L. Siegel, of Florida, 
Diane M. Ruebling, of California, and Samuel E. Ebbesen, of the 
Virgin Islands, each to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the 
Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Wendy Jean Chamberlin, of 
Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator of the United States 
Agency for International Development, and Nancy P. Jacklin, of New 
York, to be United States Executive Director of the International 
Monetary Fund, 2 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: September 17, 
Subcommittee on Public Health, to hold hearings to examine the 
adequacy of childhood vaccines, 2:30 p.m., SD-430.
  September 19, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the Food 
and Drug Administration jurisdiction of tobacco products, 10 a.m., 
SD-430.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: September 17, to hold hearings to 
examine S. 1392, to establish procedures for the Bureau of Indian 
Affairs of the Department of the Interior with respect to tribal 
recognition, 10 a.m., SR-485.
  September 18, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine H.R. 
2880, to amend laws relating to the lands of the enrollees and 
lineal descendants of enrollees whose names appear on the final 
Indian rolls of the Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Cherokee, Chickasaw, 
and Choctaw Nations (historically referred to as the Five Civilized 
Tribes), 10 a.m., SR-485.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: September 17, to resume joint 
closed hearings with the House Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence to examine events surrounding September 11, 2001, 2:30 
p.m., SH-219.
  Committee on the Judiciary: September 18, to hold hearings to 
examine pending judicial nominations, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  September 19, Full Committee, business meeting to consider pending 
calendar business, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  September 19, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition and Business 
and Consumer Rights, to hold oversight hearings to examine the 
enforcement of the antitrust laws, 2 p.m., SD-226.
  United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: 
September 17, to hold hearings to examine U.S. policy in the Andean 
region, 10:15 a.m., SD-226.


                             House Chamber

  To be announced.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Agriculture, September 18, Subcommittee on General 
Farm Commodities and Risk Management, hearing on implementation of 
the Federal crop insurance programs, 1 p.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Armed Services, September 18, hearing on U.S. Policy 
towards Iraq, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  September 19, hearing on Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction 
Program and Technology Exports, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on 21st 
Century Competitiveness and the Subcommittee on Select Education, 
joint hearing on Responding to the Needs of Historically Black 
Colleges and Universities in the 21st Century, 10 a.m., 2175 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, September 17, Subcommittee on 
Housing and Community Opportunity, hearing on technical assistance 
and capacity building programs to promote housing and economic 
development, 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  September 19, full Committee, hearing entitled ``Terrorist 
Financing: A Progress Report on Implementation of the USA PATRIOT 
Act,'' 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, September 17, Subcommittee on 
Government Efficiency, Financial Management and Intergovernmental 
Relations, hearing on H.R. 5215, Confidential Information Protection 
and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002; followed by a markup of H.R. 
5215 and H.R. 1152, Human Rights Information Act, 1:30 p.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  September 18, full Committee, to hold a hearing on ``Continuing 
Oversight hearings on the National Vaccine Injury Compensation 
Program,'' 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  September 18, Subcommittee on Technology and Procurement Policy, 
hearing on the following bills: H.R. 2458, E-Government Act of 2001; 
and S. 803, E-Government Act of 2002, 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  September 19, Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and 
Human Resources, hearing on ``Ecstasy and Club Drugs: A Growing 
Threat to the Nation's Youth,'' 1 p.m., 2203 Rayburn.
  September 19, Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources and 
Regulatory Affairs, hearing on ``Agency Implementation of the SWANCC 
Decision,'' 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  September 19, Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Financial 
Management and Intergovernmental Relations and the Subcommittee on 
Legislative and Budget Process of the Committee on Rules, joint 
oversight hearing ``Linking Program Funding to Performance 
Results,'' 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  September 20, Subcommittee on the District of Columbia, hearing on 
Emergency Preparedness in the Nation's Capital, 10 a.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, September 18, Subcommittee 
on Africa, hearing on the New Partnership for Africa's Development: 
An African Initiative, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.

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  September 18, Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia, 
hearing on U.S. Policy Toward Syria and H.R. 4483, Syria 
Accountability Act of 2002, 10:15 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  September 19, full Committee, hearing on U.S. Policy Toward Iraq, 
10:45 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  September 19, Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, hearing on Drug 
Corruption and Other Threats to Democratic Stability in Guatemala 
and the Dominican Republic, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, September 17, Subcommittee on the 
Constitution, oversight hearing on the Supreme Court's School Choice 
Decision and Congress' Authority to Enact Choice Programs, 2 p.m., 
2141 Rayburn.
  September 18, Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and 
Claims, oversight hearing on the INS's Implementation of the Foreign 
Student Tracking Program, 10 a.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  September 19, Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and 
Intellectual Property, hearing on H.R. 5119, Plant Breeders Equity 
Act of 2002, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, September 17, Subcommittee on Fisheries 
Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans, oversight hearing on Upcoming 
Issues at the Twelfth Regular Meeting of the Conference of the 
Parties (COP12) to the Convention on International Trade in 
Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), 2 p.m., 1324 
Longworth.
  Committee on Rules, September 17, to consider the following: H.R. 
1701, Consumer Rental Purchase Agreement Act; a resolution 
expressing the Sense of the House that Congress should complete 
action on the Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion 
Act of 2002; and a resolution expressing the Sense of the House that 
Congress should compete action on the Permanent Death Tax Repeal of 
2002, 5:30 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Small Business, September 19, Subcommittee on 
Regulatory Reform and Oversight, hearing entitled ``Federal Farm 
Program: Unintended Consequences of FAV Rules,'' 10 a.m., 2360 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, September 19, 
Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, hearing on Comprehensive 
Reauthorization Proposals, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, September 19, Subcommittee on 
Oversight and Investigations, hearing on the Department of Veterans 
Affairs medical research programs, 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, September 19, Subcommittee on Social 
Security and the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and 
Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, joint hearing on 
Preserving the Integrity of Social Security Numbers and Preventing 
Their Misuse by Terrorists and Identity Thieves, 1 p.m., 1100 
Longworth.


                             Joint Meetings

  Conference: September 18, meeting of conferees on H.R. 1646, to 
authorize appropriations for the Department of State for fiscal 
years 2002 and 2003, 2:30 p.m., S-116, Capitol.
  Joint Meetings: September 17, Senate Select Committee on 
Intelligence, to resume joint closed hearings with the House 
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to examine events 
surrounding September 11, 2001, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.