[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 7]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 9841-9843]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                       SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS

  Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, agreed to by the Senate on February 
4, 1977, calls for establishment of a system for a computerized 
schedule of all meetings and hearings of Senate committees, 
subcommittees, joint committees, and committees of conference. This 
title requires all such committees to notify the Office of the Senate 
Daily Digest--designated by the Rules committee--of the time, place, 
and purpose of the meetings, when scheduled, and any cancellations or 
changes in the meetings as they occur.
  As an additional procedure along with the computerization of this 
information, the Office of the Senate Daily Digest will prepare this 
information for printing in the Extensions of Remarks section of the 
Congressional Record on Monday and Wednesday of each week.
  Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, May 18, 1999 may be found in the 
Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                                 MAY 19
     9:30 a.m.
       Indian Affairs
         To hold hearings on S. 614, to provide for regulatory 
           reform in order to encourage investment, business, and 
           economic development with respect to activities 
           conducted on Indian lands; and S. 613, to encourage 
           Indian economic development, to provide for the 
           disclosure of Indian tribal sovereign immunity in 
           contracts involving Indian tribes, and for other 
           purposes.
                                                            SR-485
       Energy and Natural Resources
         Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.
                                                            SD-366
     10 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Defense Subcommittee
         To resume hearings on proposed budget estimates for 
           fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Defense.
                                                            SD-192
       Finance
         Business meeting to mark up the proposed Affordable 
           Education Act of 1999.
                                                            SD-215
     2 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       National Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation 
           Subcommittee
         To hold oversight hearings on the status of Youth 
           Conservation Corps and other job programs conducted by 
           the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, 
           Forest Service, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
                                                            SD-366
       Intelligence
         To hold closed hearings on pending intelligence matters.
                                                            SH-219

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     2:30 p.m.
       Appropriations
       Foreign Operations Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
           year 2000 for foreign assistance programs.
                                                            SD-192

                                 MAY 20
     9:30 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings on S. 97, to require the installation 
           and use by schools and libraries of a technology for 
           filtering or blocking material on the Internet on 
           computers with Internet access to be eligible to 
           receive or retain universal service assistance.
                                                            SR-253
       Environment and Public Works
       Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety 
           Subcommittee
         To resume hearings on the Environmental Protection 
           Agency's proposed sulfur standard for gasoline as 
           contained in the proposed Tier Two standards for 
           automobiles.
                                                            SD-406
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To resume hearings to examine damage to the national 
           security from alleged Chinese espionage at the 
           Department of Energy nuclear weapons laboratories.
                                                            SD-366
     10 a.m.
       Governmental Affairs
         Business meeting to consider S. 746, to provide for 
           analysis of major rules, to promote the public's right 
           to know the costs and benefits of major rules, and to 
           increase the accountability of quality of Government; 
           S. 59, to provide Government-wide accounting of 
           regulatory costs and benefits; S. 468, to improve the 
           effectiveness and performance of Federal financial 
           assistance programs, simplify Federal financial 
           assistance application and reporting requirements, and 
           improve the delivery of services to the public; the 
           nomination of Eric T. Washington, of the District of 
           Columbia, to be an Associate Judge of the District of 
           Columbia Court of Appeals; the nomination of Stephen H. 
           Glickman, of the District of Columbia, to be an 
           Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Court of 
           Appeals; the nomination of Hiram E. Puig-Lugo, of the 
           District of Columbia, to be an Associate Judge of the 
           Superior Court of the District of Columbia; and the 
           nomination of John T. Spotila, of New Jersey, to be 
           Administrator of the Office of Information and 
           Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget.
                                                            SD-342
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         To resume hearings on proposed legislation authorizing 
           funds for programs of the Elementary and Secondary 
           Education Act.
                                                            SD-628
     10:30 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Foreign Operations Subcommittee
         To continue hearings on proposed budget estimates for 
           fiscal year 2000 for foreign assistance programs.
                                                            SD-192
     2 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Energy Research, Development, Production and Regulation 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on S. 348, to authorize and facilitate a 
           program to enhance training, research and development, 
           energy conservation and efficiency, and consumer 
           education in the oilheat industry for the benefit of 
           oilheat consumers and the public.
                                                            SD-366
     2:15 p.m.
       Veterans' Affairs
         To hold hearings on proposals relating to cost of living 
           adjustments in VA compensation and other benefits, 
           improvements in Veterans' educational assistance 
           benefits, long term care and homeless Veterans sevices, 
           eligibility for burial in Arlington National Cemetery, 
           WWII Memorial on the Mall, and U.S. Court of Appeals 
           for Veterans claims retirement provisions.
                                                            SR-418
     2:30 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Energy Research, Development, Production and Regulation 
           Subcommittee
         To hold joint oversight hearings with the House Committee 
           on Government Reform's Subcommittee on National 
           Economic Growth, Natural Resources and Regulatory 
           Affairs, on the Administration's fiscal year 2000 
           budget request for climate change programs and 
           compliance with various statutory provisions in fiscal 
           year 1999 appropriations acts requiring detailed 
           accounting of climate change spending and performance 
           measures for each requested increase in funding.
                                                            SD-366
       Governmental Affairs
         To hold oversight hearings on the national security 
           methods and processes relating to the Wen-Ho Lee 
           espionage investigation.
                                              Room to be announced
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
       Science, Technology, and Space Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on issues relating to commercial space.
                                                            SR-253

                                 MAY 24
     1 p.m.
       Aging
         To hold hearings to examine Health Care Financing 
           Administration assessments of home health care access.
                                                            SD-366

                                 MAY 25
     9:30 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold oversight hearings on state progress in retail 
           electricity competition.
                                                            SD-366
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         To resume hearings to examine medical records privacy 
           issues.
                                                            SD-628
     10 a.m.
       Finance
         To resume oversight hearings on United States Customs, 
           focusing on commercial operations.
                                                            SD-215
       Small Business
         To hold hearings relating to education and business 
           success.
                                                           SR-428A
     2:15 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       National Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on S. 140, to establish the Thomas Cole 
           National Historic Site in the State of New York as an 
           affiliated area of the National Park System; S. 734, 
           entitled the ``National Discovery Trails Act of 1999''; 
           S. 762, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to 
           conduct a feasibility study on the inclusion of the 
           Miami Circle in Biscayne National Park; S. 938, to 
           eliminate restrictions on the acquisition of certain 
           land contiguous to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park; S. 
           939, to correct spelling errors in the statutory 
           designations of Hawaiian National Parks; S. 946, to 
           authorize the Secretary of the Interior to transfer 
           administrative jurisdiction over land within the 
           boundaries of the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt 
           National Historic Site to the Archivist of the United 
           States for the construction of a visitor center; and S. 
           955, to allow the National Park Service to acquire 
           certain land for addition to the Wilderness Battlefied 
           in Virginia, as previously authorized by law, by 
           purchase or exchange as well as by donation.
                                                            SD-366

                                 MAY 26
     9:30 a.m.
       Indian Affairs
         To hold oversight hearings on Native American Youth 
           Activities and Initiatives.
                                                            SR-485
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
       Employment, Safety and Training Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine mine safety and health 
           issues.
                                                            SD-628
     2:30 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Forests and Public Land Management Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on S. 510, to preserve the sovereignty 
           of the United States over public lands and acquired 
           lands owned by the United States, and to preserve State 
           sovereignty and private property rights in non-Federal 
           lands surrounding those public lands and acquired 
           lands.
                                                            SD-366

                                 MAY 27
     2 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Water and Power Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on S. 623, to amend Public Law 89-108 to 
           increase authorization levels for State and Indian 
           tribal, municipal, rural, and industrial water 
           supplies, to meet current and future water quantity and 
           quality needs of the Red River Valley, to deauthorize 
           certain project features and irrigation service areas, 
           to enhance natural resources and fish and wildlife 
           habitat; S. 244, to authorize the construction of the 
           Lewis and Clark Rural Water System and to authorize 
           assistance to the Lewis and Clark Rural Water System, 
           Inc., a nonprofit corporation, for the planning and 
           construction of the water

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           supply system; S. 769, to provide a final settlement on 
           certain debt owed by the city of Dickinson, North 
           Dakota, for the construction of the bascule gates on 
           the Dickinson Dam; and S. 1027, to reauthorize the 
           participation of the Bureau of Reclamation in the 
           Deschutes Resources Conservancy.
                                                            SD-366
     2:30 p.m.
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
       Aging Subcommittee
         To resume hearings on issues relating to the Older 
           Americans Act.
                                                            SD-628

                                 JUNE 9
     9:30 a.m.
       Environment and Public Works
       Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee
         To resume hearings on the implementation of the 
           Transportation Equity Act for the 21st century.
                                                            SD-406
     2 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Water and Power Subcommittee
         To hold oversight hearings on the process to determine 
           the future of the four lower Snake River dams and 
           conduct oversight on the Northwest Power Planning 
           Council's Framework Process.
                                                            SD-366

                                JUNE 17
     9:30 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings on mergers and consolidations in the 
           communications industry.
                                                            SR-253

                              SEPTEMBER 28
     9:30 a.m.
       Veterans' Affairs
         To hold joint hearings with the House Committee on 
           Veterans' Affairs to review the legislative 
           recommendations of the American Legion.
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