[Congressional Record: July 15, 1998 (Digest)]
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                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                             JULY 16, 1998

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)

                                 Senate

  Committee on Armed Services, to resume hearings on the nomination
of Daryl L. Jones, of Florida, to be Secretary of the Air Force,
9:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, to hold
hearings to examine the General Accounting Office's investigation of
the Universal Service, Schools and Libraries program, 9:30 a.m., SR-
253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Subcommittee on
National Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation, to hold
hearings on S. 155, to redesignate General Grant National Memorial
as Grant's Tomb National Monument, S. 1408, to establish the Lower
East Side Tenement National Historic Site, S. 1718, to amend the
Weir Farm National Historic Site Establishment Act of 1990 to
authorize the acquisition of additional acreage for the historic
site to permit the development of visitor and administrative
facilities and to authorize appropriation of additional amounts for
the acquisition of real and personal property, and S. 1990, to
authorize expansion of Fort Davis National Historic Site in Fort
Davis, Texas, 2 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Finance, to hold hearings to examine tax and trade
issues related to the internet, including related provisions of S.
442 and H.R. 4105, proposed Internet Tax Freedom Acts, 9:30 a.m.,
SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations, to hold hearings on the
nominations of Hugh Q. Parmer, of Texas, to be an Assistant
Administrator of the Agency for International Development, and Mary
Beth West, of the District of Columbia, for the rank of Ambassador
during her tenure of service as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for Oceans and Space, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nominations of John Bruce
Craig, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman,
Theodore H. Kattouf, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the United
Arab Emirates, Elizabeth Davenport McKune, of Virginia, to be
Ambassador to the State of Qatar, and David Michael Satterfield, of
Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Lebanon, 2 p.m., SD-
419.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nominations of James
Howard Holmes, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Latvia, Steven Robert Mann, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Turkmenistan, Richard Nelson Swett, of New Hampshire, to
be Ambassador to Denmark, and Melissa Foelsch Wells, of Connecticut,
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Estonia, 4 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on the Judiciary, business meeting, to consider pending
calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SD-226.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings on pending nominations, 2 p.m.,
SD-226.

                                 NOTICE

  For a listing of Senate committee meetings scheduled ahead, see pages
E1315-16 in today's Record.

                                 House

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Transportation, to
mark up appropriations for fiscal year 1999, 10 a.m., 2358 Rayburn.
  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, Subcommittee on
Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, hearing on streamlining
bank regulatory oversight, 9:30 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, to mark up H.R. 2281, Digital Millennium
Copyright Act of 1998, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on
Workforce Protections, hearing on H.R. 2710, Rewarding Performance
in Compensation Act, 10:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, Subcommittee on
Human Resources, oversight hearing on Early Childhood Interventions:
Public-Private Partnerships, 9:30 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, hearing on U.S. and Russia:
Assessing the Relationship, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Asia, to mark up H. Res. 459, commemorating 50
years of relations between the United States and the Republic of
Korea, 9:30 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to mark up the following: H.R. 2592,
Private Trustee Reform Act of 1997; H.R. 3891, Trademark
Anticounterfeiting Act of 1998; H.R. 3898, Speed Trafficking Life in
Prison Act of 1998; H.R. 2070, Correction Officers Health and Safety
Act of 1997; H.R. 4090, Public Safety Act Officer Medal of Valor Act
of 1998; H.R. 3789, Class Action Jurisdiction Act of 1998; and
private immigration bills, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on National Security, hearing on the findings and
conclusions of the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat
to the United States, 9:30 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation,
Wildlife and Oceans, to mark up H.R. 1481, Great Lakes Fish and
Wildlife Restoration Act of 1997; and to hold an oversight hearing
on Pilot Program to Control Non-Indigenous Species Nutria at the
Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Maryland, 2 p.m., 1334
Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, oversight hearing on
Regional Haze, 10 a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands, hearing on the
following bills: H.R. 3981, to modify the boundaries of the George
Washington Birthplace National Monument; H.R. 4109, to authorize the
Gateway Visitor Center at Independence National Historical Park;
H.R. 4141, to amend the Act authorizing the establishment of the
Chattahoochee River National Recreation

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Area to modify the boundaries of the Area, and to provide for the
protection of lands, waters, and natural, cultural, and scenic
resources within the national recreation area; and H.R. 4158,
National Park Enhancement and Protection Act, 10 a.m., 1324
Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Water and Power, to mark up the following bills:
H.R. 2161, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey the
Palmetto Bend Project to the State of Texas; H.R. 3677, to authorize
and direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain works,
facilities, and titles of the Gila Project, and Designated Lands
within or adjacent to the Gila Project, to the Wellton-Mohawk
Irrigation and Drainage District; H.R. 3706, Clear Creek
Distribution System Conveyance Act; H.R. 3715, Pine Ridge Project
Conveyance Act; and H.R. 2506, Collbran Project Unit Conveyance Act,
2 p.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Empowerment, hearing
on the social and economic costs of teenage pregnancy, 10 a.m., 2360
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Government Programs and Oversight, hearing with
respect to the SBA's Proposed New Automated Loan Monitoring System,
2 p.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on
Public Buildings and Economic Development, hearing on the Status of
the Courthouse Construction Program, U.S. Mission to the United
Nations Construction Request and comments on H.R. 2751, General
Services Administration Improvement Act of 1997, 9 a.m., 2253
Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Benefits,
oversight hearing on the standards for adjudicating claims presented
by veterans suffering from hepatitis C, cerebral malaria and Persian
Gulf illnesses, 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Health, hearing on
the Administration's Plan to Delay Implementation of the Balanced
Budget Act of 1997, 11 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
