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“CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD” mentioning the U.S. Dept of Agriculture was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D723-D724 on July 6, 1998.
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CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD
Week of July 7 through 11, 1998
Senate Chamber
On Tuesday, Senate will vote on a motion to close further debate on the motion to proceed to consideration of S. 648, Product Liability, and resume consideration of S. 2168, VA/HUD Appropriations.
During the balance of the week, Senate may consider any of the following:
Conference report on H.R. 2676, IRS Reform;
Further Conference reports and appropriation bills, when available; and
Any cleared legislative or executive business.
(Senate will recess on Tuesday, July 7, 1998, from 12:30 p.m. until 2:15 p.m. for respective party conferences.)
Senate Committees
(Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
Committee on Armed Services: July 9, to hold hearings to examine United States export control and nonproliferation policy and the role and responsibility of the Department of Defense, 10 a.m., SR-
222.
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: July 9, business meeting, to mark up S. 1405, to provide for improved monetary policy and regulatory reform in financial institution management and activities, to streamline financial regulatory agency actions, and to provide for improved consumer credit disclosure, 10 a.m., SD-538.
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: July 8, to hold hearings to examine the transition to high definition television, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
July 8, Full Committee, to hold hearings on S. 2107, to enhance electronic commerce by promoting the reliability and integrity of commercial transactions through establishing authentication standards for electronic communications, 2 p.m., SR-253.
July 9, Full Committee, business meeting, to consider pending calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: July 9, Subcommittee on National Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation, to hold hearings on S. 1333, to amend the Land and Water Conservation Act of 1965 to allow national park units that cannot charge an entrance or admission fee to retain other fees and charges, S. 2129, to eliminate restrictions on the acquisition of certain land contiguous to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, S. 2232, to establish the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site in Arkansas, and S. 2106 and H.R. 2283, bills to expand the boundaries of Arches National Park, Utah, to include portions of certain drainages that are under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, and to include a portion of Fish Seep Draw owned by the State of Utah, 2 p.m., SD-366.
Committee on Environment and Public Works: July 7, to hold hearings on miscellaneous wildlife bills, including S. 2094, S. 361, H.R. 2807, H.R. 3113, S. 263, S. 659, S. 2244, and S. 1970, 9 a.m., SD-406.
July 9, Full Committee, to hold hearings on S. 1222, Estuary Habitat Restoration Partnership Act, S. 1321, National Estuary Conservation Act, and H.R. 2207, Coastal Pollution Reduction Act, 9 a.m., SD-406.
Committee on Finance: July 7, Subcommittee on International Trade, to hold hearings on S.J. Res. 47, disapproving the extension of the waiver authority contained in section 402(c) of the Trade Act of 1974 with respect to Vietnam, 10 a.m., SD-215.
July 7, Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy, to hold oversight hearings on the status of Supplemental Security Income for disabled children, 2 p.m., SD-215.
July 9, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the President's proposed renewal of normal trade relations with China, 9:30 a.m., SD-215.
Committee on Foreign Relations: July 8, Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Export and Trade Promotion, to hold hearings on the implementation of United States policy on Caspian Sea oil exports, 10 a.m., SD-419.
Committee on Governmental Affairs: July 8, Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services, to resume hearings to examine whether the Department of Commerce's commercial satellite export control policy and process toward China is adequate to prevent technology transfers which pose a threat to United States security, 2 p.m., SD-342.
July 9, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, to resume hearings to examine the adequacy of procedures and systems used by the Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service and the Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration to oversee the safety of food imported into the United States, focusing on the outbreak of Cyclospora associated with fresh raspberries imported into the U.S. from Central America, 9:30 a.m., SD-342.
Committee on the Judiciary: July 7, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, and Competition, to hold hearings to examine the future of convergence and consolidation in the entertainment and information industries, 9 a.m., SD-342.
July 7 and 9, Full Committee, business meeting, to consider pending calendar business, Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. and Thursday at 9 a.m., SD-226.
July 8, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine certain provisions of S.J. Res. 40, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizing Congress to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States (pending on Senate calendar), 9 a.m., SD-226.
July 8, Full Committee, to hold hearings on S. 1529, to enhance Federal enforcement of hate crimes, 1 p.m., SD-226.
July 9, Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nomination of Beth Nolan, of New York, to be an Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, 2 p.m., SD-226.
Committee on Indian Affairs: July 8, to hold hearings on S. 1905, to provide for equitable compensation for the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, H.R. 700, to remove the restriction on the distribution of certain revenues from the Mineral Springs parcel to certain members of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, S. 391, to provide for the disposition of certain funds appropriated to pay judgment in favor of the Mississippi Sioux Indians, and S. 1419, to deem the activities of the Miccosukee Tribe on the Tamiami Indian Reserve to be consistent with the purposes of the Everglades National Park, 9:30 a.m., SR-485.
Select Committee on Intelligence: July 8, to resume closed hearings on the investigation of the impacts to United States national security from advanced satellite technology exports to China and Chinese efforts to influence United States policy, 10 a.m., SH-219.
July 8, Full Committee, to hold hearings on the nomination of L. Britt Snider, of Virginia, to be Inspector General, Central Intelligence Agency, 2:30 p.m., SH-216.
NOTICE
For a listing of Senate committee meetings scheduled ahead, see pages E1279-80 in today's Record.
House Chamber
To be announced.
House Committees
No Committee meetings are scheduled.
