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“COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR 1998-07-09” mentioning the U.S. Dept of Agriculture was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D733 on July 8, 1998.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,
JULY 9, 1998
(Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
Senate
Committee on Armed Services, 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., SH-216.
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, business meeting, to consider pending calendar business, 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. 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, 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, to hold hearings to examine the President's proposed renewal of normal trade relations with China; to be followed by a business meeting to consider the nominations of Raymond W. Kelly, of New York, to be Commissioner of Customs, James E. Johnson, of New Jersey, to be Under Secretary for Enforcement, and Elizabeth Bresee, of New York, to be an Assistant Secretary, all of the Department of the Treasury, 9:30 a.m., SD-215.
Committee on Governmental Affairs, 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, business meeting, to consider pending calendar business, 9 a.m., SD-226.
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.
NOTICE
For a listing of Senate committee meetings scheduled ahead, see pages E1281-82 in today's record.
House
No Committee meetings are scheduled.
