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“CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1307-D1309 on Nov. 3, 1995.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD
Week of November 6 through 11, 1995
Senate Chamber
On Monday, Senate may consider S. 908, State Department Authorizations/Reorganizations.
On Tuesday, Senate will consider H.R. 1833, Partial Birth Abortion Bill.
During the balance of the week, Senate may consider conference reports (when available), and any cleared legislative and executive business.
(Senate will recess on Tuesday, November 7, 1995, from 12:30 until 2:15 p.m. for respective party conferences.)
Senate Committees
(Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: November 7, business meeting, to consider pending calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: November 7, Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management, to hold hearings on S. 1371, entitled the ``Snowbasin Land Exchange Act of 1995'', S. 590, for the relief of Matt Clawson, S. 985, to provide for the exchange of certain lands in Gilpin County, Colorado, and S. 1196, to transfer certain National Forest System lands adjacent to the townsite of Cuprum, Idaho, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
November 9, Subcommittee on Parks, Historic Preservation and Recreation, to hold hearings on S. 231 and H.R. 562, bills to modify the boundaries of Walnut Canyon National Monument in Arizona, S. 342, to establish the Cache La Poudre River National Water Heritage Area in Colorado, S. 364 and H.R. 629, bills to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the operation of certain visitor facilities associated with, but outside the boundaries of, Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, S. 489, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into an appropriate form of agreement with, the town of Grand Lake, Colorado, authorizing the town to maintain permanently a cemetery in the Rocky Mountain National Park, and S. 608, to establish the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park in New Bedford, Massachusetts, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
Committee on Environment and Public Works: November 7, to hold hearings on the nominations of Rear Admiral John C. Albright, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to be a Member of the Mississippi River Commission, 2:30 p.m., SD-406.
Committee on Governmental Affairs: November 8, Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management and The District of Columbia, to hold hearings to examine the courthouse construction program, 9 a.m., SD-342.
November 9, Full Committee, to hold hearings on H.R. 1271, to provide protection for family privacy, 9:30 a.m., SD-342.
Committee on the Judiciary: November 7, to hold hearings to examine contingency fee abuses, 10 a.m., SD-226.
November 8, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine mandatory victim restitution, 10 a.m., SD-226.
November 9, Full Committee, business meeting, to consider pending calendar business, 10 a.m., SD-226.
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: November 8, business meeting, to mark up S. 1324, to amend the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend the solid-organ procurement and transplantation programs, and the bone marrow donor program, and to consider pending nominations, 9:30 a.m., SD-430.
Committee on Small Business: November 8, to hold joint hearings with the House Committee on Small Business to examine small business concerns regarding railroad consolidation, 2 p.m., 1100 Longworth Building.
Committee on Indian Affairs: November 7, business meeting, to mark up S. 1341, to provide for the transfer of certain lands to the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and the city of Scottsdale, Arizona; to be followed by hearings on S. 1159, to establish an American Indian Policy Information Center, 10 a.m., SR-485.
Select Committee on Intelligence: November 7 and 8, closed briefing on intelligence matters, Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. and Wednesday at 2 p.m., SH-219.
November 9, Full Committee, to hold hearings to assess the damage to U.S. intelligence activities resulting from the Adler Ames case, 9:30 a.m., SD-G50.
Special Committee To Investigate Whitewater Development Corporation and Related Matters: November 7, to resume hearings to examine certain issues relative to the President's involvement with the Whitewater Development Corporation, 10 a.m., SH-216.
House Chamber
Monday, No legislative business is scheduled.
Tuesday, Consideration of the following 13 Suspensions:
1. H.J. Res. 69, Reappointing Homer Alfred Neal to the Smithsonian Board of Regents;
2. H.J. Res. 110, Appointing Howard H. Baker, Jr. to the Smithsonian Board of Regents;
3. H.J. Res. 111, Appointing Anne D'Harnoncourt to the Smithsonian Board of Regents;
4. H.J. Res. 112, Appointing Louise Gerstner to the Smithsonian Board of Regents;
5. H.R. 2527, Permitting Electronic Filing and Preservation of Federal Election Commission Reports;
6. H.R. 238, Free-Roaming Horses in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways;
7. H.R. 207, Cleveland National Forest Land Exchange Act of 1995;
8. H.R. 2437, Exchange of Certain Lands in Gilpin County, Colorado;
9. H.R. 1585, Modoc National Forest Boundary Adjustment Act;
10. H.R. 1581, Land Conveyance, City of Sumpter, Oregon;
11. H.R. 1163, Land Exchange at Fire Island National Seashore;
12. H.R. 924, Prohibition of Certain Transfers of National Forest Land; and
13. H.R. 826, Extending Deadline for Land Exchanges Involving the Big Thicket National Preserve in Texas; and
Consideration of the further conference report on H.R. 1977, Department of the Interior Appropriations Act for fiscal year 1996
(rule waiving points of order).
Wednesday and Thursday, Motion to go to conference on H.R. 956, Common Sense Product Liability Reform Act;
Consideration of the conference report on S. 395, Alaska Power Administration Sale Act (subject to a rule being granted);
Conference report on H.R. 1058, Securities Litigation Reform Act
(subject to a rule being granted); and
H.J. Res. , Continuing Resolution for fiscal year 1996 (subject to a rule being granted).
Friday, No legislative business is scheduled.
Note.--Conference reports may be brought up at any time. Any further program will be announced later.
House Committees
Committee on Agriculture, November 8, Subcommittee on Resource Conservation, Research, and Forestry, to mark up H.R. 2542, Conservation Consolidation and Regulatory Reform Act of 1995, 12:30 p.m., 1300 Longworth.
Committee on Banking and Financial Services, November 8, to continue markup of H.R. 2406, United States Housing Act of 1995, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
Committee on Commerce, November 8, Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Hazardous Materials, to continue markup of H.R. 2500, Reform of Superfund Act of 1995, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
November 9, Subcommittee on Energy and Power, hearing on the Energy Policy Conservation Act Reauthorization of 1995, 10 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
November 9, Subcommittee on Health and Environment and the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, joint oversight hearing on the Implementation and Enforcement of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities, November 9, Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families, to mark up H.R. 2570, Older Americans Amendments of 1995, 9:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, November 9, Subcommittee on Civil Service, to continue hearings on Civil Service Reform IV: Streamlining Appeals Procedures, 9 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
November 9, Subcommittee on Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations, oversight hearing on HUD Tenant Empowerment Funds, 10 a.m., 2247 Rayburn.
Committee on International Relations, November 8, Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade, hearing on Strengthening U.S. Export Competitiveness: Industry Views, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
November 8, Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights and the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, joint hearing on Human Rights in Vietnam, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
November 8, Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs, hearing on an Evaluation of Democracy in Nicaragua, 10 a.m., 2200 Rayburn.
November 9, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific and the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade, joint hearing on countdown to Osaka: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation or Confrontation, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
Committee on the Judiciary, November 8, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 2564, lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995; and H.R. 497, National Gambling Impact and Policy Commission Act, 9:30 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
November 8, Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, hearing on H.R. 1446, Law Enforcement Officers Civil Liability Act of 1995, 1 p.m., 2237 Rayburn.
November 9, Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, hearing on H.R. 1861, to make technical corrections in the Satellite Home Viewer Act of 1994 and other provisions of title 17, United States Code, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
Committee on National Security, November 8, hearing on operational implications of the proposed development of United States ground forces to Bosnia, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
Committee on Resources, November 7, hearing on the following bills: H.R. 2560, to provide for the conveyances of certain lands in Alaska to Chickaloon-Moose Creek Native Association, Inc., Ninilchik Native Association, Inc., Seldovia Native Association, Inc., Tyonek Native Corp., and Knikatnu, Inc. under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act; and H.R. 1561, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Boundary Adjustment Act, 11 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
November 7, Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 1741, for the conveyance of the C.S.S. Hunley to the State of South Carolina; H.R. 2243, Trinity River Basin Fish and Wildlife Management Reauthorization Act; and H.R. 2100, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to make technical corrections to maps relating to the Coastal Barrier Resources System, 2 p.m., 1324 Longworth.
November 8, full Committee, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 1784, to validate certain conveyances made by the Southern Pacific Transportation Company within the cities of Reno, NV, and Tulare, CA; and H.R. 2402, Snowbasin Land Exchange Act of 1995, 11 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
November 9, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, hearing on H.R. 2372, Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1995, 9:45 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
November 9, Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources, oversight hearing on Bureau of Reclamation's Safety of Dams Program and Deferred Maintenance Issues including a report on the gate failure at Folsom Dam, 10 a.m., 1334 Longworth.
Committee on Rules, November 7, to consider the following: a resolution making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996; and the conference report to accompany S. 395, Alaska Power Administration Asset Sale and Termination Act, 5 p.m., H-313, Capitol.
November 7, to continue hearings on H. Res. 250, to amend the Rules of the House of Representatives to provide for gift reform, 2 p.m., H-313, Capitol.
Committee on Science, November 8, hearing on NASA Purchasing in the Earth-Space Economy, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
November 9, Subcommittee on Basic Research, hearing on the following bills: H.R. 884, authorizing appropriations for a retirement incentive for certain employees of National Laboratories; and H.R. 2301, to designate an enclosed area of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee as the ``Marilyn Lloyd Environmental, Life, and Social Sciences Complex'', 9:30 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
November 9, Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, to continue hearings on the Space Shuttle Program In Transition: Keeping Safety Paramount, Part 2, 10 a.m., 2325 Rayburn.
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, November 8, Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, hearing on H.R. 2500, Reform of Superfund Act of 1995, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
November 9, Subcommittee on Aviation, hearing on Federal Aviation Administration's Expanded East Coast Plan, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, November 6, executive, Imagery Intelligence Panel briefing, 10 a.m., H-405 Capitol.
November 8, executive, briefing on Ames Damage Assessment, 1 p.m., H-405 Capitol.
November 9, executive, full Committee, briefing on Iraq, 10 a.m., H-405 Capitol.
Joint Meetings
Joint hearing: November 8, Senate Committee on Small Business, to hold joint hearings with the House Committee on Small Business to examine small business concerns regarding railroad consolidation, 2 p.m., 1100 Longworth Building.
