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“SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS” mentioning the U.S. Dept of Agriculture was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on pages E726-E727 on May 15, 2000.
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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 16, 2000 may be found in the Daily Digest of today's Record.
MEETINGS SCHEDULED
MAY 179:30 a.m.
Indian Affairs
To hold oversight hearings on Indian arts and crafts programs.
SR-485
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
To hold hearings to examine global warming issues.
SR-253
Environment and Public Works
Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety
Subcommittee
To hold hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Clean Air Act, focusing on an incentive-based utility emissions reduction approach.
SD-406
Rules and Administration
To hold hearings on S. 1816, to amend the Federal
Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide meaningful campaign finance reform through requiring better reporting, decreasing the role of soft money, and increasing individual contribution limits.
SR-301
Energy and Natural Resources
Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.
SD-36610 a.m.
Finance
Business meeting to markup proposed legislation extending
Permanent Normal Trading Relations to China.
SD-215
Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine internet security and privacy.
SD-22611 a.m.
Appropriations
Defense Subcommittee
Business meeting to markup proposed legislation making appropriations for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Defense.
SD-1922 p.m.
Indian Affairs
To hold hearings on S. 1148, to provide for the Yankton
Sioux Tribe and the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska certain benefits of the Missouri River Basin Pick-Sloan project; and S. 1658, to authorize the construction of a Reconciliation Place in Fort Pierre, South Dakota.
SR-4852:30 p.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
Water and Power Subcommittee
To hold oversight hearings on the operation, by the
Bureau of Indian Affairs, of the Flathead Irrigation
Project in Montana.
SD-366
Foreign Relations
International Economic Policy, Export and Trade Promotion
Subcommittee
To hold oversight hearings to examine satellite export controls.
SD-419
MAY 189:30 a.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
To hold hearings on S. 2439, to authorize the appropriation of funds for the construction of the
Southeastern Alaska Intertie system; and the nomination of Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus, of Massachusetts, to be
Director of the Office of Energy Research.
SD-366
Armed Services
To hold hearings on United States strategic nuclear force requirements. (Closed Hearing will follow in SR-222).
SR-25310 a.m.
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
To hold hearings to examine mental health parity.
SD-430
Environment and Public Works
Fisheries, Wildlife, and Drinking Water Subcommittee
To hold hearings on S. 2417, to amend the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act to increase funding for State nonpoint source pollution control programs.
SD-406
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Financial Institutions Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine the attack of the ``I Love
You'' virus and its impact on United States financial services industry.
SD-538
Judiciary
Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.
SD-226
Governmental Affairs
Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the
District of Columbia
Subcommittee
To hold hearings on issues relating to training Federal employees, focusing on Federal agency's programs to train and educate employees throughout their careers to maintain their skills and productivity.
SD-3422:30 p.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
National Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation
Subcommittee
To hold hearings on S. 1584, to establish the Schuylkill
River Valley National Heritage Area in the State of
Pennsylvania; S. 1685, to authorize the Golden Spike/
Crossroads of the West National Heritage Area; H.R.
2932, to authorize the Golden Spike Crossroads of the
West National Heritage Area; S. 1998, to establish the
Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area; S. 2247, to establish the Wheeling National Heritage Area in the
State of West Virginia; S. 2421, to direct the
Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of the suitability and feasibility of establishing an Upper
Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area in Connecticut and Massachusetts; and S. 2511, to establish the Kenai
Mountains-Turnagain Arm National Heritage Area in the
State of Alaska.
SD-366
MAY 199:30 a.m.
Governmental Affairs
Investigations Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine the extent to which fraud and criminal activities are affecting commerce on the internet, focusing on the widespread availability of false identification documents and credentials on the internet and the criminal uses to which such identification is put.
SD-342
MAY 239:30 a.m.
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
To hold hearings to examine drug safety and pricing.
SD-43010 a.m.
Small Business
To hold hearings on Internal Revenue Service restructuring, focusing on small businesses.
SR-428A10:30 a.m.
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
To hold hearings to examine human rights abuses in
Russia.
2200, Rayburn Building2:30 p.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
Water and Power Subcommittee
To hold hearings on S. 740, to amend the Federal Power
Act to improve the hydroelectric licensing process by granting the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission statutory authority to better coordinate participation by other agencies and entities.
SD-3663 p.m.
Foreign Relations
To hold hearings on the Meltzer Commission, focusing on the future of the International Monetary Fund and world.
SD-419
MAY 249:30 a.m.
Indian Affairs
To hold hearings on S. 611, to provide for administrative procedures to extend Federal recognition to certain
Indian groups.
SR-485
Environment and Public Works
To hold hearings on S. 25, to provide Coastal Impact
Assistance to State and local governments, to amend the
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1978, the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, the
Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Act, and the Federal
Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act (commonly referred to as the Pittman-Robertson Act) to establish a fund to meet the outdoor conservation and recreation needs of the American people; S. 2123, to provide
Outer Continental Shelf Impact assistance to State and local governments, to amend the Land and Water
Conservation Fund Act of 1965, the Urban Park and
Recreation Recovery Act of 1978, and the Federal Aid in
Wildlife Restoration Act (commonly referred to as the
Pittman-Robertson Act) to establish a fund to meet the outdoor conservation and recreation needs of the
American people; and S. 2181, to amend the Land and
Water Conservation Fund Act to provide full funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, and to provide dedicated funding for other conservation programs, including coastal stewardship, wildlife habitat protection, State and local park and open space preservation, historic preservation, forestry conservation programs, and youth conservation corps; and for other purposes.
SD-406
Energy and Natural Resources
Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.
SD-3662:30 p.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
Water and Power Subcommittee
To hold hearings on S. 2163, to provide for a study of the engineering feasibility of a water exchange in lieu of electrification of the Chandler Pumping Plant at
Prosser Diversion Dam, Washington; S. 2396, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into contracts with the Weber Basin Water Conservancy
District, Utah, to use Weber Basin Project facilities for the impounding, storage, and carriage of nonproject water for domestic, municipal, industrial, and other beneficial purposes; S. 2248, to assist in the development and implementation of projects to provide for the control of drainage water, storm water, flood water, and other water as part of water-related integrated resource management, environmental infrastructure, and resource protection and development projects in the Colusa Basin Watershed, California; S.
2410, to increase the authorization of appropriations for the Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of 1978; and S.
2425, to authorize the Bureau of Reclamation to participate in the planning, design, and construction of the Bend Feed Canal Pipeline Project, Oregon.
SD-366
MAY 2510 a.m.
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Public Health Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine gene therapy issues.
SD-4302:30 p.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
National Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation
Subcommittee
To hold oversight hearings on the potential ban on snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National
Parks and the recent decision by the Department of the
Interior to prohibit snowmobile activities in other units of the National Park System.
SD-366
JUNE 79:30 a.m.
Indian Affairs
To hold hearings on S. 2282, to encourage the efficient use of existing resources and assets related to Indian agricultural research, development and exports within the United States Department of Agriculture.
SR-4852:30 p.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
Forests and Public Land Management Subcommittee
To hold hearings on S. 2300, to amend the Mineral Leasing
Act to increase the maximum acreage of Federal leases for coal that may be held by an entity in any 1 State;
S. 2069, to permit the conveyance of certain land in
Powell, Wyoming; and S. 1331, to give Lincoln County,
Nevada, the right to purchase at fair market value certain public land in the county.
SD-366
JUNE 219:30 a.m.
Indian Affairs
To hold hearings on certain Indian Trust Corporation activities.
SR-485
JUNE 289:30 a.m.
Indian Affairs
To hold hearings on S. 2283, to amend the Transportation
Equity Act for the 21st Century to make certain amendments with respect to Indian tribes.
SR-485
JULY 129:30 a.m.
Indian Affairs
To hold oversight hearings on risk management and tort liability relating to Indian matters.
SR-485
JULY 199:30 a.m.
Indian Affairs
To hold oversight hearings on activities of the National
Indian Gaming Commission.
SR-485
JULY 269:30 a.m.
Indian Affairs
To hold hearings on authorizing funds for programs of the
Indian Health Care Improvement Act.
SR-485
SEPTEMBER 269:30 a.m.
Veterans' Affairs
To hold joint hearings with the House Committee on
Veterans' Affairs on the Legislative recommendation of the American Legion.
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