[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 6] [Extensions of Remarks] [Pages 8166-8168] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]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 4, 1999 may be found in the Daily Digest of today's Record. MEETINGS SCHEDULED MAY 5 9 a.m. Environment and Public Works To hold hearings on the nomination of Timothy Fields, Jr., of Virginia, to be Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste, Environmental Protection Agency. SD-406 Governmental Affairs To hold hearings on the current state of Federal and State relations. SD-342 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry To hold hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Commodity Exchange Act. SR-328A 9:30 a.m. Indian Affairs To hold oversight hearings on Tribal Priority Allocations and Contract Support Costs Report. SR-485 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Financial Institutions Subcommittee To hold hearings on the proposed Financial Institutions Insolvency Improvement Act of 1999. SD-538 Energy and Natural Resources To resume hearings to examine damage to the national security from alleged Chinese espionage at the Department of Energy nuclear weapons laboratories. (Hearings may go into a closed session). SH-216 Appropriations Defense Subcommittee To hold closed hearings on certain intelligence programs. S-407, Capitol Commerce, Science, and Transportation Business meeting to markup S.305, to reform unfair and anticompetitive practices in the professional boxing industry; S.795, to amend the Fastener Quality Act to strengthen the protection against the sale of mismarked, misrepresented, and counterfeit fasteners and eliminate unnecessary requirements; S.296, to provide for continuation of the Federal research investment in a fiscally sustainable way; S.342, to authorize appropriations for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for fiscal years 2000, 2001, and 2002; and S.376, to amend the Communications Satellite Act of 1962 to promote competition and privatization in satellite communications. SR-253 10 a.m. Finance To resume hearings on Medicare reform issues, focusing on financial obligations of taxpayers and beneficiaries. SD-215 Foreign Relations To hold hearings on issues relating to the ABM Treaty, focusing on United States strategic and arms control objectives. SD-562 Judiciary To hold oversight hearings on the programs of the Department of Justice. SD-226 [[Page 8167]] 3 p.m. Intelligence Closed business meeting to markup proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2000 for intelligence related programs. SH-219 MAY 6 9 a.m. Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee To hold hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, focusing on disease research. SD-124 9:30 a.m. Energy and Natural Resources To hold hearings to examine the results of the December 1998 plebiscite on Puerto Rico. SH-216 Governmental Affairs To hold hearings on Federalism and crime control, focusing on the increasing Federalization of criminal law and its impact on crime control and the criminal justice system. SD-342 Environment and Public Works Business meeting to consider pending calendar business. SD-406 10 a.m. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe To hold joint hearings on the state of democratization and human rights in Kazakstan. SR-485 Foreign Relations Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Subcommittee To hold hearings on United States and Iran relations. SD-562 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions To resume hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Elementary Secondary Education Act, focusing on safety programs. SD-628 11 a.m. Veterans Affairs To hold hearings to examine Veteran Affairs strategies in restructuring health care, including potential facility closures and proposed legislation relating to voluntary seperation incentive bonuses for Veteran Affairs employees. SR-418 2 p.m. Foreign Relations To hold closed hearings to examine the growing threat of biological weapons. SH-219 Judiciary Antitrust, Business Rights, and Competition Subcommittee Business meeting to consider S.467, to establish time limits on Federal Communications Commission review of telecommunications mergers. SD-226 2:30 p.m. Commerce, Science, and Transportation Oceans and Fisheries Subcommittee To hold hearings to examine coastal zone management. SR-253 MAY 10 1 p.m. Judiciary Administrative Oversight and the Courts Subcommittee To hold oversight hearings on the investigation of TWA Flight #800. SD-226 MAY 11 10 a.m. Judiciary To hold hearings on how to promote a responsive and responsible role for the Federal Government on combatting hate crimes. SD-226 10:30 a.m. Governmental Affairs Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia Subcommittee To hold hearings on multiple program coordination in early childhood education. SD-342 MAY 12 9:30 a.m. Indian Affairs To hold oversight hearings on HUBzones implementation. SR-485 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions To resume hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, focusing on Title I provisions. SD-628 Energy and Natural Resources Business meeting to consider pending calendar business. SD-366 2 p.m. Judiciary Technology, Terrorism, and Government Information Subcommittee Business meeting to consider pending calendar business. SD-226 MAY 13 9:30 a.m. Energy and Natural Resources To hold hearings on S.698, to review the suitability and feasibility of recovering costs of high altitude rescues at Denali National Park and Preserve in the state of Alaska; S.711, to allow for the investment of joint Federal and State funds from the civil settlement of damages from the Exxon Valdez oil spill; and S.748, to improve Native hiring and contracting by the Federal Government within the State of Alaska. SD-366 10 a.m. Environment and Public Works To hold hearings on issues relating to the Clean Water Action Plan. SD-406 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions To hold hearings on the nomination of Richard M. McGahey, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Labor. SD-628 2:30 p.m. Energy and Natural Resources Forests and Public Land Management Subcommittee To hold hearings to examine fire preparedness on Federal lands. SD-366 MAY 19 9:30 a.m. Indian Affairs To hold hearings on S.614, to provide for regulatory reform in order to encourage investment, business, and economic development with respect to activities conducted on Indian lands; and S.613, to encourage Indian economic development, to provide for the disclosure of Indian tribal sovereign immunity in contracts involving Indian tribes, and for other purposes. SR-485 MAY 20 2 p.m. Energy and Natural Resources Energy Research and Development, Production and Regulation Subcommittee To hold hearings on S.348, to authorize and facilitate a program to enhance training, research and development, energy conservation and efficiency, and consumer education in the oilheat industry for the benefit of oilheat consumers and the public. SD-366 2:30 p.m. Energy and Natural Resources Energy Research and Development, Production and Regulation Subcommittee To hold joint oversight hearings with the House Committee on Government Reform's Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources and Regulatory Affairs, on the Administration's fiscal year 2000 budget request for climate change programs and compliance with various statutory provisions in fiscal year 1999 appropriations acts requiring detailed accounting of climate change spending and performance measures for each requested increase in funding. SD-366 MAY 27 2 p.m. Energy and Natural Resources Water and Power Subcommittee To hold hearings on S.244, to authorize the construction of the Lewis and Clark Rural Water System and to authorize assistance to the Lewis and Clark Rural Water System, Inc., a nonprofit corporation, for the planning and construction of the water supply system; S.623, to amend Public Law 89-108 to increase authorization levels for State and Indian tribal, municipal, rural, and industrial water supplies, to meet current and future water quantity and quality needs of the Red River Valley, to deauthorize certain project features and irrigation service areas, to enhance natural resources and fish and wildlife habitat; and S.769, to provide a final settlement on certain debt owed by the city of Dickinson, North Dakota, for the construction of the bascule gates on the Dickinson Dam. SD-366 [[Page 8168]] SEPTEMBER 28 9:30 a.m. Veterans Affairs To hold joint hearings with the House Committee on Veterans Affairs to review the legislative recommendations of the American Legion. 345 Cannon Building CANCELLATIONS MAY 5 2 p.m. Judiciary Youth Violence Subcommittee To hold hearings on youth violence issues. SD-226 2:30 p.m. Commerce, Science, and Transportation Business meeting to markup S.761, to regulate interstate commerce by electronic means by permitting and encouraging the continued expansion of electronic commerce through the operation of free market forces. SR-253