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             COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1997

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, to hold 
hearings to examine the effect of the Federal Agriculture 
Improvement and Reform Act (P.L. 104-127) on price and income 
volatility, and the proper role of the Federal government to manage 
volatility and protect the integrity of agricultural markets, 9 
a.m., SR-332.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, to hold hearings 
to examine automatic teller machine (ATM) surcharges and fees, 10 
a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, to hold 
hearings on proposed legislation relating to the Global Tobacco 
settlement litigation, 10:30 a.m., SD-G50.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to hold hearings on S. 
967, to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and the Alaska 
National Interest Lands Conservation Act to benefit Alaska natives 
and rural residents, and S. 1015, to provide for the exchange of 
lands within Admiralty Island National Monument, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Foreign Relations, to hold hearings on the 
nominations of Richard Dale Kauzlarich, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, James W. 
Pardew, Jr., of Virginia, for the rank of Ambassador during his 
tenure of service as U.S. Special Representative for Military 
Stabilization in the Balkans, Anne Marie Sigmund, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic, Keith C. Smith, 
of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Lithuania, Daniel 
V. Speckhard, of Wisconsin, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Belarus, Philip Lader, of South Carolina, to be Ambassador to the 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Felix 
George Rohatyn, of New York, to be Ambassador to France, 10 a.m., 
SD-419.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs, to resume hearings to examine 
certain matters with regard to the committee's special investigation 
on campaign financing, 10 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Constitution, 
Federalism, and Property Rights, to resume hearings to examine 
issues with regard to the constitutional role of federal judges to 
decide cases and controversies, focusing on the problem and impact 
of judicial activism, whereby federal judges' decisions are based on 
policy preferences, 2 p.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Labor and Human Resources, to hold hearings to 
examine the status of educational opportunities for low-income 
children, 9:30 a.m., SD-430.
  Select Committee on Intelligence, closed briefing on intelligence 
matters, 2 p.m., SH-219.


                                 NOTICE

  For a listing of Senate committee meetings scheduled ahead, see page 
E1545 in today's Record.


                                 House

  Committee on Appropriations, to consider the Treasury, Postal 
Service, and General Government appropriations for fiscal year 1998, 
8:30 p.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, oversight hearing on 
Government Performance And Results Act, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, to continue hearings on the Department of Energy's 
Implementation of Contract Reform: Problems with the Fixed-Price 
Contract to Clean Up Pit 9, 10 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer 
Protection, hearing on Video Competition: The Status of Competition 
Among Video Delivery Systems, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on 
Postsecondary Education, Training and Life-Long Learning, to 
continue hearings on H.R. 6, the Higher Education Amendments of 
1998, 9:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, Subcommittee on 
Government Management, Information, and Technology, oversight 
hearing of Metropolitan Statistical Areas, 9:30 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Government Management, Information, and 
Technology, oversight hearing of Statistical Proposals, 2:00 p.m., 
2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Commercial and 
Administrative Law, oversight hearing on the EPA's rulemaking on 
National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particular Matter and 
Ozone, 10 a.m., 2226 Rayburn.
  Committee on National Security, Subcommittee on Military 
Personnel, hearing on Reserve Component issues resulting from the 
Quadrennial Defense Review, 2:00 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Water and Power, hearing 
on H.R. 2007, to amend the Act that authorized the Canadian River 
reclamation project, Texas, to direct the Secretary of the Interior 
to allow use of the project distribution system to transport water 
from sources other than the project; and to mark up the following 
bills: H.R. 2007, and H.R. 134, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to provide a loan guarantee to the Olivenhain water storage 
project, 2:00 p.m., 1324 Longworth.

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  Committee on Science, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 1903, 
Computer Security Enhancement Act of 1997: H.R. 922, Human Cloning 
Research Prohibition Act of 1997; and H.R. 2249, to reauthorize 
appropriations for carrying out the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act 
of 1997 for fiscal years 1998 and 1999, 1 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.


                             Joint Meetings

  Conferees, on H.R. 1757, to consolidate international affairs 
agencies and to authorize appropriations for the Department of State 
and related agencies for the fiscal years 1998 and 1999, 10:30 a.m., 
S-116, Capitol.