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April 28, 1997: Congressional Record publishes “COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR 1997-04-29”

Volume 143, No. 52 covering the 1st Session of the 105th Congress (1997 - 1998) was published by the Congressional Record.

The Congressional Record is a unique source of public documentation. It started in 1873, documenting nearly all the major and minor policies being discussed and debated.

“COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR 1997-04-29” mentioning the Environmental Protection Agency was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D396-D397 on April 28, 1997.

The publication is reproduced in full below:

COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY,

APRIL 29, 1997

(Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)

Senate

Committee on Appropriations, business meeting, to mark up proposed legislation making supplemental appropriations for the Department of Defense, natural disaster relief and other emergency assistance, and other non-emergency assistance, 10 a.m., SD-192.

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, to hold hearings on S. 621, to repeal the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 and transfer residual regulatory authority from the Securities and Exchange Commission to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and State public service commissions, 9:30 a.m., SD-538.

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, to hold hearings to examine automobile airbag safety issues, 2:30 p.m., SR-

253.

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to hold oversight hearings to review a GAO evaluation of the development of the Draft Tongass Land Management Plan, 10 a.m., SD-366.

Committee on Environment and Public Works, Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety, to resume hearings to examine ozone and particulate matter standards proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency, 2 p.m., SD-406.

Committee on Foreign Relations, to hold hearings on the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Revision of the Flank Agreement (Treaty Doc. 105-5), 10 a.m., SD-419.

Committee on the Judiciary, to hold hearings on the nomination of Joel I. Klein, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Attorney General, 3 p.m., SD-226.

Committee on Labor and Human Resources, to hold hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities, National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, 10 a.m., SD-430.

Committee on Indian Affairs, business meeting, to mark up S. 459, to authorize funds for and extend the Native American Programs Act of 1974; to be followed by an oversight hearing on the implementation of the San Carlos Water Rights Settlement Act of 1991

(P.L. 102-575), 9:30 a.m., SR-485.

Special Committee on Aging, to hold hearings on improving chronic health care in Medicare and Medicaid, 9:30 a.m., SH-216.

NOTICE

For a listing of Senate committee meetings scheduled ahead, see pages E763-64 in today's Record.

House

Committee on Banking and Financial Services, Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, hearing on the Reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank, 1 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.

Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Power, hearing on H.R. 1270, Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1997, 2 p.m., 2123 Rayburn.

Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families, hearing on the Administration's National Testing Proposal, 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.

Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, Subcommittee on Civil Service, hearing on D.C. Retirement System: Coping with Unfunded Liabilities; and to markup H. Con. Res. 13, expressing the sense of Congress that Federal retirement cost-of-living adjustments should not be delayed, 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.

Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs, and Criminal Justice, hearing on ``Promotion Outreach Efforts for Census 2000'', 9 a.m., 311 Cannon.

Committee on the Judiciary, to continue markup of H.R. 3, Juvenile Crime Control Act of 1997, 2 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.

Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, oversight hearing on Forest Health, Ecology, and Management, 2 p.m., 1334 Longworth.

Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands, oversight hearing on the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and to consider the following bills: H.R. 413, to prohibit further extension or establishment of any national monument in Washington State without full public participation and an express Act of Congress; H.R. 596, to prohibit further extension or establishment of any national monument without express consent of Congress; H.R. 597, to prohibit further extension or establishment of any national monument in Idaho without full participation and an express Act of Congress; and H.R. 1127, to amend the Antiquities Act to require an Act of Congress and the concurrence of the Governor and State legislature for the establishment by the President of national monuments in excess of 5,000 acres, 9:30 a.m., 1324 Longworth.

Committee on Rules, to consider the following: H.R. 867, Adoption Promotion Act of 1997; and H.R. 2, Housing Opportunity and Responsibility Act of 1997, 5 p.m., H-313 Capitol.

Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, hearing on Wetlands--recent regulatory and judicial developments, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.

Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Health, hearing on Coordinated Care Options for Seniors, 9:30 a.m., B-318 Rayburn.

Subcommittee on Trade, hearing on Expanding U.S. Trade with Sub-

Saharan Africa, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.

SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 143, No. 52