Thompson Schedules Hearing on Census 2000

News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN), chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, today announced that the Committee will hold a hearing on S. 389, the Mandates Information Act. The hearing will be held on Wednesday, June 3, 1998 at 10:00 a.m. in SD-342 Dirksen Senate Office Building.

News Release: Washington, DC -- Senate Governmental Affairs Chairman Fred Thompson (R-TN) has announced a hearing on the nomination of Jacob (Jack) J. Lew to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget. The hearing will be held at 2 p.m. on June 22 in Room 342 Dirksen Building.

News Release: Washington, DC--Senate Governmental Affairs Chairman Fred Thompson (RTN) said that he has schedul ed hearings on "Weak Computer Security in Government: Is the Public at Risk?" The hearings will span two days and will be held on May 19-20, at 10 am both days, in Room 342 Dirksen Senate Office Building.

News Release: Washington, DC--Senate Governmental Affairs Chairman Fred Thompson ((R-TN)) has announced a hearing on the nominations of G. Edward DeSeve to be Deputy Director for Management of the office of Management and Budget and Deidre A. Lee to be Administrator, office of Federal Procurement Policy, Office of Management and Budget. The hearing will be held at 10 am on April 22 in Room 342 Dirksen Building.

News Release: Washington, DC--Senate Governmental Affairs Chairman Fred Thompson (R-TN), along with Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), said they were pleased with the broad and growing support for their bill, the Regulatory Improvement Act (S. 981). The measure, they said, should be brought to the Senate floor later this Spring for consideration.

News Release: "Much too often taxpayers find that their federal tax dollars are wasted, lost, stolen or otherwise unaccounted for. Just two weeks ago I received a report from the General Accounting Office which said that the government's financial records were so poorly kept that day-to-day management of the federal government was ineffective, inefficient and almost totally unaccountable to anyone. Our federal government could not pass an audit.

News Release: Washington, DC--Senate Governmental Affairs Chairman Fred Thompson (R-TN), chief sponsor with Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) of the Regulatory Improvement Act of 1998 (S.981), expressed his appreciation to the Environmental Council of States (ECOS) for their recent policy statement on Congressional regulatory reform efforts.

News Release: Washington, DC--Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Fred Thompson (R-TN) said his committee will hold a hearing Wednesday, April 1, at 10 am. in Room 342 of the Dirksen Senate Building on "Crashing Into the Millennium--Year 2000 Conversion Efforts.".

News Release: Washington, DC--Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Fred Thompson (R-TN) has announced a hearing on the nomination of Melvin R. Wright to be Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. The hearing will be held at 9:00 am on Wednesday, April 1 in Room 342 in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The hearing will be chaired by Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS).

News Release: Washington, DC--Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Fred Thompson (R-TN) today released a General Accounting Office Report on the plans by the Census Bureau for Census 2000. According to the report "the key activities that GAO examined. are all still facing the developmental and/or implementation challenges that led GAO in 1997 to raise concerns about the high risk of a failed census. ".

News Release: Washington DC--Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Fred Thompson (R-TN) has announced a hearing on the nominations of Elaine D. Kaplan to be Special Counsel of the Office of Special Counsel and Ruth Y. Goldway to be Commissioner of the Postal Rate Commission. The hearing will be held at 2 pm. on March 30 in Room 342 Dirksen Building. The hearing will be chaired by Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS).

News Release: Washington, DC--In a letter to Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Fred Thompson (R-TN) Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, President of the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH), said the group strongly agreed with the key cost/benefit and risk assessment provisions of the Regulatory Improvement Act (S. 981).

News Release: Washington, DC--Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Fred Thompson (R-TN) said his committee will hold a hearing Wednesday, March 25, at 10 am in Room 342 of the Dirksen Senate Building on legislation relating to the declassification of information by government agencies.

News Release: Washington, DC--At oversight hearings today on the implementation of the Vacancies Act Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Fred Thompson (R-TN) said that the Department of Justice "is in flagrant violation of the law" with regard to its non-observance of the Vacancies Act.

News Release: Washington, DC--Senate Governmental Affairs Chairman Fred Thompson (R-TN) scheduled an oversight hearing on the Vacancies Act for Wednesday, March 18, at 10 am., in the Committee's Hearing Room at 342 Dirksen Building.