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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Federal Reserve System was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D267 on March 27, 2000.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: On Friday, March 24, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2001 for the Department of Defense and the Future Years Defense Program, focusing on DOD policies and programs to combat terrorism, after receiving testimony from Brian E. Sheridan, Assistant Secretary for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, Charles L. Cragin, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Reserve Affairs, and Pamela B. Berkowsky, Assistant to the Secretary for Civil Support, all of the Department of Defense; and Adm. Harold W. Gehman Jr., USN, Commander in Chief, U.S. Joint Forces Command.
RISING OIL PRICES
Committee on Governmental Affairs: On Friday, March 24, Committee concluded oversight hearings to examine the status of the global crude oil market and its effects on the U.S. heating oil, diesel fuel, and gasoline markets and prices, and U.S. security implications, David L. Goldwyn, Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, and Jay E. Hakes, Administrator, Energy Information Administration, both of the Department of Energy; William M. Flynn, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, Albany; Red Cavaney, American Petroleum Institutes, Robert E. Ebel, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Richard N. Haass, Brookings Institution, all of Washington, D.C.; John P. Holdren, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on behalf of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology; and Adam E. Sieminski, Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown, Baltimore, Maryland.
SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE FINANCING
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine long-term financing challenges confronting Social Security and Medicare programs, focusing on general income tax revenue transfers, after receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; David W. Wilcox, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy; Paul L. Posner, Director, Budget Issues, Accounting and Information Management Division, General Accounting Office; and C. Eugene Steuerle, Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.
