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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Federal Reserve System was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1110-D1111 on Oct. 14, 2003.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Roger Walton Ferguson, Jr., of Massachusetts, to be Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and Ben S. Bernanke, of New Jersey, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and Paul S. Atkins, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
U.N. CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF THE SEA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held a hearing to examine the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, with Annexes, done at Montego Bay, December 10, 1982 (the ``Convention''), and the Agreement Relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982, with Annex, adopted at New York, July 28, 1994 (``the Agreement''), and signed by the United States, subject to ratification, on July 29, 1994 (Treaty Doc. 103-39), receiving testimony from Senator Stevens; Admiral James D. Watkins, USN (Ret.), Chairman, U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy; John Norton Moore, University of Virginia School of Law Center for Oceans, Law, and Policy; Rear Admiral William L. Schachte, Jr., USN (Ret.), Charleston, South Carolina; and Admiral Joseph Prueher, USN (Ret.), Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Hearing will resume on Tuesday, October 21.
TERRORISM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and Government Information held a hearing to examine issues relative to terrorism and the radical Islamic influence of Chaplaincy of the U.S. military and prisons, focusing on Guantanamo Bay issues, institutional safeguards including security clearances and monitoring, receiving testimony from John S. Pistole, Assistant Director, Counterterrorism Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Harley G. Lappin, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, both of the Department of Justice; Charles S. Abell, Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness; J. Michael Waller, Institute of World Politics, Washington, D.C.; Paul E. Rogers, Wisconsin Department of Correction, Waupun, and Imam A.J. Sabree, Georgia Department of Corrections, Atlanta, both on behalf of the American Correctional Chaplains Association.
Hearing recessed subject to the call.
PENSIONS
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the long-term financing risks to single-employer insurance programs, highlighting the need for comprehensive pension reform, focusing on the Administration's proposals and activities to improve the retirement security of defined benefit pension participants, after receiving testimony from Mark J. Warshawsky, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy; Barbara D. Bovbjerg, Director, Education, Workforce, and Income Security, General Accounting Office; Steven A. Kandarian, Executive Director, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; Scott Macey, Aon Consulting, Somerset, New Jersey; on behalf of several groups including Business Roundtable, National Association of Manufacturers, and U.S. Chamber of Commerce; David John, Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.; and Melvin Schmeiser, Baltimore, Maryland.
