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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Federal Reserve System was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D946-D947 on Sept. 9, 1998.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTO CHOICE REFORM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded hearings on S. 625, to provide for competition between forms of motor vehicle insurance, to permit an owner of a motor vehicle to choose the most appropriate form of insurance for that person, to guarantee affordable premiums, and to provide for more adequate and timely compensation for accident victims, after receiving testimony from Nebraska Governor E. Benjamin Nelson, Lincoln; former Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis, Northeastern University, Boston; Arizona State Senator Gary Richardson, on behalf of the National Conference of Insurance Legislators, and Michael R. Perry, Carnahan & Perry, on behalf of the Defense Research Institute, both of Phoenix, Arizona; Mayor Wellington E. Webb, Denver, Colorado; Fulton County Commissioner Michael Hightower, Atlanta, Georgia; Robert J. Demichelis, on behalf of the Brain Injury Association, and Peter Kinzler, Coalition for Auto-Insurance Reform, both of Alexandria, Virginia; Mark S. Mandel, Providence, Rhode, Island, on behalf of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Robert Lee Maril, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater; and Tim Ryles, Ryles Resource Group, Newborn, Georgia, former Georgia State Commissioner of Insurance.
RETIREMENT SECURITY POLICY
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine retirement security policy, focusing on proposals to reform the social security system, including S. 2313, to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for individual security accounts funded by employee and employer social security payroll deductions, and to extend the solvency of the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program, receiving testimony from Senators Moynihan, Kerrey, Beaux, Gregg, Gramm, and Dominic; Edward M. Gramlich, Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, on behalf of the Advisory Council on Social Security; Alicia H. Munnell, Boston College Carroll School of Management, Chestnut, Massachusetts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and former Member of the Council of Economic Advisers; Robert Myers, Silver Spring, Maryland, former Chief Actuary and former Deputy Commissioner of the Social Security Administration and former Executive Director of the National Commission on Social Security Reform; Andrew A. Samwick, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; and Carolyn L. Weaver, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., former Member of the Social Security Advisory Council and the U.S. Social Security Advisory Board.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
IRAQ
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs held hearings to examine United States policy in Iraq, receiving testimony from Martin S. Indyk, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; and R. James Woolsey, former Director, Central Intelligence Agency, Richard W. Murphy, former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Lawrence S. Eagleburger, former Secretary of State, and Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, American Enterprise Institute, former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INSPECTOR GENERAL ACT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine the state of the Inspector General community on the 20th anniversary of the Inspector General Act, and S. 2167, to increase the efficiency and accountability of Offices of Inspector General within Federal departments, after receiving testimony from June Gibbs Brown, Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services; Susan Gaffney, Inspector General, Department of Housing and Urban Development; and G. Edward DeSeve, Acting Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Robert Bruce King, of West Virginia, and William B. Traxler, Jr., of South Carolina, each to be a United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, H. Dean Buttram, Jr. and Inge Prytz Johnson, each to be a United States District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama, and Thomas J. Whelan, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of California, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. King was introduced by Senators Byrd and Rockefeller, Mr. Traxler was introduced by Senators Thurmond and Hollings, Messrs. Buttram and Johnson were introduced by Senators Sessions and Shelby, and Mr. Whelan was introduced by Senator Feinstein.
PRESIDENCY AND THE CRIMINAL PROCESS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution, Federalism, and Property Rights concluded hearings to examine the extent to which a sitting president should be subject to indictment or other compulsory criminal process, after receiving testimony from Eric M. Freedman, Hofstra University School of Law, Hempstead, New York; Akhil Reed Amar, Yale University Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; Frank Teurkheimer, University of Wisconsin School of Law, Madison; and Jonathan Turley, George Washington University Law School, Susan Low Bloch, Georgetown University Law Center, Peter F. Rient, Gainer, Rient and Hotis, and Douglas R. Cox, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, all of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 2432, to support programs of grants to States to address the assistive technology needs of individuals with disabilities, with an amendment.
Also, committee began consideration of proposed legislation to provide for compassionate payments with regard to individuals with blood-clotting disorders, such as hemophilia, who contracted human immunodeficiency virus due to contaminated blood products, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community.
Committee will meet again on Wednesday, September 16.
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