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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Federal Reserve System was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D155-D156 on Feb. 23, 1999.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--HHS/NIH
Committee on Appropriations:Subcommittee Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Health and Human Services, including the National Institutes of Health, receiving testimony from Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services; and Harold Varmus, Director, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, who was accompanied by several of his associates.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
MONETARY POLICY/FINANCIAL SERVICES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held oversight hearings on the Federal Reserve's semi-annual Humphrey-
Hawkins monetary policy report and on proposed legislation to enhance competition in the financial services industry by providing a prudential framework for the affiliation of banks, securities firms, and other financial service providers, receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Hearings will continue tomorrow.
SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings on elements of the framework for Social Security and Medicare in the President's proposed budget for fiscal year 2000, including reform principles, program structure, trust fund accounting, budget surpluses and debt reduction, general revenue payments, private sector investments, demographics, and Universal Savings Accounts, after receiving testimony from Dan L. Crippen, Director, Congressional Budget Office; and David M. Walker, Comptroller General, General Accounting Office.
SATELLITE TV ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded hearings on S. 303, to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to enhance the ability of direct broadcast satellite and other multichannel video providers to compete effectively with cable television systems, after receiving testimony from Andrew S. Fisher, Cox Broadcasting Company, Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of the National Association of Broadcasters; Eddy W. Hartenstein, DIRECTV, Inc., El Segundo, California; and Gene Kimmelman, Consumers Union, Washington, D.C.
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: On Friday, February 12, committee announced the following subcommittee assignments:
Subcommittee on Aviation: Senators Gorton (Chairman), Stevens, Burns, Lott, Hutchison, Ashcroft, Frist, Snowe, Brownback, Abraham, Rockefeller, Hollings, Inouye, Bryan, Breaux, Dorgan, Wyden, and Cleland.
Subcommittee on Communications: Senators Burns (Chairman), Stevens, Gorton, Lott, Ashcroft, Hutchison, Abraham, Frist, Brownback, Hollings, Inouye, Kerry, Breaux, Rockefeller, Dorgan, Wyden, and Cleland.
Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce and Tourism: Senators Ashcroft (Chairman), Gorton, Abraham, Burns, Brownback, Bryan, and Breaux.
Subcommittee on Manufacturing and Competitiveness: Senators Abraham
(Chairman), Snowe, Ashcroft, Frist, Brownback, Dorgan, Bryan, Hollings, and Rockefeller.
Subcommittee on Oceans and Fisheries: Senators Snowe (Chair), Stevens, Gorton, Hutchison, Kerry, Inouye, and Breaux.
Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space: Senators Frist
(Chairman), Burns, Hutchison, Stevens, Abraham, Breaux, Rockefeller, Kerry, and Dorgan.
Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine: Senators Hutchison (Chair), Stevens, Burns, Snowe, Frist, Abraham, Ashcroft, Brownback, Inouye, Breaux, Dorgan, Bryan, Wyden, and Cleland.
U.S. TRADE AGREEMENT COMPLIANCE
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings to examine issues of international dispute settlement and domestic enforcement measures relating to United States trade agreement compliance, including the World Trade Organization, bilateral agreements, U.S. trade laws, North American Free Trade Agreement, and the beef, distilled spirits, and banana industries, after receiving testimony from David L. Aaron, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade; Susan G. Esserman, General Counsel, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; Jeffrey M. Lange, Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering, former U.S. Deputy Trade Representative, Charles D. Lambert, National Cattlemen's Beef Association, Mark Z. Orr, Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, Inc., and Ira Wolf, all of Washington, D.C.; and Dennis Doyle, Chiquita Brands International, Cincinnati, Ohio.
EDUCATION REFORM
Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions: Committee concluded hearings on elementary and secondary education reform initiatives at the state level and the view of state governors on the proper role of the federal government in education, after receiving testimony from Senator Voinovich; New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, Trenton; Michigan Governor John Engler, Lansing; Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, Harrisburg; and Maryland Governor Parris N. Glendening, Annapolis.
