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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Federal Reserve System was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D87-D88 on Feb. 23, 1996.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MONETARY POLICY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Wednesday, February 21, committee concluded hearings to examine monetary policy issues, after receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
GOVERNORS PROPOSAL ON WELFARE AND MEDICAID
Committee on Finance: On Thursday, February 22, committee held hearings on the bipartisan National Governors' Association proposals to reform the Federal Medicaid and welfare programs, receiving testimony from Wisconsin Governor Tommy G. Thompson, Madison; Nevada Governor Bob Miller, Carson City; Delaware Governor Tom Carper, Dover; Florida Governor Lawton Chiles, Tallahassee; Michigan Governor John Engler, Lansing; and Colorado Governor Roy Romer, Denver.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, February 28.
INTERSTATE COMPACT FOR PAROLE AND PROBATION
Committee on the Judiciary: On Thursday, February 22, committee concluded hearings to assess problems in monitoring and enforcing parole under the Interstate Compact for Parole and Probation, after receiving testimony from Representative Chabot; William Ridgely, Compact Administrator for Wisconsin, Madison; Mario Paparozzi, Deputy Compact Administrator for New Jersey, Trenton; Susan F. Bishop, Compact Administrator for South Carolina, Columbia, and Ray Parra, Compact Administrator for Texas, Austin, both on behalf of the Parole and Probation Compact Administrators' Association; and Jill Goldhart, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, Columbus.
FDA REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: On Wednesday and Thursday, February 21-22, committee concluded hearings on S. 1477, to improve the Federal regulation of food, drugs, devices, and biological products, after receiving testimony on Wednesday from David A. Kessler, Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Mary R. Hamilton, Director of Operations, Program, Evaluation and Methodology Division, General Accounting Office; Sherwin Gardner, Bethesda, Maryland, former Deputy Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration; Carl Peck, Georgetown University Medical Center, John Villforth, Food and Drug Law Institute, Lester Crawford, Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges, Susan Abbott, American Spice Trade Association, and Carolyn Smith Dewall, Center for Science and the Public Interest, all of Washington, D.C.; Ellen Stovall, National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, Silver Spring, Maryland; Derek Link, Gay Men's Health Crisis, New York, New York; Pam Walker, Mitretek Systems, McLean, Virginia; Neil Kahanovitz, Center for Patient Advocacy, Arlington, Virginia; and Seth Rudnick, Leukemia Society of America, Providence, Rhode Island; and on Thursday from Senator Mack; William B. Schultz, Deputy Commissioner for Policy, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Gregory Reaman, Children's National Medical Center, Bernard Gersch, American Heart Association, Val D. Bias, National Hemophilia Foundation, Thomas J. Moore, George Washington University, and Raymond L. Woosley and Frederick Goodwin, both of the Georgetown University Medical Center, all of Washington, D.C.; Bruce Chabner, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; and Paul Stolley, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore.
WORLDWIDE SECURITY THREAT
Select Committee on Intelligence: On Thursday, February 22, committee concluded hearings to examine the threat to worldwide security, after receiving testimony from John M. Deutch, Director of Central Intelligence; Tobi Trister Gati, Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research; and Lt. Gen. Patrick Hughes, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
WHITEWATER
Special Committee to Investigate the Whitewater Development Corporation and Related Matters: On Thursday, February 22, committee resumed hearings to examine issues relative to the Whitewater Development Corporation, receiving testimony from Harold Ickes, Deputy Chief of White House Staff.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, February 28.
