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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Federal Reserve System was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D53-D55 on Feb. 5, 2002.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FIREFIGHTING
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies held hearings to examine firefighting issues, focusing on urban search and rescue task forces response requirements, and funding needs for firefighting training, equipment, apparatus, communications, safety and health issues, and staffing, receiving testimony from Stephen D. Paulsell, Boone County Fire Protection District/Missouri Task Force 1, Columbia; Carlos P. Olaguer, Baltimore City Fire Department, Baltimore, Maryland; Peter H. Morris, CNN, Chevy Chase, Maryland, on behalf of the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad; Philip C. Stittleburg, LaFarge, Wisconsin, on behalf of the National Volunteer Fire Council; Harold A. Schaitberger, International Association of Fire Fighters, Washington, D.C.; and John M. Buckman III, German Township Volunteer Fire Department, Evansville, Indiana, on behalf of the International Association of Fire Chiefs.
Hearings recessed subject to call.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2003 for the Department of Defense, and the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary, and Dov S. Zakheim, Under Secretary, (Comptroller), both of the Department of Defense; and General Richard B. Myers, USAF, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met with Members of the Canadian Senate Committee on National Security Defense.
FINANCIAL LITERACY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the need to improve financial literacy and learning for American consumers, focusing on Federal efforts to increase familiarity with new technological and financial tools to promote economic prosperity, receiving testimony from Paul H. O'Neill, Secretary, and Sheila C. Bair, Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions, both of the Department of the Treasury; Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; and Harvey L. Pitt, Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
2003 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings on the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003, focusing on the cost of the recession, homeland security, and economic stimulus, receiving testimony from Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., Director, Office of Management and Budget.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee met and approved the issuance of a subpoena to compel testimony from Kenneth Lay, former CEO and current board member of the Enron Corporation.
AVIATION AND TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded hearings to examine the implementation of the Aviation and Transportation Security (TSA) Act (P.L. 107-71), focusing on the hiring of tens of thousands of new employees, additional employee background screening tools, airport security operations studies, test TSA deployment techniques and technology, and begin senior management training, after receiving testimony from Michael P. Jackson, Deputy Secretary, John W. Magaw, Under Secretary, and Kenneth M. Mead, Inspector General, all of the Department of Transportation.
BIOTERRORISM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings to examine issues concerning bioterrorism, focusing on harnessing American scientific and entrepreneurial expertise to develop effective defense capabilities to protect our forces and nation, after receiving testimony from Anna Johnson-Winegar, Deputy Assistant Secretary to the Defense for Chemical and Biological Defense; Lisa A. Simpson, Deputy Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Department of Health and Human Services; Richard Klausner, Special Advisor for Counterterrorism, National Academy of Sciences; Georges C. Benjamin, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore; John G. Edwards, Photonic Sensor, Atlanta, Georgia; Richard J. Hatchett, Memorial Hospital/Sloan-
Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, on behalf of the Civilian Medical Reserve Working Group; Una Ryan, AVANT Immunotherapeutics, Inc., Neeham, Massachusetts; and Bruno W. S. Sobral, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University/Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg.
PRESIDENT'S BUDGET REQUEST
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings to examine certain revenue proposals within the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003, after receiving testimony from Paul O'Neill, Secretary of the Treasury.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS BUDGET
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine United States foreign policy and the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003 for foreign affairs, after receiving testimony from Colin L. Powell, Secretary of State.
RETIREMENT INSECURITY/ENRON COLLAPSE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine the impact of the Enron Corporation collapse on the company's 401(k) retirement investors, after receiving testimony from William D. Miller, Jr., International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Portland, Oregon; Catheryn Graham, Hewitt Associates, The Woodlands, Texas; Cindy Olson and Mikie Rath, both of Enron Corporation, Houston, Texas; Joseph P. Szathmary, Northern Trust Retirement Consulting, Atlanta, Georgia; Karen W. Ferguson, Pension Rights Center, James A. Klein, American Benefits Council, Erik Olsen, American Association of Retired Persons, and Stephen M. Saxon, Groom Law Group, on behalf of the Society of Professional Administrators and Record Keepers (SPARK Institute), all of Washington, D.C.; Susan J. Stabile, St. John's University School of Law, New York, New York; and Deborah G. Perrotta, Kingwood, Texas.
HUMAN CLONING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine issues surrounding scientific and medical aspects of human reproductive cloning, including the protection of human subjects, and to clarify how human reproductive cloning differs from stem cell research, receiving testimony from Representatives Weldon and Greenwood; Irving L. Weissman, Stanford Medical School, on behalf of the National Academies Panel on Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Cloning, and Henry T. Greely, Stanford University Center for Law and the Biosciences, on behalf of the California Advisory Committee on Human Cloning, both of Stanford, California; R. Alta Charo, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison; and Kris Gulden, on behalf of the Coalition of the Advancement of Medical Research, Andrew Kimbrell, International Center for Technology Assessment, and Father Kevin T. FitzGerald, Georgetown University Medical Center, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings recessed subject to call.
