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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Federal Reserve System was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D164-D165 on Feb. 24, 2009.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: On Monday, February 23, 2009, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 111th Congress.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee announced the following subcommittee assignments for the 111th Congress:
Subcommittee on AirLand: Senators Lieberman (Chair), Bayh, Webb, McCaskill, Hagan, Begich, Burris, Thune, Inhofe, Sessions, Chambliss, and Burr.
Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities: Senators Reed
(Chair), Kennedy, Byrd, Nelson (FL), Nelson (NE), Bayh, Udall (CO), Wicker, Graham, Martinez, Burr, and Collins.
Subcommittee on Personnel: Senators Nelson (NE) (Chair), Kennedy, Lieberman, Akaka, Webb, McCaskill, Hagan, Begich, Burris, Graham, Chambliss, Thune, Martinez, Wicker, Vitter, and Collins.
Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support: Senators Bayh
(Chair), Byrd, Akaka, McCaskill, Udall (CO), Burris, Burr, Inhofe, Chambliss, and Thune.
Subcommittee on Seapower: Senators Kennedy (Chair), Liebermann, Reed, Akaka, Nelson (FL), Webb, Hagan, Martinez, Sessions, Wicker, Vitter, and Collins.
Subcommittee on Strategic Forces: Senators Nelson (FL) (Chair), Byrd, Reed, Nelson (NE), Udall (CO), Begich, Sessions, Inhofe, Graham, and Vitter.
MONETARY POLICY REPORT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the semiannual monetary policy report to the Congress, after receiving testimony from Ben Bernanke, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 111th Congress.
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN SRI LANKA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near East and South and Central Asian Affairs concluded a hearing to examine recent developments in Sri Lanka, after receiving testimony from Jeffrey J. Lunstead, former United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Middlebury, Vermont; Anna Neistat, Human Rights Watch, Washington, D.C.; and Robert Dietz, Committee to Protect Journalists, New York, New York.
NATIONAL HEALTH REFORM
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded a hearing to examine addressing underinsurance in national health reform, after receiving testimony from Cathy Schoen, The Commonwealth Fund, New York, New York; Gail Shearer, Consumers Union, and Diane Rowland, The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, both of Washington, D.C.; and Grace-Marie Turner, Galen Institute, Alexandria, Virginia.
MERGER
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights concluded a hearing to examine the Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger, focusing on consumers and the concert business, after receiving testimony from Irving Azoff, Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc., West Hollywood, California; Michael Rapino, Live Nation, Beverly Hills, California; Jerry Mickelson, Jam Productions, Ltd., Chicago, Illinois; and David A. Balto, Center for American Progress Action Fund, and Seth Hurwitz, 9:30 Club/I.M.P., both of Washington, D.C.
DISABLED VETERANS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a joint hearing with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to examine the legislative presentation of the Disabled American Veterans, after receiving testimony from Raymond E. Dempsey, Disabled American Veterans, Chicago, Illinois.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 111th Congress.
