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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Federal Reserve System was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D165-D166 on March 1, 2011.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded a hearing to examine the impacts of a long-term continuing resolution on the Department of Defense and proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2012 for the Department of Defense, after receiving testimony from William J. Lynn, III, Deputy Secretary, and Robert F. Hale, Under Secretary, Comptroller, Chief Financial Officer, both of the Department of Defense.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed hearings to examine U.S. Special Operations Command and U.S. Central Command in review of the Defense Authorization request for fiscal year 2012 and the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from Admiral Eric T. Olson, USN, Commander, United States Special Operations Command, and General James N. Mattis, USMC, Commander, U.S. Central Command, both of the Department of Defense.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 112th Congress.
SEMIANNUAL 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.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2012 for the Department of Education, after receiving testimony from Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee announced the following subcommittee assignments for the 112th Congress:
Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security: Senators Cantwell (Chair), Inouye, Boxer, Nelson (FL), Lautenberg, Klobuchar, Udall (NM), Warner, Begich, DeMint, Ensign, Thune, Wicker, Isakson, Blunt, Boozman, and Toomey.
Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet: Senators Kerry (Chair), Inouye, Boxer, Nelson (FL), Cantwell, Lautenberg, Pryor, McCaskill, Klobuchar, Udall (NM), Warner, Begich, Ensign, Snowe, DeMint, Thune, Wicker, Isakson, Blunt, Boozman, Toomey, Rubio, and Ayotte.
Subcommittee on Competitiveness, Innovation, and Export Promotion: Senators Klobuchar (Chair), Kerry, Cantwell, Pryor, Udall (NM), Warner, Begich, Blunt, Ensign, DeMint, Thune, Boozman, and Ayotte.
Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance: Senators Pryor (Chair), Kerry, Boxer, McCaskill, Klobuchar, Udall (NM), Wicker, Ensign, Thune, Boozman, and Toomey.
Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard: Senators Begich (Chair), Inouye, Kerry, Nelson (FL), Cantwell, Lautenberg, Klobuchar, Warner, Snowe, Ensign, Wicker, Isakson, Boozman, Rubio, and Ayotte.
Subcommittee on Science and Space: Senators Nelson (FL) (Chairman), Inouye, Kerry, Cantwell, Pryor, Warner, Boozman, Ensign, Wicker, Rubio, and Ayotte.
Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security: Senators Lautenberg (Chair), Inouye, Kerry, Boxer, Cantwell, Pryor, McCaskill, Klobuchar, Udall
(NM), Warner, Begich, Thune, Ensign, DeMint, Wicker, Isakson, Blunt, Boozman, Toomey, Rubio, and Ayotte.
Senators Rockefeller and Hutchison are ex officio members of each subcommittee.
TAX POLICY
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine changes in the law and tax environment since the Tax Reform Act of 1986, after receiving testimony from Fred T. Goldberg, Jr., Jonathan Talisman, Mark A. Weinberger, Pamela F. Olson, and Eric Solomon, all former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy.
NORTH KOREAN PROVOCATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine breaking the cycle of North Korean provocations, after receiving testimony from Stephen W. Bosworth, Special Representative for North Korea Policy, and Kurt Campbell, Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, both of the Department of State; L. Gordon Flake, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation, and Marcus Noland, Peterson Institute for International Economics, both of Washington, D.C.; and Robert Carlin, Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford, California.
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION'S HEARTLAND REGION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight concluded a hearing to examine public relations contracts at the General Services Administration's Heartland Region, after receiving testimony from Brian D. Miller, Inspector General, Martha Johnson, Administrator, and Robert Peck, Commissioner, and Mary Ruwwe, Regional Commissioner, Heartland Region, both of the Public Buildings Service, all of the General Services Administration.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably reported an original resolution authorizing expenditures by committees of the Senate for the periods March 1, 2011, through September 30, 2011, and October 1, 2011, through February 28, 2013.
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a joint hearing with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to examine a legislative presentation from Disabled American Veterans, after receiving testimony from Wallace E. Tyson, Washington, D.C., and Joseph A. Violante, Fayetteville, North Carolina, both of Disabled American Veterans.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to consider pending intelligence matters.
Committee recessed subject to the call.
