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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Commerce was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1257 on Oct. 30, 2008.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ECONOMIC STIMULUS
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded a hearing to examine faltering economic growth and the need for economic stimulus, after receiving testimony from J. Steven Landefeld, Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Department of Commerce; Nouriel Roubini, New York University Stern School of Business, New York, New York; Simon Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Richard K. Vedder, American Enterprise Institute, Athens, Ohio; and Vincent DeMarco, Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative, Donald C. Fry, Greater Baltimore Committee, and Joseph Haskins, Jr., Harbor Bank of Maryland, all of Baltimore, Maryland.