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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D66-D67 on Feb. 8, 2005.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CREDIT RATING AGENCIES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the role of credit rating agencies in capital markets, after receiving testimony from Kathleen A. Corbet, Standard and Poor's, The McGraw-Hill, Companies, Inc., Stephen W. Joynt, Fitch Ratings, and Raymond W. McDaniel, Jr., Moody's Investors Services, Inc., all of New York, New York; Yasuhiro Harada, Rating and Investment Information, Inc., Tokyo, Japan; Sean J. Egan, Egan-Jones Ratings Company, Haverford, Pennsylvania; Micah S. Green, The Bond Market Association, Washington, D.C.; and James A. Kaitz, Association for Financial Professionals, Bethesda, Maryland.
2006 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee held a hearing to examine the President's proposed budget for fiscal year 2006, receiving testimony from David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States, Government Accountability Office.
SECURE RURAL SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY SELF-DETERMINATION ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests concluded a hearing to examine the implementation of Titles I through III of P.L. 106-393, the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000, after receiving testimony from Mark Rey, Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and the Environment; Ed Shepard, Assistant Director, Renewable Resources and Planning, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; James B. French, Trinity County Office of Education, Weaverville, California; Timothy Creal, Custer School District, Custer, South Dakota; Reta Griffith, Pocahontas County, Marlinton, West Virginia, on behalf of County Commissioners' Association of West Virginia, and Sherry Krulitz, Shoshone County, Wallace, Idaho, on behalf of the Idaho Association of Counties, both on behalf of the National Association of Counties; and Tim Lillebo, Oregon Natural Resources Council, Bend, Oregon.
BUDGET REVENUE PROPOSALS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine revenue proposals in the President's proposed budget for fiscal year 2006, after receiving testimony from John W. Snow, Secretary of the Treasury.
NIH BIODEFENSE RESEARCH PROGRAM
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness concluded a hearing to examine the biodefense research program of the National Institutes of Health, focusing on the development of medical countermeasures against a bioterrorist attack, after receiving testimony from Anthony S. Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services; Penrose C. Albright, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Science and Technology; Gerald L. Epstein, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.; Gordon Cameron, Acambis, PLC, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Jon S. Abramson, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and George Painter, Chimerix, Inc., La Jolla, California.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably reported an original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee.
Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 109th Congress.
