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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Federal Reserve System was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D214-D215 on March 5, 2009.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee announced the following subcommittee assignments for the 111th Congress:
Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Federal Drug Administration, and Related Agencies: Senators Kohl (Chair), Harkin, Dorgan, Feinstein, Durbin, Johnson, Nelson (NE), Reed, Pryor, Brownback, Bennett, Cochran, Specter, Bond, McConnell, and Collins.
Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies: Senators Mikulski (Chair), Inouye, Leahy, Kohl, Dorgan, Feinstein, Reed, Lautenberg, Nelson (NE), Pryor, Shelby, Gregg, McConnell, Hutchison, Brownback, Alexander, Voinovich, and Murkowski.
Subcommittee on Defense: Senators Inouye (Chair), Byrd, Leahy, Harkin, Dorgan, Durbin, Feinstein, Mikulski, Kohl, Murray, Cochran, Specter, Bond, McConnell, Shelby, Gregg, Hutchison, and Bennett.
Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development: Senators Dorgan (Chair), Byrd, Murray, Feinstein, Johnson, Landrieu, Reed, Lautenberg, Harkin, Tester, Bennett, Cochran, McConnell, Bond, Hutchison, Shelby, Alexander, and Voinovich.
Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government: Senators Durbin (Chair), Landrieu, Lautenberg, Nelson (NE), Tester, Collins, Bond, and Murkowski.
Subcommittee on Homeland Security: Senators Byrd (Chair), Inouye, Leahy, Mikulski, Murray, Landrieu, Lautenberg, Tester, Voinovich, Cochran, Gregg, Specter, Shelby, and Brownback.
Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies: Senators Feinstein, Byrd, Leahy, Dorgan, Mikulski, Kohl, Johnson, Reed, Nelson
(NE), Tester, Alexander, Cochran, Bennett, Gregg, Murkowski, Collins, and Voinovich.
Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies: Senators Harkin (Chair), Inouye, Kohl, Murray, Landrieu, Durbin, Reed, Pryor, Specter, Cochran, Gregg, Hutchison, Shelby and Alexander.
Subcommittee on Legislative Branch: Senators Nelson (NE), Pryor, Tester, and Murkowski.
Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans' Affairs, and Related Agencies: Senators Johnson, Inouye, Landrieu, Byrd, Murray, Reed, Nelson (NE), Pryor, Hutchison, Brownback, McConnell, Collins, Alexander, and Murkowski.
Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs: Senators Leahy (Chair), Inouye, Harkin, Mikulski, Durbin, Johnson, Landrieu, Lautenberg, Gregg, McConnell, Specter, Bennett, Bond, and Brownback.
Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies: Senators Murray (Chair), Byrd, Mikulski, Kohl, Durbin, Dorgan, Leahy, Harkin, Feinstein, Johnson, Lautenberg, Bond, Shelby, Specter, Bennett, Hutchison, Brownback, Alexander, Collins, and Voinovich.
AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine American International Group, focusing on government intervention and implications for future regulation, after receiving testimony from Donald L. Kohn, Vice Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Scott M. Polakoff, Acting Director, Office of Thrift Supervision, Department of the Treasury; and Eric Dinallo, New York State Insurance Department, New York.
ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to examine future directions of energy research and development and to identify key scientific and technological hurdles that must be overcome in order to pursue these new directions, after receiving testimony from Steven Chu, Secretary, and George W. Crabtree, Senior Scientist, Associate Division Director and Distinguished Fellow, Materials Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, both of the Department of Energy; James T. Bartis, RAND Corporation, Arlington, Virginia; Michael L. Corradini, University of Wisconsin Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics Program, Madison; and Robert M. Fri, Resources for the Future, and Deborah L. Wince-Smith, Council on Competitiveness, both of Washington, D.C.
U.S. STRATEGY REGARDING IRAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine United States strategy regarding Iran, after receiving testimony from Zbigniew Brzezinski, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Lieutenant General Brent Scowcroft, USAF
(Ret.), The Scowcroft Group, both of Washington, D.C.
RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT SPENDING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine transparency and accountability for recovery and reinvestment spending, including preserving and creating jobs and promoting economic recovery, assisting those most impacted by the recession, investing in transportation, environmental protection, and other infrastructure to provide long-term economic benefits, and stabilizing state and local government budgets, after receiving testimony from Robert Nabors, Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget; Gene L. Dodaro, Acting Comptroller General of the United States, Government Accountability Office; and Phyllis K. Fong, Inspector General, Department of Agriculture.
2010 CENSUS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security concluded a hearing to examine how the Obama Administration can achieve an accurate and cost-effective 2010 census, after receiving testimony from Barbara Everitt Bryant, former Director, and Robert B. Hill, former Chair, both of the United States Census Bureau; Robert Goldenkoff, Director, Strategic Issues, and David A. Powner, Director, Information Technology Management Issues, both of the Government Accountability Office; Lawrence D. Brown, University of Pennsylvania The Wharton School, Pennsylvania; and John Thompson, National Opinion Research Council, Chicago, Illinois.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 386, to improve enforcement of mortgage fraud, securities fraud, financial institution fraud, and other frauds related to federal assistance and relief programs, for the recovery of funds lost to these frauds, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 146, to amend the Federal antitrust laws to provide expanded coverage and to eliminate exemptions from such laws that are contrary to the public interest with respect to railroads;
S. 256, to enhance the ability to combat methamphetamine; and
The nominations of Elena Kagan, of Massachusetts, to be Solicitor General of the United States, Thomas John Perrelli, of Virginia, to be Associate Attorney General, and David S. Kris, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Attorney General, all of the Department of Justice.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community.
