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11/16/04 10:30 AM Oversight Hearing on Insurance Brokerage Practices, Including Potential Conflicts of Interest and the Adequacy of the Current Regulatory Framework

11/15/04 12:00 PM How Saddam Hussein Abused the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program

10/05/04 10:00 AM Nominations Hearing

9/30/04 10:30 AM Oversight Hearing on Section 529 College Savings Plans: High Fees, Inadequate Disclosure, Disparate State Tax Treatment and Questionable Broker Sales Practices

9/22/04 10:00 AM Business Meeting

9/21/04 10:00 AM Business Meeting

9/14/04 9:30 AM The 9/11 Commission Human Capital Recommendations: A Critical Element of Reform

9/13/04 9:30 AM Ensuring the U.S. Intelligence Community Supports Homeland Defense and Departmental Needs

9/08/04 10:30 AM Building an Agile Intelligence Community to Fight Terrorism and Emerging Threats

8/26/04 9:30 AM CLOSED HEARING- Reorganizing the Intelligence Community: to What Extent Should the National Intelligence Director Have Budget Authority and the National Counterterrorism Center Play a Role in Operational Planning?

8/17/04 9:00 AM Voicing a Need for Reform: The Families of 9/11

8/16/04 9:30 AM Reorganizing America's Intelligence Community: A View from the Inside

8/03/04 10:00 AM Assessing America's Counterterrorism Capabilities

7/30/04 11:00 AM Making America Safer: Examining the Recommendations of the 9-11 Commission

7/22/04 3:30 PM Nominations Hearing for Allen Weinstein to be Archivist of the United States

7/22/04 9:00 AM Buyer Beware: The Danger of Purchasing Pharmaceuticals over the Internet - Day 2
Federal and Private Sector Responses

7/21/04 10:00 AM Business Meeting

7/20/04 9:00 AM Building the 21st Century Federal Workforce: Assessing Progress in Human Capital Management

7/19/04 2:30 PM Nomination Hearing for Neil McPhie and Barbara Sapin

7/15/04 9:00 AM Money Laundering and Foreign Corruption: Enforcement and Effectiveness of the Patriot Act

7/08/04 10:30 AM The Federal Government's Financial Statement and Accountability of Taxpayer Dollars at the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security

7/07/04 10:00 AM Juvenile Detention Centers: Are They Warehousing Children with Mental Illness

7/06/04 6:05 PM Business Meeting

6/23/04 4:00 PM International Smuggling Networks: Weapons of Mass Destruction Counterproliferation Initiatives

6/23/04 11:30 AM Nomination Hearing for David M. Stone to be Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration

6/17/04 9:00 AM Buyer Beware: The Danger of Purchasing Pharmaceuticals Over The Internet

6/15/04 10:30 AM An Assessment of Current Efforts to Combat Terrorism Financing

6/09/04 10:00 AM Going Nowhere: DOD Wastes Millions of Dollars on Unused Airline Tickets

6/08/04 2:30 PM Dietary Supplement Safety Act: How is FDA Doing 10 Years Later?

6/02/04 10:00 AM Executive Business Meeting

5/12/04 10:00 AM Bogus Degrees and Unmet Expectations: Are Taxpayer Dollars Subsidizing Diploma Mills? (Day 2)

5/11/04 10:30 AM Bogus Degrees and Unmet Expectations: Are Taxpayer Dollars Subsidizing Diploma Mills?

5/06/04 10:00 AM Trimming the Fat: Examining Duplicative and Outdated Federal Programs and Functions

4/29/04 10:45 AM Nomination Hearing for Mr. David Safavian

4/29/04 10:00 AM Nomination Hearing for Mr. Dawn Tisdale

4/28/04 10:00 AM Government Purchase Cards: Smarter Use Can Save Taxpayers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars

4/20/04 2:30 PM Oversight Hearing on Expensing Stock Options: Supporting and Strengthening the Independence of the Financial Accounting Standards Board

4/20/04 9:30 AM Pirates of the 21st Century: The Curse of the Black Market

4/08/04 9:30 AM Does CMS Have the Right Prescription? Implementing the Medicare Prescription Drug Program

4/07/04 2:00 PM Legislative Hearing on S. 346, a Bill to Amend the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to Establish a Governmentwide Policy Requiring Competition in Certain Procurements from Federal Prison Industries

4/07/04 10:00 AM Postal Reform: The Chairmen’s Perspectives on Governance and Rate-Setting

3/30/04 2:30 PM The Federal Government’s Role In Empowering Americans To Make Informed Financial Decisions

3/29/04 9:00 AM The Road to Recovery: Solving the Social Security Disability Backlog

3/24/04 9:00 AM Profiteering in a Non-profit Industry: Abusive Practices in Credit Counseling

3/23/04 2:30 PM The Postal Service in Crisis: A Joint Senate-House Hearing on Principles for Meaningful Reform

3/11/04 9:30 AM Postal Reform: Sustaining the 9 Million Jobs in the $900 Billion Mailing Industry (Day 2)

3/09/04 10:00 AM Postal Reform: Sustaining the 9 Million Jobs in the $900 Billion Mailing Industry (Day 1)

3/01/04 11:00 AM Oversight of the Thrift Savings Plan: Ensuring the Integrity of Federal Employee Retirement Savings

2/25/04 10:00 AM JOINT HEARING: The Key to Homeland Security: the New Human Resources System

2/24/04 10:00 AM Preserving a Strong United States Postal Service: Worforce Issues, Day 1

2/12/04 9:30 AM DOD Contractors that Cheat on their Taxes and What Should Be Done About It

2/09/04 10:00 AM Department of Homeland Security's budget for FY05

2/04/04 2:00 PM Preserving a Strong United States Postal Service: Workforce Issues, Day 2

1/27/04 10:00 AM Oversight Hearing on Mutual Funds: Hidden Fees, Misgovernance and Other Practices that Harm Investors

12/09/03 10:00 AM Fair or Foul: The Challenge of Negotiating, Monitoring, and Enforcing U.S. Trade Laws

11/21/03 11:15 AM Executive Business Meeting

11/20/03 10:00 AM Keeping the Lights On: The Federal Role in Managing the Nation's Electricity, Part Two

11/20/03 9:00 AM U. S. Tax Shelter Industry: The Role of Accountants, Lawyers and Financial Professionals, Day 2

11/19/03 9:30 AM Agroterrorism: The Threat to America's Breadbasket

11/18/03 2:30 PM Nominations Hearing

11/18/03 9:00 AM U. S. Tax Shelter Industry: The Role of Accountants, Lawyers and Financial Professionals, Day 1

11/12/03 3:30 PM S. 1358, the Federal Employee Protection of Disclosures Act: Amendments to the Whistleblower Protection Act

11/12/03 2:00 PM Nominations Hearing

11/06/03 2:00 PM DOD’s Improper Use of First and Business Class Airline Travel

11/05/03 2:00 PM The Report of the Presidential Commission on the U.S. Postal Service: Preserving Access and Affordability.

11/03/03 10:30 AM Mutual Funds: Trading Practices and Abuses that Harm Investors

10/22/03 10:30 AM Executive Business Meeting

10/08/03 10:00 AM SARS: Is Minnesota Prepared?

10/02/03 4:10 PM Executive Business Meeting

10/01/03 9:30 AM Deteriorating Buildings and Wasted Opportunities: The Need for Federal Real Property Reform

9/30/03 10:00 AM Privacy & Piracy: The Paradox of Illegal File Sharing on Peer-to-Peer Networks and the Impact of Technology on the Entertainment Industry

9/30/03 9:00 AM Nominations Hearing

9/24/03 9:30 AM Penalty for Public Service: Do the Social Security Government Pension Offset and Windfall Elimination Provisions Unfairly Discriminate Against Employees and Retirees?

9/23/03 9:30 AM CLOSED HEARING: Combating Terrorist Financing: Are We on the Right Track?

9/17/03 10:00 AM U.S. Postal Service: What Can Be Done to Ensure Its Future Viability?

9/16/03 11:00 AM Nomination Hearing, Department of Homeland Security

9/16/03 9:30 AM Oversight of GAO: What Lies Ahead for Congress' Watchdog?

9/15/03 2:30 PM Safeguarding America's Retirement Security: An Examination of Defined Benefit Pension Plans and the Pension Benefits Guaranty Corporation

9/10/03 9:00 AM Keeping the Lights On : The Federal Role in Managing the Nation's Electricity

8/06/03 10:00 AM Legal Drugs, Illegal Purposes: The Escalating Abuse of Prescription Medications

7/31/03 10:00 AM Terrorism Financing: Origination, Organization, and Prevention

7/30/03 1:50 PM Executive Business Meeting

7/30/03 9:00 AM SARS: Best Practices for Identifying And Caring for New Cases.

7/29/03 10:15 AM Nominations Hearing to Consider Joel D. Kaplan to be Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget

7/29/03 9:30 AM Department of Homeland Security Nominations hearing for Joe D. Whitley to be General Counsel and Penrose C. Albright to be Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Plans, Programs, and Budget).

7/24/03 9:30 AM Then and Now: An Update on the Administration's Competitive Sourcing Initiative

7/22/03 3:30 PM Nominations Hearing for Allen Weinstein to be Archivist of the United States

7/21/03 2:00 PM Oversight Hearing on Government Sponsored Enterprises: The Risks and Benefits to Consumers

7/17/03 9:30 AM Nowhere to Turn: Must Parents Relinquish Custody in Order to Secure Mental Health Services for Their Children?, Part 2: Government Response.

7/16/03 10:00 AM Great Lakes Restoration Management: No Direction, Unknown Progress.

7/15/03 9:30 AM Nowhere to Turn: Must Parents Relinquish Custody in Order to Secure Mental Health Services for Their Children?, Part 1: Families and Advocates.

6/26/03 12:50 PM Executive Business Meeting

6/25/03 9:30 AM Nomination of Joshua B. Bolten to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget

6/24/03 10:00 AM Juvenile Diabetes: Examining the Personal Toll on Families, Financial Costs to the Federal Health Care System, and Research Progress Toward a Cure

6/19/03 10:00 AM Self-Dealing and Breach of Duty: A Review of the ULLICO Matter

6/18/03 9:30 AM Superior Court of the District of Columbia Nominations

6/17/03 10:00 AM Executive Business Meeting

6/11/03 9:00 AM Patient Safety: Instilling Hospitals with a Culture of Continuous Improvement

6/05/03 10:30 AM Department of Homeland Security Nominations

6/04/03 9:30 AM Transforming the Department of Defense Personnel System: Finding the Right Approach.

5/21/03 9:00 AM SARS: How Effective Is The State And Local Response?

5/20/03 2:00 PM Drugs, Counterfeiting, and Weapons Proliferation: The North Korea Connection

5/15/03 2:00 PM Nominations

5/15/03 9:30 AM "Investing in Homeland Security: Challenges Facing State and Local Governments"

5/14/03 9:30 AM Tissue Banks: The Dangers of Tainted Tissue and the Need for Federal Regulation

5/12/03 12:30 PM An Overlooked Asset: the Defense Civilian Workforce

5/12/03 8:30 AM Border Security: How are State and Local Officials Coping With The New Levels of Threat?

5/01/03 10:00 AM Investing in Homeland Security: Streamlining and Enhancing Homeland Security Grant Programs

4/10/03 11:00 AM Prosecuting Iraqi War Crimes; A Consideration of the Different Forum Options

4/10/03 9:30 AM Nomination of Peter Eide to be General Counsel of the Federal Labor Relations Authority

4/09/03 9:30 AM Investing in Homeland Security, Challenges on the Front Line

4/08/03 9:30 AM The Human Capital Challenge: Offering Solutions and Delivering Results

4/02/03 10:00 AM Nominations

3/20/03 9:30 AM Cargo Containers: The Next Terrorist Target?

3/06/03 9:30 AM Evaluating Human Capital at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

3/05/03 10:00 AM Business Meeting

2/27/03 11:00 AM Nominations

2/26/03 10:00 AM Consolidating Intelligence Analysis: A Review of the President's Proposal to Create a Terrorist Threat Integration Center--Day 2

2/14/03 9:30 AM Consolidating Intelligence Analysis: A Review of the President's Proposal to Create a Terrorist Threat Integration Center

2/05/03 2:20 PM Business Meeting

1/24/03 9:30 AM The nomination of The Honorable Gordon England to be Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security

1/17/03 9:00 AM The nomination of The Honorable Tom Ridge to be Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security

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