Hearing Schedule and Statements - 2001
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RESCHEDULED: October 25, at 9:00 AM: Economic Stimulus
LOCATION: S-211 (LBJ Room)
  • Peter Orzag -- Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institute
  • William Gale -- Pechman Fellow, The Brookings Institute
  • Chairman Kent Conrad - Opening Statement

    October 2, at 10:00 AM: The Economic Outlook
    LOCATION: SD-562
  • R. Glenn Hubbard -- Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers
  • Martin Baily -- Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics
  • Dr. Alan Krueger -- Princeton University
  • Chairman Kent Conrad - Opening Statement

    September 6, at 9:30 AM: OMB's Mid-Session Review and the Budget and Economic Outlook
    LOCATION: SH-216
  • Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. -- Director, Office of Management and Budget

    September 4, at 2:00 PM: The Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update
    LOCATION: SH-216
  • Dr. Dan L. Crippen -- Director, Congressional Budget Office

    FIELD HEARING
    August 31 at 9:30 AM The Farm Bill
    LOCATION: Prairie Rose Room Rooms 335 & 336, Upper Level of Memorial Union
    NDSU Campus, Administrative Avenue; Fargo, North Dakota
  • Robert Carlson, President -- North Dakota Farmers Union
  • Eric Aasmundstad, President -- North Dakota Farm Bureau
  • Keith Trego -- Northern Great Plains Working Group
  • Gene Harris, President -- North Dakota Stockmen's Association
  • Allan Skogen, President -- North Dakota Grain Growers Association
  • Additional Witnesses to be Announced

    FIELD HEARING
    August 29, at 9:30 AM: Medicare Prescription Drugs
    LOCATION: Medical Staff Conference Rooms 1&2, Out Patient Service Building, Med Center One
    414 North 7th Street; Bismarck, North Dakota
  • Dr. Patricia Neuman -- Vice President and Director, Medicare Policy Project; Kaiser Family Foundation
  • Galen Jorde -- Executive Vice President, North Dakota Pharmaceutical Association
  • Additional witnesses to be determined

    August 2, 10:00 AM: Social Security: Budgetary Tradeoffs and Transition Costs
  • Mr. Robert Greenstein -- Executive Director, Center on Budget & Policy Priorities
  • Dr. Peter Orszag -- President, Sebago Associates
  • Dr. Sylvester J. Schieber -- Director of Research & Information, Watson Wyatt Company
  • Chairman Kent Conrad - Opening Statement

    July 18, 9:30 AM: Defense Spending and the Budget Outlook
  • Paul Wolfowitz -- Deputy Secretary of Defense

    July 12, 10:00 AM: Economic and Budget Update
  • Mitch Daniels -- Director, Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
  • Chairman Kent Conrad - Opening Statement

    June 28, 10:00 AM: How Big is the Remaining Surplus?
  • Mr. Robert Greenstein -- Executive Director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
  • Mr. Robert Bixby -- Executive Director, Concord Coalition
  • Ms. Carol Cox Wait -- Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
  • Chairman Kent Conrad - Opening and Closing Statements

    June 27, 10:00 AM: Reassessing the Economic Outlook
  • Dr. Martin N. Baily -- Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics
  • Dr. William C. Dudley -- Managing Director and Director of U.S. Economic Research, Goldman Sachs
  • Mr. Brian Wesbury -- Vice President & Chief Economist; Griffin, Kubik, Stephens, & Thompson, Inc.
  • Chairman Kent Conrad - Opening Statement

    March 22, 11:00 AM: Debt Management
  • Gary Gensler -- Former Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, Treasury Department
  • Edwin Truman -- Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics

    March 14, 10:00 AM: The President's Fiscal Year 2002 Budget Proposal
  • Colin Powell -- Secretary of State

    March 8, 10:00 AM: The President's Fiscal Year 2002 Budget Proposal
  • Roderick R. Paige -- Secretary of Education

    March 6, 10:00 AM: The President's Fiscal Year 2002 Budget Proposal
  • Tommy G. Thompson -- Secretary for Health and Human Services

    March 2, 10:00 AM: The President's Fiscal Year 2002 Budget Proposal
  • Mitch Daniels -- Director, Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

    March 1, 11:00 AM: The President's Fiscal Year 2002 Budget Proposal
  • Paul O'Neill -- Secretary of the Treasury

    February 15, 10:00 AM: Medicare Reform and Prescription Drugs
  • Dr. Marilyn Moon -- Senior Fellow, the Urban Institute
  • Dr. Robert Reischauer -- President, the Urban Institute
  • Gail R. Wilensky, Ph.D. -- Olin Senior Fellow, Project HOPE
  • Kathleen E. Means -- Senior Health Policy Advisor, Patton Boggs LLP

    Febuary 13, 10:00 AM: The Budget and Tax Policy
  • Gene Sperling -- Guest Scholar, Brookings Institution
  • William Gale -- Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute
  • Dr. Martin Feldstein -- Professor of Economics, Harvard University
  • Dr. Kevin Hassett -- Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute

    February 12, 2:00 PM: The National Defense Budget in the New Century
  • Robert J. Lieberman -- Deputy Inspector General, Department of Defense
  • Admiral William Owens -- Co-Chairman, Teledesic LLC
  • Dr. Andrew Krepinevich -- Executive Director, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

    February 8, 10:30 AM: Budget and Economic Outlook
  • Robert Greenstein -- Executive Director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
  • Dr. Alice Rivlin -- Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute
  • Wayne Angell -- Chief Economist and Senior Managing Director, Bear Stearns & Company Inc.
  • Stephen Moore -- Senior Fellow, The Cato Institute

    February 7, 10:00 AM : The Impact of Demographic Trends on the Budget and Long-Term Fiscal Policy

  • Ronald Lee -- Professor of Demography and Economics, University of California, Berkeley
  • Dr. Peter Orszag -- President, Sebago Associates
  • Robert Friedland, Ph.D. -- Director, Center on an Aging Society (Georgetown University)
  • Ben Wattenberg -- Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute

    February 6, 10:30 AM : Long-Term Budgetary Issues

  • David Walker -- Comptroller General (General Accounting Office)

    January 31, 10:00 AM : Budget and Economic Outlook

  • Barry Anderson -- Deputy Director, Congressional Budget Office

    January 30, 10:30 AM : The Economy: Sector Analysis

  • Robert E. Young -- Co-Director, Food & Agricultural Policy Research Instit. (Univ. of Missouri-Columbia)
  • James Glassman -- Senior Economist and Managing Director, JP Morgan Chase
  • Dr. Peter S. Fox-Penner -- The Brattle Group
  • Matt Simmons -- President, Simmons & Company International

    January 25, 10:00 AM in SH-212: Evolving Fiscal Challenges

  • Alan Greenspan -- Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    January 19, 10:00 AM: Final Clinton Administration Report on the Budget and the Economy

  • Jacob Lew -- Director, Office of Management and Budget