[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 15 (Monday, February 5, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D61]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings

  No Committee meetings were held.

Joint Meetings
BARRIERS TO STATE AND LOCAL PRIVATIZATION/EMPLOYMENT-UNEMPLOYMENT
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to examine Federal 
barriers to State and local privatization efforts, receiving testimony 
from New York Governor George Pataki, Ronald Lauder, New York 
Commission on Privatization, both of Albany, New York; Robert Poole, 
Reason Foundation, Los Angeles, California; Mike Bell, British Airports 
Authority-USA, Sterling, Virginia; John Dowd, Wheelabrator, Inc., 
Hampton, New Hampshire; Al Bilik, AFL/CIO, and Albert Shanker, American 
Federation of Teachers, both of Washington, D.C.; and Bob Cranmer, 
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
  On Friday, February 2, Committee held hearings on the employment-
unemployment situation for January, receiving testimony from Katharine 
G. Abraham, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of 
Labor.
  Committee recessed subject to call.