[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 12 (Tuesday, February 8, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D66-D67]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

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.,

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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.