[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 11 (Thursday, February 2, 2006)]
[Senate]
[Page S692]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS

  Mr. COLEMAN. Mr. President, I would like to announce for the 
information of the Senate and the public that the Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Homeland Security 
and Governmental Affairs will hold a field hearing in St. Paul, MN, 
entitled ``Volatility in the Natural Gas Market: The Impact of High 
Natural Gas Prices on American Consumers,'' regarding the 
subcommittee's investigations into the natural gas market and 
allegations that price and supply manipulation have caused increasingly 
high and volatile natural gas prices. The subcommittee intends to hold 
a hearing to examine the impact higher prices have on the economy, 
business, and families, and the government's role in ensuring that 
natural gas prices are determined in a competitive and informed 
marketplace.
  The subcommittee hearing is scheduled for Friday, February 10, 2006, 
at 10 a.m., at the James J. Hill Reference Library at 80 West 4th 
Street in St. Paul, MN. For further information, please contact Raymond 
V. Shepherd, III, staff director and chief counsel to the Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations, at 224-3721.

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