[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 1866]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      NOTICES OF HEARINGS/MEETINGS


                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 hearing entitled ``The United 
Nations' Management and Oversight of the Oil-for-Food Program.'' This 
is the second of several hearings the Subcommittee intends to hold on 
this matter. The Subcommittee's first hearing on the Oil-for-Food 
Program (``OFF Program'') laid the foundation for future hearings by 
describing how the OFF Program was exploited by Saddam Hussein. This 
second hearing will examine the operations of the independent 
inspection agents retained by the United Nations and their role within 
the OFF Program. The administration of the OFF Program by the U.N. 
Office of the Iraq Program and the findings of the U.N. Office of 
Internal Oversight Services will also be examined.
  The Subcommittee hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, February 15, 2004, 
at 9:30 a.m. in Room 342 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. 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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