[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 2767]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      NOTICES OF HEARINGS/MEETINGS


            COMMITTEE ON SMALL BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

  Ms. SNOWE. Mr. President, I wish to inform Members that the Committee 
on Small Business & Entrepreneurship will hold a public hearing to 
consider, ``The President's fiscal year 2007 Budget Request and 
Legislative Proposals for the SBA'' on Thursday, March 9, 2006 at 10 
a.m., in room 428A Russell Senate Office Building. The Honorable Hector 
Barreto, SBA Administrator, will testify.
  The Chair urges every member to attend.


                     Subcommittee on National Parks

  Mr. THOMAS. Mr. President, I would like to announce for the 
information of the Senate and the public that a hearing has been 
scheduled before the Subcommittee on National Parks.
  The hearing will be held on Tuesday, March 14th, at 2:30 p.m. in room 
SD-366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
  The purpose of the hearing is to review the President's proposed 
budget for the National Park Service fiscal year 2007.
  Because of the limited time available for the hearing, witnesses may 
testify by invitation only. However, those wishing to submit written 
testimony for the hearing record should send two copies of their 
testimony to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United 
States Senate, Washington, DC 20510-6150.
  For further information, please contact Tom Lillie, David Szymanski, 
or Sara Zecher.


                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 on March 14, 2006, 
entitled ``GSA Contractors Who Cheat on Their Taxes and What Should Be 
Done About It.'' The March 14 hearing will be the third hearing on 
Federal contractors with unpaid tax debt. In February 2004, the 
subcommittee held a hearing entitled ``DOD Contractors Who Cheat on 
Their Taxes, which examined the IRS' failure to collect $3 billion in 
unpaid taxes owed by contractors doing business with the Department of 
Defense, DOD, and getting paid with taxpayer dollars. In June 2005, the 
Subcommittee held a hearing entitled ``Civilian Contractors Who Cheat 
on Their Taxes'', which identified an additional $3.3 billion in unpaid 
taxes and demonstrated that the problem of tax delinquent Federal 
contractors is not confined to DOD. Because of the potential revenue 
that could be collected by the Federal Payment Levy Program from non-
DOD contractors, the subcommittee expanded the coverage of the 
investigation to include contractors at other Federal agencies who 
receive Federal contract payments and are delinquent in paying their 
taxes. In the continuing investigation of Federal contractors who do 
not pay their taxes, the subcommittee plans to hold a hearing on March 
14 on the General Service Administration's contractors who are tax 
delinquent. Federal contractors who owe taxes are still allowed to do 
business with the Federal Government. The hearing will explore the 
extent to which these contractors are tax delinquent and what can be 
done about it.
  The subcommittee hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, March 14, 2006, 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.

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