Oversight Committee Hearing Schedule for March 28 to April 1, 2011
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30th
Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs, Chairman Patrick McHenry, R-NC.
Title: Has Dodd-Frank Ended Too Big to Fail?
Date/Time/Location: Wednesday, March 30th at 9:30 a.m. in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building
When President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Act into law he said: “there will be new rules to make clear that no firm is somehow protected because it is ‘too big to fail.'” Will Dodd-Frank actually do what the President said it would?
Notes: Outgoing Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program Neil Barfosky and Assistant Treasury Secretary Tim Massad will testify along with a panel of experts on Dodd-Frank.
Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement hearing, Chairman James Lankford, R-Okla.
Title: Unfunded Mandates and Regulatory Overreach Part II
Date/Time/Location: Wednesday, March 30th at 1:30 p.m. in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building
This hearing will ask: Why are so many costly federal mandates not formally classified as “Unfunded Mandates?” At the subcommittee’s February hearing, former White House regulatory affairs chief Susan Dudley pointed out specific examples of expensive and unfunded mandates imposed by the federal government that were not deemed “Unfunded Mandates” by the 1995 act. The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA) of 1995 was supposed to save taxpayer money, protect private sector job creators, and preserve federalism by keeping unfunded mandates off the backs of states, localities, tribal governments and industry. Is UMRA getting the job done?
THURSDAY, MARCH 31st
Full Committee, Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif.
Title: Why Isn’t the Department of Homeland Security Meeting the President’s Standard on FOIA?
Date/Time/Location: Thursday, March 31st at 9:30 a.m. in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building
The Committee will examine the Department of Homeland Security’s policy of requiring approval from political appointees to send responses to FOIA requests from the media and watchdog organizations. The Committee will also examine whether the Department still allows front office and public affairs staff to delay and withhold responses for political or other inappropriate reasons.
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