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Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures

Joint Hearing on Examining Pension Security and Defined Benefit Plans: The Bush Administration's Proposal to Replace the 30-Year Treasury Rate

Tuesday, July 15, 2003

Hearing Advisory

McCrery Announces Joint Hearing on Examining Pension Security and Defined Benefit Plans: The Bush Administration's Proposal to Replace the 30-Year Treasury Rate

Witness List and Testimony (Printer Friendly)

Opening Statements
	The Honorable Sam Johnson, Chairman, Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and a Representative in Congress from the State of Texas
	The Honorable Jim McCrery, Chairman, Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures, and a Representative in Congress from the State of Louisiana
	The Honorable Dave Camp and the Honorable Earl Pomeroy, Representatives in Congress from the State of Michigan and the State of North Dakota
	The Honorable Stephanie Tubbs Jones, a Representative in Congress from the State of Ohio

Witnesses
	Panel:
	The Honorable Peter R. Fisher, Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, U.S. Department of the Treasury
	The Honorable Ann L. Combs, Assistant Secretary for Employee Benefits Security, U.S. Department of Labor

	Panel:
	Kenneth W. Porter, Director, Global Benefits, DuPont Company, Wilmington, Delaware, on behalf of the American Benefits Council, the Business Rundtable, the Committee on Investment of Employee Benefit Assets, the ERISA Industry Committee, the Financial Executives International, the National Association of Manufacturers, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
	Ashton Phelps, Jr., Publisher, Times-Picayune, New Orleans, Louisiana
	Christian E. Weller, Ph.D., Economist, Economic Policy Institute
	Ken Steiner, Resource Actuary, Watson Wyatt Worldwide

Submissions for the Record

	AARP, Michael W. Naylor, letter and attachment
	Allied Pilots Association, Fort Worth, TX, statement
	American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, statement
	American Society of Pension Actuaries, Arlington, VA, statement
	Boehner, Hon. John A., a Representative in Congress from the State of Ohio, statement
	International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America, Alan Reuther, letter
	March of Dimes, Marina L. Weiss, letter
	United Airlines Master Executive Council of the Air Line Pilots Association, International, Rosemont, IL, Paul Whiteford, statement

Hearing Transcript

Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures, 108-26, Joint Hearing on Examining Pension Security and Defined Benefit Plans: The Bush Administration's Proposal to Replace the 30-Year Treasury Rate

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