No SFRC Meeting this morning. Bolton, ah, bolted.

[TayTay]

Sen. Coleman must be in mourning. Guess that means I will watch the Senate or that Finance hearing at 10:00, or switch back and forth.

Sigh!

[karynnj]

1. Your fiction may have been closer than you thought

I wonder what he doesn't want to get questions on from our side.

[TayTay]

4. Dear Lord, that is just too sad.

And I do feel bad for Sen. Coleman. I can imagine him buying a new suit, getting a haircut, maybe using that new cologne just because Bolton was going to be there today. He must be simply heartbroken.

They will undoubtedly reschedule when Bolton can take a break from wrecking the Human Rights Commission. So busy these days you know.

[ginnyinWI]

5. Hey, it's hard work!

It's not easy bringing down the most powerful country in the world! :sarcasm: :)

[TayTay]

6. Too true Ginny, too true. n/t

[TayTay]

2. Wireless Telecom hearing at 10:00

Wireless Issues/Spectrum Reform
Full Committee Hearing
Tuesday, March 14 2006 - 10:00 AM - D-106
http://commerce.senate.gov/hearings/witnesslist.cfm?id=1709

Webcast: Click here to view a live webcast of this hearing.
Description: Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and Co-Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) have scheduled a Full Committee Hearing on Wireless Issues/Spectrum Reform for 10am on Wednesday, March 14, 2006 in room 106 of the Dirksen Building.

Panel 1:

Ms. Catherine W. Seidel
Acting Bureau Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, Federal Communications Commission

Mr. John M.R. Kneuer
Acting Assistant Secretary Communications and Information, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce

Ms. JayEtta Hecker
Director of the Physical Infrastructure Team, U.S. Government Accountability Office

Panel 2:

Mr. Thomas F. Walsh
President of the Board, Rural Cellular Association

Dr. Kevin Kahn
Director of the Communications Technology Lab, Intel Corporation

Mr. Robert W. Hubbard
Secretary and Treasurer, Association for Maximum Service Television

Mr. Thomas J. Sugrue
Vice President of Government Affairs, T-Mobile USA, Inc.

Ms. Jeannine Kenney
Senior Policy Advisor, Consumer Union

Mr. Lawrence J. White
Co-Chair of the Spectrum Policy Working Group, The Digital Age Communications Act Project, Progress & Freedom Foundation

[TayTay]

3. Social Security Admin Probs - Fin Comm Hearing

Administrative Challenges Facing the Social Security Administration
http://finance.senate.gov/sitepages/hearing031406.htm

March 14, 2006, at 10:00 a.m. in 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Member Statements:
Charles Grassley, IA
Max Baucus, MT

Witness Statements:

Panel

Jo Anne B. Barnhart, Commissioner, Social Security Administration, Baltimore, Maryland

Patrick P. O’Carroll, Jr., Inspector General, Social Security Administration, Baltimore, Maryland

Richard E. Warsinskey, President, National Council of Social Security, Management Associations, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio

Eileen Sweeny, Co-Chair, Social Security Task Force, Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Washington, DC

Erwin Hathaway, Social Security Disability Insurance Beneficiary, Trego, Montana