FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: CHRISTI HARLAN
Monday, March 19, 2001 202-224-0894


COMMITTEE'S VIEWS AND ESTIMATES
TRANSMITTED TO BUDGET COMMITTEE


Sen. Phil Gramm, chairman of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, announces that the committee has prepared its views and estimates of proposed funding for programs under the committee's jurisdiction and transmitted those views in a letter to the Senate Budget Committee as required under the Congressional Budget Act.

The programs addressed in the committee's views and estimates include securities markets oversight and reform; international finance and trade; federal disaster relief and the National Flood Insurance Program; federal housing programs, and the Public Utility Holding Company Act.

The text of the views and estimates letter can be found under Documents on the committee's web site at Copies of the eight-page letter can also be obtained at the committee's office in Room 534 of the Dirksen Senate Building.

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View text of Views and Estimates Letter