FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: JESSE JACOBS
Wednesday, June 6, 2001 202-224-4524


SARBANES ANNOUNCES HEARING
ON FEDERAL RESERVE NOMINEE


Senator Paul S. Sarbanes, Chairman of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, has announced that the full Committee will hold a hearing on the nomination of Roger W. Ferguson , Jr., of Massachusetts, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

The hearing will be held:

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 2001
10:00 A.M.
538 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING



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