FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

CONTACT: Jesse Jacobs

Friday, October 12, 2001

202-224-4524



SARBANES ANNOUNCES HEARING
ON FEDERAL RESERVE NOMINEES


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 two pending nominations to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

The hearing will be held:

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2001
9:30 A.M.
538 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING

The following Federal Reserve Board nominations will be considered:

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