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Secretive Senate Aging Committee Plans Hearing on
Women's Retirement Income
By Tucker Sutherland,
editor
March 14, 2006 In the first four years of
President George W. Bush's administration, senior citizen issues were
well aired by the Senate's Special Committee on Aging, but this took a
drastic turn for the worse in the second administration, when the
chairmanship of the committee changed. Since Sen. Gordon H. Smith (R-
Oregon) took charge, the hearings have been rare and little publicized.
A once highly active a committee that sought out solutions to meaningful
challenges facing America's senior citizen has become a dim echo lost in
the sea of relevant discussion from other sources.
Tomorrow, the committee will hold a hearing titled
"Bridging the Gender Gap: Eliminating Retirement Income Disparity for
Women."
There has not been a new release issued or posted
on their Website, although a search of the hearings list shows it will
be at 10 a.m. on March 15 in room 106 of the Dirksen Senate Office
Building. There will be a Webcast that can be viewed (Click
here to view hearing).
 Witnesses
Schedule include:
Panel 1
● Jean Chatzky , Editor-at-large for Money
Magazine, Financial editor for NBCs Today Show, Briar Cliff Manor, NY
● Cindy Hounsell , Executive Director, Womens
Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER), Washington, DC
● Barbara B. Kennelly , President, National
Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare, Washington, DC
● Dr. Jack L. VanDerhei , EBRI Fellow, Employee
Benefit Research Institute, Washington, DC
Panel 2
● Karyne Jones , President and Chief Executive
Officer, The National Caucus and Center on Black Aged, Inc., Washington,
DC
● Sara C. Hart , Director, Corporate Benefits,
CNF Service Company, Portland, OR
● Lynn Rollins , Senior Advisor, Womens Issues
to New York Governor Pataki, New York, NY
The committee home page is at
http://aging.senate.gov/, where readers can see the other members to
contribute to the lack of contribution by this committee.
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