THE COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS SUBCOMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC POLICY will meet in OPEN SESSION, HYBRID FORMAT to conduct a hearing entitled, “Child Care and Other Policy Tools to Combat Bottlenecks and Inflation.” The witnesses will be: The Honorable William E. Spriggs, Professor Of Economics, Howard University and Chief Economist, AFL-CIO; Ms. Melissa Colagrosso, Owner and Director, A Place To Grow Children’s Center; Ms. Kathleen Sgamma President, Western Energy Alliance; Mr. Brian Riedl, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute. Additional witnesses may be added at a later date.

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