COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS SUBCOMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC POLICY will meet in OPEN SESSION, HYBRID FORMAT to conduct a hearing on “The Federal Debt Limit and its Economic and Financial Consequences.”  The witnesses will be: Dr. Mark Zandi, Chief Economist, Moody’s Analytics; Ms. Anat Weisenfreund, Director of Head Start and Early Learning Programs at Community Action Pioneer Valley; Dr. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, President, American Action Forum; Dr. Michael R. Strain, Director of Economic Policy Studies and Arthur F. Burns Scholar in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute; and Ms. Amy K. Matsui, Senior Counsel and Director of Income Security, National Women’s Law Center.

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