House committees go bargain shopping next week

The same day, the House Oversight and Government Reform will hold a hearing to ask if the government is using its power to suspend and debar government contractors enough in the name of protecting taxpayer funds.

{mosads}On Thursday, the House Ways and Means Committee will examine tax havens, tax base erosion and profit shifting, part of a series of meetings on possible tax reform.

And speaking of spending money, the House Budget Committee will gather Wednesday to hear about the Defense Department’s 2014 budget request. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will testify there, and also in a Senate hearing the same day on the same topic.

Details on these hearings follow:

House Budget

June 12, “The Department of Defense and the Fiscal Year 2014 Budget,” DOD Secretary Chuck Hagel testifies
     1 p.m., 210 Cannon House Office Building

House Financial Services

June 12, “Beyond GSEs: Examples of Successful Housing Finance Models without Explicit Government Guarantees”
     10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn House Office Building

House Foreign Affairs

June 12, “Modernizing U.S. International Food Aid: Reaching More for Less”
     10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn House Office Building

House Oversight and Government Reform

June 12, “Protecting Taxpayer Dollars: Is the Government Using Suspension and Debarment Effectively?”
     9:30 a.m., 2154 Rayburn House Office Building

House Ways & Means

June 13, “Tax Reform: Tax Havens, Base Erosion and Profit-Shifting”
     10 a.m., 1100 Longworth House Office Building