The Senate is considering creating a special committee on the year 2000 computer problem, Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, said last week.
Bennett, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee Subcommittee on Financial Services and Technology, told a Washington year 2000 group that he would serve as chairman of a year 2000 committee, and hoped Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., would be vice chairman.
The committee would have governmentwide oversight responsibility, responsible for making sure that agencies prepare their computer systems for the century change, when many computer programs are set to malfunction because of an archaic coding snafu.
Bennett said Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., and Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., would announce the creation of the committee this week, though both Lott's and Daschle's offices said Monday that no announcement had been scheduled. A spokeswoman for Lott's office confirmed that the majority leader had discussed the year 2000 committee idea with Bennett.
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