[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 389 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 389

   To increase the number of Federal judgeships, in accordance with 
 recommendations by the Judicial Conference, in districts that have an 
               extraordinarily high immigration caseload.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 25, 2007

  Mr. Domenici (for himself, Mr. Kyl, Mrs. Hutchison, and Mr. Cornyn) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To increase the number of Federal judgeships, in accordance with 
 recommendations by the Judicial Conference, in districts that have an 
               extraordinarily high immigration caseload.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ADDITIONAL DISTRICT COURT JUDGESHIPS.

    The President shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of 
the Senate, such additional district court judges as are necessary to 
carry out the 2005 recommendations of the Judicial Conference for 
district courts in which the criminal immigration filings represented 
more than 50 percent of all criminal filings for the 12-month period 
ending September 30, 2004.
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