[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 113 (Tuesday, September 4, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D857-D858]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
U.S. ECONOMY
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
current economic and budget situation facing the United States, 
focusing on the recent Congressional Budget Office report, ``The Budget 
and Economic Outlook: An Update'', after receiving testimony from Dan 
L. Crippen, Director, Congressional Budget Office.
NOMINATION AND CONFIRMATION PROCESS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts resumed hearings to examine the Senate's role in and the 
criteria that should be applied with regard to the judicial nomination 
and confirmation process, receiving testimony from Senator Thompson; 
former Senator Paul Simon; Sanford Levinson, University of Texas Law 
School, Austin; Ronald D. Rotunda, University of Illinois College of 
Law, Champaign; Judith Resnik, Yale University Law School, New Haven, 
Connecticut; and Douglas W. Kmiec, Catholic University of America 
Columbus School of Law, and Mark Tushnet, Georgetown University Law 
Center, both of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: On Wednesday, August 22, committee 
concluded hearings on the nominations of Reggie B. Walton, to be United 
States District Judge for the District of Columbia, and Richard R. 
Nedelkoff, of Texas, to be Director of the Bureau of Justice 
Assistance, Department of Justice,

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after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf. Mr. Walton was introduced by District of Columbia Delegate 
Eleanor Holmes Norton.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: On Monday, August 27, Committee concluded 
hearings on the nominations of Sharon Prost, of the District of 
Columbia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit, 
and Terry L. Wooten, to be United States District Judge for the 
District of South Carolina, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf. Ms. Prost was introduced by District of 
Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Mr. Wooten was introduced 
by Senator Thurmond.