[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 118 (Wednesday, September 12, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D889]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                           SEPTEMBER 13, 2001

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings on the nomination of 
General Richard B. Myers, USAF, for appointment as the Chairman of 
the Joint Chiefs of Staff and appointment to the grade of general, 
2:30 p.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee 
on Science, Technology, and Space, to hold hearings to examine 
digital divide issues, 2 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings on the nomination 
of John D. Negroponte, of the District of Columbia, to be a 
Representative of the United States of America to the Sessions of 
the General Assembly of the United Nations during his tenure of 
service as Representative of the United States of America to the 
United Nations and to be the Representative of the United States of 
America to the United Nations in the Security Council of the United 
Nations, 11 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: business 
meeting to consider S. 952, to provide collective bargaining rights 
for public safety officers employed by States or their political 
subdivisions; S. 928, to amend the Age Discrimination in Employment 
Act of 1967 to require, as a condition of receipt or use of Federal 
financial assistance, that States waive immunity to suit for certain 
violations of that Act, and to affirm the availability of certain 
suits for injunctive relief to ensure compliance with that Act; and 
the nomination of Brian Jones, of California, to be General Counsel, 
Department of Education, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider S. 754, 
to enhance competition for prescription drugs by increasing the 
ability of the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission to 
enforce existing antitrust laws regarding brand name drugs and 
generic drugs; S. 1319/H.R. 2215, a bill to authorize appropriations 
for the Department of Justice for fiscal year 2002; S. 1140, to 
amend chapter 1 of title 9, United States Code, to provide for 
greater fairness in the arbitration process relating to motor 
vehicle franchise contracts; S. 1315, to make improvements in title 
18, United States Code, and safeguard the integrity of the criminal 
justice system, an original bill, designating the week beginning 
September 16, 2001 as ``National Historically Black Colleges and 
Universities Week'', and pending nominations, 10:30 a.m., SD-226.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the nominations of 
Barrington D. Parker, Jr., of Connecticut, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, Laurie Smith Camp, to be 
United States District Judge for the District of Nebraska, Michael 
P. Mills, to be United States District Judge for the Northern 
District of Mississippi, and John W. Gillis, of California, to be 
Director of the Office of Victims of Crime, 2 p.m., SD-226.