[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 141 (Thursday, October 18, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Page S10849]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO MEET


                       committee on the judiciary

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on the Judiciary be authorized to conduct a markup meeting beginning at 
11:05 a.m., in the President's Room, S-216, the Capitol.

     I. Unfinished Business

  S. 1319/H.R. 2215, the Department of Justice fiscal year 2002 
authorization bill [Leahy/Hatch]; S. 754, the Drug Competition Act of 
2001 [Leahy / Kohl / Schumer / Durbin / Feingold / Cantwell]; and S. 
1140, the Motor Vehicle Franchise Contract Arbitration Fairness Act of 
2001 [Hatch/Feingold/Grassley/Leahy].

     II. Nominations

  Karen K. Caldwell to be United States District Judge for the Eastern 
District of Kentucky; Laurie Smith Camp to be United States District 
Judge for the District of Nebraska; Claire V. Eagan to be United States 
District Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma; James H. Payne to 
be United States District Judge for the Northern, Eastern and Western 
Districts of Oklahoma; and Jay S. Bybee to be Assistant Attorney 
General for the Office of Legal Counsel.
  To Be United States Attorney: Daniel G. Bogden for the District of 
Nevada; Margaret M. Chiara for the Western District of Michigan; Robert 
C. Conrad for the Western District of North Carolina; Thomas M. 
DiBiagio for the District of Maryland; Patrick J. Fitzgerald for the 
Northern District of Illinois; Thomas C. Gean for the Western District 
of Arkansas; James Ming Greenlee for the Northern District of 
Mississippi; Raymond W. Greunder for the Eastern District of Missouri; 
Thomas E. Johnston for the Northern District of West Virginia; John 
McKay for the Western District of Washington; Anna Mills S. Wagoner for 
the Middle District of North Carolina; Karl K. Warner, II for the 
Southern District of West Virginia; and Donald W. Washington for the 
Western District of Louisiana.

     III. Resolutions

  S.J. Res. 12, a joint resolution granting the consent of Congress to 
the International Emergency Management Assistance Memorandum of 
Understanding. [Smith/Leahy/Jeffords/Chafee/Lieberman/Gregg] and an 
unnumbered resolution by Senator Specter.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                       committee on the judiciary

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on the Judiciary be authorized to conduct a nominations hearing 
beginning at 2 p.m., in S-128, the Capitol.
  Nominees: Charles W. Pickering, Sr. to the United States Court of 
Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; M. Christina Armijo to the United States 
District Court for the District of New Mexico; Karon O. Bowdre to the 
United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama; 
Stephen P. Friot to the United States District Court for the Western 
District of Oklahoma; and Larry R. Hicks to the United States District 
Court for the District of Nevada.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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