[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 166 (Tuesday, December 4, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Page S12385]
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                    AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO MEET


                      committee on armed services

  Ms. STABENOW. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Armed Services be authorized to meet during the session of 
the Senate on Tuesday, December 4, 2001, at 9:30 a.m., in open session 
to consider the nomination of Claude M. Bolton, Jr. to be Assistant 
Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology and, 
following the open session, to meet in executive session to consider 
certain pending nominations.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


               committee on environment and public works

  Ms. STABENOW. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Environment and Public Works be authorized to meet on 
Tuesday, December 4, 2001, at 9:30 a.m. to conduct a hearing on the 
remediation process of biologically contaminated buildings. 
Specifically, the Committee is interested in the challenges of, and 
technologies available for, remediating buildings contaminated by 
biological contaminants. The hearing will be held in the Rm. SD-406.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                     committee on foreign relations

  Ms. STABENOW. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session 
of the Senate on Tuesday, December 4, 2001, at 2:15 p.m. to hold a 
nomination hearing.

                                 Agenda

  Nominees: Adolfo Franco, of Virginia, to be an Assistant 
Administrator (Latin America and the Caribbean) of the United States 
Agency for International Development; Frederick Schieck, of Virginia, 
to be Deputy Administrator of the United States Agency for 
International Development; and Roger Winter, of Maryland, to be an 
Assistant Administrator (Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian 
Assistance) of the United States Agency for International Development.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                     committee on foreign relations

  Ms. STABENOW. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session 
of the Senate on Tuesday, December 4, 2001, at 4:30 p.m. to hold a 
nomination hearing.

                                 Agenda

  Nominees: William R. Brownfield, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Chile; and Charles S. Shapiro, of Georgia, to be Ambassador 
to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                       Committee on the Judiciary

  Ms. STABENOW. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet to conduct a hearing 
on ``Department of Justice Oversight: Preserving Our Freedoms While 
Defending Against Terrorism,'' Tuesday, December 4, 2001, at 10 a.m. in 
Dirksen Room 226.

                         Tentative Witness List

  Panel I: The Honorable Pierre-Richard Prosper, Ambassador-at-Large 
for War Crimes Issues, Department of State, Washington, DC.
  Panel II: George J. Terwilliger III, Partner, White and Case, former 
Deputy Attorney General, Washington, DC; Professor Laurence H. Tribe, 
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA; Major General Michael J. Nardotti, 
Jr., Partner, Patton Boggs LLP, former Army Judge Advocate General, 
Washington, DC; Professor Cass R. Sunstein, University of Chicago Law 
School, Chicago, IL; and Timothy Lynch, Esq., Director, Project on 
Criminal Justice, Cato Institute, Washington, DC.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                       Committee on the Judiciary

  Ms. STABENOW. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet to conduct a hearing 
on ``Department of Justice Oversight: Preserving Our Freedoms While 
Defending Against Terrorism,'' Tuesday, December 4, 2001, at 2 p.m. in 
Dirksen Room 226.

                              Witness List

  Panel I: Viet D. Dinh, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal 
Policy, U.S. Department of Justice.
  Panel II: Ali Al-Maqtari, New Haven, CT; Michael J. Boyle, Esq., Law 
Offices of Michael J. Boyle, North Haven CT; Steven Emerson, The 
Investigative Project, Washington, DC; Gerald H. Goldstein, Esq., 
Goldstein, Goldstein & Hilley, San Antonio, TX; Nadine Strossen, 
President, American Civil Liberties Union, Professor, New York Law 
School, New York, NY; and Victoria Toensing, Esq., DiGenova & Toensing, 
Washington, DC.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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