[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 44 (Thursday, April 18, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2988-S2989]
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                    AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO MEET


           Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Commerce, Science, and Transportation be authorized to meet on 
Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 9:30 a.m., on pending committee business.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                          committee on finance

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Finance be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on 
Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 9:30 a.m., to hear testimony on corporate 
governance and executive compensation.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                   committee on governmental affairs

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Governmental Affairs be authorized to meet on Thursday, April 18, 
2002, at 9:30 a.m., for the purpose of holding a hearing entitled ``The 
State of Public Health Preparedness for Terrorism Involving Weapons of 
Mass Destruction: A Six-Month Report Card.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


           committee on health, education, labor and pensions

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions be authorized to meet for a 
hearing on ``Over One Year Later: Inadequate Progress On America's 
Leading Cause Of Workplace Injury,'' during the session of the Senate 
on Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 10 a.m.
  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 meet to conduct a markup on Thursday, 
April 18, 2002, at 10 a.m., in Dirksen Room 226.

                                 Agenda

     I. Nominations

  Jeffrey Howard for the United States Court of Appeals for the First 
Circuit; Percy Anderson for the United States District Court for the 
Central District of California; Michael M. Baylson United States 
District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; William C. 
Griesbach for the United States District Court for the Eastern District 
of Wisconsin; Joan E. Lancaster for the United States District Court 
for the District of Minnesota; Cynthia M. Rufe for the United States 
District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; and John F. 
Walter for the United States District Court for the Central District of 
California.
  To be Deputy Directors of the Office of National Drug Control Policy: 
Mary Ann Solberg and Barry Crane.
  To be United States Attorney: Frank DeArmon Whitney for the Eastern 
District of North Carolina and Debra W. Yang for the Central Dist of 
California.

     II. Bills

  H. Con. Res. 243, expressing the sense of the Congress that the 
Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor should be presented to the public 
safety officers who have perished and select other public safety 
officers who deserve special recognition for outstanding valor above 
and beyond the call of duty in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks 
in the United States on September 11, 2001. [Crowley]
  S. Con. Res. 66, a concurrent resolution to express the sense of the 
Congress that the Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor should be 
awarded to public safety officers killed in the line of duty in the 
aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. [Stevens]
  S. Con. Res. 75, a concurrent resolution to express the sense of the 
Congress that the Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor should be 
presented to public safety officers killed or seriously injured as a 
result of the terrorist attacks perpetrated against the United States 
on September 11, 2001, and to those who participated in the search, 
rescue and recovery efforts in the aftermath of those attacks. [Harkin]
  S. 864, Anti-Atrocity Alien Deportation Act of 2001, with Leahy/Hatch 
substitute. [Leahy/Lieberman/Levin]
  S. 2031, Intellectual Property Protection Restoration Act of 2002. 
[Leahy/Brownback]
  S. 2010, Corporate and Criminal Fraud Accountability Act of 2002. 
[Leahy/Daschle/Durbin]
  S. 1615, Federal-Local Information Sharing Partnership Act of 2001. 
[Schumer/Clinton/Leahy/Hatch]

     III. Resolution

  S. Res.   , Designating the Week of May 5 through May 11, 2002 as 
``National Occupational Safety and Health Week.''

     IV. Committee Business

  Committee Resolution to Authorize Antitrust Subpoena.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                     subcommittee on national parks

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Subcommittee on National Parks of the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on 
Thursday, April 18, at 3 p.m., to conduct a hearing.
  The purpose of the hearing is to receive testimony on the following 
bills: S. 1441 and H.R. 695, to establish the Oil Region National 
Heritage Area; S. 1526, to establish the Arabia Mountain National 
Heritage Area in the State of

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Georgia, and for other purposes; S. 1638, to authorize the Secretary of 
the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating 
the French Colonial Heritage Area in the State of Missouri as a unit of 
the National Park System, and for other purposes; S. 1809 and H.R. 
1776, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the 
suitability and feasibility of establishing the Buffalo Bayou National 
Heritage Area in west Houston, Texas; S. 1939, to establish the Great 
Basin National Heritage Area, Nevada and Utah; and S. 2033, to 
authorize appropriations for the John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley 
National Heritage Corridor in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and for 
other purposes.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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