[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 151 (Tuesday, November 15, 2005)]
[Senate]
[Pages S12868-S12869]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   AUTHORITIES FOR COMMITTEES TO MEET


            Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

  Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs be authorized to meet during the 
session of the Senate on November 15, 2005, at 10 a.m. to conduct a 
hearing on the nomination of Mr. Ben S. Bernanke, of New Jersey, to be 
a member and chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 
System.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


           Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

  Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Commerce, Science, and Transportation be authorized to meet on 
Tuesday November 15, 2005, at 10 a.m., on Public Policy Options for 
Encouraging Alternative Automotive Fuel Technologies.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


               Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

  Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Energy and Natural Resources be authorized to meet during the 
session of the Senate on Tuesday, November 15, at 10 a.m. The purpose 
of this hearing is to evaluate and receive a status report on the 
environmental management programs of the Department of Energy.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                          committee on finance

  Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Finance be authorized to meet in open Executive Session during the 
session on Tuesday, November 15, 2005, at 10 a.m. to consider an 
original bill that will include the Committee's budget reconciliation 
instructions pertaining to expiring tax provisions and also additional 
incentives for hurricane affected areas.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                     committee on foreign relations

  Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session of the 
Senate on Tuesday, November 15, 2005, at 9:30 a.m. to hold a hearing on 
Treaties.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                       committee on the judiciary

  Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on the Judiciary be authorized to meet to meet to conduct a hearing on 
``Judicial Nominations'' on Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 2:30 p.m. in 
the Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 226.

                              Witness List

  Panel I: Members of Congress.
  Panel II: Virginia Mary Kendall to be United States District Judge 
for the Northern District of Illinois; Kristi DuBose to be United 
States District Judge for the Southern District of Alabama; W. Keith 
Watkins to be United States District Judge for the Middle District of 
Alabama.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                        subcommittee on airland

  Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
subcommittee on Airland be authorized to meet during the session of the 
Senate on November 15, 2005, at 2:30 p.m., in open session to receive 
testimony on defense acquisition issues related to tactical aviation 
and army programs.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


 subcommittee on federal financial management, government information, 
                       and international security

  Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs' Subcommittee on

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Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International 
Security be authorized to meet on Tuesday, November 15, 2005, at 3 p.m. 
for a hearing regarding ``Iran: Teheran's Nuclear Recklessness and the 
U.S. Response--The Experts' Perspective.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                     subcommittee on national parks

  Mr. WARNER. 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 
Tuesday, November 15 at 2:30 p.m. The purpose of the hearing is to 
receive testimony on the following Bills: S. 431, a Bill to establish a 
program to award grants to improve and maintain sites honoring 
Presidents of the United States, S. 505, a bill to amend the Yuma 
Crossing National Heritage ARA Act of 2000 to adjust the boundary of 
the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area, S. 1288, a Bill to authorize 
the Secretary of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements to 
protect natural resources of units of the National Park System through 
collaborative efforts on land inside and outside of units of the 
National Park System, S. 1544, a Bill to establish the Northern Plains 
National Heritage Area in the State of North Dakota, and for other 
purposes, S. Con. Res. 60, a concurrent resolution designating the 
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, as America's 
National Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, S. 748 and H.R. 1084, Bills to 
authorize the establishment at Antietam National Battlefield of a 
memorial to the officers and enlisted men of the Fifth, Sixth, and 
Ninth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiments and the First New 
Hampshire Light Artillery Battery who fought in the Battle of Antietam 
on September 17, 1862, and for other purposes, and H.R. 2107, to amend 
Public Law 104-329 to modify authorities for the use of the Notational 
Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Maintenance Fund, and for other 
purposes.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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