[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 18, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D5]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: On Monday, January 9 through Friday, 
January 13, committee held hearings on the nomination of Samuel A. 
Alito, Jr., of New Jersey, to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme 
Court of the United States, where the nominee, on Monday, was 
introduced by Senator Lautenberg and former New Jersey Governor 
Christine Todd Whitman, and presented a statement in his own behalf. On 
Tuesday and Wednesday, the nominee testified and answered questions in 
his own behalf. On Thursday, testimony was received from Stephen L. 
Tober, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Marna Tucker and John Payton, 
both of Washington, DC, all on behalf of the American Bar Association; 
Judge Edward R. Becker, Chief Judge Anthony J. Scirica, Judge Maryanne 
Trump Barry, Judge Ruggero J. Aldisert, all of Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania, and Judge Leonard I. Garth, Chicago, Illinois, all of the 
United States Court of Appeals; John J. Gibbons, Gibbons, Del Deo, 
Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, Newark, New Jersey, former United States 
Court of Appeals Judge (Ret.); Timothy K. Lewis, Schnader, Harrison, 
Segal & Lewis, Washington, DC, former United States Court of Appeals 
Judge (Ret.); Edna Ball Axelrod, Law Offices of Edna Ball Axelrod, 
South Orange, New Jersey; Michael J. Gerhardt, University of North 
Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill; Peter Kirsanow, Benesch, 
Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, Cleveland, Ohio, and Commissioner, U.S. 
Commission on Civil Rights; Samuel Issacharoff, New York University 
School of Law, New York, New York; Carter Phillips, Sidley Austin, 
Washington, DC; and Goodwin Liu, University of California, Berkeley; 
and on Friday, testimony was received from Representatives Gonzalez and 
Wasserman Schultz; Nora Demleitner, Hofstra University School of Law, 
Hempstead, New York; Erwin Chemerinsky, Duke University Law School, 
Durham, North Carolina; Anthony Kronman, Yale Law School, and Ronald S. 
Sullivan, Jr., both of New Haven, Connecticut; Beth Nolan, Crowell & 
Moring, former Counsel to the President (1999-2001), Kate Michelman, on 
behalf of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League 
(NARAL), Amanda Frost, American University Washington College of Law, 
Reginald M. Turner, Jr., National Bar Association, and Theodore Shaw, 
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, all of Washington, DC; 
Charles Fried, former Solicitor General of the United States, and 
Laurence H. Tribe, both of Harvard Law School, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts; Fred Gray, Gray, Langford, Sapp, McGowan, Gray & 
Nathanson, Tuskegee, Alabama; John G. S. Flym, Northeastern University 
School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts; Kate Pringle, Friedman, Kaplan, 
Seiler & Adelman, New York, New York; and Jack White, Kirkland & Ellis, 
San Francisco, California.


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  On page D5, January 18, 2006, under Committee Meetings: 
Nomination-Committee on the Judiciary: the following text 
appeared: Edna Ball Alexrod, Law Offices Edna Ball Alexrod, South 
Orange, New Jersey;
  
  The online version has been corrected to read: Edna Ball 
Axelrod, Law Offices Edna Ball Axelrod, South Orange, New Jersey;


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