[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 11617]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO MEET


                          committee on finance

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Finance be authorized to meet in open executive session during the 
session of the Senate on Wednesday, June 26, 2002, at 10 a.m.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                     committee on foreign relations

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session of the 
Senate on Wednesday, June 26, 2002 at 10:45 a.m. to hold a hearing on 
Afghanistan.

                                 Agenda

     Witnesses

  Panel 1: The Honorable Richard L. Armitage, Deputy Secretary of 
State, Washington, DC; and the Honorable Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy 
Secretary of Defense, Washington, DC.
  Panel 2: Brig. Gen. David L. Grange, U.S. Army (ret.), Chicago, IL; 
and the Honorable Peter Tomsen, Special Envoy to Afghanistan (1989-
1992), Former Ambassador to Armenia, Ambassador in Residence, 
University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                     Committee on Foreign Relations

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session of the 
Senate on Wednesday, June 26, 2002 at 2:30 p.m. to hold a nomination 
hearing.

                                 Agenda

  Nominees: Mr. Mark Sullivan, of Maryland, to be United States 
Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; and 
Mr. Paul Speltz, of Texas, to be United States Director of the Asian 
Development Bank, with the rank of Ambassador
  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 Wednesday, June 26, 
2002 at 9:30 a.m. for the purpose of holding a hearing to ``Review the 
Relationship Between a Department of Homeland Security and the 
Intelligence Community.''
  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 Wednesday, June 26, 
2002 at 3:00 p.m., to hold a hearing to consider the nomination of 
James E. Boasberg to be an associate judge of the Superior Court of the 
District of Columbia.
  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 in 
executive session during the session of the Senate on Wednesday, June 
26, 2002, at 10:00 a.m. in SD-430 during the session of the Senate.

                                 Agenda

  S. 2649, Global AIDS.
  S. 2059, Alzheimer's Disease Research, Prevention, and Care Act of 
2002.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                      committee on indian affairs

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Indian Affairs be authorized to meet on Wednesday, June 26, 2002, at 
10 a.m. in room 628 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building to conduct an 
oversight hearing on the status of the dialogue between the U.S. 
Department of the Interior and American Indian and Alaska Native 
leaders on various alternatives for the reorganization of the 
Department of the Interior to improve the Department's management of 
tribal trust funds.
  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 hearing on 
``Protecting the Homeland: The President's Proposal for Reorganizing 
Our Homeland Defense Infrastructure'' on Wednesday, June 26, 2002, in 
Dirksen Room 106 at 9:30 a.m.
  Witness: The Honorable Tom Ridge, Director of the Transition Planning 
Office for the Office of Homeland Security, Washington, DC.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                    select committee on intelligence

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Select 
Committee on Intelligence be authorized to meet during the session of 
the Senate on Wednesday, June 26, 2002, at 5:45 p.m., to hold a closed 
business meeting.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                    subcommittee on consumer affairs

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs be authorized to meet on Issues and 
Perspectives in Enforcing Corporate Governance: The Experience of the 
State of New York, at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 26, 2002.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


               subcommittee on housing and transportation

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation of the Committee on Banking, 
Housing, and Urban Affairs be authorized to meet during the session of 
the Senate on Wednesday, June 26, 2002, at 10 a.m., to conduct an 
oversight hearing on ``TEA-21: Investing in Our Economy and 
Environment.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                      subcommittee on immigration

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration be authorized to meet to 
conduct a hearing on ``Immigration Reform and the Reorganization of 
Homeland Defense'' on Wednesday, June 26, 2002, at 2 p.m., in Dirksen 
226.

                                 Agenda

     Witnesses

  Kathleen Campbell Walker, Esq., American Immigration Lawyers 
Association, El Paso, Texas; Professor Bill Ong Hing, University of 
California Davis School of Law, National Advisory Council, National 
Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, San Francisco, California; 
Professor David A. Martin, University of Virginia School of Law, 
Charlottesville, Virginia; and the Honorable Dana Marks Keener, 
President, National Association of Immigration Judges, San Francisco, 
California.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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