[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Pages 23369-23370]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO MEET


                      committee on armed services

  Mr. VOINOVICH. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Armed Services be authorized to meet during the session of 
the Senate on Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 9:30 a.m., in open 
session, to receive testimony on ongoing military operations and 
reconstruction efforts in Iraq.

                               Witnesses

  Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III, Presidential Envoy to Iraq;
  General John P. Abizaid, USA, Commander, United States Central 
Command.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


            Committee on banking, housing, and urban affairs

  Mr. VOINOVICH. 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 September 25, 2003, at 10 a.m. to 
conduct a hearing on ``Counterterror Initiatives in the Terror Finance 
Program.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                     Committee on Foreign Relations

  Mr. VOINOVICH. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session 
of the Senate on Thursday, September 25, 2003 at 2:30 p.m. to hold a 
hearing on European Nominations.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                      Committee on Indian Affairs

  Mr. VOINOVICH. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Indian Affairs be authorized to meet on Thursday, 
September 25, 2003, at 10 a.m. in Room 562 of the Dirksen Senate Office 
Building to conduct a hearing on the reauthorization of the Head Start 
program.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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                       Committee on the Judiciary

  Mr. VOINOVICH. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet to conduct a markup on 
Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 9:30 a.m. in Dirksen Room 226.

                                 Agenda

     I. Nominations

  Henry W. Saad to be United States Circuit Judge, for the Sixth 
Circuit; Mauricio J. Tamargo to be Chairman of the Foreign Claims 
Settlement Commission of the United States; Carlos T. Bea to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit; Charles H. Pickering, Sr. 
to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit; Marcia A. 
Crone to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of 
Texas; Philip S. Figa to be United States District Judge for the 
District of Colorado; William Q. Hayes to be United States District 
Judge for the Southern District of California; John A. Houston to be 
United States District Judge for the Southern District of California; 
Robert Clive Jones to be United States District Judge for the District 
of Nevada; Ronald A. White to be United States District Judge for the 
Eastern District of Oklahoma; John F. Bardelli to be United States 
Marshal for the District of Connecticut.

     II. Bills

  S. 1451, Runaway, Homeless, and Missing Children Protection Act 
[Hatch, Leahy];
  S. 1293, A bill to criminalize the sending of predatory and abusive 
e-mail [Leahy, Hatch, DeWine, Edwards, Feinstein, Grassley, Schumer];
  S. 1580, Religious Workers of Act of 2003 [Hatch, Kennedy, DeWine];
  S. Res. 209, Recognizing and honoring Woodstock, Vermont native Hiram 
Powers for his extraordinary and enduring contributions to American 
sculpture [Jeffords, Leahy, DeWine, Feinstein, Grassley, Hatch, 
Schumer, Specter];
  S. Res. 222, Designating October 17, 2003, as National Mammography 
Day [Biden, Chambliss, DeWine, Edwards, Feinstein, Grassley, Hatch, 
Kennedy, Leahy, Schumer, Specter];
  S. Res. 98, Expressing the Sense of the Senate that the President 
should designate the week of October 12, 2003, as National Cystic 
Fibrosis Awareness Week [Campbell, Biden, DeWine, Grassley, Specter].


             subcommittee on science, technology, and space

  Mr. VOINOVICH. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space be authorized to meet on 
Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 2:30 pm on scientific and medical 
advances in the field of in utero surgery.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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