[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Pages 20570-20571]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO MEET


            committee on banking, housing and urban affairs

  Mr. GRASSLEY. 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 15, 2005, at 10 a.m., to 
conduct a hearing on the nomination of Mr. Keith E. Gottfried, of 
California, to be General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Housing and 
Urban Development; Mr. Israel Hernandez, of Texas, to be Assistant 
Secretary of Commerce and Director General of the U.S. and Foreign 
Commercial Service; Mr. Darryl W. Jackson, of the District of Columbia, 
to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce; Ms. Kim Kendrick, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development; Mr. Franklin L. Lavin, of Ohio, to be Under Secretary of 
Commerce for International Trade; Mr. David H. McCormick, of 
Pennsylvania, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Export 
Administration; Mr. Keith A. Nelson, of Texas, to be Assistant 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; and Ms. Darlene F. 
Williams, of Texas, to be Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                     Committee on Foreign Relations

  Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on 
Thursday, September 15, 2005, at 2 p.m. to hold a hearing on U.S.-
Indonesia Relations.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


        committee on homeland security and governmental affairs

  Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs be authorized 
to meet on Thursday, September 15, 2005, at 10:30 a.m. to consider the 
nominations of Stewart A. Baker to be Assistant Secretary, Department 
of Homeland Security, and Julie L. Myers to be Assistant Secretary, 
Department of Homeland Security.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                       committee on the judiciary

  Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet to conduct a hearing 
on the nomination of John G. Roberts to be Chief Justice of the United 
States on Thursday, September 15, 2005 at 9:30 a.m., in the Hart Senate 
Office Building Room 216.

                              Witness List

  Panel I: Stephen L. Tober, Esq., Chairman, American Bar Association, 
Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, Portsmouth, NH; Tom 
Hayward, Esq., Past-Chairman, American Bar Association, Standing 
Committee on the Federal Judiciary, Chicago, IL; Pamela A. Bresnahan, 
Esq., DC Circuit Representative, American Bar Association, Washington, 
DC.
  Panel II: The Honorable Dick Thornburgh, Former Attorney General of 
the United States, Former Governor of Pennsylvania, Counsel, 
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham, Washington, DC; The Honorable 
John Lewis, United States House of Representatives, D-GA-5th District; 
Jennifer Cabranes Braceras, Esq., Commissioner, U.S. Commission on 
Civil Rights and Visiting Fellow at the Independent Women's Forum, 
Boston, MA; Wade Henderson, Executive Director, Leadership Conference 
on Civil Rights, Washington, DC; Peter Kirsanow, Esq., Partner, 
Benesch, Friedlander, Coplay & Aronoff and Commissioner, U.S. 
Commission on Civil Rights, Cleveland, OH; The Honorable Nathaniel 
Jones, Retired Judge, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to the Sixth 
Circuit, Of Counsel, Blank Rome LLP, Cincinnati, OH.
  Panel III: Maureen E. Mahoney, Esq., Partner, Latham & Watkins, 
Washington, DC; Carol M. Browner, Former Administrator, U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, Principal, The Albright Group, 
Washington, DC; Kathryn Webb Bradley, Esq., Senior Lecturing Fellow, 
Duke Law School, Durham, NC; Anne Marie Tallman, President and General 
Counsel, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Los 
Angeles, CA; The Honorable Denise Posse-Blanco Lindberg, Judge, Third 
Judicial District Court, State of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; Reginald M. 
Turner, Jr., President, National Bar Association, Detroit, MI.
  Panel IV: Catherine E. Stetson, Esq., Partner, Hogan & Hartson, 
Washington, DC; Marcia Greenberger, Co-President, National Women's Law 
Center, Washington, DC; The Honorable

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Bruce Botelho, Former Attorney General, State of Alaska, Mayor of 
Juneau, Juneau, AK; Rockerick Jackson, Coach, Ensley High School, 
Birmingham, AL; Henrietta Wright, Esq., Of Counsel, Goldberg, Godles, 
Wiener and Wright and Chairman of the Board Dallas Children's Advocacy 
Center, Dallas, TX; Beverly Jones, Lafayette, TN.
  Panel V: The Honorable Charles Fried, Former Solicitor General of the 
United States, Beneficial Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, 
Cambidge, MA: Peter B. Edelman, Professor of Law; Co-Director, Joint 
Degree in Law and Public Policy, Georgetown University Law Center, 
Washington, DC; Patricia L. Bellia, Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law 
School, South Bend, IN; Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law, 
Yale Law School, New Haven, CT; Christopher S. Yoo, Professor of Law, 
Vanderbilt University Law School, Nashville, TN; David Strauss, Harry 
N. Wyatt Professor of Law; University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, 
IL.
  Panel VI: Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, 
Washington, DC; Robert Reich, University Professor and Maurice B. 
Hexter, Professor of Social and Economic Policy, Brandeis University, 
Waltham, MA; Rabbi Dale Polakoff, President, Rabbinical Council of 
America, Great Neck, NY; Susan Thistlethwaite, President, Chicago 
Theological Seminary, Chicago, IL; The Honorable John Engler, Former 
Governor of Michigan, President, National Association of Manufacturers, 
Washington, DC; Karen Pearl, Interim President, Planned Parenthood 
Federation of America, New York, NY.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                     committee on veterans' affairs

  Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Veterans' Affairs be authorized to meet during the session 
of the Senate on Thursday, September 15, 2005, to mark up the following 
bills: Committee Print of S. 1182, Chairman Larry E. Craig, the 
``Veterans Health Care Improvements Act of 2005,'' incorporating 
original provisions and provisions derived from S. 1182, as introduced; 
S. 1177; S. 1189; and S. 1190; and
  S. 716, Ranking Member Daniel K. Akaka, the ``Vet Center Enhancement 
Act of 2005. The markup will take place in Room 418 of the Russell 
Senate Office Building at 10 a.m.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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