[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Pages 23598-23599]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO MEET


                      Committee on Armed Services

  Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Armed Services be authorized to meet during the session of 
the Senate on October 25, 2005, at 9:30 a.m., in open session to 
consider the following nominations: Honorable John J. Young, Jr., to be 
Director of Defense Research and Engineering; Mr. J. Dorrance Smith, to 
be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs; Dr. Delores M. 
Etter, to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development 
and Acquisition; General Burwell B. Bell, III, USA, for reappointment 
to the grade of General

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and to be Commander, United Nations Command/Combined Forces Command, 
and Commander, United States Forces Korea; and Lieutenant General Lance 
L. Smith, USAF, for appointment to the grade of General and to be 
Commander, United States Joint Forces Command and Supreme Allied 
Commander transformation.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


            Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

  Mr. SPECTER. 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 October 25, 2005, at 10 a.m., to 
conduct a hearing on the nomination of Mr. Matthew Slaughter, of New 
Hampshire, to be a member of the Council of Economic Advisers; Ms. 
Katherine Baicker, of New Hampshire, to be a member of the Council of 
Economic Advisers; Mr. Orlando J. Cabrera, of Florida, to be an 
Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Ms. Gigi Hyland, 
of Virginia, to be a member of the National Credit Union Administration 
Board; and Mr. Rodney E. Hood, of North Carolina, to be a member of the 
National Credit Union Administration Board.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


               Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

  Mr. SPECTER. 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, October 25, 2005, at 10 a.m. The 
purpose of this hearing is to receive testimony on S. 1829, to repeal 
certain sections of the act of May 26, 1936, pertaining to the Virgin 
Islands; S. 1830, to amend the compact of Free Association Amendments 
Act of 2003, and for other purposes; and S. 1831, to convey certain 
submerged land to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and 
for other purposes.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                          Committee on Finance

  Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Finance be authorized to meet in open Executive Session 
during the session on Tuesday 25, 2005, at 9:30 a.m., to conduct a 
markup to achieve the Committee's budget reconciliation instructions to 
reduce the growth of outlays as contained in H. Con. Res. 95.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                     Committee on Foreign Relations

  Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session 
of the Senate on Tuesday, October 25, 2005, at 9:30 a.m. to hold a 
hearing on Nominations.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                     committee on foreign relations

  Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session 
of the Senate on Tuesday, October 25, 2005, at 2:15 p.m. to hold a 
Business Meeting.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                       committee on the judiciary

  Mr. SPECTER: Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet to conduct a hearing 
on ``Saudi Arabia: Friend or Foe in the War on Terror?'' on Tuesday, 
October 25, 2005 at 9:30 a.m. in the Dirksen Senate Office Building 
Room 226.

                              Witness List

     Presentation

  Yigal Carmon, Middle East Media Research Institute, Washington, DC; 
Presentation on Saudi Television.
  Panel I: Daniel Glaser, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Terrorist 
Financing and Financial Crimes, United States Department of the 
Treasury, Washington, DC; and Alan Misenheimer, Director of Arabian 
Peninsula and Iran Affairs, United States Department of State, 
Washington, DC.
  Panel II: James Woolsey, Vice President of Booz Allen, Former 
Director, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC; Nina Shea, 
Director, Center for Religious Freedom, Washington, DC; Steve Emerson, 
Terrorism Expert and Executive Director, Investigative Project on 
Terrorism, Washington, DC; Gulam Bakali, Islamic Association of North 
Texas, Board of Trustees, Richardson, TX; and Kamal Nawash, President, 
Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism, Washington, DC.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


 Subcommittee on Federal Financial management, Government Information, 
                       and International Security

  Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, 
and International Security be authorized to meet on Tuesday, October 
25, 2005, at 2:30 p.m. for a hearing regarding ``Guns and Butter: 
Setting Priorities in Federal Spending in the Context of Natural 
Disaster, Deficits and War.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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