[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Page 21997]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO MEET


                          committee on finance

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Finance be authorized to meet during the session on Tuesday, 
November 14, 2006, at 11 a.m., in 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building, 
to consider pending nominations.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


        committee on homeland security and governmental affairs

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs be authorized to meet on 
Tuesday, November 14, 2006, at 10 a.m. to consider the nominations of 
the Honorable James H. Bilbray to be Governor, U.S. Postal Service, 
Thurgood Marshall Jr. to be Governor, U.S. Postal Service, and the 
Honorable Dan G. Blair to be Chairman, Postal Rate Commission.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                       committee on the judiciary

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on the Judiciary be authorized to meet to conduct a hearing on 
``Competition in Sports Programming and Distribution: Are Consumers 
Winning?'' on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 at 9 a.m. in Dirksen Senate 
Office Building Room 226.


                              Witness List

  Panel I: Roger Noll, Professor, Economics Department, Stanford 
University, Stanford, CA; Jeffrey Pash, Executive Vice President and 
General Counsel of the National Football League, New York, NY; Daniel 
M. Fawcett, Executive Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs and 
Programming Acquisition, DIRECTV, Inc., Washington, DC; Landel Hobbs, 
Chief Operating Officer, Time Warner, New York, NY.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                       Committee on the Judiciary

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet to conduct a hearing 
on ``Judicial Nominations'' on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 at 2 p.m. in 
Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 226.

     Witness List

  Panel I: The Honorable Arlen Specter, United States Senator [R-PA].
  Panel II: Thomas Michael Hardiman to be United States Circuit Judge 
for the Third District.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Homeland Security 
and Governmental Affairs be authorized to meet on Tuesday, November 14, 
2006, at 2:30 p.m., for a hearing entitled ``Failure to Identify 
Company Owners Impedes Law Enforcement.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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