[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Page 23540]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO MEET


                     Committee on Foreign Relations

  Mr. REED. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session of the 
Senate on Wednesday, September 5, 2007, at 10 a.m. to hold a nomination 
hearing.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                       Committee on the Judiciary

  Mr. REED. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet in order to conduct a 
hearing entitled ``The 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 
and its Continuing Importance'' on Wednesday, September 5, 2007, at 10 
a.m. in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, room 226.

     Witness List:

  Panel I: The Honorable John Lewis, United States Representative [D-
GA-5th].
  Panel II: Wade Henderson, President and CEO, Leadership Conference on 
Civil Rights, Washington, DC; Theodore Shaw, Director-Counsel and 
President, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., Washington, 
DC; Peter Zamora, Washington, DC Regional Counsel, Mexican American 
Legal Defense and Educational Fund [MALDEF], Washington, DC; Gail 
Heriot, Commissioner, United States Commission on Civil Rights, 
Professor of Law, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA; 
Robert P. Moses, President The Algebra Project, Inc., Cambridge, MA; 
Robert H. Driscoll, Partner, Alston & Bird, Washington, DC.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                       Special Committee on Aging

  Mr. REED. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Special 
Committee on Aging be authorized to meet today Wednesday, September 5, 
2007, from 2 p.m.-4 p.m. in SD-628 for the purpose of conducting a 
hearing.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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