[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Pages 12565-12566]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO MEET


               Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

  Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Energy and Natural Resources be authorized to hold a hearing during 
the session of the Senate on Tuesday, May 15, 2007, at 10 a.m. in room 
SD-366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The purpose of the 
hearing is to receive testimony on Short-Term Energy Outlook Summer 
2007: Oil and Gasoline.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


               Committee on Environment and Public Works

  Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Environment and Public Works be authorized to meet during the 
session of the Senate on Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 10 a.m. in Room 406 
of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
  Agenda: Hearing on ``Green Buildings: Benefits to Health, the 
Environment, and the Bottom Line.''

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  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


        Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

  Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs be authorized to meet on 
Tuesday, May 15, 2007, at 10 a.m. for a hearing titled ``Equal 
Representation in Congress: Providing Voting Rights to the District of 
Columbia.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                       Committee on the Judiciary

  Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet to conduct a hearing 
on ``Preserving Prosecutorial Independence: Is the Department of 
Justice Politicizing the Hiring and Firing of U.S. Attorneys?--Part 
IV'' on Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 10 a.m. in Dirksen Senate Office 
Building room 226.
  Witness List: James B. Comey, Former Deputy Attorney General, United 
States Department of Justice.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                     Subcommittee on National Parks

  Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks be 
authorized to hold a hearing during the session of the Senate on 
Tuesday, May 15, 2007, at 2:30 p.m., in room SD-366 of the Dirksen 
Senate office Building.
  The purpose of the hearing is to receive testimony on the following 
bills: S. 553, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate 
certain segments of the Eightmile River in the State of Connecticut as 
components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System; S. 800, to 
establish the Niagara Falls National Heritage Area in the State of New 
York; S. 916, to modify the boundary of the Minidoka Internment 
National Monument, to establish the Minidoka National Historic Site, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain land and 
improvements of the Gooding Division of the Minidoka Project, Idaho; S. 
1057, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain 
segments of the New River in the States of North Carolina and Virginia 
as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System; S. 1209, 
to provide for the continued administration of Santa Rosa Island, 
Channel Islands National Park, in accordance with the laws (including 
regulations) and policies of the National Park Service; S. 128l, to 
amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain rivers and 
streams of the headwaters of the Snake River System as additions to the 
National Wild and Scenic River System; H.R. 161, to adjust the boundary 
of the Minidoka Internment National Monument to include the Nidoto Nai 
Yoni Memorial in Bainbridge Island, Washington; H.R. 247, to designate 
a Forest Service trail at Waldo Lake in the Willamette National Forest 
in the State of Oregon as a national recreation trail in honor of Jim 
Weaver, a former Member of the House of Representatives; and H.R. 376, 
to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special 
resource study to determine the suitability and feasibility of 
including the battlefields and related sites of the First and Second 
Battles of Newtonia, Missouri, during the Civil War as part of Wilson's 
Creek National Battlefield or designating the battlefields and related 
sites as a separate unit of the National Park System.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                  subcommittee on retirement and aging

  Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions' Subcommittee on Retirement 
and Aging, be authorized to hold a hearing on Alzheimer's disease 
during the session of the Senate on Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 10 a.m. in 
room 628 of the Senate Dirksen Office building.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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