DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Amendments

Courts: extend authority to redact certain sensitive information in financial disclosure statements filed by judges (H.R. 4311), S5606, S5608 [7JN]

Science, Depts. of State, Justice, Commerce, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5672), H4555, H4556, H4557 [26JN], H4639, H4640, H4642, H4644, H4645, H4649, H4651, H4653, H4655, H4656, H4657, H4661, H4681 [27JN], H4690, H4691, H4694, H4696, H4697, H4699, H4701, H4707, H4708, H4711, H4714, H4716, H4717, H4718, H4719, H4720, H4721, H4722, H4723, H4724, H4725, H4726, H4729, H4730, H4731, H4733, H4734, H4735, H4743, H4748, H4752, H4753, H4755, H4756, H4757, H4758, H4759, H4760, H4762, H4763, H4764, H4767, H4768, H4770, H4771, H4772, H4774, H4796 [28JN], H4800, H4802, H4804 [29JN]

Applications

Presidential Personnel Application of Samuel A. Alito, Jr., for Non-Career Appointment: Mark R. Levin, Dept. of Justice, S299 [30JA]

Articles and editorials

Another Cave-In on the Patriot Act, S1602 [2MR]

Checks on the Patriot Act, S1601 [2MR]

Fighting the Terrorists, S1601 [2MR]

True Patriots—Some in Congress Won't Let Terror Limit Freedom, S1602 [2MR]

Watch This Hookup Closely, S2302 [16MR]

Bills and resolutions

ATF: modernize and reform (see H.R. 5092), H1561 [5AP]

Business and industry: improve competition in the oil and gas industry and strengthen antitrust enforcement with regard to industry mergers (see S. 2557), S3211 [6AP] (see H.R. 5279), H2101 [3MY]

Children and youth: establish and implement a program to make grants to States for fingerprinting programs for children (see H.R. 5773), H5128 [12JY]

Civil liberties: provide in statute for the conduct of electronic surveillance of suspected terrorists and ensure the civil liberties of U.S. citizens are safeguarded (see S. 2455), S2313 [16MR]

Civil Rights Division: establish an Unsolved Crimes Section (see S. 2679), S3704 [27AP] (see H.R. 5236), H1916 [27AP]

Colombia: eligibility of nationals for temporary protected status (see H.R. 4886), H644 [7MR]

Crime: protect youth from exploitation by adults using the Internet (see S. 3499), S5779 [13JN] (see H.R. 5749), H4957 [10JY]

Drugs: develop a national strategy to eliminate illegal operations of certain international drug gangs (see H.R. 5291), H2173 [4MY]

Education: provide officers of State and local educational agencies with certain access to national crime information databases (see H.R. 4894), H644 [7MR]

Explosives: study and regulate how private entities and State and local government agencies store explosives (see H.R. 4877), H565 [2MR]

Firearms: permit access to certain information in the Firearms Trace System (see S. 2460), S2415 [27MR] (see H.R. 5033), H1196 [28MR]

———require microstamping of all firearms manufactured in or imported into the U.S., and ballistic testing of all firearms in Federal custody (see H.R. 5073), H1395 [3AP]

Foreign Agents Registration Act: make available on the Internet website of the Dept. of Justice all registration statements and other documents filed with the Dept. of Justice (see H.R. 4679), H24 [31JA]

Immigration: improve sharing of information and enhance Federal, State, and local enforcement of immigration laws (see S. 2365), S1680 [3MR]

Intelligence services: establish procedures for the review of electronic surveillance programs (see S. 2453), S2313 [16MR]

Languages: award grants to States to develop and implement State court interpreter programs (see S. 2497), S2730 [3AP]

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the U.S.: implement recommendations (see S. 2412), S2122 [14MR] (see S. 3456), S5490 [6JN] (see H.R. 5017), H1195 [28MR]

National Crime Victims' Rights Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Con. Res. 378), H1562 [5AP]

National Security Agency: request President and direct certain Depts. to transmit documents on investigation of involvement by personnel in creation of warrantless surveillance program and security clearance denials (see H. Res. 845), H3308 (see H. Res. 845), H3361 [25MY]

———request President and direct Dept. of Justice to submit documents on requests to telephone companies for access to domestic records and communications without a warrant (see H. Res. 819), H2705 (see H. Res. 819), H2757 [17MY]

National Sex Offender Risk Classification Task Force: establish (see H.R. 4815), H450 [28FE]

Native Americans: settle court claims of the Pueblo of Isleta Indian Tribe and restore, improve, and develop reservation lands and natural resources (see S. 3648), S7415 [12JY]

Project Safe Childhood: authorize and expand to protect children from exploitation by adults over the Internet (see S. 3432), S5490 [6JN]

Science, Depts. of State, Justice, Commerce, and related agencies: making appropriations (see H.R. 5672), H4519 [22JN]

———making appropriations (H.R. 5672), consideration (see H. Res. 890), H4554 [26JN]

Senate Legal Counsel: authorize the production of records, testimony, and legal representation relative to certain investigations into improper activities by lobbyists and related matters (see S. Res. 520), S6457 [23JN]

Senior citizens: ensure adequate public-private infrastructure and resolve to prevent, detect, treat, intervene in, and prosecute elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation (see H.R. 4993), H1128 [16MR]

U.S. Marshals Service: authorizing appropriations for Fugitive Safe Surrender Program (see S. 2570), S3211 [6AP] (see H.R. 5459), H3137 [23MY]

———establish a short term State witness protection program to provide assistance to State and local district attorneys to protect their witnesses in major violent crime cases (see S. 2246), S728 [6FE]

Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act: extend sunsets and lone wolf provisions of Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (see H.R. 4659), H23 [31JA]

Voting: encourage Louisiana and the Dept. of Justice to establish satellite voting outside of Louisiana for scheduled New Orleans elections (see H. Con. Res. 385), H1679 [6AP]

Cloture motions

Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act: reauthorize and improve (H.R. 3199), conference report, S1561 [1MR]

Letters

Intelligence services appropriations, H1794 [26AP]

Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act, S5587 [7JN], S5635 [8JN]

Nomination of Kenneth L. Wainstein to be Assistant Attorney General for National Security: Chuck Canterbury, Fraternal Order of Police, S7174 [29JN]

———Senator Roberts, Committee on Intelligence (Senate, Select), S6006 [16JN]

Prohibit issuance of national security letters to health insurance companies to obtain private medical records, H4767 [28JN]

Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act reauthorization and improvement: Senator Feinstein, S1402 [16FE]

———Senator Specter, S39 [25JA]

———Senators Kyl, Roberts, and Sessions, S1617 [2MR]

Lists

Additional civil liberties protections in conference report on H.R. 3199, Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act reauthorization and improvement, H62 [1FE], H584 [7MR]

Petitions and memorials

Alaska: Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act reauthorization and improvement, S1569 [1MR]

California: Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act reauthorization and improvement, S1569 [1MR]

Colorado: Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act reauthorization and improvement, S1570 [1MR]

Douglas County, WI, Board of Supervisors: Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act reauthorization and improvement, S1573 [1MR]

Eau Claire, WI, City Council: Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act reauthorization and improvement, S1573 [1MR]

Hawaii: Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act reauthorization and improvement, S1570 [1MR]

Idaho: Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act reauthorization and improvement, S1570 [1MR]

Madison, WI, City Council: Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act reauthorization and improvement, S1573 [1MR]

Maine: Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act reauthorization and improvement, S1571 [1MR]

Milwaukee, WI, City Council: Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act reauthorization and improvement, S1574 [1MR]

Montana: Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act reauthorization and improvement, S1571 [1MR]

Vermont: Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act reauthorization and improvement, S1572 [1MR]

Press releases

Civil Liberty Safeguards Contained in Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act: Committee on the Judiciary (House), E63-E66 [1FE]

Remarks in House

ABC News (television program): report on Dept. of Justice alleged investigation of Speaker Hastert, H3230, H3231, H3232, H3233, H3234, H3235 [25MY]

Appropriations: authorizing (H.R. 3402), E309 [8MR], E353 [14MR]

ATF: funding, H4652, H4653 [27JN]

Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program: funding, H4691, H4692 [28JN]

Bureau of Prisons: renew agreements with local governments to house Federal criminal aliens, H4636, H4637 [27JN], H4779 [28JN]

Business and industry: improve competition in the oil and gas industry and strengthen antitrust enforcement with regard to industry mergers (H.R. 5279), E710 [3MY]

Buy American Act: compliance, H4767 [28JN]

Children and youth: juvenile witness protection assistance program funding, H4734 [28JN]

Civil liberties: prohibit funding to enforce court decision permitting law enforcement officers to obtain evidence in contravention of search and seizure statutes, H4772-H4774 [28JN]

Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Program: funding, H163 [8FE], H4637, H4638 [27JN], H4771, H4772, H4774 [28JN]

———funding through reductions in NASA funding, H4748-H4752 [28JN]

Correctional institutions: Mendota, CA, prison construction funding, H4636 [27JN]

Courts: drug court programs funding, H4661 [27JN]

———prohibit funding to enforce district court decision in Hinrichs v. Bosma, H4768-H4770 [28JN]

Crime Victims Fund: funding, H4634 [27JN]

———prevent transfer into the Federal Treasury, H1746, H1749 [26AP]

Criminal Records Upgrade Program: funding, H4644 [27JN]

Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Grant Program: funding, H4807 [29JN]

Drug Endangered Children Program: funding, H4725, H4726 [28JN]

Drugs: develop a national strategy to eliminate illegal operations of certain international drug gangs (H.R. 5291), H2313 [9MY]

———prohibit funding to prevent certain States from implementing State laws authorizing use of medical marijuana, H4735-H4739 [28JN], E1334 [29JN]

Education: provide officers of State and local educational agencies with certain access to national crime information databases, H681 [8MR]

———provide officers of State and local educational agencies with certain access to national crime information databases (H.R. 3445), H2311, H2312 [9MY], H3801 [13JN], H4014 [15JN]

———provide officers of State and local educational agencies with certain access to national crime information databases (H.R. 4894), H2312 [9MY], H3805-H3808 [13JN]

Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program (Byrne/JAG Grant Program): funding, H3646, H3647 [9JN], H4642-H4644, H4656 [27JN], E1103, E1105 [9JN], E1307 [28JN], E1334 [29JN]

———funding through reductions in Bureau of the Census funding, H4656-H4660 [27JN]

———funding through reductions in U.N. funding, H4691 [28JN]

Employment: reauthorize grant program for reentry of offenders into the community and establish a task force on Federal programs and activities relating to the reentry of offenders into the community (H.R. 1704), H4789 [28JN]

FBI: improve the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (H.R. 1415), H419 [28FE], H1125 [16MR], H3979 [14JN]

———Innocent Images Task Force funding, H4651, H4652 [27JN]

———National Name Check Program funding, H4649, H4650 [27JN]

———protect retirement benefits of supervisory special agents, H4632, H4633 [27JN]

———reform, H3229 [25MY]

Federal employees: provide Federal attorneys compensatory time off for travel (H.R. 4057), H1144, H1145 [28MR]

Federal Prison System: increase funding through reductions in U.S. contributions to the U.N. Human Rights Council, H4653, H4654 [27JN]

Foreign Agents Registration Act: make available on the Internet website of the Dept. of Justice all registration statements and other documents filed with the Dept. of Justice (H.R. 4679), H4637 [27JN]

Hawaii: U.S. Marshals Service Distinguished Small District Director's Honorary Award recipient, E539 [6AP]

Immigration: prohibit Federal grants to law enforcement agencies within jurisdictions that prohibit the provision of information to the Dept. of Homeland Security about illegal aliens, H513 [2MR], H3368-H3370, H3382 [6JN]

Independent Commission on the Investigation of Detainee Abuses: establish (H.R. 3003), E970 [26MY]

Insurance: prohibit issuance of national security letters to health insurance companies to obtain private medical records, H4765-H4767 [28JN]

Intelligence services: alleged release of classified information by Bush administration officials relative to justification for invasion of Iraq, H1637 [6AP]

———results of investigation of alleged release of identity of CIA operative by Bush administration officials, H4818 [29JN]

———strengthen protections of civil liberties in the exercise of foreign intelligence surveillance authorities, H591 [7MR], H3483 [7JN]

Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces: funding, H4748 [28JN]

Jefferson, Representative: FBI search of office, E972 [26MY]

Jessica Gonzales Victim Assistance Program: funding, H4763 [28JN]

Justice Assistance Grant Program: funding, H240 [14FE], H421 [28FE]

Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Block Grant program: funding, H4759 [28JN]

Law enforcement: consider tourism as a factor for authorizing law enforcement grants, H4799 [29JN]

———establish a national sex offender registration database, H680 [8MR]

———prohibit funding for local and state drug task forces that do not collect and make available data relative to the racial distribution of convictions, H4802-H4804 [29JN]

Law Enforcement Tribute Act Program: funding, H4756 [28JN]

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the U.S.: implement recommendations, H1203 [29MR], H1905-H1908 [27AP], H2884, H2885 [18MY], H4047 [15JN]

National Crime Victims' Rights Week: support goals and ideals (H. Con. Res. 378), H1747, H1749 [26AP], E521 [5AP], E601, E612 [26AP]

National Integrated Ballistic Information Network Program: funding, H601 [7MR]

National security: homeland security funding, H1596, H1600 [6AP]

———reform the intelligence community and enhance terrorism prevention and prosecution, border security, and international cooperation and coordination, H2568 [11MY]

New Jersey: assign violent crime impact team, H4753 [28JN]

Office of National Drug Control Policy: conduct study on drug court programs that conduct hearings in non-traditional places, such as schools, H823 [9MR]

Public Safety Institute: funding, H4779 [28JN]

Public safety officers: ensure that officers who suffer a fatal heart attack or stroke while on duty shall be presumed to have died in the line of duty for purposes of survivor benefits, H4733, H4734 [28JN]

Religion: prohibit funding for programs that target Muslim and Arab communities for national security investigations, H4768 [28JN]

Safe Return Program for Alzheimer's patients: funding, H4639, H4640 [27JN]

Science, Depts. of State, Justice, Commerce, and related agencies: across-the-board funding reduction, H4804 [29JN]

———making appropriations (H.R. 5672), H4617-H4665 [27JN], H4686, H4687, H4688, H4689, H4701-H4779 [28JN], H4799-H4808 [29JN], E1307 [28JN], E1332, E1334, E1343, E1347 [29JN], E1367 [11JY]

———making appropriations (H.R. 5672), amendment process, H4638 [27JN]

———making appropriations (H.R. 5672), consideration (H. Res. 890), H4568-H4574 [27JN]

———making appropriations (H.R. 5672), corrections in engrossment, H4830 [29JN]

———making appropriations (H.R. 5672), unanimous-consent agreement, H4617 [27JN]

———prohibit funding to implement revisions to OMB rules relative to competitive sourcing for Federal contracts, H4800 [29JN]

———require purchase of a certain number of alternative-fuel vehicles, H4734 [28JN]

Senior citizens: ensure adequate public-private infrastructure and resolve to prevent, detect, treat, intervene in, and prosecute elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, H4355 [21JN]

Sexual Assault Forensic Exam Grant Program: funding, H4634 [27JN]

Southwest Border Prosecution Initiative: funding, H4690 [28JN]

State Criminal Alien Assistance Program: funding, H4570, H4657 [27JN]

Tennessee Meth Educational Program: funding, E1367 [11JY]

Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act: extend sunsets and lone wolf provisions of Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (H.R. 4659), H60-H67, H114 [1FE]

———reauthorize and improve, H255, H256 [14FE]

———reauthorize and improve (H.R. 3199), conference report, H380 [16FE], H393, H422 [28FE], H576, H600 [7MR]

Victims of Crime Act: funding, H301 [15FE]

Violence Against Women Act: funding, H4644, H4645 [27JN], H4757, H4758 [28JN]

Voting: encourage Louisiana and the Dept. of Justice to establish satellite voting outside of Louisiana for scheduled New Orleans elections (H. Con. Res. 385), H1628 [6AP]

Voting Rights Act: prohibit funding to enforce bilingual ballot requirement, E1347 [29JN]

Whistleblowing: limit the maximum review period for whistleblower lawsuits brought under the False Claims Act against Federal contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, H4770, H4771 [28JN]

Wolford, Karen: U.S. Marshals Service Distinguished Service Award recipient, E751 [8MY]

Remarks in Senate

Barnett, Thomas O.: nomination to be Assistant Attorney General, S1075 [10FE]

Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program: funding, S2286 [16MR]

Business and industry: improve competition in the oil and gas industry and strengthen antitrust enforcement with regard to industry mergers (S. 2557), S3213-S3216 [6AP]

Children and youth: juvenile justice funding, S2271 [16MR]

Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Program: funding, S1994 [13MR], S6011 [16JN]

———Hot Spots Program funding, S2083-S2085 [14MR]

Courts: extend authority to redact certain sensitive information in financial disclosure statements filed by judges (H.R. 4311), S5607 [7JN]

Crime: protect youth from exploitation by adults using the Internet (S. 3499), S5786 [13JN], S5868 [14JN]

DeGabrielle, Donald J., Jr.: nomination to be U.S. Attorney, S2048 [13MR]

Drugs: respond to the illegal production, distribution, and use of methamphetamines, S2567 [30MR], S2889, S2890 [5AP]

Education: provide officers of State and local educational agencies with certain access to national crime information databases (H.R. 4894), S5945 [15JN]

FBI: background check processing funding, S5106 [24MY]

Firearms: permit access to certain information in the Firearms Trace System (H.R. 5033), S3205 [6AP]

———permit access to certain information in the Firearms Trace System (S. 2460), S2422 [27MR]

———regulation of transfers at gun shows, S3694 [27AP]

Immigration: grant a humanitarian waiver to an immigrant if deportation would create extreme hardship for an immediate family member of a U.S. citizen or legal resident, S4949, S4950, S4954 [23MY]

Intelligence services: alleged release of classified information by Bush administration officials relative to justification for invasion of Iraq, S3185 [6AP], S3367 [7AP]

———establish procedures for the review of electronic surveillance programs (S. 2453), S2340 [16MR]

Justice Assistance Grant Program: funding, S1994 [13MR], S2109-S2111 [14MR]

Koe, Peter A.: Public Safety Officers Medal of Valor recipient, S2307 [16MR]

Languages: award grants to States to develop and implement State court interpreter programs (S. 2497), S2734 [3AP]

Law enforcement: establish a national sex offender registration database, S2405 [27MR]

———establish a national sex offender registration database (S. 792), S4039 [4MY]

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the U.S.: implement recommendations, S485, S486 [2FE]

———implement recommendations (S. 2412), S2126 [14MR]

———implement recommendations (S. 3456), S5505 [6JN]

National security: homeland security programs funding, S2228, S2229, S2247, S2248, S2256, S2290 [16MR]

———reform issuance of national security letters, S1382, S1393-S1395 [16FE], S1519 [28FE], S1566 [1MR]

———reform issuance of national security letters relative to library-provided basic Internet access, S1389, S1390 [16FE]

Native Americans: settle court claims of the Pueblo of Isleta Indian Tribe and restore, improve, and develop reservation lands and natural resources (S. 3648), S7422, S7424 [12JY]

Presidential appointments: nominations considered and confirmed en bloc, S1457 [17FE], S2047 [13MR], S2393 [16MR], S2695 [31MR], S4527 [12MY], S5398 [26MY], S5819 [13JN]

Project Safe Childhood: authorize and expand to protect children from exploitation by adults over the Internet (S. 3432), S5494 [6JN]

Senate Legal Counsel: authorize the production of records, testimony, and legal representation relative to certain investigations into improper activities by lobbyists and related matters (S. Res. 520), S6462 [23JN]

Senior citizens: ensure adequate public-private infrastructure and resolve to prevent, detect, treat, intervene in, and prosecute elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation (S. 2010), S5946 [15JN]

State Criminal Alien Assistance Program: funding, S4771-S4774 [18MY]

Telephones: merger of AT&T Corp., and BellSouth Corp., S2302 [16MR]

Thapar, Amul R.: nomination to be U.S. Attorney, S2048 [13MR]

U.S. Marshals Service: authorizing appropriations for Fugitive Safe Surrender Program (S. 2570), S3231 [6AP]

———increase number of deputy marshals, S4850 [22MY]

Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act: extend sunsets and lone wolf provisions of Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, S333 [31JA]

———extend sunsets and lone wolf provisions of Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (H.R. 4659), S498, S502 [2FE]

———extend sunsets and lone wolf provisions of Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (S. 2082), S362 [31JA]

———limit use of surveillance and issuance of search warrants, S1395 [16FE], S1613, S1616 [2MR]

———reauthorize and improve (H.R. 3199), conference report, S37, S38 [25JA], S186 [26JA], S1562-S1575 [1MR], S1593, S1598, S1601-S1632 [2MR], S2596 [30MR]

———reauthorize and improve (H.R. 3199), conference report—unanimous-consent agreement, S1557 [1MR]

———reauthorize and improve (S. 1389), S362 [31JA], S969 [9FE]

Wainstein, Kenneth L.: nomination to be Assistant Attorney General for National Security, S7174 [29JN]

Whistleblowing: limit the maximum review period for whistleblower lawsuits brought under the False Claims Act against Federal contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, S3889 [2MY], S6110-S6113 [20JN]

Reports

Command's Responsibility—Detainee Deaths in US Custody in Iraq and Afghanistan (excerpt): Human Rights First (organization), E970 [26MY]

Committee Oversight of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act From October 2001 to November 2005, H61 [1FE], H583 [7MR]

Project Safe Childhood—Protecting Children From Online Exploitation and Abuse, S5787-S5789 [13JN]

Reports filed

Consideration of H.R. 5672, Science, Depts. of State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 890) (H. Rept. 109-529), H4554 [26JN]

Dept. of Justice Document Submittal on Presidential Authorization of Electronic Surveillance Without Court-Approved Warrants: Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H. Res. 643) (H. Rept. 109-382), H563 [2MR]

Dept. of Justice Submission of Documents on Requests To Telephone Companies for Access to Domestic Records and Communications Without a Warrant: Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H. Res. 819) (H. Rept. 109-527), H4554 [26JN]

Depts. of State, Defense, Homeland Security, Justice, and the President Provision of Information Relative to Extraordinary Rendition of Foreign Persons: Committee on International Relations (House) (H. Res. 593) (H. Rept. 109-374), H272 [14FE]

Document Transmittal on Investigation of Involvement by Personnel in Creation of Warrantless Surveillance Program and Security Clearance Denials: Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H. Res. 845) (H. Rept. 109-528), H4554 [26JN]

Nomination of Amul R. Thapar To Be U.S. Attorney: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate), S1965 [9MR]

Nomination of Charles P. Rosenberg To Be U.S. Attorney: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate), S5659 [8JN]

Nomination of David F. Kustoff To Be U.S. Attorney: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate), S2312 [16MR]

Nomination of Donald J. DeGabrielle, Jr., To Be U.S. Attorney: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate), S1964 [9MR]

Nomination of Erik C. Peterson To Be U.S. Attorney: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate), S5226 [25MY]

Nomination of Gary D. Orton To Be U.S. Marshal: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate), S5226 [25MY]

Nomination of Jeffrey L. Sedgwick To Be Dept. of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics Director: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate), S2602 [30MR]

Nomination of John C. Richter To Be U.S. Attorney: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate), S1964 [9MR]

Nomination of John F. Clark To Be U.S. Marshal Service Director: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate), S2312 [16MR]

Nomination of Kenneth L. Wainstein To Be Assistant Attorney General for National Security: Committee on Intelligence (Senate, Select), S6419 [22JN]

———Committee on the Judiciary (Senate), S5949 [15JN]

Nomination of Patrick C. Smith, Sr., To Be U.S. Marshal: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate), S3703 [27AP]

Nomination of Paul J. McNulty To Be Deputy Attorney General: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate), S1413 [16FE]

Nomination of Reginald I. Lloyd To Be U.S. Attorney: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate), S1413 [16FE]

Nomination of Sharee M. Freeman To Be Dept. of Justice Community Relations Service Director: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate), S2602 [30MR]

Nomination of Terrance P. Flynn To Be U.S. Attorney: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate), S1643 [2MR]

Nomination of Thomas D. Anderson To Be U.S. Attorney: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate), S5949 [15JN]

Nomination of Timothy A. Junker To Be U.S. Marshal: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate), S3703 [27AP]

Oil and Gas Industry Antitrust Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 2557), S3703 [27AP]

Presidential and Dept. of Justice Document Transmittal on Presidential Authorization of Electronic Surveillance Without Court-Approved Warrants: Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H. Res. 644) (H. Rept. 109-383), H563 [2MR]

Provide Federal Attorneys Compensatory Time Off for Travel: Committee on Government Reform (House) (H.R. 4057) (H. Rept. 109-390), H971 [14MR]

Provide Officers of State and Local Educational Agencies With Certain Access to National Crime Information Databases: Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H.R. 4894) (H. Rept. 109-497), H3787 [12JN]

Science, Depts. of State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations: Committee on Appropriations (House) (H.R. 5672) (H. Rept. 109-520), H4519 [22JN]

Resolutions by organizations

Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act reauthorization and improvement: Associated Students of Mount Holyoke College, S1603 [2MR]

———University of Texas Student Government, S1602 [2MR]

———University of Wisconsin Student Government, S1604 [2MR]

Rulings of the Chair

Science, Depts. of State, Justice, Commerce, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 5672), H4653, H4656, H4657 [27JN], H4711, H4713, H4730 [28JN], H4803 [29JN]

Statements

Consolidation in the Oil and Gas Industry—Raising Prices? Senator Specter, S3214 [6AP]

Tables

Comparison of conference report on H.R. 3199, Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act reauthorization and improvement, to current law, S39 [25JA]

Science, Depts. of State, Justice, Commerce, and related agencies appropriations (H.R. 5672), H4619-H4628 [27JN]

Texts of

H. Res. 890, consideration of H.R. 5672, science, Depts. of State, Justice, Commerce, and related agencies appropriations, H4568 [27JN]

H.R. 4057, provide Federal attorneys compensatory time off for travel, H1144 [28MR]

H.R. 4659, Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act extension of sunsets and lone wolf provisions of Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, H60 [1FE]

H.R. 4894, provide officers of State and local educational agencies with certain access to national crime information databases, H3805 [13JN]

S. 2453, National Security Surveillance Act, S2341-S2344 [16MR]

S. 2460, permit access to certain information in the Firearms Trace System, S2423 [27MR]

S. 2497, State Court Interpreter Grant Program Act, S2735 [3AP]

S. 2570, U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Safe Surrender Program appropriations, S3231 [6AP]

S. 3648, Pueblo of Isleta Settlement and Natural Resources Restoration Act, S7423 [12JY]

S. Res. 520, Senate Legal Counsel production of records, testimony, and legal representation relative to certain investigations into improper activities by lobbyists and related matters, S6460, S6462 [23JN]