Executive Business Meeting

RESCHEDULED:

The markup for today, October 7, 2004, will begin immediately after the first roll call vote in S-219, The Capitol. The first vote is expected to begin at 4:10 p.m.

An Executive Business Meeting has been scheduled by the Committee on the Judiciary,
for Thursday, October 7 , 2004, at 9:30 am., in the Senate Dirksen Building, Room 226.

Senator Hatch will preside.

By order of the Chairman

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AGENDA
Executive Business Meeting
Senate Judiciary Committee
226 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Thursday, October 7, 2004

I. Nominations

Claude A. Allen
to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit

Robert Cramer Balfe III
to be U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas

II. Legislation

S. 2396, Federal Courts Improvement Act of 2004
[Hatch, Leahy, Chambliss, Durbin, Schumer]

S. 2204, A bill to provide criminal penalties for false information and hoaxes relating to terrorism Act of 2004
[Hatch, Schumer, Cornyn, Feinstein, DeWine]

S. 1860, A bill to reauthorize the Office of National Drug Control Policy Act of 2003
[Hatch, Biden, Grassley]

S. 2560, A bill to amend chapter 5 of title 17, United States Code, relating to inducement of copyright infringement, and for other purposes Act 2004
[Hatch, Leahy, Graham]

S. J. Res. 23, A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the event that one-fourth of the members of either the House of Representatives or the Senate are killed or incapacitated Act of 2003
[Cornyn, Chambliss]

S. 2373, A bill to modify the prohibition on recognition by United States courts of certain rights relating to certain marks, trade names, or commercial names Act of 2004
[Domenici, Graham, Sessions]

S. 2863, A bill to reauthorize the Department of Justice Act of 2004
[Hatch, Leahy, DeWine, Schumer]

H.R. 2391, To amend title 35, United States Code, to promote cooperative research involving universities, the public sector, and private enterprises Act of 2003
[Smith - TX]

S. 2760, A bill to limit and expedite Federal collateral review of convictions for killing a public safety officer Act of 2004
[Kyl, Hatch, Craig, Cornyn, Sessions, Chambliss]

S. 1297, A bill to amend title 28, United States Code, with respect to the jurisdiction of Federal courts inferior to the Supreme Court over certain cases and controversies involving the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag Act of 2003
[Hatch, Talent, Kyl]

S. 2302, A bill to improve access to physicians in medically underserved areas Act of 2004
[Conrad, Feingold, Kennedy Schumer, DeWine, Kohl]

S. 989, A bill to provide death and disability benefits for aerial firefighters who work on a contract basis for a public agency and suffer death or disability in the line of duty, and for other purposes Act of 2003
[Enzi, Reid]

S. 1728, Terrorism Victim Compensation Equity Act of 2003
[Specter, Leahy, Schumer]

S. 1740, Anthrax Victims Fund Fairness Act of 2003
[Leahy, Feingold]

S. 549 A bill to amend the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 (49 U.S.C. 40101 note; Public Law 107-42) to provide compensation for victims killed in the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, and for other purposes Act of 2003
[Schumer]

S. 2668, Private Bill; A bill for the relief of Griselda Lopez Negrete
[Graham - SC]