Executive Business Meeting

An Executive Business Meeting was held by the Committee on the Judiciary on

Thursday, January 25, 2007 at 10:00 a.m. in the Senate Dirksen Building Room 226.

By order of the Chairman

EXECUTIVE BUSINESS MEETING REPORT
AGENDA
Executive Business Meeting
Senate Judiciary Committee
226 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Thursday, January 25, 2007 at 10:00 a.m.

I. Committee Organization

Committee Rules for the 110th Congress

Subcommittees for the 110th Congress

Funding Resolution for the 110th Congress

COMMITTEE ACTION: [REPORTED FAVORABLY BY UNANIMOUS CONSENT EN BLOC]

II. Nominations

Lisa Godbey Wood

to be U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Georgia

Philip S. Gutierrez

to be U.S. District Judge for the Central District of California

Valerie L. Baker

to be U.S. District Judge for the Central District of California

Lawrence Joseph O'Neill

to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of California

Gregory Kent Frizzell

to be U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma

COMMITTEE ACTION: [REPORTED FAVORABLY BY UNANIMOUS CONSENT EN BLOC]

III. Bills

S. 188, To Revise the Short Title of the Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006 (Salazar)
COMMITTEE ACTION: [PENDING]

S. 214, To Amend Chapter 35 of Title 28, To Preserve the Independence of U.S. Attorneys (Feinstein)
COMMITTEE ACTION: [PENDING]

IV. Resolutions

S. Res. 21, Recognizing the Uncommon Valor of Wesley Autry (Clinton, Schumer)

COMMITTEE ACTION: [REPORTED FAVORABLY BY UNANIMOUS CONSENT]

S. Res. 24, Designating January as "National Stalking Awareness Month" (Biden)

COMMITTEE ACTION: [REPORTED FAVORABLY BY UNANIMOUS CONSENT]

S. Res. 29, Expressing the Sense of the Senate Regarding Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Stabenow, Leahy, Kennedy, Biden, Kohl, Feinstein, Feingold, Schumer, Durbin, Cardin, Whitehouse, Specter)

COMMITTEE ACTION: [REPORTED FAVORABLY BY UNANIMOUS CONSENT]