“Executive Business Meeting”

September 9, 2004

An Executive Business Meeting has been scheduled by the Committee on the Judiciary, for
Tuesday, September 14, 2004, at 9:30 a.m., 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
Tuesday, September 14, 2004 at 10:00 a.m.

I. Nominations

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

David E. Nahmias
to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia

Ricardo H. Hinojosa
to be Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission

Michael O'Neill
to be a Member of the United States Sentencing Commission

Ruben Castillo
to be a Member of the United States Sentencing Commission

William Sanchez
to be Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practice

Richard B. Roper III
to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas for the term of four years.

Lisa Wood
to be United States Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia for the term of four years.

II. Legislation

S. 1635, L-1 Visa (Intracompany Transferee) Reform Act of 2003
[Chambliss]

S. 1700, Advancing Justice through DNA Technology Act of 2003
[Hatch, Biden, Specter, Leahy, DeWine, Feinstein, Kennedy, Schumer, Durbin, Kohl, Edwards]

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

H.R. 1417, To amend title 17, United States Code, to replace copyright arbitration royalty panels with Copyright Royalty Judges Act of 2003
[Smith-TX, Berman-CA, Conyers-MI]

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. 2195, A bill to amend the Controlled Substances Act to clarify the definition of anabolic steroids and to provide for research and education activities relating to steroids and steroid precursors Act of 2004
[Biden, Hatch, Grassley, Feinstein]

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. 2742, A bill to extend certain authority of the Supreme Court Police, modify the venue of prosecutions relating to the Supreme Court building and grounds, and authorize the acceptance of gifts to the United States Supreme Court Act of 2004
[Hatch, Leahy]

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
[Domenici, Graham, Kyl, Sessions]