“Executive Business Meeting”

September 18, 2006

An Executive Business Meeting has been scheduled by the Committee on the Judiciary for Thursday, September 21, 2006 at 9:30 a.m. in the Senate Dirksen Building Room 226.

By order of the Chairman

AGENDA

Executive Business Meeting
Senate Judiciary Committee
226 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Thursday, September 21, 2006 at 9:30 AM

I. Nominations

Terrence W. Boyle
to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit

William James Haynes II
to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit

Kent A. Jordan
to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit

Peter D. Keisler
to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit

William Gerry Myers III
to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit

Norman Randy Smith
to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit

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

Francisco Augusto Besosa
to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Puerto Rico

Nora Barry Fischer
to be U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania

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

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

Marcia Morales Howard
to be U.S. District Judge for the Middle District of Florida

John Alfred Jarvey
to be U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Iowa

Sara Elizabeth Lioi
to be U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio

Lawrence Joseph O'Neill
to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of California

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

Rodger A. Heaton
to be U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois

II. Bills

S. 2831, Free Flow of Information Act of 2006
[Lugar, Specter, Schumer, Graham, Biden, Grassley]

S. 155, Gang Prevention and Effective Deterrence Act of 2005
[Feinstein, Hatch, Grassley, Cornyn, Kyl, Specter]

S. 1845, Circuit Court of Appeals Restructuring and Modernization Act of 2005
[Ensign, Kyl]

S. 394, OPEN Government Act of 2005
[Cornyn, Leahy, Feingold]

S. 3880, Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act
[Inhofe, Feinstein]

S. 2644, Perform Act of 2006
[Feinstein, Graham, Biden]

S. 3818, Patent Reform Act of 2006
[Hatch, Leahy]