“Executive Business Meeting”

February 15, 2007

An Executive Business Meeting was held by the Committee on the Judiciary on Thursday, March 1, 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
Senate Dirksen Office Building Room 226
Thursday, March 1, 2007 at 10:00 a.m.

I. Matters Carried Over from Previous Meeting

S. 236, The Federal Agency Data Mining Reporting Act of 2007
(Feingold, Sununu)
COMMITTEE ACTION: [PENDING]

S. 378, The Court Security Improvement Act of 2007
(Leahy, Specter, Durbin, Cornyn, Kennedy, Hatch)
COMMITTEE ACTION: [ORDERED REPORTED FAVORABLY]

S. 442, The John R. Justice Prosecutors and Defenders Incentive Act of 2007
(Durbin, Specter, Leahy, Biden)
COMMITTEE ACTION: [ORDERED REPORTED FAVORABLY]

II. Nominations

Thomas M. Hardiman to be United States Circuit Judge
for the Third Circuit
COMMITTEE ACTION: [PENDING]

John Preston Bailey to be U.S. District Judge
for the Northern District of West Virginia

Otis D. Wright, II to be U.S. District Judge
for the Central District of California

George H. Wu to be U.S. District Judge
for the Central District of California
COMMITTEE ACTION: [BAILEY, WRIGHT AND WU REPORTED FAVORABLY EN BLOC BY UNANIMOUS CONSENT]

III. Bills

S.261, Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act of 2007
(Cantwell, Specter, Durbin, Kyl, Feinstein, Feingold, Kohl)
COMMITTEE ACTION: [PENDING]

S. 376, Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2007
(Leahy, Specter, Kyl, Cornyn, Grassley, Sessions)
COMMITTEE ACTION: [PENDING]

IV. Resolutions

S. Con. Res. 10, To honor the NAACP on its 98th anniversary
(Clinton)

H. Con. Res. 44, To honor the NAACP on its 98th anniversary
(Green)

S. Res. 78, Designating April 2007 as "National Autism Awareness Month" (Hagel, Feingold)

S. Res. 84, Observing the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire
and honoring the life and legacy of William Wilberforce
(Brownback, Pryor)
COMMITTEE ACTION: [REPORTED FAVORABLY EN BLOC BY UNANIMOUS CONSENT]