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02/09/2012 10:00 AM
Executive Business Meeting
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Results of Executive Business Meeting - February 9, 2012
The Senate Judiciary Committee held an executive business meeting to consider pending nominations and legislation on February 9, 2012.

Agenda

I. Nominations

John Z. Lee, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois
Held Over

John J. Tharp, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois
Held Over

George Levi Russell, III, to be United States District Judge for the District of Maryland
Held Over

Kristine Gerhard Baker, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas
Held Over


II. Bills

S.1945, A bill to permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings (Durbin, Grassley, Klobuchar, Cornyn, Blumenthal, Schumer)
Ordered Reported By Roll Call Vote, 11-7


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Did You Know?  In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed the Judiciary Reorganization Bill to empower the President to appoint an additional justice for every sitting justice over the age of 70 and one half years.  The members of the Judiciary Committee strongly opposed Roosevelt's proposal.

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