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Judiciary Committee

Address: 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-7703 Fax: (202) 224-9516
Website: http://judiciary.senate.gov

Schedule Of Hearings
NOVEMBER 04, 2009 - Full Committee Hearing to Examine Nominations NOVEMBER 05, 2009 - Business meeting to consider S.448 and H.R.985, bills to maintain the free flow of information to the public by providing conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of information by certain persons connected with the news media, S.714, to establish the National Criminal Justice Commission, S.1490, to prevent and mitigate identity theft, to ensure privacy, to provide notice of security breaches, and to enhance criminal penalties, law enforcement assistance, and other protections against security breaches, fraudulent access, and misuse of personally identifiable information, S.139, to require Federal agencies, and persons engaged in interstate commerce, in possession of data containing sensitive personally identifiable information, to disclose any breach of such information, S.1624, to amend title 11 of the United States Code, to provide protection for medical debt homeowners, to restore bankruptcy protections for individuals experiencing economic distress as caregivers to ill, injured, or disabled family members, and to exempt from means testing debtors whose financial problems were caused by serious medical problems, S.1472, to establish a section within the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice to enforce human rights laws, to make technical and conforming amendments to criminal and immigration laws pertaining to human rights violations, S.1147, to prevent tobacco smuggling, to ensure the collection of all tobacco taxes, and the nominations of Ketanji Brown Jackson, of Maryland, to be a Member of the United States Sentencing Commission, and Kenyen Ray Brown, to be United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, Department of Justice. NOVEMBER 10, 2009 - Senate Judiciary Committee (Chairman Leahy, D-Vt.) will hold a hearing titled "Strengthening Our Criminal Justice System: Extending the Innocence Protection Act." NOVEMBER 18, 2009 - Senate Judiciary Committee (Chairman Leahy, D-Vt.) will hold an oversight hearing on the Department of Justice. NOVEMBER 18, 2009 - Senate Judiciary Committee (Chairman Leahy, D-Vt.) will hold a confirmation hearing on pending nominations. NOVEMBER 19, 2009 - Nominations and Pending Legislation S 448 - Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 HR 985 - Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 S 714 - National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009 S 1624 - Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act of 2009 S 1147 - Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking (PACT) Act of 2009 Nominations: Jane Branstetter Stranch to be U.S. circuit judge for the 6th Circuit Benjamin B. Tucker to be deputy director for state, local, and tribal affairs, Office of National Drug Control Policy

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