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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Justice was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D767 on June 5, 2007.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
EXECUTIVE STOCK OPTIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations concluded a hearing to examine executive stock options, focusing on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and stockholders information, after receiving testimony from Kevin M. Brown, Acting Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury; John W. White, Director, Division of Corporation Finance, and Lynn E. Turner, former Chief Accountant, Broomfield, Colorado, both of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Stephen F. Bollenbach, KB Homes, and John S. Chalsty, Occidental Petroleum Corporation, both of Los Angeles, California; William Y. Tauscher, Safeway Inc., Pleasanton, California; Jeffrey P. Mahoney, Council of Institutional Investors, Washington, D.C.; and Mihir A. Desai, Harvard University Business School, Boston, Massachusetts.
GANG ABATEMENT AND PREVENTION ACT OF 2007
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the federal role to work with communities to prevent and respond to gang violence, focusing on S. 456, to increase and enhance law enforcement resources committed to investigation and prosecution of violent gangs, to deter and punish violent gang crime, to protect law-
abiding citizens and communities from violent criminals, to revise and enhance criminal penalties for violent crimes, to expand and improve gang prevention programs, after receiving testimony from Senator Boxer; Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa, and William J. Bratton, Los Angeles Police Department, both of Los Angeles, California; Boni Gayle Driskill, Wings of Protection, Modesto, California; District Attorney James P. Fox, Redwood City, California, on behalf of the National District Attorneys Association; Claude A. Robinson Jr., Uhlich Children's Advantage Network, Chicago, Illinois; Gregg Croteau, United Teen Equality Center, Lowell, Massachusetts; and Patrick Word, Gaithersburg City Police Department, Gaithersburg, Maryland, on behalf of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Gang Investigators Network.
PRESERVING PROSECUTORIAL INDEPENDENCE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the Department of Justice and politicizing the hiring and firing of United States Attorneys, focusing on preserving prosecutorial independence, after receiving testimony from Bradley J. Schlozman, Associate Counsel to the Director, Executive Office for United States Attorneys, Department of Justice; and Todd P. Graves, Graves Bartle and Marcus LLC, Kansas City, Missouri.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community.
Committee recessed subject to call.
