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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Justice was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1271 on Nov. 13, 1997.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
RENEWABLE TRANSPORTATION FUELS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded hearings to examine certain ways renewable fuels could assist in decreasing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing United States energy security, after receiving testimony from R. James Woolsey, former Director of Central Intelligence, and B. Reid Detchon, Biomass Energy Advocates, both of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 1172, for the relief of Sylvester Flis; and
The nominations of Barry G. Silverman, of Arizona, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Carlos R. Moreno, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California, Richard W. Story, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, Christine O. C. Miller, of the District of Columbia, to be a Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims, and Robert S. Warshaw, of New York, to be Associate Director for National Drug Control Policy.
Also, committee resumed consideration of the nomination of Bill Lann Lee, of California, to be an Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, but did not complete consideration of, and recessed subject to call.
