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EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2001

EVENT: SENATE in session.

AGENDA: For the latest information on the floor agenda please phone the contacts listed below.

DATE: December 12, 2001

CONTACT: Republican Cloakroom, 202-224-8601 or Democratic Cloakroom, 202-224-8541.

TIME: 9:30 a.m.

EVENT: SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE holds hearings to examine the Department of Defense implementation of the President's Military Order on the detention, treatment, and trial by military commissions of certain non-citizens in the war on terrorism.

DATE: December 12, 2001

LOCATION: 325 Russell Office Building, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-224-3871

TIME: 10 a.m.

EVENT: SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE holds hearings to examine the future of the Microsoft settlement.

DATE: December 12, 2001

LOCATION: 106 Dirksen Office Building, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-224-5225

TIME: 10 a.m.

EVENT: SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE business meeting to markup H. R. 3005, to extend trade authorities procedures with respect to reciprocal trade agreements.

to consider the nomination of Richard Clarida, of Connecticut, to be Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, the nomination of Kenneth Lawson, of Florida, to be Assistant Secretary for Enforcement

the nomination of B. John Williams, Jr., of Virginia, to be Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue

Service and Assistant General Counsel, all of the Department of the Treasury

the nomination of Janet Hale, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget, the nomination of Joan E. Ohl, of West Virginia, to be Commissioner on Children, Youth, and Families, both of the Department of Health and Human Services

the nomination of James B. Lockhart, III, of Connecticut, to be Deputy Commissioner of Social Security

the nomination of Harold Daub, of Nebraska, to be a Member of the Social Security Advisory Board, both of the Social Security Administration.

DATE: December 12, 2001

LOCATION: 215 Dirksen Office Building, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-224-4515

TIME: 2:30 p.m.

EVENT: SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE holds closed hearings on pending intelligence matters.

DATE: December 12, 2001

LOCATION: S-407, Capitol, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-224-1700

TIME: 2:30 p.m.

EVENT: SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE Business meeting to consider S.1779, to authorize the establishment of "Radio Free Afghanistan"; H.R.3167, to endorse the vision of further enlargement of the NATO Alliance articulated by President George W. Bush on June 15, 2001, and by former President William J. Clinton on October 22, 1996; S.Con.Res.86, expressing the sense of Congress that women from all ethnic groups in Afghanistan should participate in the economic and political reconstruction of Afghanistan; H.Con.Res.77, expressing the sense of the

Congress regarding the efforts of people of the United States of Korean ancestry to reunite with

their family members in North Korea; and H.Con.Res.211, commending Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on the 10th anniversary of her receiving the Nobel Peace Prize and expressing the sense of the

Congress with respect to the Government of Burma; and pending nominations.

DATE: December 12, 2001

LOCATION: 419 Dirksen Office Building, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-224-4651