Location : SD-226
Business meeting to consider S.1789, to restore fairness to Federal cocaine sentencing, 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.1765, to amend the Hate Crime Statistics Act to
include crimes against the homeless, S.1554, to amend the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to prevent later delinquency and improve the health and well-being of maltreated infants and toddlers through the development of local
Court Teams for Maltreated Infants and Toddlers and the creation of a National Court Teams Resource Center to assist such Court Teams, H.R.1741, to require the Attorney General to make competitive grants to eligible State, tribal, and local
governments to establish and maintain certain protection and witness assistance programs, S.1132, to amend title 18, United States Code, to improve the provisions relating to the carrying of concealed weapons by law enforcement officers, and the
nominations of Edward Milton Chen, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of California, Louis B. Butler, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin, Nancy D. Freudenthal, to be United States
District Judge for the District of Wyoming, Denzil Price Marshall Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Benita Y. Pearson, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, Timothy S.
Black, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio, and Christopher H. Schroeder, of North Carolina, Mary L. Smith, of Illinois, and Dawn Elizabeth Johnsen, of Indiana, all to be an Assistant Attorney General, and James P.
Lynch, of the District of Columbia, to be Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, all of the Department of
Justice.
