Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, top Republican on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
Hearings begin July 8, and investigators on the Governmental Affairs Committee, led by GOP Sen.
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After chairing the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, he stepped down in 2003 to resume his acting career.
Lieberman said he will hold a hearing on the issue Friday before the Governmental Affairs Committee he chairs.
The magnitude of this challenge will be on display at a hearing of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Wednesday.
The subpoenas, which are largely to banks for records, were issued by the Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Sen.
The legitimacy and logistics of an independence vote were political, not legal questions, said Joseph Facal, Quebec's minister for inter-governmental affairs.
In 1999, he became the ranking Democrat on the Governmental Affairs Committee.
Waxman said Chung had given similar off-the-record, unsworn briefings to the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee and to investigators from the Department of Justice.
Burton's investigators in fact are encountering the same difficulty producing concrete evidence of overseas connections as Senate Governmental Affairs Chairman Fred Thompson, R-Tenn.
Would he stay with the Dems, as he insisted he would, and become the chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee?
He'd remain the senior Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and he'd get to hold on to his ranking on other assignments.
Thompson quickly vaulted to chair the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, where he later led the investigations into allegations of improper fundraising by the Clinton-Gore campaign.
The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee is chaired by Democrat Joseph Lieberman, who has campaigned for stricter controls on the entertainment media, particularly those aimed at children.
Earlier today, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its prepared written testimony before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate.
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Governmental Affairs Committee spokesman Paul Clark said Friday they would be questioned about whether they were "straw donors" -- contributors who gave money and then were reimbursed.
Democrats have for months decried the House campaign finance probe as partisan, overly broad, unproductive and duplicative of one recently completed by the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee.
"What we have is a world class oil field sitting below a world class city, " said John Martini, manager of governmental affairs for Plains Exploration and Production Co.
Fred Thompson (R-Tennessee), chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee.
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Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins, the chairman and ranking minority member, respectively, of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and especially that of Rep. Pete King, Sen.
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The official, state Department of Transportation and Development Secretary Johnny Bradberry, is scheduled to testify Tuesday at a hearing called by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
The Connecticut senator, who is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, further said no real reason is being given for the administration's reticence.
The ability of the flight crew and passengers to tackle the suspect saved the approximately 290 people on board, said Lieberman, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
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The prime-movers behind this initiative at the moment are Senators Fred Thompson (R-TN) and Robert Torricelli (D-NJ), the chairman and a senior Democrat respectively on the Senate's Governmental Affairs Committee.
In the US Senate, Mr Lieberman is a member of the powerful Armed Services Committee, the Environment and Public Works Committee, the Small Business Committee, and the Governmental Affairs Committee.
The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, which resumes its campaign finance hearings in September, plans to question Sullivan this week on the issues raised by his notes, a GOP source told CNN.
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Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee that is investigating 1996 campaign fund-raising matters, agreed Thursday to a Democratic request to issue subpoenas for Young and his company.
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It's "common-sense reform, " wrote Darrell Issa of California, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, top Republican on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
The top agenda item for the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hearing was to discuss how a budget would be developed and implemented under an improved system of intelligence coordination between civilian and military sectors.
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It's important for juveniles to be brought to the attention of authorities to prevent them from reoffending and to ensure they get the services they need, said Carolyn Atwell-Davis, vice-president of policy and governmental affairs.
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