11.   Senate committees holding hearings.

12.   Senate committee -- None.

13.   Senate committee holds hearing on the pardon of Marc Rich.

14.   Senate committee meets on student loans after morning postponement because Republicans lack votes to pass it.

15.   Senate committees modified plans to hold scheduled committee hearings on Thursday either in the Library of Congress or the Capitol itself.

16.   The bill is in the senate transportation committee.

17.   The minister of State Reform, Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira, had been scheduled to explain the payroll cuts amendment at a senate committee today.

18.   Two senate committees jointly held the hearing to investigate why gas prices spiked to historic levels this month.

19.   Box seats would probably go to federal ministers with particular games responsibilities, a Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet official told a senate estimates committee.

20.   Biazon heads the senate national defense committee.