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U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee hearing to examine S. 797, the Tribal Law and Order Act on June 25 in Room 628 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C.

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The following text is from the whitehouse.gov announcement (link at bottom):

Laurie O. Robinson was named Acting Assistant Attorney General/Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General on January 28, 2009. Robinson previously served as Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs from 1993 to 2000. During her tenure in the Clinton Administration, Robinson oversaw the largest increase in federal spending on criminal justice research in the nation's history. Between 2001 and January of this year, she served as a Distinguished Senior Scholar in the University of Pennsylvania’s Jerry Lee Center of Criminology, and as Executive Director of its Forum on Crime & Justice. In 2004 Robinson launched a Criminology Master of Science Program at Penn, which she continued to direct until leaving to join the Department of Justice in January. Prior to joining the Department of Justice in 1993, Robinson was the director of the American Bar Association's Section of Criminal Justice for 14 years, where she founded the ABA's Juvenile Justice Center and had responsibility for policy development, work with Congress, and development of special projects in such areas as crime victims, prisons, and police procedures.

Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/President-Obama-Announces-More-Key-Administration-Posts-5-6-09/

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