WASHINGTON -- The Senate Judiciary Committee is taking advantage of the slow progress on the national health care overhaul to meet Christmas Eve for some unfinished business -- including the nomination of Rhode Island Superior Court Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

After acting on several other nominations and pending bills at a business meeting Thursday morning, the panel adjourned, planning to take up Thompson's nomination and some unrelated legislation early in the new year.

But on Thursday afternoon, the chairman of the panel, U.S. Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, pushed back its schedule to next Thursday. Thompson's nomination and the still-pending bills are listed on the panel's public notice for the Dec. 24 meeting...

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