It is unclear if he is willing to postpone the session until later in the week.
Mr. Gramm has also asked Mr. Sarbanes to postpone the session on Tuesday, a move that Mr. Sarbanes has rebuffed.
Yeltsin asked him to postpone the session until later in the day, when he'd had a chance to sort out the intrigue.
Just last week, President Bush reached out to Mr. McCain to meet for dinner, although the two decided to postpone the session to a less heated moment after Senator James M. Jeffords of Vermont changed to an independent from a Republican, tilting control of the Senate.
Israel attempted to postpone the session until after the Passover holiday, which began at sundown Friday, but after that effort failed, Israeli officials refused to attend any proceedings.
On a subsequent cover shoot, Mr. Pickett kept delaying, often postponing the session but inviting Mr. Cummins to go with him to Bobby Womack's studio, where card games kept the musicians occupied between takes.
The UC board had planned to hold its regular bi-monthly meeting Wednesday and Thursday at UC San Francisco's Mission Bay campus but postponed the session after what officials termed credible threats.
Having observed the sessions and received feedback from the drivers and the teams about the circuit conditions, the series' president of competition Brian Barnhart and course designer Tony Cotman opted to postpone the qualification session to race morning, with the running of a third practice session and a Sunday morning warm-up instead of it.
But leaders of the Shiites' United Iraqi Alliance, who have the largest bloc in the 275-member parliament elected in December, said they were lobbying Talabani to postpone the first session for perhaps a week.
It is about court coverage, ground strokes and strategy -- all of which were revealed as players with high seedings like Tim Henman and Justine Henin advanced before rain postponed the night sessions -- but as far as the health of the game is concerned, tennis is tied into the power of marketing.
