    [Senate Calendars for December 7, 2007 - 110th Congress, 1st Session]
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                           SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           ONE HUNDRED TENTH CONGRESS

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       FIRST SESSION  convened january 4, 2007          DAYS OF SESSION 177

      SECOND SESSION

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                              CALENDAR OF BUSINESS

                            Friday, December 7, 2007

                          SENATE CONVENES AT 9:00 A.M.

                                PENDING BUSINESS

                            H.R. 2419 (ORDER NO. 339)

        An act to provide for the continuation of agricultural programs
    through fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes. (Nov. 5, 2007.)

                     (Unanimous Consent Agreements on P. 2)

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                 PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF NANCY ERICKSON,
                             SECRETARY OF THE SENATE

                     By David J. Tinsley, Legislative Clerk

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                          UNANIMOUS CONSENT AGREEMENTS

                             HOUSE MESSAGE ON H.R. 6

        1.--Ordered, That on Friday, December 7, 2007, immediately following
    the prayer and the pledge, the Senate proceed to consider the message
    from the House on H.R. 6, an act to move the United States toward
    greater energy independence and security, to increase the production of
    clean renewable fuels, to protect consumers from price gouging, to
    increase the energy efficiency of products, buildings, and vehicles, to
    promote research on and deploy greenhouse gas capture and storage
    options, and to improve the energy performance of the Federal
    Government, and for other purposes, notwithstanding the papers not
    having been received from the House.
        Ordered further, That the Majority Leader be immediately recognized
    to move to concur in the House amendments to Senate amendments and to
    file cloture on that motion, and that there be 20 minutes equally
    divided in the usual form for debate on the Majority Leader's motion
    followed by a cloture vote on that motion.
        Ordered further, That no other motions, amendments, or points of
    order be in order prior to the vote on the motion to invoke cloture.
    (Dec. 6, 2007.)

                            H.R. 2419 (ORDER NO. 339)

        2.--Ordered, That the cloture vote on Amdt. No. 3500, offered by the
    Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin), H.R. 2419, an act to provide for the
    continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2012, and for
    other purposes, occur at a time to be determined by the Majority Leader,
    after consultation with the Republican Leader.
        Ordered further, That, other than the pending amendments, there be a
    limitation of 20 first degree amendments per side and that they be from
    the list that follows:
            Akaka--Amdt. No. 3538
            Alexander--SoS: Broadband
            Alexander--Increase Ag Research
            Alexander--Strike renewable tax credit
            Alexander--Wind energy tax credit
            Alexander--Wind energy property taxes
            Allard--PART
            Allard--Vet Food Systems
            Allard--Forest Reassessment
            Barrasso--Support project-7
            Baucus--State assistance for beginning farmers (Amdt. No. 3598)
            Baucus--Ag Research
            Baucus--Brucellosis
            Baucus--Agriculture supply
            Bingaman--1 relevant amendment
            Bingaman--Ground and water surface conservation program
            Bingaman--Regional Water Enhancement program
            Bond--Food Stamps
            Bond--Red-tape Reduction
            Bond--Research
            Boxer--6 relevant amendments
            Brown/Hatch--Crop Insurance
            Bunning--Disaster Relief
            Cantwell--Study on climate change and impact on wine industry
            Cantwell--increase funding specialty crop block grant
            Cantwell--Minor oil seed crops
            Cantwell--tree assistance program
            Cardin--2 relevant amendments
            Casey--Amdt. No. 3610
            Casey--crop insurance
            Casey--agriculture inspectors
            Casey--food stamp nutrition education
            Casey--emergency funding for invasive pests and diseases
            Chambliss--Farm Credit Service
            Chambliss--Crop Insurance Fix
            Chambliss--Trade--strikes section 3101
            Chambliss--Biotech-PPV
            Chambliss--Sugar technical fix
            Chambliss--Ethanol/direct payments
            Chambliss--Conservation AGI

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            Chambliss--5 Relevant
            Chambliss--2 Relevant to any on the list
            Coburn--Waste
            Coburn--Chinese garden maintenance
            Coburn--Transparency
            Coburn--Estate payments
            Coburn--Federal hunger problems
            Coburn--Crop Insurance
            Coburn--Equip
            Coleman--AGI Caps
            Coleman--Drivers License
            Conrad--3 relevant amendments
            Corker--Coal gasification project credits
            Cornyn--Child obesity study
            Cornyn--Strike Disaster Trust Fund
            Cornyn--New Budget P/O
            Craig--Loan Repayment
            Craig--Land Preservation
            Craig--Worker Housing
            Craig--Biogas
            DeMint--Death tax
            Dorgan--CRP
            Dorgan--2 SECA tax amendments
            Dorgan--Secretary's rule regarding cattle and beef (Amdt. No.
    3602)
            Dorgan--Amdt. No. 3508 (pending)
            Dorgan--payment limits
            Dole--Tax Credit
            Domenici--Renewable Energy
            Domenici--Land Transfer
            Durbin--Food Safety sunset
            Durbin--McGovern-Dole funding
            Durbin--ACR improvements
            Durbin--Puppy information
            Durbin--Low-interest financing to fight invasive species
            Durbin--Food Safety
            Ensign--5 Relevant Amendments
            Enzi--Captive Supply
            Feingold--13 relevant amendments
            Feinstein--Ag inspectors
            Feinstein--Energy market oversight
            Feinstein--Leafy greens
            Feinstein--Clementines
            Graham--Cellulosic Ethanol
            Grassley--Agricultural mergers
            Gregg--Mortgage Crisis
            Gregg--Drivers License
            Gregg--Firefighters
            Gregg--Ag disaster funds
            Gregg--Farm stress program
            Gregg--Proper budget accounting
            Gregg--Commodity subsidies
            Gregg--Sugar Program
            Gregg--Loss assistance (asparagus)
            Gregg--Commodity subsidies
            Gregg--Gulf of Mexico
            Gregg--Farm and rural healthcare
            Harkin--7 relevant amendments
            Harkin--2 amendments relevant to any on the list
            Harkin--School nutrition standards
            Harkin--Packers and Stockyards Act
            Harkin--Managers' Amendments
            Hutchison--Southwest Dairy
            Hutchison--Land Grants
            Hutchison--Rio Grande
            Hutchison--Renewables
            Inouye--Food for Peace
            Inouye--Rail related

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            Inouye--Broadband Data
            Inouye--Energy related
            Inouye--Sugar/ethanol loan guarantee grant program
            Inouye--Exemption for Hawaii
            Inouye--Reimbursement payment to geographically disadvantaged
    farmers/ranchers
            Kerry--4 relevant amendments
            Kohl--Revised membership/Federal Milk Marketing (Amdt. No. 3531)
            Kohl--SOS Rural Energy America Program (Amdt. No. 3532)
            Kohl--Amdt. No. 3533
            Kohl--Amdt. No. 3534
            Kohl--Amdt. No. 3535
            Kohl--Amdt. No. 3536
            Kohl--Amdt. No. 3537
            Kohl--Amdt. No. 3555
            Klobuchar--AGI Limits
            Klobuchar--Timber contracts
            Klobuchar--Beginning farmers/ranchers
            Kyl--Tax/AMT
            Kyl--Relevant
            Landrieu--7 relevant amendments
            Lautenberg--FRESH Act
            Lautenberg--FEED Act
            Levin--Energy Markets
            Lincoln--4 Ag tax amendments
            Lincoln--Bio Fuels
            Lincoln--Small Procedure Credit
            Lincoln--1 relevant amendment
            Lott--Gulf of Mexico task force
            Lott--Tax/AMT
            Lott--2 Relevant
            Lugar--Complete overhaul
            Lugar--Trade
            Lugar--2 Relevant
            McCaskill--Amdt. No. 3556
            McConnell--4 Relevant
            McConnell--Death Tax
            McConnell--AMT
            McConnell--Tax/Horses
            McConnell--2 Relevant to any on the list
            Menendez--4 relevant amendments
            Mikulski--2 cloned foods amendments
            Mikulski--2 H2B amendments
            Murkowski--Exxon Valdez litigation
            Murkowski--Specialty crops
            Murray--2 Conservation amendments
            Murray--Energy
            Murray--Specialty crop
            Nelson (NE)--Amdt. No. 3576
            Pryor--Broadband (Amdt. No. 3625)
            Pryor--4 relevant amendments
            Reid--Amdt. No. 3509
            Reid--Amdt. No. 3510
            Reid--Amdt. No. 3511
            Reid--Amdt. No. 3512
            Reid--Amdt. No. 3513
            Reid--Amdt. No. 3514
            Reid--2 relevant amendments
            Reid--2 amendments relevant to any on the list
            Roberts--Technical
            Roberts--Ag Fair Practices
            Roberts--Definitions
            Roberts--Regulations
            Roberts--Conservation
            Roberts--Conservation
            Roberts--Trade
            Roberts--Nutrition
            Roberts--Rural Development

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            Roberts--Rural Development
            Salazar--Cellulosic Biofuels Production Incentives (Amdt. No.
    3616)
            Salazar--Colorado Good Neighbor Agreements (Forestry)
            Sanders--Amdt. No. 3595
            Schumer--5 Conservation amendments
            Sessions--Rural Hospital
            Sessions--Farm Savings Accounts
            Smith--Americorp Vista volunteers
            Smith--River Conservatory
            Smith--Deschutes River
            Smith--Wallowa Lake Dam
            Smith--Oregon Subbasins
            Smith--North Irrigation unit
            Smith--Irrigation Districts
            Smith--Fire sprinkler systems
            Stabenow--Local farmer initiative--Buy America
            Stabenow--CSFP
            Stevens--Protecting Kids Online
            Stevens--e911
            Stevens--FSA operating loans
            Stevens--Quarantine inspection fees
            Stevens--Bloc Grant to seafood
            Stevens--AQI User Fees
            Stevens--Fishing Loans
            Stevens--DTV
            Stevens--Seafood Safety
            Sununu--Biomass Fuel
            Tester--Amdt. No. 3516
            Tester--Live Stock Title
            Thune--Biofuels
            Vitter--National Finance Center
            Webb--3 relevant amendments
            Wyden--Illegal logging
            Wyden--Biomass grants.
        Ordered further, That first degree amendments be subject to second
    degree amendments that are relevant to the first degree amendment to
    which offered.
        Ordered further, That Managers' amendments cleared by both Managers,
    not be counted toward the 20 first degree amendments allowed by the
    agreement.
        Ordered further, That the cloture vote on H.R. 2419, be delayed, if
    needed, to occur upon the adoption of Amdt. 3500.
        Ordered further, That the mandatory quorum call required under Rule
    XXII be waived.
        Ordered further, That the mandatory quorum call required under Rule
    XXII be waived on Amdt. 3500. (Nov. 14, Dec. 5, 6, 2007.)

                              VETO MESSAGE ON S. 5

        3.--Ordered, That the veto message on S. 5, the Stem Cell Research
    Enhancement Act of 2007, be considered as read and that it be printed in
    the Record and spread in full upon the Journal.
        Ordered further, That the message be held at the desk. (June 20,
    2007.)

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         January 03, 18, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30, 31.
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         February, 01, 02, 03, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 27, 28.
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         March, 01, 02, 03, 06, 07, 08, 09, 13, 14, 15, 16, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31.
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         April, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 24, 25, 26, 27.
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         May, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26.
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         June, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30.
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         July, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 31.
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         August, 01, 02, 03, 04.
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         September, 05, 06, 07, 08, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29.
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         October.
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         November, 09, 13, 14, 15, 16.
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         December, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08.
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                                     2007
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        January, 04, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31.
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        February, 01, 05, 06, 07, 08, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 26, 27, 28.
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        March, 01, 02, 05, 07, 08, 09, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29.
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        April, 10, 03, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26.
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        May, 01, 02, 03, 04, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25.
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        June, 30, 04, 05, 06, 07, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29.
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        July, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 30, 31.
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        August, 01, 02, 03.
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        September, 04, 05, 06, 07, 10, 11, 12, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28.
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        October, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31.
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        November, 01, 02, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 23, 27, 29.
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        December, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07.
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    Days Senate met during Second Session, One Hundred Ninth Congress, are
    marked (---).

    Boxed area indicates a non-legislative period.

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