[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 122 (Wednesday, September 19, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D906-D907]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                      Wednesday, September 19, 2001

[[Page D906]]

                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government 
      Appropriations Act.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S9467-S9549
Measures Introduced: Eight bills and three resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 1433-1440, and S. Con. Res. 66-68.            
  Page S9504
Measures Reported:
  Special Report entitled ``Further Revised Allocation to Subcommittees 
of Budget Totals for Fiscal Year 2002''. (S. Rept. No. 107-65)
  S. 952, to provide collective bargaining rights for public safety 
officers employed by States or their political subdivisions. 
                                                             Page S9504
Measures Passed:
   Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations: 
Committee on Appropriations was discharged from further consideration 
of H.R. 2590, making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the 
United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, 
and certain Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 2002, and the Senate then passed the bill, after taking action on 
the following amendments proposed thereto: 
                           Pages S9470-77, S9485-86, S9489-90, S9491-97
Adopted:
  Dorgan/Campbell Amendment No. 1570, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                             Page S9477
  Dorgan/Campbell Amendment No. 1575, to make certain technical 
corrections and further improvements to the bill.        
Pages S9489-90
  Bingaman/Domenici Amendment No. 1576, to authorize State, regional, 
or local transportation authorities that receive Federal Transit 
Administration assistance or grants, to purchase heavy-duty transit 
buses through the General Services Administration.           
Page S9491
  Dorgan (for Kohl) Amendment No. 1578, to improve the collection of 
information relating to the introduction of foreign animal disease. 
                                                         Pages S9491-92
  Dorgan (for Campbell) Amendment No. 1577, to provide that the Postal 
Service may require any air carrier to accept as mail shipments of day-
old poultry and such other live animals as postal regulations allow to 
be transmitted as mail matter.                           
Pages S9491-92
  McConnell/Burns Amendment No. 1573, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Treasury to issue War Bonds in support of recovery and response efforts 
relating to the September 11, 2001, highjackings and attacks on the 
Pentagon and the World Trade Center.              
Pages S9485-86, S9493
  Dorgan (for Johnson) Modified Amendment No. 1574, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Treasury to issue Unity Bonds in support of recovery 
and response efforts relating to the September 11, 2001, highjackings 
and attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. 
                                                  Pages S9487-88, S9493
  Dorgan (for Hollings) Amendment No. 1579, designating the Federal 
building and courthouse located at 315 S. McDuffie Street, Anderson, 
South Carolina as the ``G. Ross Anderson, Jr. Federal Building and 
United States Courthouse''.                                  
Page S9493
  Dorgan (for Clinton) Amendment No. 1583, to provide that the Postal 
Service may issue a special commemorative postage stamp in order to 
provide financial assistance to the families of emergency relief 
personnel killed or permanently disabled in the line of duty in 
connection with the terrorist attacks against the United States on 
September 11, 2001.                                      
Pages S9494-95
  Dorgan (for Hatch) Amendment No. 1584, to designate the State of Utah 
as a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area.                   
Page S9495
  Senate insisted on its amendment, requested a conference with the 
House thereon, and the Chair was authorized to appoint the following 
conferees on the part of the Senate: Senators Dorgan, Mikulski,

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Landrieu, Reed, Byrd, Campbell, Shelby, DeWine, and Stevens. 
                                                             Page S9497
  Joint Session of Congress: Senate agreed to H. Con. Res. 231, 
providing for a joint session of Congress to receive a message from the 
President.                                                   
  Page S9548
  Committee Membership Designation: Senate agreed to S. Con. Res. 67, 
permitting the Chairman of the Committee on Rules and Administration of 
the Senate to designate another member of the Committee to serve on the 
Joint Committee on Printing in place of the Chairman.    
  Pages S9548-49
  Committee Membership Designation: Senate agreed to S. Con. Res. 68, 
providing for members on the part of the Senate of the Joint Committee 
on Printing and the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library. 
                                                             Page S9549
Nominations--Agreement: A unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached 
providing for consideration of the nominations of Sharon Prost, of the 
District of Columbia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Federal 
Circuit, and Reggie B. Walton, to be United States District Judge for 
the District of Columbia, at 9 a.m., on Friday, September 21, 2001, 
with a vote on confirmation on the nominations to occur thereon.
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, the Periodic Report on the National 
Emergency with Respect to Iran; to the Banking, Housing, and Urban 
Affairs. (PM-41)                                         
Pages S9502-03
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, the Periodic Report on 
Telecommunications Payments Made to Cuba Pursuant to Treasury 
Department Specific Licenses; to the Foreign Relations. (PM-42) 
                                                             Page S9503
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nomination: 
Robert C. Bonner, of California, to be Commissioner of Customs. (Prior 
to this action, Committee on Finance was discharged from further 
consideration.)                                              
  Page S9548
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  William Baxter, of Tennessee, to be a Member of the Board of 
Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority for the term expiring May 
18, 2011. (Reappointment)
  William Baxter, of Tennessee, to be a Member of the Board of 
Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority for the remainder of the 
term expiring May 18, 2002.
  John Price, of Utah, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Mauritius, 
and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as 
Ambassador to the Federal and Islamic Republic of The Comoros and 
Ambassador to the Republic of Seychelles.
  Patrick J. Fitzgerald, of Illinois, to be United States Attorney for 
the Northern District of Illinois for the term of four years.
  Alice Howze Martin, of Alabama, to be United States Attorney for the 
Northern District of Alabama for the term of four years.
  John McKay, of Washington, to be United States Attorney for the 
Western District of Washington for the term of four years.
  Karl K. Warner II, of West Virginia, to be United States Attorney for 
the Southern District of West Virginia for the term of four years.
  1 Army nomination in the rank of general.
  A routine list in the Army.                                
Page S9549
Executive Communications:                                    
  Page S9503
Messages From the House:                                     
  Page S9503
Measures Referred:                                           
  Page S9503
Measures Read First Time:                                    
  Page S9494
Statements on Introduced Bills:                          
  Pages S9506-13
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S9504-06
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S9514-47
Additional Statements:                                       
  Page S9502
Enrolled Bills Presented:                                    
  Page S9503
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:                            
  Pages S9547-48
Privilege of the Floor:                                      
  Page S9548
Adjournment: Senate met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 7:41 p.m., until 
8:30 p.m., on Thursday, September 20, 2001. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S9549.)