[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 143 (Wednesday, October 24, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1047-D1050]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                        Wednesday, October 24, 2001

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed Foreign Operations Appropriations Act.
      The House passed H.R. 3162, Patriot Act under Suspension of the 
      Rules.
      The House passed H.R. 3090, Economic Security and Recovery Act.
      House committee ordered reported the Department of Defense 
      appropriations for fiscal year 2002.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S10907-S10988
Measures Introduced: One bill was introduced, as follows: S. 1572. 
                                                            Page S10980
Measures Passed:
  Foreign Operations Appropriations: By 96 yeas to 2 nays (Vote No. 
312), Senate passed H.R. 2506, making appropriations for foreign 
operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2002, after taking action on the following 
amendments proposed thereto: 
                          Pages S10908, S10911-17, S10919-22, S10924-69
Adopted:
  Wellstone/Boxer Modified Amendment No. 1922, to express the sense of 
the Senate with respect to safe passage of refugees, humanitarian 
relief, and reconstruction and development in Afghanistan. 
                                                Pages S10911-13, S10915
  Subsequently, the adoption of the amendment was vitiated. 
                                                            Page S10944
  Wellstone Modified Amendment No. 1923, to require the Secretary of 
State to submit to the appropriate Congressional committees a report 
describing the use of defense articles and defense services, financial 
assistance, and human rights or international law violations in 
Uzbekistan.
Pages S10913-15
  Subsequently, the adoption of the amendment was vitiated. 
                                                            Page S10944
  McConnell (for Inhofe) Amendment No. 1924, to make available funds to 
assess the cause of the flooding along the Volta River in Accra, Ghana, 
and to make recommendations on how to solve the problem. 
                                                        Pages S10915-17
  Reid (for Leahy/McConnell/Voinovich) Amendment No. 1925, to provide 
that no more than $28,000,000 shall be available for the cost, as 
defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, of 
modifying direct loans and guarantees for the Federal Republic of 
Yugoslavia.
Pages S10915-17
  McConnell/Leahy/Helms Amendment No. 1926, to take steps to implement 
policies which reflect a respect for minority rights and the rule of 
law, including the release of all political prisoners from Serbian 
jails and prisons.
Pages S10915-17
  Reid (for Leahy/McConnell) Amendment No. 1927, to make a certain 
technical correction.
Pages S10915-17
  Reid (for Leahy/Harkin/McConnell) Amendment No. 1928, to provide that 
housing that is constructed with funds appropriated by this Act to 
carry out certain provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, and 
to carry out the provisions of the Support for East European Democracy 
(SEED) Act of 1989, shall to the maximum extent feasible, be wheelchair 
accessible.
Pages S10915-17
  Reid (for Leahy/McConnell) Amendment No. 1929, to provide that not 
less than $101,000,000 shall be made available for Bolivia, and not 
less than $35,000,000 shall be made available for Ecuador. 
                                                        Pages S10915-17
  Reid (for Leahy/McConnell) Amendment No. 1930, to amend certain 
provisions relating to the reconstruction, political reconciliation, 
and related activities in Aceh, Papua, West Timor, and the Malukus, and 
provisions relating to the murders of American citizen Carlos Caceres 
and two other United Nations humanitarian workers in West Timor on 
September 6, 2000.
Pages S10915-17
  Reid (for Leahy/McConnell) Amendment No. 1931, to make available 
funds for Laos.
Pages S10915-17

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  McConnell Amendment No. 1932, of a technical nature. 
                                                        Pages S10915-17
  McConnell Amendment No. 1933, to prohibit humanitarian assistance 
inside Burma unless certain conditions are met.
  Reid (for Leahy/McConnell) Amendment No. 1934, to make available 
funds to enhance the effectiveness and accountability of civilian 
police authority in Jamaica.
Pages S10915-17
  Reid (for Leahy/McConnell) Amendment No. 1935, to make available 
funds for the Human Rights and Democracy Fund of the Bureau of 
Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Department of State. 
                                                        Pages S10915-17
  McConnell/Leahy/Brownback Amendment No. 1936, to make available funds 
to foster democracy, human rights, press freedoms, and the rule of law 
in countries with a significant Muslim population, including programs 
and activities that train emerging Afghan women leaders in civil 
society development and democracy building.
Pages S10915-17
  Reid (for Wellstone) Amendment No. 1937, to require the Secretary of 
State to submit to the appropriate Congressional committees a report 
describing the use of defense articles and defense services, financial 
assistance, and human rights or international law violations in 
Uzbekistan.
Pages S10915-17
  Reid (for Wellstone) Amendment No. 1938, to express the sense of the 
Senate with respect to safe passage of refugees, humanitarian relief, 
and reconstruction and development in Afghanistan.
Pages S10915-17
  McConnell (for Stevens/Inouye) Amendment No. 1939, to make available 
funds for assistance for Thailand.
Pages S10915-17
  Boxer/Brownback Amendment No. 1940, to express the sense of the 
Senate regarding the important role of women in the future 
reconstruction of Afghanistan.
Page S10921
  Boxer Amendment No. 1941, to express the sense of the Senate 
condemning suicide bombings as a terrorist act.
Page S10921-22
  Leahy (for Helms) Amendment No. 1942, to make available funds to 
support democracy-building activities in Venezuela.
Pages S10924-27
  Leahy/McConnell Amendment No. 1943, of a technical nature. 
                                                        Pages S10924-27
  Leahy/McConnell Amendment No. 1944, to make available funds for the 
Asian Development Fund and for the International Fund for Agricultural 
Development.
Pages S10924-27
  Leahy (for McConnell/Leahy) Amendment No. 1945, to make available 
funds for assistance for the Documentation Center of Cambodia. 
                                                        Pages S10924-27
  Leahy (for McConnell) Amendment No. 1946, of a technical nature. 
                                                        Pages S10924-27
  Leahy (for Mikulski) Amendment No. 1947, to allow the United States 
Agency for International Development to provide an exception to the 
fair opportunity process for placing task orders under multiple award 
indefinite quantity contracts when the order is placed with any 
category of small or small disadvantaged business.
Pages S10924-27
  Leahy (for Smith (OR)/Hatch/Helms) Amendment No. 1948, to restrict 
the availability of funds for the Government of the Russian Federation 
unless certain conditions are met.
Pages S10924-27
  Leahy (for Durbin) Amendment No. 1954, to oppose the approval or 
endorsement of such user fees or service charges in connection with any 
structural adjustment scheme or debt relief action, including any 
Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper.
Pages S10951-53
  McConnell (for Helms/McConnell) Amendment No. 1955, to prohibit 
funding for any Cambodian genocide tribunal unless certain conditions 
are met.
Pages S10951-53
  Leahy (for Leahy/McConnell) Amendment No. 1956, to provide funds to 
the Department of Defense for crating, packing, handling, and 
transportation of excess defense articles transferred under the 
authority of section 516 of this Act.
Pages S10951-53
  Reid (for Dodd) Amendment No. 1953, to require a study and report on 
the feasibility of increasing the number of Peace Corps volunteers 
serving in countries having a majority Muslim population. 
                                                Pages S10944, S10951-53
  Leahy (for Byrd) Amendment No. 1957, to prevent abuses in the visa 
waiver program.
Pages S10951-53
  McConnell (for Frist/Brownback) Amendment No. 1958, to express the 
sense of the Senate with respect to Sudan.
Pages S10951-53
  Feingold/Wellstone Modified Amendment No. 1951, to provide an 
additional condition for the procurement of chemicals for aerial coca 
fumigation under the Andean Counterdrug Initiative. 
                                             Pages S10938-43, S10951-53
  Dodd/Hutchison Amendment No. 1959, to modify the annual drug 
certification procedures for Fiscal Year 2002 with respect to countries 
in the Western Hemisphere.
Pages S10956-58
  McConnell (for Hutchison/Inouye) Amendment No. 1960, to make 
available funds for the prevention, treatment, and control of, and 
research on, tuberculosis.
Pages S10958-59
  Leahy (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 1961, to make available funds for 
relief and reconstruction assistance for victims of earthquakes and 
drought in El Salvador and elsewhere in Central America. 
                                                        Pages S10958-59

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  Leahy Amendment No. 1962, of a technical nature.
                                                        Pages S10958-59
  Leahy (for Stabenow/Kyl) Amendment No. 1963, to provide for projects 
honoring victims of terrorist attacks.
                                                        Pages S10958-59
  Leahy (for Landrieu) Amendment No. 1964, to make available funds for 
services aimed at the reintegration of war-affected youth in East Asia.
                                                        Pages S10958-59
  McConnell Amendment No. 1965, of a technical nature. 
                                                        Pages S10958-59
  McConnell Amendment No. 1966 (to Amendment No. 1921), of a perfecting 
nature.
                                                        Pages S10959-61
  Brownback Amendment No. 1921, to authorize the President to waive the 
restriction of assistance for Azerbaijan if the President determines 
that it is in the national security interest of the United States to do 
so.
                                                        Pages S10959-61
  McConnell/Sarbanes Amendment No. 1967, to make available funds for 
assistance for Armenia.
                                                            Page S10961
  Leahy (for Smith (OR)) Amendment No. 1968, to amend Section 530B(a) 
of title 28, United States Code, to allow a government attorney to 
provide legal advice, authorization, concurrence, direction, or 
supervision on conducting undercover activities.
                                                            Page S10961
  During consideration of this bill today, the Senate also took the 
following action:
  Senate sustained a point of order against Specter Amendment No. 1949, 
to urge the Senate, prior to the end of the first session of the 107th 
Congress, to vote on at least the judicial nominations sent to the 
Senate by the President prior to August 4, 2001, as being not germane 
under Rule 16, and the amendment thus fell.
                                                        Pages S10927-28
  Subsequently, Specter Amendment No. 1949 (listed above) was then 
modified.
                                                            Page S10928
  Senate sustained a point of order against Feingold/Baucus Amendment 
No. 1952, to provide that Members of Congress shall not receive a cost 
of living adjustment in pay during fiscal year 2002, as being not 
germane under Rule 16, and the amendment thus fell.
                                                        Pages S10943-44
  A point of order was made that Graham/Hagel/Dodd Amendment No. 1950, 
of a technical nature, was in violation of Section 302(f) of the 
Congressional Budget Act and, by 27 yeas to 72 nays (Vote No. 311), 
three fifths of those Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted 
in the affirmative, Senate rejected a motion to waive the 
aforementioned section with respect to consideration of the amendment. 
Subsequently, the point of order was sustained and the amendment thus 
fell.
                                             Pages S10932-38, S10954-56
  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 Leahy, Inouye, Harkin, 
Mikulski, Durbin, Johnson, Landrieu, Reed, Byrd, McConnell, Specter, 
Gregg, Shelby, Bennett, Campbell, Bond and Stevens.
                                                            Page S10969
Counterterrorism Bill--Agreement: A unanimous-consent-time agreement 
was reached providing for consideration of H.R. 3162, to deter and 
punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world, and to 
enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, at 10 a.m., on Thursday, 
October 25, 2001, with a vote on final passage to occur thereon. 
                                                        Pages S10969-70
Agriculture Appropriations Bill--Agreement: A unanimous-consent 
agreement was reached providing that upon the disposition of H.R. 3162, 
Counterterrorism Bill, Committee on Appropriations be discharged from 
further consideration of H.R. 2330, making appropriations for 
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and 
Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2002, and the Senate then proceed to its consideration, the committee 
substitute amendment be agreed to, and it be considered as original 
text for the purpose of further amendment.
  Pages S10970-71
Messages From the House:
  Pages S10979-80
Measures Referred:
  Page S10980
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S10980
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S10980-81
Additional Statements:
  Pages S10978-79
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S10981-87
Authority for Committees to Meet:
  Pages S10987-88
Privilege of the Floor:
  Page S10988
Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--312) 
                                                   Pages S10956, S10969
Adjournment: Senate met at 10:30 a.m., and adjourned at 7:09 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m., on Thursday, October 25, 2001. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S10988.)

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