[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 144 (Thursday, October 25, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1053-D1055]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                         Thursday, October 25, 2001

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed USA Patriot Act.
      Senate passed Agriculture Appropriations Act.
      Senate passed Transportation Appropriations Act.
      Senate and House passed H.J. Res. 70, Continuing Appropriations.
      The House passed H.J. Res. 71, amending title 36, United States 
      Code, to designate September 11 as Patriot Day.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S10989-S11149
Measures Introduced: Twelve bills were introduced, as follows: S. 1573-
1584.                                                   
  Pages S11104-05
Measures Passed:
  USA Patriot Act: By 98 yeas to 1 nay (Vote No. 313), Senate passed 
H.R. 3162, to deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and 
around the world, and to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, 
clearing the measure for the President.             
  Pages S10990-S11060
  Agriculture Appropriations Bill: Committee on Appropriations was 
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 by 91 yeas to 5 nays (Vote No. 315) 
Senate passed the bill, after taking action on the following amendments 
proposed thereto:                            
  Pages S11060-75, S11076-95
Adopted:
  Kohl/Cochran Amendment No. 1969, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                            Page S11060
  Kohl/Cochran Amendment No. 1970, to modify conditions for transfers 
of funds.                                                   
Page S11065
  Kohl/Cochran Amendment No. 1971, to strike extraneous language from 
the Native American Institutions Endowment Fund.            
Page S11065
  Kohl/Cochran Amendment No. 1972, to make a technical correction to 
the rural empowerment zones and enterprise communities grants program. 
                                                            Page S11065
  Kohl/Cochran Amendment No. 1973, to make a technical correction to 
the Rural Utilities Service Rural Electrification and 
Telecommunications Loans Program Account.                   
Page S11065
  Kohl/Cochran Amendment No. 1974, to make a technical correction to 
the Rural Utilities Service Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program.
                                                            Page S11065
  Kohl/Cochran Amendment No. 1975, to include omitted language 
regarding administration of rural utilities programs.       
Page S11065
  Kohl (for Dorgan) Amendment No. 1988, to delay collection of 
marketing assessments for the 2001 crops of sugarcane and sugar beets. 
                                                        Pages S11089-94
  Kohl (for Lincoln) Amendment No. 1989, to provide financial 
assistance for completion of the current construction phase of the Kuhn 
Bayou (Point Remove) Project.                           
Pages S11089-94
  Kohl (for Johnson) Amendment No. 1990, to provide funding for rural 
development.                                            
Pages S11089-94
  Kohl (for Wyden/Craig) Amendment No. 1991, to provide for temporary 
use of existing payments to states table, revision of tables, and 
additional opt-out options.                             
Pages S11089-94
  Cochran (for Stevens) Amendment No. 1992, to amend the definition of 
income in the Housing Act of 1949.                      
Pages S11089-94
  Kohl (for Landrieu) Amendment No. 1993, to support funding for 1890 
land-grant institutions.                                
Pages S11089-94
  Kohl (for Harkin) Amendment No. 1994, to provide funding for the 
National 4-H Program Centennial Initiative.             
Pages S11089-94

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  Cochran Amendment No. 1995, to provide for the transfer of funds 
provided for the Rural Community Advancement Program for guaranteed 
business and industry loans to direct business and industry loans. 
                                                        Pages S11089-94
  Kohl Amendment No. 1996, to increase reserves of the Food Stamps 
Program.                                                
Pages S11089-94
  Kohl Amendment No. 1997, to strike a limitation relating to the Kyoto 
Protocol.                                               
Pages S11089-94
  Kohl (for Byrd) Amendment No. 1998, to make West Virginia State 
College at Institute, West Virginia, an 1890 Institution. 
                                                        Pages S11089-94
  Cochran (for Stevens) Amendment No. 1999, to authorize a Natural 
Resources Conservation Service watershed project.       
Pages S11089-94
  Cochran Amendment No. 2000, to restrict the importation of certain 
fish and fish products.                                 
Pages S11089-94
  Cochran (for Stevens) Amendment No. 2001, to authorize transferred 
funds for avalanche control and the construction of an avalanche 
control wall to protect a public school.                
Pages S11089-94
  Cochran (for Craig) Amendment No. 2002, to provide $5,000,000 to the 
Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency, for reimbursement for 
crop damage resulting from the Bureau's use of herbicides in the State 
of Idaho.                                               
Pages S11089-94
  Kohl (for Harkin) Amendment No. 2003, to clarify that emerging 
vegetation in water may be enrolled in the pilot program for enrollment 
of wetland and buffer acreage in the conservation reserve. 
                                                        Pages S11089-94
  Cochran (for McConnell) Amendment No. 2004, to provide assistance for 
certain specialty crops.                                
Pages S11089-94
  Kohl (for Breaux) Amendment No. 2005, to improve crop insurance 
coverage for sweet potatoes during fiscal year 2002.    
Pages S11089-94
  Kohl (for Sarbanes/Mikulski) Amendment No. 2006, to provide funds for 
repairs to the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in the State of 
Maryland.                                               
Pages S11089-94
  Kohl (for Graham/Nelson (FL)) Amendment No. 2007, providing for 
citrus canker eradication.                              
Pages S11089-94
  Cochran (for Bunning) Amendment No. 2008, making available funds to 
monitor and prevent Mare Reproductive Loss Syndrome in cooperation with 
the University of Kentucky.                             
Pages S11089-94
  Cochran (for Stevens) Amendment No. 2009, to provide that the 
Secretary may make grants to regulatory commissions in states with 
communities without dial-up internet access to establish a 
competitively neutral grant program to telecommunications carriers that 
establish facilities and services.                      
Pages S11089-94
  Kohl (for Dorgan) Amendment No. 2010, to make available funds to 
purchase bison meat for the FDPIR from producer owned cooperative 
organizations.                                          
Pages S11089-94
  Cochran Amendment No. 2011, making available funds to carry out a 
pilot program in cooperation with the Department of the Interior Fish 
and Wildlife Service to determine migratory bird harvest, including 
population monitoring, harvest information, and field operations. 
                                                        Pages S11089-94
  Cochran (for McConnell) Amendment No. 2012, to provide funding for 
the purchase of conservation easements in the State of Kentucky. 
                                                        Pages S11089-94
  Kohl (for Harkin/Hatch) Amendment No. 2013, to enhance FDA 
enforcement of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994.
                                                        Pages S11089-94
  Cochran (for Voinovich) Amendment No. 2014, to set aside funding for 
a generic drug public education campaign.               
Pages S11089-94
  Cochran (for Collins/Nickles) Amendment No. 2015, to provide a grant 
to Oklahoma State University to develop chemical and biological 
sensors, including food safety sensors.                 
Pages S11089-94
  Kohl (for Reed) Amendment No. 2016, to make available funds for the 
Environmental Biotechnology initiative at the University of Rhode 
Island.                                                 
Pages S11089-94
Withdrawn:
  Levin Amendment No. 1978, to provide market loss assistance for apple 
producers.                                              
Pages S11065-70
  Smith (OR)/Wyden Amendment No. 1981, to provide assistance for 
farmers and ranchers in the Klamath Basin, Oregon and California. 
                                                        Pages S11070-71
  Harkin Amendment No. 1984, to prohibit the use of appropriated funds 
to label, mark, stamp, or tag as ``inspected and passed'' meat, meat 
products, poultry, or poultry products that do not meet pathogen 
reduction performance standards.                        
Pages S11076-82
  During consideration of this bill today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 45 yeas to 50 nays (Vote No. 314), Senate failed to table Nelson 
(NE)/Miller Amendment No. 1987 (to Amendment No. 1984), of a perfecting 
nature.                                                 
Pages S11080-82
  Subsequently, the amendment fell when the underlying Harkin Amendment 
No. 1984 (listed above) was withdrawn.                      
Page S11082
  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 Kohl, Harkin, Dorgan, 
Feinstein, Durbin, Johnson, Murray, Byrd, Cochran, Specter, Bond, 
McConnell, Burns, Craig, and Stevens.                       
Page S11095

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  Continuing Appropriations: Senate passed H.J. Res. 70, making further 
continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2002, clearing the 
measure for the President.                              
  Pages S11148-49
  Transportation Appropriations Act: Senate passed H.R. 2299, making 
appropriations for the Department of Transportation and related 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002.     
  Page S11149
  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 Murray, Byrd, Mikulski, 
Reid, Kohl, Durbin, Leahy, Inouye, Shelby, Specter, Bond, Bennett, 
Campbell, Hutchison, and Stevens.                           
Page S11149
Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations Act--Agreement: A unanimous-consent 
agreement was reached providing for H.R. 3061, making appropriations 
for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, 
and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, at 
10 a.m., on Tuesday, October 30, 2001.                      
  Page S11149
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting, a draft of proposed legislation to implement the 
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings and 
the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of 
Terrorism; to the Committee on Judiciary. (PM-51)           
Page S11100
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, a proposed Protocol Amending the 
Agreement for Cooperation Between the Government of the United States 
of America and the Government of the Kingdom of Morocco Concerning 
Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy; to the Committee on Foreign Relations. 
(PM-52)                                                 
Pages S11100-01
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  Benigno G. Reyna, of Texas, to be Director of the United States 
Marshals Service.
  Charles Curie, of Pennsylvania, to be Administrator of the Substance 
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Department of Health 
and Human Services. (Prior to this action, Committee on Health, 
Education, Labor and Pensions was discharged from further 
consideration.)                                    
Pages S11148, S11149
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Earl Norfleet Phillips, Jr., of North Carolina, to be Ambassador to 
Barbados, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation 
as Ambassador to St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, 
the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, and Saint Vincent and the 
Grenadines.
  James A. McDevitt, of Washington, to be United States Attorney for 
the Eastern District of Washington, for the term of four years.
  Johnny Keane Sutton, of Texas, to be United States Attorney for the 
Western District of Texas, for the term of four years.
  Richard S. Thompson, of Georgia, to be United States Attorney for the 
Southern District of Georgia, for the term of four years.
  A routine list in the Army.                               
Page S11149
Nominations Withdrawn: Senate received notification of withdrawal of 
the following nominations:
  Michelle Van Cleave, of California, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
Defense, which was sent to the Senate on September 21, 2001. 
                                                            Page S11149
Messages From the House:                                    
  Page S11101
Measures Read First Time:                                   
  Page S11101
Executive Communications:                               
  Pages S11101-02
Executive Reports of Committees:                        
  Pages S11102-04
Additional Cosponsors:                                      
  Page S11105
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:             
  Pages S11105-15
Additional Statements:                                      
  Page S11100
Amendments Submitted:                                   
  Pages S11115-30
Authority for Committees to Meet:                           
  Page S11131
Privilege of the Floor:                                     
  Page S11131
Text of H.R. 2506 as Previously Passed:                 
  Pages S11131-48
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total--315) 
                                     Pages S11056-60, S11082, S11094-95
Adjournment: Senate met at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 8:37 p.m., until 
10:30 a.m., on Friday, October 26, 2001 for a pro forma session. (For 
Senate's program, see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in 
today's Record on page S11149.)