[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 3 (Friday, January 25, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D15-D17]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                           Friday, January 25, 2002

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S111-S152
Measures Introduced: One bill was introduced, as follows: S. 1898. 
                                                              Page S136
Adoption Tax Credit: Senate continued consideration of H.R. 622, to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the adoption credit, 
taking action on the following amendments proposed thereto: 
                                           Pages S111-15, S117, S128-34
Pending:
  Daschle/Baucus Amendment No. 2698, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                           Pages S111-15, S117, S128-34
  Durbin Amendment No. 2714 (to Amendment No. 2698), to provide 
enhanced unemployment compensation benefits.
Page S117
  Nickles (for Bond) Amendment No. 2717, to amend the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 to provide for a temporary increase in expressing under 
section 179 of such code.
Pages S128-30
  Reid (for Baucus/Torricelli/Bayh) Amendment No. 2718 (to Amendment 
No. 2698), to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a 
special depreciation allowance for certain property acquired after 
December 31, 2001, and before January 1, 2004.
Page S130
  Reid (for Harkin) Amendment No. 2719 (to Amendment No. 2698), to 
provide for a temporary increase in the Federal medical assistance 
percentage for the Medicaid program for fiscal year 2002. 
                                                          Pages S130-31
  Allen Amendment No. 2702 (to the language proposed to be stricken by 
Amendment No. 2698), to exclude from gross income certain terrorist 
attack zone compensation of civilian uniformed personnel. 
                                                          Pages S131-33
  Reid (for Baucus) Amendment No. 2721 (to Amendment No. 2698), to 
provide emergency agriculture assistance.
Pages S133-34
  During consideration of this measure, Senate also took the following 
action:
  By 39 yeas to 45 nays (Vote No. 3), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to waive the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 with 
respect to consideration of Smith (OR) Amendment No. 2705 (to the 
language proposed to be stricken), to amend the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1986 to provide for a special depreciation allowance for certain 
property acquired after September 10, 2001, and before September 11, 
2004. Subsequently, a point of order that the amendment was in 
violation of section 311(a)(2)(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974 was sustained, and the amendment thus fell.
Pages S111-15
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at 3 p.m., on Monday, January 28, 2002. 
                                                              Page S151
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of the national interest of 
the United States relative to the efforts by the Government of Japan to 
destroy Japanese chemical weapons abandoned during World War II in the 
People's Republic of China; to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (PM-
64)
Page S135
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  By unanimous vote of 83 yeas (Vote No. 4), Marcia S. Krieger, of 
Colorado, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Colorado.
Pages S115-16, S152
  By unanimous vote of 81 yeas (Vote No. 5), James C. Mahan, of Nevada, 
to be United States District Judge for the District of Nevada. 
                                                    Pages S115-17, S152
  Harold Craig Manson, of California, to be Assistant Secretary for 
Fish and Wildlife.
  Jeffrey D. Jarrett, of Pennsylvania, to be Director of the Office of 
Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement.
  B. John Williams, Jr., of Virginia, to be Chief Counsel for the 
Internal Revenue Service and an Assistant General Counsel in the 
Department of the Treasury.
  Janet Hale, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Health and 
Human Services.

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  Joan E. Ohl, of West Virginia, to be Commissioner on Children, Youth, and 
Families, Department of Health and Human Services.
  Mauricio J. Tamargo, of Florida, to be Chairman of the Foreign Claims 
Settlement Commission of the United States for a term expiring September 30, 
2003.
  James B. Lockhart III, of Connecticut, to be Deputy Commissioner of Social 
Security for a term of six years.
  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.
  William R. Brownfield, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Chile.
  Thomas M. Sullivan, of Massachusetts, to be Chief Counsel for Advocacy, 
Small Business Administration.
  Everet Beckner, of New Mexico, to be Deputy Administrator for Defense 
Programs, National Nuclear Security Administration.
  Harold Daub, of Nebraska, to be a Member of the Social Security Advisory 
Board for the remainder of the term expiring September 30, 2006.
  Michael Smith, of Oklahoma, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy (Fossil 
Energy).
  Gaddi H. Vasquez, of California, to be Director of the Peace Corps.
  Charles S. Shapiro, of Georgia, to be Ambassador to the Bolivarian 
Republic of Venezuela.
  Christopher Bancroft Burnham, of Connecticut, to be Chief Financial 
Officer, Department of State.
  James David McGee, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of 
Swaziland.
  Samuel T. Mok, of Maryland, to be Chief Financial Officer, Department of 
Labor. (Prior to this action, Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and 
Pensions was discharged from further consideration.)
  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.
  Christopher Bancroft Burnham, of Connecticut, to be an Assistant Secretary 
of State (Resource Management). (New Position)
  Richard Clarida, of Connecticut, to be an Assistant Secretary of the 
Treasury.
  Kenneth P. Moorefield, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Gabonese 
Republic.
  David Preston York, of Alabama, to be United States Attorney for the 
Southern District of Alabama for the term of four years.
  John D. Ong, of Ohio, to be Ambassador to Norway.
  Josephine K. Olsen, of Maryland, to be Deputy Director of the Peace Corps.
  Jack Martin, of Michigan, to be Chief Financial Officer, Department of 
Education. (Prior to this action, Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and 
Pensions was discharged from further consideration.)
  Rebecca W. Watson, of Montana, to be an Assistant Secretary of the 
Interior.
  John V. Hanford III, of Virginia, to be Ambassador at Large for 
International Religious Freedom.
  Adolfo A. Franco, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator of the 
United States Agency for International Development.
  Beverly Cook, of Idaho, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy 
(Environment, Safety and Health).
  Arthur E. Dewey, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of State 
(Population, Refugees, and Migration).
  Michael A. Battle, of New York, to be United States Attorney for the 
Western District of New York for a term of four years.
  Donna Jean Hrinak, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Federative 
Republic of Brazil.
  Roger P. Winter, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Administrator of the 
United States Agency for International Development.
  Frederick W. Schieck, of Virginia, to be Deputy Administrator of the 
United States Agency for International Development.
  Kenneth P. Moorefield, of Florida, to serve concurrently and without 
additional compensation as Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome 
and Principe.
  Dwight MacKay, of Montana, to be United States Marshal for the District of 
Montana for the term of four years.
  Andrea G. Barthwell, of Illinois, to be Deputy Director for Demand 
Reduction, Office of National Drug Control Policy. (Prior to this action, 
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions was discharged from 
further consideration.)
  Eve Slater, of New Jersey, to be an Assistant Secretary of Health and 
Human Services. (Prior to this action, Committee on Health, Education, 
Labor, and Pensions was discharged from further consideration.)
  Edward Kingman, Jr., to be Chief Financial Officer, Department of the 
Treasury. (Prior to this action, Committee on Finance was discharged from 
further consideration.)
  Edward Kingman, Jr., to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Department 
of the Treasury. (Prior to this action, Committee on Finance was discharged 
from further consideration.)
  A routine list in the Foreign Service.
Pages S136, S150-151, S152

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Executive Communications:
  Pages S135-36
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S136
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S138-47
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total--5) 
                                                 Pages S115, S116, S117
Adjournment: Senate met at 10 a.m., and adjourned at 2:49 p.m., until 3 
p.m., on Monday, January 28, 2002. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S151.)