[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 12 (Tuesday, February 12, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D85-D87]
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                                         Tuesday, February 12, 2002

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S597-S674
Measures Introduced: Five bills and two resolutions were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1932-1936, S. Res. 207, and S. Con. Res. 96.
  Page S660
Measures Passed:
  Commending Pakistan President: Senate agreed to S. Con. Res. 96, 
commending President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan for his leadership 
and friendship and welcoming him to the United States.
  Pages S673-74
Federal Farm Bill: Senate continued consideration of S. 1731, to 
strengthen the safety net for agricultural producers, to enhance 
resource conservation and rural development, to provide for farm 
credit, agricultural research, nutrition, and related programs, to 
ensure consumers abundant food and fiber, taking action on the 
following amendments proposed thereto:
  Pages S597-S653
Adopted:
  Harkin (for Grassley) Amendment No. 2837 (to Amendment No. 2835), to 
make it unlawful for a packer to own, feed, or control livestock 
intended for slaughter. (By 46 yeas to 53 nays (Vote No. 23), Senate 
earlier failed to table the amendment.)
Pages S597-S604, S608
  Craig Amendment No. 2835 (to Amendment No. 2471), to provide for a 
study of a proposal to prohibit certain packers from owning, feeding, 
or controlling livestock.
Pages S597, S608
  Reid Further Modified Amendment No. 2842 (to the language proposed to 
be stricken by Crapo/Craig Amendment No. 2533), to promote water 
conservation on agricultural land.
Pages S598, S604-06, S608, S611-12
  Baucus Amendment No. 2839 (to Amendment No. 2471), to provide 
emergency agriculture assistance.
Pages S597, S606-08, S609-10
  Enzi Amendment No. 2843 (to Amendment No. 2471), to require the 
Secretary of Agriculture to provide livestock feed assistance to 
producers affected by disasters.
Pages S598, S625-26
  Enzi Amendment No. 2846 (to Amendment No. 2471), to authorize the 
President to establish a pilot emergency relief program under the 
Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to provide 
live lamb to Afghanistan.
Pages S612-13, S625-26
  Wellstone Amendment No. 2847 (to Amendment No. 2471), to insert in 
the environmental quality incentives program provisions relating to 
confined livestock feeding operations and insert a payment limitation. 
                                     Pages S613-16, S624-25, S625, S626
  Helms Amendment No. 2822 (to Amendment No. 2471), to exclude birds, 
rats of the genus Rattus, and mice of the genus Mus from the definition 
of animal under the Animal Welfare Act.
Pages S616-17, S628
  Feinstein Modified Amendment No. 2829 (to Amendment No. 2471), to 
make up for any shortfall in the amount sugar supplying countries are 
allowed to export to the United States each year. 
                                           Pages S597, S622-24, S628-29
  Lugar (for McConnell) Amendment No. 2854 (to Amendment No. 2471), to 
conserve global bear populations by prohibiting the importation, 
exportation, and interstate trade of bear viscera and items, products, 
or substances containing, or labeled or advertised as containing, bear 
viscera.
Pages S620, S629
  Lugar (for Kyl) Modified Amendment No. 2855 (to Amendment No. 2842), 
to insert provisions relating to the implementation of water 
conservation programs.
Pages S621, S629
  Santorum Further Modified Amendment No. 2542 (to Amendment No. 2471), 
to improve the standards for the care and treatment of certain animals.
                                                    Pages S597, S629-36
  Lugar (for Gramm) Modified Amendment No. 2849 (to Amendment No. 
2471), to provide equity and fairness for the promotion of imported 
Hass avocados.
Pages S616, S636
  McConnell Amendment No. 2845 (to Amendment No. 2471), to reduce 
certain commodity benefits and use the resulting savings to improve 
nutrition assistance.
Pages S610-11, S626-27, S636

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  Miller Further Modified Amendment No. 2832 (to Amendment No. 2471), 
to increase the rate for compensation of peanut quota holders. 
                                           Pages S618-19, S621, S636-37
  Harkin Amendment No. 2853 (to Amendment No. 2471), to modify the 
limits on the types of communities in which Rural Business Investment 
Companies may invest.
Page S637
  Leahy Modified Amendment No. 2834 (to Amendment No. 2471), to 
authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to issue an order that provides 
for a program of generic promotion, research, and information regarding 
organic products.
Page S619
Rejected:
  Crapo/Craig Amendment No. 2533 (to Amendment No. 2471), to strike the 
water conservation program. (By 55 yeas to 45 nays (Vote No. 24), 
Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S597, S604, S608-09
  By 17 yeas to 80 nays (Vote No. 26), Harkin Amendment No. 2856 (to 
Amendment No. 2845), of a perfecting nature.
Pages S627-28, S636
Withdrawn:
  Lugar (for Gramm) Amendment No. 2848 (to Amendment No. 2471), to 
repeal the Hass Avocado Promotion, Research, and Information Act of 
2000.
Pages S616, S637
  Inhofe Amendment No. 2825 (to Amendment No. 2471), to require the 
Secretary of Agriculture to provide marketing assistance loans and loan 
deficiency payments for each of the 2003 through 2007 crops of peanuts.
                                                       Pages S620, S638
Pending:
  Daschle (for Harkin) Amendment No. 2471, in the nature of a 
substitute.
Pages S597-S653
  Daschle motion to reconsider the vote (Vote No. 377-107th Congress, 
1st Session) by which the second motion to invoke cloture on Daschle 
(for Harkin) Amendment No. 2471 (listed above) was not agreed to. 
                                                              Page S597
  Lugar (for Kyl/Nickles) Amendment No. 2850 (to Amendment No. 2471), 
to express the Sense of the Senate that the repeal of the estate tax 
should be made permanent by eliminating the sunset provision's 
applicability to the estate tax. 
                                  Pages S616, S637-38, S638-45, S645-48
  Lugar (for Domenici) Modified Amendment No. 2851 (to Amendment No. 
2471), to require the Secretary of Agriculture to make payments to milk 
producers.
Pages S617-18, S645, S648-53
  Harkin (for Kerry/Snowe) Amendment No. 2852 (to Amendment No. 2471), 
to provide emergency disaster assistance for the commercial fishery 
failure with respect to Northeast multispecies fisheries.
Page S619
  Reid (for Conrad) Amendment No. 2857 (to Amendment No. 2471), to 
express the Sense of the Senate that no Social Security surplus funds 
should be used to pay to make currently scheduled tax cuts permanent or 
for wasteful spending.
Pages S619-20, S645
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 69 yeas to 30 nays (Vote No. 25), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, having voted in the affirmative, Senate agreed 
to the motion to waive section 205 of H. Con. Res. 290, Congressional 
Budget Resolution of 2001, with respect to the emergency designation 
contained in Baucus Amendment No. 2839 (to Amendment No. 2471), listed 
above. Subsequently, a point of order that the amendment was in 
violation of section 205 of H. Con. Res. 290 failed, and the point of 
order fell.
Pages S609-10
  A unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of Lugar (for Kyl/Nickles) Amendment No. 2850 (to 
Amendment No. 2471) and Reid (for Conrad) Amendment No. 2857 (to 
Amendment No. 2471), both listed above, at 9:50 a.m., on Wednesday, 
February 13, 2002, with votes to occur on or in relation to the 
amendments.
Pages S644-45
  A unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of Lugar (for Domenici) Amendment No. 2851 (to Amendment 
No. 2471) and Harkin (for Kerry/Snowe) Amendment No. 2852 (to Amendment 
No. 2471), both listed above, on Wednesday, February 13, 2002, with 
votes to occur on or in relation to the amendments.
Page S645
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at 9:30 a.m., on Wednesday, February 13, 
2002.
Page S674
Messages From the President: Senate received the following message from 
the President of the United States:
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, the National Drug Control Strategy for 
2002; to the Committee on the Judiciary. (PM-70)
Page S658
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nomination:
  William Leidinger, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary for 
Management, Department of Education. (Prior to this action, Committee 
on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions was discharged from further 
consideration.)
Pages S660, S673, S674
Messages From the House:
  Page S658
Enrolled Bills Presented:
  Page S658
Executive Communications:
  Pages S658-60
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S660
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S660-61

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Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S661-66
Additional Statements:
  Pages S656-58
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S666-72
Authority for Committees to Meet:
  Pages S672-73
Privilege of the Floor:
  Page S673
Record Votes: Four record votes were taken today. (Total--26) 
                                         Page S608, S609, S609-10, S636
Adjournment: Senate met at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 8:40 p.m., until 
9:30 a.m., on Wednesday, February 13, 2002. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S674.)