[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 20 (Friday, March 1, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D154-D155]
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                                              Friday, March 1, 2002

[[Page D154]]

                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


 Chamber Action
   Routine Proceedings, pages S1379-S1405
 Measures Introduced:  Four bills were introduced, as follows: S. 1978-
1981.
  Page S1394-97
 Measures Reported:
   S. 1979, to provide energy tax incentives. (S. Rept. No. 107-140)
  Election Reform:  Senate resumed consideration of S. 565, to 
establish the Commission on Voting Rights and Procedures to study and 
make recommendations regarding election technology, voting, and 
election administration, to establish a grant program under which the 
Office of Justice Programs and the Civil Rights Division of the 
Department of Justice shall provide assistance to States and localities 
in improving election technology and the administration of Federal 
elections, and to require States to meet uniform and nondiscriminatory 
election technology and administration requirements for the 2004 
Federal elections, taking action on the following amendments proposed 
thereto:
  Pages S1379-87
 Pending:
   Clinton Amendment No. 2906, to establish a residual ballot 
performance benchmark.
Page S1379
   Dodd (for Schumer) Modified Amendment No. 2914, to permit the use of 
a signature or personal mark for the purpose of verifying the identity 
of voters who register by mail.
Page S1379
   Dodd (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2916, to clarify the application of 
the safe harbor provisions.
Page S1379
   Hatch Amendment No. 2935, to establish the Advisory Committee on 
Electronic Voting and the Electoral Process, and to instruct the 
Attorney General to study the adequacy of existing electoral fraud 
statutes and penalties.
Page S1379
   Hatch Amendment No. 2936, to make the provisions of the Voting 
Rights Act of 1965 permanent.
Page S1379
   Schumer/Wyden Amendment No. 2937, to permit the use of a signature 
or personal mark for the purpose of verifying the identity of voters 
who register by mail. (By 46 yeas to 51 nays (Vote No. 38), Senate 
failed to table the amendment.)
Page S1380
   Smith (NH) Amendment No. 2933, to prohibit the broadcast of certain 
false and untimely information on Federal elections.
Page S1380
   Bond Amendment No. 2940 (to Amendment No. 2937), to permit the use 
of signature verification programs to verify the identity of 
individuals who register to vote by mail.
Page S1380
   During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
   By 49 yeas to 39 nays (Vote No. 39), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
failed to agree to the motion to close further debate on the bill. 
                                                             Page S1386
   Motion was entered to reconsider Vote No. 39, listed above, by which 
the motion to invoke cloture on the bill was not agreed to. 
                                                         Pages S1386-87
   A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that the motion 
to proceed to the consideration of the motion to reconsider Vote No. 
39, listed above, by which the motion to invoke cloture on the bill was 
not agreed to, be agreed to; and the motion to reconsider be agreed to.
                                                         Pages S1386-87
   A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at 6 p.m., on Monday, March 4, 2002, with a 
vote on the motion to close further debate on the bill to occur at 6:15 
p.m.
Page S1402
  Nominations Confirmed:  Senate confirmed the following nomination:
   Leslie Silverman, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Equal 
Employment Opportunity Commission for the remainder of the term 
expiring July 1, 2003. (Prior to this action, Committee on Health, 
Education, Labor, and Pensions was discharged from further 
consideration.)
Page S1405
  Nominations Received:  Senate received the following nomination:
   John R. Edwards, of Vermont, to be United States Marshal for the 
District of Vermont for the term of four years.
Page S1405
 Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S1394
 Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S1394

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 Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Page S1394
 Additional Statements:
  Page S1393
 Amendments Submitted:
  Page S1397
 Authority for Committees to Meet:
  Pages S1397-98
  Record Votes:  One record vote was taken today. (Total-39) 
                                                             Page S1386
  Adjournment:  Senate met at 9:15 a.m., and adjourned at 2:15 p.m., 
until 4 p.m., on Monday, March 4, 2002.