[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 44 (Thursday, April 18, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D351-D354]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                           Thursday, April 18, 2002

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed H.R. 3525, U.S. Border Security.
      The House agreed to the Senate amendment to H.R. 586, Tax Relief 
      Guarantee Act of 2002 with an amendment.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S2871-S2991
Measures Introduced: Twenty-two bills and one resolution were 
introduced, as follows: S. 2194-2215, and S. Res. 246.
  Pages S2950-51
Measures Reported:
  H. Con. Res. 243, expressing the sense of the Congress that the 
Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor should be presented to the public 
safety officers who have perished and select other public safety 
officers who deserve special recognition for outstanding valor above 
and beyond the call of duty in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks 
in the United States on September 11, 2001.
  S. Con. Res. 66, to express the sense of the Congress that the Public 
Safety Officer Medal of Valor should be awarded to public safety 
officers killed in the line of duty in the aftermath of the terrorist 
attacks of September 11, 2001.
  S. Con. Res. 75, to express the sense of the Congress that the Public 
Safety Officer Medal of Valor should be presented to public safety 
officers killed or seriously injured as a result of the terrorist 
attacks perpetrated against the United States on September 11, 2001, 
and to those who participated in the search, rescue and recovery 
efforts in the aftermath of those attacks.
Page S2950
Measures Passed:
  U.S. Border Security: By a unanimous vote of 97 yeas (Vote No. 75), 
Senate passed H.R. 3525, to enhance the border security of the United 
States, after taking action on the following amendments proposed 
thereto:
  Pages S2916-32
Adopted:
  Byrd Amendment No. 3163, to substitute October 26, 2004, for October 
26, 2003, for the achievement of requirements with respect to machine-
readable, tamper-resistant entry and exit documents.
Pages S2921-23
  Byrd Amendment No. 3164, to increase the penalty for noncompliance 
with the requirements to provide manifest information.
Pages S2923-24
  Kennedy Amendment No. 3160, to make certain managers' amendments to 
the bill.
Page S2924
  By a unanimous vote of 97 yeas (Vote No. 73) Byrd Amendment No. 3161, 
to revise provisions relating to the compliance by institutions and 
other entities with record keeping and reporting requirements with 
respect to nonimmigrant students and exchange visitors. 
                                                  Pages S2918-20, S2931
  By a unanimous vote of 97 yeas (Vote No. 74) Byrd Amendment No. 3162, 
to require as a condition of a country's designation or continued 
designation as a program country under the Visa Waiver Program that the 
country reports to the United States Government the theft of blank 
passports issued by that country.
Pages S2920-21, S2931
  Technical Amendments: Senate passed H.R. 861, to make technical 
amendments to section 10 of title 9, United States Code, clearing the 
measure for the President.
  Page S2989
  National Biotechnology Week: Committee on the Judiciary was 
discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 243, designating the 
week of April 21 through April 28, 2002, as ``National Biotechnology 
Week'', and the resolution was then agreed to.
  Page S2989
  Enhanced Penalties for Enabling Terrorists Act: Committee on the 
Judiciary was discharged from further consideration of S. 1981, to 
enhance penalties for fraud in connection with identification documents 
that facilitates an act of domestic terrorism, and the bill was then 
passed.
  Page S2989

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  Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor: Senate agreed to H. Con. Res. 
243, expressing the sense of the Congress that the Public Safety 
Officer Medal of Valor should be presented to the public safety 
officers who have perished and select other public safety officers who 
deserve special recognition for outstanding valor above and beyond the 
call of duty in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in the United 
States on September 11, 2001.
  Pages S2989-90
  Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor: Senate agreed to S. Con. Res. 
75, to express the sense of the Congress that the Public Safety Officer 
Medal of Valor should be presented to public safety officers killed or 
seriously injured as a result of the terrorist attacks perpetrated 
against the United States on September 11, 2001, and to those who 
participated in the search, rescue and recovery efforts in the 
aftermath of those attacks.
  Page S2990
  Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor: Senate agreed to S. Con. Res. 
66, to express the sense of the Congress that the Public Safety Officer 
Medal of Valor should be awarded to public safety officers killed in 
the line of duty in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 
11, 2001.
  Pages S2990-91
Energy Policy Act: Senate continued consideration of S. 517, to 
authorize funding for the Department of Energy to enhance its mission 
areas through technology transfer and partnerships for fiscal years 
2002 through 2006, taking action on the following amendments proposed 
thereto:
  Pages S2871-S2906, S2911-16, S2936
Adopted:
  Bingaman (for Carnahan) Modified Amendment No. 3015 (to Amendment No. 
2917), to require a National Academy of Sciences study of procedures 
for the selection and assessment of certain routes for the shipment of 
spent nuclear fuel from research nuclear reactors.
Pages S2898-S2901
  Bingaman (for Voinovich) Modified Amendment No. 3024 (to Amendment 
No. 2917), to promote the safe and efficient supply of energy while 
maintaining strong environmental protections.
Pages S2898-S2901
  Bingaman (for Grassley) Modified Amendment No. 3078 (to Amendment No. 
2917), to require the General Services Administration to conduct a 
study regarding Federal procurement initiatives relating to use of 
recycled products and fleet and transportation efficiency. 
                                                      Pages S2898-S2901
  Bingaman (for Dorgan) Amendment No. 3141 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
promote a plan that would enhance and accelerate the development of 
fuel cell technology to result in the deployment of 2.5 million 
hydrogen-fueled fuel cell vehicles by 2020.
Pages S2898-S2901
  Bingaman (for Cantwell) Amendment No. 3148 (to Amendment No. 2917), 
to improve energy efficiency in industries that use high power density 
facilities.
Pages S2901-04
  Bingaman (for Reid) Amendment No. 3149 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
authorize the Secretary of Energy to carry out research in the use of 
precious metals in catalysis for the purpose of developing improved 
catalytic converters.
Pages S2901-04
  Bingaman Amendment No. 3150 (to Amendment No. 2917), to provide for a 
report on energy savings and water use.
Pages S2901-04
  Bingaman (for Schumer) Amendment No. 3151 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
provide funds to States to establish and carry out energy efficient 
appliance rebate programs.
Pages S2901-04
  Bingaman (for Landrieu) Amendment No. 3152 (to Amendment No. 2917), 
to assist small businesses to become more energy efficient. 
                                                         Pages S2901-04
  Bingaman (for Corzine) Amendment No. 3153 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
establish energy efficiency provisions for public housing agencies. 
                                                         Pages S2901-04
  Bingaman (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 3154 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
provide for cleaner school buses.
Pages S2901-04
  Bingaman (for Lincoln) Amendment No. 3155 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
direct the Secretary of Energy to establish a decommissioning pilot 
program to decommission and decontaminate the sodium-cooled fast 
breeder experimental test-site reactor located in northwest Arkansas. 
                                                         Pages S2901-04
  Bingaman (for Murkowski) Amendment No. 3156 (to Amendment No. 2917), 
to provide for certain clean coal funding.
Pages S2901-04
  By 88 yeas to 10 nays (Vote No. 72), Murkowski Amendment No. 3159 (to 
Amendment No. 2917), to make the United States energy policy toward 
Iraq consistent with the national security policies of the United 
States.
Pages S2911-16
Withdrawn:
  Stevens Amendment No. 3133 (to Amendment No. 3132), to create jobs 
for Americans, to strengthen the United States steel industry, to 
reduce dependence on foreign sources of crude oil and energy, and to 
promote national security.
Page S2872
  Kerry/McCain Amendment No. 2999 (to Amendment No. 2917), to provide 
for increased average fuel economy standards for passenger automobiles 
and light trucks.
Pages S2872, S2890-93
  Schumer Amendment No. 3030 (to Amendment No. 2917), to strike the 
section establishing a renewable fuel content requirement for motor 
vehicle fuel.
Pages S2872, S2894

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  Lott Amendment No. 3028 (to Amendment No. 2917), to provide for the 
fair treatment of Presidential judicial nominees.
Pages S2872, S2904
  Graham Amendment No. 3070 (to Amendment No. 2917), to clarify the 
provisions relating to the Renewable Portfolio Standard. 
                                                     Pages S2872, S2904
Pending:
  Daschle/Bingaman Further Modified Amendment No. 2917, in the nature 
of a substitute.
Pages S2871-S2906, S2911-16, S2936
  Dayton/Grassley Amendment No. 3008 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
require that Federal agencies use ethanol-blended gasoline and 
biodiesel-blended diesel fuel in areas in which ethanol-blended 
gasoline and biodiesel-blended diesel fuel are available. 
                                                     Pages S2872, S2893
  Landrieu/Kyl Amendment No. 3050 (to Amendment No. 2917), to increase 
the transfer capability of electric energy transmission systems through 
participant-funded investment.
Page S2872
  Schumer/Clinton Amendment No. 3093 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
prohibit oil and gas drilling activity in Finger Lakes National Forest, 
New York.
Page S2872
  Dayton Amendment No. 3097 (to Amendment No. 2917), to require 
additional findings for FERC approval of an electric utility merger. 
                                                             Page S2872
  Feinstein/Boxer Amendment No. 3115 (to Amendment No. 2917), to modify 
the provision relating to the renewable content of motor vehicle fuel 
to eliminate the required volume of renewable fuel for calendar year 
2004.
Page S2872
  Murkowski/Breaux/Stevens Amendment No. 3132 (to Amendment No. 2917), 
to create jobs for Americans, to reduce dependence on foreign sources 
of crude oil and energy, to strengthen the economic self determination 
of the Inupiat Eskimos and to promote national security.
Page S2872
  Reid Amendment No. 3145 (to Amendment No. 3008), to require that 
Federal agencies use ethanol-blended gasoline and biodiesel-blended 
diesel fuel in areas in which ethanol-blended gasoline and biodiesel-
blended diesel fuel are available.
Page S2893
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following actions:
  By 36 yeas to 64 nays (Vote No. 70), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to close further debate on Stevens Amendment No. 
3133 (to Amendment No. 3132), listed above.
Page S2890
  By 46 yeas to 54 nays (Vote No. 71), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to close further debate on Murkowski/Breaux/Stevens 
Amendment No. 3132 (to Amendment No. 2917), listed above.
Page S2890
  Gramm/Kyl Amendment No. 3144 (to Amendment No. 2999), to make 
permanent the repeal of the death tax, fell when Kerry/McCain Amendment 
No. 2999 (to Amendment No. 2917), listed above, was withdrawn. 
                                                         Pages S2890-93
  A motion was entered to close further debate on Daschle/Bingaman 
Further Modified Amendment No. 2917 (listed above) and, in accordance 
with the provisions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, a 
cloture vote will occur on Tuesday, April 23, 2002.
Page S2936
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at 2 p.m., on Monday, April 22, 2002. 
Further, that Senators have until 1:30 p.m., to file first degree 
amendments.
Page S2991
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nomination:
  By a unanimous vote of 94 yeas (Vote No. EX. 76), Legrome D. Davis, 
of Pennsylvania, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern 
District of Pennsylvania.
Pages S2932-35, S2991
Messages From the House:
  Pages S2948-49
Executive Communications:
  Pages S2949-50
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S2950
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S2951-52
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S2952-77
Additional Statements:
  Pages S2938-48
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S2977-88
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:
  Page S2988
Authority for Committees to Meet:
  Pages S2988-89
Privilege of the Floor:
  Page S2989
Record Votes: Seven record votes were taken today. (Total--76) 
                                Pages S2890, S2916, S2931, S2932, S2935
Adjournment: Senate met at 9:45 a.m., and adjourned at 8:40 p.m., until 
1 p.m., on Monday, April 22, 2002. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S2991).

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