[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 46 (Tuesday, April 23, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D370-D372]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                            Tuesday, April 23, 2002

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                              Daily Digest


Highlights

      The House agreed to resolutions commending the Men and Women of 
      the District of Columbia National Guard, the Secret Service New 
      York Field Office, and the Customs Service at 6 World Trade 
      Center for their extraordinary service in response to the 
      terrorist attacks of September 11.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3111-S3231
Measures Introduced: Thirteen bills and five resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 2222-2234, S. Res. 248-251, and S. Con. Res. 
102.
  Page S3165
Measures Passed
  Farmer Bankruptcy Bill: Senate passed H.R. 4167, to extend for 8 
additional months the period for which chapter 12 of title 11 of the 
United States Code is reenacted, clearing the measure for the 
President.
  Page S3225
  Canadian Soldiers Condolences: Senate agreed to S. Res. 250, 
extending sympathy and condolences to the families of the Canadian 
soldiers who were killed and the Canadian soldiers who were wounded on 
April 8, 2002 in Afghanistan, and to all of the Canadian people. 
                                                             Page S3174
  Minority Membership Appointments: Senate agreed to S. Res. 251, 
making Minority party appointments for the Committees on Environment 
and Public Works and Governmental Affairs for 107th Congress. 
                                                             Page S3174
  Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation 
Act: Senate passed H.R. 169, to require that Federal agencies be 
accountable for violations of antidiscrimination and whistleblower 
protection laws; and to require that each Federal agency post quarterly 
on its public Web site, certain statistical data relating to Federal 
sector equal employment opportunity complaints filed with such agency, 
after agreeing to committee amendments, and the following amendments 
proposed thereto:
  Pages S3226-28
  Reid (for Thompson) Amendment No. 3327, to provide for the General 
Accounting Office to conduct studies on the effects of the Act and of 
the Contract Disputes Act of 1978 (41 U.S.C. 601 note; Public Law 95-
563) on operations of agencies.
Pages S3228-29
  Reid (for Thompson) Amendment No. 3328, to provide for the General 
Accounting Office to conduct a study on the administrative an personnel 
costs incurred by the Department of the Treasury in the administration 
of the Judgement funds.
Pages S3228-29
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 S3117-42, S3145-50
Adopted:
  Baucus/Grassley Amendment No. 3286 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
provide energy tax incentives.
Pages S3117-19
  Murkowski Modified Amendment No. 3257 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit for the 
production of Alaska natural gas.
Pages S3120-21
  Bingaman Modified Amendment No. 3231 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
clarify the structure for, and improve the focus of, global climate 
change science research.
Pages S3145-48
  Bingaman Amendment No. 3232 (to Amendment No. 2917), to establish a 
national climate change policy.
Pages S3145-48
  Bingaman (for Thurmond) Modified Amendment No. 3157 (to Amendment No. 
2917), to direct the Secretary of Energy to submit to Congress a report

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that identifies current and potential research at Department of Energy 
nuclear facilities relating to the production or use of hydrogen. 
                                                         Pages S3145-48
  Bingaman Amendment No. 3242 (to Amendment No. 2917), to make certain 
technical modifications.
Pages S3145-48
  Bingaman (for Wyden) Amendment No. 3244 (to Amendment No. 3041), to 
make certain technical corrections.
Pages S3145-48
  Bingaman Amendment No. 3245 (to Amendment No. 2917), to clarify the 
definition of ``tribal lands''.
Pages S3117, S3145-48
  Bingaman Amendment No. 3246 (to Amendment No. 2917), to clarify the 
definition of ``Indian land''.
Pages S3145-48
  Bingaman Amendment No. 3247 (to Amendment No. 2917), to preserve oil 
and gas resource data.
Pages S3145-48
  Bingaman (for Thomas) Amendment No. 3248 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
facilitate resolution of conflicts between the development of Federal 
coal and the development of Federal and non-Federal coalbed methane in 
the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana.
Pages S3145-48
  Bingaman (for Baucus) Amendment No. 3249 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
facilitate timely action on oil and gas leases and applications for 
permits to drill and inspection and enforcement of oil and gas 
activities.
Pages S3145-48
  Bingaman (for Carnahan) Amendment No. 3250 (to Amendment No. 2917), 
to clarify the application of section 927 to certain air conditioners. 
                                                         Pages S3145-48
  Reid Modified 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 S3148
  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 S3117, S3148
Rejected:
  Schumer Amendment No. 3030 (to Amendment No. 2917), to strike the 
section establishing a renewable fuel content requirement for motor 
vehicle fuel. (By 69 yeas to 30 nays (Vote No.78, Senate tabled the 
amendment.)
Pages S3122-42
Withdrawn:
  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 S3148
Pending:
  Daschle/Bingaman Further Modified Amendment No. 2917, in the nature 
of a substitute.
Pages S3117-42, S3145-50
  Landrieu/Kyl Amendment No. 3050 (to Amendment No. 2917), to increase 
the transfer capability of electric energy transmission systems through 
participant-funded investment.
Pages S3117, S3148
  Schumer/Clinton Amendment No. 3093 (to Amendment no. 2917), to 
prohibit oil and gas drilling activity in Finger Lakes National Forest, 
New York.
Page S3117
  Dayton Amendment No. 3097 (to Amendment No. 2917), to require 
additional findings for FERC approval of an electric utility merger. 
                                                             Page S3117
  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 S3117
  Feinstein Amendment No. 3225 (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 S3148
  Feinstein Amendment No. 3170 (to Amendment No. 2917), to reduce the 
period of time in which the Administrator may act on a petition by 1 or 
more States to waive the renewable fuel content requirement. 
                                                             Page S3148
  Fitzgerald Amendment No. 3124 (to Amendment No. 2917), to modify the 
definitions of biomass and renewable energy to exclude municipal solid 
waste.
Pages S3148-50
  Cantwell Amendment No. 3234 (to Amendment No. 2917), to protect 
electricity consumers.
Page S3150
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 86 yeas to 13 nays (Vote No. 77), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, having voted in the affirmative, Senate agreed 
to the motion to close further debate on Daschle/Bingaman Further 
Modified Amendment No. 2917 (listed above).
Pages S3121-22
  Senate vitiated the March 21, 2002 adoption of Bingaman Amendment No. 
3061 (to Amendment No. 2917), to permit the Department of Energy to 
transfer uranium-bearing materials to uranium mills for recycling; and 
further, that the text of Amendment No. 2917 stricken by Amendment No. 
3061, be reinstated.
Page S3148
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that Members have 
until 1 p.m. on Wednesday, April 24, 2002, to file first degree 
amendments

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to the Baucus/Grassley title, and that Members have until 10 a.m. on 
Thursday, April 25, 2002, to offer possible second degree amendments 
thereto.
Page S3231
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at 9:30 a.m., on Wednesday, April 24, 2002. 
                                                             Page S3231
Estate Tax--Agreement: A unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached 
providing that when the Senate considers H.R. 8, to amend the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 to phaseout the estate and gift taxes over a 10-
year period, but no later than June 28, that the only amendments in 
order are as follows: Senator Gramm with respect to an estate tax; 
Senator Daschle or his designee with respect to an estate tax which 
shall be subject to two second degree amendments to be offered by 
Senator Daschle, or his designee; with Senator Daschle's amendment 
being the first one offered; that the amendments (listed above) deal 
solely with the subject of estate tax; that the estate tax amendments 
be subject to a 60 vote Budget Act point of order that no other 
amendments or motions be in order to the bill, except motions to waive 
the Budget Act; and that if any of the above amendments, after each has 
had its motion to waive vote, are adopted the bill be read a third time 
and the Senate vote on final passage of the bill, without any 
intervening action or debate and that if none of the amendments achieve 
60 votes to waive the Budget Act, the bill be placed back on the 
calendar. Further that there be 2 hours for debate on each of the 
amendments (listed above) equally divided in the usual form. 
                                                             Page S3117
Messages From the President: Senate received the following message from 
the President of the United States:
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, the Periodic Report on the National 
Emergency with Respect to Significant Narcotics Traffickers Centered in 
Columbia; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM-
81)
Page S3164
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nomination:
  By a unanimous vote of 99 yeas (Vote No. 79), Jeffrey R. Howard, of 
New Hampshire, to be United States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit.
                                                  Pages S3142-45, S3231
Messages From the House:
  Page S3164
Executive Communications:
  Pages S3164-65
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S3165-66
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S3166-73
Additional Statements:
  Pages S3157-64
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S3174-S3224
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:
  Page S3224
Authority for Committees to Meet:
  Pages S3224-25
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total--79) 
                                           Pages S3121-22, S3142, S3145
Adjournment: Senate met at 10:30 a.m., and adjourned at 7:41 p.m., 
until 9:30 a .m., on Wednesday, April 24, 2002. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S3231).