[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 48 (Thursday, April 25, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D390-D393]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                           Thursday, April 25, 2002

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                              Daily Digest


 HIGHLIGHTS

       Senate passed H.R. 4, Energy Policy Reform.
       The House passed H.R. 3231, Barbara Jordan Immigration Reform 
      and Accountability Act.


                                 Senate


 Chamber Action
   Routine Proceedings, pages S3337-S3457
 Measures Introduced:  Eighty-six bills and three resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 2250-2335, and S. Res. 252-254. 
                                                         Pages S3433-35
 Measures Reported:
   S. 864, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that 
aliens who commit acts of torture, extrajudicial killings, or other 
specified atrocities abroad are inadmissible and removable and to 
establish within the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice an 
Office of Special Investigations having responsibilities under that Act 
with respect to all alien participants in war crimes, genocide, and the 
commission of acts of torture and extrajudicial killings abroad, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 107-144)
   H.R. 495, to designate the Federal building located in Charlotte 
Amalie, St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, as the ``Ron de Lugo 
Federal Building''.
   H.R. 819, to designate the Federal building located at 143 West, 
Liberty Street, Medina, Ohio, as the ``Donald J. Pease Federal 
Building''.
   H.R. 3093, to designate the Federal building and United States 
courthouse located at 501 Bell Street in Alton, Illinois, as the 
``William L. Beatty Federal Building and United States Courthouse''.
   H.R. 3282, to designate the Federal building and United States 
courthouse located at 400 North Main Street in Butte, Montana, as the 
``Mike Mansfield Federal Building and United States Courthouse''.
   S. Res. 109, designating the second Sunday in the month of December 
as ``National Children's Memorial Day'' and the last Friday in the 
month of April as ``Children's Memorial Flag Day'', with an amendment.
   S. Res. 245, designating the week of May 5 through May 11, 2002, as 
``National Occupational Safety and Health Week''.
   S. Res. 249, designating April 30, 2002, as ``Dia de los Ninos: 
Celebrating Young Americans''.
   S. 410, to amend the Violence Against Women Act of 2000 by expanding 
legal assistance for victims of violence grant program to include 
assistance for victims of dating violence.
   S. 1721, to designate the building located at 1 Federal Plaza in New 
York, New York, as the ``James L. Watson United States Court of 
International Trade Building'', with amendments.
   S. 1974, to make needed reforms in the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
   S. Con. Res. 102, proclaiming the week of May 4 through May 11, 
2002, as ``National Safe Kids Week''.
Page S3433
 Measures Passed:
   Energy Policy Act:   By 88 yeas to 11 nays (Vote No. 94), Senate 
passed H.R. 4, to enhance energy conservation, research and development 
and to provide for security and diversity in the energy supply for the 
American people, after striking all after the enacting clause and 
inserting in lieu thereof the text of S. 517, Senate companion measure, 
as amended, and after taking action on the following amendments 
proposed thereto:
  Pages S3342-S3418
 Adopted:
   Bingaman (for Fitzgerald) Amendment No. 3258 (to Amendment No. 
2917), to strike the provision authorizing loan guarantees for an 
Alaska natural gas transportation project.
Page S3360
   Subsequently, the adoption was vitiated.
Page S3397
   Feinstein Modified Amendment No. 3170 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
reduce the period of time in which the Administrator may act on a 
petition by

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1 or more States to waive the renewable fuel content requirement. 
                                                             Page S3360
   Bingaman (for Baucus) Amendment No. 3082 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
provide that certain gasoline and diesel fuel be treated as entered 
into the customs territory of the United States. 
                                                  Pages S3354, S3359-60
   Bingaman (for Breaux) Amendment No. 3130 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against 
income tax for taxpayers owning certain commercial power takeoff 
vehicles.
Pages S3360-61
   Bingaman (for Harkin) Amendment No. 3331 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
further encourage development of hydrogen refueling infrastructure. 
                                                             Page S3361
   Bingaman (for Gramm) Amendment No. 3336 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for nonrecognition 
of gain on dispositions of dairy property which is certified by the 
Secretary of Agriculture as having been the subject of an agreement 
under the bovine tuberculosis eradication program.
Page S3365
   Reid Amendment No. 3338 (to Amendment No. 2917), to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify energy credit for combined heat 
and power system property.
Page S3361
   Bingaman (for Baucus) Amendment No. 3349 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
modify the credit for the production of fuel from nonconventional 
sources regarding refined coal.
Page S3361
   Bingaman (for Baucus) Amendment No. 3350 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
modify the credit for the production of electricity to include small 
irrigation power.
Page S3362
   Bingaman (for Baucus) Amendment No. 3351 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
modify the credit for residential energy efficient property by 
substituting natural gas furnaces for natural gas heat pumps. 
                                                             Page S3362
   Bingaman (for Baucus/Grassley) Amendment No. 3352 (to Amendment No. 
2917), to modify the incentives for biodiesel.
Page S3362
   Bingaman (for Baucus) Amendment No. 3353 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the treatment of 
sales or dispositions to implement Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 
or State electric restructuring policy.
Pages S3363-64
   Bingaman (for Hollings) Amendment No. 3356 (to Amendment No. 2917), 
to apply temporary regulations to certain output contracts. 
                                                             Page S3364
   Reid (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 3359 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
modify the credit for new energy efficient homes by treating a 
manufactured home which meets the energy star standard as a 30 percent 
home.
Page S3364
   Durbin Amendment No. 3342 (to Amendment No. 2917), to strike the 
nonbusiness use limitation with respect to the credit for the 
installation of certain small wind energy systems.
Page S3365
   Murray/Cantwell Amendment No. 3326, to modify the specifications for 
a fuel cell power plant eligible for the extension of the energy tax 
credit.
Pages S3381-82
   By 52 yeas to 47 nays (Vote No. 89), Harkin Amendment No. 3195 (to 
Amendment No. 2917), to direct the Secretary of Energy to revise the 
seasonal energy efficiency ratio standard for central air conditioners 
and central air conditioning heat pumps within 60 days. 
                                           Pages S3342, S3365-71, S3390
   Reid (for Brownback) Modified Amendment No. 3239 (to Amendment No. 
2917), to establish a greenhouse gas inventory, reductions registry, 
and information system.
Pages S3354-57, S3394
   Bingaman (for Lincoln) Amendment No. 3343 (to Amendment No. 2917), 
to modify the credit for the production of fuel from nonconventional 
sources to include production of fuel from agricultural and animal 
waste.
Page S3396
   Bingaman (for Lincoln) Amendment No. 3344 (to Amendment No. 2917), 
to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify excise tax 
exemptions for agricultural aerial applicators.
Page S3396
   Murkowski Amendment No. 3362 (to Amendment No. 2917), to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code to modify the definition of Rural Airport. 
                                                             Page S3396
   Murkowski Amendment No. 3363 (to Amendment No. 2917), to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code to exempt small seaplanes from ticket taxes. 
                                                             Page S3396
   Reid (for Kohl) Modified Amendment No. 3346 (to Amendment No. 2917), 
to modify the credit for the production of electricity to include 
municipal biosolids and recycled sludge.
Pages S3388, S3396-97
   Reid (for Sessions) Modified Amendment No. 3335 (to Amendment No. 
2917), to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the credit 
for the production of fuel from non-conventional sources with respect 
to certain existing facilities.
Pages S3354, S3360, S3397
   Reid (for Thomas) Amendment No. 3364 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt receipts of tax-
exempt rural electric cooperatives for the construction of line 
extensions to encourage development of section 29 qualified fuel 
sources.
Page S3390
   Bingaman (for Torricelli) Amendment No. 3360 (to Amendment No. 
2917), to provide incentives for

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water conservation through the installation of water submeters. 
                                                             Page S3397
   Reid (for Conrad/Smith (NH)) Modified Amendment No. 3355 (to 
Amendment No. 2917), to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to 
extend the energy credit to stationary microturbine power plants. 
                                           Pages S3354, S3359-60, S3395
   Bingaman Amendment No. 3380 (to Amendment No. 2917), to authorize 
rural and remote community electrification grants.
Page S3397
   Bingaman (for Johnson) Modified Amendment No. 3196 (to Amendment No. 
2917), to provide for the investment in, the enhancement of, and the 
efficiency of electric power transmission systems.
Page S3397
   Bingaman (for Wellstone) Modified Amendment No. 3209 (to Amendment 
No. 2917), to carry out pilot programs that aid accurate carbon storage 
and sequestration accounting.
Pages S3397-98
   Bingaman (for Wyden) Amendment No. 3230 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
provide additional borrowing authority for the construction, 
acquisition, and replacement of the transmission system of the 
Bonneville Power Administration and to carry out other duties of the 
Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration.
Pages S3398-99
   Reid (for Levin) Amendment No. 3366 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
modify the incentives for alternative fuel motor vehicles and refueling 
properties.
Page S3399
   Daschle/Bingaman Further Modified Amendment No. 2917, in the nature 
of a substitute.
Pages S3342-S3418
 Rejected:
   Reid (for Boxer) Amendment No. 3139 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
provide for equal liability treatment of vehicle fuels and fuel 
additives. (By 57 yeas to 42 nays (Vote No. 87), Senate tabled the 
amendment.)
Page S3364
   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. 
(By 60 yeas to 39 nays (Vote No. 88), Senate tabled the amendment.) 
                                                  Pages S3351-54, S3364
   Reid (for Kyl) Amendment No. 3332 (to Amendment No. 2917), to strike 
the extension of the credit for producing electricity from wind. 
                                                  Pages S3354, S3386-88
   Carper Amendment No. 3198 (to Amendment No. 2917), to decrease the 
United States dependence on imported oil by the year 2015. (By 57 yeas 
to 42 nays (Vote No. 90), Senate tabled the amendment.) 
                                               Pages S3371-81, S3390-91
   Reid (for Kyl) Amendment No. 3333 (to Amendment No. 2917), to strike 
the provisions relating to alternative vehicles and fuels incentives. 
(By 91 yeas to 8 nays (Vote No. 91), Senate tabled the amendment.) 
                                        Pages S3354, S3382-86, S3391-92
   Reid (for Graham) Amendment No. 3370 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
strike section 2308 of Division H (relating to energy tax incentives). 
(By 73 yeas to 26 nays (Vote No. 92), Senate tabled the amendment.) 
                                        Pages S3354, S3388-90, S3392-93
   Reid (for Graham) Amendment No. 3372 (to Amendment No. 2917), to 
limit the effective dates of the provisions of Division H (relating to 
energy tax incentives). (By 70 yeas to 29 nays (Vote No. 93), Senate 
tabled the amendment.)
Pages S3354, S3388, S3393
 Withdrawn:
   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 S3351
   Reid (for Hagel) Further Modified Amendment No. 3146 (to Amendment 
No. 2917), to establish a national registry for accurate and reliable 
reports of greenhouse gas emissions, and to further encourage voluntary 
reductions in such emissions.
Pages S3354, S3157-59, S3395
   During consideration of this measure, Senate also took the following 
actions:
   Reid (for Boxer) Amendment No. 3311 (to Amendment No. 3139), to 
provide for equal liability treatment of vehicle fuels and fuel 
additives, fell when Amendment No. 3139 (listed above), was tabled. 
                                                         Pages S3342-51
   Senate vitiated the March 21, 2002 adoption of Bingaman Amendment 
No. 3059 (to Amendment No. 2917), to authorize rural and remote 
community electrification grants.
Page S3397
   Senate insisted on its amendment, requested a conference with the 
House thereon, and the Chair was authorized to appoint conferees on the 
part of the Senate.
Page S3418
   Subsequently, S. 517 was returned to the Senate Calendar. 
                                                             Page S3417
   Dia de los Ninos: Celebrating Young Americans:   Senate agreed to S. 
Res. 249, designating April 30, 2002, as ``Dia de los Ninos: 
Celebrating Young Americans''.
  Pages S3455-56
   National Charter Schools Week:   Senate agreed to S. Res. 254, 
designating April 29, 2002, through May 3, 2002, as ``National Charter 
Schools Week''.
  Pages S3449-50, S3456-57
 Andean Trade Preference Expansion Act:  Senate began consideration of 
the motion to proceed to consideration of H.R. 3009, to extend the 
Andean

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Trade Preference Act, to grant additional trade benefits under that 
Act.
  Page S3457
   A motion was entered to close further debate on the motion to 
proceed to consideration of the bill and, in accordance with the 
provisions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, a cloture 
vote will occur at 6 p.m., on Monday, April 29, 2002.
Page S3457
   A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of the bill at 
10 a.m., on Friday, April 26, 2002.
Page S3457
 Nominations Confirmed:  Senate confirmed the following nominations:
   By unanimous vote of 99 yeas (Vote No. Ex. 85), Percy Anderson, of 
California, to be United States District Judge for the Central District 
of California.
Pages S3338, S3457
   By unanimous vote of 99 yeas (Vote No. Ex. 86), John F. Walter, of 
California, to be United States District Judge for the Central District 
of California.
Pages S3338, S3457
   By unanimous vote of 99 yeas (Vote No. Ex. 95), Joan E. Lancaster, 
of Minnesota, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Minnesota.
Pages S3418-19, S3457
   By unanimous vote of 97 yeas (Vote No. Ex. 96), William C. 
Griesbach, of Wisconsin, to be United States District Judge for the 
Eastern District of Wisconsin.
Pages S3419-20, S3457
 Nominations Received:  Senate received the following nominations:
   Richard M. Russell, of Virginia, to be an Associate Director of the 
Office of Science and Technology Policy.
   James Franklin Jeffrey, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Albania.
   Mark Sullivan, of Maryland, to be United States Director of the 
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Page S3457
 Messages From the House:
  Page S3432
 Measures Referred:
  Page S3432
 Executive Communications:
  Page S3432
 Petitions and Memorials:
  Pages S3432-33
 Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S3433
 Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S3435-36
 Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S3436-49
 Additional Statements:
  Pages S3427-32
 Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S3450-52
 Authority for Committees to Meet:
  Pages S3452-53
 Privilege of the Floor:
  Pages S3453-54
 Record Votes:  Twelve record votes were taken today. (Total -- 96) 
               Pages S3338, S3364, S3390, S3391-94, S3417, S3419, S3420
 Adjournment:  Senate met at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 7:37 p.m., 
until 10 a.m., on Friday, April 26, 2002. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S3457).