[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 73 (Thursday, June 6, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D571-D574]
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                                             Thursday, June 6, 2002

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate agreed to the Conference Report on S. 1372, Export-Import 
      Bank Reauthorization Act, clearing the measure for the President.
       Senate passed H.R. 4775, Supplemental Appropriations Act.
      The House passed H.R. 2143, to make the repeal of the estate tax 
      permanent.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S5107-S5244
Measures Introduced: Seven bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 2593-2599, and S. Con. Res. 119.
  Page S5205
Measures Passed:
  Supplemental Appropriations Act: By 71 yeas to 22 nays (Vote No. 
145), Senate passed H.R. 4775, making supplemental appropriations for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, after taking action on the 
following amendments proposed thereto: 
                                     Pages S5113-29, S5132-58, S5159-95
Adopted:
  By 75 yeas to 19 nays (Vote No. 140), Warner Modified Amendment No. 
3597, to add the American Servicemembers' Protection Act of 2002, to 
protect United States military personnel and other elected and 
appointed officials of the United States Government against potential 
criminal prosecution by an international tribunal court to which the 
United States is not a party; and to allow the United States to render 
assistance to international efforts to bring to justice Saddam Hussein 
and other foreign nationals accused of genocide, war crimes or crimes 
against humanity.
Pages S5138-47
  By 79 yeas to 14 nays (Vote No. 142), Frist (for Helms) Modified 
Amendment No. 3725, to increase the amount provided for the Child 
Survival and Health Programs Fund, and to impose conditions. 
                                                         Pages S5160-62
  Reid (for Leahy/McConnell) Modified Amendment No. 3676, of a 
technical nature.
Pages S5172-73
  Reid (for Leahy/McConnell) Amendment No. 3677, of a technical nature.
                                                         Pages S5172-73
  Reid (for Leahy/McConnell) Amendment No. 3678, of a technical nature.
                                                         Pages S5172-73
  Reid (for Leahy/McConnell) Amendment No. 3679, of a technical nature.
                                                         Pages S5172-73
  Reid (for Leahy/McConnell) Modified Amendment No. 3680, of a 
technical nature.
Pages S5172-73
  Reid (for Leahy/McConnell) Amendment No. 3696, of a technical nature.
                                                         Pages S5172-73
  Reid (for Leahy/McConnell) Amendment No. 3697, of a technical nature.
                                                         Pages S5172-73
  Reid (for Leahy/McConnell) Amendment No. 3698, of a technical nature.
                                                         Pages S5172-73
  Reid (for Leahy/McConnell) Amendment No. 3715, of a technical nature.
                                                         Pages S5172-73
  Stevens (for Hutchison) Amendment No. 3559, to make a technical 
correction.
Pages S5174-77
  Stevens (for Nelson (FL)) Amendment No. 3568, to express the sense of 
the Senate regarding the reorganization of the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation to conduct counter terrorism activities.
Pages S5174-77
  Stevens (for Biden) Amendment No. 3591, to make funds available for 
the preservation of commercial manufacturing capability for defense 
grade nitrocellulose.
Pages S5174-77
  Stevens (for McConnell) Amendment No. 3593, to transfer, and merge, 
Economic Support Fund assistance for Israel with funds appropriated by 
this Act for ``Nonproliferation, Anti-Terrorism, Demining and Related 
Programs'' for activities relating to combating international 
terrorism.
Pages S5174-77
  Stevens (for Clinton) Amendment No. 3598, to provide that the local 
educational agency serving New York City distribute funds in fiscal 
year 2002 that are in excess of the fiscal year 2001 allocation on an 
equal per-pupil basis consistent with section 1113(c) of the Elementary 
and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
Pages S5174-77

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  Stevens (for Torricelli) Amendment No. 3602, to require the Federal 
Aviation Administration to report to Congress on the air traffic 
controller staffing shortage at Newark International Airport. 
                                                         Pages S5174-77
  Stevens (for Bunning) Amendment No. 3607, to redirect previously 
appropriated funds for safe and reliable water services to residents in 
Kentucky.
Pages S5174-77
  Stevens (for Wyden/Smith (OR)) Modified Amendment No. 3614, to 
provide $500,000 to carry out a West Coast groundfish fishing capacity 
reduction program.
Pages S5174-77
  Stevens (for Daschle) Amendment No. 3615, to require the Secretary of 
Agriculture to report to Congress on the management of the Black Hills 
National Forest.
Pages S5174-77
  Stevens (for Byrd) Amendment No. 3616, to express the Sense of the 
Senate regarding avian influenza.
Pages S5174-77
  Stevens (for Wellstone) Modified Amendment No. 3624, to express the 
sense of the Senate regarding the provision of surplus non-fat dry milk 
to combat HIV/AIDS, with a special focus on HIV-positive mothers and 
children.
Pages S5174-77
  Stevens (for Kyl/Feinstein) Amendment No. 3631, to require the 
transfer of funds to cover an increase in pay for Border Patrol agents 
and immigration inspectors and to make certain requirements with 
respect to the Chimera system and the expenditure of information 
technology funds by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. 
                                                         Pages S5174-77
  Stevens (for Kyl/Feinstein) Amendment No. 3632, to make available 
funds for the Center for Identification Technology Research at the West 
Virginia University for the purpose of developing interoperability 
standards and an application profile for technology neutral, portable, 
and data independent biometrics.
Pages S5174-77
  Stevens (for Sessions) Amendment No. 3653, to make available funds to 
the National Forum Foundation to implement the TRANSFORM Program to 
obtain available space on commercial ships for the shipment of 
humanitarian assistance to needy foreign countries.
Pages S5174-77
  Stevens (for McConnell) Modified Amendment No. 3656, to provide a 
substitute for section 503 (relating to a contract for the construction 
of a facility for the disposition of depleted uranium hexafluoride on 
the site of the gaseous diffusion plant at Paducah, Kentucky, and a 
similar facility on the site of the gaseous diffusion plant at 
Portsmouth, Ohio).
Pages S5174-77
  Stevens (for Kohl) Amendment No. 3657, to provide for international 
food assistance.
Pages S5174-77
  Stevens (for Harkin) Amendment No. 3658, to enhance support for 
international food assistance programs.
Pages S5174-77
  Stevens Amendment No. 3665, concerning unemployment tax collection. 
                                                         Pages S5174-77
  Stevens Amendment No. 3666, to reallocate previously appropriated 
funds.
Pages S5174-77
  Stevens Amendment No. 3667, of a technical nature.
Pages S5174-77
  Stevens (for Kerry/Cleland) Amendment No. 3669, to provide that 
amounts appropriated for the National Veterans Business Development 
Corporation in Public Law 107-77 shall remain available until expended.
                                                         Pages S5174-77
  Stevens (for Kohl) Amendment No. 3682, to allow the closing of 
certain accounts relating to the Food Safety and Inspection Service. 
                                                         Pages S5174-77
  Stevens Amendment No. 3702, concerning mail delivery in Alaska. 
                                                         Pages S5174-77
  Leahy/Feinstein Amendment No. 3716, to require a report setting forth 
a strategy for meeting the security needs of Afghanistan. 
                                                         Pages S5174-77
  Hutchinson Modified Amendment No. 3754, to restore funding provided 
for the DEA.
Pages S5174-77
  Stevens (for Craig) Modified Amendment No. 3766, to provide a 
complete substitute.
Pages S5174-77
  Reid (for Stabenow) Modified Amendment No. 3585 to provide that 
certain funds appropriated for the United States Customs Bureau Service 
be used to reimburse State and local law enforcement agencies that have 
provided Federal assistance to personnel along the Northern Border. 
                                                         Pages S5180-81
  Reid (for Specter) Modified Amendment No. 3596, to provide funds to 
the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine for activities associated with an 
in-home study of self-administered high frequency chest oscillation 
therapy for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 
                                                         Pages S5180-81
  Reid (for Collins) Modified Amendment No. 3613, to provide for the 
transition of the naval base on Schoodic Peninsula, Maine, to 
utilization as a research and education center for Acadia National 
Park.
Pages S5180-81
  Byrd/Stevens Modified Amendment No. 3627, to provide funds to repair, 
restore, and clean-up Corps' projects and facilities and dredge 
navigation channels, restore and clean out area streams, provide 
emergency streambank protection, restore other crucial public 
infrastructure, document flood impacts and undertake other flood 
recovery efforts deemed necessary and advisable by the Army Chief of 
Engineers.
Pages S5180-81

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  Reid (for Byrd) Modified Amendment No. 3691, to provide an additional 
amount for Emergency Relief Highways.
Pages S5180-81
  Reid (for Leahy) Amendment No. 3733, to set aside funds for certain 
National Guard activities.
Pages S5180-81
  Reid (for Graham) Modified Amendment No. 3747, to provide funds for 
additional Deputy United States Marshals and associated support staff 
for protection of the judicial process in response to the terrorist 
attacks of September 11, 2001 to be deployed to the Federal districts 
with critical courtroom and prisoner security needs.
Pages S5180-81
Rejected:
  McCain/Feingold Amendment No. 3703, to strike the amount provided for 
the design of a storage facility for the Smithsonian Institution. (By 
67 yeas to 29 nays (Vote No. 136), Senate tabled the amendment.) 
                                                         Pages S5120-23
  McCain Amendment No. 3635, to strike the amount provided for the 
National Defense Center of Excellence for Research in Ocean Sciences. 
(By 65 yeas to 31 nays (Vote No. 137), Senate tabled the amendment.) 
                                               Pages S5123-29, S5132-33
  McCain Amendment No. 3704, to strike the appropriation for 
Agricultural Research Service buildings and facilities. (By 72 yeas to 
24 nays (Vote No. 138), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S5133-37
  Dodd Modified Amendment No. 3787 (to Amendment No. 3597), to allow 
the United States to render assistance to international efforts to 
bring to justice Saddam Hussein and other foreign nationals accused of 
genocide, war crimes or crimes against humanity. (By 55 yeas to 40 nays 
(Vote No. 139), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S5138-44
  Nickles Amendment No. 3588, to restore the discretion of the 
President to agree with Congressionally-designated emergency spending. 
(By 58 yeas to 36 nays (Vote No. 143), Senate tabled the amendment.) 
                                                         Pages S5166-71
Withdrawn:
  Graham/DeWine Amendment No. 3569, to provide authority regarding the 
availability of funds for the Department of Defense for 
counterterrorism activities in Colombia.
Pages S5162-66
  During consideration of this measure, Senate also took the following 
action:
  By 87 yeas to 10 nays (Vote No. 135), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, having voted in the affirmative, Senate agreed 
to the motion to close further debate on the bill.
Page S5118
  The Chair sustained a point of order that Daschle Amendment No. 3764, 
to extend budget enforcement, was not germane post-cloture, and the 
amendment thus fell.
Pages S5113-20
  By 46 yeas to 49 nays (Vote No. 141), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to waive section 205 of H. Con. Res. 290, the 
Fiscal Year 2001 Concurrent Resolution on the Budget with respect to 
Durbin Amendment No. 3729, to increase the amount of supplemental 
appropriations for the Child Survival and Health Programs Fund. 
Subsequently, a point of order that the amendment was in violation of 
section 205 of H. Con. Res. 290, the Fiscal Year 2001 Concurrent 
Resolution on the Budget, since the amendment provides for an emergency 
designation on non-defense spending, was sustained, and the emergency 
designation was removed.
Pages S5147-58, S5159-60
  The Chair sustained a point of order that Durbin Amendment No. 3729, 
to increase the amount of supplemental appropriations for the Child 
Survival and Health Programs Fund, was in violation of section 302(F) 
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, since the amendment provides 
spending in excess of the relevant subcommittees 302(B) allocation, and 
the amendment thus fell.
Page S5160
  By 69 yeas to 25 nays (Vote No. 144), 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, the Fiscal Year 
2001 Concurrent Resolution on the Budget with respect to the bill (H.R. 
4775). Subsequently, a point of order that the bill was in violation of 
section 205 of H. Con. Res. 290, the Fiscal Year 2001 Concurrent 
Resolution on the Budget, since the bill provides for emergency 
designations on non-defense spending, failed.
Page S5171
  The Chair sustained a point of order that Reid (for Reed) Amendment 
No. 3595, to provide funds to enhance security for public 
transportation operations, was not germane, and the amendment thus 
fell.
Pages S5178-79
  Senate insisted on its amendment, requested a conference with the 
House thereon, and the Chair was authorized to appoint the following 
conferees on the part of the Senate: Senators Byrd, Inouye, Hollings, 
Leahy, Harkin, Mikulski, Reid, Kohl, Murray, Dorgan, Feinstein, Durbin, 
Johnson, Landrieu, Reed, Stevens, Cochran, Specter, Domenici, Bond, 
McConnell, Burns, Shelby, Gregg, Bennett, Campbell, Craig, Hutchison, 
and DeWine.
Page S5194
Export-Import Bank Reauthorization Act--Conference Report: By 
unanimous-consent, Senate agreed to the conference report on S. 1372, 
to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank of the United States, clearing 
the measure for the President.
  Pages S5129-33

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Hate Crimes Bill--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached 
providing for consideration of S. 625, to provide Federal assistance to 
States and local jurisdictions to prosecute hate crimes, at 11 a.m., on 
Friday, June 7, 2002.
  Page S5195
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, the Ninth Biennial Report of the 
Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee from February 1, 2000 
through January 31, 2002; to the Committee on Governmental Affairs. 
(PM-89)
Page S5204
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of the Corporation for 
Public Broadcasting for calendar year 2001; to the Committee on 
Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (PM-90)
Pages S5204-05
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  3 Army nominations in the rank of general.
  9 Marine Corps nominations in the rank of general.
  4 Navy nominations in the rank of admiral.
  Routine lists in the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy. 
                                                     Pages S5243, S5244
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Deborah Doyle McWhinney, of California, to be a Director of the 
Securities Investor Protection Corporation for a term expiring December 
31, 2004.
  Alejandro Modesto Sanchez, of Florida, to be a Member of the Federal 
Retirement Thrift Investment Board for a term expiring October 11, 
2002.
  Alejandro Modesto Sanchez, of Florida, to be a Member of the Federal 
Retirement Thrift Investment Board for a term expiring October 11, 
2006. (Reappointment)
  Andrew Saul, of New York, to be a Member of the Federal Retirement 
Thrift Investment Board for a term expiring September 25, 2004.
  Gordon Whiting, of New York, to be a Member of the Federal Retirement 
Thrift Investment Board for a term expiring September 25, 2006.
  Peter J. Hurtgen, of Maryland, to be Federal Mediation and 
Conciliation Director.
  William H. Campbell, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs (Management).
Page S5244
Messages From the House:
  Page S5205
Measures Referred:
  Page S5205
Measures Read First Time:
  Page S5205
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S5205-07
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S5207-14
Additional Statements:
  Pages S5201-04
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S5214-42
Authority for Committees to Meet:
  Pages S5242-43
Privilege of the Floor:
  Page S4243
Record Votes: Eleven record votes were taken today. (Total--145) 
    Pages S5118, S5122-23, S5132-33, S5137, S5144, S5147 S5160, S5162, 
                                                           S5171, S5194
Adjournment: Senate met at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 12:42 a.m., on 
Friday, June 7, 2002, until 11 a.m., on the same day. (For Senate's 
program, see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's 
Record on page S5244).