[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 54 (Thursday, April 3, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D345-D347]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                            Thursday, April 3, 2003

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Bill.
      The House passed H.R. 1559, Emergency Wartime Supplemental 
      Appropriations.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S4733-S4882
Measures Introduced: Eighteen bills and one resolution were introduced, 
as follows: S. 774-791, and S. Res. 104.
  Pages S4823-24
Measures Passed:
  Wartime Supplemental Appropriations: By a unanimous vote of 93 yeas 
(Vote No. 125), Senate passed S. 762, making supplemental 
appropriations to support Department of Defense operations in Iraq, 
Department of Homeland Security, and Related Efforts for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2003, after taking action on the following 
amendments proposed thereto:
  Pages S4838-42, S4789-4811
Adopted:
  Bayh Modified Amendment No. 474, to provide funding for grants to 
States for smallpox and other bioterrorism inoculation activities. 
                                                  Pages S4742-47, S4752
  By 65 yeas to 32 nays (Vote No. 122), Specter Amendment No. 515, to 
increase funds for protection and preparedness of high threat urban 
areas under the Office for Domestic Preparedness. 
                                                  Pages S4786-87, S4800
  By 67 yeas to 26 nays (Vote No. 124), Stevens (for Kohl) Amendment 
No. 455, to provide humanitarian food assistance in connection with 
U.S. activities in Iraq.
Pages S4803-06
  Stevens Amendment No. 522, to make certain improvements to the bill. 
                                                         Pages S4806-08
Rejected:
  Boxer/Schumer Amendment No. 472, to set aside $30,000,000 for the 
Department of Homeland Security for research and development and 
deployment of technology to protect commercial aircraft from the threat 
posed by man-portable air defense systems. (By 50 yeas to 47 nays (Vote 
No. 117), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S4761-62
  By 38 yeas to 61 nays (Vote No. 118), McCain/Kyl Amendment No. 481, 
to remove unauthorized and earmarked appropriations.
Pages S4755-59, S4760-61, S4762-64
  Breaux Amendment No. 494, to allocate additional funds for certain 
federal homeland security programs. (By 52 yeas to 46 nays (Vote No. 
119), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S4764-69, S4776-77
  Byrd/Hollings Amendment No. 508, to protect the prerogatives of the 
Congress in the allocation of homeland security funding. (By 51 yeas to 
46 nays (Vote No. 120), Senate tabled the amendment.) 
                                                     Pages S4777, S4785
  Hollings Amendment No. 479, to express the sense of the Senate on 
paying the costs of the war with Iraq. (By 79 yeas to 18 nays (Vote No. 
121), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S4891, S4785-86
  Schumer Amendment No. 514, to increase the appropriation for the 
Office for Domestic Preparedness, Department of Homeland Security, by 
$2,330,000,000. (By 51 yeas to 46 nays (Vote No. 123), Senate tabled 
the amendment.)
Pages S4786, S4800-03
Withdrawn:
  Graham (FL) Amendment No. 459, to appropriate an additional 
$375,000,000 for the Department of Veterans Affairs for Medical Care 
for costs of medical care for certain veterans of the current conflict 
in Iraq.
Pages S4747-52, S4762
  Ensign Amendment No. 488, to prohibit the use of funds in a manner 
that benefits citizens or businesses of France and Germany unless 
physically located in the United States.
Pages S4752-55, S4759-60, S4762
  Talent Amendment No. 499, to require certain air carriers that 
receive funds appropriated under this

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Act to accept procedures that ensure the fair and equitable resolution 
of labor integration issues in transactions for the combination of air 
carriers.
Pages S4769-71
  Reid Amendment No. 440, to provide critical funding to safeguard 
nuclear weapons and nuclear material in the United States and around 
the world.
Pages S4737, S4805-06
  Landrieu/Mikulski Modified Amendment No. 504, to make applicable 
provisions of law requiring the use of privately owned United States 
flag commercial vessels for the transportation of U.S. Aid and other 
materials.
Pages S4775-76, S4777-81, S4805-06
  Bond Amendment No. 500, to state the sense of the Senate regarding 
procedures that ensure the fair and equitable resolution of labor 
integration issues in transactions for the combination of air carriers.
                                               Pages S4771-75, S4805-06
  Stevens Amendment No. 435, to increase the National Debt Ceiling of 
the United States.
Pages S4737, S4808-11
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that it be in 
order for the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on 
Appropriations, with the concurrence of both Leaders, be permitted to 
make technical, conforming, and clarifying changes as necessary to the 
supplemental appropriations bill.
Page S4811
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that when the 
Senate receives H.R. 1559, House companion measure, the Senate proceed 
to its consideration, all after the enacting clause be stricken, the 
text of S. 762, as amended, be inserted in lieu thereof; provided 
further that the bill then be read a third time and passed, the motion 
to reconsider be laid upon the table, the Senate then insist on its 
amendment, request a conference with the House, and the Chair be 
authorized to appoint the following Members as conferees on the part of 
the Senate: Senators Stevens, Cochran, Specter, Domenici, Bond, 
McConnell, Burns, Shelby, Gregg, Bennett, Campbell, Craig, Hutchison, 
DeWine, Brownback, Byrd, Inouye, Hollings, Leahy, Harkin, Mikulski, 
Reid, Kohl, Murray, Dorgan, Feinstein, Durbin, Johnson, and Landrieu; 
and that the passage of S. 762 be vitiated and the bill be placed back 
on the calendar.
Page S4811
  Grand Teton National Park Land Exchange Act: Senate passed S. 273, to 
provide for the expeditious completion of the acquisition of land owned 
by the State of Wyoming within the boundaries of Grand Teton National 
Park.
  Pages S4879-80
  Rancho Corral de Tierra Golden Gate National Recreation Area Boundary 
Adjustment Act: Senate passed S. 302, to revise the boundaries of the 
Golden Gate National Recreation Area in the State of California, to 
restore and extend the term of the advisory commission for the 
recreation area, after agreeing to the following amendment proposed 
thereto:
  Page S4879
  Frist (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 523, to correct a map reference in 
the bill.
Pages S4879-81
  Blunt Reservoir and Pierre Canal Land Conveyance Act: Senate passed 
S. 426, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain 
parcels of land acquired for the Blunt Reservoir and Pierre Canal 
features of the initial stage of the Oahe Unit, James Division, South 
Dakota, to the Commission of Schools and Public Lands and the 
Department of Game, Fish, and Parks of the State of South Dakota for 
the purpose of mitigating lost wildlife habitat, on the condition that 
the current preferential leaseholders shall have an option to purchase 
the parcels from the Commission.
  Pages S4880-81
  Commending University of Minnesota Ice Hockey Team: Senate agreed to 
S. Res. 104, commending the University of Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs for 
winning the 2002-2003 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division 
I National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Championship.
  Page S4881
Nomination--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached 
providing for consideration of the nomination of Cormac J. Carney, to 
be United States District Judge for the Central District of California, 
at 5 p.m., on Monday, April 7, 2003, with a vote to occur thereon. 
                                                             Page S4870
Care Act Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing 
that at a time to be determined by the Majority Leader, after 
consultation with the Democratic Leader, Senate proceed to 
consideration of S. 476, to provide incentives for charitable 
contributions by individuals and businesses, to improve the public 
disclosure of activities of exempt organizations, and to enhance the 
ability of low-income Americans to gain financial security by building 
assets, and it be considered under the following limitations: that 
there be 4 hours of debate equally divided, that the only amendments be 
a manager's amendment and a Nickles amendment; provided further that 
there be 30 minutes of debate on the amendments equally divided; that 
following the disposition of the previously-mentioned amendments, the 
bill be read a third time and the Senate vote on passage of the bill, 
as amended, with no intervening action or debate; that no points of 
order be waived by this agreement and that following passage of the 
bill that it be held at the desk.
  Pages S4870-72
Protect Act: Senate disagreed to the amendments of the House to S. 151, 
to prevent child abduction and

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the sexual exploitation of children, and agreed to House request for a 
conference, and the Chair was authorized to appoint the following 
conferees on the part of the Senate: Senators Hatch, Grassley, 
Sessions, Graham (SC), Leahy, Kennedy, and Biden.
  Page S4872
Keep Children and Families Safe Act: Senate disagreed to the amendment 
of the House, to S. 342, to amend the Child Abuse Prevention and 
Treatment Act to make improvements to and reauthorize programs under 
that Act, requested a conference with the House, and the Chair was 
authorized to appoint the following conferees on the part of the 
Senate: Senators Gregg, Alexander, DeWine, Kennedy, and Dodd. 
                                                         Pages S4872-79
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  Raymond T. Wagner, Jr., of Missouri, to be a Member of the Internal 
Revenue Service Oversight Board for the remainder of the term expiring 
September 14, 2004.
  Joseph Robert Goeke, of Illinois, to be a Judge of the United States 
Tax Court for a term of fifteen years after he takes office.
  Robert Allen Wherry, Jr., of Colorado, to be a Judge of the United 
States Tax Court for a term of fifteen years.
  Harry A. Haines, of Montana, to be a Judge of the United States Tax 
Court for a term of fifteen years.
  Diane L. Kroupa, of Minnesota, to be a Judge of the United States Tax 
Court for a term of fifteen years.
  Mark Van Dyke Holmes, of New York, to be a Judge of the United States 
Tax Court for a term of fifteen years.
Pages S4881-82
Messages From the House:
  Page S4882
Measures Referred:
  Page S4822
Petitions and Memorials:
  Pages S4822-23
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S4823
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S4824-26
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S4826-56
Additional Statements:
  Page S4822
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S4856-70
Authority for Committees to Meet:
  Page S4870
Privilege of the Floor:
  Page S4870
Record Votes: Nine record votes were taken today. (Total--125) 
             Page S4762, S4763, S4776, S4785-86, S4800, S4805-06, S4811
Adjournment: Senate met at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 10:33 p.m., 
until 3 p.m., on Monday, April 7, 2003. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S4882.)