[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 76 (Wednesday, May 21, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      House Committees ordered reported 11 sundry measures.

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S6789-S6890
Measures Introduced: Thirteen bills and two resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 1090-1102, and S. Res. 151-152. 
                                                         Pages S6852-53
Measures Reported:
  Special Report entitled ``Committee Activities of the Select 
Committee on Intelligence, United States Senate, January 3, 2001, to 
November 22, 2002''. (S. Rept. No. 108-52)
Page S6851
  S. 515, to provide additional authority to the Office of Ombudsman of 
the Environmental Protection Agency. (S. Rept. No. 108-50)
Page S6851
  S. 313, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to 
establish a program of fees relating to animal drugs, with amendments. 
(S. Rept. No. 108-51)
Page S6851
  H.R. 192, to amend the Microenterprise for Self-Reliance Act of 2000 
and the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase assistance for the 
poorest people in developing countries under microenterprise assistance 
programs under those Acts.
Page S6851
  S. Con. Res. 7, expressing the sense of Congress that the sharp 
escalation of anti-Semitic violence within many participating States of 
the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is of 
profound concern and efforts should be undertaken to prevent future 
occurrences.
Page S6851
Measures Passed:
  Ombudsman Reauthorization Act: Senate passed S. 515, to provide 
additional authority to the Office of Ombudsman of the Environmental 
Protection Agency.
  Pages S6889-90
  Welcoming the President of the Philippines to the United States: 
Senate agreed to S. Res. 152, welcoming the President of the 
Philippines to the United States, expressing gratitude to the 
Government of the Philippines for its strong cooperation with the 
United States in the campaign against terrorism and its membership in 
the coalition to disarm Iraq, and reaffirming the commitment of 
Congress to the continuous expansion of friendship and cooperation 
between the United States and the Philippines.
  Page S6890
  U.N. Sanctions Against Iraq: Committee on Foreign Relations was 
discharged from further consideration of H. Con. Res. 160, expressing 
the sense of Congress that the United Nations should remove the 
economic sanctions against Iraq completely and without condition, and 
the resolution was then agreed to.
  Page S6890
  Department of Defense Authorization: Senate continued consideration 
of S. 1050, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2004 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed 
Forces, taking action on the following amendments: 
                                            Pages S6789-S6843, S6845-46
Adopted:
  By 59 yeas to 38 nays (Vote No. 187), Warner Amendment No. 752 (to 
Amendment No. 751), in the nature of a substitute.
Pages S6789-92
  By a unanimous vote of 96 yeas (Vote No. 188), Reed Amendment No. 
751, to modify the scope of the prohibition on research and development 
of low-yield nuclear weapons.
Pages S6789-92
  Collins Amendment No. 757, to amend title 10, United States Code, to 
restrict bundling of Department of Defense contract requirements that 
unreasonably disadvantages small businesses.
Pages S6793-97
  Nelson (FL) Amendment No. 766, to require a specific authorization of 
Congress for the commencement of the engineering development phase or 
subsequent phase of a Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator.
Page S6805

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  Nelson (FL) Amendment No. 767, to require a study on the application 
of technology from the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator Program to 
conventional hard and deeply buried target weapons development 
programs.
Pages S6805-06
  Hutchison Amendment No. 763, to add availability of family support 
services to the matters required to be included in the report on the 
conduct of Operation Iraqi Freedom in section 1023.
Pages S6808-10
  By 51 yeas to 48 nays (Vote No. 190), Lautenberg/Jeffords Amendment 
No. 722, to modify requirements applicable to the limitation on 
designation of critical habitat for conservation of protected species 
under the provision on military readiness and conservation of protected 
species.
Pages S6810-15
  Bingaman Modified Amendment No. 765, to require a specific 
authorization of Congress before the conduct of the design, 
development, or deployment of the hit-to-kill ballistic missile defense 
interceptors.
Pages S6819-21, S6823
  By 50 yeas to 48 nays (Vote No. 191), McCain Amendment No. 783, (to 
language proposed to be stricken by Amendment No. 725), to propose the 
insertion of matter in lieu of the matter proposed to be stricken. 
                                                         Pages S6823-27
  Warner Amendment No. 792, to correct the authorization of 
appropriations for the Joint Engineering Data Management Information 
and Control System (JEDMICS) so as to be provided for in Navy RDT&E (PE 
0603739N) instead of Navy procurement.
Pages S6833-34
  Levin (for Wyden) Amendment No. 793, to provide for the reporting 
requirement regarding Iraq to include a requirement to report 
noncompetitive contracting for the reconstruction of the infrastructure 
of Iraq.
Pages S6834-35
  Warner (for McCain/Bayh) Amendment No. 794, to provide for the 
funding of education assistance enlistment incentives to facilitate 
National service through Department of Defense Education Benefits Fund.
                                                             Page S6835
  Warner (for Roberts) Amendment No. 795, to enhance the defense 
contracting opportunities for persons with disabilities.
Page S6835
  Levin (for Nelson (FL)) Amendment No. 759, expressing the sense of 
the Senate that the Secretary of Defense should disburse funds to 
reward the provision of information leading to the resolution of the 
status of the members of the Armed Forces of the United States who 
remain missing in action.
Pages S6835-36
  Warner (for Domenici) Amemdment No. 740, to provide entitlement to 
health care for reserve officers of the Armed Forces pending orders to 
initial active duty following commissioning.
Page S6836
  Levin (for Feinstein/Stevens) Amendment No. 796, to prohibit the use 
of funds for research, development, test, and evaluation, procurement, 
or deployment of nuclear armed interceptors in a missile defense 
system.
Page S6836
  Warner (for Lott) Amendment No. 700, to express the sense of the 
Senate in support of the Advanced Shipbuilding Enterprise of the 
National Shipbuilding Research Program.
Pages S6836-37
  Warner (for Allard) Amendment No. 779, to provide a substitute for 
section 1035, relating to the protection of the operational files of 
the National Security Agency.
Pages S6837-38
  Levin (for Dodd) Modified Amendment No. 746, to require an Army study 
regarding use of a second source of production for gears incorporated 
into helicopter transmissions for CH-47 helicopters.
Page S6838
  Warner (for Chambliss) Amendment No. 784, to require a report on the 
efforts of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to utilize 
certain data extraction and exploitation capabilities within the 
Commercial Joint Mapping Tool Kit (C/JMTK).
Page S6838
  Levin (for Lieberman) Amendment No. 797, to provide for a strategy 
for the Department of Defense for the management of the electromagnetic 
spectrum.
Pages S6838-39
  Warner (for Domenici) Amendment No. 739, to expand reimbursement for 
travel expenses of covered beneficiaries of CHAMPUS for specialty care 
in order to cover specialized dental care.
Page S6839
  Warner Amendment No. 798, to strike subsection (c) of section 2101 
relating to unspecified worldwide military construction projects for 
the Army.
Page S6839
Rejected:
  Dorgan Modified Amendment No. 750, to prohibit the use of funds for a 
nuclear earth penetrator weapon. (By 56 yeas to 41 nays (Vote No. 189), 
Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S6797-S6804
Withdrawn:
  Harkin Amendment No. 774, to prohibit the use of funds for acquiring 
for inventories of the Department of Defense property in excess of the 
requirements for the inventories.
Pages S6815-18
  Bennett Amendment No. 776, to repeal the Millions of Theoretical 
Operations Per Second (MTOPS) requirement for computer export controls.
                                                         Pages S6818-19
Pending:
  Murray Amendment No. 691, to restore a previous policy regarding 
restrictions on use of Department of Defense medical facilities. 
                                                         Pages S6831-33
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:

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  Dayton Amendment No. 725, to strike section 833, relating to waiver 
authority for domestic source or content requirements, was rendered 
moot when McCain Amendment No. 783 (listed above) was adopted. 
                                                  Pages S6821-23, S6827
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at 9:30 a.m., on Thursday, May 22, 2003, with 
certain amendments to be proposed thereto.
Page S6843
Messages From the House:
  Page S6851
Measures Referred:
  Page S6851
Enrolled Bills Presented:
  Page S6851
Executive Communications:
  Page S6851
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Pages S6851-52
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S6853-55
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S6855-71
Additional Statements:
  Pages S6848-51
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S6871-87
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:
  Page S6887
Authority for Committees to Meet:
  Pages S6887-88
Privilege of the Floor:
  Page S6888
Record Votes: Five record votes were taken today. (Total--191) 
                                       Pages S6792, S6804, S6815, S6827
Adjournment: Senate met at 9:31 a.m., and adjourned at 9:41 p.m., until 
9:30 a.m., on Thursday, May 22, 2003. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S6844.)