[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 101 (Thursday, July 10, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D788-D791]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                            Thursday, July 10, 2003

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                              Daily Digest

HIGHLIGHTS

      The House passed H.R. 2660. Labor, HHS and Education, and Related 
      Agencies Appropriations for FY 2004.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S9161-S9268
Measures Introduced: Eight bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1386-1393, and S. J. Res. 15.
  Page S9244
Measures Reported:
  H.R. 2555, making appropriations for the Department of Homeland 
Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 108-86)
  Report to accompany S. 1382, making appropriations for the Department 
of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004. (S. Rept. No. 
108-87)
  Report to accompany S. 1383, making appropriations for the 
Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004. (S. 
Rept. No. 108-88)
  S. 1391, making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and 
related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004. (S. 
Rept. No. 108-89)
  S. RES. 140, designating the week of August 10, 2003, as ``National 
Health Center Week''.
  S. 764, to extend the authorization of the Bulletproof Vest 
Partnership Grant Program.
  S. 1280, to amend the Protect Act to clarify certain volunteer 
liability, with an amendment.
Page S9244
Measures Passed:
  NOAA Legal Appointments and Promotions Ratification: Senate passed S. 
886, to ratify otherwise legal appointments and promotions in the 
commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration that failed to be submitted to the Senate for its advice 
and consent as required by law.
Page S9268
State Department Authorization: Senate continued consideration of S. 
925, to authorize appropriations for the Department of State and 
international broadcasting activities for fiscal year 2004 and for the 
Peace Corps for fiscal years 2004 through 2007, taking action on the 
following amendments proposed thereto:
  Pages S9162-S9215
Adopted:
  Lugar (for Biden/Mikulski) Amendment No. 1150 (to Amendment No. 
1136), to express the sense of Congress relating to violence against 
women.
Pages S9162-66
  Lugar (for Breaux) Amendment No. 1151 (to Amendment No. 1136), to 
authorize the Chief of Protocol to use a passenger carrier for 
transportation between the Chief of Protocol's residence and place of 
employment.
Pages S9162-66
  Lugar (for Coleman) Amendment No. 1152 (to Amendment No. 1136), to 
authorize a comprehensive program of support for victims of torture. 
                                                         Pages S9162-66
  Lugar (for Daschle/McCain) Amendment No. 1153 (to Amendment No. 
1136), to require an annual report on Saudi Arabia's cooperation in the 
war on terrorism.
Pages S9162-66
  Lugar (for Feinstein) Amendment No. 1154 (to Amendment No. 1136), to 
require a report on states that have not cooperated in small arms 
programs.
Pages S9162-66
  Lugar (for Biden) Amendment No. 1155 (to Amendment No. 1136), to 
require the reporting of certain information relating to proposed 
exports and transfers of firearms.
Pages S9162-66
  Lugar (for Leahy) Amendment No. 1156 (to Amendment No. 1136), to 
provide a report on a strategy to deal with the international coffee 
crisis.
Pages S9162-66
  Lugar/Biden Amendment No. 1157 (to Amendment No. 1136), to strike 
section 2512, relating to

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amendments to the Arms Control and Disarmament Act.
Pages S9162-66
  Lugar Amendment No. 1158 (to Amendment No. 1136), to provide an 
exception to requirements with respect to bilateral agreements for 
exemptions from certain licensing requirements.
Pages S9162-66
  Subsequently, the amendment was modified.
Pages S9162-66, S9207
  Lugar Amendment No. 1159 (to Amendment No. 1136), to improve the 
provisions on global pathogen surveillance.
Pages S9162-66
  Lugar/Biden Amendment No. 1160 (to Amendment No. 1136), to strike 
section 205, relating to immediate response facilities. 
                                                         Pages S9162-66
  Lugar/Biden Amendment No. 1161 (to Amendment No. 1136), to clarify 
Foreign Service Grievance Board procedures.
Pages S9162-66
  Lugar/Biden Amendment No. 1162 (to Amendment No. 1136), to modify 
reporting requirements on U.S. personnel involved in the anti-narcotics 
campaign in Colombia.
Pages S9162-66
  Lugar Amendment No. 1163 (to Amendment No. 1136), to strike section 
2239, relating to the sense of Congress relating to exports of defense 
items to the United Kingdom.
Pages S9162-66
  Allen/Harkin Amendment No. 1165 (to Amendment No. 1136), to clarify 
the definition of blocked assets for purposes of the Terrorism Risk 
Insurance Act of 2002.
Pages S9171-72
  Lugar (for Leahy) Amendment No. 1171 (to Amendment No. 1136), to 
ensure that eligibility for assitance under the Millennium Challenge 
Account includes a demonstrated commitment to the sustainable use of 
natural resources.
Pages S9173-74
  Lugar (for Santorum/Biden) Amendment No. 1172 (to Amendment No. 
1136), to make a technical correction to the United States Leadership 
Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003. 
                                                         Pages S9173-74
  By 54 yeas to 43 nays (Vote No. 268), Reid/Daschle Amendment No. 1164 
(to Amendment No. 1136), to provide support regarding the rural 
development crisis in Mexico.
Pages S9180-81
  Lugar (for Kyl) Amendment No. 1173 (to Amendment No. 1136), to 
require a report on the role of North Korea in the trafficking of 
illegal narcotics.
Pages S9181-82
  By 78 yeas to 18 nays (Vote No. 270), Bingaman Amendment No. 1174 (to 
Amendment No. 1136), to express the sense of Congress on funding for 
assistance to combat AIDS globally.
Pages S9182-91
  Lugar Amendment No. 1182 (to Amendment No. 1136), to authorize 
Economic Support Fund assistance for Pakistan.
Pages S9191-93
  Lugar Amendment No. 1183 (to Amendment No. 1136), to grant the 
consent of Congress to the receipt by employees of a designated entity 
or designated country of salary and benefits from such entity or 
country while they serve in offices of profit or trust within the 
Department of State.
Pages S9191-93
  Lugar (for Frist) Amendment No. 1184 (to Amendment No. 1136), to 
authorize a United States-Russia Interparliamentary Group. 
                                                         Pages S9191-93
  Lugar (for Frist/Stevens) Amendment No. 1185 (to Amendment No. 1136), 
to authorize a United States-China Interparliamentary Group. 
                                                         Pages S9191-93
  Lugar (for Voinovich) Amendment No. 1186 (to Amendment No. 1136), to 
require the Annual Report on International Religious Freedom to include 
a section on anti-Semitism.
Pages S99191-93
  Lugar (for Akaka/Inouye) Amendment No. 1187 (to Amendment No. 1136), 
to authorize certain additional appropriations for the Center for 
Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West. 
                                                         Pagse S9191-93
  Clinton/Schumer Amendment No. 1142 (to Amendment No. 1136), to 
increase the authorization of appropriations for protection of foreign 
missions and officials for fiscal year 2004, and to make an 
authorization of appropriations for expenses related to such protection 
that were incurred prior to October 1, 2003.
Page S9194
  Clinton (for Schumer/Clinton) Amendment No. 1188 (to Amendment No. 
1136), to impose an economic sanction on foreign countries that owe 
property taxes to Washington, D.C. or New York City.
Pages S9194-95
  Dodd Amendment No. 1189 (to Amendment No. 1136), to prohibit MCA 
monies from being used to fund projects that could displace U.S. jobs 
or production or pose an environmental hazard.
Pages S9195-96
  Lugar (for Ensign) Amendment No. 1192 (to Amendment No. 1136), to 
fulfill the Administration's request to move towards the goal of 
achieving a 25 percent United Nations peacekeeping assessment rate 
without incurring arrears.
Page S9202
  By a unanimous vote of 97 yeas (Vote No. 271), Biden Modified 
Amendment No. 1190 (to Amendment No. 1136), to express the sense of the 
Congress that the United States remain engaged in Iraq in order to 
ensure a peaceful, stable, unified Iraq with a representative 
government.
Pages S9196-S9203
  Lugar (for Warner/Stevens) Amendment No. 1193 (to Amendment No. 
1136), to strike section 206, relating to security capital cost 
sharing.
Page S9203
  Lugar (for Frist) Amendment No. 1194 (to Amendment No. 1136), to 
commend the leadership

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and people of Colombia on the third anniversary of Plan Colombia. 
                                                         Pages S9203-04
  Lugar (for Schumer) Amendment No. 1195 (to Amendment No. 1136), to 
express the sense of the Senate that President Bush should require all 
executive agencies to provide full and timely cooperation with the 
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States so that 
the Commission can provide the best possible analysis of how the Nation 
can prevent future acts of terrorism.
Page S9204
  Lugar (for Durbin) Amendment No. 1196 (to Amendment No. 1136), to 
ensure that the benefits under the Millennium Challenge Assistance 
program are available for the intended beneficiaries, including women 
and girls.
Page S9204
  Lugar (for Durbin) Amendment No. 1197 (to Amendment No. 1136), to 
express the sense of Congress on an investigation into assertions that 
Iraq attempted to obtain uranium from Africa.
Page S9205
  Lugar (for Dorgan) Amendment No. 1198 (to Amendment No. 1136), to 
provide emergency food aid for HIV/AIDS victims.
Page S9206
  Lautenberg Amendment No. 1135 (to Amendment No. 1136), to provide 
justice for Marine victims of terror.
Page S9206
  Biden Amendment No. 1199 (to Amendment No. 1136), to create the 
Clinton Scholarship Program.
Pages S9206-07
  Lugar Amendment No. 1136, in the nature of a substitute.
Page S9162
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 48 yeas to 48 nays (Vote No. 269), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to waive section 505 of H. Con. Res. 95, 
Congressional Budget Resolution, with respect to Murray Amendment No. 
1170 (to Amendment No. 1136), to provide additional weeks of temporary 
extended unemployment compensation for individuals who have exhausted 
such compensation and to make extended unemployment benefits under the 
Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act temporarily available for employees 
with less than 10 years of service. Subsequently, the point of order, 
that the amendment would cause an increase in the deficit in excess of 
the levels permitted and thus be in violation of section 505 of H. Con. 
Res. 95 of the 108th Congress, was sustained, and the amendment thus 
falls.
Page S9181
Legislative Branch Appropriations: Senate began consideration of H.R. 
2657, making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2004, the text of the bill relating solely to 
the House of Representatives remain, that all other parts of the text 
be stricken, and the text of S. 1383, Senate companion bill, be 
inserted in lieu thereof, and taking action on the following amendments 
proposed thereto:
Adopted:
  Reid (for Feinstein) Amendment No. 1201, to appropriate an additional 
$25,000,000 for emergency actions to reduce the threat to human safety 
arising from the threat of catastrophic fire in dead and dying trees. 
                                                         Pages S9217-18
  Subsequently, the amendment was modified.
Pages S9223-24
  Harkin/Mikulski Modified Amendment No. 1200, to provide that the 
Secretary of Education shall transfer to the Education for the 
Disadvantaged account an amount not to exceed $4,353,368 from amounts 
that would otherwise lapse at the end of fiscal year 2003 and that were 
originally made available under the Department of Education 
Appropriations Act, 2003 or any Department of Education Appropriations 
Act for a previous fiscal year.
Page S9218
  Stevens/Landrieu Amendment No. 1206, making emergency appropriations 
to the Corps of Engineers for emergency assistance.
Pages S9219-20
  Reid Amendment No. 1210, to provide for the use of funds of the 
Commodity Credit Corporation for the suppression and control of the 
Mormon cricket infestation on public and private land in Nevada, Utah, 
and Idaho.
Page S9224
Pending:
  Sessions Amendment No. 1202, to eliminate the additional amount for 
programs under the National and Community Service Act of 1990. 
                                                             Page S9220
  Stevens motion to table Sessions Amendment No. 1202 (listed above). 
                                                             Page S9223
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at 9:15 a.m., on Friday, July 11, 2003, with 
a vote on the pending motion to table (listed above) to occur at 9:30 
a.m., followed by a vote on final passage of the bill; further, Senate 
will insist on its amendment, request a conference with the House 
thereon, and the Chair be authorized to appoint conferees on the part 
of the Senate.
Page S9226
Military Construction Appropriations: Senate began consideration of 
H.R. 2559, making appropriations for military construction, family 
housing, and base realignment and closure for the Department of Defense 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, striking all after the 
enacting clause and inserting in lieu thereof the text of S. 1357, 
Senate companion measure.
  Page S9227
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill on Friday, July 11, 2003, with a vote on 
final passage of the bill to occur following the vote on final passage 
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H.R. 2657, Legislative Branch Appropriations; further, Senate will 
insist on its amendment, request a conference with the House thereon, 
and the Chair be authorized to appoint conferees on the part of the 
Senate.
Page S9234
Appointment:
  Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Advisory Panel: The Chair, on 
behalf of the Majority Leader, after consultation with the Ranking 
Member of the Senate Committee on Finance, pursuant to Public Law 106-
170, announced the appointment of the following individual to serve as 
a member of the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Advisory Panel: 
Thomas P. Golden of Tennessee, vice Vincent Randazzo, resigned. 
                                                             Page S9268
Messages From the House:
  Pages S9241-42
Measures Referred: 
  Page S9242
Measures Placed on Calendar: 
  Page S9242
Executive Communications:
  Pages S9242-44
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S9244
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S9244-46
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S9246-52
Additional Statements:
  Pages S9239-41
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S9252-53
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:
  Page S9267
Authority for Committees to Meet:
  Page S9267
Privilege of the Floor:
  Page S9268
Record Votes: Four record votes were taken today. (Total--271) 
                                              Pages S9181, S9191, S9203
Adjournment: Senate met at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 8:31 p.m., until 
9:15 a.m., on Friday, July 11, 2003. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S9226.)