[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 106 (Thursday, July 17, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D836-D839]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                            Thursday, July 17, 2003

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed H.R. 2658, Defense Appropriations.
      House and Senate met in a Joint Meeting to Receive the Right 
      Honorable Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and 
      Northern Ireland.
      House passed H.R. 2691, Interior and Related Agencies 
      Appropriations.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S9515-S9619
Measures Introduced: Ten bills were introduced, as follows: S. 1422-
1431.
  Page S9592
Measures Reported:
  S. 1424, making appropriations for energy and water development for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004. (S. Rept. No. 108-105)
  S. 1426, making appropriations for foreign operations, export 
financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 2004. (S. Rept. No. 108-106)
  S. 1427, making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, 
Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2004. (S. Rept. No. 108-107)
  S. Con. Res. 53, honoring and congratulating chambers of commerce for 
their efforts that contribute to the improvement of communities and the 
strengthening of local and regional economies.
Page S9591
Measures Passed
  Defense Appropriations: By a unanimous vote of 95 yeas (Vote No. 
290), Senate passed H.R. 2658, making appropriations for the Department 
of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, after taking 
action on the following amendments proposed thereto: 
                                     Pages S9516-45, S9547-58, S9560-75
Adopted:
  Dodd Amendment No. 1276, to require a review and report regarding the 
effects of use of contractual offset arrangements and memoranda of 
understanding and related agreements on the effectiveness of buy-
American requirements.
Pages S9519-20
  By 81 yeas to 15 nays (Vote No. 286), Byrd Amendment No. 1281, to 
state the sense of Congress on funding of ongoing overseas military 
operations, including overseas contingency operations.
Pages S9536-45
  Stevens (for Santorum) Amendment No. 1285, to make available from 
amounts available for Operation and Maintenance, Army Reserve, 
$2,000,000 for a Software Engineering Institute Information Assurance 
Initiative.
Pages S9562-63
  Stevens Amendment No. 1286, to provide up to $10,000,000 of Operation 
and Maintenance, Defense-Wide funds for civil-military programs and the 
Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) program.
Pages S9562-63
  Stevens (for Allard) Amendment No. 1287, to increase by $10,000,000 
the amount of Missile Procurement, Air Force funds set aside for 
assured access to space.
Pages S9562-63
  Stevens Amendment No. 1288, to provide for a study of mail delivery 
to troops in the Middle East.
Pages S9562-63
  Stevens Amendment No. 1289, to conform the appropriation provision 
relating to use of RDT&E, Defense-Wide funds for an initial set of 
missile defense capabilities to the corresponding authorization 
provision.
Pages S9562-63
  Stevens (for Kyl) Amendment No. 1290, to make available from amounts 
available for Research, Development, Test and Evaluation for the Air 
Force, $4,000,000 for adaptive optics research.
Pages S9562-63
  Stevens (for Chafee) Amendment No. 1291, to make available from 
amounts available for Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy, 
$1,000,000 for the completion of the Rhode Island Disaster Initiative. 
                                                         Pages S9562-63

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  Stevens (for Warner) Amendment No. 1292, to make available from 
amounts available for military personnel, $8,000,000 for the costs 
during fiscal year 2004 of an increase in the amount of the death 
gratuity payable with respect to members of the Armed Forces from 
$6,000 to $12,000.
                                                         Pages S9562-63
  Stevens (for Collins/Snowe) Amendment No. 1293, to make available 
from amounts available for Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy, 
$20,000,000 for DDG-51 modernization planning.
                                                         Pages S9562-63
  Stevens (for Nickles) Amendment No. 1294, to make available from 
amounts available for Operation and Maintenance, Army, $4,000,000 for 
the Army Museum of the Southwest at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. 
                                                         Pages S9562-63
  Stevens (for Roberts) Amendment No. 1295, to limit the use of funds 
for the privatization or transfer to another Federal agency of the 
prison guard functions at the United States Disciplinary Barracks at 
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
                                                         Pages S9562-63
  Stevens (for Voinovich) Amendment No. 1296, to make available from 
amounts available for Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps, 
$6,000,000 for the purchase of HMMWV tires.
                                                         Pages S9562-63
  Stevens (for Burns) Amendment No. 1297, to make available from 
amounts available for National Guard Personnel, Army, $2,500,000 for 
Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemoration Activities, and to make 
available from amounts available for Operation and Maintenance, Army 
National Guard, $1,500,000 for such activities.
                                                         Pages S9562-63
  Stevens (for Chambliss) Amendment No. 1298, to prohibit the use of 
funds to decommission a Naval or Marine Corps Reserve aviation squadron 
pending a Comptroller General report on the requirements of the Navy 
and Marine Corps for tactical aviation.
                                                         Pages S9562-63
  Stevens (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 1299, to limit the use of funds 
for converting to contractor performance of Department of Defense 
activities and functions.
                                                         Pages S9563-64
  Stevens (for Hatch) Amendment No. 1300, to appropriate funds to 
settle certain claims of United States prisoners of war who performed 
forced or slave labor for Japanese companies during World War II. 
                                                         Pages S9564-66
  Inouye (for Feinstein) Amendment No. 1301, to make available from 
amounts available for Procurement, Defense-Wide, $20,000,000 for 
procurement of secure cellular telephones for the Department of Defense 
and the elements of the intelligence community.
                                                          Page S9566-69
  Inouye (for Boxer) Amendment No. 1302, to make available from amounts 
available for Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Army, 
$5,000,000 to support Shortstop Electronic Protection Systems research 
and development efforts.
                                                          Page S9566-69
  Inouye (for Durbin) Amendment No. 1303, to require a study of the 
mission of the 932nd Airlift Wing, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. 
                                                          Page S9566-69
  Inouye (for Mikulski) Amendment No. 1304, to make available from 
amounts available for Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, 
Defense-Wide, $3,000,000 for Project Ancile.
                                                          Page S9566-69
  Inouye (for Mikulski) Amendment No. 1305, to make available from 
amounts available for Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, 
Army, $2,000,000 for Knowledge Management Fusion.
                                                          Page S9566-69
  Inouye (for Schumer/Clinton) Amendment No. 1306, to make available 
from amounts available for Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, 
Army, $3,000,000 for the Large Energy National Shock Tunnel (LENS). 
                                                          Page S9566-69
  Inouye (for Dorgan) Amendment No. 1307, to make available from 
amounts available for Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, 
Defense-Wide, $7,000,000 for the Ultra-low Power Battlefield Sensor 
System.
                                                          Page S9566-69
  Inouye (for Biden) Amendment No. 1308, to require a report on the 
feasibility of developing and deploying a nuclear debris collection and 
analysis capability to permit the characterization of detonated nuclear 
devices.
                                                          Page S9566-69
  Inouye (for Bayh/Lugar) Amendment No. 1309, to make available amounts 
available for Operation and Maintenance, Army, $15,000,000 for upgrades 
for M1A1 Abrams tank transmissions.
                                                          Page S9566-69
  Inouye Amendment No. 1310, to make available amounts available for 
Operation and Maintenance, Army, $2,000,000 to promote civil rights 
education and history in the Army.
                                                          Page S9566-69
  Inouye (for Harkin) Amendment No. 1311, to require reports on safety 
issues due to defective parts.
                                                          Page S9566-69
  Inouye (for Wyden/Byrd) Amendment No. 1312, to require a report on 
the reconstruction of Iraq.
                                                          Page S9566-69
  Inouye (for Boxer) Amendment No. 1313, to provide travel 
reimbursement to the spouses and dependents of deployed military 
personnel when they visit family members.
                                                          Page S9566-69
  Inouye (for Biden) Amendment No. 1314, to make available amounts 
available for Aircraft Procurement, Air Force, $19,700,000 for C-5 
aircraft in-service modifications for the procurement of additional C-5 
aircraft Avionics Modernization Program kits.
                                                          Page S9566-69

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  Inouye (for Schumer/Bingaman) Amendment No. 1315, to require a report 
on the establishment of police and military forces in Iraq. 
                                                         Pages S9560-62
  Inouye (for Byrd/Grassley) Amendment No. 1316, to continue in effect 
a provision of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2003, 
relating to evaluations of creditworthiness for issuance of Government 
charge cards.
                                                         Pages S9566-69
                                                              Rejected:
  Durbin Amendment No. 1277, to limit the availability of funds for the 
Intelligence Community Management Account pending a report on the 
development and use of intelligence relating to Iraq and Operation 
Iraqi Freedom. (By 62 yeas to 34 nays (Vote No. 287), Senate tabled the 
amendment.)
                                                  Pages S9520-29, S9545
  Byrd Amendment No. 1283, to rescind $1,100,000,000 of the amounts 
appropriated for procurement and research, development, test and 
evaluation, and to appropriate $1,100,000,000 for fighting AIDS/HIV, 
tuberculosis, and malaria. (By 71 yeas to 24 nays (Vote No. 288), 
Senate tabled the amendment.)
                                                         Pages S9547-57
                                                             Withdrawn:
  Feingold Amendment No. 1279, to state the sense of the Senate on a 
report on the detention and April 11, 2003, escape in Yemen of the 
suspects in the attack on the USS Cole.
                                                         Pages S9531-32
  Kennedy Amendment No. 1280, to limit the use of funds of converting 
to contractor performance of Department of Defense activities and 
functions.
                                                  Pages S9529-31, S9563
  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 Stevens, Cochran, 
Specter, Domenici, Bond, McConnell, Shelby, Gregg, Hutchison, Burns, 
Inouye, Hollings, Byrd, Leahy, Harkin, Dorgan, Durbin, Reid, and 
Feinstein.
                                                             Page S9572
  Memorial Construction Authority Extension: Senate passed S. 470, to 
extend the authority for the construction of a memorial to Martin 
Luther King, Jr., after agreeing to the committee amendment in the 
nature of a substitute.
  Pages S9605-18
  Land Conveyance Act: Senate passed S. 490, to direct the Secretary of 
Agriculture to convey certain land in the Lake Tahoe Basin Management 
Unit, Nevada, to the Secretary of the Interior, in trust for the Washoe 
Indian Tribe of Nevada and California, after agreeing to the committee 
amendments.
  Pages S9605-18
  Buffalo Soldier Commemoration Act: Senate passed S. 499, to authorize 
the American Battle Monuments Commission to establish in the State of 
Louisiana a memorial to honor the Buffalo Soldiers, after agreeing to 
the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute.
  Pages S9605-18
  Paleontological Resources Preservation Act: Senate passed S. 546, to 
provide for the protection of paleontological resources on Federal 
lands, after agreeing to the committee amendment in the nature of a 
substitute.
  Pages S9605-18
  Hibben Center for Archaeological Research Act: Senate passed S. 643, 
to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the 
University of New Mexico, to construct and occupy a portion of the 
Hibben Center for Archaeological Research at the University of New 
Mexico, after agreeing to the committee amendment in the nature of a 
substitute.
  Pages S9605-18
  National Trails System Willing Seller Act: Senate passed S. 651, to 
amend the National Trails System Act to clarify Federal authority 
relating to land acquisition from willing sellers for the majority of 
the trails in the System, after agreeing to the committee amendment in 
the nature of a substitute.
  Pages S9605-18
  Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and Gunnison Gorge 
National Conservation Area Boundary Revision Act: Senate passed S. 677, 
to revise the boundary of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National 
Park and Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area in the State of 
Colorado, after agreeing to the committee amendment in the nature of a 
substitute.
  Pages S9605-18
  Lands Exchange: Senate passed S. 924, to authorize the exchange of 
lands between an Alaska Native Village Corporation and the Department 
of the Interior, after agreeing to the committee amendment in the 
nature of a substitute.
  Pages S9605-18
  Vietnam Veterans Memorial Education Center Act: Senate passed S. 
1076, to authorize construction of an education center at or near the 
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, after agreeing to the committee amendment in 
the nature of a substitute.
  Pages S9605-18
  Easement Grant: Senate passed H.R. 255, to authorize the Secretary of 
the Interior to grant an easement to facilitate access to the Lewis and 
Clark Interpretative Center in Nebraska City, Nebraska, clearing the 
measure for the President.
  Pages S9605-18
  Kris Eggle Visitor Center Designation Act: Senate passed H.R. 1577, 
to designate the visitor center in Organ Pipe National Monument in 
Arizona as the ``Kris Eggle Visitor Center'', clearing the measure for 
the President.
  Pages S9605-18

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  Land Conveyance Act: Senate passed H.R. 74, to direct the Secretary 
of Agriculture to convey certain land in the Lake Tahoe Basin 
Management Unit, Nevada, to the Secretary of the Interior, in trust for 
the Washoe Indian Tribe of Nevada and California, clearing the measure 
for the President.
  Pages S9605-18
  Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Improvement Act: 
Senate passed S. 314, to make improvements in the Foundation for the 
National Institutes of Health.
  Page S9618
  William J. Scherle Post Office Building: Committee on Governmental 
Affairs was discharged from further consideration of S. 1399, to 
redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 
101 South Vine Street in Glenwood, Iowa, as the ``William J. Scherle 
Post Office Building'', and the bill was then passed.
  Pages S9618-19
  Honoring Chambers of Commerce: Senate agreed to S. Con. Res. 53, 
honoring and congratulating chambers of commerce for their efforts that 
contribute to the improvement of communities and the strengthening of 
local and regional economies.
  Page S9619
Homeland Security Appropriations--Agreement: A unanimous-consent 
agreement was reached providing for consideration of H.R. 2555, making 
appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2004, at 1:30 p.m., on Monday, July 21, 2003.
                                                             Page S9575
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  By unanimous vote of 93 yeas (Vote No. EX. 289), Allyson K. Duncan, 
of North Carolina, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth 
Circuit.
                                                  Pages S9558-59, S9585
  Louise W. Flanagan, of North Carolina, to be United States District 
Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina. 
                                                  Pages S9559-60, S9585
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Gwendolyn Brown, of Virginia, to be Chief Financial Officer, National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration.
  Susan C. Schwab, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.
  George H. Walker, of Missouri, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Hungary.
                                                             Page S9585
Messages From the House:
  Page S9587
Measures Referred:
  Page S9587
Measures Placed on Calendar:
  Page S9587
Executive Communications:
  Pages S9588-89
Petitions and Memorials:
  Pages S9589-91
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S9591
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S9592-93
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S9593-98
Additional Statements:
  Pages S9582-84
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S9598-S9605
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:
  Page S9605
Authority for Committees to Meet:
  Page S9605
Privilege of the Floor:
  Page S9605
Record Votes: Five record votes were taken today. (Total--290) 
                                    Pages S9544-45, S9557, S9559, S9572
Adjournment: Senate met at 9 a.m., and adjourned at 9:30 p.m., until 1 
p.m., on Monday, July 21, 2003. (For Senate's program, see the remarks 
of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S9584.)