[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 111 (Thursday, July 24, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D883-D885]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed H.R. 2555, Homeland Security Appropriations.
      House Committee ordered reported the Transportation, Treasury, 
      and Independent Agencies appropriations for fiscal year 2004.
      House passed H.R. 2738, to implement the United States-Chile Free 
      Trade Agreement.
      House passed H.R. 2739, to implement the United States-Singapore 
      Free Trade Agreement.
      House passed H.R. 2210, reauthorizing the Head Start Act to 
      improve the school readiness of disadvantaged children.
      House passed H.R. 2427, authorizing the Secretary of Health and 
      Human Services to promulgate regulations for the reimportation of 
      prescription drugs.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S9827-S9924
Measures Introduced: Five bills and three resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 1450-1454, and S. Con. Res. 58-60.
  Pages S9904-05
Measures Reported:
  S. 1260, to promote the development of the commercial space 
transportation industry, to authorize appropriations for the Office of 
the Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation. (S. 
Rept. No. 108-111)
  S. Res. 124, designating September 28, 2003, as ``National Good 
Neighbor Day''.
  S. Res. 167, recognizing the 100th anniversary of the founding of the 
Harley-Davidson Motor Company, which has been a significant part of the 
social, economic, and cultural heritage of the United States and many 
other nations and a leading force for product and manufacturing 
innovation throughout the 20th century.
  S. 1301, to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit video 
voyeurism in the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the 
United States, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
  S. Con. Res. 40, designating August 7, 2003, as ``National Purple 
Heart Recognition Day''.
Page S9904
Measures Passed:
  Homeland Security Appropriations: By 93 yeas to 1 nay (Vote No. 306), 
Senate passed H.R. 2555, making appropriations for the Department of 
Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, after 
taking action on the following amendments proposed thereto: 
                                                         Pages S9830-87
Adopted:
  Dorgan Amendment No. 1362, to require a report on access by State and 
local law enforcement agencies to the Tipoff database on potential 
terrorists.
Pages S9831-32
  Byrd (for Durbin) Amendment No. 1374, to provide for a report to 
Congress on information systems interoperability.
Page S9866
  Byrd (for Feingold) Amendment No. 1375, to require a report on the 
activities of the Department of Homeland Security with respect to the 
development of best practices for emergency responders.
Page S9866
  Levin Amendment No. 1376, to clarify the prohibition on contracting 
with corporate expatriates.
Pages S9868-69
  Hutchison Amendment No. 1364, to provide for advanced funding to 
authorized entities performing duties under the Robert T. Stafford 
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act who respond to disasters 
declared by the President.
Page S9870

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  Cochran (for Landrieu) Amendment No. 1378, to express the sense of 
the Senate that the Department of Homeland Security's Under Secretary 
for Science and Technology should take all appropriate steps to ensure 
the active participation of historically black colleges and 
universities, tribal colleges, Hispanic-serving institutions, and 
Alaskan Native serving institutions in Department sponsored university 
research.
Page S9870
  Cochran (for Bayh) Amendment No. 1379, to require a plan for the 
enhancement of the operations of the Information Analysis and 
Infrastructure Protection Directorate.
Pages S9870-71
  Byrd (for Feingold) Amendment No. 1380, to require the Comptroller 
General to conduct a review and to report to Congress on all of the 
data-mining programs relating to law enforcement and terrorism 
currently under development and in use in the Department of Homeland 
Security.
Page S9871
  Byrd (for Akaka) Amendment No. 1381, to allow the Secretary of 
Homeland Security flexibility in determining priorities for 
firefighting vehicles in the Firefighter Assistance Grants program. 
                                                         Pages S9871-72
  Byrd (for Landrieu) Amendment No. 1382, to require the Secretary of 
Homeland Security to submit a report on the air traffic control 
communications void over the Gulf of Mexico.
Page S9872
Rejected:
  Byrd Amendment No. 1367, to fulfill homeland security promises. (By 
51 yeas to 45 nays (Vote No. 300), Senate tabled the amendment.) 
                                                         Pages S9848-51
  By 48 yeas to 48 nays (Vote No. 302), Specter (for Schumer/Specter) 
Amendment No. 1370, to increase the funding for discretionary grants 
for use in high-threat urban areas and decrease funding for information 
analysis and infrastructure protection, science and technology, and 
research and development.
Pages S9856-61
  By 46 yeas to 50 nays (Vote No. 303), Byrd Amendment No. 1373, to 
prohibit funds appropriated under this Act from being used by any 
advisory committee that has been exempted from the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act.
Pages S9864-66, S9866-67
  By 46 yeas to 46 nays (Vote No. 305), Byrd Amendment No. 1383, to 
provide post-employment lobbying restrictions on employees of the 
Department of Homeland Security and the Office of Homeland Security 
within the Executive Office of the President.
Pages S9872-74
Withdrawn:
  Reid Amendment No. 1318, to appropriate $20,000,000 to the Office for 
Domestic Preparedness to be used for grants to urban areas with large 
tourist populations.
Pages S9830-31, S9850
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following actions:
  By 41 yeas to 54 nays (Vote No. 299), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to waive the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, with 
respect to Dodd Amendment No. 1363, to fund urgent priorities for our 
Nation's firefighters, law enforcement personnel, and emergency medical 
personnel, and all Americans by reducing the 2003 tax breaks for 
individuals with annual income in excess of $1,000,000. Subsequently, 
the point of order that the amendment was in violation of section 
302(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, since the amendment 
would provide spending in excess of the 302(b) allocation, was 
sustained, and the amendment thus falls.
Pages S9832-47
  The Chair sustained a point of order against Feinstein/Kyl Amendment 
No. 1365, to prevent and respond to terrorism and crime at or through 
ports, as being in violation of Rule XVI of the Standing Rules of the 
Senate which prohibits general legislation on appropriations matters, 
and the amendment was ruled out of order.
Pages S9847-48
  By 50 yeas to 46 nays (Vote No. 301), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to waive the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, with 
respect to Specter Amendment No. 1368, to increase the funding for 
discretionary grants for use in high-threat urban areas. Subsequently, 
the point of order that the amendment was in violation of section 
302(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, since the amendment 
would provide spending in excess of the 302(b) allocation, was 
sustained, and the amendment thus falls.
Pages S9851-56
  By 44 yeas to 50 nays (Vote No. 304), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to waive the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, with 
respect to Reed/Sarbanes Amendment No. 1372, to appropriate 
$100,000,000 for grants to public transit agencies to enhance public 
transportation security against terrorist threats. Subsequently, the 
point of order that the amendment was in violation of section 302(f) of 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, since the amendment would provide 
spending in excess of the 302(b) allocation, was sustained, and the 
amendment thus falls.
Pages S9861-64, S9867
  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 Cochran, Stevens, 
Specter, Domenici, McConnell, Shelby, Gregg,

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Campbell, Craig, Byrd, Inouye, Hollings, Leahy, Harkin, Mikulski, Kohl, 
and Murray.
Pages S9886-87
Energy Policy Act: Senate resumed consideration of S. 14, to enhance 
the energy security of the United States, taking action on the 
following amendments proposed thereto:
  Pages S9888-95
Pending:
  Campbell Amendment No. 886, to replace ``tribal consortia'' with 
``tribal energy resource development organizations''.
Page S9888
  Durbin Amendment No. 1384, to amend title 49, United States Code, to 
improve the system for enhancing automobile fuel efficiency. 
                                                             Page S9889
  Durbin Modified Amendment No. 1385, to amend the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 to provide additional tax incentives for enhancing motor 
vehicle fuel efficiency.
Pages S9889, S9893-95
  Bond Amendment No. 1386, to impose additional requirements for 
improving automobile fuel economy and reducing vehicle emissions. 
                                                         Pages S8990-95
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at 9:30 a.m., on Friday, July 25, 2003. 
                                                             Page S9924
Nomination--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached 
providing that at 4:50 p.m., on Monday, July 28, 2003, Senate proceed 
to the nomination of Earl Leroy Yeakel III, to be United States 
District Judge for the Western District of Texas; that there be 5 
minutes of debate equally divided between Senators Hutchison and 
Cornyn; that there be 5 minutes under the control of Senator Leahy; and 
that the Senate vote on the confirmation of the nomination at 5 p.m. 
                                                             Page S9888
Appointments:
  United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: The 
Chair, on behalf of the Majority Leader, pursuant to the provisions of 
Public Law 99-93, as amended by Public Law 99-151, appointed Senator 
Coleman of Minnesota as a member of the United States Senate Caucus on 
International Narcotics Control.
  Page S9924
Messages From the President: Senate received the following message from 
the President of the United States:
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to the national 
emergency with respect to terrorists who threaten to disrupt the Middle 
East Peace process; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban 
Affairs. (PM-47)
Pages S9901-02
Messages From the House:
  Page S9902
Measures Placed on Calendar:
  Page S9902
Executive Communications:
  Page S9902
Petitions and Memorials:
  Pages S9902-04
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S9904
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S9905-06
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S9906-12
Additional Statements:
  Page S9901
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S9912-23
Authority for Committees to Meet:
  Pages S9923-24
Record Votes: Eight record votes were taken today. (Total--306) 
     Pages S9846-47, S9851, S9856, S9861, S9866-67, S9867, S9874, S9886
Recess: Senate met at 9:30 a.m., and recessed at 9:52 p.m., until 9:30 
a.m., on Friday, July 25, 2003. (For Senate's program, see the remarks 
of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S9924.)