[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 145 (Thursday, October 16, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1125-D1127]
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                                         Thursday, October 16, 2003

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S12671-S12767
Measures Introduced: Thirteen bills and three resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 1739-1751, S.J. Res. 19, and S. Res. 244-
245.                                                        
  Page S12737
Measures Reported:
  S. 300, to award a congressional gold medal to Jackie Robinson 
(posthumously), in recognition of his many contributions to the Nation, 
and to express the sense of Congress that there should be a national 
day in recognition of Jackie Robinson.
  S. 1691, to establish commissions to review the facts and 
circumstances surrounding injustices suffered by European Americans, 
European Latin Americans, and Jewish refugees during World War II. 
                                                            Page S12737
Measures Passed:
  National Character Counts Week: Senate agreed to S. Res. 245, 
designating the week beginning October 19, 2003, as ``National 
Character Counts Week''.                                
  Pages S12755-56
  Western Shoshone Claims Distribution Act: Senate passed S. 618, to 
provide for the use and distribution of the funds awarded to the 
Western Shoshone identifiable group under Indian Claims Commission 
Docket Numbers 326-A-1, 326-A-3, 326-K, after agreeing to the committee 
amendment in the nature of a substitute.                
  Pages S12756-59
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations, Iraq and Afghanistan: Senate 
continued consideration of S. 1689, making emergency supplemental 
appropriations for Iraq and Afghanistan security and reconstruction for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, taking action on the 
following amendments proposed thereto:   
  Pages S12643-69, S12671-S12725
Adopted:
  Stevens (for Feingold) Amendment No. 1832, to require reports on 
Iraqi oil production and revenues to be made available to the public in 
English and in Arabic.                                      
Page S12655
  Stevens (for McCain) Amendment No. 1853, to provide for financial and 
performance audits of the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund and other 
assistance to Iraq.                                         
Page S12655
  Stevens (for Hollings) Amendment No. 1865, to clarify the fiscal year 
limitation in a provision of the Public Law 108-11, Emergency Wartime 
Supplemental Appropriations Act.                            
Page S12655
  Stevens (for Durbin) Amendment No. 1866, to require quarterly reports 
on the status of the efforts of the Iraq Survey Group to account for 
the Iraq weapons of mass destruction programs.          
Pages S12655-56
  Stevens (for McConnell) Amendment No. 1863, to authorize the export 
of lethal military equipment to Iraq for use by a reconstituted (or 
interim) Iraqi military or other security forces, that support U.S. 
efforts in Iraq.                                            
Page S12660
  Stevens (for Leahy) Modified Amendment No. 1814, to require the 
Coalition Provisional Authority to provide additional information 
justifying allocations for capital projects in Iraq.        
Page S12660
  Stevens (for Harkin/Clinton) Amendment No. 1855, to provide for a 
report by the Comptroller General on certain contracts performed in, or 
relating to, Iraq.                                      
Pages S12660-61
  By 97 yeas to 1 nay (Vote No. 387), McConnell Amendment No. 1874, to 
express the Sense of the Senate that the Global War on Terrorism medal 
should be awarded expeditiously to members of the Armed Forces serving 
in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation 
Noble Eagle.                                    
Pages S12673, S12677-82
  Stevens (for Reid/Daschle) Modified Amendment No. 1869, to prohibit 
the use of funds to arm, train, or employ individuals under the age of 
18 years for the Facilities Protection Service.             
Page S12682
  Stevens (for Hollings) Amendment No. 1870, to provide that, 
notwithstanding the Algiers Accords, any United States citizen held 
hostage between 1979 and 1981, and their spouses and children at the 
time, shall have a claim for money damages against a foreign state for 
personal injury that was caused by the Foreign State's act of torture 
or hostage-taking.                                          
Page S12682
  Stevens (for Cantwell) Modified Amendment No. 1857, to improve the 
process for timely informing members of the reserve components of the 
Armed Forces, their families, their employers, and Congress

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of changes in deployment policies and schedules applicable to mobilize 
members of the reserve components.                      
Pages S12682-83
  By a unanimous vote of 98 yeas (Vote No. 388), Nickles Amendment No. 
1876, to express the sense of the Senate that all countries that hold 
debt from the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein should be urged to 
forgive their debt.                          
Pages S12683-88, S12708-09
  By 51 yeas to 47 nays (Vote No. 389), Bayh Amendment No. 1871, to 
require that funds for reconstruction in Iraq be used for certain 
purposes.                                
Pages S12688-S12708, S12709-10
  Hutchison Modified Amendment No. 1877, to express the sense of 
Congress on reconstruction efforts in Iraq.             
Pages S12710-11
  Nelson (FL) Modified Amendment No. 1858, to set aside certain amounts 
available national security, $10,000,000 for the Family Readiness 
Program of the National Guard.                          
Pages S12711-12
  Stevens (for Warner) Amendment No. 1880 (to Amendment No. 1867), to 
designate the amount designated for disaster relief provided in 
connection with Department of Defense infrastructure damaged or 
destroyed by Hurricane Isabel as an emergency requirement. 
                                                            Page S12712
  Warner Amendment No. 1867, to increase the Federal share of the cost 
of disaster relief provided in connection with Hurricane Isabel; and to 
provide for repair or replacement of Department of Defense 
infrastructure damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Isabel.    
Page S12656
  Reid (for Nelson (FL)) Amendment No. 1881, to require a report on the 
plans of the Navy for basing aircraft carriers through 2020. 
                                                            Page S12716
  Reed/Hagel Amendment No. 1834, to increase the end strength of the 
Army and to structure the additional forces for constabulary duty. 
                                                            Page S12721
  Feingold Amendment No. 1852, to enable military family members to 
take leave to attend to deployment-related business and tasks. 
                                                        Pages S12721-22
Rejected:
  Byrd Amendment No. 1818, to impose a limitation on the use of sums 
appropriated for the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund. (By 57 yeas 
to 42 nays (Vote No. 385), Senate tabled the amendment.) 
                                                        Pages S12668-69
  Lautenberg Amendment No. 1868, to prohibit the use of funds for any 
contract or other financial agreement or arrangement with any entity 
that pays compensation in the form of deferred salary to certain United 
States Government officials. (By 65 yeas to 34 nays (Vote No. 386), 
Senate tabled the amendment.)                
Pages S12657-60, S12671-72
Withdrawn:
  Feinstein Amendment No. 1848, to require reports on the United States 
strategy for relief and reconstruction efforts in Iraq, and to limit 
the availability of certain funds for those efforts pending 
determinations by the President that the objectives and deadlines for 
those efforts will be substantially achieved.               
Page S12721
Pending:
  Byrd/Durbin Amendment No. 1819, to prohibit the use of Iraq Relief 
and Reconstruction Funds for low priority activities that should not be 
the responsibility of U.S. taxpayers, and shift $600 million from the 
Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund to Defense Operations and 
Maintenance, Army, for significantly improving efforts to secure and 
destroy conventional weapons, such as bombs, bomb materials, small 
arms, rocket propelled grenades, and shoulder-launched missiles, in 
Iraq.                                                       
Page S12643
  Bond/Mikulski Amendment No. 1825, to provide additional VA Medical 
Care Funds for the Department of Veterans Affairs.          
Page S12643
  Durbin Amendment No. 1837, to ensure that a Federal employee who 
takes leave without pay in order to perform certain service as a member 
of the uniformed services or member of the National Guard shall 
continue to receive pay in an amount which, when taken together with 
the pay and allowances such individual is receiving for such service, 
will be no less than the basic pay such individual would then be 
receiving if no interruption in employment had occurred.    
Page S12715
  Daschle Amendment No. 1854, to achieve the most effective means of 
reconstructing Iraq and to reduce the future costs to the American 
taxpayer of such reconstruction by ensuring broad-based international 
cooperation for this effort.                                
Page S12643
  Reid (for Landrieu) Amendment No. 1859, to promote the establishment 
of an Iraq Reconstruction Finance Authority and the use of Iraqi oil 
revenues to pay for reconstruction in Iraq.             
Pages S12716-18
  Boxer Modified Amendment No. 1843, to make retroactive the relief of 
hospitalized members of the uniformed services from the obligation to 
pay for food and subsistence while hospitalized.        
Pages S12712-13
  Reid (for Chafee/Leahy) Modified Amendment No. 1807, to provide for 
humanitarian assistance and reconstruction in Liberia. 
                                                        Pages S12713-15
  Durbin Amendment No. 1879, to provide funds for the prevention, 
treatment, and control of, and research on HIV/AIDS.    
Pages S12715-16
  Corzine Amendment No. 1882, to establish a National Commission on the 
Development and Use of Intelligence Related to Iraq.    
Pages S12718-21

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  During consideration of this measure today, the Senate also took the 
following action:
  Chair sustained a point of order against Schumer Amendment No. 1872, 
to express the sense of Congress concerning the appointment of a 
special counsel to conduct a fair, thorough, and independent 
investigation into a national security breach, as being in violation of 
Rule XVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate which prohibits 
legislating on an appropriations bill, and the amendment thus fell. 
                                                        Pages S12661-69
  Chair sustained a point of order against Durbin Amendment No. 1873, 
to provide funds for the prevention, treatment, and control of, and 
research on HIV/AIDS, as being in violation of Rule XVI of the Standing 
Rules of the Senate which prohibits legislating on an appropriations 
bill, and the amendment thus fell.                      
Pages S12667-68
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that at 9 a.m., 
on Friday, October 17, 2003, Senate will begin a series of votes on 
certain pending amendments.                                 
Page S12759
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at 9 a.m., on Friday, October 17, 2003. 
                                                            Page S12759
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Timothy John Dunn, of Illinois, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign 
Service, Class of Counselor, for the rank of Ambassador during his 
tenure of service as Deputy Permanent Representative to the 
Organization of American States.
  Stuart W. Holliday, of Texas, to be Alternate Representative of the 
United States of America for Special Political Affairs in the United 
Nations, with the rank of Ambassador.
  Zalmay Khalilzad, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Transitional 
Islamic State of Afghanistan.
  Adam Marc Lindemann, of New York, to be Member of the Advisory Board 
for Cuba Broadcasting for a term expiring October 27, 2005.
  James Curtis Struble, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic 
of Peru.
  The following named officer for appointment to the grade indicated in 
the United States Air Force under title 10, U.S.C., section 624:
  1 Army nomination in the rank of general.
  18 Navy nominations in the rank of admiral.
  Routine lists in the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Navy. 
                                                        Pages S12759-67
Nominations Withdrawn: Senate received notification of withdrawal of 
the following nomination:
  Thomas Thomas Riley, of California, to be a Member of the Board of 
Directors of the African Development Foundation for the remainder of 
the term expiring September 22, 2005, which was sent to the Senate on 
February 27, 2003.                                          
Page S12767
Messages From the House:                                    
  Page S12735
Measures Referred:                                          
  Page S12735
Measures Placed on Calendar:                                
  Page S12735
Measures Read First Time:                                   
  Page S12735
Executive Communications:                               
  Pages S12735-37
Executive Reports of Committees:                            
  Page S12737
Additional Cosponsors:                                  
  Pages S12737-39
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:             
  Pages S12739-48
Additional Statements:                                      
  Page S12734
Amendments Submitted:                                   
  Pages S12749-54
Authority for Committees to Meet:                       
  Pages S12754-55
Privilege of the Floor:                                     
  Page S12755
Record Votes: Five record votes were taken today. (Total--389) 
                               Pages S12669 S12672 S12682 S12709 S12710
Adjournment: Senate met at 9:31 a.m., and adjourned at 1:05 a.m., on 
Friday, October, 17, 2003 and will reconvene at 9 a.m. on the same day. 
(For Senate's program, see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in 
today's Record on page S12759.)