[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 153 (Tuesday, October 28, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1179-D1182]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                          Tuesday, October 28, 2003

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S13325-S13422
Measures Introduced: Eight bills and two resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 1786-1793, S. Con. Res. 76-77.
  Page S13377
Measures Reported:
  S. 1757, to amend the John F. Kennedy Center Act to authorize 
appropriations for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 
with an amendment. (S. Rept. No. 108-174)
Page S13377
Measures Passed:
  Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Amendments Act: 
Senate passed S. 247, to reauthorize the Harmful Algal Bloom and 
Hypoxia Research and Control Act of 1998, after agreeing to the 
committee amendment in the nature of a substitute.
  Pages S13420-22
Foreign Operations Appropriations Act: Senate continued consideration 
of H.R. 2800, making appropriations for foreign operations, export 
financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 2004, taking action on the following amendments proposed thereto: 
                                                        Pages S13340-72
Adopted:
  McConnell Amendment No. 1978, to provide funding to protect and 
promote media freedoms in Russia.
Page S13344
  McConnell Amendment No. 1979, to provide authority to use economic 
assistance appropriations for ``Transition Initiatives''.
Page S13344
  McConnell Amendment No. 1980, to permit USAID to modify the terms of 
guaranteed loans.
Page S13344
  McConnell (for Brownback) Amendment No. 1981, to require a report on 
the admission of refugees.
Page S13344
  Leahy Amendment No. 1982, of a technical nature.
Page S13344
  Leahy Amendment No. 1983, of a technical nature.
Page S13344
  Leahy Amendment No. 1984, of a technical nature.
Page S13344
  Leahy Amendment No. 1985, of a technical nature.
Page S13344
  Leahy Amendment No. 1986, to make available funds for administrative 
expenses of the United States Agency for International Development. 
                                                            Page S13344
  Leahy Amendment No. 1987, to make funds available for the United 
Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombia. 
                                                            Page S13344
  Leahy (for Schumer/Clinton) Amendment No. 1988, to withhold funds for 
foreign assistance for nations that refuse to pay diplomatic parking 
tickets.
Page S13344
  McConnell (for Craig/Leahy) Amendment No. 1989, to facilitate a 
reforestation program in Afghanistan.
Pages S13345-46
  McConnell (for Domenici) Amendment No. 1990, to make available funds 
for construction and completion of a new facility.
Page S13346
  McConnell/Leahy Amendment No. 1991, to provide assistance for the Ibn 
Khaldun Center for Development in Egypt.
Page S13346
  Sessions/Leahy Amendment No. 1993, to require that a portion of the 
funds appropriated for the Global AIDS Initiative shall be made 
available for injection safety and blood safety programs. 
                                                        Pages S13346-47
  Reid (for Leahy) Amendment No. 2001, to make funds available for a 
United States contribution to UNAIDS.
Page S13365
  McConnell (for Voinovich) Amendment No. 2002, to require the Annual 
Report on International Religious Freedom to include a section on anti-
Semitism and other religious intolerance.
Page S13365
  Reid (for Dodd) Amendment No. 2003, to provide assistance for the OAS 
Special Mission in Haiti to implement OAS Resolution 822 to restore 
security and hold elections.
Pages S13365-66
  Allard Further Modified Amendment No. 1995, to limit international 
military education and training funds from being made available for 
Indonesia.
Pages S13357-58, S13366
  Reid (for Feingold) Amendment No. 2004, to encourage the Government 
of Indonesia to meet the

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conditions necessary for the normalization of military relations with 
the United States.
Pages S13366, S13368
  McConnell (for Lugar) Amendment No. 2005, to increase the maximum 
rate of post differentials and danger pay allowances for civilian 
employees of the United States Agency for International Development. 
                                                            Page S13366
  Reid (for Daschle) Amendment No. 2006, to state the sense of Congress 
on the use of small, locally-owned air transport providers to provide 
for the delivery by air of assistance under the bill.
Page S13366
  McConnell (for McCain) Amendment No. 1973, to express the sense of 
Congress on the October 15, 2003 election in Azerbaijan and require a 
report on an investigation in Azerbaijan.
Page S13366
  Reid (for Feingold) Amendment No. 2007, to require a report on a 
USAID mission in Sierra Leone.
Pages S13366-67
  Reid (for Biden) Amendment No. 2008, to provide a clarification with 
respect to the availability of funds for a voluntary contribution to 
the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Page S13367
  McConnell (for Feingold) Amendment No. 2009, to require a report on a 
strategy for promoting stability and improving the quality of life in 
Somalia.
Page S13367
  McConnell (for Lugar) Amendment No. 2010, to provide for the 
designation of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria 
under the International Organizations Immunities Act.
Page S13367
  Reid (for Inouye) Amendment No. 2011, to provide funding for the 
Carter Center's Guinea Worm Eradication Program.
Page S13367
  Reid (for Harkin) Amendment No. 2012, to clarify the criteria to be 
considered in determining eligibility for Millennium Challenge 
assistance.
Page S13367
  McConnell (for Allen) Amendment No. 2013, to fund enhanced 
enforcement of intellectual property rights in foreign countries. 
                                                            Page S13367
  McConnell (for Brownback) Amendment No. 2014, to set aside an amount 
for grants to media organizations to support broadcasting that promotes 
human rights and democracy in Iran.
Page S13367
  McConnell (for Brownback) Amendment No. 2015, to express the sense of 
the Senate on the development of democracy in Iran.
Page S13367
  Landrieu Modified Amendment No. 1998, to ensure that women and 
children have access to basic protection and assistance services in 
complex humanitarian emergencies.
Pages S13358-60
  Reid (for Dodd) Amendment No. 2016, to obtain assurances and a 
timetable for payments of U.S. contractors by the Egyptian Government. 
                                                            Page S13367
  McConnell (for Lugar) Amendment No. 2017, to provide foreign 
assistance through a Millennium Challenge Account.
Page S13367
  McConnell (for Ensign) Amendment No. 2018, to make available funds to 
support democracy-building efforts for Cuba.
Pages S13367-68
  Reid (for Leahy) Amendment No. 2019, to make available funds for the 
World Health Organization's HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Cluster.
                                                            Page S13368
  McConnell (for Feingold) Amendment No. 2020, to provide funds to 
support the development of responsible justice and reconciliation 
mechanisms in central Africa.
Page S13368
  McConnell (for Brownback/Feinstein) Amendment No. 2021, to provide 
for the use of not less than $3,000,000 by the Bridge Fund for certain 
programs in Tibet.
Page S13372
  Reid (for Leahy) Amendment No. 2022, of a technical nature. 
                                                            Page S13372
  Reid (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2023, to provide for the disclosure 
of prices paid for HIV/AIDS medicines in developing countries. 
                                                            Page S13372
  McConnell (for Frist) Amendment No. 2024, to modify provisions 
relating to activities for the prevention, treatment, and control of 
HIV/AIDS.
Page S13372
Rejected:
  By 44 yeas to 53 nays (Vote No. 414), Byrd Amendment No. 1969, to 
require that the Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority 
be an officer who is appointed by the President, by and with the advice 
and consent of the Senate.
Pages S13360-64
Pending:
  DeWine Amendment No. 1966, to increase assistance to combat HIV/AIDS.
                                     Pages S13340, S13347-49, S13368-72
  McConnell Amendment No. 1970, to express the sense of the Senate on 
Burma.
Page S13340
  Feinstein Amendment No. 1977, to clarify the definition of HIV/AIDS 
prevention for purposes of providing funds for therapeutic medical 
care.
Pages S13341-44
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
follow action:
  Chair sustained a point of order that Dorgan Amendment No. 1994, to 
urge the President to release information regarding sources of foreign 
support for the 9-11 hijackers, was not germane to the bill, and the 
amendment thus fell.
Pages S13349-52
  By 40 yeas to 57 nays (Vote No. 413), two-thirds of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion

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suspend Rule XVI, with respect to Lugar Amendment No. 1974, to 
authorize appropriations for Foreign Relations and for Foreign 
Assistance, and to authorize Millennium Challenge Assistance. 
Subsequently, the point of order that the amendment was in violation of 
Rule XVI, was sustained, and the amendment thus falls. 
                                                        Pages S13352-57
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill on Wednesday, October 29, 2003, where Senator 
Dorgan will be recognized to offer an amendment relative to the 
September 11th Commission, with 40 minutes equally divided on the 
amendment; following which, Senator McConnell, or his designee, be 
recognized to make a point of order against the amendment and that 
Senator Dorgan then be recognized to move to suspend Rule XVI of the 
Standing Rules of the Senate with respect to his amendment, with a vote 
on the motion to suspend to occur at approximately 10:40 a.m. 
                                                            Page S13422
Notice of Intent: A notice of intent was provided to suspend Rule XVI 
of the Standing Rules of the Senate for Dorgan Amendment No. 2000 to 
H.R. 2800, Foreign Operations Appropriations Act (listed above). 
                                                            Page S13375
National Consumer Credit Reporting System Improvement Act--Agreement: A 
unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that at a time 
determined by the Majority Leader, after consultation with the 
Democratic Leader, but not before Monday, November 3, 2003, the Senate 
may proceed to the consideration of S. 1753, to amend the Fair Credit 
Reporting Act in order to prevent identity theft, to improve the use of 
and consumer access to consumer reports, to enhance the accuracy of 
consumer reports, to limit the sharing of certain consumer information, 
to improve financial education and literacy, providing for certain 
first-degree amendments and relevant second-degree amendments; that 
upon the disposition of the amendments the bill be read a third time 
and H.R. 2622, House companion measure, be discharged from the 
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and the Senate 
proceed to its immediate consideration; that all after the enacting 
clause be stricken and the text of S. 1753, as amended, be substituted 
in lieu thereof; that the House bill be read a third time and the 
Senate vote on final passage of the bill with the preceding occurring 
without any intervening action or debate; that upon the disposition of 
H.R. 2622, S. 1753, be returned to the Senate calendar.
  Page S13419
Healthy Forests Restoration Act--Agreement: A unanimous-consent 
agreement was reached providing that upon disposition of the vote on 
the motion to suspend Rule XVI with respect to the Dorgan amendment to 
H.R. 2800, Senate proceed to the consideration of H.R. 1904, to improve 
the capacity of the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the 
Interior to plan and conduct hazardous fuels reduction projects on 
National Forest System lands and Bureau of Land Management lands aimed 
at protecting communities, watersheds, and certain other at-risk lands 
from catastrophic wildfire, to enhance efforts to protect watersheds 
and address threats to forest and rangeland health, including 
catastrophic wildfire, across the landscape.
  Page S13419
Nomination Considered: Senate began consideration of the nomination of 
Charles W. Pickering, Sr., of Mississippi, to be United States Circuit 
Judge for the Fifth Circuit
  Page S13420
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the nomination and, 
in accordance with the provisions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate, a vote on cloture will occur on Thursday, October 30, 2003.
                                                            Page S13420
Removal of Injunction of Secrecy: The injunction of secrecy was removed 
from the following protocol:
  Protocol Amending Tax Convention with Sri Lanka (Treaty Doc. No. 108-
9)
  The protocol was transmitted to the Senate today, considered as 
having been read for the first time, and referred, with accompanying 
papers, to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be 
printed.
Page S13422
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nomination:
  By 88 yeas 8 nays (Vote No. Ex. 412), Michael O. Leavitt, of Utah, to 
be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. 
                                                Pages S13326-40, S13422
Messages From the House:
  Page S13377
Measures Referred:
  Page S13377
Enrolled Bills Presented:
  Page S13377
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S13377-78
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S13378-S13409
Additional Statements:
  Pages S13376-77
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S13409-18
Authority for Committees to Meet:
  Page S13418
Privilege of the Floor:
  Pages S13418-19
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total--414) 
                                        Pages S13340, S13356, S13363-64
Adjournment: Senate met at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 9:22 p.m., until 
9:30 a.m., on Wednesday, October 29, 2003. (For Senate's program, see

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the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S13422.)