[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 38 (Wednesday, March 24, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D276-D277]
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                                          Wednesday, March 24, 2004

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3049-S3117
Measures Introduced: Two bills were introduced, as follows: S. 2229-
2230.
  Page S3096
Measures Passed:
  Oceans and Human Health Act: Senate passed S. 1218, to provide for 
Presidential support and coordination of interagency ocean science 
programs and development and coordination of a comprehensive and 
integrated United States research and monitoring program, after 
agreeing to the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, and 
the following amendment proposed thereto:
  Pages S3110-15
  Frist (for Hollings) Amendment No. 2933, to revise the interagency 
oceans and human health research program provisions of the reported 
bill.
Page S3115
  International Fisheries Reauthorization Act: Committee on Commerce, 
Science, and Transportation was discharged from further consideration 
of H.R. 2584, to provide for the conveyance to the Utrok Atoll local 
government of a decommissioned National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration ship, and the bill was then passed, after agreeing to 
the following amendments proposed thereto:
  Pages S3115-16
  Frist (for Collins) Amendment No. 2934, to repeal section 105 of the 
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004.
Page S3115
  Frist (for McCain) Amendment No. 2935, to provide for implementation 
of the Pacific Albacore Tuna Treaty.
Page S3116
Jumpstart Our Business Strength (JOBS) Act: Senate continued 
consideration of S. 1637, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to 
comply with the World Trade Organization rulings on the FSC/ETI benefit 
in a manner that preserves jobs and production activities in the United 
States, to reform and simplify the international taxation rules of the 
United States, taking action on the following amendments proposed 
thereto:
  Pages S3060-92
Pending:
  Harkin Amendment No. 2881, to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 
1938 to clarify provisions relating to overtime pay.
Page S3060
  McConnell Motion to Recommit the bill to the Committee on Finance, 
with instructions to report back forthwith the following amendment: 
                                                             Page S3060
  McConnell (for Frist) Amendment No. 2886, in the nature of a 
substitute.
Page S3060
  Grassley Amendment No. 2898 (to the instructions (Amendment No. 2886) 
of the motion to recommit (listed above)), relative to the effective 
date following enactment of the Act.
Page S3060
  Grassley Amendment No. 2926 (to Amendment No. 2898), relative to the 
effective date following enactment of the Act.
Page S3061
  Frist motion to reconsider the vote by which the motion to invoke 
cloture on McConnell Motion to Recommit the bill to the Committee on 
Finance (listed above) failed.
Page S3066
Withdrawn:
  Grassley Amendment No. 2899 (to Amendment No. 2898), relative to the 
effective date following enactment of the Act.
Page S3060
  Grassley (for Hutchison) Amendment No. 2888 (to Amendment No. 2898), 
to allow a deduction for State and local sales taxes in lieu of State 
and local income taxes.
Pages S3060-61
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 51 yeas to 47 nays (Vote No. 60), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to close further debate on McConnell Motion to 
Recommit the bill to the Committee on Finance (listed above). 
                                                             Page S3066
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that when the 
Senate resumes consideration of the bill, no second degree amendments 
be in order to the pending Harkin Amendment No. 2881 (listed above), 
prior to a vote in relation to the amendment.
Unborn Victims of Violence Act--Agreement: Pursuant to the order of 
March 12, 2004, Senate will begin consideration of H.R. 1997, to amend 
title 18, United States Code, and the Uniform Code

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of Military Justice to protect unborn children from assault and murder, 
at 10:30 a.m., on Thursday, March 25, 2004.
  Page S3116
Messages From the House:
  Pages S3094-95
Measures Referred:
  Page S3095
Executive Communications:
  Pages S3095-96
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S3096
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S3096-97
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S3097-S3100
Authority for Committees to Meet:
  Pages S3100-01
Privilege of the Floor:
  Page S3101
Text of S. Con. Res. 95, as Previously Agreed To:
  Pages S3101-10
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--60)
  Page S3066
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 6:20 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m., on Thursday, March 25, 2004. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on pages 
S3116-17.)