[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 46 (Monday, April 5, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D352-D353]
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                                              Monday, April 5, 2004

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate agreed to H. Con. Res. 404, Adjournment Resolution.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3623-S3733
Measures Introduced: Four bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 2280-2283, and S. Res. 331.
  Page S3631-32
Measures Reported: S. 2056, to increase the penalties for violations by 
television and radio broadcasters of the prohibitions against 
transmission of obscene, indecent, and profane language, with 
amendments. (S. Rept. No. 108-253)
  Page S3631
Measures Passed:
  Adjournment Resolution: Senate agreed to H. Con. Res. 404, providing 
for a conditional adjournment of the House of Representatives and a 
conditional recess or adjournment of the Senate.
  Page S3624
Jumpstart Our Business Strength (JOBS) Act: Senate resumed 
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:
  Page S3628
Pending:
  Harkin Amendment No. 2881, to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 
1938 to clarify provisions relating to overtime pay.
Page S3628
  Frist Motion to Recommit the bill to the Committee on Finance, with 
instructions to report back forthwith with the following amendment: 
                                                             Page S3628
  Frist Amendment No. 3011 (to the instructions of the Motion to 
Recommit the bill to the Committee on Finance), in the nature of a 
substitute.
Page S3628
  Frist Amendment No. 3012 (to the instructions (Amendment No. 3011) of 
the Motion to Recommit the bill to the Committee on Finance), relative 
to the effective date following enactment of the Act.
Page S3628
  Frist Amendment No. 3013 (to Amendment No. 3012), relative to the 
effective date following enactment of the Act.
Page S3628
Withdrawn:
  McConnell Motion to Recommit the bill to the Committee on Finance, 
with instructions.
Page S3628
  Subsequently, the following amendments and motion fell when the 
McConnell Motion to Recommit, with instructions (listed above) was 
withdrawn:
Page S3628
  McConnell (for Frist) Amendment No. 2886, in the nature of a 
substitute.
Page S3628
  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 S3628
  Grassley Amendment No. 2926 (to Amendment No. 2898), relative to the 
effective date following enactment of the Act.
Page S3628
  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 failed.
Page S3628
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the Frist Motion to 
Recommit the bill, with instructions (listed above) and, in accordance 
with the provisions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, a 
vote on cloture will occur on Wednesday, April 7, 2004.
Page S3628
Pregnancy and Trauma Care Access Protection Act--Agreement: A 
unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that at 11 a.m., on 
Tuesday, April 6, 2004, Senate resume consideration of the motion to 
proceed to consideration of S. 2207, to improve women's access to 
health care services, and the access of all individuals to emergency 
and trauma care services, by reducing the excessive burden

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the liability system places on the delivery of such services. 
                                                             Page S3730
Appointments:
  Commission on Systemic Interoperability: The Chair, on behalf of the 
Democratic Leader, pursuant to Public Law 108-173, appointed the 
following individual to serve as a member of the Commission on Systemic 
Interoperability: Frederick W. Slunecka of South Dakota. 
                                                         Pages S3729-30
  American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress: The Chair, on 
behalf of the President pro tempore, pursuant to Public Law 94-201, as 
amended by Public Law 105-275, appointed the following individuals as 
members of the Board of Trustees of the American Folklife Center of the 
Library of Congress: Mickey Hart of California and Dennis Holub of 
South Dakota.
  Page S3729
Messages From the House:
  Page S3631
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S3632
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S3632-33
Additional Statements:
  Pages S3628-31
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S3633-S3729
Adjournment: Senate convened at 1 p.m., and adjourned at 4:04 p.m., 
until 10 a.m., on Tuesday, April 6, 2004. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S3730.)