[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 86 (Monday, June 21, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D654-D655]
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                                              Monday, June 21, 2004

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S7061-S7115
Measures Introduced: Five bills and two resolutions were introduced, as 
follows:
  S. 2550-2554, and S. Res. 385-386.
Page S7104
Measures Reported:
  S. 1292, to establish a servitude and emancipation archival research 
clearinghouse in the National Archives, with amendments. (S. Rept. No. 
108-282)
  S. 2322, to amend chapter 90 of title 5, United States Code, to 
include employees of the District of Columbia courts as participants in 
long term care insurance for Federal employees. (S. Rept. No. 108-283) 
                                                             Page S7104
Measures Passed:
  Recognizing Civil Rights Act: Senate agreed to S. Res. 385, 
recognizing and honoring the 40th anniversary of congressional passage 
of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
  Pages S7113-14
  Recognizing Civil Rights Organizers: Senate agreed to S. Res. 386, 
recognizing the 40th anniversary of June 21, 1964, and the day civil 
rights organizers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner 
gave their lives in the struggle to guarantee the right to vote for 
every citizen of the United States, and encouraging all Americans to 
observe the anniversary of the deaths of the 3 men by committing 
themselves to ensuring equal rights, equal opportunities, and equal 
justice for all people.
  Pages S7113-14
  Naval Complex Transfer: Senate passed H.R. 4322, to provide for the 
transfer of the Nebraska Avenue Naval Complex in the District of 
Columbia to facilitate the establishment of the headquarters for the 
Department of Homeland Security, to provide for the acquisition by the 
Department of the Navy of suitable replacement facilities, clearing the 
measure for the President.
  Pages S7114-15
  Technical Correction: Senate agreed to H. Con. Res. 458, directing 
the Secretary of the Senate to make technical corrections in the 
enrollment of the bill S. 2238.
  Page S7115
National Defense Authorization Act: Senate resumed consideration of S. 
2400, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2005 for military 
activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and 
for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Services, taking 
action on the following amendments proposed thereto: 
                                                      Pages S7062-S7100
Adopted:
  By 52 yeas to 38 nays (Vote No. 131), Warner Modified Amendment No. 
3458, expressing the sense of Congress on media coverage of the return 
to the United States of the remains of deceased members of the Armed 
Forces from overseas.
Pages S7088-89
Rejected:
  By 39 yeas to 54 nays (Vote No. 132), Lautenberg Modified Amendment 
No. 3291, to require a protocol on media coverage of the return to the 
United States of the remains of members of the Armed Forces who are 
killed overseas.
Pages S7064-67, S7089-90
Withdrawn:
  Durbin Amendment No. 3463 (to Amendment No. 3225), to require certain 
dietary supplement manufacturers to report certain serious adverse 
events.
Pages S7083-86
  Harkin/Hatch Amendment No. 3462 (to Amendment No. 3225), to express 
the sense of the Senate concerning legislation requiring reports of 
serious adverse events related to dietary supplements and over-the-
counter drugs.
Pages S7077-83
  Durbin Amendment No. 3225, to require certain dietary supplement 
manufacturers to report certain serious adverse events.
Page S7086
Pending:
  Bond Modified Amendment No. 3384, to include certain former nuclear 
weapons program workers in the Special Exposure Cohort under the Energy 
Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program and to provide for 
the disposal of certain excess Department of Defense stocks for funds 
for that purpose.

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  Brownback Amendment No. 3235, to increase the penalties for 
violations by television and radio broadcasters of the prohibitions 
against transmission of obscene, indecent, and profane language. 
                                                             Page S7062
  Burns Amendment No. 3457 (to Amendment No. 3235), to provide for 
additional factors in indecency penalties issued by the Federal 
Communications Commission.
Page S7062
  Reed Amendment No. 3353, to limit the obligation and expenditure of 
funds for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense program pending the 
submission of a report on operational test and evaluation.
Page S7062
  Bingaman Amendment No. 3459, to require reports on the detainment of 
foreign nationals by the Department of Defense and on Department of 
Defense investigations of allegations of violations of the Geneva 
Convention.
Pages S7067-68
  Warner Amendment No. 3460 (to Amendment No. 3459), in the nature of a 
substitute.
Pages S7068-71
  Dayton/Feingold Amendment No. 3197, to strike sections 842 relative 
to a conforming standard for waiver of domestic source or content 
requirement and 843 relative to the consistency with United States 
obligations under trade agreements.
Page S7071
  Warner (for McCain) Amendment No. 3461 (to the language proposed to 
be stricken by Amendment No. 3197), in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                         Pages S7071-77
  Feingold Modified Amendment No. 3288, to rename and modify the 
authorities relating to the Inspector General of the Coalition 
Provisional Authority.
Pages S7086-88
  Landrieu/Snowe Amendment No. 3315, to amend title 10, United States 
Code, to increase the minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic annuity for 
surviving spouses age 62 and older, and to provide for a one-year open 
season under that plan.
Pages S7090-92
  Levin Amendment No. 3338, to reallocate funds for Ground-based 
Midcourse interceptors to homeland defense and combatting terrorism. 
                                                         Pages S7092-94
  A modified unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that all 
first-degree amendments be offered no later than 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, 
June 22, 2004, with the exception of amendments agreed to by the 
Chairman and Ranking Member; further, that when the Senate continues 
consideration of the bill on Tuesday, June 22, 2004, there be 60 
minutes of debate equally divided in relation to Levin Amendment No. 
3338 (listed above), to be followed by a vote on, or in relation to 
that amendment; following that vote, Senate resume consideration of 
Brownback Amendment No. 3225 (listed above), and that Burns Amendment 
No. 3457 (listed above) then be agreed to; that Senator Brownback, or 
his designee, be recognized to offer a further second-degree amendment, 
to be followed by a vote on or in relation to that amendment; following 
that vote, Senator Dorgan, or his designee, be recognized to offer a 
further second-degree amendment on media ownership, and the amendment 
then be agreed to; that Senator Hollings, or his designee, be 
recognized to offer an amendment on children's programming, and the 
amendment then be agreed to; and that the Brownback underlying 
amendment then be agreed to, as amended.
Page S7115
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at 9:45 a.m., on Tuesday, June 22, 2004. 
                                                             Page S7115
Messages From the House:
  Page S7102
Measures Referred:
  Page S7102
Measures Placed on Calendar:
  Page S7102
Executive Communications:
  Pages S7102-04
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S7104-06
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S7106-11
Additional Statements:
  Pages S7101-02
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S7111-13
Authority for Committees to Meet:
  Page S7113
Privilege of the Floor:
  Page S7113
Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--132) 
                                                     Pages S7089, S7090
Adjournment: Senate convened at 1 p.m., and adjourned at 8:49 p.m., 
until 9:45 a.m., on Tuesday, June 22, 2004. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S7115.)