[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 99 (Friday, July 16, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D784]
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                                              Friday, July 16, 2004

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S8269-S8403
Measures Introduced: Five bills were introduced as follows:  S. 2678-
2682.
  Page S8277
Measures Reported: S.J. Res. 41, commemorating the opening of the 
National Museum of the American Indian, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute and with an amended preamble.
  Page S8277
Measures Passed:
  Thrift Savings Plan Open Elections Act: Senate passed S. 2479, to 
amend chapter 84 of title 5, United States Code, to provide for Federal 
employees to make elections to make, modify, and terminate 
contributions to the Thrift Savings Fund at any time.
  Page S8400
  Haiti Economic Recovery Opportunity Act: Committee on Finance was 
discharged from further consideration of S. 2261, to expand certain 
preferential trade treatment for Haiti, and the bill was then passed, 
after agreeing to the following amendment proposed thereto: 
                                                         Pages S8401-02
  Frist (for DeWine/Graham (FL)) Amendment No. 3565, in the nature of a 
substitute.
Pages S8401-02
Nomination: Senate began consideration of the nomination of William 
Gerry Myers III, of Idaho, to be United States Circuit Judge for the 
Ninth Circuit, after agreeing to the motion to proceed. 
                                                      Pages S8399-S8400
  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 at 2:15 p.m., on Tuesday, July 
20, 2004.
Page S8400
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the nomination at 1 p.m., on Monday, July 19, 2004; 
and that the time until 5 p.m. be equally divided.
Page S8402
Executive Reports of Committees: Senate received the following 
executive report of a committee:
  Report to accompany the Convention on International Interests in 
Mobile Equipment and Protocol to Convention on International Interests 
in Mobile Equipment (Treaty Doc. 108-10) (Ex. Rept. 108-14). 
                                                             Page S8277
Removal of Injunction of Secrecy: The injunction of secrecy was removed 
from the following treaty:
  Protocol Amending Tax Convention with the Netherlands (Treaty Doc. 
108-25);
  The treaty 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. 
                                                         Pages S8400-01
Measures Placed on Calendar:
  Page S8277
Measures Read First Time:
  Pages S8277-S8400
Enrolled Bills Presented:
  Page S8277
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S8277
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S8277-78
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S8278-8280
Amendments Submitted:
  Page S8280
Privilege of the Floor:
  Page S8281
Text of H.R. 4520, as Previously Passed:
  Pages S8281-S8399
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10:01 a.m., and adjourned at 12:45 
p.m., until 1 p.m., on Monday, July 19, 2004. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S8403.)