[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 115 (Wednesday, September 22, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D927-D928]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                      Wednesday, September 22, 2004

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed H.R. 4850, District of Columbia Appropriations.
      The House passed H.R. 5025, Transportation, Treasury, and 
      Independent Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2005.
      House Committees ordered reported 16 sundry measures.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S9471-S9538
Measures Introduced: Five bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 2827-2831, and S. Res. 432.
  Pages S9524-25
Measures Passed:
  District of Columbia Appropriations: Committee on Appropriations was 
discharged from further consideration of H.R. 4850, making 
appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other 
activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of said 
District for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and the bill 
was then passed, after striking all after the enacting clause and 
inserting in lieu thereof the text of S. 2826, Senate companion 
measure.
  Pages S9535-37
  Senate insisted on its amendment, requested a conference with the 
House thereon, and the Chair was authorized to appoint the following 
conferees: Senators DeWine, Hutchison, Brownback, Stevens, Landrieu, 
Durbin, and Inouye.
Page S9535
  Subsequently, S. 2826 was returned to the Senate Calendar. 
                                                             Page S9535
  Burma Human Rights: Committee on Foreign Relations was discharged 
from further consideration of S. Res. 431, expressing the sense of the 
Senate that the United Nations Security Council should immediately 
consider and take appropriate actions to respond to the growing threats 
posed by conditions in Burma under the illegitimate rule of the State 
Peace and Development Council, and the resolution was then agreed to. 
                                                         Pages S9537-38
Escort Committee--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached 
providing that the President of the Senate be authorized to appoint a 
committee on the part of the Senate to join with a like committee on 
the part of the House of Representatives to escort His Excellency, Ayad 
Allawi, Prime Minister of the Interim Government of the Republic of 
Iraq, into the House Chamber for the joint meeting on Thursday, 
September 23, 2004.
  Page S9538
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nomination:
  By 77 yeas to 17 nays (Vote No. Ex. 187), Porter J. Goss, of Florida, 
to be Director of Central Intelligence.
Page S9518
Messages From the House:
  Pages S9521-22
Measures Referred:
  Page S9522
Measures Placed on Calendar:
  Page S9522
Measures Read First Time:
  Page S9537
Executive Communications:
  Pages S9522-23
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Pages S9523-24
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S9525-26
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S9526-34
Additional Statements:
  Page S9521
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:
  Page S9534
Authority for Committees to Meet:
  Pages S9534-35
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--187) 
                                                             Page S9518
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 6:33 p.m., 
until 11 a.m., on Thursday, September 23, 2004. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on Page 
S9538.)

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