[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 123 (Monday, October 4, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D994-D998]
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                                            Monday, October 4, 2004

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S10289-S10379
Measures Introduced: Two bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 2885-2886, and S. Res. 446.
  Pages S10365-66
Measures Reported:
  S. 2688, to provide for a report of Federal entities without annually 
audited financial statements. (S. Rept. No. 108-383).
  S. 2686, to amend the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical 
Education Act of 1998 to improve the Act, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 108-384).
  H.R. 867, for the relief of Durreshahwar Durreshahwar, Nida Hasan, 
Asna Hasan, Anum Hasan, and Iqra Hasan.
  S. 115, for the relief of Richi James Lesley.
  S. 353, for the relief of Denes and Gyorgyi Fulop.
  S. 1042, for the relief of Tchisou Tho.
  S. 1635, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to ensure the 
integrity of the L-1 visa for intracompany transferees, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute.
  S. 1784, to eliminate the safe-harbor exception for certain packaged 
pseudoephedrine products used in the manufacture of methamphetamine.
  S. 2012, for the relief of Luay Lufti Hadad.
  S. 2044, for the relief of Alemseghed Mussie Tesfamical.
  S. 2089, to allow aliens who are eligible for diversity visas to be 
eligible beyond the fiscal year in which they applied.
  S. 2314, for the relief of Nabil Raja Dandan, Ketty Dandan, Souzi 
Dandan, Raja Nabil Dandan, and Sandra Dandan.
  S. 2331, for the relief of Fereshteh Sani.
Page S10365
Measures Passed:
  Congressional Accountability Act: Senate passed H.R. 5122, to amend 
the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 to permit members of the 
Board of Directors of the Office of Compliance to serve for 2 terms, 
after agreeing to the following amendment proposed thereto as follows: 
                                                            Page S10378
  Collins (for Lott) Amendment No. 3954, relating to the effective 
date.
Page S10378
  Honoring Former President Jimmy Carter: Senate agreed to S. Res. 446, 
honoring former President James Earl (Jimmy) Carter on the occasion of 
his 80th birthday.
  Pages S10378-79
National Intelligence Reform Act:  Senate continued consideration of S. 
2845, to reform the intelligence community and the intelligence and 
intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, taking 
action on the following amendments proposed thereto: 
                                                    Pages S10296-S10358
Adopted:
  Collins/Lieberman Amendment No. 3950 (to Amendment No. 3705), to make 
certain technical amendments.
Pages S10309-10
  Collins Amendment No. 3705, to provide for homeland security grant 
coordination and simplification.
Pages S10296, S10310, S10315-16
  Warner Further Modified Amendment No. 3877, to modify the role of the 
National Intelligence Director in the appointment of intelligence 
officials of the United States Government.
Pages S10296, S10327
  Stevens Modified Amendment No. 3829, to modify and clarify the 
effective date provisions.
Pages S10296, S10329
  Stevens Modified Amendment No. 3826, to modify the duties of the 
Director of the National Counterterrorism Center as the principal 
advisor to the President on counterterrorism matters. 
                                                Pages S10296, S10330-31
  Roberts Modified Amendment No. 3740, to make certain revisions to the 
bill, including providing for conforming amendments on responsibilities 
of the Secretary of Defense pertaining to the National Intelligence 
Program.
Pages S10296, S10331-32
  Roberts Modified Amendment No. 3748, to clarify the duties and 
responsibilities of the Ombudsman of the National Intelligence 
Authority and of the Analytic Review Unit within the Office of the 
Ombudsman.
Pages S10296, S10332

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  Lieberman (for Nelson (FL)) Modified Amendment No. 3841, to require 
the Secretary of Homeland Security to implement a watchlist for 
passengers of cruise ships.
Pages S10296, S10351-58
  Lieberman (for Akaka) Modified Amendment No. 3833, to require a 
report on the implementation of recommendations of the Defense Science 
Board on preventing and defending against clandestine nuclear attack. 
                                                        Pages S10351-58
  Collins (for Snowe) Modified Amendment No. 3910, to require a study 
regarding establishing a secure facility for high-threat international 
cargo aircraft.
Pages S10351-58
  Lieberman (for Boxer) Amendment No. 3836, to authorize the Secretary 
of Homeland Security to award grants to improve first-responder 
communications systems.
Pages S10351-58
  Lieberman (for Inouye) Modified Amendment No. 3757, to require the 
Secretary of Homeland Security to report to the Congress on the 
technological capabilities and equipment for Transportation Security 
Administration field offices.
Pages S10351-58
  Collins (for Domenici) Modified Amendment No. 3859, to provide that 
an authorized national intelligence center address each of the nuclear 
terrorism threats, chemical terrorism threats, and biological terrorism 
threats confronting the United States.
Pages S10351-58
  Collins (for Domenici) Amendment No. 3860, to improve the working 
relationship between the intelligence community and the National 
Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center.
Pages S10351-58
  Allard Amendment No. 3778, to improve the management of the personnel 
of the National Intelligence Authority.
Pages S10296, S10351-58
  Collins (for Specter) Modified Amendment No. 3818, to require a study 
relative to a nationwide interoperable communications network. 
                                                        Pages S10351-58
  Lieberman (for Jeffords) Modified Amendment No. 3832, to provide for 
communications equipment interoperability.
Pages S10351-58
  Lieberman (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 3814, to provide the sense of 
Congress that United States foreign assistance should be provided to 
South Asia, Southeast Asia, West Africa, the Horn of Africa, North and 
North Central Africa, the Arabian peninsula, Central and Eastern 
Europe, and South America to prevent the establishment of terrorist 
sanctuaries.
Pages S10351-58
  Lieberman (for Hollings) Amendment No. 3901, to require certain 
overdue reports relating to maritime security to be transmitted to the 
Congress within 90 days.
Pages S10351-58
  Reid (for Durbin) Amendment No. 3923, to ensure the balance of 
privacy and civil liberties.
Pages S10344, S10351-58
  Lieberman (for Levin/Coleman) Modified Amendment No. 3867, to curtail 
the international financing of terrorism, and to impose a one-year 
cooling off period for former Federal bank examiners.
Pages S10351-58
  Collins (for Allard) Modified Amendment No. 3722, to facilitate the 
utilization of United States commercial remote sensing space 
capabilities for filling imagery and geospatial information 
requirements.
Pages S10351-58
  Levin/Alexander Amendment No. 3825, to permit reviews of criminal 
records of applicants for private security officer employment. 
                                             Pages S10321-22, S10351-58
  Lieberman (for Feingold) Modified Amendment No. 3762, to improve 
information-sharing by the national intelligence centers. 
                                                        Pages S10351-58
  Lieberman (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 3952, to provide protections 
for human subjects in research conducted or supported by the Department 
of Homeland Security.
Rejected:
  Byrd Amendment No. 3845, to enhance the role of Congress in the 
oversight of the intelligence and intelligence-related activities of 
the United States Government. (By 62 yeas to 29 nays (Vote No.195), 
Senate tabled the amendment.) 
                              Pages S10296-S10309, S10310-15, S10327-29
  Collins (for Stevens) Modified Amendment No. 3903, to modify the 
provisions relating to the availability to the public of intelligence 
funding information. (By 55 yeas to 37 nays (Vote No. 196), Senate 
tabled the amendment.)
Pages S10296, S10324-27, S10329-30
  Subsequently, the motion to reconsider the vote by which Senate 
tabled Collins (for Stevens) Modified Amendment No. 3903 (listed above) 
was tabled.
Page S10330
Withdrawn:
  Roberts Amendment No. 3741, to permit the National Intelligence 
Director to modify National Intelligence Program budgets before their 
approval and submittal to the President.
Pages S10296, S10332
  Roberts Amendment No. 3744, to clarify the limitation on the transfer 
of funds and personnel and to preserve and enhance congressional 
oversight of intelligence activities.
Pages S10296, S10332
  Roberts Amendment No. 3751, to clarify the responsibilities of the 
Secretary of Defense pertaining to the National Intelligence Program. 
                                                   Pages S10296, S10332

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Pending:
  Lautenberg Amendment No. 3767, to specify that the National 
Intelligence Director shall serve for one or more terms of up to 5 
years each.
Page S10296
  Kyl Amendment No. 3801, to modify the privacy and civil liberties 
oversight.
Page S10296
  Feinstein Amendment No. 3718, to improve the intelligence functions 
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Page S10296
  Stevens Amendment No. 3839, to strike section 201, relating to public 
disclosure of intelligence funding.
Page S10296
  Ensign Amendment No. 3819, to require the Secretary of State to 
increase the number of consular officers, clarify the responsibilities 
and functions of consular officers, and require the Secretary of 
Homeland Security to increase the number of border patrol agents and 
customs enforcement investigators.
Page S10296
  Reid (for Schumer) Amendment No. 3887, to amend the Foreign 
Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to cover individuals, other than 
United States persons, who engage in international terrorism without 
affiliation with an international terrorist group.
Page S10296
  Reid (for Schumer) Amendment No. 3888, to establish the United States 
Homeland Security Signal Corps to ensure proper communications between 
law enforcement agencies.
Page S10296
  Reid (for Schumer) Amendment No. 3889, to establish a National 
Commission on the United States-Saudi Arabia Relationship. 
                                                            Page S10296
  Reid (for Schumer) Amendment No. 3890, to improve the security of 
hazardous materials transported by truck.
Page S10296
  Reid (for Schumer) Amendment No. 3891, to improve rail security. 
                                                            Page S10296
  Reid (for Schumer) Amendment No. 3892, to strengthen border security.
                                                            Page S10296
  Reid (for Schumer) Amendment No. 3893, to require inspection of cargo 
at ports in the United States.
Page S10296
  Reid (for Schumer) Amendment No. 3894, to amend the Homeland Security 
Act of 2002 to enhance cybersecurity.
Page S10296
  Leahy/Grassley Amendment No. 3945, to require Congressional oversight 
of translators employed and contracted for by the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation.
Page S10296
  Reed Amendment No. 3908, to authorize the Secretary of Homeland 
Security to award grants to public transportation agencies to improve 
security.
Page S10296
  Reid (for Corzine/Lautenberg) Amendment No. 3849, to protect human 
health and the environment from the release of hazardous substances by 
acts of terrorism.
Page S10296
  Reid (for Lautenberg) Amendment No. 3782, to require that any Federal 
funds appropriated to the Department of Homeland Security for grants or 
other assistance be allocated based strictly on an assessment of risks 
and vulnerabilities.
Page S10296
  Reid (for Lautenberg) Amendment No. 3905, to provide for maritime 
transportation security.
Page S10296
  Reid (for Harkin) Amendment No. 3821, to modify the functions of the 
Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.
Page S10296
  Roberts Amendment No. 3739, to ensure the sharing of intelligence 
information in a manner that promotes all-sources analysis and to 
assign responsibility for competitive analysis.
Page S10296
  Roberts Amendment No. 3750, to clarify the responsibilities of the 
Directorate of Intelligence of the National Counterterrorism Center for 
information-sharing and intelligence analysis.
Page S10296
  Roberts Amendment No. 3747, to provide the National Intelligence 
Director with flexible administrative authority with respect to the 
National Intelligence Authority.
Page S10296
  Roberts Amendment No. 3742, to clarify the continuing applicability 
of section 504 of the National Security Act of 1947 to the obligation 
and expenditure of funds appropriated for the intelligence and 
intelligence-related activities of the United States.
Page S10296
  Kyl Amendment No. 3926, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act 
to ensure that nonimmigrant visas are not issued to individuals with 
connections to terrorism or who intend to carry out terrorist 
activities in the United States.
Page S10296
  Kyl Amendment No. 3881, to protect crime victims' rights. 
                                                            Page S10296
  Kyl Amendment No. 3724, to strengthen anti-terrorism investigative 
tools, promote information sharing, punish terrorist offenses. 
                                                            Page S10296
  Stevens Amendment No. 3827, to strike section 206, relating to 
information sharing.
Pages S10296, S10331
  Stevens Amendment No. 3840, to strike the fiscal and acquisition 
authorities of the National Intelligence Authority.
Page S10296
  Stevens Amendment No. 3882, to propose an alternative section 141, 
relating to the Inspector General of the National Intelligence 
Authority.
Page S10296
  Collins (for Inhofe) Amendment No. 3946 (to Amendment No. 3849), in 
the nature of a substitute.
Page S10296

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  Sessions Amendment No. 3928, to require aliens to make an oath prior 
to receiving a nonimmigrant visa.
Page S10296
  Sessions Amendment No. 3873, to protect railroad carriers and mass 
transportation from terrorism.
Page S10296
  Sessions Amendment No. 3871, to provide for enhanced Federal, State, 
and local enforcement of the immigration laws. 
                                                Pages S10296, S10344-45
  Sessions Amendment No. 3870, to make information sharing permanent 
under the USA PATRIOT Act.
Page S10296
  Warner Amendment No. 3876, to preserve certain authorities and 
accountability in the implementation of intelligence reform. 
                                                            Page S10296
  Collins (for Cornyn) Amendment No. 3803, to provide for enhanced 
criminal penalties for crimes related to alien smuggling.
Page S10296
  Collins (for Baucus/Roberts) Modified Amendment No. 3768, to require 
an annual report on the allocation of funding within the Office of 
Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury.
Page S10296
  Frist (for McConnell) Amendment No. 3930, to clarify that a volunteer 
for a federally-created citizen volunteer program and for the program's 
State and local affiliates is protected by the Volunteer Protection 
Act.
Page S10296
  Frist (for McConnell) Amendment No. 3931, to remove civil liability 
barriers that discourage the donation of equipment to volunteer fire 
companies.
Page S10296
  Levin Modified Amendment No. 3809, to exempt military personnel from 
certain personnel transfer authorities.
Pages S10321-22
  Levin Amendment No. 3810, to clarify the definition of National 
Intelligence Program.
Pages S10321-22
  Stevens Amendment No. 3830, to modify certain provisions relating to 
the Central Intelligence Agency.
Page S10331
  Warner Amendment No. 3875, to clarify the definition of National 
Intelligence Program.
Pages S10334-38
  Warner Amendment No. 3874, to provide for the treatment of programs, 
projects, and activities within the Joint Military Intelligence Program 
and Tactical Intelligence and Related Activities programs as of the 
date of the enactment of the Act.
Pages S10334-38
  Reid (for Leahy) Amendment No. 3913, to address enforcement of 
certain subpoenas.
Pages S10338-39
  Reid (for Leahy) Amendment No. 3915, to establish criteria for 
placing individuals on the consolidated screening watch list of the 
Terrorist Screening Center.
Pages S10338-39
  Reid (for Leahy) Amendment No. 3916, to strengthen civil liberties 
protections.
Pages S10338-39
  Collins (for Frist) Modified Amendment No. 3895, to establish the 
National Counterproliferation Center within the National Intelligence 
Authority.
Pages S10342-44
  Collins (for Frist) Amendment No. 3896, to include certain additional 
Members of Congress among the congressional intelligence committees. 
                                                        Pages S10342-44
  Sessions (for Grassley) Amendment No. 3850, to require the inclusion 
of information regarding visa revocations in the National Crime 
Information Center database.
Page S10345
  Sessions (for Grassley) Amendment No. 3851, to clarify the effects of 
revocation of a visa.
Page S10345
  Sessions (for Grassley) Amendment No. 3855, to combat money 
laundering and terrorist financing, to increase the penalties for 
smuggling goods into the United States.
Page S10345
  Sessions (for Grassley) Amendment No. 3856, to establish a United 
States drug interdiction coordinator for Federal agencies. 
                                                            Page S10345
  Sessions/Ensign Amendment No. 3872, to amend the Immigration and 
Nationality Act to require fingerprints on United States passports and 
to require countries desiring to participate in the Visa Waiver Program 
to issue passports that conform to the biometric standards required for 
United States passports.
Page S10345
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that Members have 
until 9:45 a.m. on Tuesday, October 5, 2004, in order to file second 
degree amendments as under rule 22.
Page S10379
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at 9:40 a.m., Tuesday, October 4, 2004, with 
a vote on the motion to invoke cloture to occur at 9:45 a.m. 
                                                            Page S10379
Miscellaneous Trade and Technical Corrections Act: Senate insisted on 
its amendment, agreed to the House request for a conference, and the 
Chair was authorized to appoint the following conferees on the part of 
the Senate: Senators Grassley, Frist, and Baucus.
  Page S10379
Appointments:
  Commission on the Abraham Lincoln Study Abroad Fellowship Program: 
The Chair, on behalf of the Majority Leader and Democratic Leader of 
the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives and Minority 
Leader of the House of Representatives, pursuant to Public Law 108-199, 
Section 104(c)(1), announced the joint appointment of the following 
individual to serve as Chairman of the


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Commission on the Abraham Lincoln Study Abroad Fellowship Program: Peter 
McPherson.
  Page S10378
Executive Communications:
  Pages S10363-65
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S10365
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S10366-67
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S10367-69
Additional Statements:
  Pages S10362-63
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S10369-77
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:
  Page S10377
Authority for Committees to Meet:
  Page S10377
Privilege of the Floor:
  Page S10378
Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--196) 
                                                     Pages S10328-29, S10330
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m., and adjourned at 9:18 p.m., until 9 
a.m., on Tuesday, October 5, 2004. (For Senate's program, see the remarks of 
the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S10379.)