[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 41 (Monday, April 11, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D313]
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                                             Monday, April 11, 2005

[[Page D313]]


                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3365-S3439
Measures Introduced: Eighteen bills and two resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 743-760, and S. Res. 102-103. 
                                                         Pages S3413-14
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  By unanimous vote of 95 yeas (Vote No. 87), Paul A. Crotty, of New 
York, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of 
New York.
Pages S3398-S3401, S3439
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Lieutenant General Michael V. Hayden, United States Air Force, to be 
Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence.
Page S3439
Measures Passed:
  Airbus: By a unanimous vote of 96 yeas (Vote No. 88), Senate agreed 
to S. Con. Res. 25, expressing the sense of Congress regarding the 
application of Airbus for launch aid.
  Pages S3401-02
  Virginia Union University Panthers Men's Basketball Team: Senate 
agreed to S. Res. 102, commending the Virginia Union University 
Panthers men's basketball team for winning the 2005 National Collegiate 
Athletic Association Division II National Basketball Championship. 
                                                  Pages S3434, S3437-38
  Baylor University Women's Basketball Team: Senate agreed to S. Res. 
103, commending the Lady Bears of Baylor University for winning the 
2005 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Women's 
Basketball Championship.
  Pages S3434-35, S3438
  Commemorating Attack: Committee on the Judiciary was discharged from 
further consideration of S. Res. 96, commemorating the tenth 
anniversary of the attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, and 
the resolution was then agreed to.
  Pages S3438-39
Supplemental Appropriations: Senate began consideration of H.R. 
1268,making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2005, to establish and rapidly implement 
regulations for State driver's license and identification document 
security standards, to prevent terrorists from abusing the asylum laws 
of the United States, to unify terrorism-related grounds for 
inadmissibility and removal, to ensure expeditious construction of the 
San Diego border fence, agreeing to the committee amendment in the 
nature of a substitute, which will be considered as original text for 
the purpose of further amendment.
  Pages S3368-98
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at approximately 10:45 a.m., on Tuesday, 
April 12, 2005.
Page S3439
Executive Communications:
  Pages S3411-13
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S3414-16
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S3416-34
Additional Statements:
  Pages S3410-11
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S3435-37
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:
  Page S3437
Authority for Committees to Meet:
  Page S3437
Privilege of the Floor:
  Page S3437
Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--88) 
                                                             Page S3401
Adjournment: Senate convened at 2 p.m., and adjourned at 7:15 p.m., 
until 9:45 a.m., on Tuesday, April 12, 2005. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S3439.)