[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 42 (Tuesday, April 12, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D317-D318]
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                                            Tuesday, April 12, 2005

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3441-S3503
Measures Introduced: Eight bills and three resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 761-768, S. Res.104-105, and S. Con. Res. 26. 
                                                             Page S3481
Measures Passed:
  National Youth Service Day: Senate agreed to S. Res.105, designating 
April 15, 2005, as National Youth Service Day. 
                                               Pages S3492-93, S3501-02
Supplemental Appropriations: Senate continued 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, taking action on the following amendments 
proposed thereto:
  Pages S3449-73
Pending:
  Kerry Amendment No. 333, to extend the period of temporary 
continuation of basic allowance for housing for dependents of members 
of the Armed Forces who die on active duty.
Page S3455
  Kerry Amendment No. 334, to increase the military death gratuity to 
$100,000, effective with respect to any deaths of members of the Armed 
Forces on active duty after October 7, 2001.
Pages S3455-56
  Durbin Amendment No. 356, to ensure that a Federal employee who takes 
leave without pay in order to perform service as a member of the 
uniformed services or member of the National Guard shall continue to 
receive pay in an amount which, when taken together with the pay and 
allowances such individual is receiving for such service, will be no 
less than the basic pay such individual would then be receiving if no 
interruption in employment had occurred.
Pages S3470-73
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 46 yeas to 54 nays (Vote No. 89), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to waive section 402 of S. Con. Res. 95, 
Congressional Budget Resolution, with respect to the emergency 
designation provision in Murray Modified Amendment No. 344, to provide 
$1,975,183,000 for medical care for veterans. Subsequently, a point of 
order that the emergency designation provision would violate section 
402 of S. Con. Res. 95 was sustained and the provision was stricken. 
                                                         Pages S3461-68
  By 46 yeas to 54 nays (Vote No. 90), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to waive section 302 of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974, with respect to Murray Modified Amendment No. 344, to 
provide $1,975,183,000 for medical care for veterans. Subsequently, the 
point of order that the amendment would violate section 302 of the 
Congressional Budget Act was sustained, and the amendment thus fell. 
                                     Pages S3451-55, S3456-60, S3461-68
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at approximately 10:30 a.m., on Wednesday, 
April 13, 2005; that there be 40 minutes equally divided in relation to 
Durbin Amendment No. 356 (listed above), and that the Senate vote on or 
in relation to the amendment, with no second degrees in order to the 
amendment prior to that vote.
Page S3502
Appointment:
  Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress: The Chair announced, 
on behalf of the Democratic Leader, pursuant to Public Law 101-509, the 
appointment of Guy Rocha, of Nevada, to the Advisory Committee on the 
Records of Congress, vice Stephen Van Buren of South Dakota. 
                                                             Page S3502
Executive Communications:
  Pages S3480-81
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S3481
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S3481-84
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S3484-92

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Additional Statements:
  Pages S3479-80
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S3494-S3500
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:
  Pages S3500-01
Authority for Committees to Meet:
  Page S3501
Privilege of the Floor:
  Page S3501
Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--90) 
                                                             Page S3468
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:45 a.m., and adjourned at 6:53 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m., on Wednesday, April 13, 2005. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on 
pages S3502-03.)