[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 48 (Wednesday, April 20, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D372-D374]
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                                          Wednesday, April 20, 2005

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3959-S4039
Measures Introduced: Thirteen bills and five resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 853-865, S.J. Res. 16, and S. Res. 114-117. 
                                                             Page S4021
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 S3965-S4007
Adopted:
  Kohl Amendment No. 380, to provide supplemental funding for 
international food assistance.
Pages S3966-68, S3970
  Lincoln Amendment No. 482, to require a report assessing the 
feasibility and advisability of implementing for the Army National 
Guard a program similar to the Post Deployment Stand-Down Program of 
the Air National Guard.
Page S3986
  Baucus Modified Amendment No. 549 (to Amendment No. 475), to clarify 
the terms of payment under the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export 
Enhancement Act of 2000.
Pages S3987-88
  Reid (for Durbin) Amendment No. 443, to affirm that the United States 
may not engage in torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment 
under any circumstances.
Pages S3966, S3976-80, S3988
  By 65 yeas to 34 nays (Vote No. 105), Byrd Amendment No. 516, to 
increase funding for border security.
Pages S3966, S3983-84, S3988-89
  By 58 yeas to 38 nays (Vote No. 106), Warner Amendment No. 498, 
relating to the aircraft carriers of the Navy. 
                                               Pages S3981-83, S3989-93
  Bingaman Modified Amendment No. 483, to increase the appropriation to 
Federal courts by $5,000,000 to cover increased immigration-related 
filings in the southwestern United States.
Pages S3965, S3993
  Landrieu Modified Amendment No. 414, to encourage that funds be made 
available to provide assistance to children affected by the tsunami. 
                                                         Pages S3993-95
  Reid (for Biden) Modified Amendment No. 440, to express the sense of 
the Senate on funding for the Vaccine Health Care Centers. 
                                                     Pages S3966, S3996
  Stevens (for Bunning) Modified Amendment No. 518, to express the 
sense of the Senate that the Department of Defense should fund 
initiatives to increase the domestic manufacturing capability to 
produce ceramic armor and its requisite components.
Pages S3996-97
  Stevens (for Bunning) Modified Amendment No. 519, to express the 
sense of the Senate that the Department of Defense should procure Rapid 
Wall Breaching Kits in fiscal year 2005 and request funding for the new 
devices in future fiscal years.
Page S3997
  Stevens (for Landrieu) Modified Amendment No. 480, to express the 
sense of the Senate that the Operation and Maintenance, Army Reserve 
may be increased by $17,600,000, with the amount of such increase 
designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 402 of the 
conference report to accompany S. Con. Res. 95 (108th Congress), and 
make the amount available for tuition assistance programs for members 
of the Army Reserve.
Page S3997
  Boxer/Bingaman Modified Amendment No. 444, to express the sense of 
the Senate that $60,000,000 may be made available for the rapid 
deployment of Warlock systems and other field jamming systems. 
                                                     Pages S3966, S3997
  Feingold Modified Amendment No. 416, to authorize travel and 
transportation for family members of members of the Armed Forces 
hospitalized in the United States in connection with non-serious 
illnesses or injuries incurred or aggravated in a contingency 
operation.
Pages S3997-99
  Chambliss Further Modified Amendment No. 418, to prohibit the 
termination of the existing joint-service multiyear procurement 
contract for
C/KC-130J aircraft.
Pages S3965, S4000

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  Cochran (for Leahy) Modified Amendment No. 493, to continue programs 
to assist the families and communities of Afghan and Iraqi war victims.
                                                             Page S4000
  Cochran (for Durbin) Modified Amendment No. 489, to make tsunami 
recovery and reconstruction funds available for programs and activities 
which create new economic opportunities for women.
Pages S4000-01
  Cochran (for DeWine) Modified Amendment No. 342, to provide 
additional assistance for Haiti.
Pages S3965, S4001
  Cochran (for Bennett) Modified Amendment No. 425, to provide funds 
for microcredit programs in the countries affected by the tsunami. 
                                                             Page S4001
  Levin Amendment No. 563, to authorize the Secretary of Labor to 
convey the Detroit Labor Building to the State of Michigan. 
                                                             Page S4004
  Cochran (for Salazar) Modified Amendment No. 454, to ensure that 
Afghan security forces, including police, border security guards, and 
members of the Afghan National Army, who receive training provided with 
United States assistance are professionally trained and that certain 
minimum standards are met.
Pages S4004-05
  Cochran (for Corzine/Brownback) Modified Amendment No. 517, to impose 
sanctions against perpetrators of crimes against humanity in Darfur, 
Sudan.
Pages S4005-07
  Cochran (for McConnell) Amendment No. 488, of a technical nature. 
                                                             Page S4007
Rejected:
  Coburn Amendment No. 450, to remove a non-emergency provision, 
relating to the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority.
Pages S3971-74
  Coburn Amendment No. 471, to reduce appropriations for the Iraqi 
embassy to reduce outlays expected to occur in fiscal year 2007 or 
later. (By 54 yeas to 45 nays (Vote No. 104), Senate tabled the 
amendment.)
Pages S3971-76, S3981, S3984-85
Withdrawn:
  Coburn Amendment No. 467, to remove a non-emergency spending, 
relating to the Institute of Museum Library Services.
Pages S3971-76
  Shelby Amendment No. 466, to provide for a refundable wage 
differential credit for activated military reservists.
Pages S3985-86
  Lincoln Amendment No. 481, to modify the accumulation of leave by 
members of the National Guard.
Pages S3966, S3986
  Reid (for Bayh) Amendment No. 388, to appropriate an additional 
$742,000,000 for Other Procurement, Army, for the procurement of up to 
3,300 Up Armored High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (UAHMMVs).
                                           Pages S3966, S3968-70, S3995
  Bayh Amendment No. 406, to protect the financial condition of members 
of the reserve components of the Armed Forces who are ordered to long-
term active duty in support of a contingency operation. 
                                                     Pages S3965, S3995
  Isakson Amendment No. 429, 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, and to ensure expeditious construction of 
the San Diego border fence.
Pages S3965-66, S4001
Pending:
  Ensign Amendment No. 487, to provide for additional border patrol 
agents for the remainder of fiscal year 2005.
Page S3966
  Bayh Amendment No. 520, to appropriate and additional $213,000,000 
for Other Procurement, Army, for the procurement of Up-Armored High 
Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (UAHMMWVs).
Pages S3995-96
During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
    following actions:
  Chair sustained certain points of order that the following amendments 
were not germane to the bill, and the amendments thus fell:
  DeWine Amendment No. 340, to increase the period of continued TRICARE 
coverage of children of members of the uniformed services who die while 
serving on active duty for a period of more than 30 days. 
                                                     Pages S3965, S3980
  Salazar Amendment No. 351, to express the sense of the Senate that 
the earned income tax credit provides critical support to many military 
and civilian families.
Pages S3965, S3981
  Frist (for Craig/Kennedy) Modified Amendment No. 375, to provide for 
the adjustment of status of certain foreign agricultural workers, to 
amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reform the H-2A worker 
program under that Act, to provide a stable, legal agricultural 
workforce, to extend basic legal protections and better working 
conditions to more workers.
Pages S3965, S3981
  Feinstein Amendment No. 395, to express the sense of the Senate that 
the text of the REAL ID Act of 2005 should not be included in the 
conference report.
Pages S3965, S3981
  Bingaman (for Grassley) Amendment No. 417, to provide emergency 
funding to the Office of the United States Trade Representative. 
                                                     Pages S3965, S3981
  Frist (for Chambliss/Kyl) Amendment No. 432, to simplify the process 
for admitting temporary alien agricultural workers under section

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101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, to 
increase access to such workers.
Pages S3965, S3981
  Reid Amendment No. 445, to achieve an acceleration and expansion of 
efforts to reconstruct and rehabilitate Iraq and to reduce the future 
risks to United States Armed Forces personnel and future costs to 
United States taxpayers, by ensuring that the people of Iraq and other 
nations do their fair share to secure and rebuild Iraq. 
                                                     Pages S3965, S3981
  Schumer Amendment No. 451, to lower the burden of gasoline prices on 
the economy of the United States and circumvent the efforts of OPEC to 
reap windfall oil profits.
Pages S3965, S3981
  Reid (for Reed/Chafee) Amendment No. 452, to provide for the 
adjustment of status of certain nationals of Liberia to that of lawful 
permanent residents.
Pages S3965, S3981
  Sessions Amendment No. 456, to provide for accountability in the 
United Nations Headquarters renovation project.
Pages S3966, S3981
  Reid (for Feingold) Amendment No. 459, to extend the termination date 
of Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, 
expand the duties of the Inspector General, and provide additional 
funds for the Office.
Pages S3966, S3981, S3999-S4000
  Byrd Amendment No. 463, to require a quarterly report on audits 
conducted by the Defense Contract Audit Agency of task or delivery 
order contracts and other contracts related to security and 
reconstruction activities in Iraq and Afghanistan and to address 
irregularities identified in such reports.
Pages S3966, S3981
  Warner Amendment No. 499, relative to the aircraft carriers of the 
Navy.
Pages S3966, S3981
  Craig Amendment No. 475, to limit the use of funds to restrict the 
issuance of general licenses for travel to Cuba in connection with 
authorized sales activities.
Pages S3986-87, S3995
  Reid (for Biden) Amendment No. 537, to provide funds for the security 
and stabilization of Iraq and Afghanistan and for other defense-related 
activities by suspending a portion of the reduction in the highest 
income tax rate for individual taxpayers.
Pages S3966, S4004
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that on Thursday, 
April 21, 2005, at a time determined by the Majority Leader, after 
consultation with the Democratic Leader, Senate continue consideration 
of the bill; that all time be considered expired under Rule XXII, with 
the exception of 15 minutes for debate equally divided between the 
Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, Senator Cochran, and 
Senator Bayh, or his designee, prior to votes in relation to the 
remaining amendments, and that following disposition of the amendments, 
the bill be read a third time and the Senate vote on final passage; 
provided further, the Senate insist on its amendment, request a 
conference with the House, and the Chair be authorized to appoint the 
Members of the Committee on Appropriations as conferees on the part of 
the Senate.
Page S4007
Nomination--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached 
providing that on Thursday, April 21, 2005, at a time determined by the 
Majority Leader, after consultation with the Democratic Leader, Senate 
begin consideration of the nomination of John D. Negroponte, of New 
York, to be Director of National Intelligence; that there be 4 hours of 
debate, equally divided between the Majority Leader and the Democratic 
Leader, or their designees, and that the Democratic time be equally 
divided between Senators Rockefeller and Wyden; and that at the 
expiration, or yielding back of time, Senate vote on confirmation of 
the nomination.
  Pages S4007, S4038
Messages From the House:
  Page S4015
Measures Referred:
  Page S4015
Measures Placed on Calendar:
  Pages S4015-16
Executive Communications:
  Page S4016
Petitions and Memorials:
  Pages S4016-21
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S4021-24
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S4024-37
Additional Statements:
  Pages S4012-15
Amendments Submitted:
  Page S4037
Authority for Committees to Meet:
  Pages S4037-38
Privilege of the Floor:
  Page S4038
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total--106) 
                                           Pages S3984-85, S3989, S3993
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:31 a.m., and adjourned at 7:11 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m., on Thursday, April 21, 2005. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on 
pages S4038-39.)