[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 77 (Monday, June 13, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D594]
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                                              Monday, June 13, 2005

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate agreed to S. Res. 39, Anti-Lynching Resolution.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S6347-S6425
Measures Introduced: Five bills and three resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 1225-1229, and S. Res. 168-170.
  Pages S6404-05
Measures Reported:
  Reported on Friday, June 10, during the adjournment:
  H.R. 2361, making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, 
environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 2006, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. 
No. 109-80)
  Reported today:
  Special Report entitled ``History, Jurisdiction, and a Summary of 
Activities of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources During the 
108th Congress''. (S. Rept. No. 109-81)
  S. 1181, to ensure an open and deliberate process in Congress by 
providing that any future legislation to establish a new exemption to 
section 552 of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the 
Freedom of Information Act) be stated explicitly within the text of the 
bill.
Page S6404
Measures Passed:
  Honoring Jesse R. Nichols: Senate agreed to S. Res. 168, expressing 
gratitude and sincere respect for Jesse R. Nichols.
  Pages S6349-51
  Anti-Lynching Resolution: Committee on the Judiciary was discharged 
from further consideration of S. Res. 39, apologizing to the victims of 
lynching and the descendants of those victims for the failure of the 
Senate to enact anti-lynching legislation, and the resolution was then 
agreed to.
  Pages S6364-88
  Relative to the Death of Former Senator Exon: Senate agreed to S. 
Res. 170, relative to the death of J. James Exon, former United States 
Senator for the State of Nebraska.
  Pages S6419-20, S6424
Nomination: Senate began consideration of the nomination of Thomas B. 
Griffith, of Utah, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District 
of Columbia Circuit.
  Pages S6351-64
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the nomination at 9:45 a.m., on Tuesday, June 14, 
2005, with a vote on confirmation of the nomination to occur at 10 a.m.
                                                             Page S6424
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nomination:
  Brian D. Montgomery, of Texas, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development.
Page S6425
Executive Communications:
  Pages S6402-04
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S6405-07
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S6407-19
Additional Statements:
  Pages S6401-02
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S6420-23
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:
  Pages S6423-24
Privilege of the Floor:
  Page S6424
Adjournment: Senate convened at 2 p.m., and as a further mark of 
respect to the memory of the late Honorable J. James Exon, former 
United States Senator for the State of Nebraska, in accordance with S. 
Res. 170, adjourned at 8:19 p.m., until 9:45 a.m., on Tuesday, June 14, 
2005. (For Senate's program, see the remarks of the Acting Majority 
Leader in today's Record on page S6424.)