[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 82 (Monday, June 20, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D633-D634]
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                                              Monday, June 20, 2005

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S6785-S6869
Measures Introduced: Six bills and three resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 1268-1273, and S. Res. 176-178.
  Pages S6825-26
Measures Passed:
United States-European Union Summit: Senate agreed to S. Res. 178, 
expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the United States-European 
Union Summit.
  Page S6869
Energy Policy Act: Senate resumed consideration of H.R. 6, to ensure 
jobs for our future with secure, affordable, and reliable energy, 
taking action on the following amendments proposed thereto: 
                                               Pages S6786-95, S6802-10
Adopted:
  Domenici (for Grassley/Baucus) Amendment No. 800, to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide energy policy tax incentives. 
                                                             Page S6795
Pending:
  Wyden/Dorgan Amendment No. 792, to provide for the suspension of 
strategic petroleum reserve acquisitions.
Pages S6786-90
  Voinovich Amendment No. 799, to make grants and loans to States and 
other organizations to strengthen the economy, public health, and 
environment of the United States by reducing emissions from diesel 
engines.
Pages S6790-95, S6802
  Martinez (for Nelson (FL)) Amendment No. 783, to strike the section 
providing for a comprehensive inventory of Outer Continental Shelf oil 
and natural gas resources.
Pages S6802-08
  Schumer Amendment No. 805, to express the sense of the Senate 
regarding management of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to lower the 
burden of gasoline prices on the economy of the United States and 
circumvent the efforts of OPEC to reap windfall profits. 
                                                         Pages S6808-10
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at 9:45 a.m., on Tuesday, June 21, 2005; that 
there be 80 minutes of debate on Martinez (for Nelson (FL)) Amendment 
No. 783 (listed above), and the Senate then vote on, or in relation to 
the amendment with no second-degree amendments in order prior to the 
vote.
Page S6869
Nomination Considered: Senate resumed consideration of the nomination 
of John Robert Bolton, of Maryland, to be Representative of the United 
States of America to the United Nations.
  Pages S6795-6802
  During consideration of this nomination today, Senate also took the 
following actions:
  Pursuant to the order of June 16, 2005, the motion to proceed to the 
motion to reconsider the failed cloture vote (taken on May 26, 2005) 
was agreed to, and the motion to reconsider was then agreed to. 
                                                             Page S6801
  By 54 yeas to 38 nays (Ex. Vote No. 142 ), three-fifths of those 
Senators duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, 
Senate, upon reconsideration, rejected the motion to close further 
debate on the nomination.
Page S6802
Messages From the President: Senate received the following message from 
the President of the United States:
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, a report of the continuation of the 
national emergency with respect to the risk of nuclear proliferation 
created by the accumulation of weapons-usable fissile material in the 
territory of the Russian Federation; which was referred to the 
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM-13) 
                                                         Pages S6816-17
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Timothy Elliott Flanigan, of Virginia, to be Deputy Attorney General.
  Sue Ellen Wooldridge, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Attorney 
General.
Page S6869
Messages From the House:
  Page S6817
Measures Read First Time:
  Page S6817
Enrolled Bills Presented:
  Page S6817
Petitions and Memorials:
  Pages S6817-25
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S6825
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S6826-27

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Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S6828-34
Additional Statements:
  Pages S6814-16
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S6834-68
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:
  Page S6868
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--142) 
                                                             Page S6802
Adjournment: Senate convened at 2 p.m., and adjourned at 7:59 p.m. 
until 9:45 a.m., on Tuesday, June 21, 2005. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S6869.)