[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 83 (Tuesday, June 21, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D640-D641]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                             Tuesday, June 21, 2005

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      The House passed H.R. 2475, Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 
      2006.
      House Committee ordered reported the following appropriations for 
      Fiscal Year 2006: Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and 
      Related Programs; and the Departments of Transportation, 
      Treasury, and Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, 
      District of Columbia, and Independent Agencies.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S6871-S6978
Measures Introduced: Eleven bills were introduced, as follows: S. 1274-
1284.
  Pages S6909-10
Measures Passed:
INTELSAT: Senate passed S. 1282, to amend the Communications Satellite 
Act of 1962 to strike the privatization criteria for INTELSAT separated 
entities, remove certain restrictions on separated and successor 
entities to INTELSAT.
  Pages S6977-78
Energy Policy Act: Senate continued 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 S6871-S6905
Adopted:
  By 66 yeas to 29 nays (Vote No. 144), Hagel Amendment No. 817, to 
provide for the conduct of activities that promote the adoption of 
technologies that reduce greenhouse gas intensity in the United States 
and in developing countries and to provide credit-based financial 
assistance and investment protection for projects that employ advanced 
climate technologies or systems in the United States. 
                                                  Pages S6878, S6880-92
  DeWine/Kohl Amendment No. 788, to amend the Sherman Act to make oil-
producing and exporting cartels illegal.
Pages S6898-S6900
  By 92 yeas to 1 nay (Vote No. 145), 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 S6900-04
Rejected:
  By 44 yeas to 52 nays (Vote No. 143), 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 S6871-78
Withdrawn:
  Dayton Amendment No. 790, to require that gasoline contain 10 percent 
ethanol by volume by 2015.
Pages S6878-80
Pending:
  Wyden/Dorgan Amendment No. 792, to provide for the suspension of 
strategic petroleum reserve acquisitions.
Page S6871
  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.
Page S6871
  McCain/Lieberman Amendment No. 826, to provide for a program to 
accelerate the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the United 
States.
Pages S6892-98
  Reid (for Lautenberg) Amendment No. 839, to require any Federal 
agency that publishes a science-based climate change document that was 
significantly altered at White House request to make an unaltered final 
draft of the document publicly available for comparison.
Page S6904
  A unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached providing that Senator 
Feinstein be recognized to offer an amendment relating to liquified 
natural gas;

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that there be 60 minutes equally divided for debate with no second-
degree amendments in order prior to a vote in relation to the Feinstein 
amendment; that following debate on the Feinstein amendment, Senator 
Byrd be recognized to offer an amendment related to rural gas prices; 
that when the Senate resumes debate on the McCain/Lieberman Amendment 
No. 826 (listed above), there be three additional hours for debate with 
Senator McCain, or his designee, in control of 90 minutes, Senator 
Domenici in control of 30 minutes, and Senator Inhofe in control of the 
remaining 60 minutes, that following that debate, Senate vote in 
relation to the McCain/Lieberman Amendment No. 826 with no second-
degree amendments in order prior to the vote.
Page S6904
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the bill and, in 
accordance with the provisions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate, a vote on cloture will occur on Thursday, June 23, 2005. 
                                                         Pages S6904-05
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at 9:30 a.m., on Wednesday, June 22, 2005. 
                                                             Page S6978
Messages From the House:
  Page S6908
Measures Referred:
  Page S6909
Measures Placed on Calendar:
  Page S6909
Executive Communications:
  Page S6909
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S6910-11
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S6911-34
Additional Statements:
  Pages S6907-08
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S6934-77
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:
  Page S6977
Authority for Committees to Meet:
  Page S6977
Privilege of the Floor:
  Page S6977
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total--145) 
                                           Pages S6877-78, S6891, S6902
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:45 a.m., and adjourned at 7:58 p.m. 
until 9:30 a.m., on Wednesday, June 22, 2005. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S6978.)