[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 84 (Wednesday, June 22, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D650-D652]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                           Wednesday, June 22, 2005

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                              Daily Digest


Highlights

      The House passed H.J. Res. 10, proposing a Constitutional 
      amendment authorizing the Congress to prohibit the physical 
      desecration of the flag.

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S6979-S7201
Measures Introduced: Five bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1285-1289, and S. Res. 179.
  Page S7070
Measures Reported:
  S. 260, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide 
technical and financial assistance to private landowners to restore, 
enhance, and manage private land to improve fish and wildlife habitats 
through the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program, with amendments. 
(S. Rept. No. 109-86)
Page S7069
Measures Passed:
  Sigma Chi Fraternity Anniversary: Committee on the Judiciary was 
discharged from further consideration of H. Con. Res. 163, honoring the 
Sigma Chi Fraternity on the occasion of its 150th Anniversary, and the 
resolution was then agreed to.
  Page S7198
  Congratulating Small Business Development Centers: Committee on Small 
Business and Entrepreneurship was discharged from further consideration 
of S. Res. 165, congratulating the Small Business Development Centers 
of the Small Business Administration on their 25 years of service to 
America's small business owners and entrepreneurs, and the resolution 
was then agreed to.
  Pages S7198-99
  National Time Out Day: Committee on Health, Education, Labor and 
Pensions was discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 40, 
supporting the goals and ideas of National Time Out Day to promote the 
adoption of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare 
Organizations' universal protocol for preventing errors in the 
operating room, and the resolution was then agreed to.
  Page S7199
  Massacre at Srebrenica: Committee on Foreign Relations was discharged 
from further consideration of S. Res. 134, expressing the sense of the 
Senate regarding the massacre at Srebrenica in July 1995, and the 
resolution was then agreed to.
  Pages S7199-S7200
  Patient Navigator Services: Committee on Health, Education, Labor and 
Pensions was discharged from further consideration of H.R. 1812, to 
amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize a demonstration grant 
program to provide patient navigator services to reduce barriers and 
improve health care outcomes, and the resolution was then agreed to. 
                                                             Page S7200
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 S6980-S7063
Adopted:
  Byrd Amendment No. 869, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to 
provide relief from high gas prices.
Pages S6992-94
  Bingaman/Specter Modified Amendment No. 866, to express the sense of 
the Senate on climate change legislation. (By 44 yeas to 53 nays (Vote 
No. 149), Senate earlier failed to table the amendment.) 
                                                         Pages S7033-37
  Frist (for Obama) Amendment No. 978, to clarify the definition of 
coal to liquid fuel technology.
Page S7059
  Frist (for Hatch/Salazar) Amendment No. 979, to promote oil shale and 
tar sands development.
Page S7059
  Frist (for Jeffords) Amendment No. 818, to commission a study for the 
roof of the Dirksen Senate

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Office Building in a manner that facilitates the incorporation of 
energy efficient technology and amends the Master Plan for the Capitol 
complex.
Page S7057
  Frist (for Stabenow) Amendment No. 980, to require an investigation 
of gasoline prices.
Page S7059
  Frist (for Kohl) Amendment No. 981, require the Secretary and the 
Administrator for Small Business to coordinate assistance with the 
Secretary of Commerce for manufacturing related efforts. 
                                                         Pages S7059-60
  Frist (for Clinton/Allard) Amendment No. 835, to establish a National 
Priority Project Designation.
Pages S7057-58
  Frist (for Murkowski) Amendment No. 787, to make Alaska Native 
Corporations eligible for renewable energy production incentives. 
                                                             Page S7057
  Frist (for Voinovich/DeWine) Amendment No. 822, to promote fuel 
efficient engine technology for aircraft.
Page S7057
  Frist (for Alexander) Amendment No. 982, to require the Secretary to 
conduct a study of best management practices for energy research and 
development programs.
Page S7060
  Frist (for Jeffords) Amendment No. 983, to expand the types of 
qualified renewable energy facilities that are eligible for a renewable 
energy production incentive.
Page S7060
  Frist (for Dodd) Amendment No. 861, to require the Secretary to enter 
into a contract with the National Academy of Sciences to determine the 
effect of electrical contaminants on the reliability of energy 
production systems.
Page S7058
  Frist (for Dorgan) Amendment No. 850, to modify the section relating 
to the establishment of a National Power Plant Operations Technology 
and Education Center.
Page S7058
  Frist (for Cornyn) Amendment No. 984, to require the Secretary to 
establish a program of research, development, demonstration, and 
commercial application to maximize the productive capacity of marginal 
wells and reservoirs.
Page S7060
  Frist (for Levin) Amendment No. 864, to ensure that cost-effective 
procedures are used to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. 
                                                  Pages S7058, S7061-63
  Frist (for Pryor) Amendment No. 798, to require the submission of 
reports on the potential for biodiesel and hythane to be used as major, 
sustainable, alternative fuels.
Page S7057
  Frist (for Boxer) Amendment No. 870, to require the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission to complete its investigation and order refunds 
on the unjust and unreasonable rates charged to California during the 
2000-2001 electricity crisis.
Page S7058
  Frist (for Levin) Amendment No. 927, to provide a budget roadmap for 
the transition from petroleum to hydrogen in vehicles by 2020. 
                                                         Pages S7058-59
  Frist (for Hutchison) Amendment No. 985, to make petroleum coke 
gasification projects eligible for certain loan guarantees. 
                                                             Page S7060
  Frist (for Murkowski) Amendment No. 786, to make energy generated by 
oceans eligible for renewable energy production incentives and to 
modify the definition of the term ``renewable energy'' to include 
energy generated by oceans for purposes of the Federal purchase 
requirement.
Page S7057
  Frist (for Jeffords) Amendment No. 986, to authorize the Secretary of 
Energy to make grants to increase energy efficiency, promote siting or 
upgrading of transmission and distribution lines, and providing or 
modernizing electric facilities in rural areas.
Page S7060
  Frist (for Alexander) Amendment No. 987, to require the Secretary to 
conduct a study on passive solar technologies.
Page S7060
  Frist (for Harkin) Amendment No. 988, to require the Secretary to 
conduct a 3-year program of research, development, and demonstration on 
the use of ethanol and other low cost transportable renewable 
feedstocks as intermediate fuels for the safe, energy efficient, and 
cost-effective transportation of hyrdrogen.
Pages S7060-61
  Frist (for Domenici) Amendment No. 989, to improve the bill. 
                                                             Page S7061
  Frist (for Grassley/Baucus) Modified Amendment No. 933, to provide a 
manager's amendment.
Page S7059
Rejected:
  Feinstein Amendment No. 841, to prohibit the Commission from 
approving an application for the authorization of the siting, 
construction, expansion, or operation of facilities located onshore or 
in State waters for the import of natural gas from a foreign country or 
the export of natural gas to a foreign country without the approval of 
the Governor of the State in which the facility would be located. (By 
52 yeas to 45 nays (Vote No. 146), Senate tabled the amendment.) 
                                                         Pages S6980-92
  Schumer Modified 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. (By 57 yeas to 
39 nays (Vote No. 147), Senate tabled the amendment.) 
                                           Pages S6980, S6994, S6995-97

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  By 38 yeas to 60 nays (Vote No. 148), McCain/Lieberman Modified 
Amendment No. 826, to provide for a program to accelerate the reduction 
of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. 
                                               Pages S6980, S6997-S7029
  By 32 yeas to 63 nays (Vote No. 150), Alexander Amendment No. 961, to 
provide for local control for the siting of windmills. 
                                               Pages S7038-42, S7047-48
  By 46 yeas to 49 nays (Vote No. 151), Kerry Amendment No. 844, to 
express the sense of the Senate regarding the need for the United 
States to address global climate change through comprehensive and cost-
effective national measures and through the negotiation of fair and 
binding international commitments under the United Nations Framework 
Convention on Climate Change.
                                                  Pages S7042-46, S7048
                                                             Withdrawn:
  Warner Amendment No. 972, to provide for gas-only leases and State 
requests to examine energy areas on the Outer Continental Shelf. 
                                                         Pages S7049-52
                                                               Pending:
  Wyden/Dorgan Amendment No. 792, to provide for the suspension of 
strategic petroleum reserve acquisitions.
                                                             Page S6980
  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. 
                                                  Pages S6980, S7046-47
  Schumer Amendment No. 811, to provide for a national tire fuel 
efficiency program.
                                                         Pages S6994-95
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that not 
withstanding the provisions of Rule 22, the filing deadline for second-
degree amendments occur at 9:45 a.m., on Thursday, June 23, 2005 
                                                       Pages S7200-7201
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at 9 a.m., on Thursday, June 23, 2005, with a 
vote on the motion to invoke cloture to occur at 10 a.m.
                                                             Page S7201
Messages From the House:
  Page S7068
Executive Communications:
  Page S7069
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Pages S7069-70
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S7070-72
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S7072-76
Additional Statements:
  Pages S7067-68
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S7076-S7197
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:
  Page S7197
Authority for Committees to Meet:
  Pages S7197-98
Privilege of the Floor:
  Page S7198
Record Votes: Six record votes were taken today. (Total--151) 
                             Pages S6992, S6996-97, S7029, S7037, S7048
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 10:21 p.m. 
until 9 a.m., on Thursday, June 23, 2005. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S7201.)