[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 85 (Thursday, June 23, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D659-D661]
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                                            Thursday, June 23, 2005

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S7203-S7330
Measures Introduced: Twenty bills and two resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 1290-1309, and S. Res. 180-181.           
  Pages S7293-94
Measures Reported: S. 335, to reauthorize the Congressional Award Act. 
(S. Rept. No. 109-87)
  H.R. 2862, making appropriations for Science, the Departments of 
State, Justice, and Commerce, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2006, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute. (S. Rept. No. 109-88)                            
Page S7293
Measures Passed:
  Forest Service Anniversary: Senate agreed to S. Res. 181, recognizing 
July 1, 2005 as the 100th Anniversary of the Forest Service. 
                                                             Page S7329
  Capitol Visitors Center: Committee on Rules and Administration was 
discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 179, to provide for 
oversight over the Capitol Visitors Center by the Architect of the 
Capitol, and the resolution was then agreed to.              
  Page S7329
Energy Policy Act: Senate completed consideration of H.R. 6, to ensure 
jobs for our future with secure, affordable, and reliable energy, after 
taking action on the following amendments proposed thereto: 
                                                         Pages S7204-84
Adopted:
  Domenici Amendment No. 891, to modify the section relating to the 
coastal impact assistance program.                       
Pages S7210-33
  By 52 yeas to 46 nays (Vote No. 154), Schumer Amendment No. 810, to 
strike a provision relating to medical isotope production. 
                                               Pages S7240-44, S7247-49
  Kyl Modified Amendment No. 990, to provide for a study relative to 
medical isotope production.                              
Pages S7249-51
  Talent/Johnson Amendment No. 819, to increase the allowable credit 
for fuel use under the alternatively fueled vehicle purchase 
requirement.                                             
Pages S7262-63
  By 64 yeas to 31 nays (Vote No. 156), Bond/Levin Amendment No. 925, 
to impose additional requirements for improving automobile fuel economy 
and reducing vehicle emissions.                      
Pages S7251, S7263
  Schumer Amendment No. 811, to provide for a national tire fuel 
efficiency program.                                          
Page S7264
  Craig (for Jeffords) Modified Amendment No. 832, to require the 
Secretary of the Interior to consult with the Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency in the conduct of a coal bed methane 
study.                                                       
Page S7264
  Craig (for Reid/Ensign) Modified Amendment No. 871, to provide 
whistleblower protection for contract and agency employees at the 
Department of Energy.                                        
Page S7264
  Craig (for Cochran) Modified Amendment No. 886, to include waste-
derived ethanol and biodiesel in a definition of biodiesel. 
                                                             Page S7264
  Craig (for Enzi) Modified Amendment No. 899, to establish procedures 
for the reinstatement of leases terminated due to unforeseeable 
circumstances.                                               
Page S7264
  Craig (for Obama) Amendment No. 808, to establish a program to 
develop Fischer-Tropsch transportation fuels from Illinois basin coal. 
                                                             Page S7264
  Craig (for Kerry) Amendment No. 825, to establish a 4-year pilot 
program to provide emergency relief to small business concerns affected 
by a significant increase in the price of heating oil, natural gas, 
propane, gasoline, or kerosene.                          
Pages S7264-65
  Craig (for Inhofe) Modified Amendment No. 940, to provide for the 
control of hazardous air pollutants from motor vehicles and motor 
vehicle fuels.                                               
Page S7265
  Craig (for Domenici/Bingaman) Amendment No. 1005, to make a technical 
correction.                                                  
Page S7265
  Craig (for Vitter) Amendment No. 1006, to require the Secretary to 
carry out a study and compile exisiting science to determine the risks 
or benefits presented by cumulative impacts of multiple offshore 
liquefied natural gas facilities reasonably assumed to be constructed 
in an area of the Gulf of Mexico using the open-rack vaporization 
system.                                                  
Pages S7265-66
  Craig (for Byrd) Amendment No. 1007, to improve the clean coal power 
initiative.                                                  
Page S7266

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  Craig (for Cantwell) Amendment No. 1008, to clarify provisions 
regarding relief for extraordinary violations.               
Page S7266
  Craig (for Grassley/Baucus) Amendment No. 1009, to provide a 
Manager's amendment.                                         
Page S7266
  Craig (for Obama) Modified Amendment No. 851, to require the 
Secretary to establish a Joint Flexible Fuel/Hybrid Vehicle 
Commercialization Initiative.                                
Page S7266
  Craig (for Salazar) Modified Amendment No. 892, to provide for the 
Western Integrated Coal Gasification Demonstration Project. 
                                                             Page S7266
  Craig (for Durbin) Modified Amendment No. 903, to provide that small 
businesses are eligible to participate in the Next Generation Lighting 
Initiative.                                                  
Page S7266
  Craig (for Harkin) Modified Amendment No. 919, to enhance the 
national security of the United States by providing for the research, 
development, demonstration, administrative support, and market 
mechanisms for widespread deployment and commercialization of biobased 
fuels and biobased products.                                 
Page S7266
  Craig (for Snowe) Amendment No. 834, to provide for understanding of 
and access to procurement opportunities for small businesses with 
regard to Energy Star technologies and products.             
Page S7266
Rejected:
  By 21 yeas to 76 nays (Vote No. 155), Sununu/Wyden Amendment No. 873, 
to strike the title relating to incentives for innovative technologies.
                                                  Pages S7244-47, S7249
  By 28 yeas to 67 nays (Vote No. 157), Durbin Amendment No. 902, to 
amend title 49, United States Code, to improve the system for enhancing 
automobile fuel efficiency.                    
Pages S7251-62, S7263-64
Withdrawn:
  Wyden/Dorgan Amendment No. 792, to provide for the suspension of 
strategic petroleum reserve acquisitions.                    
Page S7266
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 92 yeas to 4 nays (Vote No. 152), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, having voted in the affirmative, Senate agreed 
to the motion to close further debate on the bill.       
Pages S7209-10
  Chair sustained a point of order that 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, was not germane, and the amendment thus fell.
                                                             Page S7210
  By 69 yeas to 26 nays (Vote No. 153), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, having voted in the affirmative, Senate agreed 
to the motion to waive section 302(f) of the Congressional Budget Act 
of 1974, with respect to Domenici Amendment No. 891, to modify the 
section relating to the coastal impact assistance program. 
Subsequently, the point of order that the amendment would cause the 
underlying bill to exceed the subcommittee section 302(B) allocation 
was not sustained.                                           
Page S7233
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for the vote on 
final passage of the bill to occur at 9:45 a.m., on Tuesday, June 28, 
2005, with paragraph 4 of Rule 12 waived.                    
Page S7283
INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS--AGREEMENT: A unanimous-consent agreement was 
reached providing that on Friday, June 24, 2005 at a time determined by 
the Majority Leader, after consultation with the Democratic Leader, 
Senate begin consideration of H.R. 2361, making appropriations for the 
Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2006; that the committee substitute be 
agreed to and considered as original text for the purpose of further 
amendment, with no points of order waived; provided further that all 
first-degree amendments be offered on Friday, June 24, and Monday, June 
27, 2005.                                                
  Pages S7329-30
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, the legislation and supporting 
documents to implement the United States-Dominican Republic-Central 
American Free Trade Agreement; which was referred to the Committee on 
Finance. (PM-14)                                         
Pages S7291-92
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on the continuation of the 
national emergency with respect to the extremist violence in Macedonia 
and the Western Balkans region; which was referred to the Committee on 
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM-15)                 
Page S7292
Nominations Received: Senate received the following Nominations:
  Granta Y. Nakayama, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator of 
the Environmental Protection Agency.
  Kent R. Hill, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator of the 
United States Agency for International Development.
  Colleen Duffy Kiko, of Virginia, to be General Counsel of the Federal 
Labor Relations Authority for a term of five years.

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  Mary M. Rose, of North Carolina, to be a Member of the Merit Systems 
Protection Board for the term of seven years expiring March 1, 2011.
  Stephanie Johnson Monroe, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary for 
Civil Rights, Department of Education.
  Steven G. Bradbury, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Attorney General.
  Peter Manson Swaim, of Indiana, to be United States Marshal for the 
Southern District of Indiana for the term of four years.
  Routine lists in the Army, Navy.                           
Page S7330
Executive Communications:                                
  Pages S7292-93
Executive Reports of Committees:                             
  Page S7293
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S7294-96
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:           
  Pages S7296-S7319
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S7290-91
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S7319-28
Authority for Committees to Meet:                        
  Pages S7328-29
Record Votes: Six record votes were taken today. (Total--157) 
                          Pages S7209-10, S7233, S7248-49, S7249, S7263
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9 a.m., and adjourned at 10:03 p.m. 
until 9:30 a.m., on Friday, June 24, 2005. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S7330.)