[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 87 (Monday, June 27, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D675-D677]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                              Monday, June 27, 2005

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S7397-S7449
Measures Introduced: Six bills were introduced, as follows: S. 1312-
1317.
  Page S7428
Measures Reported:
  S. 1017, to reauthorize grants for the water resources research and 
technology institutes established under the Water Resources Research 
Act of 1984, with amendments. (S. Rept. No. 109-90)
  S. 655, to amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to the 
National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 109-91)
  H.R. 2744, making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, 
Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2006, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute. (S. Rept. No. 109-92)
  S. 268, to provide competitive grants for training court reporters 
and closed captioners to meet requirements for realtime writers under 
the Telecommunications Act of 1996, with amendments. (S. Rept. No. 109-
93)
  S. 432, to establish a digital and wireless network technology 
program. (S. Rept. No. 109-94)
Pages S7427-28
Measures Passed:
  Red Tide Emergency Relief Act: Senate passed S. 1316, to authorize 
the Small Business Administration to provide emergency relief to 
shellfish growers affected by toxic red tide losses.
  Pages S7446-47
  Partners for Fish and Wildlife Act: Senate passed 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, after agreeing to the committee 
amendments.
  Pages S7447-48
Interior Appropriations: Senate resumed 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, and 
pursuant to the order of June 23, 2005, agreed to the committee 
amendment in the nature of a substitute, which will be considered as 
original text for the purpose of further amendment, taking action on 
the following amendments proposed thereto:
  Pages S7403-23
Adopted:
  Burns (for Ensign) Amendment No. 1033, to prohibit the use of funds 
for the demolition of buildings at the Zephyr Shoals property, Lake 
Tahoe, Nevada.
Pages S7413, S7422
  Dorgan (for Feinstein) Amendment No. 1024, to authorize the 
imposition of fees for overnight lodging at certain properties at Fort 
Baker, California.
Pages S7404, S7422
  Burns (for Frist) Amendment No. 1028, to reinstate a provision 
relating to National Parks with deed restrictions.
Pages S7412, S7422
  Dorgan (for Wyden) Amendment No. 1035, to extend the authority for 
watershed restoration and enhancement agreements.
Pages S7409, S7422
  Burns (for Craig) Amendment No. 1041, to withdraw from mineral entry 
or appropriation under mining lease laws, and from leasing claims under 
mineral and geothermal leasing laws, certain land in the Payette 
National Forest.
Pages S7412, S7422
Pending:
  Burns (for Voinovich) Amendment No. 1010, to prohibit the use of 
funds to take certain land into trust without the consent of the 
Governor of the State in which the land is located.
Page S7403
  Burns (for Frist/Reid) Amendment No. 1022, to provide for 
Congressional security relating to certain real property. 
                                                         Pages S7403-04
  Dorgan (for Boxer) Amendment No. 1023, to prohibit the use of funds 
by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to accept, 
consider, or rely on third-party intentional dosing human studies for 
pesticides or to conduct intentional dosing human studies for 
pesticides.
Page S7404
  Dorgan Amendment No. 1025, to require Federal reserve banks to 
transfer certain surplus funds to the general fund of the Treasury, to 
be used for the provision of Indian health care services.
Page S7404

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  Sununu/Bingaman Amendment No. 1026, to prohibit the use of funds to 
plan, design, study or construct certain forest development roads in 
the Tongass National Forest.
Pages S7404-05, S7409-11
  Dorgan (for Kerry) Amendment No. 1029, making emergency supplemental 
appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, for the 
Veterans Health Administration.
Page S7405
  Dorgan (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 1030, to modify a provision 
relating to funds appropriated for Bureau of Indian Affairs 
postsecondary schools.
Page S7405
  Dorgan (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 1031, to set aside additional 
amounts for Youth Conservation Corps projects.
Page S7405
  Dorgan (for Durbin) Amendment No. 1032, to prohibit the use of funds 
in contravention of the Executive order relating to Federal actions to 
address environmental justice in minority populations and low-income 
populations.
Page S7406
  Dorgan (for Reed) Amendment No. 1036, to modify certain 
administrative provisions relating to the brownfield site 
characterization and assessment program.
Page S7409
  Dorgan (for Reed) Amendment No. 1037, to authorize recipients of 
grants provided under the brownfield site characterization and 
assessment program to use grant funds for reasonable administrative 
expenses.
Page S7409
  Salazar Amendment No. 1038, to provide additional funds for the 
payment in lieu of taxes program, with an offset.
Pages S7411-12
  Salazar Amendment No. 1039, to provide that certain user fees 
collected under the Land and Water Conservation Act of 1965 be paid to 
the States.
Pages S7411-12
  Burns (for Bond) Amendment No. 1040, to set aside funds for the 
University of Missouri--Columbia to establish a wetland ecology center 
of excellence.
Page S7412
  Burns (for Warner) Amendment No. 1042, to set aside funds for the 
replacement of the main gate facility at the Wolf Trap National Park 
for the Performing Arts, Virginia.
Page S7412
  Burns (for Ensign) Amendment No. 1012, to provide for the conveyance 
of certain Bureau of Land Management land in the State of Nevada to the 
Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Pages S7412-13
  Burns (for Coburn) Amendment No. 1002, to reduce total appropriations 
in the bill by 1.7 percent for the purpose of fully funding the 
Department of Defense.
Page S7413
  Burns (for Coburn) Amendment No. 1003, to require conference report 
inclusion of limitations, directives, and earmarks.
Page S7413
  Burns (for Coburn) Amendment No. 1015, to transfer funding to 
Wildland Fire Management from the National Endowment for the Arts and 
the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Page S7413
  Burns (for Coburn) Amendment No. 1019, to transfer funding to the 
Special Diabetes Program for Indians and the Alcohol and Substance 
Abuse Program within the Indian Health Service from funding for Federal 
land acquisition.
Page S7413
  Burns (for Coburn) Amendment No. 1020, to express the Sense of the 
Senate that any additional emergency supplemental appropriations should 
be offset with reductions in discretionary spending.
Page S7413
  Dorgan (for Feingold) Amendment No. 1043, to require the Government 
Accountability Office to conduct an audit of the competitive sourcing 
program of the Forest Service.
Pages S7413-14
  Dorgan (for Byrd) Amendment No. 1044, to set aside funds for the 
White Sulphur Springs Fish Hatchery.
Page S7414
  Dorgan (for Conrad) Amendment No. 1045, to set aside funds for a 
brownfields assessment of the Fortuna Radar Site.
Page S7414
  Dorgan (for Sarbanes) Amendment No. 1046, to provide for a study of 
the feasibility of designating the Captain John Smith Chesapeake 
National Historic Watertrail as a national historic trail.
Page S7414
  Kyl (for Smith) Amendment No. 1048, to require the Secretary of 
Agriculture to report to Congress on the rehabilitation of the Biscuit 
Fire area of southern Oregon.
Page S7417
  Kyl Amendment No. 1049, to provide certain earmarks for State and 
tribal assistance grant funds.
Pages S7417-18
  Kyl Amendment No. 1050, to modify the formula for the allotment of 
grants to States for the establishment of State water pollution control 
revolving funds.
Page S7418
  Kyl (for Inhofe) Amendment No. 1051, to encourage competition in 
assistance agreements awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency. 
                                                             Page S7418
  Byrd (for Murray) Amendment No. 1052, making emergency supplemental 
appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, for the 
Veterans Health Administration.
Pages S7419-20
  Byrd/Cochran Amendment No. 1053, to provide funds for the Memorial to 
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pages S7420-21
  Dorgan (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 1054, to set aside additional 
amounts for Youth Conservation Corps projects.
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  Dorgan (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 1055, to provide for the 
consideration of the effect of competitive sourcing on wildland fire 
management activities.
Page S7421
  Dorgan (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 1056, to strike the title 
providing for the disposition of Forest Service land and the 
realignment of Forest Service facilities.
Page S7421
  Dorgan (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 1057, to extend the Forest 
Service conveyances pilot program.
Page S7421
  Dorgan (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 1058, to provide a substitute for 
title V, Facility Realignment and Enhancement Act of 2005.
Page S7421
  Dorgan Amendment No. 1059, to facilitate family travel to Cuba in 
humanitarian circumstance.
Page S7421
  Dorgan (for Landrieu) Amendment No. 1060, to make certain funding 
revisions relating to Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and 
Department of the Interior administrative expenses.
Page S7421
  Dorgan (for Obama) Amendment No. 1061, to provide that none of the 
funds made available in this Act may be used in contravention of 15 
U.S.C. section 2682(c)(3) or to delay the implementation of that 
section.
Pages S7421-22
  Dorgan (for Obama) Amendment No. 1062, to provide that of the funds 
made available under the heading ``Environmental Programs and 
Management,'' not less than $100,000 shall be made available to issue 
the proposed rule required under 15 U.S.C. section 2682(c)(3) by 
November 1, 2005, and promulgate the final rule required under 15 
U.S.C. section 2682(c)(3) by September 30, 2006.
Pages S7421-22
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that all second 
degree amendments be relevant to the first degree amendments to which 
they are offered.
Page S7449
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill on Tuesday, June 28, 2005.
Page S7449
Energy Policy Act Amendment--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement 
was reached providing that all references to Amendment No. 978, to 
clarify the definition of coal to liquid fuel technology, to the bill 
H.R. 6, to ensure jobs for our future with secure, affordable, and 
reliable energy, agreed to on Wednesday, June 22, 2005, reflect that 
the sponsor of the amendment is Senator Conrad and not Senator Obama. 
                                                             Page S7449
Energy Policy Act--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached 
providing for further consideration of H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act, at 
9:45 a.m. on Tuesday, June 28, 2005, with a vote on final passage of 
the bill to occur immediately thereon.
  Page S7449
Messages From the House:
  Page S7425
Measures Referred:
  Page S7425
Executive Communications:
  Pages S7425-27
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S7428-29
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S7429-38
Additional Statements:
  Page S7425
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S7438-45
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:
  Pages S7445-46
Adjournment: Senate convened at 1 p.m., and adjourned at 6:24 p.m. 
until 9:45 a.m., on Tuesday, June 28, 2005. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S7449.)