[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 88 (Tuesday, June 28, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D684-D686]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                             Tuesday, June 28, 2005

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act.
      The House passed H.R. 3057, Foreign Operations, Export Financing, 
      and Related Programs Appropriations Act for FY 2006.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S7451-S7541
Measures Introduced: Nine bills and two resolutions were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1318-1326, and S. Res. 182-183.                  
  Page S7520
Measures Passed:
  Energy Policy Act: By 85 yeas to 12 nays (Vote No. 158), Senate 
passed H.R. 6, to ensure jobs for our future with secure, affordable, 
and reliable energy, as amended.                         
  Pages S7451-77
  Migratory Bird Commission: Senate agreed to S. Res. 183, recognizing 
the achievements and contributions of the Migratory Bird Commission on 
the occasion of its 72nd anniversary and the first day of sale of the 
2005-2006 Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp. 
                                                         Pages S7539-40
  National Mammography Week: Committee on the Judiciary was discharged 
from further consideration of S. Res. 154, designating October 21, 
2005, as ``National Mammography Day'', and the resolution was then 
agreed to.                                                   
  Page S7540
  National Veterans Awareness Week: Committee on the Judiciary was 
discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 155, designating the 
week of November 6 through November 12, 2005, as ``National Veterans 
Awareness Week'' to emphasize the need to develop educational programs 
regarding the contributions of veterans to the country, and the 
resolution was then agreed to.                               
  Page S7540
Interior Appropriations: Senate continued 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, 
taking action on the following amendments proposed thereto: 
                                                      Pages S7477-S7512
Adopted:
  Burns (for Frist/Reid) Amendment No. 1022, to provide for 
Congressional security relating to certain real property. 
                                                     Pages S7477, S7480
  Burns (for Bond) Modified Amendment No. 1040, to set aside funds for 
the University of Missouri-Columbia to establish a wetland ecology 
center of excellence.                                
Pages S7477, S7480
  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.                        
Pages S7478, S7480
  Dorgan (for Byrd) Modified Amendment No. 1044, to set aside funds for 
the White Sulphur Springs Fish Hatchery.             
Pages S7478, S7480
  Dorgan (for Reed) Amendment No. 1036, to modify certain 
administrative provisions relating to the brownfield site 
characterization and assessment program.             
Pages S7477, S7480
  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.                                         
Pages S7477, S7480
  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.                                            
Pages S7477, S7480
  Dorgan (for Conrad) Modified Amendment No. 1045, to set aside funds 
for a brownfields assessment of the Fortuna Radar Site. 
                                                     Pages S7478, S7480
  Byrd/Cochran Amendment No. 1053, to provide funds for the Memorial to 
Martin Luther King, Jr.                           
Pages S7478-80, S7497
  Kyl Modified Amendment No. 1049, to provide certain earmarks for 
State and tribal assistance grant funds.          
Pages S7478, S7511-12

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  Dorgan (for Landrieu) Modified Amendment No. 1060, to make certain 
funding revisions relating to Historically Black Colleges and 
Universities, and Department of the Interior administrative expenses. 
                                                  Pages S7478, S7511-12
  Dorgan (for Bingaman) Modified Amendment No. 1055, to provide for the 
consideration of the effect of competitive sourcing on wildland fire 
management activities.                            
Pages S7478, S7511-12
  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 S7478, S7511-12
  Dorgan (for Bingaman) Modified Amendment No. 1030, to modify a 
provision relating to funds appropriated for Bureau of Indian Affairs 
postsecondary schools.                            
Pages S7477, S7511-12
  Burns (for Coburn) Modified Amendment No. 1020, to express the Sense 
of the Senate that defense spending should not be underfunded to 
support increases in non-defense spending.        
Pages S7478, S7511-12
  Dorgan (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 1031, to set aside additional 
amounts for Youth Conservation Corps projects.    
Pages S7477, S7511-12
  Dorgan (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 1058, to provide a substitute for 
title V, Facility Realignment and Enhancement Act of 2005. 
                                                  Pages S7478, S7511-12
Rejected:
  By 33 yeas to 59 nays (Vote No. 160), Burns (for Coburn) Amendment 
No. 1003, to require conference report inclusion of limitations, 
directives, and earmarks.               
Pages S7477, S7497-98, S7500-01
Withdrawn:
  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. 
                                                  Pages S7477, S7488-89
  Dorgan (for Kerry) Amendment No. 1029, making emergency supplemental 
appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, for the 
Veterans Health Administration.                      
Pages S7477, S7489
  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.           
Pages S7477, S7491
  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.                        
Pages S7477, S7491, S7498
  Salazar Amendment No. 1038, to provide additional funds for the 
payment in lieu of taxes program, with an offset.    
Pages S7471, S7511
  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 S7477, S7512
  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.                   
Pages S7477, S7512
  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 S7477, S7512
  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 S7478, S7512
  Kyl (for Inhofe) Amendment No. 1051, to encourage competition in 
assistance agreements awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency. 
                                                     Pages S7478, S7512
  Dorgan (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 1054, to set aside additional 
amounts for Youth Conservation Corps projects.       
Pages S7478, S7512
  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.            
Pages S7478, S7512
  Dorgan (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 1057, to extend the Forest 
Service conveyances pilot program.                   
Pages S7478, S7512
  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 S7478, S7512
Pending:
  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 S7477
  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 S7477
  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 S7477, S7501-09

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  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 S7478
  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 S7478
  Byrd (for Murray) Amendment No. 1052, making emergency supplemental 
appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, for the 
Veterans Health Administration. 
                 Pages S7478, S7486-87, S7489-91, S7498-S7500, S7509-11
  Dorgan Amendment No. 1059, to facilitate family travel to Cuba in 
humanitarian circumstance.                                   
Page S7478
  During consideration of this measure today, the Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 17 yeas to 75 nays (Vote No. 159), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to waive section 302(f) of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974, with respect to 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. Subsequently, the point of 
order that the amendment would provide spending in excess of the 
subcommittee's 302(b) allocation was sustained, and the amendment thus 
fell.                            
Pages S7477-78, S7491, S7495-97, S7500
  A unanimous-consent time agreement was reached providing for 
consideration of certain amendments, with votes to occur in relation to 
the amendments, with no second-degree amendments in order to the 
amendments prior to the votes; provided further, that following 
disposition of the amendments, the bill be read a third time and the 
Senate then vote on final passage of the bill.               
Page S7512
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at approximately 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, 
June 29, 2005.                                               
Page S7540
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Phillip Jackson Bell, of Georgia, to be Deputy Under Secretary of 
Defense for Logistics and Materiel Readiness.
  Ronald M. Sega, of Colorado, to be Under Secretary of the Air Force.
  David H. McCormick, of Pennsylvania, to be Under Secretary of 
Commerce for Export Administration.
  Darryl W. Jackson, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Commerce.
  Susan P. Bodine, of Maryland, to be Assistant Administrator, Office 
of Solid Waste, Environmental Protection Agency.
  John Hillen, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of State 
(Political-Military Affairs).
  Josette Sheeran Shiner, of Virginia, to be an Under Secretary of 
State (Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs).
  Gillian Arlette Milovanovic, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Macedonia.
  Michael Retzer, of Mississippi, to be Ambassador to the United 
Republic of Tanzania.
  Eric M. Thorson, of Virginia, to be Inspector General, Small Business 
Administration.
  2 Air Force nominations in the rank of general.
  Navy nomination in the rank of admiral.                    
Page S7541
Messages From the House:                                     
  Page S7519
Measures Referred:                                           
  Page S7519
Executive Communications:                                
  Pages S7519-20
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S7520-23
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S7523-39
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S7517-19
Amendments Submitted:                                        
  Page S7539
Authority for Committees to Meet:                            
  Page S7539
Privilege of the Floor:                                      
  Page S7539
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total--160) 
                                                   Page S7477, S7500-01
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:45 a.m., and adjourned at 9:02 p.m. 
until 9:30 a.m., on Wednesday, June 29, 2005. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on 
pages S7540-41.)