[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 114 (Tuesday, September 13, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D903-D904]
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                                        Tuesday, September 13, 2005

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S9943-S9996
Measures Introduced: Eight bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1689-1696, and S. Res. 236.  Pages S9984-85
Measures Passed:
  Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act: Committee on Agriculture, 
Nutrition and Forestry was discharged from further consideration of S. 
1613, to amend the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of 1999 to extend 
the termination date for mandatory price reporting, and the bill was 
then passed.  Page S9995
Measures Rejected:
  Clean Air Act Resolution: By 47 yeas to 51 nays (Vote No. 225), 
Senate rejected S.J. Res. 20, disapproving a rule promulgated by the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to delist coal and 
oil-direct utility units from the source category list under the Clean 
Air Act.  Pages S9955-61
Commerce/Justice/Science Appropriations: Senate continued consideration 
of 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, taking action on the following amendments 
proposed thereto:  Pages S9947-55, S9962-80
Adopted:
  Shelby (for Voinovich) Modified Amendment No. 1650, to make funds 
available to implement the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Amendments 
Act of 2004.Page S9962
  Shelby (for Ensign) Amendment No. 1653, to increase funding for child 
abuse training programs for judicial personnel and practitioners. 
                                                             Page S9962
  Shelby (for Kennedy/Sessions) Amendment No. 1704, to extend the term 
of the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission.Page S9962
Pending:
  Lincoln Amendment No. 1652, to provide for temporary medicaid 
disaster relief for survivors of Hurricane Katrina. 
                                                  Pages S9948, S9974-76
  Dayton Amendment No. 1654, to increase funding for Justice Assistance 
Grants.Page S9948
  Sarbanes Amendment No. 1662, to assist the victims of Hurricane 
Katrina with finding new housing.Pages S9948, S9976-77
  Dorgan Amendment No. 1665, to prohibit weakening any law that 
provides safeguards from unfair foreign trade practices. 
                                           Pages S9948, S9949, S9965-71
  Sununu Amendment No. 1669, to increase funding for the State Criminal 
Alien Assistance Program, the Southwest Border Prosecutors Initiative, 
and transitional housing for women subjected to domestic violence. 
                                                             Page S9948
  Lieberman Amendment No. 1678, to provide financial relief for 
individuals and entities affected by Hurricane Katrina. 
                                                  Pages S9948, S9977-80
  DeWine Amendment No. 1671, to make available, from amounts otherwise 
available for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 
$906,200,000 for aeronautics research and development programs of the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.Page S9948
  Clinton Amendment No. 1660, to establish a congressional commission 
to examine the Federal, State, and local response to the devastation 
wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Region of the United States 
especially in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and other 
areas impacted in the aftermath and make immediate corrective measures 
to improve such responses in the future.Page S9948
  Coburn Amendment No. 1648, to eliminate the funding for the Advanced 
Technology Program and increase the funding available for the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, community oriented policing 
services, and State and local law enforcement assistance.Page S9948
  Dorgan Amendment No. 1670, to establish a special committee of the 
Senate to investigate the awarding and carrying out of contracts to 
conduct activities in Afghanistan and Iraq and to fight the war on 
terrorism.Pages S9948-49
  Pryor/Mikulski Amendment No. 1703, to require the FTC to conduct an 
immediate investigation into gasoline price-gouging.Pages S9953-55

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  Stabenow Modified Amendment No. 1687, to provide funding for 
interoperable communications equipment grants.Pages S9962-65
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at 10:30 a.m., on Wednesday, September 14, 
2005; the time be equally divided between Senators Shelby and Mikulski 
until 11 a.m., and the Senate then vote on the motion to waive the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, relative to Stabenow Amendment No. 
1687, as modified.Page S9995
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 41 yeas to 56 nays (Vote No. 226), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to waive section 402(b)(5) of H. Con. Res. 95, 
Congressional Budget Resolution, with respect to the emergency 
designation provision in Biden Amendment No. 1661, to provide emergency 
funding for victims of Hurricane Katrina. Subsequently, a point of 
order that the emergency designation provision would violate section 
402 (b)(5) of H. Con. Res. 95 was sustained and the provision was 
stricken. Also, the Chair sustained a point order that the amendment 
would exceed the subcommittee's 302(b) allocation and the amendment 
thus falls.Page S9971
Removal of Injunction of Secrecy: The injunction of secrecy was removed 
from the following treaty:
  Protocol Amending Extradition Convention with Israel (Treaty Doc. No. 
109-3).
  The treaty was transmitted to the Senate today, considered as having 
been read for the first time, and referred, with accompanying papers, 
to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. 
                                                             Page S9995
Nominations Received: Senate received the following Nominations:
  Shana L. Dale, of Georgia, to be Deputy Administrator of the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration.
  Donald A. Gambatesa, of Virginia, to be Inspector General, United 
States Agency for International Development.
  Carmen Maria Martinez, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic 
of Zambia.
  Gregory F. Van Tatenhove, of Kentucky, to be United States District 
Judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky.Page S9996
Messages From the House:  Pages S9983-84
Measures Placed on Calendar:  Page S9984
Executive Communications:  Page S9984
Additional Cosponsors:  Pages S9985-86
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:  Pages S9986-90
Additional Statements:  Pages S9981-83
Amendments Submitted:  Pages S9990-94
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:  Pages S9994-95
Authority for Committees to Meet:  Page S9995
Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--226) 
                                                     Pages S9961, S9971
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:45 a.m., and adjourned at 7:14 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m., on Wednesday, September 14, 2005. (For Senate's 
program, see the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on 
pages S9995-96.)