[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 124 (Thursday, September 29, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D988-D989]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                       Thursday, September 29, 2005

[[Page D988]]


                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate confirmed the nomination of John G. Roberts, Jr., to be 
      Chief Justice of the United States.
      House Committees ordered reported 13 sundry measures.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S10631-S10771
Measures Introduced: Fifteen bills and three resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 1789-1803, S. Res. 260-261, and S. Con. Res. 
55.
  Pages S10723-24
Measures Reported:
  Report to accompany H.R. 2863, making appropriations for the 
Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006. 
(S. Rept. No. 109-141)
  S. 1803, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2006 for 
intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States 
Government, the Intelligence Community Management Account, and the 
Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System. (S. Rept. 
No. 109-142)
  S. 1725, to strengthen Federal leadership, provide grants, enhance 
outreach and guidance, and provide other support to State and local 
officials to enhance emergency communications capabilities, to achieve 
communications interoperability, to foster improved regional 
collaboration and coordination, to promote more efficient utilization 
of funding devoted to public safety communications, to promote research 
and development by both the public and private sectors for first 
responder communications, with amendments.
Page S10722
Measures Passed:
  Medicare Cost Sharing and Welfare Extension Act: Committee on Finance 
was discharged from further consideration of S. 1778, to extend 
medicare cost-sharing for qualifying individuals through September 
2006, to extend the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program, 
transitional medical assistance under the Medicaid Program, and related 
programs through March 31, 2006, and the bill was then passed, after 
agreeing to the following amendment proposed thereto:
  Grassley/Baucus Amendment No. 1894, to eliminate coverage under the 
Medicare and Medicaid programs for drugs when used for treatment of 
erectile dysfunction.
Page S10696
Department of Defense Appropriations: Senate began consideration of 
H.R. 2863, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, agreeing to the committee 
amendment in the nature of a substitute, which will be considered as 
original text for the purpose of further amendment, after taking action 
on the following amendments proposed thereto: 
                                         Pages S10656-88, S10699-S10705
Adopted:
  Harkin Amendment No. 1886, to make available emergency funds for 
pandemic flu preparedness.
Pages S10685-88, S10701
  Leahy/Bond Modified Amendment No. 1901, to appropriate $1,300,000,000 
for Additional War-Related Appropriations for National Guard and 
Reserve Equipment for homeland security and homeland security response 
equipment.
Pages S10700-02
  Durbin Amendment No. 1908, to ensure that a Federal employee who 
takes leave without pay in order to perform service as a member of the 
uniformed services or member of the National Guard shall continue to 
receive pay in an amount which, when taken together with the pay and 
allowances such individual is receiving for such service, will be no 
less than basic pay such individual would then be receiving if no 
interruption in employment had occurred.
Pages S10702-05
  Senate expects to continue consideration of the bill on Friday, 
September 30, 2005.

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Nomination--Joint Referral: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached 
providing that the nomination of Franklin L. Lavin, of Ohio, to be 
Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, be referred 
jointly to the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Banking, 
Housing, and Urban Affairs.
  Page S10771
Messages From the President: Senate received the following message from 
the President of the United States:
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, a notification regarding the proposed 
use of public safety funds provided to the District of Columbia 
pursuant to title I of the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 
2005, Public Law 108-335; which was referred to the Committee on 
Appropriations. (PM-24)
Page S10721
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nomination:
  By 78 yeas 22 nays (Vote No. EX. 245), John G. Roberts, Jr., of 
Maryland, to be Chief Justice of the United States.
Pages S10631-50
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Gigi Hyland, of Virginia, to be a Member of the National Credit Union 
Administration Board for a term expiring August 2, 2011.
  J. Thomas Rosch, of California, to be a Federal Trade Commissioner 
for the term of seven years from September 26, 2005.
  Margaret Spellings, of Texas, to be a Representative of the United 
States of America to the Thirty-third Session of the General Conference 
of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural 
Organization.
  James Hardy Payne, of Oklahoma, to be United States Circuit Judge for 
the Tenth Circuit.
Page S10771
Messages From the House:
  Page S10721
Measures Read First Time:
  Page S10721
Executive Communications:
  Pages S10721-22
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Pages S10722-23
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S10724-25
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S10725-61
Additional Statements:
  Pages S10719-21
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S10761-69
Authority for Committees to Meet:
  Pages S10769-70
Privilege of the Floor:
  Page S10770
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--245) 
                                                        Pages S10649-50
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 8:26 p.m., 
until 9:30 on Friday, September 30, 2005. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S10771.)