[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 127 (Tuesday, October 4, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1007-D1008]
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                                           Tuesday, October 4, 2005

[[Page D1007]]


                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S10913-S11057
Measures Introduced: Five bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1815-1819, and S. Res. 264.
  Page S10972
Measures Passed:
  Expressing Sympathy to the People of Indonesia: Senate agreed to S. 
Res. 264, expressing sympathy for the people of Indonesia in the 
aftermath of the deadly terrorist attacks in Bali on October 1, 2005. 
                                                            Page S10998
  Violence Against Women Act: Senate passed S. 1197, to reauthorize the 
Violence Against Women Act of 1994, after agreeing to the committee 
amendment in the nature of a substitute, and the following amendment 
proposed thereto:
  Pages S10998-S11055
  Frist (for Specter) Amendment No. 2045, to make certain technical 
corrections.
Page S11055
  Tuskegee Airmen Gold Medal Authorization: Committee on Banking, 
Housing, and Urban Affairs was discharged from further consideration of 
S. 392, to authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of 
Congress, collectively, to the Tuskegee Airmen in recognition of their 
unique military record, which inspired revolutionary reform in the 
Armed Forces, and the bill was then passed.
  Pages S11055-56
Department of Defense Appropriations: Senate continued consideration of 
H.R. 2863, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, taking action on the following 
amendments proposed thereto:
  Pages S10916-68
Pending:
  Bayh Amendment No. 1933, to increase by $360,800,000 amounts 
appropriated by title IX for Other Procurement, Army, for the 
procurement of armored Tactical Wheeled Vehicles for units deployed in 
Iraq and Afghanistan, and to increase by $5,000,000 amounts 
appropriated by title IX for Research, Development, Test and 
Evaluation, Defense-Wide, for industrial preparedness for the 
implementation of a ballistics engineering research center. 
                                                        Pages S10917-18
  McCain Amendment No. 1978, to prohibit the use of funds to pay 
salaries and expenses and other costs associated with reimbursing the 
Government of Uzbekistan for services rendered to the United States at 
Karshi-Khanabad airbase in Uzbekistan.
Pages S10918-22
  Reed/Hagel Amendment No. 1943, to transfer certain amounts from the 
supplemental authorizations of appropriations for Iraq, Afghanistan, 
and the Global War on Terrorism to amounts for Operation and 
Maintenance, Army, Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps, Operation 
and Maintenance, Defense-wide activities, and Military Personnel in 
order to provide for increased personnel strengths for the Army and the 
Marine Corps for fiscal year 2006.
Pages S10925-27
  Warner/Levin Modified Amendment No. 1955, to authorize appropriations 
for fiscal year 2006 for military activities of the Department of 
Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the 
Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal 
year for the Armed Forces.
Page S10928
  Subsequently, Senator Stevens raised a point of order against the 
amendment, as being in violation of Rule XVI of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate which prohibits legislation on an appropriations bill; 
following which, Senator Warner asserted the defense of germaneness 
relative to the amendment.
Page S10967
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the bill and, in 
accordance with the provisions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate, a vote on cloture will occur on Thursday, October 6, 2005. 
                                                            Page S10967
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that Warner/Levin 
Modified Amendment No. 1955 (listed above) and the related point of 
order (listed above) be set aside temporarily to reoccur at 7:30 p.m. 
on Wednesday, October 5, 2005.
Page S10967
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, October 5, 2005. 
                                                            Page S11056

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Messages From the President: Senate received the following message from 
the President of the United States:
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, a report entitled ``Continued 
Production of the Naval Petroleum Reserves Beyond April 5, 2006''; 
which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (PM-25) 
                                                            Page S10972
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S10972-74
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S10974-76
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S10977-98
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:45 a.m., and adjourned at 6:36 p.m., 
until 10 a.m., on Wednesday, October 5, 2005. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on pages 
S11056-57.)