[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 128 (Wednesday, October 5, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1011-D1014]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                         Wednesday, October 5, 2005

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S11059-S11172
Measures Introduced: Six bills and three resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 1820-1825, and S. Res. 265-267.
  Page S11130
Measures Passed:
  Family History Month: Senate agreed to S. Res. 266, designating the 
month of October 2005, as ``Family History Month''.
  Page S11166
  Senate Legal Representation: Senate agreed to S. Res. 267, to 
authorize testimony document production, and legal representation in 
State of New Hampshire v. Anne Miller, Mary Lee Sargent, Jessica Ellis, 
Lynn Chong, Donald Booth, Eileen Reardon.
  Page S11166
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 S11061-S11120
Adopted:
  Stevens (for Mikulski) Amendment No. 1996, to provide that, of the 
amount made available under title III for the Navy for other 
procurement, up to $3,000,000 may be made available for the Joint 
Aviation Technical Data Integration Program.
Pages S11077-S11088
  Stevens (for Salazar) Amendment No. 1887, to rename the death 
gratuity payable for deaths of members of the Armed Forces as fallen 
hero compensation.
Page S11077
  Stevens (for Bingaman/Domenici) Amendment No. 1895, to make available 
up to $3,000,000 from Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Air 
Force, for assurance for the Field Programmable Gate Array. 
                                                   Pages S11077, S11088
  Stevens (for Bennett) Amendment No. 2017, to make available, from 
amounts appropriated for the Research, Development, Test, and 
Evaluation, Army account up to $1,000,000 for the Chemical Biological 
Defense Material Test and Evaluation Initiative (PE 0605602A). 
                                                Pages S11077-78, S11088
  Stevens (for Isakson) Amendment No. 1925, to provide that, of the 
amount made available under title IV for the Army for research, 
development, test, and evaluation, up to $1,000,000 may be made 
available for an environmental management and compliance information 
system.
Page S11078
  Stevens (for Santorum) Modified Amendment No. 1889, to provide that, 
of the amount made available for research, development, test and 
evaluation for the Army, up to $2,000,000 may be made available for 
medical advanced technology for applied emergency hypothermia for 
advanced combat casualty life support.
Page S11078
  Byrd/Feingold Amendment No. 1992, to express the sense of the Senate 
on budgeting for ongoing military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and 
elsewhere overseas.
Pages S11078-81
  Dodd Amendment No. 1970, to improve the authority for reimbursement 
for protective, safety, and health equipment purchased for members of 
the Armed Forces deployed in Iraq and Central Asia.
Pages S11085-88
  Inouye (for Lautenberg) Amendment No. 1963, to require the Secretary 
of Defense to maintain a website listing information on Federal 
contractor misconduct, and to require reports on Federal no-bid 
contracts related to Iraq reconstruction.
Page S11095
  Stevens (for Shelby) Amendment No. 2016, to prohibit the transfer 
from the Army of authority relating to the tactical unmanned aerial 
vehicles.
Page S11095
  Stevens (for Nelson (FL)) Amendment No. 1914, to make available, from 
the amount appropriated in title III under the heading ``Other 
Procurement, Navy'' up to $2,000,000 may be used for the Surface Sonar 
Dome Window Program.
Page S11101
  Stevens (for Dodd/Lieberman) Amendment No. 1972, to make available 
$700,000 from Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Army for 
Medical Countermeasures to Nerve Agents.
Page S11101
  Stevens (for Lieberman) Amendment No. 1962, to make available 
$5,000,000 from Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Defense-
Wide, for High Performance Defense Manufacturing Technology Research 
and Development.
Page S11101

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  Stevens (for Chambliss) Modified Amendment No. 1979, to provide that, 
of the amount made available under title II for Operation and 
Maintenance, Army, up to $600,000 may be made available for removal of 
unexploded ordnance at Camp Wheeler, Georgia.
Pages S11101-02, S11115
  Stevens (for Lott) Amendment No. 1976, to make available $4,000,000 
from Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Army, for the 
development of light-weight rigid-rod ammunition.
Page S11101
  Stevens (for Roberts) Amendment No. 1945, to make available, from the 
amount appropriated in title VII under the heading ``Intelligence 
Community Management Account'', up to $2,000,000 may be used for the 
Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program.
Pages S11101-02
  Stevens (for Grassley) Amendment No. 2002, to make available 
$1,000,000 from Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation for the 
Army for the Multipurpose Utility Vehicle.
Page S11106
  Stevens (for Voinovich) Modified Amendment No. 1986, of the amounts 
provided for the Navy for research, development, test, and evaluation 
up to $3,000,000 may be available for land attack technology for the 
Millennium Gun System.
Page S11106
  Stevens (for Graham) Amendment No. 2028, to make available $2,000,000 
from Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation for the Army for 
Moldable Armor.
Page S11106
  Stevens (for Feingold/Coleman) Modified Amendment No. 1906, to 
provide for the establishment of a pilot project to create a civilian 
language reserve corps in order to improve national security by 
increasing the availability of translation services and related duties.
                                                        Pages S11106-07
  Stevens (for Akaka) Modified Amendment No. 1899, to make available up 
to $5,000,000 for the participation of Vet centers in the transition 
assistance programs of the Department of Defense for members of the 
Armed Forces.
Page S11107
  Stevens (for Cantwell) Amendment No. 2008, to make available, from 
funds appropriated for research, development, test and evaluation, Air 
Force, up to $2,500,000 for advanced technology for IRCM component 
improvement.
Page S11107
  Stevens (for Allen) Modified Amendment No. 1989, from funds 
appropriated for research, development, test and evaluation, Army, and 
available for demonstration and validation, up to $5,000,000 may be 
available for the Plasma Energy Pyrolysis System (PEPS), Operational 
Gasification unit.
Page S11107
  Stevens (for Snowe) Modified Amendment No. 1911, to provide that, of 
the amount authorized to be appropriated for the use of the Department 
of Defense for research, development, test, and evaluation for Defense-
wide activities, up to $5,000,000 may be available for the rapid 
mobilization of the New England Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative. 
                                                            Page S11107
  Stevens (for Kerry/Kennedy) Modified Amendment No. 2027, to provide 
that, of the amount made available under title IV for the Navy for 
research, development, test, and evaluation, up to $1,000,000 may be 
made available for Marine Corps assault vehicles for development of 
carbon fabric-based friction materials to optimize the cross-drive 
transmission brake system of the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle. 
                                                            Page S11107
  Stevens (for Reed) Amendment No. 2010, to make available $2,000,000 
from Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation for the Navy for the 
Shipboard Automated Reconstruction Capability.
Page S11107
  Stevens (for Cornyn) Modified Amendment No. 1947, from amounts 
available in Title IV under the heading Research, Development, Test and 
Evaluation, Army, up to $1,000,000 may be available for Recombinant 
Activated Factor VII.
Page S11107
  Stevens (for Talent) Modified Amendment No. 2030, to provide for the 
procurement of 42 additional C-17 aircraft.
Page S11107
  Stevens (for Boxer) Amendment No. 2012, to provide for a Department 
of Defense task force on mental health.
Pages S11107-08
  Stevens (for Kennedy) Modified Amendment No. 1991, to make available 
additional amounts for defense basic research programs. 
                                                   Pages S11108, S11109
  Stevens (for Murray) Modified Amendment No. 1964, to provide for 
studies of means of improving the transition assistance services of the 
Department of Defense and other benefits for members of the National 
Guard and the Reserves.
Page S11109
  Stevens (for Coburn) Amendment No. 1948, to require that any 
limitation, directive, or ear-marking contained in either the House of 
Representatives or Senate report accompanying this bill be included in 
the conference report or joint statement accompanying the bill in order 
to be considered as having been approved by both Houses of Congress. 
                                                            Page S11109
  Stevens (for Alexander) Modified Amendment No. 2029, to require a 
report on the use of ground source heat pumps at Department of Defense 
facilities.
Page S11109
  Stevens (for Warner) Modified Amendment No. 1927, to make available 
up to $1,500,000 for the Navy for research, development, test, and 
evaluation, to be available for research within the High-Brightness 
Electron Source program.
Page S11109
  By 90 yeas to 9 nays (Vote No. 249), McCain Amendment No. 1977, 
relating to persons under the

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detention, custody, or control of the United States Government. 
                             Pages S11061-72, S11075-76, S11094, S11114
  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 S11115
  Stevens (for Hatch) Amendment No. 2001, to express the sense of the 
Senate regarding the investment of funds as called for in the Depot 
Maintenance Strategy and Master Plan of the Air Force.
Page S11119
  Stevens (for Schumer/Clinton) Modified Amendment No. 2038, to make 
available $5,000,000 from Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat 
Vehicles for the Army for the Arsenal Support Program Initiative and to 
allocate such amounts.
Page S11118
  Stevens (for Kennedy/Bond) Amendment No. 1923, to make available 
$4,000,000 from Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Defense-
Wide, for Oral Anthrax/Plague Vaccine Development.
Page S11118
  Stevens (for Sarbanes) Modified Amendment No. 1969, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Navy to donate the World War II-era marine railway 
located at the United States Naval Academy to the Richardson Maritime 
Heritage Center, Cambridge, Maryland, for non-commercial purposes. 
                                                            Page S11119
  Stevens (for McConnell) Amendment No. 2042, to recognize U.S. 
military personnel serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Page S11119
  Landrieu Modified Amendment No. 1942, to make available $10,000,000 
for Operation and Maintenance, Air Force, and $20,000,000 for Other 
Procurement, Air Force, for the implementation of long-range wireless 
telecommunication capabilities for the Gulf States and key entities 
within the Northern Command Area of Responsibility. 
                                                Pages S11095-99, S11118
  Stevens (for Graham/McCain) Modified Amendment No. 2004, to require 
the President to submit the procedures for the Combatant Status Review 
Tribunals and Administrative Review Boards to determine the status of 
detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Pages S11072, S11102, S11119
  Stevens (for Conrad/Dorgan) Modified Amendment No. 1882, to increase, 
with an offset, amounts available for the procurement of Predator 
unmanned aerial vehicles.
Page S11118
Pending:
  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.
Page S11061
  Coburn Amendment No. 2005, to curtail waste under the Department of 
Defense web-based travel system.
Pages S11082-85
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 49 yeas to 50 nays (Vote No. 247), Senate rejected the defense of 
germaneness relative to 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. Subsequently, the 
amendment fell.
Pages S11088-94, S11109-12
  By 56 yeas to 43 nays (Vote No. 248), 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 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. 
Subsequently, the point of order that the amendment was in violation of 
section 302(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, was sustained, 
and the amendment thus fell.
Pages S11112-13
  By 50 yeas to 49 nays (Vote No. 250), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to waive section 402 of H. Con. Res. 95, 
Congressional Budget Resolution, with respect to the emergency 
designation provision in Kerry Amendment No. 2033, to provide for 
appropriations for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program. 
Subsequently, a point of order that the emergency designation provision 
would violate section 402 of H. Con. Res. 95 was sustained and the 
provision was stricken. Also, the Chair sustained a point order that 
the amendment violated section 302(f) of the Congressional Budget Act 
of 1974 as altered by the previous point of order and the amendment 
thus fell.
Pages S11115-16
  By 48 yeas to 51 nays (Vote No. 251), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion

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to waive section 302(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, with 
respect to Stabenow Amendment No. 1937, to ensure that future funding 
for health care for former members of the Armed Forces takes into 
account changes in population and inflation. 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.
Page S11117
  By 94 yeas to 4 nays (Vote No. 252), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, having voted in the affirmative, Senate agreed 
to the motion to close further debate on the bill.
Page S11118
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, October 6, 2005; 
and that, notwithstanding the adjournment of the Senate, all time 
overnight be counted against the 30 hours post cloture.
Page S11166
Appointments:
  United States-China Economic Security and Review Commission: The 
Chair, on behalf of the President pro tempore, pursuant to Public Law 
106-398, as amended by Public Law 108-7, in accordance with the 
qualifications specified under section 1238(b)(3)(E) of Public Law 106-
398, and upon the recommendation of the Democratic Leader, in 
consultation with the chairmen of the Senate Committee on Armed 
Services and the Senate Committee on Finance, reappointed the following 
individuals to the United States-China Economic Security and Review 
Commission: C. Richard D'Amato of Maryland for a term beginning January 
1, 2006 and expiring December 31, 2007, and William A. Reinsch of 
Maryland for a term beginning January 1, 2006 and expiring December 31, 
2007.
  Page S11165
Executive Communications:
  Pages S11126-27
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Pages S11127-30
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S11130-32
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S11132-43
Additional Statements:
  Pages S11124-26
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S11143-64
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:
  Pages S11164-65
Authority for Committees to Meet:
  Page S11165
Privilege of the Floor:
  Page S11165
Record Votes: Six record votes were taken today. (Total--252) 
                   Pages S11112, S11113, S11114, S11116, S11117, S11118
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10:01 a.m., and adjourned at 11:33 
p.m., until 9:30 a.m., on Thursday, October 6, 2005. (For Senate's 
program, see the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on 
page S11166.)