[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 134 (Thursday, October 20, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1063-D1065]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                         Thursday, October 20, 2005

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed H.R. 3058, Transportation/Treasury/HUD/District of 
      Columbia Appropriations.
      House Committees ordered reported 16 sundry measures.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S11061-S11700
Measures Introduced: Eight bills and two resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 1898-1905, and S. Res. 282-283.
  Pages S11664-65
Measures Reported:
  Report to accompany S. 1736, to provide for the participation of 
employees in the judicial branch in the Federal leave transfer Program 
for disasters and emergencies. (S. Rept. No. 109-158)
  S. 443, to improve the investigation of criminal antitrust offenses.
  S. 1086, to improve the national program to register and monitor 
individuals who commit crimes against children or sex offenses, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute.
  S. 1326, to require agencies and persons in possession of 
computerized data containing sensitive personal information, to 
disclose security breaches where such breach poses a significant risk 
of identity theft.
Page S11664
Measures Passed:
  Transportation/Treasury/HUD/DC Appropriations: By 93 yeas to 1 nay 
(Vote No. 264), Senate passed H.R. 3058, making appropriations for the 
Departments of Transportation, Treasury, and Housing and Urban 
Development, the Judiciary, District of Columbia, and independent 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, after taking 
action on the following amendments proposed thereto:
  Pages S11603-53
Adopted:
  Stabenow Amendment No. 2149, to provide resources to the 
Administration so that the Administration can enforce existing trade 
agreements and obligations, related to trade violations involving 
currency manipulation, counterfeiting of manufactured products, and 
pirating of intellectual property.
Page S11603
  Coburn Amendment No. 2087, to limit the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development's funding for conferences.
Pages S11607-08
  Grassley/Dorgan Modified Amendment No. 2160, to require the division 
of the court to release the Henry Cisneros independent counsel 
investigation report and terminate the investigation by the independent 
counsel.
Pages S11621-22, S11627-33
  Bond (for Reed) Amendment No. 2162, to require a legal basis for the 
application of arbitrage bond regulations to reserve funds held by the 
Clean Water and Safe Drinking Water State revolving funds. 
                                                            Page S11633
  Bond/Murray Amendment No. 2174, to provide that the Administrator of 
General Services require all credible sustainable building rating 
systems that award credits for certified wood products in the rating 
system be included in the published building design criteria or 
specifications of any solicitation for offers issued by the General 
Services Administration for construction of a Federal building or 
courthouse.
Page S11633
  Bond (for Ensign) Modified Amendment No. 2146, to provide for free 
individual tax electronic preparation and filing services by the 
Internal Revenue Service.
Page S11634
  Bond (for Clinton/Schumer) Amendment No. 2105, to modify the 
designation relating to a certain project in the State of New York. 
                                                            Page S11634
  Bond (for Clinton/Schumer) Amendment No. 2106, to modify the 
designation relating to a certain project in the State of New York. 
                                                            Page S11634
  Bond (for Voinovich) Modified Amendment No. 2108, to modify certain 
projects relating to highways in the State of Ohio.
Page S11634

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  Bond (for Voinovich) Amendment No. 2120, to make technical 
corrections to the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient 
Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users.
Page S11634
  Bond/Murray Amendment No. 2175, of a technical nature.
Page S11634
  Bond/Murray Amendment No. 2176, of a technical nature.
Page S11634
  Bond Amendment No. 2177, of a technical nature.
Page S11635
  Bond (for Reid) Amendment No. 2178, to provide for the conveyance of 
certain public land in Clark County, Nevada for use as a heliport. 
                                                            Page S11635
  Bond (for Durbin/Obama) Amendment No. 2179, to require the Secretary 
of Housing and Urban Development to report to Congress on certain 
properties located in Joliet, Illinois.
Page S11635
  Bond (for Murray) Amendment No. 2180, of a technical nature. 
                                                        Pages S11635-36
  Bingaman Amendment No. 2065, to extend certain apportionments to 
primary airports.
Pages S11616-17, S11638
  Bond (for Levin) Amendment No. 2182, to prohibit the use of funds for 
Federal contracts with expatriated entities.
Page S11640
  Bond (for Santorum) Amendment No. 2080, to modify provisions relating 
to certain Federal contracts.
Page S11640
  Bond (for Schumer) Amendment No. 2122, to allow disabled and non-
disabled tenants to keep their section 8 contracts on their properties 
post foreclosure.
Page S11640
  Bond (for DeWine) Modified Amendment No. 2083, to appropriate an 
additional $6,000,000 for the New Car Assessment Program with a 
corresponding offset in Department of Transportation salaries and 
expenses.
Page S11640
  Bond (for Frist) Amendment No. 2183, to fund Habitat for Humanity. 
                                                            Page S11640
  Bond (for Murray) Amendment No. 2184, to make available funds to the 
Washington State Department of Transportation for track and grade 
crossing improvements under the Bridging the Valley project between 
Spokane County, Washington and Kootenai County, Idaho.
Page S11640
  Bond Amendment No. 2185, to eliminate GSA authority to retain 
proceeds from sale or other conveyance of real and personal property. 
                                                            Page S11640
  Bond (for Nelson (FL)/Smith) Amendment No. 2186, to provide the sense 
of Congress that the Secretary of the Treasury should place al-Manar on 
the Specially Designated Global Terrorist list.
Pages S11640-41
  Bond (for Lott/Lautenberg) Amendment No. 2187, to modify the 
provisions on grants to the National Passenger Rail Corporation. 
                                                            Page S11640
  Bond (for Lautenberg) Amendment No. 2188, to ensure that airports 
improve their runway safety areas.
Page S11641
  Bond (for Landrieu) Modified Amendment No. 2168, to make available 
funds for the conduct of a study and submission of a report relating to 
catastrophic hurricane evacuation plans.
Page S11641
  Bond (for Landrieu) Modified Amendment No. 2167, to set aside funds 
to provide grants to local governments in the State of Louisiana to 
address increased transportation demands in communities that have 
experienced significant population growth from hurricane evacuees. 
                                                            Page S11641
  Bond (for Coleman) Amendment No. 2189, to improve the safety of all-
terrain vehicles in the United States.
Page S11641
  Coburn Amendment No. 2084, to require that any limitation, directive, 
or earmarking 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 S11607
  Bond (for Burns) Amendment No. 2103, to extend the suspended service 
ticket honor requirement.
Page S11641
  Bond (for Ensign) Modified Amendment No. 2119, to amend section 
40128(e) of title 49, United States Code, to clarify the Lake Mead 
exemption to the prohibition of commercial air tour operations over 
national parks.
Page S11641
  Bond (for Coburn) Amendment No. 2190, to ensure fiscal integrity of 
the payments made by Federal agencies and to prohibit the use of funds 
until the Department of Housing and Urban Development has reported 
specific actions taken to estimate improper payments in the community 
development block grant program as required under the Improper Payments 
Information Act of 2002.
Pages S11641-42
  Bond (for Snowe) Amendment No. 2150, to assist certain flight service 
station employees of the Federal Aviation Administration.
Page S11642
  Bond (for Coleman) Amendment No. 2173, to require that purchase card 
payments to Federal contractors be subjected to the Federal Payment 
Levy Program and to require improved reporting of air travel by Federal 
Government employees.
Page S11642
Rejected:
  Coburn Modified Amendment No. 2093, to prohibit any funds under the 
Act from being used for a parking facility as part of the Joslyn Art 
Museum Master Plan, in Omaha, Nebraska, for Stand Up for

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Animals in Westerly, Rhode Island for building construction, and for 
the Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, Washington for the construction of 
the Olympic Sculpture Park. (By 86 yeas to 13 nays (Vote No. 260), 
Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S11613-16
  By 15 yeas to 82 nays (Vote No. 262), Coburn Modified Amendment No. 
2165, relative to the reconstruction of the Twin Spans Bridge. 
                                             Pages S11624-27, S11636-37
  By 33 yeas to 61 nays (Vote No. 263), Stevens Amendment No. 2181, to 
ensure reconstruction of the Twin Spans Bridge.
Pages S11636-37
Withdrawn:
  Dorgan Amendment No. 2133, to restrict enforcement of the Cuban 
Assets Control Regulations with respect to travel to Cuba. 
                                                        Pages S11623-24
  Coburn Amendment No. 2091, to prohibit any funds under the Act from 
being used for the Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, Washington for the 
construction of the Olympic Sculpture Park.
Pages S11608-13
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 53 yeas to 46 nays (Vote No. 261), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion, under section 402(b)(6) of H. Con. Res. 95, 
Congressional Budget Resolution, to waive provisions of said concurrent 
resolution with respect to the emergency designation provision in Reed 
Amendment No. 2077, 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(b)(5) of H. 
Con. Res. 95 was sustained and the provision was stricken. Also, the 
Chair sustained a point of order that the amendment would exceed the 
subcommittee's 302(b) allocation and the amendment thus falls. 
                                                Pages S11617-21, S11623
  Ensign Amendment No. 2158 (to Amendment No. 2133), to amend title 18, 
United States Code, to prohibit taking minors across State lines in 
circumvention of laws requiring the involvement of parents in abortion 
decisions, fell when Dorgan Amendment No. 2133 (listed above) was 
withdrawn.
Page S11615
  Senate insisted on its amendment, requested a conference with the 
House thereon, and the Chair was authorized to appoint the following 
conferees on the part of the Senate: Senators Bond, Shelby, Specter, 
Bennett, Hutchison, DeWine, Brownback, Stevens, Domenici, Burns, 
Allard, Cochran, Murray, Byrd, Mikulski, Reid, Kohl, Durbin, Dorgan, 
Leahy, Harkin, Landrieu, and Inouye.
Page S11696
  Foreign Service Grievance Board: Senate passed S. 1905, to clarify 
Foreign Service Grievance Board procedures.
  Page S11699
  Azerbaijan Elections: Committee on Foreign Relations was discharged 
from further consideration of S. Res. 260, calling for free and fair 
parliamentary elections in the Republic of Azerbaijan, and the 
resolution was then agreed to.
  Pages S11699-S11700
Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations--Agreement: A unanimous-consent 
agreement was reached providing that at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, October 
21, 2005, Senate begin consideration of H.R. 3010, making 
appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, 
and Education, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2006, that the committee reported amendment be agreed to 
as original text for the purpose of further amendment, that no points 
of order be waived by virtue of this agreement, and that on Friday, 
October 21, 2005, the bill be considered for debate only.
  Page S11700
Messages From the House:
  Page S11663
Measures Read First Time:
  Pages S11663, S11696-99
Executive Communications:
  Pages S11663-64
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S11664
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S11665-66
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S11666-73
Additional Statements:
  Pages S11660-63
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S11673-95
Authority for Committees to Meet:
  Pages S11695-96
Record Votes: Five record votes were taken today. (Total--264) 
                                Pages S11615-16, S11623, S11637, S11653
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 9:01 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m., on Friday, October 21, 2005. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S11700.)