[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 145 (Friday, November 4, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1149-D1151]
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                                           Friday, November 4, 2005

[[Page D1149]]

                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      The House agreed to the Conference Report on H.R. 3057, 
      Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs 
      Appropriations Act, 2006.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S12375-S12414
Measures Introduced: Four bills were introduced, as follows: S. 1961-
1964.                                                       
  Page S12401
Measures Reported:
  S. 1184, to waive the passport fees for a relative of a deceased 
member of the Armed Forces proceeding abroad to visit the grave of such 
member or to attend a funeral or memorial service for such member. 
                                                            Page S12401
Department of Defense Authorization: Senate resumed consideration of S. 
1042, 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, taking 
action on the following amendments proposed thereto:    
  Pages S12375-97
Adopted:
  McCain Amendment No. 2425, relating to persons under the detention, 
custody, or control of the United States Government.    
Pages S12380-86
Withdrawn:
  Inhofe Amendment No. 1311, to protect the economic and energy 
security of the United States.                              
Page S12377
  Inhofe/Kyl Amendment No. 1313, to require an annual report on the use 
of United States funds with respect to the activities and management of 
the International Committee of the Red Cross.               
Page S12377
  Ensign Amendment No. 1374, to require a report on the use of riot 
control agents.                                             
Page S12377
  Ensign Amendment No. 1375, to require a report on the costs incurred 
by the Department of Defense in implementing or supporting resolutions 
of the United Nations Security Council.                     
Page S12377
  Durbin Amendment No. 1379, to require certain dietary supplement 
manufacturers to report certain serious adverse events.     
Page S12377
  Hutchison/Nelson (FL) Amendment No. 1357, to express the sense of the 
Senate with regard to manned space flight.                  
Page S12377
  Thune Amendment No. 1389, to postpone the 2005 round of defense base 
closure and realignment.                                    
Page S12377
  Kennedy Amendment No. 1415, to transfer funds authorized to be 
appropriated to the Department of Energy for the National Nuclear 
Security Administration for weapons activities and available for the 
Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator to the Army National Guard, Washington, 
District of Columbia, chapter.                              
Page S12377
  Allard/McConnell Amendment No. 1418, to require life cycle cost 
estimates for the destruction of lethal chemical munitions under the 
Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives program.            
Page S12377
  Allard/Salazar Amendment No. 1419, to authorize a program to provide 
health, medical, and life insurance benefits to workers at the Rocky 
Flats Environmental Technology Site, Colorado, who would otherwise fail 
to qualify for such benefits because of an early physical completion 
date.                                                       
Page S12377
  Dorgan Amendment No. 1426, to express the sense of the Senate on the 
declassification and release to the public of certain portions of the 
Report of the Joint Inquiry into the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 
2001, and to urge the President to release information regarding 
sources of foreign support for the hijackers involved in the terrorist 
attacks of September 11, 2001.                              
Page S12377
  Dorgan Amendment No. 1429, 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.                                                  
Page S12377

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  Salazar Amendment No. 1421, to rename the death gratuity payable for 
deaths of members of the Armed Forces as fallen hero compensation. 
                                                            Page S12377
  Salazar Amendment No. 1422, to provide that certain local educational 
agencies shall be eligible to receive a fiscal year 2005 payment under 
section 8002 or 8003 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
1965.                                                       
Page S12377
  Salazar/Reed Amendment No. 1423, to provide for Department of Defense 
support of certain Paralympic sporting events.              
Page S12377
  Collins (for Thune) Amendment No. 1489, to postpone the 2005 round of 
defense base closure and realignment.                       
Page S12377
  Collins (for Thune) Amendment No. 1490, to require the Secretary of 
the Air Force to develop and implement a national space radar system 
capable of employing at least two frequencies.              
Page S12377
  Collins (for Thune) Amendment No. 1491, to prevent retaliation 
against a member of the Armed Forces for providing testimony about the 
military value of a military installation.                  
Page S12377
  Reed (for Levin) Amendment No. 1492, to make available, with an 
offset, an additional $50,000,000, for Operation and Maintenance for 
Cooperative Threat Reduction.                               
Page S12377
  Hatch Amendment No. 1516, 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 S12377
  Inhofe Amendment No. 1476, to express the sense of Congress that the 
President should take immediate steps to establish a plan to implement 
the recommendations of the 2004 Report to Congress of the United 
States-China Economic and Security Review Commission.   
Pages S12377-78
  Allard Amendment No. 1383, to establish a program for the management 
of post-project completion retirement benefits for employees at 
Department of Energy project completion sites.              
Page S12378
  Allard/Salazar Amendment No. 1506, to authorize the Secretary of 
Energy to purchase certain essential mineral rights and resolve natural 
resource damage liability claims.                           
Page S12378
  McCain Modified Amendment No. 1557, to provide for uniform standards 
for the interrogation of persons under the detention of the Department 
of Defense.                                                 
Page S12378
  Warner Amendment No. 1566, to provide for uniform standards and 
procedures for the interrogation of persons under the detention of the 
Department of Defense.                                      
Page S12378
  McCain Modified Amendment No. 1556, to prohibit cruel, inhuman, or 
degrading treatment or punishment of persons under the custody or 
control of the United States Government.                    
Page S12378
  Stabenow/Johnson Amendment No. 1435, to ensure that future funding 
for health care for veterans takes into account changes in population 
and inflation.                                              
Page S12378
  Murray Amendment No. 1348, to amend the assistance to local 
educational agencies with significant enrollment changes in military 
dependent students due to force structure changes, troop relocations, 
creation of new units, and realignment under BRAC.          
Page S12378
  Murray Amendment No. 1349, to facilitate the availability of child 
care for the children of members of the Armed Forces on active duty in 
connection with Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom 
and to assist school districts serving large numbers or percentages of 
military dependent children affected by the war in Iraq or Afghanistan, 
or by other Department of Defense personnel decisions.      
Page S12378
  Levin Amendment No. 1494, to establish a national commission on 
policies and practices on the treatment of detainees since September 
11, 2001.                                                   
Page S12378
  Hutchison Amendment No. 1477, to make oral and maxillofacial surgeons 
eligible for special pay for Reserve health professionals in critically 
short wartime specialties.                                  
Page S12378
  Graham/McCain Modified Amendment No. 1505, to authorize the President 
to utilize the Combatant Status Review Tribunals and Annual Review 
Board to determine the status of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, 
Cuba.                                                       
Page S12378
  Nelson (FL) Amendment No. 762, to repeal the requirement for the 
reduction of certain Survivor Benefit Plan annuities by the amount of 
dependency and indemnity compensation and to modify the effective date 
for paid-up coverage under the Survivor Benefit Plan.       
Page S12378
  Durbin Amendment No. 1428, to authorize the Secretary of the Air 
Force to enter into agreements with St. Clair County, Illinois, for the 
purpose of constructing joint administrative and operations structures 
at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.                          
Page S12378
  Durbin Amendment No. 1571, 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 the basic pay such individual would then be receiving if no 
interruption in employment had occurred.                    
Page S12378

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  Levin Amendment No. 1496, to prohibit the use of funds for 
normalizing relations with Libya pending resolution with Libya of 
certain claims relating to the bombing of the LaBelle Discotheque in 
Berlin, Germany.                                            
Page S12378
  Levin Amendment No. 1497, to establish limitations on excess charges 
under time-and-materials contracts and labor-hour contracts of the 
Department of Defense.                                      
Page S12378
  Levin (for Harkin/Dorgan) Amendment No. 1425, relating to the 
American Forces Network.                                    
Page S12378
Pending:
  Nelson (FL) Amendment No. 2424, to repeal the requirement for the 
reduction of certain Survivor Benefit Plan annuities by the amount of 
dependency and indemnity compensation and to modify the effective date 
for paid-up coverage under the Survivor Benefit Plan.   
Pages S12378-80
  Allard Amendment No. 2423, to authorize a program to provide health, 
medical, and life insurance benefits to workers at the Rocky Flats 
Environmental Technology Site, Colorado, who would otherwise fail to 
qualify for such benefits because of an early physical completion date.
                                                        Pages S12386-89
  Reed (for Levin/Reed) Amendment No. 2427, to make available, with an 
offset, an additional $50,000,000 for Operation and Maintenance for 
Cooperative Threat Reduction.                
Pages S12389-93, S12396-97
  Levin Amendment No. 2430, to establish a national commission on 
policies and practices on the treatment of detainees since September 
11, 2001.                                               
Pages S12393-95
  Inhofe Amendment No. 2432, relating to the partnership security 
capacity of foreign military and security forces and security and 
stabilization assistance.                               
Pages S12395-96
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at approximately 2 p.m. on Monday, November 
7, 2005.                                                    
Page S12413
Appointments:
  Antitrust Modernization Commission: The Chair, on behalf of the 
Majority Leader, pursuant to Public Law 107-273, announced the 
appointment of the following individual to serve as a member of the 
Antitrust Modernization Commission: Makan Delrahim, of the District of 
Columbia.                                                   
  Page S12412
  NATO Parliamentary Assembly: The Chair, on behalf of the Vice 
President, in accordance with 22 U.S.C. 1928a-1928d, as amended, 
appointed the following Senators to the Senate Delegation to the NATO 
Parliamentary Assembly in Copenhagen, Denmark, November 11-14, 2005, 
during the 109th Congress: Senators Lott, Allard, Sessions, Bunning, 
and Voinovich.                                              
  Page S12412
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  Wan J. Kim, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Attorney General.
  James Caldwell Cason, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Paraguay.
  Orlando J. Cabrera, of Florida, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development.
  Shana L. Dale, of Georgia, to be Deputy Administrator of the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration.
  Katherine Baicker, of New Hampshire, to be a Member of the Council of 
Economic Advisers.
  Matthew Slaughter, of New Hampshire, to be a Member of the Council of 
Economic Advisers.
  Jeffrey Thomas Bergner, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
State (Legislative Affairs).
  Routine lists in the Coast Guard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration.                                             
Page S12414
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  61 Air Force nominations in the rank of general.
  46 Army nominations in the rank of general.
  A routine list in the Army.                           
Pages S12413-14
Messages From the House:                                
  Pages S12400-01
Measures Referred:                                          
  Page S12401
Measures Placed on Calendar:                                
  Page S12401
Additional Cosponsors:                                      
  Page S12401
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:             
  Pages S12401-07
Amendments Submitted:                                   
  Pages S12407-12
Privileges of the Floor:                                    
  Page S12412
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 12:54 p.m., 
until 1 p.m., on Monday, November 7, 2005. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S12413.)