[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 49 (Monday, May 1, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D407-D409]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                                Monday, May 1, 2006

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      See Resume of Congressional Activity.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3769-S3849
Measures Introduced: Seven bills and five resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 2683-2689, S. Res. 456-458, and S. Con. Res. 90-91. 
                                                             Page S3801
Measures Passed:
  Release of Terrorist Mohammed Ali Hammadi: Senate agreed to S. Res. 
457, expressing the sense of the Senate that the citizens of the United 
States and the United States Government have serious concerns regarding 
the release of convicted terrorist and murderer Mohammad Ali Hammadi by 
the Government of Germany.
  Pages S3846-47
  Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps: Committee on Armed Services 
was discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 415, expressing 
the continuing support of the Senate to the Junior Reserve Officers' 
Training Corps (JROTC), and commending the efforts of that vital 
program as it carries out its mission of instilling the values of 
citizenship and service in the hearts and minds of the youth of the 
United States, and the resolution was then agreed to.
  Page S3848
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations: Senate continued consideration 
of H.R. 4939, making emergency supplemental appropriations for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, taking action on the following 
amendments proposed thereto:
  Pages S3771-88, S3792-93, S3847-48
Adopted:
  Cochran (for Bennett/Kohl) Amendment No. 3676, to clarify the 
availability of certain funds made available for the wildlife habitat 
incentive program.
Page S3786
  Cochran (for Nelson (FL)) Amendment No. 3711, to provide that funds 
made available for the Air Force for military construction for the 
Satellite Processing Operations Support Facility at Cape Canaveral Air 
Station, Florida, shall be made available instead for the Satellite 
Alert Facility at Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida.
Page S3786
  Cochran (for Hutchison) Amendment No. 3774, to clarify the 
availability of certain Construction, Major Projects, funds for the 
Department of Veterans Affairs.
Page S3786
  Chambliss/Isakson Amendment No. 3702, relating to the comprehensive 
review of the procedures of the Department of Defense on mortuary 
affairs.
Pages S3771, S3786
  Cochran (for Salazar) Amendment No. 3644, to require a report on the 
strategy of the Department of Defense for providing training to members 
of the Armed Forces on countering improvised explosive devices. 
                                                             Page S3786
  Cochran (for Lugar) Amendment No. 3597, to provide certain 
authorities necessary to carry out foreign policy objectives in Iraq 
and Afghanistan.
Pages S3792-93
  Cochran (for Leahy) Modified Amendment No. 3661, to provide for 
notification to the Committees on Appropriations.
Page S3793
  Cochran (for Leahy) Modified Amendment No. 3663, of a technical 
nature.
Page S3793
  Frist (for Hutchison) Amendment No. 3791, to clarify the availability 
and use of funds.
Pages S3847-48
  Vitter Modified Amendment No. 3648, to expand the scope of use of 
amounts appropriated for hurricane disaster relief and recovery to the 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for Operations, 
Research, and Facilities.
Pages S3847-48
  Frist (for Landrieu) Amendment No. 3630, to require the Administrator 
of the Small Business Administration to report to Congress on the 
status of its 2006 Atlantic hurricane season disaster response plan. 
                                                         Pages S3847-48
  Frist (for Landrieu) Amendment No. 3631, to require monthly reporting 
regarding the Disaster Loan Program of the Small Business 
Administration.
Pages S3847-48

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Pending:
  McCain/Ensign Amendment No. 3616, to strike a provision that provides 
$74.5 million to states based on their production of certain types of 
crops, livestock and or dairy products, which was not included in the 
Administation's emergency supplemental request.
Page S3771
  McCain/Ensign Amendment No. 3617, to strike a provision providing $6 
million to sugarcane growers in Hawaii, which was not included in the 
Administration's emergency supplemental request.
Page S3771
  McCain/Ensign Amendment No. 3618, to strike $15 million for a seafood 
promotion strategy that was not included in the Administration's 
emergency supplemental request.
Page S3771
  McCain/Ensign Amendment No. 3619, to strike the limitation on the use 
of funds for the issuance or implementation of certain rulemaking 
decisions related to the interpretation of ``actual control'' of 
airlines.
Page S3771
  Warner Amendment No. 3620, to repeal the requirement for 12 
operational aircraft carriers within the Navy.
Page S3771
  Coburn Amendment No. 3641 (Divisions IV through XIX), of a perfecting 
nature.
Page S3771
  Vitter Amendment No. 3627, to designate the areas affected by 
Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita as HUBZones and to waive the Small 
Business Competitive Demonstration Program Act of 1988 for the areas 
affected by Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita.
Page S3771
  Vitter/Landrieu Modified Amendment No. 3626, to increase the limits 
on community disaster loans.
Page S3771
  Vitter Modified Amendment No. 3628, to base the allocation of 
hurricane disaster relief and recovery funds to States on need and 
physical damages.
Page S3771
  Wyden Amendment No. 3665, to prohibit the use of funds to provide 
royalty relief for the production of oil and natural gas.
Page S3771
  Santorum Modified Amendment No. 3640, to increase by $12,500,000 the 
amount appropriated for the Broadcasting Board of Governors, to 
increase by $12,500,000 the amount appropriated for the Department of 
State for the Democracy Fund, to provide that such funds shall be made 
available for democracy programs and activities in Iran, and to provide 
an offset.
Page S3771
  Salazar/Baucus Amendment No. 3645, to provide funding for critical 
hazardous fuels and forest health projects to reduce the risk of 
catastrophic fires and mitigate the effects of widespread insect 
infestations.
Page S3771
  Vitter Amendment No. 3668, to provide for the treatment of a certain 
Corps of Engineers project.
Page S3771
  Burr Amendment No. 3713, to allocate funds to the Smithsonian 
Institution for research on avian influenza.
Page S3771
  Coburn (for Obama/Coburn) Amendment No. 3693, to reduce wasteful 
spending by limiting to the reasonable industry standard the spending 
for administrative overhead allowable under Federal contracts and 
subcontracts.
Page S3771
  Coburn (for Obama/Coburn) Amendment No. 3694, to improve 
accountability for competitive contracting in hurricane recovery by 
requiring the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to 
approve contracts awarded without competitive procedures.
Page S3771
  Coburn (for Obama/Coburn) Amendment No. 3695, to improve financial 
transparency in hurricane recovery by requiring the Director of the 
Office of Management and Budget to make information about Federal 
contracts publicly available.
Page S3771
  Coburn (for Obama/Coburn) Amendment No. 3697, to improve transparency 
and accountability by establishing a Chief Financial Officer to oversee 
hurricane relief and recovery efforts.
Page S3771
  Menendez Amendment No. 3675, to provide additional appropriations for 
research, development, acquisition, and operations by the Domestic 
Nuclear Detection Office, for the purchase of container inspection 
equipment for developing countries, for the implementation of the 
Transportation Worker Identification Credential program, and for the 
training of Customs and Border Protection officials on the use of new 
technologies.
Page S3771
  Murray (for Harkin) Amendment No. 3714, to increase by $8,500,000 the 
amount appropriated for Economic Support Fund assistance, to provide 
that such funds shall be made available to the United States Institute 
of Peace for programs in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to provide an 
offset.
Page S3771
  Conrad/Clinton Amendment No. 3715, to offset the costs of defense 
spending in the supplemental appropriation.
Page S3772
  Levin Amendment No. 3710, to require reports on policy and political 
developments in Iraq.
Page S3772
  Schumer/Reid Amendment No. 3723, to appropriate funds to address 
price gouging and market manipulation and to provide for a report on 
oil industry mergers.
Page S3772
  Schumer Amendment No. 3724, to improve maritime container security. 
                                                             Page S3772
  Murray (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 3716, to provide funds to promote 
democracy in Iraq.
Page S3772

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  Murray (for Kennedy) Modified Amendment No. 3688, to provide funding 
to compensate individuals harmed by pandemic influenza vaccine. 
                                                  Pages S3772, S3776-79
  Cornyn Amendment No. 3722, to provide for immigration injunction 
reform.
Page S3772
  Cornyn Amendment No. 3699, to establish a floor to ensure that States 
that contain areas that were adversely affected as a result of damage 
from the 2005 hurricane season receive at least 3.5 percent of funds 
set aside for the CDBG program.
Page S3772
  Cornyn Amendment No. 3672, to require that the Secretary of Labor 
give priority for national emergency grants to States that assist 
individuals displaced by Hurricanes Katrina or Rita.
Page S3772
  Murray (for Byrd) Amendment No. 3708, to provide additional amounts 
for emergency management performance grants.
Page S3772
  Domenici/Reid Amendment No. 3769, to provide additional construction 
funding for levee improvements in the New Orleans metropolitan area, 
gulf coast restoration.
Pages S3772-76
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at 10:45 a.m., on Tuesday, May 2, 2006; that 
second-degree amendments be filed no later than 10:30 a.m., on Tuesday, 
May 2, 2006; and that at approximately 10:45 a.m., Senate vote on the 
motion to invoke cloture on the bill.
Page S3848
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nomination: By 
unanimous vote of 90 yeas (Vote No. Ex.102), Michael Ryan Barrett, to 
be U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio.
  Page S3791


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  On page D409, May 1, 2006, before Nominations Received: the 
following header should have appeared: Nominations Confirmed:
  
  The online version has been corrected to read: Nominations 
Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nomination: By unanimous 
vote of 90 yeas (Vote No. Ex.102), Michael Ryan Barrett, to be 
U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio. Page S3791


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Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  John M. R. Kneuer, of New Jersey, to be Assistant Secretary of 
Commerce for Communications and Information.
  Paul Cherecwich, Jr., of Utah, to be a Member of the Internal Revenue 
Service Oversight Board for a term expiring September 14, 2009.
  Donald V. Hammond, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Internal 
Revenue Service Oversight Board for a term expiring September 21, 2010.
  Catherine G. West, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the 
Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board for a term expiring September 
14, 2008.
  Deborah L. Wince-Smith, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Internal 
Revenue Service Oversight Board for a term expiring September 14, 2010.
  Dawn M. Liberi, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Islamic Republic 
of Mauritania.
  William B. Taylor, Jr., of Virginia, to be Ambassador to Ukraine.
  Michael Wood, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to 
Sweden.
Page S3849
Messages From the House:
  Page S3798
Measures Referred:
  Page S3798
Measures Placed on Calendar:
  Page S3798
Executive Communications:
  Pages S3798-S3801
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S3801-03
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S3803-07
Additional Statements:
  Page S3798
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S3807-46
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:
  Page S3846
Authorities for Committees to Meet:
  Page S3846
Privileges of the Floor:
  Page S3846
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--102) 
                                                             Page S3791
Adjournment: Senate convened at 2 p.m., and adjourned at 7:34 p.m., 
until 9:45 a.m., on Tuesday, May 2, 2006. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on pages S3848-
49.)