[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 56 (Wednesday, May 10, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D462-D463]
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                                            Wednesday, May 10, 2006

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      The House agreed to the Conference Report to accompany H.R. 4297, 
      Tax Relief Act of 2005.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S4241-S4383
Measures Introduced: Nine bills and two resolutions were introduced, as 
follows: S. 2774-2782, and S. Res. 472-473.                  
  Page S4339
Measures Passed:
  Commemorating Law Enforcement Officers: Senate agreed to S. Res. 472, 
commemorating and acknowledging the dedication and sacrifice made by 
the men and women who have lost their lives while serving as law 
enforcement officers.                                    
  Pages S4379-80
  National Police Survivors Day: Senate agreed to S. Res. 473, 
designating May 14, 2006, as National Police Survivors Day. 
                                                         Pages S4380-81
  Honoring NAACP: Committee on the Judiciary was discharged from 
further consideration of H. Con. Res. 335, honoring and praising the 
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on the 
occasion of its 97th anniversary, and the resolution was then agreed 
to.                                                          
  Page S4381
Health Insurance Marketplace Modernization and Affordability Act: 
Pursuant to the order of May 9, 2006, Senate agreed to the motion to 
proceed and then began consideration of S. 1955, to amend title I of 
the Employee Retirement Security Act of 1974 and the Public Health 
Service Act to expand health care access and reduce costs through the 
creation of small business health plans and through modernization of 
the health insurance marketplace, modifying the committee amendment in 
the nature of a substitute, and taking action on the following 
amendments proposed thereto:                          
  Pages S4262-S4327
Pending:
  Frist Amendment No. 3886 (to S. 1955 (committee substitute) as 
modified), to establish the enactment date.              
Pages S4285-86
  Frist Amendment No. 3887 (to Amendment No. 3886), to change the 
enactment date.                                              
Page S4286
  Motion to recommit the bill to the Committee on Health, Education, 
Labor and Pensions, with instructions to report back forthwith, with 
Frist Amendment No. 3888, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                         Pages S4286-94
  Frist Amendment No. 3889 (to the instructions of the motion to 
recommit), to change the enactment date.                     
Page S4294
  Frist Amendment No. 3890 (to Amendment No. 3889), to provide for the 
enactment date.                                          
Pages S4294-95
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the pending modified 
committee amendment in the nature of a substitute and, in accordance 
with the provisions of rule XXII and, pursuant to the order of May 10, 
2006, the cloture vote will occur on Thursday, May 11, 2006. 
                                                         Pages S4326-27
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill on Thursday, May 11, 2006, with a vote on the 
motion to invoke cloture on the pending modified committee substitute, 
to occur following the vote on the conference report to accompany H.R. 
4297 (listed below).                                         
Page S4382
Tax Relief Extension Reconciliation Act--Agreement: A unanimous-consent 
agreement was reached providing that on Thursday, May 11, 2006, Senate 
begin consideration of the conference report to accompany H.R. 4297, to 
provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 201(b) of the concurrent 
resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006; provided further, that 8 
hours remain out of the statutory time limit and that it be equally 
divided; followed by a vote on the adoption of the conference report; 
provided further, that following the vote and notwithstanding rule 
XXII, there be 60 minutes of debate equally divided between the 
Chairman and

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Ranking Member of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and 
Pensions or their designees, prior to a vote on the motion to invoke 
cloture on the modified committee substitute to S. 1955 (listed above).
                                                             Page S4382
National Defense Authorizations--Agreement: A unanimous-consent 
agreement was reached providing that the order of November 15, 2005 
with respect to S. 1042, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2006, S. 1043, Department of Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2006, S. 1044, Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2006, and S. 1045, Department of Energy National Security Act for 
Fiscal Year 2006, be vitiated.                               
  Page S4379
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Neil M. Gorsuch, of Colorado, to be United States Circuit Judge for 
the Tenth Circuit.
  1 Army nomination in the rank of general.
  Routine lists in the Navy.                             
Pages S4383-84
Nominations Discharged: The following nomination was discharged from 
further committee consideration and placed on the Executive Calendar:
  George McDade Staples, of Kentucky, to be Director General of the 
Foreign Service, which was sent to the Senate on March 2, 2006, from 
the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.                   
Page S4384
Messages From the House:                                     
  Page S4331
Measures Referred:                                           
  Page S4331
Petitions and Memorials:                                 
  Pages S4331-39
Executive Reports of Committees:                             
  Page S4339
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S4339-40
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S4340-42
Additional Statements:                                       
  Page S4330
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S4342-78
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                      
  Pages S4379-80
Privileges of the Floor:                                     
  Page S4380
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 8:30 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m., on Thursday, May 11, 2006. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S4382.)