[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 100 (Wednesday, July 26, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D844-D846]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 26 public bills, H.R. 5889-
5914; and 9 resolutions, H. Con. Res. 454-456; and H.Res. 949-950, 953-
956 were introduced.
  Pages H5952-54
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page H5954
Reports Filed: Reports were filed today as follows:
  H.R. 5830, to amend section 29 of the International Air 
Transportation Competition Act of 1979 relating to air transportation 
to and from Love Field, Texas (H. Rept. 109-600, Pt. 1);
  H.R. 4157, to amend the Social Security Act to encourage the 
dissemination, security, confidentiality, and usefulness of health 
information technology, with amendments (H. Rept. 109-601, Pt. 1); and
  H.R. 4157, to amend the Social Security Act to encourage the 
dissemination, security, confidentiality, and usefulness of health 
information technology, with an amendment (H. Rept. 109-601, Pt. 2);
  H. Res. 951, waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII with 
respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from the 
Committee on Rules (H. Rept. 109-602); and
  H. Res. 952, providing for consideration of H.R. 4157, to amend the 
Social Security Act to encourage the dissemination, security, 
confidentiality, and usefulness of health information technology (H. 
Rept. 109-603).
Page H5952
Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he appointed 
Representative Price of Georgia to act as Speaker pro tempore for 
today.
  Page H5857
Chaplain: The prayer was offered by the guest Chaplain, Rev. Richard K. 
Barnard, Rector, The Chapel of the Cross, Dallas, Texas.
  Page H5857
Recess: The House recessed at 10:06 a.m. for the purpose of receiving 
His Excellency Nouri Al-Maliki, Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq. 
The House reconvened at 12:15 p.m., and agreed that the proceedings had 
during the Joint Meeting be printed in the Record.
  Page H5858
Joint Meeting to receive His Excellency Nouri Al-Maliki, Prime Minister 
of the Republic of Iraq: The House and Senate met in a joint session to 
receive His Excellency Nouri Al-Maliki, Prime Minister of the Republic 
of Iraq. He was escorted into the Chamber by a committee comprised of 
Representatives Blunt, Pryce of Ohio, Hunter, Ros-Lehtinen, Hoekstra, 
Pelosi, Hoyer, Clyburn, Larson

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of Connecticut, and Lantos; and Senators Frist, McConnell, Stevens, 
Santorum, Hutchison, Kyl, Dole, Burns, Reid, and Durbin. 
                                                         Pages H5858-60
Suspensions: The House agreed to suspend the rules and pass the 
following measures:
  Reform of National Security Reviews of Foreign Direct Investments 
Act: H.R. 5337, amended, to ensure national security while promoting 
foreign investment and the creation and maintenance of jobs, to reform 
the process by which such investments are examined for any effect they 
may have on national security, to establish the Committee on Foreign 
Investment in the United States, by a (\2/3\) yea-and-nay vote of 424 
yeas with none voting ``nay'', Roll No. 404; 
                                            Pages H5863-73, H5899-H5900
  United States-Israel Energy Cooperation Act: H.R. 2730, amended, to 
establish a grant program to fund eligible joint ventures between 
United States and Israeli businesses and academic persons, to establish 
the International Energy Advisory Board;
  Pages H5874-78
  Agreed to amend the title so as to read: ``To authorize funding for 
eligible joint ventures between United States and Israeli businesses 
and academic persons, to establish the International Energy Advisory 
Board, and for other purposes.''.
Page H5878
  Fuel Consumption Education Act: H.R. 5611, amended, to provide for 
the establishment of a partnership between the Secretary of Energy and 
appropriate industry groups for the creation of a transportation fuel 
conservation education campaign;
  Pages H5878-83
  Agreed to amend the title so as to read: ``To authorize a partnership 
between the Secretary of Energy and appropriate industry groups for the 
creation of a transportation fuel conservation education campaign, and 
for other purposes.''.
Page H5883
  Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006: H.R. 5319, amended, to amend 
the Communications Act of 1934 to require recipients of universal 
service support for schools and libraries to protect minors from 
commercial social networking websites and chat rooms, by a (\2/3\) yea-
and-nay vote of 410 yeas to 15 nays, Roll No. 405; 
                                                  Pages H5883-89, H5900
  Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that a National 
Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week should be 
established: H. Res. 928, to express the sense of the House of 
Representatives that a National Historically Black Colleges and 
Universities Week should be established;
  Pages H5889-94
  Providing for a correction to the enrollment of S. 203: H. Con. Res. 
456, to provide for a correction to the enrollment of S. 203; 
                                                         Pages H5901-02
  Expressing the sense of Congress that the Government of Venezuela 
should actively support strategies for ensuring secure airport 
facilities that meet international certifications to prevent 
trafficking of controlled substances, narcotics, and laundered money: 
H. Con. Res. 400, amended, to express the sense of Congress that the 
Government of Venezuela should actively support strategies for ensuring 
secure airport facilities that meet international certifications to 
prevent trafficking of controlled substances, narcotics, and laundered 
money; and
  Pages H5930-36
  Amending the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996 to extend the 
authorities provided in such Act until September 29, 2006: H.R. 5877, 
to amend the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996 to extend the 
authorities provided in such Act until September 29, 2006. 
                                                         Pages H5936-37
Suspensions--Proceedings Postponed: The House completed debate on the 
following measure under suspension of the rules. Further consideration 
of the measure is expected to resume tomorrow, Thursday, July 27th:
  Congratulating the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative on ten years 
of significant achievement in the search for an HIV/AIDS vaccine: H. 
Res. 844, amended, to congratulate the International AIDS Vaccine 
Initiative on ten years of significant achievement in the search for an 
HIV/AIDS vaccine.
  Pages H5937-39
Amending section 1113 of the Social Security Act to temporarily 
increase funding for the program of temporary assistance for United 
States citizens returned from foreign countries: The House agreed by 
unanimous consent to agree with the Senate amendment and pass H.R. 
5865, to amend section 1113 of the Social Security Act to temporarily 
increase funding for the program of temporary assistance for United 
States citizens returned from foreign countries--clearing the measure 
for the President.
  Page H5902
United States and India Nuclear Cooperation Promotion Act of 2006: The 
House passed H.R. 5682, to exempt from certain requirements of the 
Atomic Energy Act of 1954 a proposed nuclear agreement for cooperation 
with India, by a yea and nay vote of 359 yeas to 68 nays, Roll No. 411.
                                               Pages H5894-99, H5902-30
  Rejected the Markey motion to recommit the bill to the Committee on 
International Relations with instructions to report the same back to 
the House forthwith with an amendment, by a recorded vote of

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192 ayes to 235 noes, Roll No. 410, after ordering the previous 
question without objection.
Pages H5928-30
  Pursuant to the rule, the amendment in the nature of a substitute 
recommended by the Committee on International Relations now printed in 
the bill, modified by the amendment printed in part A of the report, 
shall be considered as adopted in the House and in the Committee of the 
Whole. The bill, as amended, shall be considered as the original bill 
for the purpose of further amendment and shall be considered as read. 
                                                             Page H5915
  Rejected the Obey motion that the Committee rise and strike the 
enacting clause by voice vote.
Pages H5917-18
Agreed to:
  Royce amendment (No. 1 printed in part B of H. Rept. 109-599) 
modified, to make technical and conforming changes to the text and also 
removes an amendment adopted during the full committee markup relating 
to subsection 4(b)(7);
Pages H5981-19
  Jackson-Lee of Texas amendment (No. 3 printed in part B of H. Rept. 
109-599) expresses the sense of Congress declaring the importance of 
the South Asia region and urging the continuation of the United States' 
policy of engagement, collaboration, and exchanges with and between 
India and Pakistan;
Pages H5920-22
  Fortenberry amendment (No. 6 printed in part B of H. Rept. 109-599) 
modified, to provide Congress with the ability to assess, to the extent 
possible, whether annual levels of India's nuclear fissile production 
may imply a possible violation of Article I of the Nuclear 
Nonproliferation Treaty; and
Pages H5924-25
  Stearns amendment (No. 2 printed in part B of H. Rept. 109-599) to 
reinforce the intent of Congress that the nuclear cooperation into 
which the governments of the United States and India would enter is for 
peaceful, productive purposes, not military (by a recorded vote of 414 
ayes with none voting ``noe'', Roll No. 407).
Pages H5919-20, H5926
Rejected:
  Sherman amendment (No. 4 printed in part B of H. Rept. 109-599) which 
sought to require that, before any nuclear cooperation with India can 
go forward, and every year thereafter, the President must certify that 
during the preceding year India has not increased the level of domestic 
uranium it sends through its weapons program. Baseline for the 
determination under the amendment is the 365 day period preceding the 
July 18, 2005 Bush-Singh declaration on nuclear cooperation (by a 
recorded vote of 155 ayes to 268 noes, Roll No. 408); and 
                                               Pages H5922-23, H5926-27
  Berman amendment (No. 5 printed in part B of H. Rept. 109-599) that 
sought to restrict exports of uranium and other types of nuclear 
reactor fuel (defined as ``source material'' and ``special nuclear 
material'' in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954) to India until the 
President determines that India has halted the production of fissile 
material (i.e. plutonium and highly enriched uranium) for use in 
nuclear weapons (by a recorded vote of 184 ayes to 241 noes, Roll No. 
409).
Pages H5923-24, H5927
  H. Res. 947, the rule providing for consideration of the bill was 
agreed to by a yea-and-nay vote of 311 yeas to 112 nays, Roll No. 406, 
after agreeing to order the previous question.
Pages H5900-01
Late Report: Agreed that the Committee on Financial Services have until 
5 p.m. on Friday, August 11, 2006 to file a report on H.R. 5637, to 
streamline the regulation of nonadmitted insurance and reinsurance. 
                                                             Page H5930
Summer District Work Period: The House completed debate on H. Con. Res. 
454, providing for a conditional adjournment of the House of 
Representatives and a conditional recess or adjournment of the Senate. 
Further consideration is expected to resume tomorrow, Thursday, July 
27th.
  Pages H5873-74
Senate Messages: Messages received from the Senate today appear on 
pages H5860, H5902.
Senate Referrals: S. 3549 was referred to the Committees on Financial 
Services, International Relations, and Energy and Commerce. 
                                                             Page H5950
Quorum Calls--Votes: Three yea-and-nay votes and five recorded votes 
developed during the proceedings of today and appear on pages H5899-
H5900, H5900, H5900-01, H5926, H5926-27, H5927, H5929-30, H5930. There 
were no quorum calls.
Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at midnight.