[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 105 (Wednesday, August 2, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D884-D887]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                          Wednesday, August 2, 2006

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S8561-S8669
Measures Introduced: Seven bills and two resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 3773-3779 and S. Res. 546-547.
  Page S8610
Measures Reported:
  S. 2590, to require full disclosure of all entities and organizations 
receiving Federal funds, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute.
  S. 3778, to reauthorize and improve the Small Business Act and the 
Small Business Act of 1958.
Page S8609
Measures Passed:
  Recognizing United States Winemakers: Committee on Agriculture, 
Nutrition, and Forestry was discharged from further consideration of H. 
Con. Res. 399, recognizing the 30th anniversary of the victory of 
United States winemakers at the 1976 Paris Wine Tasting, and the 
resolution was then agreed to.
  Page S8667
  Lane Evans Post Office Building: Senate passed S. 2555, to designate 
the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2633 11th 
Street in Rock Island, Illinois, as the ``Lane Evans Post Office 
Building''.
  Page S8667
  Major George Quamo Post Office Building: Senate passed S. 3613, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 
2951 New York Highway 43 in Averill Park, New York, as the ``Major 
George Quamo Post Office Building''.
  Page S8667
  Coach John Wooden Post Office Building: Senate passed H.R. 4646, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 
7320 Reseda Boulevard in Reseda, California, as the ``Coach John Wooden 
Post Office Building'', clearing the measure for the President. 
                                                             Page S8667


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  On page D884, August 2, 2006, under Measures Passed: Coach John 
Wooden Post Office Building: the following sentence appeared: 
Senate passed S. 4646, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 7320 Reseda Boulevard in Reseda, 
California, as the ``Coach John Wooden Post Office Building'', 
clearing the measure for the President. Page S8667
  
  The online version has been corrected to read: Senate passed 
H.R. 4646, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 7320 Reseda Boulevard in Reseda, California, as 
the ``Coach John Wooden Post Office Building'', clearing the 
measure for the President. Page S8667


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  John Paul Hammerschmidt Post Office Building: Senate passed H.R. 
4811, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 215 West Industrial Park Road in Harrison, Arkansas, as the 
``John Paul Hammerschmidt Post Office Building'', clearing the measure 
for the President.
  Page S8667
  Captain George A. Wood Post Office Building: Senate passed H.R. 4962, 
to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 100 Pitcher Street in Utica, New York, as the ``Captain George A. 
Wood Post Office Building'', clearing the measure for the President. 
                                                             Page S8667
  Morris W. Milton Post Office: Senate passed H.R. 5104, to designate 
the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1750 16th 
Street South in St. Petersburg, Florida, as the ``Morris W. Milton Post 
Office'', clearing the measure for the President.
  Page S8667
  Earl D. Hutto Post Office Building: Senate passed H.R. 5107, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 
1400 West Jordan Street in Pensacola, Florida, as the ``Earl D. Hutto 
Post Office Building'', clearing the measure for the President. 
                                                             Page S8667
  Wilfred Edward `Cousin Willie' Sieg, Sr. Post Office: Senate passed 
H.R. 5169, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 1310 Highway 64 NW. in Ramsey, Indiana, as the 
``Wilfred Edward `Cousin Willie' Sieg, Sr. Post Office'', clearing the 
measure for the President.
  Page S8668
  Sergeant Jacob Dan Dones Post Office: Senate passed H.R. 5540, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 
217 Southeast 2nd Street in Dimmitt, Texas, as the ``Sergeant Jacob Dan 
Dones Post Office'', clearing the measure for the President. 
                                                             Page S8668
Department of Defense Appropriations Act: Senate continued 
consideration of H.R. 5631, making appropriations for the Department of 
Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, taking action on 
the following amendments proposed thereto:
  Pages S8561-S8601

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Adopted:
  Stevens (for Cochran) Modified Amendment No. 4758, to require a 
report assessing the Depleted Uranium Sensing and Treatment for Removal 
program of the Department of Defense.
Pages S8571-72
  Stevens (for Menendez) Amendment No. 4759, to make available from 
Other Procurement, Army, up to $2,600,000 for the Virtual Interactive 
Combat Environment for the New Jersey National Guard.
Pages S8571-72
  Stevens (for Lugar) Amendment No. 4770, to make available from Other 
Procurement, Navy, up to $3,000,000 for the Man Overboard 
Identification System program.
Pages S8571-72
  Stevens (for Carper) Amendment No. 4772, to provide that none of the 
funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be 
obligated or expended to provide award fees to any defense contractor 
for performance that does not meet the requirements of the contract. 
                                                         Pages S8571-72
  Kyl Amendment No. 4788 (to Amendment No. 4775), to provide 
$1,829,000,000 for the Army National Guard for the construction of 370 
miles of triple-layered fencing, and 500 miles of vehicle barriers 
along the southwest border.
Pages S8567-70, S8574
  By 94 yeas to 3 nays (Vote No. 220), Sessions Modified Amendment No. 
4775, to provide $1,829,100,000 for the Army National Guard for the 
construction of 370 miles of triple-layered fencing, and 461 miles of 
vehicle barriers along the southwest border, as amended. 
                                        Pages S8566-67, S8572, S8579-81
  Salazar Modified Amendment No. 4776, to provide that, of the amount 
appropriated or otherwise made available by title II for the Air Force 
for operation and maintenance, up to $10,000,000 may be available for 
an interoperable communications capability for the United States 
Northern Command.
Pages S8585-87, S8590
  Stevens (for Smith/Wyden) Amendment No. 4778, to make available from 
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy, up to $2,000,000 for 
the Advanced Airship Flying Laboratory.
Pages S8590-91
  Stevens (for Dayton) Amendment No. 4773, to make available from 
additional appropriations for Operation and Maintenance, Army National 
Guard, up to $6,700,000 for the pilot program of the Army National 
Guard on the reintegration of members of the National guard into 
civilian life after deployment.
Pages S8590-91
  Stevens (for Lott/Lieberman) Modified Amendment No. 4760, to make 
available $2,000,000 from Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, 
Army for the Para foil Joint Precision Air Drop System. 
                                                         Pages S8590-91
  Stevens (for Conrad) Amendment No. 4796, to make available from 
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force, up to $6,000,000 
for Military-Standard-1760 integration for the internal weapons bays of 
B-52 aircraft.
Pages S8590-91
  Stevens (for Frist) Amendment No. 4771, to modify the notice and wait 
period applicable to modifications of certain contracts for national 
defense purposes.
Pages S8590-91
  By a unanimous vote of 97 yeas (Vote No. 221), Dodd Amendment No. 
4819, to make available an additional $6,700,000,000 to fund equipment 
reset requirements resulting from continuing combat operations, 
including repair, depot, and procurement activities.
Pages S8596-98
  Stevens (for Byrd) Amendment No. 4803, to require reports on the 
recommendations of the Defense Science Board regarding the management 
of the biometrics program of the Department of Defense.
Page S8599
  Stevens (for Warner) Amendment No. 4779, to make available from 
Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide, an additional amount of up to 
$7,500,000 for the Joint Advertising, Market Research and Studies 
program.
Page S8599
  Stevens (for Inouye) Amendment No. 4766, to make available from 
Operation and Maintenance, Army, up to $500,000 for the United States 
Army Center of Military History to support a traveling exhibit on 
military experience in World War II.
Page S8599
  Stevens (for Isakson) Amendment No. 4798, to make available from 
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army, up to $1,000,000 for 
environmental management and compliance information.
Page S8599
  Stevens Amendment No. 4762, to require plans to procure medical 
countermeasures for treating forward deployed members of the Armed 
Forces against acute radiation syndrome and similar threats. 
                                                  Pages S8562-66, S8600
  Stevens (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 4814, to make available from 
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force, up to $1,500,000 
for Commercialization and Industrialization of Adaptive Optics. 
                                                         Pages S8600-01
  Stevens (for Sununu) Amendment No. 4829, to make available from 
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy, up to $1,000,000 for 
an integrated, low-cost, low-power Multibeam Side Scan Sonar System for 
Unmanned Underwater Vehicles.
Pages S8600-01

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  Stevens (for Coleman) Modified Amendment No. 4792, to make available 
from Procurement of Ammunition, Air Force, up to $5,000,000 for the 
procurement of Radiation Hardened Microelectronics.
Pages S8600-01
  Stevens (for Schumer/Coleman) Modified Amendment No. 4783, to provide 
that up to $9,000,000 of the amount appropriated or otherwise made 
available by chapter 2 of title IX for the Army for operation and 
maintenance and up to $2,000,000 of the amount appropriated or 
otherwise made available by such chapter for the Marine Corps for 
operation and maintenance may be made available for the procurement of 
hemostatic agents, including bloodclotting bandages and invasive 
hemostatic agents, for use by members of the Armed Forces in the field.
                                                         Pages S8600-01
Rejected:
  Durbin Modified Amendment No. 4781, to appropriate, with an offset, 
an additional $2,000,000 for Research, Development, Test and 
Evaluation, Army for the improvement of imaging for traumatic brain 
injuries. (By 54 yeas to 43 nays (Vote No. 222), Senate tabled the 
amendment.)
Pages S8582-85, S8598-99
Pending:
  Kennedy Amendment No. 4802, to require a new National Intelligence 
Estimate on Iraq.
Pages S8582, S8599
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  Chair sustained a point of order that Reid Amendment No. 4795, to 
provide for the extension and modification of certain tax relief 
provisions, other tax provisions, and Surface Mining Control and 
Reclamation Act amendments, violated rule XVI of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate, which prohibits legislation on an appropriation bill. 
                                                         Pages S8570-71
  Chair sustained a point of order that Dorgan Amendment No. 4805, to 
improve Federal contracting and procurement by eliminating fraud and 
abuse and improving competition in contracting and procurement and by 
enhancing administration of Federal contracting personnel, violated 
rule XVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate, which prohibits 
legislation on an appropriation bill.
Pages S8591-96
  Chair sustained a point of order that Kyl Amendment No. 4806, to 
prohibit the suspension of royalties under certain circumstances, to 
clarify the authority to impose price thresholds for certain leases, to 
limit the eligibility of certain lessees for new leases, and to 
restrict the transfer of certain leases, violated rule XVI of the 
Standing Rules of the Senate, which prohibits legislation on an 
appropriation bill.
Pages S8587-90, S8599
  Chair sustained a point of order that Cornyn Modified Amendment No. 
4768, to provide emergency supplemental appropriations for border 
security and immigration reform, violated rule XVI of the Standing 
Rules of the Senate, which prohibits legislation on an appropriation 
bill.
Pages S8574-78, S8599
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at 9:30 a.m., on Thursday, August 3, 2006. 
                                                             Page S8669
Estate Tax and Extension of Tax Relief Act: Senate began consideration 
of the motion to proceed to consideration of H.R. 5970, to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the unified credit against 
the estate tax to an exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000, to repeal the 
sunset provision for the estate and generation-skipping taxes, and to 
extend expiring provisions.
  Page S8668
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the motion to proceed 
to consideration of the bill and, in accordance with the provisions of 
rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, a vote on the motion to 
invoke cloture may occur on Friday, August 4, 2006.
Page S8668
  Subsequently, the motion to proceed was withdrawn.
Page S8668
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  3 Army nominations in the rank of general.
  1 Marine Corps nomination in the rank of general.
  1 Navy nomination in the rank of admiral.
  Routine lists in the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy. 
                                                             Page S8669
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Roslynn Renee Mauskopf, of New York, to be United States District 
Judge for the Eastern District of New York.
  Liam O'Grady, of Virginia, to be United States District Judge for the 
Eastern District of Virginia.
  Lawrence Joseph O'Neill, of California, to be United States District 
Judge for the Eastern District of California.
  Dabney Langhorne Friedrich, of Virginia, to be a Member of the United 
States Sentencing Commission for the remainder of the term expiring 
October 31, 2009.
Page S8669
Messages From the House:
  Page S8608
Enrolled Bills Presented:
  Page S8608
Executive Communications:
  Pages S8608-09
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Pages S8609-10
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S8610-12

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Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S8612-29
Additional Statements:
  Pages S8606-08
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S8629-65
Authorities for Committees to Meet:
  Pages S8665-66
Privileges of the Floor:
  Pages S8666-67
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total--222) 
                                              Pages S8581, S8598, S8599
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 8:06 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m., on Thursday, August 3, 2006. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S8669.)