[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 6 (Thursday, January 11, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D32-D33]
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                                         Thursday, January 11, 2007

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S405-S484
Measures Introduced: Twenty-one bills and four resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 256-276, and S. Res. 23-26.    
  Pages S445-46
Measures Passed:
  University of Florida Football Team Champions:  Senate agreed to S. 
Res. 25, congratulating the University of Florida football team for 
winning the 2006 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I 
Football Championship.                                    
  Pages S474-75
  Appalachian State Football Team Champions: Senate agreed to S. Res. 
26, commending the Appalachian State University football team for 
winning the 2006 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I-AA 
Football Championship.                                        
  Page S475
ETHICS BILL: Senate continued consideration of S. 1, to provide greater 
transparency in the legislative process, taking action on the following 
amendments proposed thereto:                              
  Pages S415-41
Adopted:
  Feinstein/Bennett Modified Amendment No. 38 (to Amendment No. 3), to 
permit attendance of meetings with bona fide constituents. 
                                                 Pages S437-38, S440-41
Pending:
  Reid Amendment No. 3, in the nature of a substitute.        
Page S415
  Reid Amendment No. 4 (to Amendment No. 3), to strengthen the gift and 
travel bans.                                                  
Page S415
  DeMint Amendment No. 11 (to Amendment No. 3), to strengthen the 
earmark reform. (By 46 yeas to 51 nays (Vote No. 5), Senate earlier 
failed to table the amendment.)         
Pages S415-16, S425-29, S435-37
  DeMint Amendment No. 12 (to Amendment No. 3), to clarify that 
earmarks added to a conference report that are not considered by the 
Senate or the House of Representatives are out of scope.      
Page S415
  DeMint Amendment No. 14 (to Amendment No. 3), to protect individuals 
from having their money involuntarily collected and used for lobbying 
by a labor organization.                                      
Page S415
  Vitter/Inhofe Modified Amendment No. 9 (to Amendment No. 3), to place 
certain restrictions on the ability of the spouses of Members of 
Congress to lobby Congress.                                   
Page S433
  Vitter Amendment No. 10 (to Amendment No. 3), to increase the penalty 
for failure to comply with lobbying disclosure requirements. 
                                                              Page S415
  Leahy/Pryor Amendment No. 2 (to Amendment No. 3), to give 
investigators and prosecutors the tools they need to combat public 
corruption.                                                   
Page S415
  Gregg Amendment No. 17 (to Amendment No. 3), to establish a 
legislative line item veto.                                   
Page S415
  Ensign Amendment No. 24 (to Amendment No. 3), to provide for better 
transparency and enhanced Congressional oversight of spending by 
clarifying the treatment of matter not committed to the conferees by 
either House.                                                 
Page S418
  Ensign Modified Amendment No. 25 (to Amendment No. 3), to ensure full 
funding for the Department of Defense within the regular appropriations 
process, to limit the reliance of the Department of Defense on 
supplemental appropriations bills, and to improve the integrity of the 
Congressional budget process.                       
Pages S418, S432-33
  Cornyn Amendment No. 26 (to Amendment No. 3), to require full 
separate disclosure of any earmarks in any bill, joint resolution, 
report, conference report or statement of managers. 
                                                    Pages S418, S419-25
  Cornyn Amendment No. 27 (to Amendment No. 3), to require 3 calendar 
days notice in the Senate before proceeding to any matter. 
                                                          Pages S418-19
  Bennett (for McCain) Amendment No. 19 (to Amendment No. 4), to 
include a reporting requirement.                              
Page S430
  Bennett (for McCain) Amendment No. 28 (to Amendment No. 3), to 
provide congressional transparency.                       
Pages S430-31
  Bennett (for McCain) Amendment No. 29, to provide congressional 
transparency.                                             
Pages S431-32
  Lieberman Amendment No. 30 (to Amendment No. 3), to establish a 
Senate Office of Public Integrity.                            
Page S433

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  Bennett/McConnell Amendment No. 20 (to Amendment No. 3), to strike a 
provision relating to paid efforts to stimulate grassroots lobbying. 
                                                              Page S438
  Thune Amendment No. 37 (to Amendment No. 3), to require any recipient 
of a Federal award to disclose all lobbying and political advocacy. 
                                                          Pages S438-39
  Stevens Amendment No. 40 (to Amendment No. 4), to permit a limited 
flight exception for necessary State travel.              
Pages S439-40
  Feinstein/Rockefeller Amendment No. 42 (to Amendment No. 3), to 
prohibit an earmark from being included in the classified portion of a 
report accompanying a measure unless the measure includes a general 
program description, funding level, and the name of the sponsor of that 
earmark.                                                      
Page S441
  During consideration of this measure today, the following action, 
also occurred:
  By 25 yeas to 72 nays (Vote No. 6 ), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to waive section 306 of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974 pursuant to section 904(c)(1) of that Act, with respect to 
DeMint Amendment No. 13 (to Amendment No. 3), to prevent government 
shutdowns. Subsequently, the point of order that the amendment was in 
violation of section 306 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, was 
sustained, and the amendment thus fell.          
Pages S416-17, S425-30
  By 90 yeas to 6 nays (Vote No. 7), Senate agreed to the motion to 
instruct the Sergeant at Arms to request the attendance of absent 
Senators.                                                     
Page S435
  A unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached providing that at 9:30 
a.m., on Friday, January 12, 2007, Senate continue consideration of the 
bill, and begin en bloc consideration of Kerry Amendment No. 1 and 
Vitter Amendment No. 10 (see listed above); that the time until 9:50 
a.m. run concurrently on both amendments, with the time equally divided 
and controlled between the Majority and Republican Leaders, or their 
designees; that at 9:50 a.m., Senate vote on, or in relation to, 
Amendment No. 1, to be followed by a vote on, or in relation to, 
Amendment No. 10; that no amendments be in order to either amendment, 
and that there by 2 minutes of debate equally divided between the 
votes; provided further, that when Kerry Amendment No. 1 is reported, 
it then be modified with the changes at the desk.             
Page S475
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  David James Gribbin IV, of Virginia, to be General Counsel of the 
Department of Transportation.
  John Roberts Hackman, of Virginia, to be United States Marshal for 
the Eastern District of Virginia for the term of four years.
  2 Marine Corps nominations in the rank of general.
  Routine lists in the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Navy. 
                                                          Pages S475-84
Messages From the House:                                      
  Page S443
Measures Placed on the Calendar:                              
  Page S443
Measures Read the First Time:                          
  Pages S443, S475
Enrolled Bills Presented:                                     
  Page S443
Executive Communications:                                 
  Pages S443-45
Additional Cosponsors:                                        
  Page S446
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:               
  Pages S446-66
Additional Statements:                                    
  Pages S442-43
Amendments Submitted:                                     
  Pages S466-74
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:                                 
  Page S474
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                           
  Page S474
Privileges of the Floor:                                      
  Page S474
Quorum Calls: One quorum call was taken today. (Total--2)     
  Page S435
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total--7) 
                                                 Pages S429, S430, S435
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 8:03 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m., on Friday, January 12, 2006. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S475.)