[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 7 (Friday, January 12, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D37-D39]
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                                           Friday, January 12, 2007

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                              Daily Digest


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S485-S528
Measures Introduced: Seventeen bills and four resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 277-293, S.J. Res. 2, and S. Res. 27-29. 
                                                          Pages S508-09
Measures Passed:
  Majority Party Committee Membership: Senate agreed to S. Res. 27, to 
constitute the majority party's membership on certain committees for 
the One Hundred Tenth Congress, or until their successors are chosen. 
                                                          Pages S501-02
  Minority Party Committee Membership: Senate agreed to S. Res. 28, to 
constitute the minority party's membership on certain committees for 
the One Hundred Tenth Congress, or until their successors are chosen. 
                                                              Page S502
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 S485-S501, S502-04
Adopted:
  By a unanimous vote of 87 yeas (Vote No. 8), Kerry Modified Amendment 
No. 1 (to Amendment No. 3), to amend title 5, United States Code, to 
deny Federal retirement benefits to individuals convicted of certain 
offenses.
Pages S486-87, S489
  By 81 yeas to 6 nays (Vote No. 9), Vitter Amendment No. 10 (to 
Amendment No. 3), to increase the penalty for failure to comply with 
lobbying disclosure requirements.
Page S489
Withdrawn:
  Stevens Amendment No. 40 (to Amendment No. 4), to permit a limited 
flight exception for necessary State travel.
Pages S486, S496-99
Pending:
  Reid Amendment No. 3, in the nature of a substitute.
Page S485
  Reid Modified Amendment No. 4 (to Amendment No. 3), to strengthen the 
gift and travel bans. (As modified, the amendment incorporates the 
provisions of Bennett (for McCain) Amendment No. 19, listed below.) 
                                                    Pages S485, S490-91
  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.)
Page S485
  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 S485
  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 S485
  Vitter/Inhofe Further Modified Amendment No. 9 (to Amendment No. 3), 
to prohibit Members from having official contact with any spouse of a 
Member who is a registered lobbyist.
Pages S485, S491-92
  Leahy/Pryor Amendment No. 2 (to Amendment No. 3), to give 
investigators and prosecutors the tools they need to combat public 
corruption.
Page S485
  Gregg Amendment No. 17 (to Amendment No. 3), to establish a 
legislative line item veto.
Page S486
  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 S486
  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.
Page S486
  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.
Page S486
  Cornyn Amendment No. 27 (to Amendment No. 3), to require 3 calendar 
days notice in the Senate before proceeding to any matter.
Page S486
  Bennett (for McCain) Amendment No. 28 (to Amendment No. 3), to 
provide congressional transparency.
Page S486
  Bennett (for McCain) Amendment No. 29 (to Amendment No. 3), to 
provide congressional transparency.
Page S486

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  Lieberman Amendment No. 30 (to Amendment No. 3), to establish a 
Senate Office of Public Integrity.
Page S486
  Bennett/McConnell Amendment No. 20 (to Amendment No. 3), to strike a 
provision relating to paid efforts to stimulate grassroots lobbying. 
                                                              Page S486
  Thune Amendment No. 37 (to Amendment No. 3), to require any recipient 
of a Federal award to disclose all lobbying and political advocacy. 
                                                              Page S486
  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 S486
  Feingold Amendment No. 31 (to Amendment No. 3), to prohibit former 
Members of Congress from engaging in lobbying activities in addition to 
lobbying contacts during their cooling off period.
Page S488
  Feingold Amendment No. 32 (to Amendment No. 3), to increase the 
cooling off period for senior staff to 2 years and to prohibit former 
Members of Congress from engaging in lobbying activities in addition to 
lobbying contacts during their cooling off period.
Page S488
  Feingold Amendment No. 33 (to Amendment No. 3), to prohibit former 
Members who are lobbyists from using gym and parking privileges made 
available to Members and former Members.
Page S488
  Feingold Amendment No. 34 (to Amendment No. 3), to require Senate 
campaigns to file their FEC reports electronically.
Pages S488-89
  Durbin Modified Amendment No. 44 (to Amendment No. 11), to strengthen 
earmark reform.
Pages S492-94, S503-04
  Durbin Amendment No. 36 (to Amendment No. 3), to require that 
amendments and motions to recommit with instructions be copied and 
provided by the clerk to the desks of the Majority Leader and the 
Minority Leader before being debated.
Pages S494-96
  Cornyn Amendment No. 45 (to Amendment No. 3), to require 72-hour 
public availability of legislative matters before consideration. 
                                                              Page S496
  Cornyn Amendment No. 46 (to Amendment No. 2), to deter public 
corruption.
Page S496
  Bond (for Coburn) Amendment No. 48 (to Amendment No. 3), to require 
all recipients of Federal earmarks, grants, subgrants, and contracts to 
disclose amounts spent on lobbying and a description of all lobbying 
activities.
Page S499
  Bond (for Coburn) Amendment No. 49 (to Amendment No. 3), to require 
all congressional earmark requests to be submitted to the appropriate 
Senate committee on a standardized form.
Page S499
  Bond (for Coburn) Amendment No. 50 (to Amendment No. 3), to provide 
disclosure of lobbyist gifts and travel instead of banning them as 
proposed.
Pages S499-S500
  Bond (for Coburn) Amendment No. 51 (to Amendment No. 3), to prohibit 
Members from requesting earmarks that may financially benefit that 
Member or immediate family member of that Member.
Page S500
  Nelson (NE) Amendment No. 47 (to Amendment No. 3), to help encourage 
fiscal responsibility in the earmarking process.
Pages S500-01
  Reid (for Feingold/Obama) Amendment No. 54 (to Amendment No. 3), to 
prohibit lobbyists and entities that retain or employ lobbyists from 
throwing lavish parties honoring Members at party conventions. 
                                                              Page S503
  Reid (for Lieberman) Amendment No. 43 (to Amendment No. 3), to 
require disclosure of earmark lobbying by lobbyists.
Page S503
  Reid (for Casey) Amendment No. 56 (to Amendment No. 3), to eliminate 
the K Street Project by prohibiting the wrongful influencing of a 
private entity's employment decisions or practices in exchange for 
political access or favors.
Page S503
  During consideration of this measure today, the following action, 
also occurred:
  Bennett (for McCain) Amendment No. 19 (to Amendment No. 4), to 
include a reporting requirement, rendered moot due to its incorporation 
into the modification of Reid Amendment No. 4 (listed above). 
                                                              Page S486
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that on Tuesday, 
January 16, 2007, at 5:30 p.m., Senate vote on, or in relation to, 
Durbin Modified Amendment No. 44 (to Amendment No. 11), to be followed 
by a vote on, or in relation to, DeMint Amendment No. 11 (to Amendment 
No. 3) as amended, if amended; and if Durbin Modified Amendment No. 44 
(listed above), is not modified to satisfy Senator DeMint then the 
agreement with respect to the two amendments be vitiated. 
                                                          Pages S502-04
  A motion was entered to close further debate on Reid Modified 
Amendment No. 4, and, notwithstanding the provisions of rule XXII of 
the standing Rules of the Senate, and pursuant to the unanimous-consent 
agreement of Friday, January 12, 2007, a vote on cloture will occur 
following the vote on DeMint Amendment No. 11 (listed above), on 
Tuesday, January 16, 2007.
Pages S502-03
  A motion was entered to close further debate on Reid/McConnell 
Amendment No. 3, and, notwithstanding the provisions of rule XXII of 
the Standing

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Rules of the Senate, and pursuant to the unanimous-consent agreement of 
Friday, January 12, 2007, a vote on cloture will occur following the 
vote on the motion to invoke cloture on Reid Modified Amendment No. 4, 
on Tuesday, January 16, 2007.
Page S503
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the bill and, 
notwithstanding the provisions of rule XXII of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate, and pursuant to the unanimous-consent agreement of Friday, 
January 12, 2007, a vote on cloture will occur following the vote on 
the motion to invoke cloture on Reid/McConnell Amendment No. 3, on 
Tuesday, January 16, 2007.
Page S503
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at 1 p.m., on Tuesday, January 16, 2007; that 
Members have until 10:30 a.m., to file first-degree amendments to the 
bill and until 4:30 p.m. to file second-degree amendments; provided 
further that Monday, January 15, 2007, be counted as an intervening day 
under rule XXII with respect to the cloture motion filed on Reid 
Modified Amendment No. 4.
Page S528
Designations for Select Committee on Intelligence: In accordance with 
the provisions of S. Res. 445 of the 108th Congress, Senator 
Rockefeller was designated as the Chairman of the Select Committee on 
Intelligence by the Majority Leader, Senator Reid, and Senator Bond was 
designated as the Vice-Chair by the Republican Leader, Senator 
McConnell.
  Page S502
Appointments:
  United States-China Economic Security Review Commission: The Chair, 
on behalf of the President pro tempore, pursuant to Public Law 106-398, 
as amended by Public Law 108-7, in accordance with the qualifications 
specified under section 1238(b)(3)(E) of Public Law 106-398, and upon 
the recommendation of the Majority Leader, in consultation with the 
chairmen of the Senate Committee on Armed Services and the Senate 
Committee on Finance, appointed the following individuals to the United 
States-China Economic Security Review Commission: Peter Videnieks of 
Virginia, for a term beginning January 1, 2007 and expiring December 
31, 2008, vice Patrick A. Mulloy.
  Pages S527-28
Messages From the House:
  Page S508
Message Referred:
  Page S508
Measures Placed on the Calendar:
  Pages S503, S508
Measures Read the First Time:
  Pages S503, S508
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S509
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S509-21
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S521-27
Authorities for Committees to Meet:
  Page S527
Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--9)
  Page S489
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 3:46 p.m., 
until 10:00 a.m., on Tuesday, January 16, 2006. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S528.)