[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 10 (Thursday, January 18, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D59-D61]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                         Thursday, January 18, 2007

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                              Daily Digest

HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed S. 1, Ethics Reform.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S709-S782
Measures Introduced: Twelve bills and two resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 329-340, and S. Res. 33-34.                    
  Page S753
Measures Reported:
  S. Res. 32, authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Small 
Business and Entrepreneurship.                                
Page S753
Measures Passed:
  Ethics Reform: By 96 yeas to 2 nays (Vote No. 19), Senate passed S. 
1, to provide greater transparency in the legislative process, after 
taking action on the following amendments proposed thereto: 
                                                          Pages S737-46
Adopted:
  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.                          
Page S742
  Feinstein (for Ensign) Amendment No. 98 (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.                             
Pages S741, S742
  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 S742
  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 S742
  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 S742
  Feinstein (for Durbin) Amendment No. 77 (to Amendment No. 3), to 
require that amendments and instructions accompanying a motion to 
recommit be copied and provided by the Senator offering them to the 
desks of the Majority Leader and Minority Leader before being debated. 
                                                          Pages S742-43
  Obama/Feingold Amendment No. 41 (to Amendment No. 3), to require 
lobbyists to disclose the candidates, leadership PACs, or political 
parties for whom they collect or arrange contributions, and the 
aggregate amount of the contributions collected or arranged. 
                                                          Pages S741-42
  Sanders Amendment No. 57 (to Amendment No. 3), to require a report by 
the Commission to Strengthen Confidence in Congress regarding political 
contributions before and after the enactment of certain laws. 
                                                              Page S742
  Bennett (for Coleman) Modified Amendment No. 39 (to Amendment No. 3), 
to require that a publicly available website be established in Congress 
to allow the public access to records of reported Congressional 
official travel.                                              
Page S742
  Feinstein/Bennett Amendment No. 99, of a technical nature. 
                                                              Page S743
  By 55 yeas to 43 nays (Vote No. 17), Bennett/McConnell Amendment No. 
20 (to Amendment No. 3), to strike a provision relating to paid efforts 
to stimulate grassroots lobbying.                   
Pages S739-41, S743
  Reid Amendment No. 3, in the nature of a substitute.        
Page S744
Rejected:
  By 27 yeas to 71 nays (Vote No. 18), Lieberman Amendment No. 30 (to 
Amendment No. 3), to establish a Senate Office of Public Integrity. 
                                                          Pages S743-44

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Withdrawn:
  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 S738
  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 S738
  Leahy/Pryor Amendment No. 2 (to Amendment No. 3), to give 
investigators and prosecutors the tools they need to combat public 
corruption.                                                   
Page S738
  Gregg Amendment No. 17 (to Amendment No. 3) , to establish a 
legislative line item veto.                                   
Page S738
  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 S738
  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 S738
  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 S738
  Cornyn Amendment No. 27 (to Amendment No. 3), to require 3 calendar 
days notice in the Senate before proceeding to any matter.    
Page S738
  Bennett (for McCain) Amendment No. 28 (to Amendment No. 3), to 
provide congressional transparency.                           
Page S738
  Bennett (for McCain) Amendment No. 29 (to Amendment No. 3), to 
provide congressional transparency.                           
Page S738
  Thune Amendment No. 37 (to Amendment No. 3), to require any recipient 
of a Federal award to disclose all lobbying and political advocacy. 
                                                              Page S738
  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 S738
  Feingold Amendment No. 34 (to Amendment No. 3), to require Senate 
campaigns to file their FEC reports electronically.           
Page S738
  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.                         
Page S738
  Cornyn Amendment No. 45 (to Amendment No. 3), to require 72-hour 
public availability of legislative matters before consideration. 
                                                              Page S738
  Cornyn Amendment No. 46 (to Amendment No. 2), to deter public 
corruption.                                                   
Page S738
  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 S738
  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 S738
  Bond (for Coburn) Amendment No. 50 (to Amendment No. 3), to provide 
disclosure of lobbyist gifts and travel instead of banning them as 
proposed.                                                     
Page S738
  Nelson (NE) Amendment No. 47 (to Amendment No. 3), to help encourage 
fiscal responsibility in the earmarking process.              
Page S738
  Reid (for Lieberman) Amendment No. 43 (to Amendment No. 3), to 
require disclosure of earmark lobbying by lobbyists.          
Page S738
  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 S738
  Bennett (for Coburn) Amendment No. 59 (to Amendment No. 3), to 
provide disclosure of lobbyist gifts and travel instead of banning them 
as proposed.                                                  
Page S738
  Feingold Amendment No. 63 (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 S738
  Feingold Amendment No. 64 (to Amendment No. 3), to prohibit lobbyists 
and entities that retain or employ lobbyists from throwing lavish 
parties honoring Members at party conventions.                
Page S738
  Feingold/Obama Amendment No. 76 (to Amendment No. 3), to clarify 
certain aspects of the lobbyist contribution reporting provision. 
                                                              Page S738
  Nelson (NE)/Salazar Amendment No. 71 (to Amendment No. 3), to extend 
the laws and rules passed in this bill to the executive and judicial 
branches of government.                                       
Page S738
Joint Committee on Taxation: The Chair announced on behalf of the 
Committee on Finance, that pursuant to section 8002 of title 26, U.S. 
Code, the following Senators were designated as members

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of the Joint Committee on Taxation: Senators Baucus, Rockefeller, 
Conrad, Grassley, and Hatch.                                  
  Page S781
Funding Resolution--Referral: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached 
providing that the Committee on Rules and Administration be discharged 
from further consideration of S. Res. 32, authorizing expenditures by 
the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and be referred 
to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.      
  Page S731
Fair Minimum Wage--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached 
providing that at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, January 22, 2007, Senate begin 
consideration of H.R. 2, to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 
to provide for an increase in the Federal minimum wage.       
  Page S781
Appointments:
  Congressional Budget Office: The Chair announced on behalf of the 
President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives, pursuant to the provisions of Section 201(a)(2) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, have appointed Dr. Peter R. Orszag as 
Director of the Congressional Budget Office effective immediately for 
the term expiring January 3, 2011.                            
  Page S731
Messages From the President: Senate received the following message from 
the President of the United States:
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on the continuation of the 
national emergency with respect to foreign terrorists who threaten to 
disrupt the Middle East peace process; which was referred to the 
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM-1)      
Page S752
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Mario Mancuso, of New York, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for 
Export Administration.
  William B. Wood, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Islamic 
Republic of Afghanistan.
  Paul J. Bonicelli, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator of 
the United States Agency for International Development.
  Patrick P. Shen, of Maryland, to be Special Counsel for Immigration-
Related Unfair Employment Practices for a term of four years.
  19 Air Force nominations in the rank of general.
  9 Marine Corps nominations in the rank of general.
  Routine lists in the Air Force, Army.                       
Page S782
Messages From the House:                                      
  Page S752
Messages Referred:                                            
  Page S752
Measures Placed on the Calendar:                              
  Page S752
Measures Read the First Time:                                 
  Page S753
Executive Communications:                                     
  Page S753
Additional Cosponsors:                                    
  Pages S753-54
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:               
  Pages S754-80
Additional Statements:                                    
  Pages S751-52
Amendments Submitted:                                         
  Page S780
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:                             
  Pages S780-81
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                           
  Page S781
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total--19) 
                                                 Pages S743, S744, S746
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:00 a.m., and adjourned at 9:35 p.m., 
until 1:00 p.m., on Monday, January 22, 2006. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on pages S781-
82.)