[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 12 (Monday, January 22, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D71-D72]
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                                           Monday, January 22, 2007

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S783-S872
Measures Introduced: Nineteen bills and two resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 341-359, and S. Res. 35-36.    
  Pages S827-28
Measures Reported:
  S. 349, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide 
additional tax incentives to employers and employees of small 
businesses. (S. Rept. No. 110-1)                              
Page S827
Measures Passed:
  Joint Session of Congress: Senate agreed to H. Con. Res. 38, 
providing for a joint session of Congress to receive a message from the 
President, after agreeing to the following amendment proposed thereto: 
                                                              Page S868
  Reid Amendment No. 109, of a perfecting nature.             
Page S868
Fair Minimum Wage: Senate began consideration of H.R. 2, to amend the 
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an increase in the 
Federal minimum wage, taking action on the following amendments 
proposed thereto:                                       
  Pages S791-S821
Pending:
  Reid (for Baucus) Amendment No. 100, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                        Pages S791-S821
  McConnell (for Gregg) Amendment No. 101 (to Amendment No. 100), to 
provide Congress a second look at wasteful spending by establishing 
enhanced rescission authority under fast-track procedures. 
                                                        Pages S791-S803
  Enzi (for Snowe) Amendment No. 103 (to Amendment No. 100), to enhance 
compliance assistance for small businesses.                   
Page S803
  Sessions Amendment No. 106 ( to Amendment No. 100), to express the 
sense of the Senate that increasing personal savings is a necessary 
step toward ensuring the economic security of all the people of the 
United States upon retirement.                            
Pages S818-20
  Sessions Amendment No. 107 (to Amendment No. 100), to impose 
additional requirements to ensure greater use of the advance payment of 
the earned income credit and to extend such advance payment to all 
taxpayers eligible for the credit.                        
Pages S818-20
  Sessions Amendment No. 108 (to Amendment No. 100), to authorize the 
Secretary of the Treasury to study the costs and barriers to businesses 
if the advance earned income tax credit program included all EITC 
recipients.                                               
Pages S818-20
  A motion was entered to close further debate on McConnell (for Gregg) 
Amendment No. 101 (to Amendment No. 100), and, in accordance with the 
provisions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, a vote on 
cloture will occur on Wednesday, January 24, 2007.            
Page S791
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the bill and, in 
accordance with the provisions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate, a vote on cloture will occur on Wednesday, January 24, 
2007.                                                         
Page S821
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that Senators 
have until 2:30 p.m., on Tuesday, January 23, 2007, to file first-
degree amendments.                                            
Page S869
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at approximately 11 a.m., on Tuesday, January 
23, 2007.                                                     
Page S869
Ethics Reform--Amendment Modified: A unanimous-consent agreement was 
reached providing that, notwithstanding the Thursday, January 18, 2007 
passage, of S. 1, to provide greater transparency in the legislative 
process, Senate modified the following amendment which had previously 
been agreed to:
  Bond (for Coburn) Modified 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.    
Pages S783-84
Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program--Referral: A 
unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that the Committee on 
the Judiciary be discharged from further consideration of S. 69, to 
authorize appropriations for the

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Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program, and be referred 
to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.    
  Page S868
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Ryan C. Crocker, of Washington, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Iraq.
  John D. Negroponte, of New York, to be Deputy Secretary of State.
  J. Michael McConnell, of Virginia, to be Director of National 
Intelligence.
  1 Marine Corps nomination in the rank of general.           
Page S872
Messages From the House:                                  
  Pages S825-26
Measures Placed on the Calendar:                              
  Page S826
Executive Communications:                                  
  Page S826-27
Additional Cosponsors:                                        
  Page S828
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:               
  Pages S828-53
Additional Statements:                                    
  Pages S824-25
Amendments Submitted:                                     
  Pages S853-68
Privileges of the Floor:                                      
  Page S868
Adjournment: Senate convened at 1 p.m., and adjourned at 6:59 p.m., 
until 10 a.m., on Tuesday, January 23, 2006. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S869.)