[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 13 (Tuesday, January 23, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D75-D76]
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                                          Tuesday, January 23, 2007

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S873-S1001
Measures Introduced: Eleven bills and one resolution were introduced, 
as follows: S. 360-370 and S. Res. 37.
  Pages S911-12
Measures Passed:
  Adjournment Resolution: Senate agreed to H. Con. Res. 41, providing 
for a conditional adjournment of the House of Representatives. 
                                                             Page S1000
  Page Board Composition: Senate passed to H.R. 475, to revise the 
composition of the House of Representatives Page Board to equalize the 
number of members representing the majority and minority parties and to 
include a member representing the parents of pages and a member 
representing former pages, clearing the measure for the President. 
                                                             Page S1000
Fair Minimum Wage: Senate continued 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 S880-88, S888-S904
Adopted:
  By a unanimous vote of 99 yeas (Vote No. 20), Enzi (for Snowe) 
Modified Amendment No. 103 (to Amendment No. 100), in the nature of a 
substitute.
Pages S880-81, S888-90
  Roberts/Dodd Amendment No. 102 (to Amendment No. 100), to establish a 
small business child care grant program.
Pages S890-93
  Sessions Modified 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 S880, S903-04
  By a unanimous vote of 98 yeas (Vote No. 21), Sessions Modified 
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 S880, S893-95, S898-S903
Withdrawn:
  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 S880, S903
Pending:
  Reid (for Baucus) Amendment No. 100, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                               Pages S880-88, S888-S904
  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.
Page S880
  Sununu Amendment No. 112 (to Amendment No. 100), to prevent the 
closure and defunding of certain women's business centers. 
                                                          Pages S881-82
  Kyl Amendment No. 115 (to Amendment No. 100), to extend through 
December 31, 2008, the depreciation treatment of leasehold, restaurant, 
and retail space improvements.
Page S882
  Bunning Amendment No. 119 (to Amendment No. 100), to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 1993 income tax increase on 
Social Security benefits.
Pages S895-97
  Enzi (for Ensign/Inhofe) Amendment No. 152 (to Amendment No. 100), to 
reduce document fraud, prevent identity theft, and preserve the 
integrity of the Social Security system.
Pages S897-98
  Enzi (for Ensign) Amendment No. 153 (to Amendment No. 100), to 
preserve and protect Social Security benefits of American workers, 
including those making minimum wage, and to help ensure greater 
Congressional oversight of the Social Security system by requiring that 
both Houses of Congress approve a totalization agreement before the 
agreement, giving foreign workers Social Security benefits, can go into 
effect.
Pages S897-98
  Enzi (for Ensign) Amendment No. 154 (to Amendment No. 100), to 
improve access to affordable health care.
Pages S897-98

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  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at approximately 10:30 a.m., on Wednesday, 
January 24, 2007; that there be one hour of debate prior to the vote on 
the motion to invoke cloture on Gregg Amendment No. 101 (listed above), 
with the time equally divided and controlled between the Majority and 
Republican Leaders, or their designees; that at 11:30 a.m., Senate vote 
on the motion to invoke cloture on Gregg Amendment No. 101; provided 
further, that members have until 10:30 a.m., on Wednesday, January 24, 
2007, to file second-degree amendments.
Pages S1000-01
Messages From the President: Senate received the following message from 
the President of the United States:
  Transmitting the report on the State of the Union delivered to a 
Joint Session of Congress on January 23, 2007; which was ordered to lie 
on the table. (PM-2)
Pages S907-11
Messages From the House:
  Page S907
Messages Referred:
  Page S911
Executive Communications:
  Page S911
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S912
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S912-23
Additional Statements:
  Pages S906-07
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S924-90
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:
  Pages S990-91
Authorities for Committees to Meet:
  Page S991
Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--21) 
                                                       Pages S890, S904
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m., and adjourned at 10:11 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m., on Wednesday, January 24, 2006. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S1001.)