[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 14 (Wednesday, January 24, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D81-D82]
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                                        Wednesday, January 24, 2007

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S1003-S1133
Measures Introduced: Sixteen bills and three resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 371-386, S. Res. 38-39, and S. Con. Res. 4. 
                                                         Pages S1056-57
Measures Reported: S. 372, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2007 for the intelligence and intelligence related activities of the 
United States Government, the Intelligence Community Management 
Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability 
System. (S. Rept. No. 110-2)
  S. Res. 38, authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources.
  S. Con. Res. 2, expressing the bipartisan resolution on Iraq, with an 
amendment.
Pages S1055-56
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 S1011-48
Adopted:
  Kennedy (for Kerry) Amendment No. 187 (to Amendment No. 112), in the 
nature of a substitute.
Pages S1044-45
  Sununu Amendment No. 112 (to Amendment No. 100), to prevent the 
closure and defunding of certain women's business centers. 
                                                     Pages S1011, S1045
  Kennedy (for Feingold) Modified Amendment No. 127, to amend the Buy 
American Act to require each Federal agency to submit reports regarding 
purchases of items made outside of the United States.
Page S1045
Rejected:
  By 28 yeas to 69 nays (Vote No. 24), Allard Amendment No. 116 (to 
Amendment No. 100), to afford States the rights and flexibility to 
determine minimum wage.
Pages S1021-22, S1041-42, S1043-44
Withdrawn:
  Wyden Amendment No. 104 (to Amendment No. 100), to reauthorize the 
Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000. 
                                                         Pages S1022-24
Pending:
  Reid (for Baucus) Amendment No. 100, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                         Pages S1011-48
  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 S1011, S1012-19
  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 S1011
  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.
Page S1011
  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.
Page S1011
  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.
Page S1011
  Enzi (for Ensign) Amendment No. 154 (to Amendment No. 100), to 
improve access to affordable health care.
Page S1011
  Smith Amendment No. 113 (to Amendment No. 100), to make permanent 
certain education-related tax incentives.
Page S1011
  Vitter/Voinovich Amendment No. 110 (to Amendment No. 100), to amend 
title 44 of the United States Code, to provide for the suspension of 
fines under certain circumstances for first-time paperwork violations 
by small business concerns.
Page S1021
  DeMint Amendment No. 155 (to Amendment No. 100), to amend the Public 
Health Service Act to provide for cooperative governing of individual 
health insurance coverage offered in interstate commerce, and to amend 
the Internal Revenue Code of

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1986 regarding the disposition of unused health benefits in cafeteria 
plans and flexible spending arrangements and the use of health savings 
accounts for the payment of health insurance premiums for high 
deductible health plans purchased in the individual market. 
                                                         Pages S1027-29
  DeMint Amendment No. 156 (to Amendment No. 100), to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 regarding the disposition of unused 
health benefits in cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements. 
                                                         Pages S1035-38
  DeMint Amendment No. 157 (to Amendment No. 100), to increase the 
Federal minimum wage by an amount that is based on applicable State 
minimum wages.
Pages S1035-38
  DeMint Amendment No. 158 (to the language proposed to be stricken by 
Amendment No. 100), to increase the Federal minimum wage by an amount 
that is based on applicable State minimum wages.
Pages S1035-38
  DeMint Amendment No. 159 (to Amendment No. 100), to protect 
individuals from having their money involuntarily collected and used 
for lobbying by a labor organization.
Pages S1035-38
  DeMint Amendment No. 160 (to Amendment No. 100), to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow certain small businesses to 
defer payment of tax.
Pages S1035-38
  DeMint Amendment No. 161 (to Amendment No. 100), to prohibit the use 
of flexible schedules by Federal employees unless such flexible 
schedule benefits are made available to private sector employees not 
later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the Fair Minimum Wage 
Act of 2007.
Pages S1035-38
  DeMint Amendment No. 162 (to Amendment No. 100), to amend the Fair 
Labor Standards Act of 1938 regarding the minimum wage. 
                                                         Pages S1035-38
  Kennedy (for Kerry) Amendment No. 128 (to Amendment No. 100), to 
direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to 
establish a pilot program to provide regulatory compliance assistance 
to small business concerns.
Page S1042
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 49 yeas to 48 nays (Vote No. 22), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to close further debate on McConnell (for Gregg) 
Amendment No. 101 (to Amendment No. 100) (listed above). 
                                                         Pages S1018-19
  By 54 yeas to 43 nays (Vote No. 23), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to close further debate on the bill.
Page S1020
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at approximately 9:30 a.m., on Thursday, 
January 25, 2007; that there be one hour of debate, equally divided 
between Senators Kennedy and DeMint on DeMint Amendment No. 158 (listed 
above); that no amendments to the amendment be in order prior to a vote 
on, or in relation to, the amendment, and Senate then vote on, or in 
relation to the amendment.
Page S1133
Messages From the House:
  Page S1055
Messages Referred:
  Page S1055
Executive Communications:
  Page S1055
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S1056
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S1057-58
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S1058-80
Additional Statements:
  Pages S1054-55
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S1080-S1132
Authorities for Committees to Meet:
  Pages S1132-33
Privileges of the Floor:
  Page S1133
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total--24) 
                                           Pages S1019, S1020, S1043-44
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 7:44 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m., on Thursday, January 25, 2006. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S1133.)