[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 36 (Friday, March 2, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D249-D250]
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                                              Friday, March 2, 2007

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S2543-S2565
Measures Introduced: Ten bills were introduced, as follows: S. 746-755.
                                                             Page S2559
Improving America's Security by Implementing Unfinished Recommendations 
of the 9/11 Commission Act: Senate continued consideration of S. 4, to 
make the United States more secure by implementing unfinished 
recommendations of the 9/11 Commission to fight the war on terror more 
effectively, to improve homeland security, withdrawing the committee 
amendment in the nature of a substitute, taking action on the following 
amendments proposed thereto:
  Pages S2544-55
Adopted:
  By a unanimous vote of 82 yeas (Vote No. 57), Sununu Amendment No. 
292 (to Amendment No. 275), to expand the reporting requirement on 
cross border interoperability, and to prevent lengthy delays in the 
accessing frequencies and channels for public safety communication 
users and others.
Pages S2544, S2547
  By 82 yeas to 1 nay (Vote No. 58), Salazar Amendment No. 280 (to 
Amendment No. 275), to create a Rural Policing Institute as part of the 
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.
Pages S2546-48
Pending:
  Reid Amendment No. 275, in the nature of a substitute.
Page S2544
  Sununu Amendment No. 291 (to Amendment No. 275), to ensure that the 
emergency communications and interoperability communications grant 
program does not exclude Internet Protocol-based interoperable 
solutions.
Page S2544
  Salazar/Lieberman Modified Amendment No. 290 (to Amendment No. 275), 
to require a quadrennial homeland security review.
Page S2544
  DeMint Amendment No. 314 (to Amendment No. 275), to strike the 
provision that revises the personnel management practices of the 
Transportation Security Administration.
Page S2544
  Lieberman Amendment No. 315 (to Amendment No. 275), to provide appeal 
rights and employee engagement mechanisms for passenger and property 
screeners.
Page S2544
  McCaskill Amendment No. 316 (to Amendment No. 315), to provide appeal 
rights and employee engagement mechanisms for passenger and property 
screeners.
Page S2544
  Dorgan/Conrad Amendment No. 313 (to Amendment No. 275), to require a 
report to Congress on the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, 
and the leadership of al Qaeda.
Page S2544
  Landrieu Amendment No. 321 (to Amendment No. 275), to require the 
Secretary of Homeland Security to include levees in the list of 
critical infrastructure sectors.
Page S2545
  Landrieu Amendment No. 296 (to Amendment No. 275), to permit the 
cancellation of certain loans under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.
Pages S2545, S2552
  Landrieu Amendment No. 295 (to Amendment No. 275), to provide 
adequate funding for local governments harmed by Hurricane Katrina of 
2005 or Hurricane Rita of 2005.
Pages S2545, S2551-52
  Allard Amendment No. 272 (to Amendment No. 275), to prevent the 
fraudulent use of social security account numbers by allowing the 
sharing of social security data among agencies of the United States for 
identity theft prevention and immigration enforcement purposes. 
                                                         Pages S2545-46
  McConnell (for Sessions) Amendment No. 305 (to Amendment No. 275), to 
clarify the voluntary inherent authority of States to assist in the 
enforcement of the immigration laws of the United States and to require 
the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide information related to 
aliens found to have violated certain immigration laws to the National 
Crime Information Center.
Page S2548
  McConnell (for Cornyn) Amendment No. 310 (to Amendment No. 275), to 
strengthen the Federal Government's ability to detain dangerous 
criminal aliens, including murderers, rapists, and child molesters, 
until they can be removed from the United States.
Page S2548
  McConnell (for Cornyn) Amendment No. 311 (to Amendment No. 275), to 
provide for immigration injunction reform.
Pages S2548-49

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  McConnell (for Cornyn) Amendment No. 312 (to Amendment No. 275), to 
prohibit the recruitment of persons to participate in terrorism. 
                                                             Page S2549
  McConnell (for Kyl) Amendment No. 317 (to Amendment No. 275), to 
prohibit the rewarding of suicide bombings and allow adequate 
punishments for terrorist murders, kidnappings, and sexual assaults. 
                                                         Pages S2549-50
  McConnell (for Kyl) Amendment No. 318 (to Amendment No. 275), to 
protect classified information.
Page S2550
  McConnell (for Kyl) Amendment No. 319 (to Amendment No. 275), to 
provide for relief from (a)(3)(B) immigration bars from the Hmong and 
other groups who do not pose a threat to the United States, to 
designate the Taliban as a terrorist organization for immigration 
purposes.
Pages S2550-51
  McConnell (for Kyl)Amendment No. 320 (to Amendment No. 275), to 
improve the Classified Information Procedures Act.
Page S2551
  McConnell (for Grassley) Amendment No. 300 (to Amendment No. 275), to 
clarify the revocation of an alien's visa or other documentation is not 
subject to judicial review.
Pages S2551, S2556-57
  McConnell (for Grassley) Amendment No. 309 (to Amendment No. 275), to 
improve the prohibitions on money laundering.
Pages S2551, S2555-56
  Thune Amendment No. 308 (to Amendment No. 275), to expand and improve 
the Proliferation Security Initiative while protecting the national 
security interests of the United States.
Pages S2552-54
  Cardin Amendment No. 326 (to Amendment No. 275), to provide for a 
study of modification of area of jurisdiction of Office of National 
Capital Region Coordination.
Page S2554
  Cardin Amendment No. 327 (to Amendment No. 275), to reform mutual aid 
agreements for the National Capital Region.
Page S2554
  Cardin Amendment No. 328 (to Amendment No. 275), to require Amtrak 
contracts and leases involving the State of Maryland to be governed by 
the laws of the District of Columbia.
Pages S2554-55
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at 3 p.m., on Monday, March 5, 2007. 
                                                             Page S2565
ESCORT COMMITTEE-AGREEMENT: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached 
providing that the President of the Senate be authorized to appoint a 
committee on the part of the Senate to join with a like committee on 
the part of the House of Representatives to escort His Majesty King 
Abdullah II bin Al Hussein, King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, 
into the House Chamber for a joint meeting at 11 a.m., on Wednesday, 
March 7, 2007.
  Page S2565
Measures Placed on the Calendar:
  Page S2559
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S2559-60
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Page S2560
Additional Statements:
  Pages S2559-62
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S2562-65
Privileges of the Floor:
  Page S2565
Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--58) 
                                                     Pages S2547, S2548
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 1:02 p.m., 
until 1:30 p.m. on Monday, March 5, 2007. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S2565.)