[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 40 (Thursday, March 8, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D288-D290]
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                                            Thursday, March 8, 2007

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                              Daily Digest


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S2853-S2954
Measures Introduced: Twenty five bills and five resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 807-831, S.J. Res. 6-9, and S. Res. 101. 
                                                         Pages S2898-99
Measures Reported:
  S. 655, to amend the Congressional Charter of The American National 
Red Cross to modernize its governance structure, to enhance the ability 
of the board of governors of The American National Red Cross to support 
the critical mission of The American Red Cross in the 21st century, 
with an amendment.                                           
Page S2898
Measures Passed:
  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 S2856-68, S2874-83, S2885-88
Pending:
  Reid Amendment No. 275, in the nature of a substitute.     
Page S2856
  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.                                           
Pages S2856, S2857
  Salazar/Lieberman Modified Amendment No. 290 (to Amendment No. 275), 
to require a quadrennial homeland security review.           
Page S2856
  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.                   
Pages S2856, S2875-78
  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 S2856
  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.                         
Page S2856
  Landrieu Modified 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.                   
Page S2856
  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. 
                                                             Page S2856
  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.                                
Pages S2856-57
  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 S2857
  McConnell (for Cornyn) Amendment No. 311 (to Amendment No. 275), to 
provide for immigration injunction reform.                   
Page S2857
  McConnell (for Cornyn) Modified Amendment No. 312 (to Amendment No. 
275), to prohibit the recruitment of persons to participate in 
terrorism, to clarify that the revocation of an alien's visa or other 
documentation is not subject to judicial review, 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, to prohibit the rewarding of suicide 
bombings and allow adequate punishments for terrorist murders, 
kidnappings, and sexual assaults.                            
Page S2857
  McConnell (for Kyl) Modified Amendment No. 317 (to Amendment No. 
275), to prohibit the rewarding of suicide bombings and allow adequate

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punishments for terrorist murders, kidnappings, and sexual assaults. 
                                                             Page S2857
  McConnell (for Kyl) Amendment No. 318 (to Amendment No. 275), to 
protect classified information.
  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.                                                    
Page S2857
  McConnell (for Kyl) Amendment No. 320 (to Amendment No. 275), to 
improve the Classified Information Procedures Act.           
Page S2857
  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.                                  
Page S2857
  McConnell (for Grassley) Amendment No. 309 (to Amendment No. 275), to 
improve the prohibitions on money laundering.                
Page S2857
  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.                     
Page S2857
  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 S2857
  Cardin Amendment No. 327 (to Amendment No. 275), to reform mutual aid 
agreements for the National Capital Region.                  
Page S2857
  Cardin Modified 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.            
Page S2857
  Schumer/Clinton Amendment No. 336 (to Amendment No. 275), to prohibit 
the use of the peer review process in determining the allocation of 
funds among metropolitan areas applying for grants under the Urban Area 
Security Initiative.                                         
Page S2857
  Schumer/Clinton Amendment No. 337 (to Amendment No. 275), to provide 
for the use of funds in any grant under the Homeland Security Grant 
Program for personnel costs.                                 
Page S2857
  Coburn Amendment No. 325 (to Amendment No. 275), to ensure the fiscal 
integrity of grants awarded by the Department of Homeland Security. 
                                                             Page S2857
  Sessions Amendment No. 347 (to Amendment No. 275), to express the 
sense of the Congress regarding the funding of Senate approved 
construction of fencing and vehicle barriers along the southwest border 
of the United States.                                        
Page S2857
  Coburn Amendment No. 301 (to Amendment No. 275), to prohibit grant 
recipients under grant programs administered by the Department from 
expending funds until the Secretary has reported to Congress that risk 
assessments of all programs and activities have been performed and 
completed, improper payments have been estimated, and corrective action 
plans have been developed and reported as required under the Improper 
Payments Act of 2002 (31 U.S.C. 3321 note).                  
Page S2857
  Coburn Amendment No. 294 (to Amendment No. 275), to provide that the 
provisions of the Act shall cease to have any force or effect on and 
after December 31, 2012, to ensure congressional review and oversight 
of the Act.                                                  
Page S2857
  Lieberman (for Menendez) Amendment No. 354 (to Amendment No. 275), to 
improve the security of cargo containers destined for the United 
States.                                                      
Page S2857
  Specter Amendment No. 286 (to Amendment No. 275), to restore habeas 
corpus for those detained by the United States.              
Page S2857
  Kyl Modified Amendment No. 357 (to Amendment No. 275), to amend the 
data-mining technology reporting requirement to avoid revealing 
existing patents, trade secrets, and confidential business processes, 
and to adopt a narrower definition of data-mining in order to exclude 
routine computer searches.                                   
Page S2857
  Ensign Amendment No. 363 (to Amendment No. 275), to establish a Law 
Enforcement Assistance Force in the Department of Homeland Security to 
facilitate the contributions of retired law enforcement officers during 
major disasters.                                             
Page S2857
  Biden Amendment No. 383 (to Amendment No. 275), to require the 
Secretary of Homeland Security to develop regulations regarding the 
transportation of high hazard materials.                     
Page S2857
  Biden Amendment No. 384 (to Amendment No. 275), to establish a 
Homeland Security and Neighborhood Safety Trust Fund and refocus 
Federal priorities toward securing the Homeland.             
Page S2857
  Bunning Amendment No. 334 (to Amendment No. 275), to amend title 49, 
United States Code, to modify the authorities relating to Federal 
flight deck officers.                                        
Page S2857
  Schumer Modified Amendment No. 367 (to Amendment No. 275), to require 
the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration to 
establish and implement a program to provide additional safety measures 
for vehicles that carry high hazardous materials.
  Schumer Amendment No. 366 (to Amendment No. 275), to restrict the 
authority of the Nuclear

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Regulatory Commission to issue a license authorizing the export to a 
recipient country of highly enriched uranium for medical isotope 
production.                                                  
Page S2857
  Wyden Amendment No. 348 (to Amendment No. 275), to require that a 
redacted version of the Executive Summary of the Office of Inspector 
General Report on Central Intelligence Agency Accountability Regarding 
Findings and Conclusions of the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence 
Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of 
September 11, 2001 is made available to the public.          
Page S2857
  Bond/Rockefeller Amendment No. 389 (to Amendment No. 275), to provide 
the sense of the Senate that the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the 
Senate should submit a report on the recommendations of the 9/11 
Commission with respect to intelligence reform and congressional 
intelligence oversight reform.                               
Page S2857
  Stevens Amendment No. 299 (to Amendment No. 275), to authorize NTIA 
to borrow against anticipated receipts of the Digital Television 
Transition and Public Safety Fund to initiate migration to a national 
IP-enabled emergency network capable of receiving and responding to all 
citizen activated emergency communications.                  
Page S2857
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at approximately 9:15 a.m., on Friday, March 
9, 2007; that the time until 9:30 a.m., be equally divided and 
controlled between the Majority Leader and the Republican Leader, or 
their designees; provided that at 9:30 a.m., the live quorum with 
respect to the McConnell cloture motion be waived, and Senate vote on 
the motion to invoke cloture on McConnell (for Cornyn) Modified 
Amendment No. 312 (to Amendment No. 275) (listed above); provided 
further that all second-degree amendments be filed by 10:00 a.m., on 
Friday, March 9, 2007.                                       
Page S2954
Message 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 Iran that was declared on March 15, 
1995; which was referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs. (PM-9)                                        
Page S2897
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  By unanimous vote of 95 yeas (Vote No. EX. 67), John Alfred Jarvey, 
of Iowa, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District 
of Iowa.
  Sara Elizabeth Lioi, of Ohio, to be United States District Judge for 
the Northern District of Ohio.                    
Pages S2883-85, S2954
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations: 2 Army 
nominations in the rank of general.                          
  Page S2954
Messages from the House:                                 
  Pages S2897-98
Messages Referred:                                           
  Page S2898
Measures Read the First Time:                        
  Pages S2898, S2954
Executive Reports of Committees:                             
  Page S2898
Additional Cosponsors:                                
  Pages S2899-S2900
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S2900-27
Additional Statements:                                       
  Page S2897
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S2927-53
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:                                
  Page S2953
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                      
  Pages S2953-54
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--67)   
  Page S2884
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 8:29 p.m., 
until 9:15 a.m. on Friday, March 9, 2007. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S2954.)