[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 41 (Friday, March 9, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D300-D303]
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                                              Friday, March 9, 2007

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                              Daily Digest


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S2955-S2989
Measures Introduced: Six bills and five resolutions were introduced, as 
follows: S. 832-837, S. Res. 102-104, and S. Con. Res. 17-18. 
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Measures Reported:
  S. 377, to establish a United States Poland parliamentary youth 
exchange program. (S. Rept. No. 110-33)
  S. 494, to endorse further enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty 
Organization (NATO) and to facilitate the timely admission of new 
members to NATO. (S. Rept. No. 110-34)
  S. 676, to provide that the Executive Director of the Inter American 
Development Bank or the Alternate Executive Director of the Inter 
American Development Bank may serve on the Board of Directors of the 
Inter American Foundation. (S. Rept. No. 110-35)
Pages S2968-69
Measures Passed:
  International Women's Day: Senate agreed to S. Res. 102, supporting 
the goals of ``International Women's Day''.
Pages S2987-88
  Commending the Kingdom of Lesotho: Senate agreed to S. Res. 103, 
commending the Kingdom of Lesotho, on the occasion of International 
Women's Day, for the enactment of a law to improve the status of 
married women and ensure the access of married women to property 
rights.
  Pages S2988-89
  Santiago E. Campos United States Courthouse: Senate passed H.R. 544, 
to designate the United States courthouse at South Federal Place in 
Santa Fe, New Mexico, as the ``Santiago E. Campos United States 
Courthouse'', clearing the measure for the President.
  Page S2989
  Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building: Senate passed 
H.R. 584, to designate the Federal building located at 400 Maryland 
Avenue Southwest in the District of Columbia as the ``Lyndon Baines 
Johnson Department of Education Building'', clearing the measure for 
the President.
  Page S2989
  Rush Hudson Limbaugh, Sr. United States Courthouse: Committee on 
Environment and Public Works was discharged from further consideration 
of H.R. 342, to designate the United States courthouse located at 555 
Independence Street in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, as the ``Rush Hudson 
Limbaugh, Sr. United States Courthouse'', and the bill was then passed, 
clearing the measure for the President.
  Page S2989
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 S2956-67
Pending:
  Reid Amendment No. 275, in the nature of a substitute.
Page S2956
  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 S2956
  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 S2956
  Coburn Amendment No. 325 (to Amendment No. 275), to ensure the fiscal 
integrity of grants awarded by the Department of Homeland Security. 
                                                             Page S2956
  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 S2956
  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

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data-mining in order to exclude routine computer searches. 
                                                         Pages S2956-57
  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 S2957
  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.
Page S2957
  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 S2957
  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 S2956
  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 S2957
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 46 yeas to 49 nays (Vote No. 68), 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 McConnell (for 
Cornyn) Modified Amendment No. 312 (to Amendment No. 275) (listed 
above).
Page S2958
  By 69 yeas to 26 nays (Vote No. 69), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, having voted in the affirmative, Senate agreed 
to the motion to close further debate on Reid Amendment No. 275 (listed 
above).
Page S2958
  Chair sustained a point of order under Rule XXII, that the following 
amendments were not germane, and the amendments thus fell:
  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 S2956
  Salazar/Lieberman Modified Amendment No. 290 (to Amendment No. 275), 
to require a quadrennial homeland security review.
Page S2956
  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 S2956
  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 S2956
  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 S2956
  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. 
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  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 S2956
  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 S2956
  McConnell (for Cornyn) Amendment No. 311 (to Amendment No. 275), to 
provide for immigration injunction reform.
Page S2956
  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 S2956
  McConnell (for Kyl) Modified 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. 
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  McConnell (for Kyl) Amendment No. 318 (to Amendment No. 275), to 
protect classified information.
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  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 S2956
  McConnell (for Kyl)Amendment No. 320 (to Amendment No. 275), to 
improve the Classified Information Procedures Act.
Page S2956
  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 S2956
  McConnell (for Grassley) Amendment No. 309 (to Amendment No. 275), to 
improve the prohibitions on money laundering.
Page S2956
  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 S2956
  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 S2956
  Cardin Amendment No. 327 (to Amendment No. 275), to reform mutual aid 
agreements for the National Capital Region.
Page S2956
  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 S2956
  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 S2956
  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 S2956
  Lieberman (for Menendez) Amendment No. 354 (to Amendment No. 275), to 
improve the security of cargo containers destined for the United 
States.
Page S2956
  Specter Amendment No. 286 (to Amendment No. 275), to restore habeas 
corpus for those detained by the United States.
Pages S2956, S2962
  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 S2957
  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 S2957
  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 S2957
  Schumer Amendment No. 366 (to Amendment No. 275), to restrict the 
authority of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to issue a license 
authorizing the export to a recipient country of highly enriched 
uranium for medical isotope production.
Page S2957
  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 S2957
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that the 
previously scheduled vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the bill 
be vitiated; that the bill be read a third time and a vote occur on 
final passage on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 immediately upon the 
disposition of Reid Amendment No. 275 (listed above); that when the 
Senate convenes on Tuesday, March 13, 2007, and resumes consideration 
of the bill, all time under cloture be expired and Senate immediately 
begin voting on the pending germane amendments; provided further that 
during legislative session on Monday, March 12, 2007, the provisions of 
Rule 22 not bar a motion to proceed made by the Majority Leader. 
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Appointments:
  Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress: The Chair announced, 
on behalf of the Majority Leader, pursuant to Public Law 101-509, the 
reappointment of Guy Rocha of Nevada to the Advisory Committee on the 
Records of Congress.
  Page S2987
Messages From the House:
  Page S2968
Messages Referred:
  Page S2968
Measures Placed on the Calendar:
  Pages S2968, S2987
Executive Communications:
  Page S2968
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S2969-70

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Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S2970-77
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S2977-87
Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--69) 
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Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:15 a.m., and adjourned at 1:11 p.m., 
until 2:30 p.m. on Monday, March 12, 2007. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S2989.)