[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 97 (Friday, June 15, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D831-D832]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                              Friday, June 15, 2007

[[Page D831]]

                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      The House passed H.R. 2638, Department of Homeland Security 
      Appropriations Act, 2008
      The House passed H.R. 2642, Military Construction and Veterans 
      Affairs Appropriations Act, 2008


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S7779-S7799
Measures Introduced: Six bills were introduced, as follows: S. 1633-
1638.
  Page S7792
Measures Considered:
CLEAN Energy Act: Senate continued consideration of H.R. 6, to reduce 
our Nation's dependency on foreign oil by investing in clean, 
renewable, and alternative energy resources, promoting new emerging 
energy technologies, developing greater efficiency, and creating a 
Strategic Energy Efficiency and Renewables Reserve to invest in 
alternative energy, taking action on the following amendment proposed 
thereto:
  Pages S7780-89
Adopted:
  Salazar Amendment No. 1524 (to Amendment No. 1502), to express the 
sense of Congress relating to the use of renewable resources to 
generate energy.
Pages S7785-87
Pending:
  Reid Amendment No. 1502, in the nature of a substitute.
Page S7780
  Reid (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 1537 (to Amendment No. 1502), to 
provide for a renewable portfolio standard.
Page S7780
  Klobuchar (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 1573 (to Amendment No. 1537), 
to provide for a renewable portfolio standard.
Page S7780
  Bingaman (for Klobuchar) Amendment No. 1557 (to Amendment No. 1502), 
to establish a national greenhouse gas registry.
Page S7780
  Kohl Amendment No. 1519 (to Amendment No. 1502), to amend the Sherman 
Act to make oil-producing and exporting cartels illegal.
Page S7780
  Kohl (for DeMint) Amendment No. 1546 (to Amendment No. 1502), to 
provide that legislation that would increase the national average fuel 
prices for automobiles is subject to a point of order in the Senate. 
                                                             Page S7780
  Corker Amendment No. 1608 (to Amendment No. 1502), to allow clean 
fuels to meet the renewable fuel standard.
Pages S7780-81
  Cardin Amendment No. 1520 (to Amendment No. 1502), to promote the 
energy independence of the United States.
Pages S7781-82
  Domenici (for Thune) Amendment No. 1609 (to Amendment No. 1502), to 
provide requirements for the designation of national interest electric 
transmission corridors.
Pages S7782-83
  Cardin Amendment No. 1610 (to Amendment No. 1502), to provide for the 
siting, construction, expansion, and operation of liquefied natural gas 
terminals.
Pages S7783-85
  Collins Amendment No. 1615 (to Amendment No. 1502), to provide for 
the development and coordination of a comprehensive and integrated 
United States research program that assists the people of the United 
States and the world to understand, assess, and predict human-induced 
and natural processes of abrupt climate change.
Pages S7798-99
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that Senate 
resume consideration of the bill at 3:30 p.m., on Monday, June 18, 
2007.
Page S7798
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S7792-93
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Page S7793
Additional Statements:
  Pages S7791-92
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S7793-98

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Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and adjourned at 11:57 a.m., 
until 2 p.m. on Monday, June 18, 2007. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S7798.)