[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 99 (Tuesday, June 19, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D850-D852]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                             Tuesday, June 19, 2007

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S7837-S7999
Measures Introduced: Sixteen bills and one resolution were introduced, 
as follows: S. 1647-1662, and S. Res. 239.
  Page S7887
Measures Reported:
  Special Report entitled ``Revised Allocation to Subcommittees of 
Budget Totals from the Concurrent Resolution for Fiscal Year 2008''. 
(S. Rept. No. 110-87)
  S. 1099, to amend chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code, to make 
individuals employed by the Roosevelt Campobello International Park 
Commission eligible to obtain Federal health insurance.
Page S7887
Measures Passed:
  Juneteenth Independence Day: Committee on the Judiciary was 
discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 231, recognizing the 
historical significance of Juneteenth Independence Day and expressing 
the sense of the Senate that history should be regarded as a means for 
understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future, and 
the resolution was then agreed to.
  Pages S7845-46
  Grand Teton National Park Extension Act: Senate passed S. 277, to 
modify the boundaries of Grand Teton National Park to include certain 
land within the GT Park Subdivision, after agreeing to the following 
amendment proposed thereto:
  Pages S7872-73
  Enzi Amendment No. 1709, to designate the Grand Teton Discovery and 
Visitor Center as the ``Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center''. 
                                                             Page S7873
  Improving Head Start Act: Senate passed H.R. 1429, to reauthorize the 
Head Start Act, to improve program quality, to expand access, after 
agreeing to the following amendment proposed thereto:
  Page S7996
  Schumer (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 1714, in the nature of a 
substitute.
Pages S7909, S7979-7995
  Senate insists on its amendment, asks for a conference, appoints 
conferees Kennedy; Dodd; Harkin; Mikulski; Bingaman; Murray; Reed; 
Clinton; Obama; Sanders; Brown; Enzi; Gregg; Alexander; Burr; Isakson; 
Murkowski; Hatch; Roberts; Allard; Coburn.
Page S7998
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 amendments proposed 
thereto:
  Pages S7846-72, S7873-79
Adopted:
  Domenici (for Thune) Amendment No. 1609 (to Amendment No. 1502), to 
provide requirements for the designation of national interest electric 
transmission corridors.
Pages S7846, S7864-66
  By 70 yeas to 23 nays (Vote No. 215), Kohl Amendment No. 1519 (to 
Amendment No. 1502), to amend the Sherman Act to make oil-producing and 
exporting cartels illegal.
Pages S7846, S7861-62, S7863-64, S7869-70
Rejected:
  By 39 yeas to 55 nays (Vote No. 213), Domenici (for Bunning/Domenici) 
Amendment No. 1628 (to Amendment No. 1502), to provide standards for 
clean coal-derived fuels.
Pages S7846, S7849-60
  By 33 yeas to 61 nays (Vote No. 214), Bingaman (for Tester) Amendment 
No. 1614 (to Amendment No. 1502), to establish a program to provide 
loans for projects to produce syngas from coal and other feedstocks 
while simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas emissions and reliance of 
the United States on petroleum and natural gas.
Pages S7846, S7860-61
  By 37 yeas to 56 nays (Vote No. 216), Cardin Amendment No. 1610 (to 
Amendment No. 1502), to provide for the siting, construction, 
expansion, and operation of liquefied natural gas terminals. 
                                 Pages S7846, S7864, S7866-69, S7870-71
Pending:
  Reid Amendment No. 1502, in the nature of a substitute.
Page S7846

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  Reid (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 1537 (to Amendment No. 1502), to 
provide for a renewable portfolio standard.
Page S7846
  Klobuchar (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 1573 (to Amendment No. 1537), 
to provide for a renewable portfolio standard.
Page S7846
  Bingaman (for Klobuchar) Amendment No. 1557 (to Amendment No. 1502), 
to establish a national greenhouse gas registry.
Page S7846
  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 S7846
  Corker Amendment No. 1608 (to Amendment No. 1502), to allow clean 
fuels to meet the renewable fuel standard.
Page S7846
  Cardin Modified Amendment No. 1520 (to Amendment No. 1502), to 
promote the energy independence of the United States. 
                                                     Pages S7846, S7869
  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.
Page S7846
  Baucus Amendment No. 1704 (to Amendment No. 1502), to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for energy advancement and 
investment.
Pages S7871-72
  A motion was entered to close further debate on Baucus Amendment No. 
1704 (to Amendment No. 1502), and, in accordance with the provisions of 
Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, a vote on cloture will 
occur on Thursday, June 21, 2007.
Page S7877
  A motion was entered to close further debate on Reid Amendment No. 
1502, and, in accordance with the provisions of Rule XXII of the 
Standing Rules of the Senate, a vote on cloture will occur on Thursday, 
June 21, 2007.
Page S7877
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the bill, and, in 
accordance with the provisions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate, a vote on cloture will occur on Thursday, June 21, 2007. 
                                                             Page S7877
   A unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at approximately 9:30 a.m., on Wednesday, 
June 20, 2007, that Senate resume consideration of Kohl (for DeMint) 
Amendment No. 1546 (to Amendment No. 1502) (listed above), and that 
there be 30 minutes of debate prior to a vote on or in relation to the 
amendment; the time be equally divided and controlled between Senators 
DeMint and Bingaman, or their designees; and that no amendments be in 
order prior to a vote in relation to the amendment.
Pages S7998-99
EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT--CLOTURE: Senate began consideration of the 
motion to proceed to consideration of H.R. 800, to amend the National 
Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system to enable 
employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to provide for 
mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during organizing 
efforts.
   A motion was entered to close further debate on the motion to 
proceed to consideration of H.R. 800, and, in accordance with the 
provisions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, a vote on 
cloture will occur on Thursday, June 21, 2007.
Pages S7877-78
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 the accumulation of a large volume 
of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of the Russian 
Federation as declared in Executive Order 13159 of June 21, 2000; which 
was referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. 
(PM-17)
Page S7883
Messages from the House:
  Page S7883
Measures Referred:
  Pages S7883-84
Measures Placed on the Calendar:
  Pages S7838, S7884
Executive Communications:
  Page S7884
Petitions and Memorials:
  Pages S7884-87
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S7887-90
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S7890-S7908
Additional Statements:
  Pages S7880-83
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S7908-95
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:
  Page S7995
Authorities for Committees to Meet:
  Pages S7995-96
Privileges of the Floor:
  Page S7996
Record Votes: Four record votes were taken today. (Total--216) 
                                              Pages S7860, S7861, S7870
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 8:18 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, June 20, 2007. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on pages 
S7998-99.)

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