[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 149 (Wednesday, October 3, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1311-D1314]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                         Wednesday, October 3, 2007

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed H.R. 2082, Intelligence Authorization Act.
      Senate passed H.R. 3222, Department of Defense Appropriations 
      Act.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S12453-S12693
Measures Introduced: Eight bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 2129-2136, and S.J. Res. 20.
  Page S12532
Measures Reported:
  S. 1446, to amend the National Capital Transportation Act of 1969 to 
authorize additional Federal contributions for maintaining and 
improving the transit system of the Washington Metropolitan Area 
Transit Authority. (S. Rept. No. 110-188)
  Report to accompany S. 742, to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act 
to reduce the health risks posed by asbestos-containing products. (S. 
Rept. No. 110-189)
Page S12532
Measures Passed:
  Intelligence Authorization Act: Committee on Intelligence was 
discharged from further consideration of H.R. 2082, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for intelligence and intelligence-
related activities of the United States Government, the Community 
Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and 
Disability System, and the bill was then passed, after striking all 
after the enacting clause and inserting in lieu thereof, the text of S. 
1538, Senate companion measure, after agreeing to the committee 
amendments, and the following amendment proposed thereto:
  Rockefeller/Bond Amendment No. 3160, in the nature of a substitute.
  Pages S12456-76
  Senate insisted on its amendment, requested a conference with the 
House thereon, and the Chair was authorized to appoint the following 
conferees on the part of the Senate: Senators Rockefeller, Feinstein, 
Wyden, Bayh, Mikulski, Feingold, Nelson (FL), Whitehouse, Levin, Bond, 
Warner, Hagel, Chambliss, Hatch, Snowe, Burr, and Kyl.
Page S12691
  Subsequently, S. 1538, was returned to the Senate calendar. 
                                                            Page S12475
  Department Of Defense Appropriations Act: Senate passed H.R. 3222, 
making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2008, after taking action on the following 
amendments proposed thereto:
  Pages S12481-S12523
Adopted:
  By 95 yeas to 1 nay (Vote No. 361), Graham Amendment No. 3117, to 
improve the security of United States borders. 
                                                Pages S12481-83, S12484
  Durbin/Mikulski Amendment No. 3129, to make available from Military 
Personnel $3,000,000 for a pilot program on troops to nurse teachers. 
                                                        Pages S12500-01
  Inouye (for Gregg/Sununu) Modified Amendment No. 3153, to make 
available from Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Navy, 
$16,000,000 for the continuation of the Advanced Precision Kill Weapons 
Systems by the Marine Corps.
Page S12511
  Inouye (for Levin/Stabenow) Amendment No. 3162, to make available 
from Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Army, $6,000,000 for 
Advanced Automotive Technology.
Pages S12511, S12512
  Inouye (for Smith/Harkin) Amendment No. 3152, to make available from 
Operation and Maintenance, Army National Guard, $2,000,000 for the 
Minuteman Digitization Demonstration Program.
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  Inouye (for Brown) Amendment No. 3127, to make available from 
Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Army, up to $1,000,000 for 
the High Altitude Airship Program.
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  Inouye (for Domenici/Bingaman) Modified Amendment No. 3155, to make 
available from Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Army, 
$3,750,000 for a Mid-Infrared Advanced Chemical Laser.
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  Inouye (for Bingaman/Domenici) Amendment No. 3173, to make available 
from Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Army, $3,750,000 for 
a High Energy Laser Systems Test facility.
Page S12512
  Inouye (for Reid/McConnell) Amendment No. 3206, to make technical 
corrections to Public Law 110-81.
Page S12512
  Inouye (for Sununu) Amendment No. 3204, to make available from 
Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Navy, $1,000,000 for the 
development of Low-Cost, High Resolution, remote controlled Side Scan 
Sonar for USV and Harbor Surveillance Applications.
Page S12512
  Inouye (for McCaskill) Amendment No. 3116, to require the 
establishment on the Internet website of the Department of Defense of a 
link to the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Defense. 
                                                            Page S12512
  Inouye (for Coleman) Amendment No. 3182, to make available from 
Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Navy, $5,000,000 for the 
Laser Perimeter Awareness System for integration into the Electronic 
Harbor Security System.
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  Inouye (for Kennedy) Modified Amendment No. 3135, to provide that, of 
the amount appropriated or otherwise made available for Research, 
Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy, up to $5,000,000 may be made 
available for the High Temperature Superconductor AC Synchronous 
Propulsion Motor for the purpose of completing testing and 
transitioning to Navy ship class as part of an effort to increase power 
while reducing vessel weight.
Page S12512
  Inouye (for Inhofe) Amendment No. 3177, to make available from 
Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Navy, $1,200,000 for 
Ground Warfare Acoustical Combat System of netted sensors. 
                                                            Page S12512
  Inouye (for Harkin) Amendment No. 3163, to make available from 
Aircraft Procurement, Air Force, $5,000,000 for the retrofit of 
upgraded Molecular Sieve Oxygen Generation Systems into F-15C/D fight 
aircraft.
Page S12512
  Inouye (for Hutchison/Cornyn) Amendment No. 3176, to provide local 
officials and the Secretary of Homeland Security greater involvement in 
decisions regarding the location of border fencing.
Page S12512
  Inouye (for Landrieu) Amendment No. 3136, to make available from 
Operation and Maintenance, Air Force, $4,000,000 for the 8th Air Force 
Cyberspace Innovation Center at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. 
                                                            Page S12513
  Inouye (for Bennett) Amendment No. 3175, to make available from 
Intelligence Community Management Account, $5,000,000 for Internet 
Observer and Inner View insider threat mitigation tools.
Page S12513
  Inouye (for Obama/Coburn) Amendment No. 3137, to provide that none of 
the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be 
used to enter into a contract in an amount greater than $5,000,000 or 
to award a grant in excess of such amount unless the perspective 
contractor or grantee makes certain certifications regarding Federal 
tax liability.
Page S12513
  Inouye (for Sanders) Amendment No. 3130, to increase, with an offset, 
the amount appropriated for Operation and Maintenance, Army National 
Guard, by $10,000,000.
Page S12513
  Biden/Nelson (FL) Amendment No. 3167, to make available from 
Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Defense-Wide, $4,000,000 
for MARK V replacement research.
Pages S12484, S12513
  Kyl Amendment No. 3145, to make available from Procurement, Defense-
Wide, $7,000,000 for the Insider Threat program. 
                                                Pages S12497-98, S12513
  Vitter (for Sessions) Amendment No. 3141, to enhance United States 
sea-based missile defense capabilities.
Pages S12508, S12511, S12513
  Stevens Amendment No. 3207 (to Amendment No. 3166), to require that 
not later than 45 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense 
committees a report on mechanisms for expanding public-private 
partnerships with military and family organizations for the purpose of 
increasing access to family support, in particular, for the minor 
dependent children of deployed servicemembers.
Page S12515
  Reid (for Boxer/Inouye) Amendment No. 3166, to make available from 
Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide, $5,000,000 for the program of 
the National Military Family Association known as Operation Purple. 
                                                            Page S12497
  Sessions Amendment No. 3192, to fund Operation Jump Start, the 
deployment of National Guard personnel, to the southern border, through 
September 30, 2008.
Pages S12515-18
  Inouye (for Stabenow) Amendment No. 3131, to make available from 
Research, Development, Test, and Evaluations, Army, $4,000,000 for the 
Virtual Systems Integrated Laboratory-Armored Vehicle Components and 
Systems Simulated In Cost-Effective Virtual Design and Test 
Environment.
Page S12518
Withdrawn:
  Gregg Amendment No. 3119 (to Amendment No. 3117), to change the 
effective date.
Pages S12483-84

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  By 28 yeas to 68 nays (Vote No. 362), Feingold Amendment No. 3164, to 
safely redeploy United States troops from Iraq. (A unanimous-consent 
agreement was reached providing that the amendment, having failed to 
achieve 60 affirmative votes, be withdrawn).
Pages S12486-95
  Biden Amendment No. 3142, to provide an additional $23,600,000,000 
for Other Procurement, Army, for the procurement, of Mine Resistant 
Ambush Protected vehicles and to designate the amount of emergency 
requirement.
Pages S12485, S12498-S12500
  Kyl Amendment No. 3144, to make available from within amounts already 
appropriated in the bill for Research, Development, Test, and 
Evaluation, Defense-Wide $10,000,000 for the Space Test Bed. 
                          Pages S12497, S12501-06, S12508-10, S12513-14
  Allard/Salazar Amendment No. 3146, to make available from Research, 
Development, Test, and Evaluation, Defense-Wide, up to $5,000,000 for 
the Missile Defense Space Experimentation Center. 
                                                Pages S12481, S12514-15
During consideration of this measure today, the Senate also took the 
    following action:
   Chair sustained a point of order against Menendez/Salazar Amendment 
No. 3198, to authorize expenditure of funds appropriated under 
subsection (b) of the Border Security First Act of 2007 to address any 
border security issue, including security at the northern border, as 
being in violation of Rule XVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate, 
which prohibits legislation on an appropriation bill, and the amendment 
thus fell.
Pages S12506-08, S12574
  Senate insisted on its amendment, requested a conference with the 
House thereon, and the Chair was authorized to appoint the following 
conferees on the part of the Senate: Senators Inouye, Byrd, Leahy, 
Harkin, Dorgan, Durbin, Feinstein, Mikulski, Kohl, Murray, Stevens, 
Cochran, Specter, Domenici, Bond, McConnell, Shelby, Gregg, and 
Hutchison.
Page S12523
  National Courage Month: Senate passed S. Con. Res. 45: Senate agreed 
to S. Con. Res. 45, commending the Ed Block Courage Award Foundation 
for its work in aiding children and families affected by child abuse, 
and designating November 2007 as National Courage Month. 
                                                        Pages S12691-92
  Procedural Fairness for September 11 Victims Act: Committee on the 
Judiciary was discharged from further consideration of S. 2106, to 
provide nationwide subpoena authority for actions brought under the 
September 11 Victim Compensation Fund of 2001, and the bill was then 
passed.
  Page S12692
  Frank J. Guarini Post Office Building: Senate passed H.R. 2467, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 
69 Montgomery Street in Jersey City, New Jersey, as the ``Frank J. 
Guarini Post Office Building'', clearing the measure for the President.
                                                            Page S12692
  Kenneth T. Whalum, Sr. Post Office Building: Senate passed H.R. 2587, 
to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 555 South 3rd Street Lobby in Memphis, Tennessee, as the ``Kenneth 
T. Whalum, Sr. Post Office Building'', clearing the measure for the 
President.
  Page S12692
  Eleanor McGovern Post Office Building: Senate passed H.R. 2654, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 
202 South Dumont Avenue in Woonsocket, South Dakota, as the ``Eleanor 
McGovern Post Office Building'', clearing the measure for the 
President.
  Page S12692
  Master Sergeant Sean Michael Thomas Post Office: Senate passed H.R. 
2765, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 44 North Main Street in Hughesville, Pennsylvania, as the 
``Master Sergeant Sean Michael Thomas Post Office'', clearing the 
measure for the President.
  Pages S12692-93
  Robert Merrill Postal Station: Senate passed H.R. 2778, to designate 
the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3 Quaker 
Ridge Road in New Rochelle, New York, as the ``Robert Merrill Postal 
Station'', clearing the measure for the President.
  Page S12693
  Owen Lovejoy Princeton Post Office Building: Senate passed H.R. 2825, 
to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 326 South Main Street in Princeton, Illinois, as the ``Owen Lovejoy 
Princeton Post Office Building'', clearing the measure for the 
President.
  Page S12693
  John Herschel Glenn, Jr. Post Office Building: Senate passed H.R. 
3052, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 954 Wheeling Avenue in Cambridge, Ohio, as the ``John 
Herschel Glenn, Jr. Post Office Building'', clearing the measure for 
the President.
  Page S12693
  Staff Sergeant David L. Nord Post Office: Senate passed H.R. 3106, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 
805 Main Street in Ferdinand, Indiana, as the ``Staff Sergeant David L. 
Nord Post Office'', clearing the measure for the President. 
                                                            Page S12693
  Commerce and Justice, and Science Appropriations Act-Agreement: A 
unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that at approximately 
10 a.m., on Thursday, October 4, 2007, Senate begin consideration of 
H.R. 3093, making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and

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Justice, and Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2008.
Page S12693
Nominations--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached 
providing that the Majority Leader, after consultation with the 
Republican Leader, may begin executive session to consider the 
nomination of Jennifer Walker Elrod, of Texas, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit; that there be 1 hour for debate 
equally divided between the Chairman and Ranking Member of the 
Committee on the Judciciary, or their designees; provided further, that 
there be an additional 10 minutes each for debate for Senators Cardin 
and Specter, and Senate vote on the nomination; provided further, that 
following that vote Senate then vote on each of the following 
nominations: Roslynn Renee Mauskopf, to be United States District Judge 
for the Eastern District of New York, Richard A. Jones, to be United 
States District Judge for the Western District of Washington, and 
Sharion Aycock, to be United States District Judge for the Northern 
District of Mississippi.
  Page S12693
Messages from the House:
  Pages S12529-30
Measures Referred:
  Page S12430
Measures Placed on the Calendar:
  Pages S12453, S12530
Measures Read the First Time:
  Pages S12530, S12693
Executive Communications:
  Pages S12530-32
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S12532-33
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S12533-38
Additional Statements:
  Page S12529
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S12538-61
Notices of Intent:
  Page S12561
Authorities for Committees To Meet:
  Pages S12561-62
Text of H.R. 1585 as Previously Passed:
  Pages S12562-S12691
Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--362) 
                                                   Pages S12484, S12495
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and adjourned at 7:35 p.m., 
until 9 a.m. on Thursday, October 4, 2007. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S12693.)