[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 190 (Wednesday, December 12, 2007)]
[Senate]
[Page S15218]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              ENERGY INDEPENDENCE AND SECURITY ACT OF 2007

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask that the Chair lay before the Senate 
the message from the House on H.R. 6.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate the following message 
from the House of Representatives:

       Resolved, That the House agree to the amendments of the 
     Senate to the bill (H.R. 6) entitled ``An Act 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, and for other 
     purposes,'' with amendments.


                Motion To Concur With Amendment No. 3841

       (Purpose: In the nature of a substitute.)

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I move to concur in the House amendment to 
the Senate amendment to the text with the amendment that is at the 
desk.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Nevada [Mr. Reid] moves to concur in the 
     House amendment to the Senate amendment to the text of H.R. 
     6, with an amendment numbered 3841.

  (The amendment is printed in today's Record under ``Text of 
Amendments.'')
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.


                Amendment No. 3842 to Amendment No. 3841

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I have a second-degree amendment at the desk 
I wish to have reported.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Nevada [Mr. Reid] proposes an amendment 
     numbered 3842 to amendment No. 3841.

  The amendment is as follows:

       At the end of the amendment add the following:
       This section shall take effect one day after the date of 
     this bill's enactment.


                             Cloture Motion

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I send to the desk a cloture motion.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under 
rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

                             Cloture Motion

       We, the undersigned Senators, in accordance with the 
     provisions of rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, 
     hereby move to bring to a close debate on the Reid motion to 
     concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment to the 
     text with an amendment, with reference to H.R. 6, Energy.
         Jeff Bingaman, Barbara Boxer, Ben Nelson, Dick Durbin, 
           Debbie Stabenow, Kent Conrad, Maria Cantwell, Ken 
           Salazar, Tom Carper, Joe Lieberman, Daniel K. Akaka, 
           Daniel K. Inouye, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Mark Pryor, 
           Dianne Feinstein, B.A. Mikulski, Sherrod Brown, Jim 
           Webb.

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the live quorum 
under rule XXII be waived and that the Senate resume consideration of 
the farm bill, H.R. 2419.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

                          ____________________