[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 82 (Monday, May 19, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D622]
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                                               Monday, May 19, 2008

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S4291-S4424
Measures Introduced: Five bills and two resolutions were introduced, as 
follows: S. 3030-3034, and S. Res. 569-570.
  Page S4375
Measures Reported:
  H.R. 3320, to provide assistance for the Museum of the History of 
Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland, with an amendment. (S. Rept. No. 110-
336)
Page S4375
Measures Passed:
  Earthquake that Struck Sichuan Province of the People's Republic of 
China: Senate agreed to S. Res. 569, expressing the sense of the Senate 
regarding the earthquake that struck Sichuan Province of the People's 
Republic of China on May 12, 2008.
  Pages S4423-24
  Congratulating Albania and Croatia on Talks with NATO: Senate agreed 
to S. Res. 570, congratulating Albania and Croatia on being invited to 
begin accession talks with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and 
expressing support for continuing to enlarge the alliance.
  Page S4424
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 that was originally declared in Executive Order 
13047 of May 20, 1997, with respect to Burma, as received during 
adjournment of the Senate on May 16, 2008; which was referred to the 
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM-49)
Page S4374
Nominations--Agreement: A unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached 
providing that at 12:00 noon on Tuesday, May 20, 2008, Senate begin 
consideration of the following nominations: Michael G. McGinn, to be 
United States Marshal for the District of Minnesota, Ralph E. Martinez, 
of Florida, to be a Member of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission 
of the United States, and G. Steven Agee, of Virginia, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit; that the debate time be 
equally divided and controlled between the Chairman and Ranking Member 
of the Committee on the Judiciary, or their designees, and that the 
nominations be debated concurrently; that at 2:15 p.m. there be fifteen 
additional minutes of debate time equally divided and controlled 
between Senators Warner and Webb, or their designees; provided further, 
that at 2:30 p.m. Senate vote on confirmation of the nomination of G. 
Steven Agee, of Virginia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the 
Fourth Circuit, and that upon its confirmation the nominations of 
Michael G. McGinn, of Minnesota, to be United States Marshal for the 
District of Minnesota, and Ralph E. Martinez, of Florida, to be a 
Member of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United 
States, be confirmed by unanimous consent.
  Page S4424
Messages from the House:
  Pages S4374-75
Measures Referred:
  Page S4375
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S4375
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S4375-76
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S4376-78
Additional Statements:
  Pages S4373-74
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S4378-S4423
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:
  Page S4423
Privileges of the Floor:
  Page S4423
Adjournment: Senate convened at 2 p.m. and adjourned at 5:58 p.m., 
until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, May 20, 2008. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S4424.)