[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 84 (Wednesday, May 21, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D641-D642]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                            Wednesday, May 21, 2008

[[Page D641]]

                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S4559-S4707
Measures Introduced: Three bills and four resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 3045-3047, S.J. Res. 33, S. Res. 572-573, and S. Con. 
Res. 83.
  Page S4621
Measures Passed:
  Accountability for Abuses in Somalia: Committee on Foreign Relations 
was discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 541, supporting 
humanitarian assistance, protection of civilians, accountability for 
abuses in Somalia, and urging concrete progress in line with the 
Transitional Federal Charter of Somalia toward the establishment of a 
viable government of national unity, and the resolution was then agreed 
to.
  Pages S4705-06
  Recognizing Cuba Solidarity Day: Senate agreed to S. Res. 573, 
recognizing Cuba Solidarity Day and the struggle of the Cuban people as 
they continue to fight for freedom.
  Pages S4706-07
Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations--Agreement: A 
unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached providing that at 
approximately 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 22, 2008, Senate resume 
consideration of the House message to accompany H.R. 2642, making 
appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans 
Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2008, and there be 2 hours of debate equally divided and controlled 
between the Majority Leader and Republican Leader, or their designees; 
that upon the use or yielding back of time, the motion to invoke 
cloture with respect to the Reid Motion to Concur in House Amendment 
No. 2 with Reid Amendment No. 4803 be withdrawn, Reid Amendment No. 
4804 also be withdrawn, and Senate then vote on adoption of the Reid 
Motion to Concur with an amendment in House Amendment No. 2 with Reid 
Amendment No. 4803; provided further, that the Reid Motion to Concur be 
subject to an affirmative 60-vote threshold and that if the motion 
achieves that threshold, it be agreed to and the motion to reconsider 
be considered made and laid upon the table; provided further, that if 
the motion fails to achieve the 60-vote threshold, it be withdrawn, and 
the Majority Leader be recognized to move to concur in House Amendment 
No. 2 with an amendment which is the text of the Webb GI bill, the 
motion be subject to an affirmative 60-vote threshold, and that if it 
achieves that threshold, the motion to concur with an amendment be 
agreed to and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon 
the table; provided further, that if the motion fails to achieve 60 
affirmative votes, it be withdrawn, and Senate disagree to House 
Amendment No. 2; that upon disposition of House Amendment No. 2, the 
Majority Leader be recognized to move to concur in House Amendment No. 
1 with an amendment which is the text of the Committee-reported 
Amendment Nos. 2 and 3 on Iraq policy and funding; that the Senator 
Sanders then be recognized to make a Rule XVI point of order against 
Section 11312 of the motion to concur in House Amendment No. 1 with an 
amendment and that if the point of order is sustained, the Majority 
Leader be recognized to move to concur in House Amendment No. 1 with an 
amendment which is the text of Committee-reported Amendment Nos. 2 and 
3 without section 11312, that the motion be subject to a 60 affirmative 
vote threshold, and that if it achieves that threshold, it be agreed 
to, and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the 
table; provided further, that if the motion fails to achieve the 60-
vote threshold, it be withdrawn, and the Majority Leader be recognized 
to move to concur in House Amendment No. 1 with an amendment which is 
the text of Committee Amendment No. 2 without section 11312, that the 
motion be subject to an affirmative 60-vote threshold, and that if the 
motion achieves that threshold, it be agreed to, and the motion to 
reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table; provided 
further, that if the motion fails to achieve that threshold, it then be 
withdrawn, and the Senate disagree to House Amendment No. 1; further, 
that no further points of order be in order, with no intervening action 
or debate.
  Page S4705
Messages from the House:
  Pages S4616-17

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Measures Referred:
  Page S4617
Measures Placed on the Calendar:
  Pages S4559-60, S4617


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  On Page D642, May 21, 2008, the following language appears: 
Measures Placed on the Calendar: Page S4617
  
  The online Record was corrected to read: Measures Placed on the 
Calendar: Pages S4559-60, S4617


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Executive Communications:
  Pages S4617-18
Petitions and Memorials:
  Pages S4618-21
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S4621-23
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S4623-27
Additional Statements:
  Pages S4615-16
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S4627-S4704
Authorities for Committees to Meet:
  Pages S4704-05
Privileges of the Floor:
  Page S4705
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and adjourned at 9:39 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 22, 2008. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S4707.)