[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 94 (Monday, June 9, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D706]
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                                               Monday, June 9, 2008

[[Page D706]]

                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S5377-S5395
Measures Introduced: Two bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 3102-3103, and S. Res. 87.
  Page S5390
Measures Considered:
Consumer-First Energy Act: Senate resumed consideration of the motion 
to proceed to consideration of S. 3044, to provide energy price relief 
and hold oil companies and other entities accountable for their actions 
with regard to high energy prices.
  Pages S5378-80
  A unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached providing on Tuesday, 
June 10, 2008, at approximately 10 a.m., Senate continue consideration 
of the motion to proceed to consideration of the bill; and that there 
be one hour of debate prior to the vote on the motion to invoke cloture 
on the motion to proceed to its consideration equally divided and 
controlled between the two Leaders or their designees, with the final 
twenty minutes equally divided between the Majority Leader and the 
Republican Leader, with the Majority Leader controlling the final ten 
minutes prior to the vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion 
to proceed.
Pages S5394-95
Signing Authority--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached 
providing that the Majority Leader, Senator Reid, be authorized to sign 
duly enrolled bills or joint resolutions through Monday, June 16, 2008.
                                                             Page S5394
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 
13405 of June 16, 2006, with respect to Belarus, as received during 
adjournment of the Senate on June 6, 2008; which was referred to the 
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM-51)
Page S5389
Nominations--Agreement: A unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached 
providing that on Tuesday, June 10, 2008, after the cloture votes with 
respect to S. 3044, Consumer-First Energy Act, and H.R. 6049, Energy 
and Tax Extenders Act, regardless of the outcome and notwithstanding 
rule XXII, that Senate begin consideration of the nominations of Mark 
S. Davis, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District 
of Virginia, David Gregory Kays, to be United States District Judge for 
the Western District of Missouri, and Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr., to be 
United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri, that 
there be a total of 10 minutes equally divided and controlled between 
the Chair and Ranking Member of the Committee on the Judiciary, and 
that Senate vote on confirmation of each nomination in the order listed 
above; and that there be 2 minutes between each vote, and after the 
first vote, the vote time be limited to 10 minutes each.
  Page S5383
Messages from the House:
  Page S5389
Measures Placed on the Calendar:
  Pages S5377, S5390
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S5390-91
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S5391-94
Additional Statements:
  Pages S5387-89
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:
  Page S5394
Adjournment: Senate convened at 3:15 p.m. and adjourned at 6:39 p.m., 
until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, June 10, 2008. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S5394-
95.)