[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 100 (Tuesday, June 17, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D753-D754]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                             Tuesday, June 17, 2008

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S5669-S5705
Measures Introduced: Four bills were introduced, as follows: S. 3141-
3144.
  Page S5697
Measures Passed:
  Juneteenth Independence Day: Committee on the Judiciary was 
discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 584, recognizing the 
historical significance of Juneteenth Independence Day and expressing 
the sense of the Senate that history should be regarded as a means for 
understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future, and 
the resolution was then agreed to.
  Pages S5703-04
  National Men's Health Week: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, 
and Pensions was discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 585, 
supporting National Men's Health Week, and the resolution was then 
agreed to.
  Pages S5704
Measures Considered:
Renewable Energy and Job Creation Act: Senate continued consideration 
of the motion to proceed to consideration of H.R. 6049, to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy 
production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to 
provide individual income tax relief.
  Pages S5678-80, S5681-82
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 52 yeas to 44 nays (Vote No. 150), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to close further debate on the motion to proceed to 
consideration of the bill.
Page S5681-82
  Senator Reid entered a motion to reconsider the vote by which the 
motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to consideration of 
the bill (listed above) failed.
Page S5682
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of the bill at 
approximately 10 a.m., on Wednesday, June 18, 2008.
Page S5705
House Messages:
  Diesel Emission Reduction: Senate concurred in the amendment of the 
House of Representatives to S. 2146, to authorize the Administrator of 
the Environmental Protection Agency to accept, as part of a settlement, 
diesel emission reduction Supplemental Environmental Projects, clearing 
the measure for the President.
  Pages S5704-05
Message from the President: Senate received the following message from 
the President of the United States:
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, a notification of the designation of 
Shara L. Aranoff as Chairman and Daniel Pearson as Vice Chairman of the 
United States International Trade Commission, effective June 17, 2008; 
which was referred to the Committee on Finance. (PM-52)
Page S5690
Messages from the House:
  Page S5690
Enrolled Bills Presented:
  Page S5690
Executive Communications:
  Page S5690
Petitions and Memorials:
  Pages S5690-97
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S5697-99
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S5699-S5703
Additional Statements:
  Pages S5689-90
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:
  Page S5703
Authorities for Committees to Meet:
  Page S5703
Privileges of the Floor:
  Page S5703
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--150) 
                                                            Pages S5682
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 5:51 p.m., 
until 10 a.m. on Wednesday, June 18, 2008. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S5705.)

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