[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 102 (Thursday, June 19, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D772-D773]
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                                            Thursday, June 19, 2008

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S5771-S5920
Measures Introduced: Fifteen bills and one resolution were introduced, 
as follows: S. 3158-3172, and S. Res. 596.
  Pages S5832-33
Measures Reported:
  Special Report entitled ``Allocation to Subcommittees of Budget 
Totals From the Concurrent Resolution, Fiscal Year 2008''. (S. Rept. 
No. 110-392)
  Special Report entitled ``Allocation to Subcommittees of Budget 
Totals From the Concurrent Resolution, Fiscal Year 2009''. (S. Rept. 
No. 110-393)
Page S5832
Measures Passed:
  Deficit Reduction Act: Senate passed S. 2607, to make a technical 
correction to section 3009 of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, after 
agreeing to the following amendment proposed thereto:
  Page S5915
  Dodd (for Inouye/Stevens) Amendment No. 5014, to provide for 
additional consumer outreach and education concerning the digital 
television transition.
Page S5915
  NASA 50th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act: Committee on Banking, 
Housing, and Urban Affairs was discharged from further consideration of 
S. 2159, to require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in 
commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the bill was then 
passed, after agreeing to the following amendment proposed thereto: 
                                                         Pages S5915-17
  Dodd/Shelby Amendment No. 5015, to extend the period during which the 
coins may be minted and issued.
Page S5915
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 S5772-75
New Direction for Energy Independence, National Security, and Consumer 
Protection Act and the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax 
Act: Senate began consideration of the motion to concur in the 
amendments of the House of Representatives to the amendments of the 
Senate to H.R. 3221, to provide needed housing reform, taking action on 
the following amendments proposed thereto:
  Pages S5775-S5819
  Rejected:
  By 11 yeas to 77 nays, and 1 voting present (Vote No. 152), Bond 
Modified Amendment No. 4986 (to Amendment No. 4983), to clarify that 
GSEs have no responsibility for funding housing entities under the 
Affordable Housing program.
Pages S5783-85, S5807-09, S5811-12
  Withdrawn:
  By 11 yeas to 70 nays, 5 responding present (Vote No. 154), Bunning 
Motion to Refer the House Message on the bill to the Committee on 
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, with instructions. (A unanimous-
consent agreement was reached providing that the motion, having failed 
to achieve 60 affirmative votes, be withdrawn.)
Pages S5814-17
  Pending:
  Reid (for Dodd/Shelby) Amendment No. 4983 (to the House Amendment 
striking section 1 through Title V and inserting certain language to 
the Senate amendment to the bill), of a perfecting nature. 
                                                      Pages S5776-S5817
  Bond Amendment No. 4987 (to Amendment No. 4983), to enhance mortgage 
loan disclosure requirements with additional safeguards for adjustable 
rate mortgages with an initial fixed rate and loans that contain 
prepayment penalty.
Pages S5782-83
  Dole Amendment No. 4984 (to Amendment No. 4983), to improve the 
regulation of appraisal standards.
Pages S5785-99, S5807
  Sununu Amendment No. 4999 (to Amendment No. 4983), to amend the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 to exempt qualified public housing 
agencies from the requirement of preparing an annual public housing 
agency plan.
Pages S5799-S5804

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  Kohl Amendment No. 4988 (to Amendment No. 4983), to protect the 
property and security of homeowners who are subject to foreclosure 
proceedings.
Page S5804
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 21 yeas to 69 nays (Vote No. 153), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to waive section 201 of S. Con. Res. 21, FY08 
Congressional Budget Resolution, with respect to Bond Amendment No. 
4985 (to Amendment No. 4983), to strike provisions relating to the HOPE 
for Homeowners Program. Subsequently, the pay-as-you-go point of order 
that the amendment would cause or increase an on-budget deficit for 
either of the applicable time periods set out in S. Con. Res. 21, was 
sustained, and the amendment thus fell. 
                                 Pages S5781-82, S5808, S5809-11, S5812
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the motion to concur in the amendments of the House of 
Representatives to the amendments of the Senate to the bill at 
approximately 9:30 a.m., on Friday, June 20, 2008.
Pages S5917-18
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Richard G. Olson, Jr., of New Mexico, to be Ambassador to the United 
Arab Emirates.
  Brent R. Orrell, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Labor.
  Diane Barone, of Nevada, to be a Member of the National Institute for 
Literacy Advisory Board for a term expiring January 30, 2011.
  Mary E. Curtis, of Massachusetts, to be a Member of the National 
Institute for Literacy Advisory Board for a term expiring November 25, 
2011.
  J. Patrick Rowan, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Attorney General.
  Gregory G. Garre, of Maryland, to be Solicitor General of the United 
States.
  Michael O'Neill, of Maryland, to be United States District Judge for 
the District of Columbia.
  Jeffrey Adam Rosen, of Virginia, to be United States District Judge 
for the District of Columbia.
  Routine lists in the Air Force, Army, Navy.
Pages S5918-20
Messages from the House:
  Page S5829
Measures Referred:
  Page S5829
Measures Placed on the Calendar:
  Page S5829
Executive Communications:
  Pages S5829-30
Petitions and Memorials:
  Pages S5830-32
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S5833-34
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S5834-39
Additional Statements:
  Pages S5827-29
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S5839-S5914
Authorities for Committees to Meet:
  Pages S5914-15
Privileges of the Floor:
  Page S5915
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total--154) 
                                                     Pages S5812, S5817
Recess: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and recessed at 7:04 p.m., until 
9:30 a.m. on Friday, June 20, 2008. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on pages S5917-
18.)