[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 111 (Tuesday, July 8, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D847-D848]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                              Tuesday, July 8, 2008

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S6371-S6449
Measures Introduced: Six bills were introduced, as follows: S. 3228-
3233.
  Page S6441
Measures Reported:
  H.R. 65, to provide for the recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North 
Carolina. (S. Rept. No. 110-409)
  S. 3230, making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health 
and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2009. (S. Rept. No. 110-410)
Page S6441
Measures Considered:
  FISA Amendments Act: Senate began consideration of H.R. 6304, to 
amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to establish a 
procedure for authorizing certain acquisitions of foreign intelligence, 
after agreeing to the motion to proceed, taking action on the following 
amendments proposed thereto:
Pages S6379-S6429
Pending:
  Bingaman Amendment No. 5066, to stay pending cases against certain 
telecommunications companies and provide that such companies may not 
seek retroactive immunity until 90 days after the date the final report 
of the Inspectors General on the President's Surveillance Program is 
submitted to Congress.
Pages S6398-S6407
  Specter Amendment No. 5059, to limit retroactive immunity for 
providing assistance to the United States to instances in which a 
Federal court determines the assistance was provided in connection with 
an intelligence activity that was constitutional. 
                                               Pages S6407-14, S6418-20
  Dodd Amendment No. 5064, to strike title II.
Pages S6427-29
   A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at approximately 9:30 a.m., on Wednesday, 
July 9, 2008, and that there be an additional 10 minutes for debate 
under the control of Senator Specter.
Page S6448
House Messages:
Foreclosure Prevention Act--Agreement: Senate agreed to the motion to 
concur in the amendments of the House of Representatives, striking 
Title VI through XI, to the amendment of the Senate to H.R. 3221, to 
provide needed housing reform.
  Page S6448
  Senator Reid entered a motion to disagree to the amendments of the 
House of Representatives, adding a new title and inserting a new 
section to the amendment of the Senate to the bill.
Page S6448
   Senator Reid entered a motion to concur in the amendment of the 
House of Representatives, adding a new title to the amendment of the 
Senate to the bill with the following amendments proposed thereto:
Pending:
  Reid Amendment No. 5067 (to the motion to concur in the amendment of 
the House adding a new title to the amendment of the Senate), to change 
the enactment date.
Page S6448
  Reid Amendment No. 5068 (to Amendment No. 5067), of a perfecting 
nature.
Page S6448
   A motion was entered to close further debate on the motion to 
disagree to the amendments of the House, adding a new title and 
inserting a new section, to the amendment of the Senate to the bill, 
and, in accordance with the provisions of rule XXII of the Standing 
Rules of the Senate, a vote on cloture will occur on Thursday, July 10, 
2008.
Page S6448
Printing of Senator Helms Tributes--Agreement: A unanimous-consent 
agreement was reached providing that the tributes to former United 
States Senator Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr., of North Carolina, in the 
Congressional Record be printed as a Senate document and that Senators 
be permitted to submit statements for inclusion until Friday, August 1, 
2008.
  Page S6448
Nomination Discharged: The following nomination were discharged from 
further committee consideration and placed on the Executive Calendar:
  Eric M. Thorson, of Virginia, to be Inspector General, Department of 
the Treasury, which was sent to the Senate on November 15, 2007, from 
the

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Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. 
                                                             Page S6449
Messages from the House:
  Page S6435
Measures Placed on the Calendar:
  Pages S6371, S6435
Executive Communications
  Pages S6435-41
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S6441-43
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S6443-47
Additional Statements:
  Pages S6434-35
Amendments Submitted:
  Page S6447
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:
  Pages S6447-48
Authorities for Committees to Meet:
  Page S6448
Privileges of the Floor:
  Page S6448
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 7:54 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 9, 2008. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on pages 
S6448-49.)