[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 157 (Monday, September 29, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1208]
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                                              Monday, September 29, 2008

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate

Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S10025-S10114
Measures Introduced: Seven bills were introduced, as follows: S. 3648-3654. 
                                                                 Page S10069
Measures Passed:
  Food, Conservation, and Energy Act: Senate passed H.R. 6849, to amend the 
commodity provisions of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to 
permit producers to aggregate base acres and reconstitute farms to avoid the 
prohibition on receiving direct payments, counter-cyclical payments, or 
average crop revenue election payments when the sum of the base acres of a 
farm is 10 acres or less, after agreeing to the following amendment proposed 
thereto:
  Page S10039
  Cardin (for Harkin) Amendment No. 5679, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                                 Page S10039
Measures Considered:
Federal Railroad Safety Improvement Act: Senate resumed consideration of the 
motion to concur in the amendment of the House of Representatives to the 
amendment of the Senate to H.R. 2095, to amend title 49, United States Code, 
to prevent railroad fatalities, injuries, and hazardous materials releases, 
to authorize the Federal Railroad Safety Administration, taking action on 
the following motion and amendments proposed thereto: 
                                                  Pages S10031-37, S10039-52
Pending:
  Reid Motion to Concur in the amendment of the House of Representatives to 
the amendment of the Senate to the bill.
Page S10031
  Reid Amendment No. 5677 (to the motion to concur in the amendment of the 
House of Representatives to the amendment of the Senate to the bill), to 
establish the enactment date.
Page S10031
  Reid Amendment No. 5678 (to Amendment No. 5677), of a perfecting nature. 
                                                                 Page S10031
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the following 
action:
  By 69 yeas to 17 nays (Vote No. 209), three-fifths of those Senators duly 
chosen and sworn, having voted in the affirmative, Senate agreed to the 
motion to close further debate on the motion to concur in the amendment of 
the House of Representatives to the amendment of the Senate to the bill. 
                                                                 Page S10037
   A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the motion to concur in the amendment of the House of 
Representatives to the amendment of the Senate to the bill at approximately 
10 a.m., on Tuesday, September 30, 2008.
Page S10114
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  G. David Banks, of Missouri, to be an Assistant Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency.
  David Kelly, of New York, to be Administrator of the National Highway 
Traffic Safety Administration.
  2 Air Force nominations in the rank of general.
Page S10114
Messages from the House:
  Page S10064
Enrolled Bills Presented:
  Pages S10064-66
Executive Communications:
  Page S10066
Petitions and Memorials:
  Pages S10066-69
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S10069
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
  Pages S10069-78
Additional Statements:
  Pages S10059-64
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S10078-81
Notices of Intent:
  Pages S10081-82
Privileges of the Floor:
  Page S10082
Text of H.R. 6049 as Previously Passed:
  Pages S10082-S10114
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--209)
  Page S10037
Recess: Senate convened at 11 a.m. and recessed at 5:06 p.m., until 10 a.m. 
on Tuesday, September 30, 2008. (For Senate's program, see the remarks of 
the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S10114.)