[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 7 (Tuesday, January 13, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
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                                          Tuesday, January 13, 2009

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S319-S351
Measures Introduced: Sixteen bills and two resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 215-230, S.J. Res. 5, and S. Res. 13.      
  Pages S337-38
Measures Passed:
  Sale and Counterfeiting of Presidential Inaugural Tickets: Committee 
on Rules and Administration was discharged from further consideration 
of S. 60, to prohibit the sale and counterfeiting of Presidential 
inaugural tickets, and the bill was then passed.          
  Pages S350-51
Measures Considered:
Lands Bill: Senate continued consideration of S. 22, to designate 
certain land components of the National Wilderness Preservation System, 
to authorize certain programs and activities in the Department of the 
Interior and the Department of Agriculture, taking action on the 
following amendments proposed thereto:                    
  Pages S324-33
Pending:
  Reid Amendment No. 15, to change the enactment date.        
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  Reid Amendment No. 16 (to Reid Amendment No. 15), of a perfecting 
nature.                                                       
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  Motion to recommit the bill to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources, with instructions to report back forthwith, with Reid 
Amendment No. 17, to change the enactment date.               
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  Reid Amendment No. 18 (to the instructions of the motion to 
recommit), of a perfecting nature.                            
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  Reid Amendment No. 19 (to Reid Amendment No. 18), of a perfecting 
nature.                                                       
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  A unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at approximately 9:30 a.m., on Wednesday, 
January 14, 2009, the time until 10:30 a.m. be equally divided and 
controlled between the two Leaders, or their designees, and Senate vote 
on the motion to invoke cloture on the bill; provided further, that all 
second-degree amendments be filed at the desk by 10 a.m., on Wednesday, 
January 14, 2009.                                             
Page S351
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act--Cloture: Senate began consideration of 
the motion to proceed to consideration of S. 181, to amend title VII of 
the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Age Discrimination in Employment 
Act of 1967, and to modify the operation of the Americans with 
Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, to clarify 
that a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice that is 
unlawful under such Acts occurs each time compensation is paid pursuant 
to the discriminatory compensation decision or other practice. 
                                                              Page S349
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the motion to proceed 
to consideration of 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, January 15, 2009.                          
Page S349
  Subsequently, the motion to proceed was withdrawn.          
Page S349
Executive Communications:                                 
  Pages S336-37
Additional Cosponsors:                                        
  Page S338
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:               
  Pages S338-49
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:                                 
  Page S349
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                           
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Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 7:38 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, January 14, 2009. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S351.)