[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 22 (Wednesday, February 4, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D106-D108]
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                                        Wednesday, February 4, 2009

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S1473-S1614
Measures Introduced: Ten bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 374-383, and S. Res. 27.                         
  Page S1542
Measures Passed:
  Emergency Economic Stabilization Act: Senate passed S. 383, to amend 
the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (division A of Public 
Law 110-343) to provide the Special Inspector General with additional 
authorities and responsibilities.                        
  Pages S1613-14
  Congratulating the Pittsburgh Steelers: Senate agreed to S. Res. 27, 
congratulating the Pittsburgh Steelers on winning Super Bowl XLIII. 
                                                         Pages S1612-13
Measures Considered:
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Senate continued consideration 
of H.R. 1, making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and 
creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, 
assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, 
for fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, taking action on the 
following amendments proposed thereto:                
  Pages S1474-S1538
Adopted:
  Isakson/Lieberman Modified Amendment No. 106 (to Amendment No. 98), 
to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a Federal income 
tax credit for certain home purchases.     
Pages S1474, S1481-84, S1523
  Cardin Amendment No. 237 (to Amendment No. 98), to amend certain 
provisions of the Small Business Investment Act of 1958, related to the 
surety bond guarantee program.                    
Pages S1484-85, S1523
  Bond Amendment No. 161 (to Amendment No. 98), to provide 
$2,000,000,000 from the HOME program for investment in the low income 
housing tax credit projects.                   
Pages S1496-98, S1525-26
  Dorgan Amendment No. 300 (to Amendment No. 98), to clarify that the 
Buy American provisions shall be applied in a manner consistent with 
the United States obligations under international agreements. 
                                                             Page S1528
  Baucus (for Landrieu) Amendment No. 102 (to Amendment No. 98), to 
ensure that assistance for the redevelopment of foreclosed and 
abandoned homes to States or units of local government impacted by 
catastrophic natural disasters may be used to support the redevelopment 
of homes damaged or destroyed as a result of the 2005 hurricanes, the 
severe flooding in the Midwest in 2008, and other natural disasters. 
                                                             Page S1538
Rejected:
  By 32 yeas to 65 nays (Vote No. 37), Vitter Amendment No. 179 (to 
Amendment No. 98), to eliminate unnecessary spending. 
                                                  Pages S1474, S1521-23
  By 35 yeas to 62 nays (Vote No. 39), Grassley (for Thune) Amendment 
No. 238 (to Amendment No. 98), to ensure that the $1 trillion spending 
bill is not used to expand the scope of the Federal Government by 
adding new spending programs.           
Pages S1485-88, S1489-91, S1524
  By 31 yeas to 65 nays (Vote No. 44), McCain Amendment No. 279 (to 
Amendment No. 98), to prohibit the applicability of Buy American 
requirements in the Act to the utilization of funds provided by the 
Act.                                           
Pages S1494-96, S1528-30
Withdrawn:
  Martinez Modified Amendment No. 159 (to Amendment No. 98), to reduce 
home foreclosures, compensate servicers who modify mortgages, and 
remove the legal constraints that inhibit modification. 
                                        Pages S1493, S1518-20, S1524-25
Pending:
  Reid (for Inouye/Baucus) Amendment No. 98, in the nature of a 
substitute.                                                  
Page S1474
  Murray Amendment No. 110 (to Amendment No. 98), to strengthen the 
infrastructure investments made by the bill.                 
Page S1474
  Feingold Amendment No. 140 (to Amendment No. 98), to provide greater 
accountability of taxpayers' dollars by curtailing congressional 
earmarking and requiring disclosure of lobbying by recipients of 
Federal funds.      
Pages S1474, S1479-81, S1488-89, S1504-07, S1512-18

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  Grassley (for Thune) Amendment No. 197 (to Amendment No. 98), in the 
nature of a substitute.                                  
Pages S1485-88
  Baucus (for Dorgan) Amendment No. 200 (to Amendment No. 98), to amend 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the taxation of income 
of controlled foreign corporations attributable to imported property. 
                                                         Pages S1491-92
  Ensign Amendment No. 353 (to Amendment No. 98), in the nature of a 
substitute.                                                  
Page S1530
  Dodd Amendment No. 354 (to Amendment No. 98), to impose executive 
compensation limitations with respect to entities assisted under the 
Troubled Asset Relief Program.                           
Pages S1530-31
  Barrasso Amendment No. 326 (to Amendment No. 98), to expedite reviews 
required to be carried out under the National Environmental Policy Act 
of 1969.                                                     
Page S1536
  Barrasso (for DeMint) Amendment No. 189 (to Amendment No. 98), to 
allow the free exercise of religion at institutions of higher education 
that receive funding under section 803 of division A.        
Page S1536
  Baucus (for Boxer) Amendment No. 363, to ensure that any action taken 
under this act of any funds made available under this act that are 
subject to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) protect the 
public health of communities across the country.             
Page S1538
  Baucus (for Harkin/Stabenow) Amendment No. 338 (to Amendment No. 98), 
to require the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out a program to 
enable certain individuals to trade certain old automobiles for certain 
new automobiles.                                         
Pages S1536-38
  Baucus (for Dodd) Amendment No. 145 (to Amendment No. 98), to improve 
the efforts of the Federal Government in mitigating home foreclosures 
and to require the Secretary of the Treasury to develop and implement a 
foreclosure prevention loan modification plan.           
Pages S1536-38
  Baucus (for McCaskill) Amendment No. 125 (to Amendment No. 98), to 
limit compensation to officers and directors of entities receiving 
emergency economic assistance from the Government.       
Pages S1536-38
  Baucus (for McCaskill) Modified Amendment No. 236 (to Amendment No. 
98), to establish funding levels for various offices of inspectors 
general and to set a date until which such funds shall remain 
available.                                               
Pages S1536-38
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 36 yeas to 61 nays (Vote No. 38), 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 Grassley (for DeMint) 
Amendment No. 168 (to Amendment No. 98), in the nature of a substitute. 
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 S1485-88, S1492-93, S1507-12, S1523-24
  By 44 yeas to 53 nays (Vote No. 40), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to waive pursuant to section 306 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, with respect to McCain Modified 
Amendment No. 278 (to Amendment No. 98), to reimplement Gramm-Rudman-
Hollings to require deficit reduction and spending cuts upon 2 
consecutive quarters of positive GDP growth. Subsequently, the point of 
order that the amendment was in violation of section 306 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, was sustained, and the amendment thus 
fell.                                   
Pages S1494-96, S1520-21, S1525
  By 38 yeas to 59 nays (Vote No. 41), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to waive pursuant to section 904(c)(2) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, with respect to Inhofe Amendment No. 
262 (to Amendment No. 98), to appropriate, with an offset, 
$5,232,000,000 for procurement for the Department of Defense to 
reconstitute military units to an acceptable readiness rating and to 
restock prepositioned assets and war reserve material. Subsequently, 
the point of order that the amendment was in violation of section 
302(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, was sustained, and the 
amendment thus fell.                           
Pages S1498-S1500, S1526
  By 37 yeas to 60 nays (Vote No. 42), 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 Cornyn Amendment No. 
277 (to Amendment No. 98), to reduce income taxes for all working 
taxpayers. 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 S1500-01, S1527
  By 39 yeas to 57 nays (Vote No. 43), 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 Bunning Amendment No. 
242 (to Amendment No. 98), to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
to suspend for 2009 the 1993 income tax increase

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on Social Security benefits. 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 S1501-04, S1527-28
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, February 5, 2009. 
                                                         Pages S1541-42
Messages From the House:                                     
  Page S1542
Measures Referred:                                       
  Pages S1542-43
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S1543-50
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S1543-50
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S1540-41
Amendments Submitted:                                 
  Pages S1550-S1612
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:                                
  Page S1612
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                          
  Page S1612
Privileges of the Floor:                                     
  Page S1612
Record Votes: Eight record votes were taken today. (Total--44) 
                  Pages S1523, S1524, S1525, S1526, S1527, S1528, S1530
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10:30 a.m. and adjourned at 10:10 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, February 5, 2009. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S1614.)