[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 34 (Thursday, February 26, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D179-D180]
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                                        Thursday, February 26, 2009

[[Page D179]]

                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed S. 160, District of Columbia House Voting Rights 
      Act.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S2507-S2575
Measures Introduced: Seventeen bills and two resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 485-501, and S. Res. 57-58.       
  Page S2558
Measures Passed:
  District Of Columbia House Voting Rights Act: By 61 yeas to 37 nays 
(Vote No. 73), Senate passed S. 160, to provide the District of 
Columbia a voting seat and the State of Utah an additional seat in the 
House of Representatives, after agreeing to the committee amendment in 
the nature of a substitute, as amended, and taking action on the 
following amendments proposed thereto:                   
  Pages S2507-42
   (A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that the bill, 
having achieved 60 affirmatives votes, pass).                
Page S2538
Adopted:
  By 57 yeas to 41 nays (Vote No. 70), Durbin Amendment No. 591, to 
encourage and promote diversity in communication media ownership, and 
to ensure that the public airwaves are used in the public interest. 
                                               Pages S2517-20, S2522-24
  By 87 yeas to 11 nays (Vote No. 71), DeMint Amendment No. 573, to 
prevent the Federal Communications Commission from repromulgating the 
fairness doctrine.                                       
Pages S2524-25
  By 62 yeas to 36 nays (Vote No. 72), Ensign Amendment No. 575, to 
restore Second Amendment rights in the District of Columbia. 
                                        Pages S2507, S2513-16, S2526-38
Rejected:
  By 30 yeas to 67 nays (Vote No. 69), Kyl Amendment No. 585, to 
provide for the retrocession of the District of Columbia to the State 
of Maryland.                                             
Pages S2508-12
Withdrawn:
  Thune Amendment No. 579, to amend chapter 44 of title 18, United 
States Code, to allow citizens who have concealed carry permits from 
the State or the District of Columbia in which they reside to carry 
concealed firearms in another State or the District of Columbia that 
grants concealed carry permits, if the individual complies with the 
laws of the State or the District of Columbia. 
                                        Pages S2508, S2516-17, S2525-26
  Ensign Amendment No. 587, to reauthorize the DC School Choice 
Incentive Act of 2003 for fiscal year 2010.    
Pages S2512-13, S2520-22
  Coburn Amendment No. 576 (to Amendment No. 575), of a perfecting 
nature.                                                      
Page S2507
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that the 
previously scheduled vote on the motion to invoke cloture on S. 160, 
District Of Columbia House Voting Rights Act, be withdrawn. 
                                                             Page S2525
  Stanley J. Roszkowski United States Courthouse: Committee on 
Environment and Public Works was discharged from further consideration 
of S. 387, to designate the United States courthouse located at 211 
South Court Street, Rockford, Illinois, as the ``Stanley J. Roszkowski 
United States Courthouse'', and the bill was then passed. 
                                                         Pages S2574-75
Appointments:
  Congressional Advisers on Trade Policy and Negotiations Relating to 
Trade Agreements: The Chair, in accordance with Public Law 93-618, as 
amended by Public Law 100-418, on behalf of the President pro tempore 
and upon the recommendation of the Chairman of the Committee on 
Finance, appointed the following Members of the Finance Committee as 
congressional advisers on trade policy and negotiations to 
International conferences, meetings and negotiation sessions relating 
to trade agreements: Senators Baucus, Rockefeller, Conrad, Grassley, 
and Hatch.                                                   
  Page S2575

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Message from the President: Senate received the following message from 
the President of the United States:
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, the Budget of the United States 
Government for Fiscal Year 2009; referred jointly, pursuant to the 
order of January 30, 1975 as modified by the order of April 11, 1986; 
which was referred to the Committees on the Budget; and Appropriations. 
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Pages S2556-58
Messages from the House:                                     
  Page S2558
Measures Placed on the Calendar:                     
  Pages S2507, S2558
Enrolled Bills Presented:                                    
  Page S2558
Executive Reports of Committees:                             
  Page S2558
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S2558-59
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S2559-73
Amendments Submitted:                                        
  Page S2574
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                          
  Page S2574
Record Votes: Five record votes were taken today. (Total--73) 
                                           Pages S2512, S2524-25, S2538
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and adjourned at 5:11 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m. on Friday, February 27, 2009. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S2575.)