[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 39 (Thursday, March 5, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D213-D214]
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                                            Thursday, March 5, 2009

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S2779-S2853
Measures Introduced: Fifteen bills and three resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 527-541, and S. Res. 65-67.   
  Pages S2827-28
Measures Reported:
  S. 386, to improve enforcement of mortgage fraud, securities fraud, 
financial institution fraud, and other frauds related to federal 
assistance and relief programs, for the recovery of funds lost to these 
frauds, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.     
Page S2827
Measures Passed:
  National Asbestos Awareness Week: Committee on the Judiciary was 
discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 57, designating the 
first week of April 2009 as ``National Asbestos Awareness Week'', and 
the resolution was then agreed to.                           
  Page S2852
  National School Breakfast Program: Senate agreed to S. Res. 67, 
expressing the sense of the Senate that providing breakfast in schools 
through the national school breakfast program has a positive impact on 
the lives and classroom performance of low-income children. 
                                                         Pages S2852-53
Measures Considered:
Omnibus Appropriations Act: Senate continued consideration of H.R. 
1105, making omnibus appropriations for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2009, taking action on the following amendments proposed 
thereto:                                              
  Pages S2782-S2821
Rejected:
  By 39 yeas to 55 nays (Vote No. 81), Wicker Modified Amendment No. 
607, to require that amounts appropriated for the United Nations 
Population Fund are not used by organizations which support coercive 
abortion or involuntary sterilization.         
Pages S2788-89, S2790-95
  By 42 yeas to 52 nays (Vote No. 82), Murkowski Amendment No. 599, to 
modify a provision relating to the repromulgation of final rules by the 
Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce. 
                                        Pages S2789, S2800-06, S2809-13
  By 43 yeas to 51 nays (Vote No. 83), Cochran (for Inhofe) Amendment 
No. 613, to provide that no funds may be made available to make any 
assessed contribution or voluntary payment of the United States to the 
United Nations if the United Nations implements or imposes any taxation 
on any United States persons.              
Pages S2789, S2806-07, S2813
  By 41 yeas to 53 nays (Vote No. 85), Cochran (for Kyl) Amendment No. 
634, to prohibit the expenditure of amounts made available under this 
Act in a contract with any company that has a business presence in 
Iran's energy sector.                   
Pages S2789, S2807-09, S2814-16
Withdrawn:
  Cochran (for Crapo (and others)) Amendment No. 638, to strike a 
provision relating to Federal Trade Commission authority over home 
mortgages.                                        
Pages S2789, S2816-21
Pending:
  Ensign Amendment No. 615, to strike the restrictions on the District 
of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program.                 
Page S2821
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 26 yeas to 68 nays (Vote No. 84), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to waive pursuant to section 302(f) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, with respect to Thune Modified 
Amendment No. 635, to provide funding for the Emergency Fund for Indian 
Safety and Health, with an offset. Subsequently, the point of order 
that the amendment would provide spending in excess of the 
subcommittee's 302(b) allocation was sustained, and the amendment thus 
fell.                         
Pages S2789, S2798-S2800, S2807, S2813-14
Cloture Motion--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached 
providing that the previously scheduled vote on the motion to invoke 
cloture on the bill, be vitiated.                            
  Page S2820
  Subsequently, the motion to invoke cloture on the bill was withdrawn.
                                                             Page S2821
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at 10 a.m., on Friday, March 6, 2009. 
                                                             Page S2853

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Guam World War II Loyalty Recognition Act--Referral Agreement: A 
unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that the Committee on 
Energy and Natural Resources be discharged from further consideration 
of H.R. 44, to implement the recommendations of the Guam War Claims 
Review Commission, and the bill then be referred to the Committee on 
the Judiciary.                                               
  Page S2853
Messages from the House:                                     
  Page S2827
Measures Placed on the Calendar:                     
  Pages S2779, S2827
Executive Reports of Committees:                             
  Page S2827
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S2828-29
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S2829-50
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S2826-27
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S2850-51
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:                            
  Pages S2851-52
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                          
  Page S2852
Record Votes: Five record votes were taken today. (Total--85) 
                             Pages S2795, S2812-13, S2813, S2814, S2816
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and adjourned at 9:18 p.m., 
until 10 a.m. on Friday, March 6, 2009. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S2853.)