[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 86 (Wednesday, June 10, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D669-D670]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                           Wednesday, June 10, 2009

[[Page D669]]

                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      House Committees ordered reported 33 sundry measures.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S6393-S6480
Measures Introduced: Eleven bills and two resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 1223-1233, and S. Res. 181-182.               
  Page S6452
Measures Passed:
  National Pipeline Safety Day: Senate agreed to S. Res. 181, 
designating June 10, 2009, as ``National Pipeline Safety Day''. 
                                                      Pages S6398-S6400
  Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act: Senate passed 
S. 407, to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for an 
increase, effective December 1, 2009, in the rates of compensation for 
veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of 
dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain 
disabled veterans, to codify increases in the rates of such 
compensation that were effective as of December 1, 2008, after agreeing 
to the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                         Pages S6476-77
Measures Considered:
Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act: Senate continued 
consideration of H.R. 1256, to protect the public health by providing 
the Food and Drug Administration with certain authority to regulate 
tobacco products, to amend title 5, United States Code, to make certain 
modifications in the Thrift Savings Plan, the Civil Service Retirement 
System, and the Federal Employees' Retirement System, taking action on 
the following amendments proposed thereto:               
  Pages S6405-32
Adopted:
  Dodd Amendment No. 1247, in the nature of a substitute.    
Page S6406
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  Chair sustained a point of order that Schumer (for Lieberman) 
Amendment No. 1256 (to Amendment No. 1247), to modify provisions 
relating to Federal employees retirement, was not germane, and the 
amendment thus fell.                                         
Page S6406
  By 67 yeas to 30 nays (Vote No. 206), 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 bill.           
Page S6412
  A unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at approximately 2 p.m., on Thursday, June 
11, 2009, and that the time until 2:30 p.m. be equally divided and 
controlled between Senators Dodd and Enzi, or their designees; provided 
further that at 2:30 p.m., all post-cloture time debate having expired, 
Senate vote on passage of the bill.                          
Page S6478
Good Neighbor Forestry Act--Referral Agreement: A unanimous-consent 
agreement was reached providing that the Committee on Agriculture, 
Nutrition, and Forestry be discharged from further consideration of S. 
1122, to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of 
the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with State foresters 
authorizing State foresters to provide certain forest, rangeland, and 
watershed restoration and protection services, and the bill then be 
referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. 
                                                         Pages S6477-78
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  1 Air Force nomination in the rank of general.
  1 Army nomination in the rank of general.
  1 Navy nomination in the rank of admiral.          
Pages S6432, S6480
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Robert V. Abbey, of Nevada, to be Director of the Bureau of Land 
Management.
  Timothy J. Roemer, of Indiana, to be Ambassador to India.
  Harry R. Hoglander, of Massachusetts, to be a Member of the National 
Mediation Board for a term expiring July 1, 2011.

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  A routine list in the Foreign Service.                 
Pages S6479-80
Messages from the House:                                     
  Page S6443
Measures Referred:                                           
  Page S6443
Measures Read the First Time:                     
  Pages S6443-44, S6478
Petitions and Memorials:                                 
  Pages S6444-52
Executive Reports of Committees:                             
  Page S6452
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S6452-54
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S6454-75
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S6442-43
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:                                
  Page S6475
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                      
  Pages S6475-76
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--206) 
                                                             Page S6412
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and adjourned at 7:16 p.m., 
until 10 a.m. on Thursday, June 11, 2009. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S6478.)