[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 94 (Monday, June 22, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D741-D742]
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                                              Monday, June 22, 2009

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S6861-S6898
Measures Introduced: Eight bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1313-1320, and S. Res. 199.                  
  Pages S6887-88
Measures Considered:
Travel Promotion Act: Senate resumed consideration of S. 1023, to 
establish a non-profit corporation to communicate United States entry 
policies and otherwise promote leisure, business, and scholarly travel 
to the United States, after agreeing to the motion to proceed, taking 
action on the following amendments proposed thereto:     
  Pages S6870-82
Pending:
  Reid (for Dorgan/Rockefeller) Amendment No. 1347, of a perfecting 
nature.                                                      
Page S6870
  Reid Amendment No. 1348 (to Amendment No. 1347), to change the 
enactment date.                                              
Page S6870
  Reid Amendment No. 1349 (to the language proposed to be stricken by 
Amendment No. 1347), to change the enactment date.           
Page S6870
  Reid Amendment No. 1350 (to Amendment No. 1349), of a perfecting 
nature.                                                      
Page S6870
  Reid Motion to commit the bill to the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation, with instructions.                       
Page S6870
  Reid Amendment No. 1351 (to the instructions on the motion to 
recommit), to change the enactment date.                     
Page S6870
  Reid Amendment No. 1352 (to Amendment No. 1351), of a perfecting 
nature.                                                      
Page S6870
  Reid Amendment No. 1353 (to Amendment No. 1352), of a perfecting 
nature.                                                      
Page S6870
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
   By 53 yeas to 34 nays (Vote No. 211), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to close further debate on Reid (for Dorgan/
Rockefeller) Amendment No. 1347 (listed above).          
Pages S6880-81
  Senator Reid entered a motion to reconsider the vote by which the 
motion to invoke cloture on Reid (for Dorgan/Rockefeller) Amendment No. 
1347 (listed above) failed.                                  
Page S6881
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that the 
previously scheduled vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the bill, 
be withdrawn.                                                
Page S6881
Message from the President: Senate received the following message from 
the President of the United States:
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on the continuation of the 
national emergency that was originally declared in Executive Order 
13219 of June 26, 2001, with respect to the Western Balkans; which was 
referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM-
25)                                                          
Page S6887
Koh Nomination--Cloture: Senate began consideration of the nomination 
of Harold Hongju Koh, of Connecticut, to be Legal Adviser of the 
Department of State.                                         
  Page S6881
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the nomination, and, 
in accordance with the provisions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate, a vote on cloture will occur on Wednesday, June 24, 2009. 
                                                             Page S6881
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Charles F. Bolden, Jr., of Texas, to be Administrator of the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration.
  Lori Garver, of Virginia, to be Deputy Administrator of the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration.
  Warren F. Miller, Jr., of New Mexico, to be Director of the Office of 
Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Department of Energy.
  John R. Bass, of New York, to be Ambassador to Georgia.
  Ertharin Cousin, of Illinois, for the rank of Ambassador during her 
tenure of service as U. S. Representative to the United Nations 
Agencies for Food and Agriculture.
  James B. Foley, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Croatia.
  Kenneth E. Gross, Jr., of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic 
of Tajikistan.

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  Jerry P. Lanier, of North Carolina, to be Ambassador to the Republic 
of Uganda.
  Teddy Bernard Taylor, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to Papua New 
Guinea, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation 
as Ambassador to the Solomon Islands and Ambassador to the Republic of 
Vanuatu.                                                     
Page S6898
Messages from the House:                                     
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Measures Referred:                                           
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Measures Placed on the Calendar:                             
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Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S6888-89
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:                  
  Page S6889
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S6885-87
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S6889-98
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:                                
  Page S6898
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                          
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Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--211) 
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Adjournment: Senate convened at 2:01 p.m. and adjourned at 7:02 p.m., 
until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, June 23, 2009. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S6898.)