[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 111 (Wednesday, July 22, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D886-D888]
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                                           Wednesday, July 22, 2009

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S7809-S7944
Measures Introduced: Fifteen bills and three resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 1490-1504, S. Res. 220-221, and S. Con. Res. 
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  Pages S7868-69
Measures Reported:
  S. 1494, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2010 for 
intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States 
Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central 
Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System. (S. Rept. No. 
111-55)
  S. 1064, to amend the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 
to provide for enhanced State and local oversight of activities 
conducted under such Act, with amendments. (S. Rept. No. 111-56)
  S. 601, to establish the Weather Mitigation Research Office, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 111-57)
  S. 849, to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency to conduct a study on black carbon emissions. (S. Rept. No. 111-
58)
  S. 1498, to provide an extension of highway programs authorized under 
the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A 
Legacy for Users. (S. Rept. No. 111-59)
  S. 151, to protect Indian arts and crafts through the improvement of 
applicable criminal proceedings.
  S. 1496, to extend National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and 
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration authorizations funded by 
the Highway Trust Fund.                                      
Page S7868
Measures Considered:
National Defense Authorization Act: Senate continued consideration of 
S. 1390, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2010 for military 
activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and 
for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe 
military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, taking action on the 
following amendments proposed thereto: 
                                     Pages S7811-32, S7833-60, S7861-65
Adopted:
  By 66 yeas to 31 nays (vote No. 238), Levin (for Kerry) Amendment No. 
1761, to express the sense of the Senate that the United States should 
fully enforce existing sanctions, and should explore additional 
sanctions, with respect to North Korea and to require a review to 
determine whether North Korea should be re-listed as a state sponsor of 
terrorism.                                               
Pages S7841-46
  Cardin Amendment No. 1475, to require the Secretary of Defense to 
report on the numbers and percentages of troops that have served or are 
serving in Iraq and Afghanistan who have been prescribed 
antidepressants or drugs to treat anxiety.               
Pages S7848-49
  Levin (for Pryor) Amendment No. 1472, to modify the reporting 
requirement for the defense nanotechnology research and development 
program.                                                     
Page S7851
  Levin (for Burr) Amendment No. 1518, to require the Secretary of the 
Army to expand the First Sergeants Barracks Initiative (FSBI) 
throughout the Army in order to improve the quality of life and living 
environments for single soldiers.                    
Pages S7851, S7852
  Levin (for Burris) Amendment No. 1569, to require a plan to manage 
vegetative encroachment at training ranges.          
Pages S7851, S7852
  Levin (for Gregg/Shaheen) Amendment No. 1553, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Army to construct a previously authorized Armed Forces 
Reserve Center in vicinity of specified location at Pease Air National 
Guard Base, New Hampshire.                           
Pages S7851, S7852
  Levin (for Pryor) Amendment No. 1471, to release to the State of 
Arkansas a reversionary interest in Camp Joseph T. Robinson. 
                                                     Pages S7851, S7852
  Levin (for Dorgan) Amendment No. 1512, to require additional 
disclosure of poor performance in the contractor performance database. 
                                                     Pages S7851, S7852
  Levin (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 1473, to modify the provision 
requiring the inclusion of pension obligations for certain Department 
of Energy facilities in the budget request of the President to include 
pension obligations for all Department of Energy facilities. 
                                                     Pages S7851, S7852

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  Levin (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 1561, to expand the authority of 
the Ombudsman under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness 
Compensation Program Act of 2000.                    
                                                     Pages S7851, S7852
  Levin (for Burr) Amendment No. 1520, to require a report on the re-
determination process of the Department of Defense used to determine 
the eligibility of permanently incapacitated dependents of retired and 
deceased members of the Armed Forces for benefits provided under laws 
administered by the Secretary of Defense.            
                                                     Pages S7851, S7852
  Levin (for Nelson (NE)/Graham) Amendment No. 1600, to require the 
Comptroller General of the United States to conduct an audit of 
assistance to local educational agencies for the education of dependent 
children of members of the Armed Forces.             
                                                     Pages S7851, S7853
  Levin (for Nelson (NE)/Graham) Amendment No. 1555, to permit the 
extension of eligibility for enrollment in Department of Defense 
elementary and secondary schools to certain additional categories of 
dependents.                                          
                                                     Pages S7851, S7853
  Levin (for Ensign) Amendment No. 1488, to include in the study on 
options for educational opportunities for dependent children of members 
of the Armed Forces consideration of the impact of such options on 
students with special needs.                         
                                                     Pages S7851, S7853
  Levin (for Reid) Amendment No. 1476, to permit the Secretary of the 
Air Force to convey to certain Indian tribes certain relocatable 
military housing units.                              
                                                     Pages S7851, S7853
  Levin (for Nelson (FL)/Vitter) Amendment No. 1612, to modify the 
provision clarifying responsibility for preparation of the biennial 
global positioning system report.                    
                                                     Pages S7851, S7853
  Levin (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 1560, to make technical 
corrections regarding certain military construction projects at Cannon 
Air Force Base and Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. 
                                                  Pages S7851, S7853-54
  Levin (for Grassley) Amendment No. 1500, to include analysis of 
military whistleblower reprisal appeals in the assessment by the 
Comptroller General of the United States of military whistleblower 
protections.                                         
Pages S7851, S7854
  Levin (for Martinez) Amendment No. 1535, to require the Director of 
National Intelligence to report on Cuba and Cuba's relations with other 
countries.                                           
Pages S7851, S7854
  Levin (for Martinez) Amendment No. 1536, to require the Director of 
National Intelligence to report on political and other support provided 
by Venezuelan officials to terrorist and other groups. 
                                                     Pages S7851, S7854
  Levin (for Thune/Johnson) Amendment No. 1510, to provide technical 
changes to land conveyance matters regarding Ellsworth Air Force Base, 
South Dakota.                                     
Pages S7851, S7854-55
  Levin (for Barrasso/Enzi) Amendment No. 1492, to authorize a land 
conveyance at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Cheyenne, Wyoming. 
                                                     Pages S7851, S7855
  Levin (for Hutchison) Amendment No. 1495, to authorize a land 
conveyance at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.     
Pages S7851, S7855-56
  Levin (for Begich) Amendment No. 1599, to authorize a land conveyance 
at Haines Tank Farm, Haines, Alaska.                 
Pages S7851, S7856
  Levin (for Inouye) Amendment No. 1636, to authorize land conveyances 
of certain parcels in the Camp Catlin and Ohana Nui areas, Pearl 
Harbor, Hawaii.                                      
Pages S7851, S7856
  Levin (for Udall (CO)) Amendment No. 1619, to authorize the 
Department of Defense to participate in programs for the management of 
energy demand or reduction of energy usage during peak periods. 
                                                  Pages S7851, S7856-57
  Levin (for McCain/Levin) Amendment No. 1638, to require a master plan 
to provide world class military medical facilities in the National 
Capital Region.                                      
Pages S7851, S7857
  Levin (for DeMint) Amendment No. 1642, to require the Comptroller 
General of the United States to conduct a review of spending in the 
final quarter of fiscal year 2009 by the Department of Defense. 
                                                     Pages S7851, S7857
  Levin (for Inhofe) Amendment No. 1499, to authorize an Air Force 
Academy athletics support program.                   
Pages S7851, S7857
  Levin (for McCain) Amendment No. 1634, to express the sense of 
Congress regarding airfares for members of the Armed Forces. 
                                                  Pages S7851, S7857-58
  Levin (for Begich) Amendment No. 1676, to require the Comptroller 
General of the Untied States to review the assessment and plan for the 
Ground-based Midcourse Defense element of the Ballistic Missile Defense 
System.                                              
Pages S7851, S7858
  Levin (for Begich) Amendment No. 1677, to avoid a break in production 
of the Ground-based Interceptor missile until the Department of Defense 
completes the Ballistic Missile Defense Review and to ensure there is 
no gap in homeland defense by ensuring that Missile Field 1 at Fort 
Greely, Alaska, does not complete decommissioning until seven silos 
have been emplaced at Missile Field 2 at Fort Greely. 
                                                     Pages S7851, S7858
Rejected:
  By 43 yeas to 54 nays (Vote No. 239), Brownback Amendment No. 1597, 
to express the sense of the

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Senate that the Secretary of State should redesignate North Korea as a 
state sponsor of terrorism.                       
Pages S7811, S7846-48
Withdrawn:
  By 58 yeas to 39 nays (Vote No. 237), Thune Amendment No. 1618, to 
amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to allow citizens who 
have concealed carry permits from the State in which they reside to 
carry concealed firearms in another State that grants concealed carry 
permits, if the individual complies with the laws of the State. (A 
unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that the amendment, 
having failed to achieve 60 affirmative votes, be withdrawn.) 
                                                         Pages S7811-27
Pending:
  Kyl Amendment No. 1760, to pursue United States objectives in 
bilateral arms control with the Russian Federation.      
Pages S7849-51
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the bill, and, in 
accordance with the provisions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate, a vote on cloture will occur on Friday, July 24, 2009. 
                                                         Pages S7861-65
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at 9:30 a.m., on Thursday, July 23, 2009; 
provided that upon disposition of Kyl Amendment No. 1760 (listed 
above), it be in order for Senator Lieberman to offer Amendment No. 
1627, and a side-by-side or second-degree amendment be offered by 
Senator Bayh, to Amendment No. 1627.                         
Page S7858
Impeachment of Former Judge Samuel B. Kent: Senate, sitting as a Court 
of Impeachment, resumed consideration of the impeachment proceedings of 
former Judge Samuel B. Kent, of the United States District Court for 
the Southern District of Texas, taking the following action:
  The Senate received the managers appointed by the House of 
Representatives to continue proceedings on behalf of the House 
concerning the impeachment against former Judge Samuel B. Kent, of the 
United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, and 
the oath was administered to those Senators who were not present when 
the articles of impeachment were presented, by the Acting President pro 
tempore.                                                 
Pages S7832-33
  The Majority Leader entered a motion that the articles of impeachment 
against former Judge Samuel B. Kent, Judge, the United States District 
Court for the Southern District of Texas, be dismissed, the Secretary 
of the Senate was directed to notify the House of Representatives, and 
the motion was agreed to.                                    
Page S7833
  Subsequently, the Court of Impeachment stands adjourned sine die. 
                                                             Page S7833
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Jeffrey Alan Goldstein, of New York, to be an Under Secretary of the 
Treasury.
  Alberto M. Fernandez, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic 
of Equatorial Guinea.
  Regina M. Benjamin, of Alabama, to be Medical Director in the Regular 
Corps of the Public Health Service, subject to qualifications therefor 
as provided by law and regulations, and to be Surgeon General of the 
Public Health Service for a term of four years.
  Routine lists in the Navy.                                 
Page S7944
Messages from the House:                                     
  Page S7867
Measures Referred:                                       
  Pages S7867-68
Petitions and Memorials:                                     
  Page S7868
Executive Reports of Committees:                             
  Page S7868
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S7869-71
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S7871-92
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S7866-67
Amendments Submitted:                                 
  Pages S7892-S7938
Authorities for Committees to Meet:                      
  Pages S7938-39
Privileges of the Floor:                                     
  Page S7939
Quorum Calls:
  One quorum call was taken today. (Total-3)                 
Page S7832
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total--239) 
                                              Pages S7827, S7846, S7847
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and adjourned at 7:42 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 23, 2009. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S7865.)