[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 25 (Thursday, February 25, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D149-D150]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 21 public bills, H.R. 4689-
4709; and 15 resolutions, H.J. Res. 76; H. Con. Res. 240-243; and H. 
Res. 1110-1112, 1115-1121 were introduced.                
  Pages H931-33
Additional Cosponsors:                                    
  Pages H933-34
Report Filed: Reports were filed today as follows:
  H. Res. 1109, providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to 
the bill (H.R. 3961) to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to 
reform the Medicare SGR payment system for physicians and to 
reinstitute and update the Pay-As-You-Go requirement of budget 
neutrality on new tax and mandatory spending legislation, enforced by 
the threat of annual, automatic sequestration (H. Rept. 111-420) and
  H. Res. 1113, providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 
2701) 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 (H. Rept. 111-421).          
Page H931
Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein she appointed 
Representative Pastor to act as Speaker pro tempore for today. 
                                                              Page H835
Recess: The House recessed at 12:03 p.m. and reconvened at 12:39 p.m. 
                                                              Page H848
Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010: The House began 
consideration of H.R. 2701, 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. Further 
proceedings were postponed.                     
  Pages H838-845, H849-95
  Pursuant to the rule, the amendment in the nature of a substitute 
recommended by the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence now 
printed in the bill shall be considered as an original bill for the 
purpose of amendment under the 5-minute rule.                 
Page H859
  Agreed to:
  Hoekstra amendment (No. 2 printed in H. Rept. 111-419) that requires 
the Director of the CIA, within 30 days, to publicly issue an 
unclassified version of the CIA Inspector General's report entitled 
``Procedures Used In Narcotics Airbridge Denial Program in Peru, 1995-
2001,'' dated August 25, 2008;                                
Page H883
  Rogers (MI) amendment (No. 4 printed in H. Rept. 111-419) that 
prohibits funds in the Act from being used to implement the FBI's Field 
Office Supervisory Term Limit Policy requiring the mandatory 
reassignment of a supervisor after a specific term of years; 
                                                              Page H885
  Eshoo amendment (No. 5 printed in H. Rept. 111-419) that requires the 
Director of National Intelligence to establish an intelligence 
community-wide conflict of interest regulation working in conjunction 
with the Office of Government Ethics; to establish a community-wide 
process for checking outside employment for conflicts of interest, and 
also to submit an annual report to the intelligence committees on all 
outside employment activities that were approved in the last year. The 
amendment also prohibits Intelligence Community government employees 
from owning companies that sell skills related to their government 
service;                                                  
Pages H885-86
  Conaway amendment (No. 6 printed in H. Rept. 111-419) that expresses 
the sense of Congress that it is imperative intelligence community-wide 
auditability be achieved as soon as possible and the

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National Reconnaissance Office should be commended for achieving a 
clean audit;                                              
Pages H886-87
  Arcuri amendment (No. 7 printed in H. Rept. 111-419) that requires 
the President to submit detailed notifications to Congress on current 
and newly-created cybersecurity programs;                 
Pages H887-88
  Burton (IN) amendment (No. 8 printed in H. Rept. 111-419) that 
expresses the sense of Congress honoring members of the Central 
Intelligence Agency for their dedication to the protection of the 
United States and expressing appreciation for their unique role in 
combating terrorism and crucial support of U.S. military operations; 
                                                          Pages H888-90
  Holt amendment (No. 9 printed in H. Rept. 111-419) that directs the 
Inspector General of the Intelligence Community to review available 
intelligence, including raw and unfinished intelligence, to determine 
if there is any credible evidence of a connection between a foreign 
entity and the attacks on the United States in 2001 involving anthrax; 
                                                          Pages H890-91
  Castle amendment (No. 10 printed in H. Rept. 111-419) that requires 
the President, acting through the Treasury Secretary, to submit to 
Congress the report required under section 6303(a) of the Intelligence 
Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-458); and 
                                                          Pages H891-92
  Walz amendment (No. 11 printed in H. Rept. 111-419) that requires the 
intelligence community (''IC'') to take actions to educate security 
clearance adjudicators on the nature of post-traumatic stress disorder 
in combat veterans as each IC component sees fit.         
Pages H892-93
  Proceedings Postponed:
  Reyes manager's amendment (No. 1 printed in H. Rept. 111-419) that 
seeks to make technical and sundry changes;               
Pages H874-83
  Hastings (FL) amendment (No. 3 printed in H. Rept. 111-419) that 
seeks to require the DNI, in coordination with the heads of the 
elements of the intelligence community, to submit to Congress a report 
on the plans of each element of the community, including the Office of 
the Director of National Intelligence, to increase diversity within 
that element; and                                         
Pages H883-85
  Schauer amendment (No. 12 printed in H. Rept. 111-419) that seeks to 
require the DNI to investigate and report to Congress regarding the 
attempted terrorist attack on Northwest flight 253 and measures the 
intelligence community has taken or will take to prevent any 
intelligence failures within or between elements of the U.S. 
intelligence community.                                   
Pages H893-95
  H. Res. 1105, providing for consideration of the bill H.R. 2701, 
waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII with respect to 
consideration of certain resolutions reported from the Committee on 
Rules, and providing for consideration of motions to suspend the rules, 
was agreed to by a yea-and-nay vote of 237 yeas to 176 nays, Roll No. 
66, after the previous question was ordered without objection. 
                                                          Pages H848-49
Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act: The House concurred in the 
Senate amendments to H.R. 3961, to amend title XVIII of the Social 
Security Act to reform the Medicare SGR payment system for physicians 
and to reinstitute and update the Pay-As-You-Go requirement of budget 
neutrality on new tax and mandatory spending legislation, enforced by 
the threat of annual, automatic sequestration, by a yea-and-nay vote of 
315 yeas to 97 nays, Roll No. 67.     
  Pages H845-48, H895-H901, H906-07
  H. Res. 1109, the rule providing for consideration of the Senate 
amendments, was agreed to by voice vote after the previous question was 
ordered without objection.                                
Pages H845-46
Suspension: The House agreed to suspend the rules and pass the 
following measure:
  Temporary Extension Act of 2010: H.R. 4691, to provide a temporary 
extension of certain programs.                            
  Pages H901-06
Recess: The House recessed at 5:41 p.m. and reconvened at 6:38 p.m. 
                                                              Page H906
Suspension--Proceedings Resumed: The House agreed to suspend the rules 
and agree to the following measure which was debated on Tuesday, 
February 23rd:
  Supporting the goals and ideals of National Urban Crimes Awareness 
Week: H. Con. Res. 227, amended, to support the goals and ideals of 
National Urban Crimes Awareness Week, by a \2/3\ yea-and-nay vote of 
411 yeas with none voting ``nay'', Roll No. 68.               
  Page H907
Senate Message: Message received from the Senate today appears on page 
H907.
Quorum Calls--Votes: Three yea-and-nay votes developed during the 
proceedings of today and appear on pages H848-49, H906-07, H907. There 
were no quorum calls.
Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 11:14 p.m.