[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 92 (Monday, June 18, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D610-D612]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                              Monday, June 18, 2012

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S4223-S4251
Measures Introduced: Six bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 3304-3309, and S. Res. 495.                      
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Measures Passed:
  National Day of the American Cowboy: Committee on the Judiciary was 
discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 470, designating July 
28, 2012, as ``National Day of the American Cowboy'', and the 
resolution was then agreed to.                               
  Page S4250
  Polycystic Kidney Disease Awareness Week: Senate agreed to S. Res. 
495, designating the period beginning on June 17, 2012, and ending on 
June 23, 2012, as ``Polycystic Kidney Disease Awareness Week'', and 
raising awareness and understanding of polycystic kidney disease and 
the impact such disease has on patients.                     
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Measures Considered:
Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act: Senate began 
consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of S. 1940, to 
amend the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, to restore the 
financial solvency of the flood insurance fund. 
                                               Pages S4223-26, S4230-36
Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act--Agreement: A unanimous-consent-
time agreement was reached providing that when Senate resumes 
consideration of S. 3240, to reauthorize agricultural programs through 
2017, the pending motion to recommit be withdrawn; that Reid Amendment 
No. 2390 (to Amendment No. 2389) be withdrawn; that Reid (for Stabenow/
Roberts) Amendment No. 2389 be agreed to; the bill, as amended, be 
considered original text for the purposes of further amendment; that 
the following amendments and motions be the only first-degree 
amendments and motions in order to the bill: Akaka Amendment No. 2440 
(highly fractionated tribal lands); Akaka Amendment No. 2396 (tribal 
relations office); Baucus Amendment No. 2429 (livestock); Bingaman 
Amendment No. 2364 (multi-state aquifers); Brown (OH) Amendment No. 
2445 (rural development); Cantwell Amendment No. 2370 (pulse pilot); 
Casey Amendment No. 2238 (technical/study-federal milk marketing); 
Coons Amendment No. 2426 (poultry insurance study); Feinstein Amendment 
No. 2422 (conservation innovation grants); Feinstein Amendment No. 2309 
(insurance recall); Gillibrand Amendment No. 2156 (SNAP); Hagan 
Amendment No. 2366 (crop insurance-plain language); Kerry Amendment No. 
2187 (commercial fishermen); Landrieu Amendment No. 2321 (rural 
development loans); Manchin Amendment No. 2345 (dietary study); Merkley 
Amendment No. 2382 (organic crop insurance); Schumer Amendment No. 2427 
(acer); Stabenow Amendment No. 2453 (NAP); Udall (CO) Amendment No. 
2295 (bark beetle); Warner Amendment No. 2457 (rural broadband); Wyden 
Amendment No. 2442 (microloans); Wyden Amendment No. 2388 (farm to 
school); Leahy Amendment No. 2204 (rural development); Nelson (NE) 
Amendment No. 2242 (rural housing); Klobuchar Amendment No. 2299 
(transportation study); Carper Amendment No. 2287 (poultry feed 
research); Sanders Amendment No. 2254 (biomass); Thune Amendment No. 
2437 (crop insurance); Durbin-Coburn Amendment No. 2439 (crop 
insurance); Snowe Amendment No. 2190 (milk marketing order reform); 
Ayotte Amendment No. 2192 (value added grants); Collins Amendment No. 
2444 (dairy); Grassley Amendment No. 2167 (pay cap marketing loans); 
Sessions Amendment No. 2174 (SNAP); Nelson (NE) Amendment No. 2243 
(SNAP); Sessions Amendment No. 2172 (SNAP); Paul Amendment No. 2181 
($250,000 income limit); Alexander Amendment No. 2191 (wind loans); 
McCain Amendment No. 2199 (catfish); Toomey Amendment No. 2217 
(organic/AMA); DeMint Amendment No. 2263 (broadband funding); DeMint 
Amendment No. 2262 (SoS Free MKT); DeMint Amendment No. 2268 (Loan 
guarantees); DeMint Amendment No. 2276 (checkoffs); DeMint Amendment 
No. 2273 (broadband); Coburn Amendment No. 2289 (MAP); Coburn Amendment 
No. 2293 (Limit Millionaires); Kerry Amendment No. 2454 (North Korea); 
Kyl Amendment No. 2354 (North Korea); Lee Amendment No. 2313 (Forest 
Legacy);

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Lee Amendment No. 2314 (CSP/CRP cut); Boozman Amendment No. 2355 (Ag 
research, law info); Boozman Amendment No. 2360 (TEFAP); Toomey 
Amendment No. 2226 (energy title); Toomey Amendment No. 2433 (sugar); 
Lee Motion to Recommit (FY 2008 levels); Johnson(WI) Motion to 
Recommit; Chambliss Amendment No. 2438 (conservation crop insurance); 
Chambliss Amendment No. 2340 (sugar); Chambliss Amendment No. 2432 
(FMPP); Ayotte Amendment No. 2195 (GAO crop insurance fraud report); 
Blunt Amendment No. 2246 (veterans); Moran Amendment No. 2403 (food 
aid); Moran Amendment No. 2443 (beginning farmers); Vitter Amendment 
No. 2363 (pets); Toomey Amendment No. 2247 (paperwork); Sanders 
Amendment No. 2310 (genetically engineered food); Coburn Amendment No. 
2214 (convention funding); Boxer Amendment No. 2456 (aerial 
inspections); Johanns Amendment No. 2372 (aerial inspections); Murray 
Amendment No. 2455 (sequestration); McCain Amendment No. 2162 
(Sequestration report--DoD); and Rubio Amendment No. 2166 (RAISE Act); 
that at 2:15 p.m., on Tuesday, June 19, 2012, Senate vote on or in 
relation to the amendments in the order listed alternating between 
Republican and Democratic sponsored amendments; that there be no 
amendments or motions in order to the amendments prior to the votes 
other than motions to waive points of order and motions to table; that 
there be two minutes of debate equally divided in the usual form in 
between the votes and all after the first vote be ten minute votes; 
that Toomey Amendment No. 2247; Sanders Amendment No. 2310; Coburn 
Amendment No. 2214; Boxer Amendment No. 2456; Johanns Amendment No. 
2372; Murray Amendment No. 2455; McCain Amendment No. 2162; and Rubio 
Amendment No. 2166 be subject to a 60 affirmative vote threshold; that 
the clerks be authorized to modify the instruction lines on amendments 
so the page and line numbers match up correctly; that upon disposition 
of the amendments, the bill, as amended, be read a third time; that 
there be up to ten minutes equally divided in the usual form prior to a 
vote on passage of the bill, as amended, if amended; and that the vote 
on passage of the bill be subject to a 60 affirmative vote threshold. 
                                                         Pages S4250-51
Boiler MACT/EPA--Agreement: A unanimous-consent-time agreement was 
reached providing that on Tuesday, June 19, 2012, at a time to be 
determined by the Majority Leader, after consultation with the 
Republican Leader, the Republican Leader, or his designee, be 
recognized to move to proceed to consideration of S.J. Res. 37, to 
disapprove a rule promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency relating to emission standards for certain steam 
generating units; that there be up to four hours of debate on the 
motion to proceed to consideration of the joint resolution, with the 
time equally divided and controlled between the two Leaders, or their 
designees; that two hours of debate, equally divided, occur on Tuesday, 
June 19, 2012, and Senate continue consideration of the motion to 
proceed to consideration of the joint resolution at 10:30 a.m., on 
Wednesday, June 20, 2012, for the remaining two hours of debate; that 
at 12:30 p.m., on Wednesday, June 20, 2012, Senate vote on the adoption 
of the motion to proceed to consideration of the joint resolution; that 
if the motion is successful, then the time for debate with respect to 
the joint resolution be equally divided between the two Leaders, or 
their designees; that upon the use or yielding back of time, Senate 
vote on passage of the joint resolution; and that all other provisions 
of the statute governing consideration of the joint resolution remain 
in effect.                                                   
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Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Fire--Agreement: A unanimous-consent 
agreement was reached providing that notwithstanding the adoption of S. 
Res. 488 and the preamble thereto, that Stabenow (for Snowe) Amendment 
No. 2458, to amend the preamble, be agreed to.           
  Pages S4249-50
Messages from the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, a report of the continuation of the 
national emergency that was declared in Executive Order 13159 of June 
21, 2000, with respect to the risk of nuclear proliferation created by 
the accumulation of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of 
the Russian Federation; which was referred to the Committee on Banking, 
Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM-51)                          
Page S4238
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on the continuation of the 
national emergency that was originally declared in Executive Order 
13466 of June 26, 2008, with respect to North Korea; which was referred 
to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM-52) 
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Nomination Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nomination:
  By 64 yeas to 27 nays (Vote No. EX. 122), Mary Geiger Lewis, of South 
Carolina, to be United States District Judge for the District of South 
Carolina.                                                
Pages S4226-30
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S4238-40
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:              
  Pages S4240-43
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S4236-38
Amendments Submitted:                                    
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Notices of Hearings/Meetings:                                
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Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--122) 
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Adjournment: Senate convened at 3 p.m. and adjourned at 9:05 p.m., 
until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, June 19, 2012. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S4251.)