[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15406]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                PROGRAM

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, today has been a busy and productive day in 
the Senate--quite a historic day in many ways. We passed the Voting 
Rights Act, significant legislation on which we had very good debate 
and discussion over the course of the day. It is a bill that has been 
passed by the House of Representatives last week and was passed through 
our Judiciary Committee yesterday, came to the floor today, and passed 
a few moments ago.
  We confirmed four of the President's judicial nominations and about 
an hour ago we passed the Adam Walsh bill, a bill that establishes a 
national sex offender registry that toughens penalties for crimes 
against children that directly, and in a tough fashion, combats 
Internet predators and child pornography and child exploitation, that 
prevents abuse. I mentioned in my remarks a few moments ago, four 
children die as a result of child abuse every day, and although a lot 
of States do have registries, this information is not shared with other 
States.
  I am delighted we were able to create this national child abuse 
registry which, indeed, will make such a difference in people's lives.
  As I mentioned earlier, also, we will not have any votes during 
tomorrow's session. We are working on some further agreements for 
tomorrow's session, and on Friday I will have an update as to the 
schedule for Monday and Tuesday.

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