Congressional Record
111th Congress (2009-2010)
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Daily Digest - Monday, June 22, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
Daily Digest
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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agreement was reached providing that the previously scheduled vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the bill, be withdrawn.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:
Page S6887
Measures Referred:
Page S6887
Measures Placed on the Calendar:
Page S6887
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:
Page S6898
Record Votes:
One record vote was taken today. (Total--211)
Pages S6880-81
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.)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MODERNIZING OVERSIGHT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs:
Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment concluded a hearing to examine over-the-counter derivatives, focusing on modernizing oversight to increase transparency and reduce risk, after receiving testimony from Mary L. Shapiro, Chairman, United States Securities and Exchange Commission; Gary Gensler, Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Patricia White, Associate Director, Division of Research and Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Henry T.C. Hu, University of Texas School of Law, Austin; Kenneth C. Griffin, Citadel Investment Group, L.L.C., Chicago, Illinois; Robert Pickel, International Swaps and Derivatives Association, New York, New York; and Christopher Whalen, International Risk Analytics, Whalen, Croton-on-Hudson, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions:
Committee continued consideration of Affordable Health Choices Act, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on Tuesday, June 23, 2009.
House of Representatives
Chamber Action
The House was not in session today. The House is scheduled to meet at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, June 23, 2009.
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
Joint Meetings
No joint committee meetings were held.
H.R. 663, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 12877 Broad Street in Sparta, Georgia, as the ``Yvonne Ingram-Ephraim Post Office Building''. Signed on June 19, 2009. (Public Law 111-26)
H.R. 918, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 300 East 3rd Street in Jamestown, New York, as the ``Stan Lundine Post Office Building''. Signed on June 19, 2009. (Public Law 111-27)
H.R. 1284, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 103 West Main Street in McLain, Mississippi, as the ``Major Ed W. Freeman Post Office''. Signed on June 19, 2009. (Public Law 111-28)
H.R. 1595, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3245 Latta Road in Rochester, New York, as the ``Brian K. Schramm Post Office Building''. Signed on June 19, 2009. (Public Law 111-29)
H.R. 2675, to amend title II of the Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act of 2004 to extend the operation of such title for a 1-D743year period ending June 22, 2010. Signed on June 19, 2009. (Public Law 111-30)
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Committee on Appropriations:
Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, business meeting to mark up proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2010 for the Interior, Environment and Related Agencies, 10 a.m., SD-124.
Committee on Armed Services:
Subcommittee on Personnel, closed business meeting to mark up those provisions which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2010, 9:30 a.m., SR-232A.
Subcommittee on Airland, closed business meeting to mark up those provisions which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2010, 11 a.m., SR-222.
Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, closed business meeting to mark up those provisions which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2010, 2 p.m., SR-222.
Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support, closed business meeting to mark up those provisions which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2010, 3:30 p.m., SR-232A.
Subcommittee on SeaPower, closed business meeting to mark up those provisions which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2010, 5:30 p.m., SR-222.
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation:
Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine, to hold hearings to examine high-speed passenger rail, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
Committee on Foreign Relations:
Subcommittee on African Affairs, to hold hearings to examine drug trafficking in West Africa, 10:30 a.m., SD-419.
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions:
business meeting to continue consideration of Affordable Health Choices Act, subcommittee assignments, and any pending nominations, 10 a.m., SD-106.
Select Committee on Intelligence:
to hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., S-407, Capitol.
Committee on Appropriations,
to mark up the following appropriations for fiscal year 2010: State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs; and Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies, 4 p.m., 2359 Rayburn.
Committee on Education and Labor,
hearing on The Tri-Committee Draft Proposal for Health Care Reform, 12 p.m., 2175 Rayburn.
Committee on Energy and Commerce,
Subcommittee on Health, hearings on draft health reform legislation, 9:30 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
Committee on Homeland Security,
to continue markup of H.R. 2868, Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act of 2009, 5:30 p.m., Cannon.
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform,
oversight hearing entitled ``The Future of the V-22 Osprey: Costs, Capabilities, and Challenges,'' 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
Committee on Rules,
to consider the following bills:
H.R. 2892, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010; and H.R. 2647, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010, 5 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe:
to hold hearings to examine religious liberty, media freedom, and the rule of law in Russia, 10 a.m., SVC-203/202.
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Program for Tuesday:
Senate will be in a period of morning business.
(Senate will recess from 12:30 p.m. until 2:15 p.m. for their respective party conferences.)
Program for Tuesday:
To be announced.
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