Thursday, February 5, 2009
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Daily Digest
Senate
Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S1615-S1772
Measures Introduced: Eight bills and three resolutions were introduced,
as follows: S. 384-391, and S. Res. 28-30.
Page S1677
Measures Reported:
S. Res. 28, authorizing expenditures by the Senate Committee on
Indian Affairs.
S. Res. 30, authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Foreign
Affairs.
Page S1677
Measures Considered:
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Senate continued consideration
of H.R. 1, making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and
creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science,
assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization,
for fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, taking action on the
following amendments proposed thereto:
Pages S1617-76
Adopted:
Dorgan Modified Amendment No. 138 (to Amendment No. 98), to provide
for reports on the use of funds made available under this Act and the
economic impact made by the expenditure or obligation of such funds.
Page S1660
Dodd Amendment No. 354 (to Amendment No. 98), to impose executive
compensation limitations with respect to entities assisted under the
Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Pages S1617, S1660-61
Baucus (for McCaskill) Amendment No. 125 (to Amendment No. 98), to
limit compensation to officers and directors of entities receiving
emergency economic assistance from the Government.
Pages S1617, S1661
Baucus (for McCaskill) Further Modified Amendment No. 236 (to
Amendment No. 98), to establish funding levels for various offices of
inspectors general and to set a date until which such funds shall
remain available.
Pages S1617, S1663-64
Baucus (for Boxer) Further Modified Amendment No. 363, to ensure the
expeditious completion of National Environmental Policy Act reviews
under applicable law.
Pages S1617, S656, S1664-65
Rejected:
By 32 yeas to 65 nays (Vote No. 46), Feingold Amendment No. 140 (to
Amendment No. 98), to provide greater accountability of taxpayers'
dollars by curtailing congressional earmarking and requiring disclosure
of lobbying by recipients of Federal funds.
Pages S1617, S1658-59, S1659-60
By 43 yeas to 54 nays (Vote No. 47), Barrasso (for DeMint) Amendment
No. 189 (to Amendment No. 98), to allow the free exercise of religion
at institutions of higher education that receive funding under section
803 of division A.
Pages S1617, S1650-51, S1661
Barrasso Amendment No. 326 (to Amendment No. 98), to expedite reviews
required to be carried out under the National Environmental Policy Act
of 1969.
Pages S1617, S1665
Withdrawn:
Baucus (for Dorgan) Amendment No. 200 (to Amendment No. 98), to amend
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the taxation of income
of controlled foreign corporations attributable to imported property.
Pages S1617, S1660
Baucus (for Harkin/Stabenow) Amendment No. 338 (to Amendment No. 98),
to require the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out a program to
enable certain individuals to trade certain old automobiles for certain
new automobiles.
Pages S1617, S1661
Pending:
Reid (for Inouye/Baucus) Amendment No. 98, in the nature of a
substitute.
Page S1617
Murray Amendment No. 110 (to Amendment No. 98), to strengthen the
infrastructure investments made by the bill.
Page S1617
Baucus (for Dodd) Amendment No. 145 (to Amendment No. 98), to improve
the efforts of the Federal Government in mitigating home foreclosures
and to require the Secretary of the Treasury to develop and implement a
foreclosure prevention loan modification plan.
Pages S1617, S1661
Coburn Amendment No. 176 (to Amendment No. 98), to require the use of
competitive procedures to award contracts, grants, and cooperative
agreements funded under this Act. (By 1 yea to 96 nays
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(Vote No. 50), Senate earlier failed to table the amendment.)
Pages S1665-66, S1670
Udall Amendment No. 359 (to Amendment No. 98), to expand the number
of veterans eligible for the employment tax credit for unemployed
veterans.
Pages S1666-67
Coburn Amendment No. 309 (to Amendment No. 98), to ensure that
taxpayer money is not lost on wasteful and non-stimulative projects.
Pages S1667-69
Sanders/Grassley Modified Amendment No. 306 (to Amendment No. 98), to
require recipients of TARP funding to meet strict H-1B worker hiring
standard to ensure non-displacement of U.S. workers.
Pages S1669-70
During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the
following action:
By 40 yeas to 57 nays (Vote No. 45), three-fifths of those Senators
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate
rejected the motion to waive pursuant to section 306 of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, with respect to McCain Modified
Amendment No. 364 (to Amendment No. 98), in the nature of a substitute.
Subsequently, the point of order that the amendment was in violation of
section 306 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, was sustained, and
the amendment thus fell.
Pages S1617-50, S1656, S1659
By 35 yeas to 62 nays (Vote No. 48), three-fifths of those Senators
duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, Senate
rejected the motion to waive the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 with
respect to Ensign Amendment No. 353 (to Amendment No. 98), in the
nature of a substitute. Subsequently, a point of order that the
amendment was in violation of section 302(f) of the Congressional
Budget Act of 1974 was sustained, and the amendment thus fell.
Pages S1617, S1662
By 37 yeas to 60 nays (Vote No. 49), three-fifths of those Senators
duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, Senate
rejected the motion to waive the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 with
respect to Grassley (for Thune) Amendment No. 197 (to Amendment No.
98), in the nature of a substitute. Subsequently, a point of order that
the amendment was in violation of section 311(a)(2)(b) of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 was sustained, and the amendment thus
fell.
Pages S1617, S1653-55, S1664
A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further
consideration of the bill at 10 a.m., on Friday, February 6, 2009.
Page S1772
Messages from the House:
Page S1677
Measures Referred:
Page S1677
Executive Reports of Committees:
Page S1677
Additional Cosponsors:
Pages S1677-79
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
Pages S1679-89
Additional Statements:
Page S1677
Amendments Submitted:
Pages S1689-S1771
Authorities for Committees to Meet:
Pages S1771-72
Record Votes: Six record votes were taken today. (Total--50)
Pages S1659, S1660, S1661, S1662, S1664, S1670
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and adjourned at 9:04 p.m.,
until 10 a.m. on Friday, February 6, 2009. (For Senate's program, see
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page
S1772.)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FOOD SAFETY
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
a hearing to examine federal food safety relative to the peanut
products recall, after receiving testimony from Stephen Sundlof,
Director, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Michael
Chappell, Acting Associate Commissioner, Regulatory Affairs, and
William K. Hubbard, Former Senior Associate Commissioner for Policy,
Planning, and Legislation, all of the Food and Drug Association,
Department of Health and Human Services; Rear Admiral Ali S. Khan,
Assistant Surgeon General, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;
Caroline Smith DeWaal, Center for Science in the Public Interest,
Washington, D.C.; and Gabrielle Meunier, Burlington, Vermont.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of William J. Lynn, III, to be Deputy Secretary, Robert F.
Hale, to be Under Secretary (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer,
Michele Flournoy, to be Under Secretary for Policy, and Jeh Charles
Johnson, to be General Counsel, all of the Department of Defense.
TARP
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a
hearing to examine the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), focusing
on oversight of the financial rescue package, after receiving testimony
from Gene L. Dodaro, Acting Comptroller General, Government
Accountability Office; and Neil M. Barofsky, Special Inspector General,
and Elizabeth Warren, Chair, Congressional Oversight
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Panel, both of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Department of the
Treasury.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported an
original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee.
Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 111th Congress
and announced the following subcommittee assignments:
Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, and Global Narcotics
Affairs: Senators Dodd (Chair), Menendez, Cardin, Webb, Gillibrand,
Barrasso, Isakson, Risch, and Republican Leader designee.
Subcommittee on African Affairs: Senators Feingold (Chair), Cardin,
Webb, Kaufman, Shaheen, Isakson, DeMint, Corker, and Risch.
Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Human
Rights, Democracy, and Global Women's Issues: Senators Boxer (Chair),
Feingold, Menendez, Kaufman, Shaheen, Gillibrand, Wicker, DeMint,
Barrasso, and Republican Leader designee.
Subcommittee on International Development and Foreign Assistance,
Economic Affairs, and International Environmental Protection: Senators
Menendez (Chair), Boxer, Cardin, Casey, Shaheen, Gillibrand, Corker,
Wicker, DeMint, and Republican Leader designee.
Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs:
Senators Casey (Chair), Dodd, Feingold, Boxer, Cardin, Kaufman, Risch,
Corker, Barrasso, and Isakson.
Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs: Senators Webb
(Chair), Dodd, Feingold, Boxer, Casey, Gillibrand, Republican Leader
designee, Isakson, Barrasso, and Wicker.
Subcommittee on European Affairs: Senators Shaheen (Chair), Dodd,
Menendez, Casey, Webb, Kaufman, DeMint, Risch, Corker, and Wicker.
BEST PATIENT CARE PRACTICES
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee
concluded a hearing to examine implementing best patient care
practices, after receiving testimony from Peter J. Pronovost, Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Steven D. Pearson,
Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Clinical and Economic
Review, Boston; Donald R. Fischer, Highmark Blue Cross Shield,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Association; and Jeff Gulcher, deCODE Genetics, Chicago, Illinois.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported an
original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee, and the
rules of procedure for the 111th Congress.
HEALTH CARE
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing
to examine advancing Indian health care, after receiving testimony from
H. Sally Smith, National Indian Health Board, and Rachel A. Joseph,
National Steering Committee to Reauthorize the Indian Health Care
Improvement Act, both of Washington, D.C.; Ron His Horse is Thunder,
Great Plains Tribal Chairman's Association, Rapid City, South Dakota;
David Rambeau, United American Indian Involvement, Los Angeles,
California, on behalf of National Council of Urban Indian Health;
Andrew Joseph, Jr., Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board,
Portland, Oregon; and Mickey Peercy, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma,
Durant.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine
the nomination of David W. Ogden, of Virginia, to be Deputy Attorney
General, after the nominee, who was introduced by former Senator
Warner, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held a hearing to examine
the nomination of Leon E. Panetta, of California, to be Director of the
Central Intelligence Agency, the nominee testified and answered
questions on his own behalf.
Hearings recessed subject to the call and will meet again on Friday,
February 6, 2009.
House of Representatives
Chamber Action
The House was not in session today. The House is scheduled to meet at
2 p.m. on Monday, February 9, 2009, pursuant to the provisions of H.
Con. Res. 26.
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Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
Joint Meetings
No joint committee meetings were held.
NEW PUBLIC LAWS
(For last listing of Public Laws, see Daily Digest, p. D89)
H.R. 2, to amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to extend and
improve the Children's Health Insurance Program. Signed on February 4,
2009. (Public Law 111-3)
COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR FRIDAY,
FEBRUARY 6, 2009
(Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence: to continue hearings to examine
the nomination of Leon E. Panetta, of California, to be Director of
the Central Intelligence Agency, 10 a.m., SH-216.
House
No committee meetings are scheduled.
Joint Meetings
Joint Economic Committee: to hold hearings to examine the
employment situation for January 2009, 9:30 a.m., SD-106.
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Next Meeting of the SENATE
10 a.m., Friday, February 6
Senate Chamber
Program for Friday: Senate will continue consideration of H.R. 1,
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Next Meeting of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
2 p.m., Monday, February 9
House Chamber
Program for Monday: To be announced.