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Daily Digest

HIGHLIGHTS

Senate passed S. 1, Ethics Reform.

Senate

Chamber Action

Routine Proceedings, pages S709–S782

Measures Introduced:

Twelve bills and two resolu-tions were introduced, as follows: S. 329–340, andS. Res. 33–34.

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Measures Reported:

S. Res. 32, authorizing expenditures by the Com-mittee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

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Measures Passed:

Ethics Reform:

By 96 yeas to 2 nays (Vote No.19), Senate passed S. 1, to provide greater trans-parency in the legislative process, after taking actionon the following amendments proposed thereto:

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Adopted:Vitter/Inhofe Further Modified Amendment No. 9(to Amendment No. 3), to prohibit Members fromhaving official contact with any spouse of a Memberwho is a registered lobbyist.

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Feinstein (for Ensign) Amendment No. 98 (toAmendment No. 3), to provide for better trans-parency and enhanced Congressional oversight of spending by clarifying the treatment of matter notcommitted to the conferees by either House.

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Bond (for Coburn) Amendment No. 51 (toAmendment No. 3), to prohibit Members from re-questing earmarks that may financially benefit thatMember or immediate family member of that Mem-ber.

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Feingold Amendment No. 31 (to AmendmentNo. 3), to prohibit former Members of Congressfrom engaging in lobbying activities in addition tolobbying contacts during their cooling off period.

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Feingold Amendment No. 33 (to AmendmentNo. 3), to prohibit former Members who are lobby-ists from using gym and parking privileges madeavailable to Members and former Members.

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Feinstein (for Durbin) Amendment No. 77 (toAmendment No. 3), to require that amendments andinstructions accompanying a motion to recommit becopied and provided by the Senator offering them tothe desks of the Majority Leader and Minority Lead-er before being debated.

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Obama/Feingold Amendment No. 41 (to Amend-ment No. 3), to require lobbyists to disclose the can-didates, leadership PACs, or political parties forwhom they collect or arrange contributions, and theaggregate amount of the contributions collected orarranged.

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Sanders Amendment No. 57 (to Amendment No.3), to require a report by the Commission toStrengthen Confidence in Congress regarding polit-ical contributions before and after the enactment of certain laws.

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Bennett (for Coleman) Modified Amendment No.39 (to Amendment No. 3), to require that a publiclyavailable website be established in Congress to allowthe public access to records of reported Congressionalofficial travel.

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Feinstein/Bennett Amendment No. 99, of a tech-nical nature.

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By 55 yeas to 43 nays (Vote No. 17), Bennett/McConnell Amendment No. 20 (to Amendment No.3), to strike a provision relating to paid efforts tostimulate grassroots lobbying.

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Reid Amendment No. 3, in the nature of a sub-stitute.

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Rejected:By 27 yeas to 71 nays (Vote No. 18), LiebermanAmendment No. 30 (to Amendment No. 3), to es-tablish a Senate Office of Public Integrity.

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Withdrawn:DeMint Amendment No. 12 (to Amendment No.3), to clarify that earmarks added to a conference re-port that are not considered by the Senate or theHouse of Representatives are out of scope.

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DeMint Amendment No. 14 (to Amendment No.3), to protect individuals from having their moneyinvoluntarily collected and used for lobbying by alabor organization.

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Leahy/Pryor Amendment No. 2 (to AmendmentNo. 3), to give investigators and prosecutors thetools they need to combat public corruption.

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Gregg Amendment No. 17 (to Amendment No.3) , to establish a legislative line item veto.

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Ensign Amendment No. 24 (to Amendment No.3), to provide for better transparency and enhancedCongressional oversight of spending by clarifying thetreatment of matter not committed to the confereesby either House.

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Ensign Modified Amendment No. 25 (to Amend-ment No. 3), to ensure full funding for the Depart-ment of Defense within the regular appropriationsprocess, to limit the reliance of the Department of Defense on supplemental appropriations bills, and toimprove the integrity of the Congressional budgetprocess.

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Cornyn Amendment No. 26 (to Amendment No.3), to require full separate disclosure of any earmarksin any bill, joint resolution, report, conference reportor statement of managers.

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Cornyn Amendment No. 27 (to Amendment No.3), to require 3 calendar days notice in the Senatebefore proceeding to any matter.

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Bennett (for McCain) Amendment No. 28 (toAmendment No. 3), to provide congressional trans-parency.

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Bennett (for McCain) Amendment No. 29 (toAmendment No. 3), to provide congressional trans-parency.

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Thune Amendment No. 37 (to Amendment No.3), to require any recipient of a Federal award to dis-close all lobbying and political advocacy.

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Feinstein/Rockefeller Amendment No. 42 (toAmendment No. 3), to prohibit an earmark frombeing included in the classified portion of a reportaccompanying a measure unless the measure includesa general program description, funding level, and thename of the sponsor of that earmark.

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Feingold Amendment No. 34 (to AmendmentNo. 3), to require Senate campaigns to file their FECreports electronically.

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Durbin Amendment No. 36 (to Amendment No.3), to require that amendments and motions to re-commit with instructions be copied and provided bythe clerk to the desks of the Majority Leader and theMinority Leader before being debated.

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Cornyn Amendment No. 45 (to Amendment No.3), to require 72-hour public availability of legisla-tive matters before consideration.

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Cornyn Amendment No. 46 (to Amendment No.2), to deter public corruption.

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Bond (for Coburn) Amendment No. 48 (toAmendment No. 3), to require all recipients of Fed-eral earmarks, grants, subgrants, and contracts todisclose amounts spent on lobbying and a descrip-tion of all lobbying activities.

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Bond (for Coburn) Amendment No. 49 (toAmendment No. 3), to require all congressional ear-mark requests to be submitted to the appropriateSenate committee on a standardized form.

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Bond (for Coburn) Amendment No. 50 (toAmendment No. 3), to provide disclosure of lobbyistgifts and travel instead of banning them as proposed.

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Nelson (NE) Amendment No. 47 (to AmendmentNo. 3), to help encourage fiscal responsibility in theearmarking process.

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Reid (for Lieberman) Amendment No. 43 (toAmendment No. 3), to require disclosure of earmarklobbying by lobbyists.

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Reid (for Casey) Amendment No. 56 (to Amend-ment No. 3), to eliminate the K Street Project byprohibiting the wrongful influencing of a private en-tity

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s employment decisions or practices in exchangefor political access or favors.

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Bennett (for Coburn) Amendment No. 59 (toAmendment No. 3), to provide disclosure of lobbyistgifts and travel instead of banning them as proposed.

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Feingold Amendment No. 63 (to AmendmentNo. 3), to increase the cooling off period for seniorstaff to 2 years and to prohibit former Members of Congress from engaging in lobbying activities in ad-dition to lobbying contacts during their cooling off period.

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Feingold Amendment No. 64 (to AmendmentNo. 3), to prohibit lobbyists and entities that retainor employ lobbyists from throwing lavish partieshonoring Members at party conventions.

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Feingold/Obama Amendment No. 76 (to Amend-ment No. 3), to clarify certain aspects of the lobbyistcontribution reporting provision.

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Nelson (NE)/Salazar Amendment No. 71 (toAmendment No. 3), to extend the laws and rulespassed in this bill to the executive and judicialbranches of government.

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Joint Committee on Taxation:

The Chair an-nounced on behalf of the Committee on Finance,that pursuant to section 8002 of title 26, U.S. Code,the following Senators were designated as members

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of the Joint Committee on Taxation: Senators Bau-cus, Rockefeller, Conrad, Grassley, and Hatch.

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Funding Resolution

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Referral:

A unanimous-con-sent agreement was reached providing that the Com-mittee on Rules and Administration be dischargedfrom further consideration of S. Res. 32, authorizingexpenditures by the Committee on Small Businessand Entrepreneurship, and be referred to the Com-mittee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

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Fair Minimum Wage

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Agreement:

A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that at2:00 p.m. on Monday, January 22, 2007, Senatebegin consideration of H.R. 2, to amend the FairLabor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an in-crease in the Federal minimum wage.

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Appointments:

Congressional Budget Office:

The Chair an-nounced on behalf of the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Rep-resentatives, pursuant to the provisions of Section201(a)(2) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974,have appointed Dr. Peter R. Orszag as Director of the Congressional Budget Office effective imme-diately for the term expiring January 3, 2011.

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Messages From the President:

Senate received thefollowing message from the President of the UnitedStates:Transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on thecontinuation of the national emergency with respectto foreign terrorists who threaten to disrupt theMiddle East peace process; which was referred to theCommittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.(PM

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Nominations Received:

Senate received the fol-lowing nominations:Mario Mancuso, of New York, to be Under Sec-retary of Commerce for Export Administration.William B. Wood, of New York, to be Ambas-sador to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.Paul J. Bonicelli, of Virginia, to be an AssistantAdministrator of the United States Agency for Inter-national Development.Patrick P. Shen, of Maryland, to be Special Coun-sel for Immigration-Related Unfair EmploymentPractices for a term of four years.19 Air Force nominations in the rank of general.9 Marine Corps nominations in the rank of gen-eral.Routine lists in the Air Force, Army.

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Messages From the House:

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Messages Referred:

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Measures Placed on the Calendar:

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Measures Read the First Time:

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Executive Communications:

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Additional Cosponsors:

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Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:

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Additional Statements:

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Amendments Submitted:

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Notices of Hearings/Meetings:

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Authorities for Committees to Meet:

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Record Votes:

Three record votes were taken today.(Total

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Adjournment:

Senate convened at 9:00 a.m., andadjourned at 9:35 p.m., until 1:00 p.m., on Monday, January 22, 2006. (For Senate

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Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet)

IRAQ

Committee on Armed Services:

Committee met in closedsession to receive a briefing on intelligence assess-ments on the situation in Iraq from David F. Gor-don, Vice Chairman, National Intelligence Council;Lieutenant General Michael D. Maples, USA, Direc-tor, Defense Intelligence Agency, Department of De-fense; Randall M. Fort, Assistant Secretary of Statefor Intelligence and Research; and Peter A. Clement,Deputy Director of Intelligence for Strategic Plans,Central Intelligence Agency.

TRANSIT SECURITY

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs:

Committee concluded a hearing to examine the stateof transit security, focusing on safeguarding Amer-ica

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s bus, rail, and ferry systems, after receiving testi-mony from Mayor Dannel P. Malloy, Stamford, Con-necticut, on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Mayors;William W. Millar, American Public TransportationAssociation, and Warren S. George, AmalgamatedTransit Union, both of Washington, D.C.; AuerilioRojo Garrido, Metro Madrid and Secretary General,Madrid, Spain, on behalf of the Association of LatinAmerican Metros and Subways; and Tim O

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Toole,London Underground, London, United Kingdom.

FEDERAL BUDGET CHALLENGES

Committee on the Budget:

Committee concluded a hear-ing to examine long-term economic and federal