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Wednesday, August 1, 2012 

Daily Digest 

HIGHLIGHTS 

See Resume ́ of Congressional Activity. 

Senate 

Chamber Action 

Routine Proceedings, pages S5805–S5900 

Measures Introduced: Sixteen bills and eight resolutions were introduced, as follows: S. 3465–3480, 

S.J. Res. 49, S. Res. 535–540, and S. Con. Res. 55. 

 Pages S5870–71 

Measures Reported: 

H.R. 1272, to provide for the use and distribution 

of the funds awarded to the Minnesota Chippewa 

Tribe, et al, by the United States Court of Federal 

Claims in Docket Numbers 19 and 188. 

S. 3370, to authorize the Administrator of General Services to convey a parcel of real property in 

Albuquerque, New Mexico, to the Amy Biehl High 

School Foundation. Page S5870 

Measures Passed: 

Enrollment Correction: Senate agreed to S. Con. 

Res. 55, directing the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make a correction in the enrollment 

of H.R. 1627. Pages S5824–25 

Warren Lindley Post Office: Committee on 

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs was 

discharged from further consideration of H.R. 1369, 

to designate the facility of the United States Postal 

Service located at 1021 Pennsylvania Avenue in 

Hartshorne, Oklahoma, as the ‘‘Warren Lindley Post 

Office’’, and the bill was then passed. Page S5894 

Reverend Abe Brown Post Office Building: 

Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 

Affairs was discharged from further consideration of 

H.R. 3276, to designate the facility of the United 

States Postal Service located at 2810 East 

Hillsborough Avenue in Tampa, Florida, as the 

‘‘Reverend Abe Brown Post Office Building’’, and 

the bill was then passed. Page S5894 

Sergeant Richard Franklin Abshire Post Office 

Building: Committee on Homeland Security and 

Governmental Affairs was discharged from further 

consideration of H.R. 3412, to designate the facility 

of the United States Postal Service located at 1421 

Veterans Memorial Drive in Abbeville, Louisiana, as 

the ‘‘Sergeant Richard Franklin Abshire Post Office 

Building’’, and the bill was then passed. Page S5894 

SPC Nicholas Scott Hartge Post Office: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs was discharged from further consideration of 

H.R. 3501, to designate the facility of the United 

States Postal Service located at 125 Kerr Avenue in 

Rome City, Indiana, as the ‘‘SPC Nicholas Scott 

Hartge Post Office’’, and the bill was then passed. 

 Page S5894 

First Sergeant Landres Cheeks Post Office 

Building: Committee on Homeland Security and 

Governmental Affairs was discharged from further 

consideration of H.R. 3772, to designate the facility 

of the United States Postal Service located at 150 

South Union Street in Canton, Mississippi, as the 

‘‘First Sergeant Landres Cheeks Post Office Building’’, and the bill was then passed. Page S5894 

Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and 

Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act: 

Senate passed H.R. 1560, to amend the Ysleta del 

Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian 

Tribes of Texas Restoration Act to allow the Ysleta 

del Sur Pueblo Tribe to determine blood quantum 

requirement for membership in that tribe. 

 Page S5894 

Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery 

Improvement Act: Senate passed S. 1409, to intensify efforts to identify, prevent, and recover payment 

error, waste, fraud, and abuse within Federal spending, after agreeing to the committee amendment in 

the nature of a substitute, and the following amendment proposed thereto: Pages S5894–98 

Reid (for Carper) Amendment No. 2770, in the 

nature of a substitute. Pages S5896–98 

Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution: Senate passed S.J. Res. 49, providing for the 


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appointment of Barbara Barrett as a citizen regent of 

the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. 

 Page S5898 

National Day of Remembrance for Nuclear 

Weapons Program Workers: Committee on the Judiciary was discharged from further consideration of 

S. Res. 519, designating October 30, 2012, as a national day of remembrance for nuclear weapons program workers, and the resolution was then agreed to. 

 Page S5898 

National Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders 

Awareness Day: Senate agreed to S. Res. 536, designating September 9, 2012, as ‘‘National Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Awareness Day’’. 

 Pages S5898–99 

National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month: 

Senate agreed to S. Res. 537, supporting the goals 

and ideals of National Ovarian Cancer Awareness 

Month. Pages S5898–99 

National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month: 

Senate agreed to S. Res. 538, designating September 

2012 as ‘‘National Prostate Cancer Awareness 

Month’’. Pages S5898–99 

National Chess Day: Senate agreed to S. Res. 

539, designating October 13, 2012, as ‘‘National 

Chess Day’’. Pages S5898–S5900 

National Convenient Care Clinic Week: Senate 

agreed to S. Res. 540, designating the week of August 6 through August 10, 2012, as ‘‘National Convenient Care Clinic Week’’. Page S5900 

Measures Considered: 

Veterans Jobs Corps Act: Senate began consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of S. 

3429, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to 

establish a veterans jobs corps. 

 Pages S5805–24, S5825–58 

House Messages: 

Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Human 

Rights Act: Senate concurred in the amendment of 

the House of Representatives to the amendment of 

the Senate to H.R. 1905, to strengthen Iran sanctions laws for the purpose of compelling Iran to 

abandon its pursuit of nuclear weapons and other 

threatening activities. Pages S5858–63 

African Growth and Opportunity Act—Agreement: A unanimous-consent-time agreement was 

reached providing that at a time to be determined 

by the Majority Leader, after consultation with the 

Republican Leader, Senate proceed to the consideration of S. 3326, to amend the African Growth and 

Opportunity Act to extend the third-country fabric 

program and to add South Sudan to the list of countries eligible for designation under that Act, to make 

technical corrections to the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States relating to the textile 

and apparel rules of origin for the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade 

Agreement, to approve the renewal of import restrictions contained in the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003; that the only amendment in 

order be a Coburn amendment, the text of which is 

at the desk, that there be 30 minutes for debate 

equally divided and controlled in the usual form; 

that upon the use or yielding back of time, Senate 

vote on or in relation to the amendment; that if the 

amendment is not agreed to, the bill be read a third 

time and passed, without further action or debate; 

that when the Senate receives H.R. 5986 and if its 

text is identical to S. 3326, Senate proceed to the 

immediate consideration of H.R. 5986, the bill be 

read a third time and passed, without further debate, 

with no amendments in order prior to passage; provided further that if the Coburn amendment is 

agreed to, the Committee on Finance be discharged 

from further consideration of H.R. 9 and Senate proceed to its immediate consideration, that all after the 

enacting clause be stricken and the text of S. 3326, 

as amended, be inserted in lieu thereof, the bill be 

read a third time and passed, without further debate; 

that when the Senate receives H.R. 5986, the Senate 

proceed to its immediate consideration, and all after 

the enacting clause be stricken and the text of Sections 2 and 3 of S. 3326, as reported, be inserted 

in lieu thereof, the bill be read a third time and 

passed, without further debate, as amended; and S. 

3326 be returned to the Calendar of Business; that 

no motions be in order other than motions to waive 

or motions to table. Page S5858 

A unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached 

providing that at approximately 9:30 a.m., on 

Thursday, August 2, 2012, Senate begin consideration of S. 3326; following the debate on the 

Coburn amendment, the time until 11 a.m., be 

equally divided and controlled between the two 

Leaders, or their designees, prior to the cloture vote 

on S. 3414, Cybersecurity Act; provided further, that 

notwithstanding the outcome of the cloture vote, 

Senate proceed to vote on or in relation to Coburn 

amendment to S. 3326, and the remaining provisions of the previous order be executed; and that the 

filing deadline for second-degree amendments to S. 

3414, be at 10 a.m., on Thursday, August 2, 2012. 

 Page S5900 

Messages from the House: Pages S5866–67 

Measures Referred: Page S5867 

Executive Communications: Pages S5867–70 

Additional Cosponsors: Pages S5871–72 


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Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions: 

 Pages S5872–84 

Additional Statements: Pages S5865–66 

Amendments Submitted: Pages S5884–93 

Notices of Hearings/Meetings: Page S5893 

Authorities for Committees to Meet: 

 Pages S5893–94 

Privileges of the Floor: Page S5894 

Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and 

adjourned at 8:05 p.m., until 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, August 2, 2012. (For Senate’s program, see the 

remarks of the Majority Leader in today’s Record on 

page S5900.) 

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FUTURES MARKETS 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded a hearing to examine futures markets, focusing on responding to MF Global and Peregrine Financial Group, after receiving testimony 

from Gary Gensler, Chairman, and Jill E. Sommers, 

Commissioner, both of the Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission; James W. Giddens, Trustee 

for the Securities Investor Protection Act Liquidation 

of MF Global Inc., New York, New York; Ira 

Bodenstein, Trustee for the Chapter 7 Bankruptcy 

Estate of Peregrine Financial Group, Inc., Terrence 

A. Duffy, CME Group Inc., Daniel J. Roth, National Futures Association, and John L. Roe, Commodity Customer Coalition, all of Chicago, Illinois; 

Walter L. Lukken, Futures Industry Association, 

Washington, D.C.; and Diana Klemme, Grain Service Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of the 

National Grain and Feed Association. 

RENTAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: 

Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation and 

Community Development concluded a hearing to examine streamlining and strengthening Housing and 

Urban Development’s rental housing assistance programs, after receiving testimony from Keith Kinard, 

Newark Housing Authority, Newark, New Jersey, 

on behalf of the Council of Large Public Housing 

Authorities; Dianne Hovdestad, Sioux Falls Housing 

and Redevelopment Commission, Sioux Falls, South 

Dakota, on behalf of the National Association of 

Housing and Redevelopment Officials; Howard 

Husock, Manhattan Institute, New York, New York; 

Will Fischer, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Austin, Texas; and Linda Couch, National Low 

Income Housing Coalition, Washington, D.C. 

MARKETPLACE FAIRNESS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: 

Committee concluded a hearing to examine marketplace fairness, focusing on leveling the playing field 

for small businesses, after receiving testimony from 

Senators Durbin, Enzi, and Alexander; Paul Misener, 

Amazon.com, Seattle, Washington; Steven Bercu, 

BookPeople, Austin, Texas; Scott Peterson, Streamlined Sales Tax Governing Board, Nashville, Tennessee; and Steve DelBianco, NetChoice, Washington, D.C. 

CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a hearing to examine an update on 

the latest climate change science and local adaptation 

measures, after receiving testimony from John R. 

Griffin, Maryland Department of Natural Resources 

Secretary, Annapolis; Christopher B. Field, Carnegie 

Institution for Science Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, California; John R. Christy, University 

of Alabama Earth System Science Center, Huntsville; 

James J. McCarthy, Harvard University, Cambridge, 

Massachusetts; Margo Thorning, American Council 

for Capital Formation, Washington, D.C.; and Jonathan Fielding, Los Angeles County Health Department, Los Angeles, California, on behalf of the National Association of County and City Health Officials. 

TAXATION OF BUSINESS ENTITIES 

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing 

to examine the taxation of business entities, focusing 

on tax reform, after receiving testimony from Harrison LeFrak, The LeFrak Organization, and Dana L. 

Trier, Columbia University Law School, both of New 

York, New York; Alvin C. Warren, Harvard Law 

School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Fred C. de 

Hosson, Baker and McKenzie, Amsterdam, The 

Netherlands. 

NEXT STEPS IN SYRIA 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded 

a hearing to examine the next steps in Syria, after 

receiving testimony from Martin Indyk, Brookings 

Institution, James Dobbins, The RAND Corporation, and Andrew J. Tabler, Washington Institute 

for Near East Policy, all of Washington, D.C. 

EUROZONE 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs concluded a hearing to examine the 

future of the eurozone, focusing on the outlook and 

lessons, after receiving testimony from Frances G. 


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