Senate - January 31, 2007
From dKosopedia
| Daily Summary | |
|---|---|
| Senate - January 31, 2007 - week 5 | |
| 110th - United States Congress | |
| |
| Senate Majority Leader | Harry Reid |
| Minority Leader | Mitch McConnell |
| Previous | Tuesday - January 30, 2007 |
| Next | Thursday - February 1, 2007 |
This is the Daily Summary of the actions in United States Senate in the 110th United States Congress for January 31, 2007 during week 5 of the 1st term of this Congress. For a summary of the actions in the House click here, and for Congress as a whole on this date, click here.
Contents |
Senate Daily Summary
The Senate continued consideration of the the minmuim wage bill passed by the House during the 100-Hour Plan today. During debate on the bill, the Senate rejected the Kyl Amendment by 46 yeas to 50 nays, which would have waived a section of the Congressional Budget Resolution and extended the depreciation treatment of leasehold, restaurant, and retail space D119 improvements, through December 31, 2008,.
That was the last amendment taken up on the minimum wage bill, and subsequently there was a vote for cloture to close further debate on it which passed by a 88 to 8. This opened the way for final passage which took place the next day, Thursday, February 1, 2007.
On the Floor
- Schedule
- Harry Reid (Majority Leader) on the days schedule
- Mitch McConnell (Minority Leader) speaks on XXXX
- Morning Business
- Iraq
- John Ensign-R (NV) - XXXX
- David Vitter-R (LA) - XXXX
- John Cornyn-R (TX) - XXXX
- Jim DeMint-R (SC) - XXXX
- Ron Wyden-D (OR) - Health Care
- Chuck Grassley-R (IA) - Alternative Minimum Tax
- Patrick Leahy-D (VT) - FISA Court Orders
- Craig Thomas-R (WY) - Simplifying the Tax Code
- Barbara Mikulski-D (MD) - Cloned Food Labeling Act
- SEC investigation findings
- Chuck Grassley-R (IA) - XXXX
- Arlen Specter-R (PA) - XXXX
- Iraq
- John Warner-R (VA) - XXXX
- Harry Reid-D (NV), Majority leader - Order of Procedure
- Russ Feingold-D (WI) - Iraq
- Iraq
- Legislative Session
In the Committees
Iraq
- Senate Committee on Foreign Relations - The Committee continued hearings to examine securing America's interests in Iraq, focusing on the remaining options in Iraq in the strategic context, receiving testimony from Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright both a former Secretary of State. Hearings to continued on Thursday, February 1.
Iraq Study Group Report
- Senate Committee on the Judiciary - The Committee concluded a hearing to examine the Iraq Study Group (ISG) report, focusing on recommendations for improvements to Iraq's police and criminal justice system, including S. 119, to prohibit profiteering and fraud relating to military action, relief, and reconstruction efforts, after receiving testimony from former Representative Lee Hamilton Co-Chair of the ISG, and Edwin Meese III who was a memebr of the ISG.
Imigration US-VISIT Program
- Senate Committee on the Judiciary
- Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security concluded a hearing to examine challenges and strategies for securing the border of the United States, focusing on the United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program, and strategic, operational, and technological challenges at land ports of entry, after receiving testimony from Richard C. Barth, Assistant Secretary for Policy Development, and Robert A. Mocny, Acting Director, US-VISIT, both of the Department of Homeland Security; Richard M. Stana, Director, Homeland Security and Justice Issues, Government Accountability Office; Phillip J. Bond, Information Technology Association of America, Arlington, Virginia; and C. Stewart Verdery, Jr., Monument Policy Group, LLC, Washington, D.C.
Disabled Veterans Federal Procurement and Assistance
- Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship - The committee concluded an oversight hearing to examine Federal small business assistance programs for veterans and reservists, after receiving testimony from Linda Bithell Oliver, Acting Director, Office of Small Business Programs, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics; Scott F. Denniston, Director, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization and the Center for Veterans Enterprise, Department of Veterans Affairs; William D. Elmore, Associate Administrator for Veterans Business Development, U.S. Small Business Administration; Louis J. Celli, Jr., Northeast Veteran's Business Resource Center, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts; Captain Ann S. Yahner, USN (Ret.), Penobscot Bay Media, LLC, Camden, Maine; Bob Hesser, HI Tech Services, Inc., and Allied Technical Services Group, LLC, Herndon, Virginia; and Ted Daywalt, VetJobs, Marietta, Georgia.
Medicare Part D
- Senate Special Committee on Aging - The Committee concluded a hearing to examine if Medicare Part D is working for Low Income Subsidy (LIS) eligible beneficiaries, after receiving testimony from S. Lawrence Kocot, Senior Advisor to the Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services; Beatrice Disman, New York Regional Commissioner of Social Security, Social Security Administration; and Howard Bedlin, National Council on Aging, and Ellen Leitzer, Health Assistance Partnership, both of Washington, D.C.
Senate Business Meetings
- Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works - On January 17, 2007, the Committee announced the following subcommittee assignments:
- Senate Subcommittee on Public Sector Solutions to Global Warming, Oversight, and Children's Health Protection: Senators Boxer (Chairman), Lieberman, Carper, Klobuchar, Whitehouse, Alexander, Craig, Bond, and Thomas.
- Senate Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Senators Baucus (Chairman), Carper, Clinton, Cardin, Sanders, Isakson, Warner, Voinovich, and Vitter. Senators Boxer and Inhofe are ex officio members.
- Senate Subcommittee on Private Sector and Consumer Solutions to Global Warming and Wildlife Protection: Senators Lieberman (Chairman), Baucus, Lautenberg, Sanders, Warner, Thomas, and Isakson. Senators Boxer and Inhofe are ex officio members.
- Senate Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety: Senators Carpers (Chairman), Lieberman, Clinton, Sanders, Voinovich, Isakson, and Alexander. Senators Boxer and Inhofe are ex officio members.
- Senate Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Health: Senators Clinton (Chairman), Baucus, Lautenberg, Cardin, Craig, Vitter, and Bond. Senators Boxer and Inhofe are ex officio members.
- Senate Subcommittee on Transportation Safety, Infrastructure Security, and Water Quality: Senators Lautenberg (Chairman), Cardin, Klobuchar, Whitehouse, Vitter, Bond, and Voinovich. Senators Boxer and Inhofe are ex officio members.
- Senate Committee on Finance - The Committee ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 59) authorizing expenditures by the Committee. The committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Michael J. Astrue to be Commissioner of Social Security, and Dean A. Pinkert, of Virginia, and Irving A. Williamson, of New York, each to be a Member of the United States International Trade Commission.
- Senate Committee on Rules and Administration - The Committee ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 63) authorizing expenditures by the Committee and adopted its rules of procedure for the 110th Congress.
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions - The Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
- S. 358, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of genetic information with respect to health insurance and employment, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
- An original resolution (S. Res. 54) authorizing expenditures by the Committee.
- The committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 110th Congress and announced the following subcommittee assignments:
- Senate Subcommittee on Children and Families: Senators Dodd (Chairman), Bingaman, Murray, Reed, Clinton, Obama, Sanders, Alexander, Gregg, Murkowski, Hatch, Roberts, and Allard.
- Senate Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety: Senators Murray (Chairman), Dodd, Harkin, Mikulski, Clinton, Obama, Brown, Isakson, Burr, Murkowski, Roberts, Allard, and Coburn. Senators Kennedy and Enzi are ex officio members.
- Senate Subcommittee on Retirement and Aging: Mikulski (Chairman), Harkin, Bingaman, Reed, Sanders, Brown, Burr, Gregg, Alexander, Isakson, and Hatch. Senators Kennedy and Enzi are ex officio members.
Resources
See also
References
External Links
- The United States Senate - Offical Gov. Site
- Recent bills introduced in Congress - THOMAS
