{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2008-12-11-pt1-PgD1320", "2008-12-11", 110, 2, null, null, "Daily Digest/Senate", "SENATE", "DAILYDIGEST", "DDSCHAMBER", "D1320", "D1321", null, "[{\"congress\": \"110\", \"type\": \"SCONRES\", \"number\": \"107\"}, {\"congress\": \"110\", \"type\": \"HCONRES\", \"number\": \"440\"}, {\"congress\": \"110\", \"type\": \"SRES\", \"number\": \"664\"}, {\"congress\": \"110\", \"type\": \"SRES\", \"number\": \"710\"}, {\"congress\": \"110\", \"type\": \"SRES\", \"number\": \"728\"}, {\"congress\": \"110\", \"type\": \"S\", \"number\": \"3501\"}, {\"congress\": \"110\", \"type\": \"S\", \"number\": \"3732\"}, {\"congress\": \"110\", \"type\": \"S\", \"number\": \"3741\"}, {\"congress\": \"110\", \"type\": \"HR\", \"number\": \"7005\"}, {\"congress\": \"110\", \"type\": \"HR\", \"number\": \"7327\"}]", "154 Cong. Rec. D1320", "Congressional Record, Volume 154 Issue 186 (Thursday, December 11, 2008)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 186 (Thursday, December 11, 2008)]\n[Daily Digest]\n[Pages D1320-D1321]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n                                        Thursday, December 11, 2008\n\n[[Page D1320]]\n\n                              Daily Digest\n\n                                 Senate\n\nChamber Action\nRoutine Proceedings, pages S10889-S10958\nMeasures Introduced: Ten bills and one resolution were introduced, as\nfollows: S. 3732-3741, and S. Con. Res. 107.\n  Page S10946\nMeasures Reported:\n  Report to accompany S. 3501, to ensure that Congress is notified when\nthe Department of Justice determines that the Executive Branch is not\nbound by a statute. (S. Rept. No. 110-528)\nPage S10946\nMeasures Passed:\n  Technical Corrections: Senate passed H.R. 7327, to make technical\ncorrections related to the Pension Protection Act of 2006, clearing the\nmeasure for the President.\n  Pages S10914-15\n  United States Capitol Complex Tours: Senate agreed to S. Con. Res.\n107, expressing the sense of Congress regarding the rights of Members\nof Congress (or any employee of a Member of Congress authorized by that\nmember) to lead tours of the United States Capitol complex.\n                                                            Page S10957\n  Union Station, Washington, D.C. Centennial: Committee on Environment\nand Public Works was discharged from further consideration of S. Res.\n664, celebrating the centennial of Union Station in Washington,\nDistrict of Columbia, and the resolution was then agreed to.\n                                                            Page S10957\n  National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Week:\nCommittee on the Judiciary was discharged from further consideration of\nS. Res. 710, designating the week of February 2 through February 6,\n2009, as ``National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention\nWeek'', and the resolution was then agreed to.\n  Pages S10957-58\n  National Mentoring Month: Committee on the Judiciary was discharged\nfrom further consideration of S. Res. 728, designating January 2009 as\n``National Mentoring Month'', and the resolution was then agreed to.\n                                                        Pages S10957-58\nMeasures Considered:\nAlternative Minimum Tax Relief Act--Cloture: Senate continued\nconsideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of H.R. 7005,\nto amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide alternative\nminimum tax relief for individuals for 2008.\n  Page S10931\n  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the\nfollowing action:\n  By 52 yeas to 35 nays (Vote No. 215), three-fifths of those Senators\nduly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate\nrejected the motion to close further debate on the motion to proceed to\nconsideration of the bill.\nPage S10931\n  Senator Reid entered a motion to reconsider the vote by which cloture\nwas not invoked on the motion to proceed to consideration of the bill.\n                                                            Page S10931\nAppointments:\n  Congressional Award Board: The Chair, on behalf of the Majority\nLeader, pursuant to Public Law 96-114, as amended, appointed the\nfollowing individual to the Congressional Award Board: Major General\nRobert Newman of Virginia.\n  Page S10958\nAuthorizing Leadership to Make Appointments--Agreement: A unanimous-\nconsent agreement was reached providing that, notwithstanding the\nrecess or adjournment of the Senate, the President of the Senate, the\nPresident Pro Tempore, and the Majority and Minority Leaders be\nauthorized to make appointments to commissions, committees, boards,\nconferences, or interparliamentary conferences authorized by law, by\nconcurrent action of the two Houses, or by order of the Senate.\n                                                            Page S10958\nPro Forma Sessions--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was\nreached providing that Senate meet in pro forma sessions with no\nbusiness conducted on the following days and times: Friday, December 12\nat 10 a.m.; Tuesday, December 16 at 11 a.m.; Friday, December 19 at 10\na.m.; Tuesday, December 23 at 11 a.m.; Friday, December 26 at 11 a.m.;\nTuesday, December 30 at 10:30 a.m.; and Friday, January 2 at 10 a.m.;\nand that at the close of the pro forma session on Friday, January 2,\nSenate stand adjourned sine die under the provisions of H. Con. Res.\n440.\n  Page S10958\n\n[[Page D1321]]\n\nNomination Received: Senate received the following nomination: Matthew\nW. Friedrich, of Texas, to be an Assistant Attorney General.\n                                                            Page S10958\nMessages from the House:\n  Pages S10944-45\nExecutive Communications:\n  Pages S10945-46\nAdditional Cosponsors:\n  Page S10947\nStatements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:\n  Pages S10947-51\nAdditional Statements:\n  Pages S10943-44\nAmendments Submitted:\n  Pages S10951-57\nAuthorities for Committees to Meet:\n  Page S10957\nRecord Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--215)\n                                                            Page S10931\nRecess: Senate convened at 10 a.m. and recessed at 11:50 p.m., until 10\na.m. on Friday, December 12, 2008. 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