[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 5 (Monday, January 31, 1994)]
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                                           Monday, January 31, 1994

                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S387-S453
Measures Introduced: Three bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1810-1812, and S.J. Res. 161.

                                                              Page S430

Foreign Relations Authorizations Act: Senate continued consideration of 
S. 1281, to authorize appropriations for the fiscal years 1994 and 1995 
for the Department of State, the United States Information Agency, and 
related agencies, and to provide for the consolidation of international 
broadcasting activities, taking action on amendments proposed thereto, 
as follows:

                                                        Pages S393-S430

Adopted:
  (1) Helms Amendment No. 1319, to prohibit assistance to countries 
expropriating United States citizens property.

                                                          Pages S402-04

  (2) Glenn Amendment No. 1321, to impose sanctions against any foreign 
person or United States person that assists a foreign country in 
acquiring a nuclear explosive device or unsafeguarded nuclear material.

                                                          Pages S411-13

  (3) Helms (for Hatch) Amendment No. 1322, to express the sense of the 
Senate regarding Israel's diplomatic status.

                                                          Pages S414-15

  (4) Rockefeller Amendment No. 1325, to revise certain provisions of 
law to facilitate the hiring of United States citizens abroad.

                                                          Pages S426-28

Pending:
  (1) Helms Amendment No. 1290, to give fullest possible consideration 
to asylum applications from Chinese nationals fleeing coercive 
population control policies.

                                                              Page S430

  (2) Helms Amendment No. 1291, to express the sense of the Senate that 
certain conditions should be met before the People's Republic of China 
is accorded nondiscriminatory most-favored-nation treatment.
  (3) Lott/Helms Amendment No. 1315, to establish a prohibition on 
security assistance for countries that consistently oppose the United 
States position in the United Nations General Assembly.

                                                    Pages S393-95, S415

  (4) Helms Amendment No. 1316 (to Amendment No. 1315), in the nature 
of a substitute.

                                                          Pages S393-95

  (5) Cohen Amendment No. 1317, to require a report on Russian military 
operations in the independent states of the former Soviet Union.

                                                          Pages S395-99

  (6) Cohen Amendment No. 1318, to encourage Germany to assume full and 
active participation in international peacekeeping activities.

                                               Pages S399-S402, S424-26

  (7) Helms Amendment No. 1320, to maintain the current number of 
Assistant Secretaries of State and State Department officials 
compensated at level IV of the Executive Schedule.

                                                          Pages S404-11

  (8) Dole Amendment No. 1323, to facilitate coordination between the 
executive and legislative branches of Government regarding United 
States participation in, or the use of United States funds for, United 
Nations peacekeeping activities.

                                                 Pages S416-24, S428-30

  (9) Kerry (for Mitchell) Amendment No. 1324 (to Amendment No. 1323), 
to express the sense of the Congress regarding United States 
participation in United Nations peacekeeping activities.

                                                          Pages S421-24

  Senate will resume consideration of the bill on Tuesday, February 1.
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Josiah Horton Beeman, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador 
to New Zealand, and to serve concurrently and without additional 
compensation as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the 
United States of America to Western Samoa.
  Donald M. Blinken, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Hungary.
  March Fong Eu, of California, to be Ambassador to the Federated 
States of Micronesia.
  Richard Dale Kauzlarich, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Azerbaijan.
  1 Navy nomination in the rank of Unrestricted Line Officer.
  Routine lists in the Air Force, Army, Navy, Public Health Service.

                                                          Pages S448-53

Communications:
                                                         Page S430
Statements on Introduced Bills:
                                                     Pages S430-32
Additional Cosponsors:
                                                         Page S432
Amendments Submitted:
                                                     Pages S432-43
Notices of Hearings:
                                                         Page S443
Authority for Committees:
                                                         Page S443
Additional Statements:
                                                     Pages S443-47
Recess: Senate convened at 1 p.m., and recessed at 6:36 p.m., until 
9:30 a.m., on Tuesday, February 1, 1994. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on pages S447-
48.)