[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 7 (Wednesday, February 2, 1994)]
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                                        Wednesday, February 2, 1994

                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed State Department Authorizations.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S547-S693
Measures Introduced: Five bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1817-1821, and S. Con. Res. 59.

                                                              Page S659

Measures Passed:
  Foreign Relations Authorizations Act: Committee on Foreign Relations 
was discharged from further consideration of H.R. 2333, to authorize 
appropriations for the Department of State, the United States 
Information Agency, and related agencies, and to authorize 
appropriations for foreign assistance programs and, by 92 yeas to 8 
nays (Vote No. 18), the bill was then passed, after striking all after 
the enacting clause, and inserting the text of S. 1281, Senate 
companion measure, as amended, and after taking action on the following 
amendment proposed thereto:

                                                        Pages S559-S605

Rejected:
  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. (By 66 yeas to 34 nays 
(Vote No. 17), Senate tabled the amendment.)

                                                              Page S559

  By unanimous-consent agreement, Helms (for Dole) Amendment No. 1348, 
to place limitations on United States funding of United Nations 
peacekeeping activities, agreed to on Tuesday, February 1, 1994, was 
modified.

                                                              Page S605

  Senate insisted on its amendment, requested a conference with the 
House thereon, and the Chair was authorized to appoint conferees on the 
part of the Senate.

                                                          Pages S604-05

  Subsequently, S. 1281 was indefinitely postponed.

                                                              Page S605

Goals 2000: Educate America Act: Senate began consideration of S. 1150, 
to improve learning and teaching by providing a national framework for 
education reform, to promote the research, consensus building, and 
systemic changes needed to ensure equitable educational opportunities 
and high levels of educational achievement for all American students, 
to provide a framework for reauthorization of all Federal education 
programs, and to promote the development and adoption of a voluntary 
national system of skill standards and certifications, taking action on 
amendments proposed thereto, as follows:

                                                 Pages S605-31, S634-53

Adopted:
  (1) Kennedy Amendment No. 1356, in the nature of a substitute.

                                                              Page S605

  (2) Gregg Modified Amendment No. 1358, to ensure that the Federal 
Government cannot impose additional unrelated requirements upon the 
receipt of funds under the program.

                                                          Pages S622-27

  (3) Kennedy (for Gregg) Amendment No. 1359, to provide that nothing 
in the Goals 2000: Educate America Act shall be construed to mandate 
limitations on class size for a State, local educational agency or 
school.

                                                          Pages S627-28

  (4) Kennedy (for Gregg) Amendment No. 1360, to provide that nothing 
in the Goals 2000: Educate America Act shall be construed to mandate a 
Federal teacher certification system for a State, local educational 
agency or school.

                                                          Pages S627-28

  (5) Kennedy (for Gregg) Amendment No. 1361, to provide that nothing 
in the Goals 2000: Educate America Act shall be construed to mandate 
teacher instructional practices for a State, local educational agency 
or school.

                                                          Pages S627-28

  (6) Kennedy (for Gregg) Amendment No. 1362, to provide that nothing 
in the Goals 2000: Educate America Act shall be construed to mandate 
equalized spending per pupil for a State, local educational agency or 
school.

                                                          Pages S627-28

  (7) Kennedy (for Gregg) Amendment No. 1363, to provide that nothing 
in the Goals 2000: Educate America Act shall be construed to mandate 
national school building standards for a State, local educational 
agency or school.

                                                          Pages S627-28

  (8) Kennedy (for Gregg) Amendment No. 1364, to provide that nothing 
in the Goals 2000: Educate America Act shall be construed to mandate 
curriculum content for a State, local educational agency or school.

                                                          Pages S627-28

  (9) Kennedy (for Gregg) Amendment No. 1365, to provide that nothing 
in the Goals 2000: Educate America Act shall be construed to require 
any State to have standards certified pursuant to state content and 
student performance standards or state opportunity-to-learn standards.

                                                          Pages S627-28

  (10) By a unanimous vote of 97 yeas (Vote No. 19), Danforth/Jeffords 
Amendment No. 1368, to express the sense of the Senate that the speech 
made by Khalid Abdul Mohammed at Kean College on November 29, 1993 was 
false, anti-Semitic, racist, divisive, repugnant and a disservice to 
all Americans and is therefore condemned.

                                                          Pages S634-41

  (11) Kennedy (for Simon/Wellstone) Amendment No. 1374, to amend the 
State improvement plan regarding opportunity-to-learn standards and to 
provide technical and other assistance regarding school finance equity.

                                                              Page S652

Rejected:
  By 42 yeas to 52 nays (Vote No. 20), Gregg Amendment No. 1370, to 
strike all references to opportunity-to-learn standards.

                                                          Pages S644-48

Withdrawn:
  (1) Simon/Wellstone Amendment No. 1366, to require States to adopt 
and enforce opportunity-to-learn standards.

                                              Pages S628-31, S634, S652

  (2) Kennedy Amendment No. 1367 (to Amendment No. 1366), to establish 
opportunity-to-learn strategies.

                                                 Pages S631, S634, S652

Pending:
  (1) Dorgan Amendment No. 1369, to require each local educational 
agency, as a condition for receiving Federal assistance, to implement a 
gun-free program in its schools.
                                               Pages S642-44, S652
  (2) Kennedy Amendment No. 1375 (to Amendment No. 1369), to express 
the sense of the Senate regarding guns in schools.

                                                          Pages S652-53

  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill and an amendment to be proposed thereto, on 
Thursday, February 3.
                                                     Pages S651-53
Messages From the President: Senate received the following message from 
the President of the United States: Transmitting a report on the 
administration of the Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1970 for calendar 
year 1992; referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
Transportation. (PM-81).

                                                              Page S658

Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Michael Kane Kirk, of Florida, to be Deputy Commissioner of Patents 
and Trademarks.
  Deval L. Patrick, of Massachusetts, to be an Assistant Attorney 
General.
  Rodney A. McCowan, of Oklahoma, to be Assistant Secretary for Human 
Resources and Administration, Department of Education.
  Robert S. Willard, of Ohio, to be a Member of the National Commission 
on Libraries and Information Science for the remainder of the term 
expiring July 19, 1994.
  Robert S. Willard, of Ohio, to be a Member of the National Commission 
on Libraries and Information Science for a term expiring July 19, 1999.
  Linda Joan Morgan, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Interstate 
Commerce Commission for a term expiring December 31, 1998.
  Barry S. Newman, of Virginia, to be United States Alternate Executive 
Director of the International Monetary Fund for a term of 2 years.
  William Alan Reinsch, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary of Commerce 
for Export Administration.
  13 Navy nominations in the rank of admiral.
  Routine lists in the Air Force.
                                                         Page S658
Messages From the President:
                                                         Page S658
Communications:
                                                         Page S658
Petitions:
                                                     Pages S658-59
Executive Reports of Committees:
                                                         Page S659
Statements on Introduced Bills:
                                                     Pages S659-71
Additional Cosponsors:
                                                     Pages S669-70
Amendments Submitted:
                                                     Pages S670-89
Authority for Committees:
                                                     Pages S689-90
Additional Statements:
                                                     Pages S690-93
Record Votes: Four record votes were taken today. (Total--20)

                                        Pages S559, S560-61, S641, S648

Recess: Senate convened at 10 a.m., and recessed at 8:29 p.m., until 10 
a.m., on Thursday, February 3, 1994. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S693.)