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                                           Friday, February 4, 1994

                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S835-S982
Measures Introduced: Four bills were introduced, as follows: S. 1827-
1830.

                                                              Page S951

Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 1535, to amend title 5, United States Code, to eliminate narrow 
restrictions on employee training, to provide a temporary voluntary 
separation incentive, with amendments. (S. Rept. No. 103-223)
  S. 1789, to amend title 23, United States Code, to permit the use of 
funds under the highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program 
for seismic retrofit of bridges.

                                                              Page S951

Goals 2000: Educate America Act: Senate continued 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 S835-S908, S910-32, S936-45

Adopted:
  (1) Dorgan/Conrad Modified 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 S892-94

  (2) By 78 yeas to 8 nays (Vote No. 24), Danforth/Kassebaum Amendment 
No. 1383, to express the sense of the Senate that local educational 
agencies should encourage a brief period of daily silence for students 
for the purpose of contemplating their aspirations.

                                                              Page S841

  (3) Gorton Amendment No. 1385, to help local communities achieve Goal 
Six of the National Education Goals by strengthening local disciplinary 
control.

                                                          Pages S838-41

  (4) Pryor Amendment No. 1387, to provide for intergenerational 
mentoring programs.

                                                          Pages S854-55

  (5) Byrd Amendment No. 1391, to improve students' academic 
achievement.

                                                          Pages S889-91

  (6) Byrd Amendment No. 1392, to establish that every school in the 
United States will be free of drugs, alcohol, and violence by the year 
2000.

                                                          Pages S889-90

  (7) Kennedy Amendment No. 1395, to make technical corrections.

                                                 Pages S910-11, S916-31

  (8) Kennedy (Dole) Amendment No. 1396, to provide for a study of the 
impact of Goals 2000 school reforms on achievement and outcomes of 
students with disabilities.

                                                 Pages S910-11, S916-31

  (9) Kennedy (for Danforth) Amendment No. 1397, to provide that a 
representative of a private, non-profit elementary and secondary school 
be represented on the State panel and jointly selected by the chairman 
of such panel.

                                                 Pages S910-11, S916-31

  (10) Kennedy (for Chafee) Amendment No. 1398, to include firearms in 
the elements addressed by the sixth National Education Goal regarding 
safe and drug-free schools.

                                                 Pages S910-11, S916-31

  (11) Kennedy (for Levin) Amendment No. 1399, to permit State 
educational agencies to use certain title III funds to support 
innovative and proven methods of enhancing a teacher's ability to 
identify student learning needs, and to motivate students to develop 
higher order thinking skills, discipline, and creative resolution 
methods, including significantly reducing class size and promoting 
instruction in chess.

                                                 Pages S910-11, S916-31

  (12) Kennedy (for Domenici) Amendment No. 1400, to provide authority 
for the National Education Standards Improvement Council and its 
working group on voluntary national opportunity-to-learn standards to 
consider unsolicited proposals for such standards, and to require the 
Secretary of Education to award more than one opportunity-to-learn 
development grant.

                                                 Pages S910-11, S916-31

  (13) Kennedy (for Domenici) Amendment No. 1401, to establish 
procedures by which members of the Goals Panel vote and reach final 
decisions.

                                                 Pages S910-12, S916-31

  (14) Kennedy (for Moseley-Braun) Amendment No. 1402, to provide that 
the national opportunity-to-learn standards address the extent to which 
school facilities provide a safe and secure environment for learning 
and instruction and have the requisite libraries, laboratories, and 
other resources necessary to provide an opportunity-to-learn.

                                              Pages S910, S912, S916-31

  (15) Kennedy/Pell/Hatfield Amendment No. 1403, relating to teacher 
education and professional development.

                                              Pages S910, S912, S916-31

  (16) Kennedy (for Burns) Amendment No. 1404, to provide that nothing 
in this Act shall be construed to authorize an officer or employee of 
the Federal Government to mandate, direct, or control the use by a 
public, private, religious, or home school of any curricular framework, 
instructional material, examination, assessment or system of 
assessment.

                                              Pages S910, S912, S916-31

  (17) Kennedy (for Lautenberg) Amendment No. 1405, to protect children 
from exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in the provision of 
children's services.

                                           Pages S910, S912-13, S916-31

  (18) Kennedy (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 1406, to make technical 
changes regarding educational technology.

                                           Pages S910, S913-14, S916-31

  (19) Kennedy (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 1407, to express the sense 
of the Senate that States should develop and adopt challenging State 
content standards and challenging State student performance standards 
in academic areas.

                                              Pages S910, S914, S916-31

  (20) Kennedy (for Stevens) Amendment No. 1408, to establish 
educational programs to benefit Alaska Native students.

                                              Pages S910, S914, S916-31

  (21) Kennedy (for Pell) Amendment No. 1409, to provide for education 
improvement programs.

                                              Pages S910, S914, S916-31

  (22) Kennedy (for Glenn) Amendment No. 1410, to provide assistance 
for Home Instruction Programs for Preschool Youngsters.

                                              Pages S910, S914, S916-31

  (23) Kennedy (for Bond) Amendment No. 1411, to establish parents as 
teachers programs.

                                                    Pages S910, S914-31

  (24) Kennedy (for Boxer) Amendment No. 1412, to express the sense of 
the Congress that Federal education programs that provide assistance to 
elementary and secondary education students should include 
authorizations for establishing mentoring, peer counseling and peer 
tutoring programs.

                                                    Pages S910, S915-31

  (25) Kennedy (for Hatch) Amendment No. 1413, to make technical 
changes to the State plan.

                                                    Pages S910, S915-31

  (26) Kennedy (for Hatch) Amendment No. 1414, to make technical 
changes to the State plan.

                                                    Pages S910, S915-31

  (27) Kennedy (for Roth) Amendment No. 1415, to reaffirm the role of 
State and local governments in educational governance.

                                                    Pages S910, S915-31

  (28) Kennedy Amendment No. 1416, to amend the Summer Youth Employment 
and Training Program.

                                                    Pages S910, S916-31

  (29) Kennedy (for McConnell) Amendment No. 1417, expressing the sense 
of the Senate that Federal tax laws should not preclude States from 
promoting higher education savings plans.

                                                    Pages S910, S916-31

  (30) Kennedy (for Gorton) Amendment No. 1418, to ensure that 
representatives of distance learning consortia, and representatives of 
telecommunications partnerships receiving assistance under the Star 
Schools Program Assistance Act, are involved in developing a national 
long-range plan that promotes higher student achievement through the 
use of technology in education, and to require such plan to describe 
how the Secretary of Education will utilize the outcomes of the 
evaluation undertaken pursuant to section 908 of the Star Schools 
Program Assistance Act.

                                                    Pages S910, S916-31

  (31) Kennedy (for Gorton) Amendment No. 1419, to ensure that State 
panels conduct outreach to involve secondary school students in certain 
activities.

                                                    Pages S910, S916-31

  (32) Jeffords/Gregg/Dodd Amendment No. 1420, to express the sense of 
the Senate that the Federal Government should provide States and 
communities with adequate resources under the Individuals with 
Disabilities Education Act as soon as reasonably possible, through the 
reallocation of funds within the current budget monetary constraints.

                                                          Pages S931-32

Withdrawn:
  (1) Kennedy Amendment No. 1375 (to Amendment No. 1369), to express 
the sense of the Senate regarding guns in schools.

                                                              Page S892

  (2) Jeffords (for Helms) Amendment No. 1422 (to Amendment No. 1394), 
in the nature of a substitute.

                                                              Page S937

  (3) Sarbanes (for Levin) Amendment No. 1423 (to Amendment No. 1394), 
to establish that these provisions shall take effect 30 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act.

                                                              Page S937

Pending:
  (1) Coats Amendment No. 1386, to provide a low-income school choice 
demonstration program.

                                                          Pages S841-54

  (2) Grassley Amendment No. 1388, to prohibit the use of certain funds 
for activities related to a student's personal values, attitudes, 
beliefs, or sexual behavior without certain consent, notification, 
access to information, and an opportunity for a hearing, to provide for 
enforcement of such prohibition, and to require the Secretary of 
Education to designate or establish an office and review board within 
the Department of Education.

                                              Pages S864-79, S882, S932

  (3) Mack Amendment No. 1389, to achieve significant school reform and 
innovation through empowering parents, students, teachers, and local 
school boards.

                                                          Pages S882-86

  (4) Helms Amendment No. 1390, to prohibit the use of funds to support 
the distribution or provision of condoms or other contraception devices 
or drugs to an unemancipated minor without the prior written consent of 
such minor's parent or guardian.

                                            Pages S886, S892, S894-S905

  (5) Kennedy/Jeffords Amendment No. 1393, to ensure that all federally 
funded programs which provide for the distribution of contraceptive 
devices to unemancipated minors develop procedures to encourage family 
participation in such programs.

                                                    Pages S905-08, S910

  (6) Levin Amendment No. 1394, to provide that no funds shall be 
denied to any State or local agency because it has adopted a 
constitutional policy relative to prayer in public schools.

                                                       Pages S910, S937

  (7) Jeffords/Gregg/Dodd Amendment No. 1420, to express the sense of 
the Senate that the Federal Government should provide States and 
communities with adequate resources under the Individuals with 
Disabilities Education Act as soon as reasonably possible, through the 
reallocation of funds within the current budget constraints.

                                                 Pages S931-32, S936-37

  (8) Kennedy Amendment No. 1421 (to Amendment No. 1388), in the nature 
of a substitute.

                                                              Page S932

  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for votes to 
occur on certain of the pending amendments on Tuesday, February 8, 
1994, beginning at 10 a.m.

                                                          Pages S879-81

School-to-Work Opportunities Act--Agreement: A unanimous-consent time-
agreement was reached providing for consideration of S. 1361, to 
establish a national framework for the development of School-to-Work 
Opportunities systems in all States, with a committee amendment in the 
nature of a substitute, and certain amendments to be proposed thereto.

                                                          Pages S846-47

Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Frank James Anderson, of Indiana, to be United States Marshal for the 
Southern District of Indiana for the term of 4 years.
  Jack O. Dean, of Texas, to be United States Marshal for the Western 
District of Texas for the term of 4 years.
  Laurent F. Gilbert, of Maine, to be United States Marshal for the 
District of Maine for the term of 4 years.
  Nannette Holly Hegerty, of Wisconsin, to be United States Marshal for 
the Eastern District of Wisconsin for the term of 4 years.
  James W. Lockley, of Florida, to be United States Marshal for the 
Northern District of Florida for the term of 4 years.
  Kay Collett Goss, of Arkansas, to be an Associate Director of the 
Federal Emergency Management Agency.
  1 Army nomination in the rank of general.
  Routine lists in the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard.

                                                          Pages S982-86

Messages From the House:
                                                         Page S950
Measures Referred:
                                                         Page S950
Communications:
                                                     Pages S950-51
Statements on Introduced Bills:
                                                     Pages S951-60
Additional Cosponsors:
                                                     Pages S960-61
Amendments Submitted:
                                                     Pages S961-81
Notices of Hearings:
                                                         Page S981
Authority for Committees:
                                                     Pages S981-82
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--24)

                                                              Page S841

Recess: Senate convened at 8:30 a.m., and recessed at 6:49 p.m., until 
10 a.m., on Monday, February 7, 1994. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S982.)