[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 10 (Monday, February 7, 1994)]
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                                           Monday, February 7, 1994

                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S987-S1092
Measures Introduced: Four bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1831-1834, and S. Con. Res. 60.

                                                     Pages S1047, S1092

Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  H.R. 3617, to amend the Everglades National Park Protection and 
Expansion Act of 1989. (S. Rept. No. 103-224)

                                                             Page S1047

Measures Passed:
  Highway Bridge Replacement Funds: Senate passed 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 S1091

Goals 2000: Educate America Act: Senate resumed 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, 
with the following amendments proposed thereto:

                                                         Pages S1014-15

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

                                                             Page S1014

  (3) Mack Amendment No. 1389, to achieve significant school reform and 
innovation through empowering parents, students, teachers, and local 
school boards.
  (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.
  (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.
  (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.
  (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.
Withdrawn:
  Kennedy Amendment No. 1421 (to Amendment No. 1388), in the nature of 
a substitute.

                                                             Page S1014

  By unanimous-consent agreement, Byrd Amendment No. 1391, to improve 
student's academic achievement, agreed to on Friday, February 4, 1994, 
was modified.

                                                             Page S1092

  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill on Tuesday, February 8, and, by prior 
unanimous-consent agreement, votes on certain of the pending amendments 
will occur beginning at 10 a.m.

                                                             Page S1092

School-to-Work Opportunities Act: Senate began consideration of S. 
1361, to establish a national framework for the development of School-
to-Work Opportunities systems in all States, with a modified committee 
amendment in the nature of a substitute, taking action on amendments to 
be proposed thereto, as follows:

                         Pages S987-S1011, S1013-24, S1027-41, S1087-89

Adopted:
  (1) Kassebaum Modified Amendment No. 1424, to allow States to combine 
certain Federal funds to develop and establish statewide School-to-Work 
Opportunities systems.

                                               Pages S1006-08, S1033-34

  (2) Kassebaum Modified Amendment No. 1425, to limit the fiscal years 
for which appropriations are authorized.

                                           Pages S1008-11, S1013, S1035

  (3) Gregg Amendment No. 1426, to establish a limitation on unfunded 
Federal mandates.

                                                             Page S1013

  (4) Pressler Amendment No. 1427, to provide for assistance to 
consortia of Congressional Districts with low population densities for 
the development and establishment of School-to-Work Opportunities 
systems.

                                                         Pages S1016-17

  Subsequently, the amendment was modified.

                                                             Page S1032

  (5) Thurmond Amendment No. 1428, to give priority for implementation 
grants to applicants that describe systems that include programs that 
will provide paid high-quality, work-based learning experiences.

                                                         Pages S1027-28

  (6) Nickles Modified Amendment No. 1430, to limit the amount of funds 
authorized to be appropriated to carry out School-to-Work Opportunities 
programs.

                                                     Pages S1031, S1035

  (7) Simon (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 1431, to encourage grants to 
partnerships serving high poverty areas.

                                                  Pages S1032, S1035-36

Pending:
  (1) Gorton Amendment No. 1429, to encourage the placement of youths 
in private sector jobs under the Summer Youth Employment and Training 
Program.

                                                         Pages S1028-31

  (2) Kassebaum (for Coverdell) Amendment No. 1432, to prohibit the use 
of funds for School-to-Work Opportunities programs until the deficit 
increase resulting from fiscal year 1994 emergency spending is 
eliminated.

                                                             Page S1033

  (3) Kassebaum (for Dole) Amendment No. 1433, to express the sense of 
the Senate regarding a limitation on the amount of funds appropriated 
to carry out School-to-Work Opportunities programs.

                                                             Page S1033

  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill on Tuesday, February 8, with a vote on the 
motion to table Amendment No. 1429, listed above, to occur thereon.

                                                             Page S1092

Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting a report of the budget of the U.S. Government for fiscal 
year 1995; which was referred jointly, pursuant to the order of January 
30, 1975, to the Committee on the Budget, and to the Committee on 
Appropriations. (PM-84).

                                                         Pages S1043-46

  Transmitting a report of proposed rescissions of budget authority; 
which was referred jointly, pursuant to the order of April 11, 1986, to 
the Committee on the Budget, to the Committee on Appropriations, to the 
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, to the Committee on 
Armed Services, to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to 
the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, to the Committee 
on Commerce, Science and Transportation, to the Committee on Foreign 
Relations, to the Committee on Finance, to the Committee on Labor and 
Human Resources, and to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. 
(PM-85).
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nomination: 
Charles B. Curtis, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary of Energy.

                                                             Page S1092

Nomination--Cloture Motion Filed: A motion was entered to close further 
debate on the nomination of M. Larry Lawrence, of California, to be 
Ambassador to Switzerland and, in accordance with the provisions of 
Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, a vote on the cloture 
motion will occur on Wednesday, February 9, 1994.

                                                             Page S1091

Messages From the President:
                                                    Pages S1043-46
Communications:
                                                    Pages S1046-47
Statements on Introduced Bills:
                                                    Pages S1047-86
Additional Cosponsors:
                                                        Page S1086
Amendments Submitted:
                                                    Pages S1087-89
Notices of Hearings:
                                                        Page S1089
Authority for Committees:
                                                        Page S1089
Recess: Senate convened at 10 a.m., and recessed at 7:11 p.m., until 
9:15 a.m., on Tuesday, February 8, 1994. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S1092.)