[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 23 (Monday, March 7, 1994)]
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                                              Monday, March 7, 1994

                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S2353-S2429
Measures Introduced: Nine bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1889-1897, and S.J. Res. 166.

                                                             Page S2415

Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 1597, to amend the Public Health Service Act to revise certain 
organ procurement and transplantation programs, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 103-233)

                                                             Page S2415

National Competitiveness Act: Senate began consideration of S. 4, to 
promote the industrial competitiveness and economic growth of the 
United States by strengthening and expanding the civilian technology 
programs of the Department of Commerce, amending the Stevenson-Wydler 
Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to enhance the development and 
nationwide deployment of manufacturing technologies, and authorizing 
appropriations for the Technology Administration of the Department of 
Commerce, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology, 
with a modified committee amendment in the nature of a substitute.

                                            Pages S2366-S2410, S2412-14

  Senate will resume consideration of the bill and amendments to be 
proposed thereto, on Tuesday, March 8.
Appointments:
  Glass Ceiling Commission: The Chair, on behalf of the Majority Leader 
of the Senate and the Speaker of the House, pursuant to Public Law 102-
166, appointed John Jenkins, of Maine, as a member of the Glass Ceiling 
Commission.

                                                             Page S2428

Messages From the President: Senate received the following message from 
the President of the United States: Transmitting a notice of intent to 
add Ukraine to the list of beneficiary developing countries under the 
Generalized System of Preferences (GSP); referred to the Committee on 
Finance. (PM-94).

                                                         Pages S2414-15

Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations: 
Received on Friday, March 4, during the recess:
  Jamie S. Gorelick, of Maryland, to be Deputy Attorney General.

                                                             Page S2428

Received today:
  David Elias Birenbaum, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations 
for U.N. Management and Reform, with the rank of Ambassador.
  Edward William Gnehm, Jr., of Georgia, to be the Deputy 
Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, 
with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and 
Plenipotentiary.
  Routine lists in the Air Force and Navy.

                                                         Pages S2428-29

Messages From the President:
                                                    Pages S2414-15
Communications:
                                                        Page S2415
Statements on Introduced Bills:
                                                    Pages S2415-24
Additional Cosponsors:
                                                    Pages S2424-25
Notices of Hearings:
                                                        Page S2425
Additional Statements:
                                                    Pages S2425-28
Recess: Senate convened at 12:30 p.m., and recessed at 5:09 p.m., until 
10 a.m., on Tuesday, March 8, 1994. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S2428.)