[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 46 (Monday, April 25, 1994)]
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                                             Monday, April 25, 1994

                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S4763-S4786
Measures Introduced: One bill and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 2043 and S. Res. 205.

                                                             Page S4782

Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 720, to clean up open dumps on Indian lands, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 103-253)

                                                             Page S4782

Measures Passed:
  Death of Former President Nixon: Senate agreed to S. Res. 205, 
relative to the death of Richard M. Nixon, a former President of the 
United States.

                                                             Page S4782

Interstate Banking and Branching Act: Senate began consideration of S. 
1963, to permit certain financial institutions to engage in interstate 
banking and branching, taking action on amendments proposed thereto, as 
follows:

                                                         Pages S4764-70

Adopted:
  Riegle Amendment No. 1658, to provide for national banks that are not 
part of a bank holding company to merge and consolidate on an 
interstate basis and to make further technical, conforming, and 
clarifying corrections.

                                                         Pages S4767-69

  Senate will continue consideration of the bill on Tuesday, April 26, 
1994.
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Received on Saturday, April 23, 1994, during the recess of the 
Senate:
  Officially notifying the Congress of the United States of the death 
of former President Richard Milhous Nixon; which was ordered to lie on 
the table. (PM-103).

                                                             Page S4778

  Relative to the sanctions against Haiti; to the Committee on Banking, 
Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM-104).

                                                         Pages S4779-81

Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Alan S. Blinder, of New Jersey, to be a Member of the Board of 
Governors of the Federal Reserve System for the unexpired term of 
fourteen years from February 1, 1982.
  Alan S. Blinder, of New Jersey, to be Vice Chairman of the Board of 
Governors of the Federal Reserve System for a term of four years.

                                                             Page S4786

Messages From the President:
                                             Pages S4778, S4779-81
Messages From the House:
                                             Pages S4778-79, S4781
Statements on Introduced Bills:
                                                        Page S4782
Additional Cosponsors:
                                                        Page S4782
Amendments Submitted:
                                                    Pages S4782-83
Notices of Hearings:
                                                        Page S4783
Authority for Committees:
                                                    Pages S4783-84
Additional Statements:
                                                    Pages S4784-85
Recess: Senate convened at 3 p.m., and as a further mark of respect to 
the memory of the late former President Richard M. Nixon, in accordance 
with S. Res. 205, recessed at 5:43 p.m., until 9:30 a.m., on Tuesday, 
April 26, 1994. (For Senate's program, see the remarks of the Acting 
Majority Leader in today's Record on pages S4785-86.)