[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 47 (Tuesday, April 26, 1994)]
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                                            Tuesday, April 26, 1994

                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed Interstate Banking and Branching Act.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S4787-S4936
Measures Introduced: Twelve bills and three resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 2044-2055, S. Res. 206 and 207, and S. Con. 
Res. 67.

                                                         Pages S4834-35

Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 1927, to increase the rates of compensation for veterans with 
service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and 
indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans, 
with an amendment.
  S. 1935, to prohibit lobbyists and their clients from providing to 
Legislative Branch officials certain gifts, meals, entertainment, 
reimbursements, or loans and to place limits on and require disclosure 
by lobbyists of certain expenditures, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute.

                                                             Page S4834

Measures Passed:
  Interstate Banking and Branching Act: Committee on Banking, Housing, 
and Urban Affairs was discharged from further consideration of H.R. 
3841, to amend the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, the Revised 
Statutes of the United States, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to 
provide for interstate banking and branching, and the bill was then 
passed, after striking all after the enacting clause and inserting in 
lieu thereof the text of S. 1963, Senate companion measure, after 
taking action on the following amendments proposed thereto:

                                            Pages S4796-97, S4799-S4827

Adopted:
  (1) Feingold Amendment No. 1659, to require a General Accounting 
Report on data collection under interstate branching.

                                                             Page S4801

  (2) Metzenbaum Amendment No. 1660, to clarify the statute of 
limitations for actions brought by the Federal Deposit Insurance 
Corporation and the Resolution Trust Corporation as conservator or 
receiver.

                                                         Pages S4803-06

  (3) Riegle Amendment No. 1661, to extend the time period for which 
States can decide to opt out of interstate branching.

                                                         Pages S4807-08

  (4) Riegle (for Moseley-Braun) Amendment No. 1662, to establish a 
National Commission on Financial Services.

                                                         Pages S4808-10

  (5) Riegle (for Pryor) Amendment No. 1663, to remove certain 
limitations on the maximum interest rate that may be charged on certain 
FmHA loans.

                                                         Pages S4810-11

  (6) Riegle (for Daschle/Pressler) Amendment No. 1664, relating to the 
Mount Rushmore Commemorative Coin Act.

                                                         Pages S4811-12

  (7) D'Amato Amendment No. 1665, to express the sense of the Senate 
that the President should work to achieve a clearly defined and 
enforceable agreement with allies of the United States which 
establishes a multilateral export control regime to stem the 
proliferation of products and technologies to rogue regimes that would 
jeopardize the national security of the United States.

                                                         Pages S4818-19

  (8) Riegle/D'Amato Amendment No. 1666, to allow States within 
regional compacts to preserve State law in effect regarding bank 
holding companies.

                                                         Pages S4819-20

  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.

                                                             Page S4827

  Subsequently, S. 1963 was indefinitely postponed.

                                                             Page S4827

  Enrollment Correction: Senate agreed to S. Con. Res. 67, to correct 
technical errors in the enrollment of H.R. 2333, State Department 
Authorizations.

                                                         Pages S4921-22

  Eulogies of Nixon: Senate agreed to S. Res. 206, relative to the 
compilation of eulogies on the life of Richard M. Nixon, former 
President of the United States.

                                                             Page S4922

  Situation in Rwanda: Senate agreed to S. Res. 207, expressing the 
sense of the Senate regarding the tragic humanitarian and political 
catastrophe in Rwanda.

                                                             Page S4922

Marine Mammal Protection Act: Senate concurred in the amendment of the 
House to the amendment of the Senate to the amendment of the House to 
S. 1636, to authorize appropriations for the Marine Mammal Protection 
Act of 1972 and to improve the program to reduce the incidental taking 
of marine mammals during the course of commercial fishing operations--
clearing the measure for the President.

                                                         Pages S4923-35

Bosnia/Arms Embargo--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was 
reached providing for the consideration of S. 2042, to remove the 
United States arms embargo of the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 
no later than the close of business, Thursday, May 5, 1994.

                                                             Page S4922

Consumer Reporting Reform Act--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement 
was reached providing for the consideration of S. 783, to amend the 
Fair Credit Reporting Act, on Monday, May 2, 1994.

                                                             Page S4923

State Department Authorizations/Conference Report: A unanimous-consent 
agreement was reached providing that upon receipt of a message from the 
House that the House has agreed to the conference report on 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, or a conference report 
that is identical to that report as filed in the House on April 25, 
1994, that the conference report be considered agreed to.

                                                         Pages S4919-21

Nomination--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached 
providing for the consideration of the nomination of William Alan 
Reinsch, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Export 
Administration, on Monday, May 2, 1994.

                                                             Page S4935

Authority for Committees: All committees were authorized to file 
executive and legislative reports during the recess/adjournment of the 
Senate on Friday, April 29, 1994, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

                                                             Page S4935

Removal of Injunction of Secrecy: The injunction of secrecy was removed 
from the following treaty:
  Agreement to Promote Compliance with International Conservation and 
Management Measures by Fishing Vessels on the High Seas (Treaty Doc. 
No. 103-24).
  The treaty was transmitted to the Senate on Monday, April 25, 1994, 
considered as having been read for the first time, and referred, with 
accompanying papers, to the Committee on Foreign Relations and was 
ordered to be printed.

                                                             Page S4919

Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Harold Baer, Jr., of New York, to be United States District Judge for 
the Southern District of New York.
  Denise Cote, of New York, to be United States District Judge for the 
Southern District of New York.
  John G. Koeltl, of New York, to be United States District Judge for 
the Southern District of New York.
  John Corbett O'Meara, of Michigan, to be United States District Judge 
for the Eastern District of Michigan.
  Barrington D. Parker, Jr., of New York, to be United States District 
Judge for the Southern District of New York.
  Rosemary S. Pooler, of New York, to be United States District Judge 
for the Northern District of New York.
  Robert J. Timlin, of California, to be United States District Judge 
for the Central District of California.
  Thomasina V. Rogers, of Maryland, to be Chairman of the 
Administrative Conference of the United States for the term of five 
years.

                                                             Page S4936

Messages From the House:
                                                        Page S4834
Communications:
                                                        Page S4834
Statements on Introduced Bills:
                                                    Pages S4835-98
Additional Cosponsors:
                                                    Pages S4898-99
Amendments Submitted:
                                                    Pages S4900-03
Notices of Hearings:
                                                        Page S4903
Authority for Committees:
                                                        Page S4903
Additional Statements:
                                                    Pages S4903-17
Recess: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and recessed at 7:49 p.m., until 
9 a.m., on Friday, April 29, 1994, for a pro forma session.