[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 55 (Monday, May 9, 1994)]
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                                                Monday, May 9, 1994

                              Daily Digest


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S5383-S5404
Measures Introduced: Two bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 2088-2089, and S. Con. Res. 69.

                                                         Pages S5398-99

Measures Passed:
  Private Relief: Senate passed S. 116, for the relief of Fanie Phily 
Mateo Angeles.

                                                             Page S5404

National Environmental Technology Act: Senate resumed consideration of 
S. 978, to establish programs to promote environmental technology, 
taking action on the following amendment proposed thereto:

                                                         Pages S5389-94

Withdrawn:
  Stevens Amendment No. 1687, to authorize a rural water sanitation-
health technology fund to make grants for technologies to improve 
sanitation conditions on Indian reservations and in Alaska Native 
villages and in other rural places, to eliminate the ``honey bucket'' 
sewage disposal method through innovative technologies, to develop new 
technologies to reduce and eliminate sanitation-related health problems 
and deaths, and to uphold the national trust responsibility of the 
United States to the American Indian and Alaska Native.

                                                         Pages S5389-93

  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for a vote on 
final passage of the bill to occur on Wednesday, May 11, 1994.

                                                             Page S5404

Safe Drinking Water Act: Senate began consideration of S. 2019, to 
reauthorize and amend title XIV of the Public Health Service Act 
(commonly known as the ``Safe Drinking Water Act'').

                                                         Pages S5394-97

Interstate Banking and Branching Act--Conferees: The Chair, pursuant to 
the order of Tuesday, April 26, 1994, appointed conferees on 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, as follows: Senators Riegle, 
Sarbanes, Dodd, Sasser, D'Amato, Gramm, and Roth.

                                                             Page S5404

Messages From the President: Senate received the following message from 
the President of the United States: Transmitting notification of 
additional sanctions with respect to the national emergency with Haiti; 
referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM-
109).

                                                         Pages S5397-98

Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations: 
Received on Friday, May 6, during the recess:
  Linda Marie Hooks, of Georgia, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs (Acquisition and Facilities).

                                                             Page S5404

Messages From the President:
                                                    Pages S5397-98
Statements on Introduced Bills:
                                                    Pages S5398-99
Additional Cosponsors:
                                                        Page S5399
Amendments Submitted:
                                                 Pages S5399-S5402
Notices of Hearings:
                                                        Page S5402
Additional Statements:
                                                    Pages S5402-04
Recess: Senate convened at 3 p.m., and recessed at 4:48 p.m., until 
9:45 a.m. on Tuesday, May 10, 1994 (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S5404).