[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 71 (Thursday, June 9, 1994)]
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                                             Thursday, June 9, 1994

                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      House passed the Defense authorization bill.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S6639-S6766
Measures Introduced: Nine bills and two resolutions were introduced, as 
follows: S. 2169-2177, S.J. Res. 198, and S. Res. 220.
  Pages S6745-46
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 2170, to provide a more effective, efficient, and responsive 
Government. (S. Rept. No. 103-281)
Page S6745
Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act: Senate began 
consideration of S. 1491, to amend the Airport and Airway Improvement 
Act of 1982 to authorize appropriations, with a modified committee 
amendment in the nature of a substitute, taking action on amendments 
proposed thereto, as follows:
  Pages S6646-S6703, S6707, S6764-66
Adopted:
  (1) McCain/Akaka Amendment No. 1766, to establish a research program 
on the development and utilization of quiet aircraft technology.
Pages S6660-63
  (2) Gorton Amendment No. 1767, to prohibit in-flight gambling on all 
foreign and domestic carriers in foreign air transportation, to require 
a study and report of enactment of payment issues associated with 
gambling and the aviation safety effects of installing gambling devices 
on aircraft.
Pages S6663-64
  (3) Ford (for Boxer) Amendment No. 1768, to provide funds for 
asbestos abatement and building removal at the vacant Air Force 
Station, Marin County, California.
Page S6668
  (4) Ford (for Simon/Moseley-Braun) Amendment No. 1769, to provide 
that the Secretary of Transportation may approve an upward adjustment 
in the maximum obligation of the United States under an Airport 
Improvement Program grant issued to a reliever airport after September 
1, 1989, and before October 1, 1989, in order to assist in funding 
increased land acquisition costs and associated eligible project costs.
Page S6669
  (5) Pressler (for Gramm) Amendment No. 1770, to promote enhanced air 
service to small and rural communities.
Page S6669
  (6) Ford (for McCain) Amendment No. 1771, to provide for preventive 
maintenance of airport runways, taxiways, and other airport pavement 
areas.

                                                         Pages S6669-70

  (7) Pressler (for Simpson) Amendment No. 1772, to express the sense 
of the Senate on the issuance of a report on radar usage at the airport 
in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Page S6670
  (8) Ford (for Johnston) Amendment No. 1773, to authorize the 
Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to grant releases 
from any terms, conditions, reservations, and restrictions with regard 
to the transfer of Selman Field, Louisiana, from the United States to 
the city of Monroe, Louisiana.
Pages S6670-71
  (9) Ford (for Mikulski) Amendment No. 1774, relating to the impact of 
aircraft noise on affected communities.
Page S6671
Pending:
  (1) D'Amato Amendment No. 1775, to establish a special subcommittee 
within the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs to conduct 
an investigation into allegations concerning the Whitewater Development 
Corporation, Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan Association, and Capital 
Management Services, Inc, and other related matters.
Pages S6675-S6703, S6707, S6764-66
  (2) Mitchell Amendment No. 1776 (to Amendment No. 1775), in the 
nature of a substitute.
Pages S6677-S6703, S6707, S6764-66
  Senate will continue consideration of the bill and amendments pending 
thereto, on Friday, June 10, 1994.
Measures Indefinitely Postponed:
  Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commemorative Coin Act: Senate indefinitely 
postponed further consideration of S. 1111, to authorize the minting of 
coins to commemorate the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  Page S6763
  Prisoner-of-War Commemorative Coin Act: Senate indefinitely postponed 
further consideration of S. 483, to provide for the minting of coins in 
commemoration of Americans who have been prisoners of war.
  Page S6763
  Women in the Armed Forces Commemorative Coin Act: Senate indefinitely 
postponed further consideration of S. 1159, to require the Secretary of 
the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of women who have served in 
the Armed Forces of the United States.
  Page S6763
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Elizabeth Frawley Bagley, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Portugal.
  Brian J. Donnelly, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to Trinidad and 
Tobago.
  Clay Constantinou, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to Luxembourg.
  John R. Schmidt, of Illinois, to be Associate Attorney General.
  Janet L. Yellen, of California, to be a Member of the Board of 
Governors of the Federal Reserve System for a term of fourteen years 
from February 1, 1994.
  1 Air Force nomination in the rank of general.
  1 Army nomination in the rank of general.
Page S6766
Communications:
  Page S6745
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S6746-55
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S6755-56
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S6757-61
Authority for Committees:
  Pages S6761-62
Additional Statements:
  Pages S6762-63
Text of S. 1587 as Previously Passed:
  Pages S6708-45
Recess: Senate convened at 11:30 a.m., and recessed at 9:48 p.m., until 
10 a.m., on Friday, June 10, 1994. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on pages S6763-64.)