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                                              Friday, July 22, 1994

                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed Commerce, Justice, State Appropriations, 1995


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S9477-S9577
Measures Introduced: Two bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 2311 and S. 2312, and S.J. Res. 213.
  Page S9566
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Frederic Block, of New York, to be United States District Judge for 
the Eastern District of New York.
  John Gleeson, of New York, to be United States District Judge for the 
Eastern District of New York.
  Allyne R. Ross, of New York, to be United States District Judge for 
the Eastern District of New York.
  Edward Joseph Kelly, Jr., of New York, to be United States Marshal 
for the Northern District of New York for the term of four years.
  Robert Moore, of Illinois, to be United States Marshal for the 
Central District of Illinois for the term of four years.
  Joseph Nye, of Massachusetts, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
Defense.
  Paul L. Hill, Jr., of West Virginia, to be a Member of the Chemical 
Safety and Hazard Investigation Board for a term of five years.
  Paul L. Hill, Jr., of West Virginia, to be Chairperson of the 
Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board for a term of five 
years.
Pages S9576-77
Measures Passed:
  Commerce, Justice, State, Judiciary Appropriations, 1995: Senate 
passed H.R. 4603, making appropriations for the Departments of 
Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies 
programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, and making 
supplemental appropriations for these departments and agencies for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 1994, after agreeing to committee 
amendments, and taking action on amendments proposed thereto, as 
follows:
  Pages S9477-S9559
Adopted:
  (1) Pressler Amendment No. 2353, to require advance notification to 
Congress of any Presidential determination that the United Nations has 
established an independent office of Inspector General.
Pages S9477-81, S9512
  (2) Dole Amendment No. 2356, to provide funds to support humanitarian 
relief in and around Rwanda.
Pages S9487-88
  (3) Dole (for Hutchison) Amendment No. 2357, to provide funds to 
reimburse States for the cost of incarcerating illegal aliens. (By 44 
yeas to 52 nays (Vote No. 226), Senate failed to table the amendment.)
Pages S9488-89, S9514-22
  (4) Domenici Amendment No. 2360, to express the sense of the Congress 
that the President should meet with the next President of Mexico to 
discuss immigration.
Pages S9500-02
  (5) Jeffords (for Wofford) Amendment No. 2361, to restore funding for 
the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program.
Pages S9510-12
  (6) Helms Amendment No. 2362, to prohibit funding for the issuance of 
visas to aliens who illegally confiscate property of a United States 
person.
Pages S9512-13
  (7) Helms Amendment No. 2363, to state additional conditions for the 
approval of exports of United States-origin satellites on launch 
vehicles of the People's Republic of China or Russia.
Pages S9513-14
  (8) Roth Amendment No. 2364, to express the sense of the Senate that 
the Justice Department should accept the decision of the United States 
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in the case of United States v. 
Knox and exercise its prosecutorial discretion in accord with that 
decision.
Pages S9522-23
  (9) Dole Amendment No. 2367, to express the sense of the Senate 
condemning the sinking of the ``13th of March'' by the Government of 
Cuba.
Pages S9530-31
  (10) Hollings (for Levin) Amendment No. 2370, to provide additional 
funds to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission to match the proposed 
increase in Canadian funding for the Commission.
Page S9552
  (11) Hollings (for Dodd) Amendment No. 2371, to reallocate $3,000,000 
of the Community Schools Supervision Grant appropriation to the Ounce 
of Prevention Council.
Page S9554
  (12) Hollings Amendment No. 2372, to reduce funding for grants to 
States for coastal zone management.
Page S9554
  (13) Domenici (for Pressler) Amendment No. 2373, relating to United 
States assessed contributions to United Nations peacekeeping 
operations.
Page S9554
  (14) Domenici (for Pressler) Amendment No. 2374, to require a report 
on the technical cooperation activities of the International Atomic 
Energy Agency.
Pages S9554-55
  (15) Domenici (for Craig/DeConcini) Amendment No. 2375, to release 
goods for importation from China under certain conditions.
Page S9555
  (16) Domenici (for Brown) Amendment No. 2376, to establish regular, 
cabinet-level contacts with Taiwan through exchanges of visits between 
cabinet-level officials of Taiwan and the United States.
Pages S9555-56
  (17) Domenici (for Brown) Amendment No. 2377, to ensure the exclusion 
from the United States on the basis of membership in a terrorist 
organization.
Pages S9555-56
  (18) Domenici (for Brown) Amendment No. 2378, to require that any new 
guidelines for the determination of religious harassment shall be 
drafted so as to make explicitly clear that symbols or expressions of 
religious belief consistent with the first amendment and the Religious 
Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 are not to be restricted and do not 
constitute proof of harassment.
Pages S9555-56
  (19) Domenici (for Hutchison) Amendment No. 2379, to express the 
sense of the Senate that certain criminal aliens who are being deported 
should be escorted abroad by Federal agents.
Pages S9557-58
  (20) Hollings/Domenici Amendment No. 2380, to make certain technical 
corrections.
Pages S9558-59
Rejected:
  (1) By 39 yeas to 57 nays (Vote No. 224), Dorgan Amendment No. 2359, 
to reduce funds allocated for the National Endowment for Democracy.
Pages S9490-S9500, S9502-03
  (2) Dole/Hatch/D'Amato Amendment No. 2368, to prohibit the use of 
funds by the Department of Justice to implement any policy, regulation, 
guideline, or executive order with respect to the death penalty which 
permits the consideration of evidence that race was a statistically 
significant factor in the decision to seek or impose the sentence of 
death in any capital case.
Pages S9531-32, S9545
  (3) By 33 yeas to 54 nays (Vote No. 227), Hatch Amendment No. 2369 
(to Amendment No. 2368), in the nature of a substitute.
Pages S9532-45
Withdrawn:
  (1) Coats Amendment No. 2354, to transfer funds to the Department of 
Defense to reimburse accounts out of which international peacekeeping 
activities have previously been supported.
Pages S9482-87
  (2) Bumpers Amendment No. 2358, to eliminate the authorization of 
appropriations for the National Endowment for Democracy.
Pages S9489-90, S9502-03
  (3) Baucus Amendment No. 2365, to prohibit the use of funds for TV 
Marti.
Pages S9523-25, S9530
  (4) Mack/Domenici Amendment No. 2366 (to Amendment No. 2365), to 
express the sense of the Senate condemning the sinking of the ``13th of 
March'' by the Government of Cuba. (The amendment fell when Amendment 
No. 2365, listed above, was withdrawn.)
Pages S9529-30
  During consideration of this bill today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 24 yeas to 71 nays (Vote No. 225), Senate rejected a motion to 
recommit the bill, with instructions, with a Smith amendment to reduce 
the total appropriations provided therein to a sum not greater than its 
Fiscal Year 1994 level.
Pages S9505-10
  Senate insisted on its amendments, requested a conference with the 
House thereon, and the Chair appointed the following conferees: 
Senators Hollings, Byrd, Inouye, Bumpers, Lautenberg, Sasser, Kerrey, 
Domenici, Stevens, Hatfield, McConnell, Cochran, and Gramm.
Page S9559
Appointments:
  Mickey Leland National Urban Toxics Research Center: The Chair, on 
behalf of the Majority Leader, pursuant to Public Law 101-549, 
appointed the following individuals to the Board of Directors of the 
Mickey Leland National Urban Toxics Research Center: Patricia A. 
Buffler, of California; Joseph H. Graziano, of New York; and Philip J. 
Landrigan, of New York.
  Page S9565
Messages From the House:
  Page S9566
Measures Referred:
  Page S9566
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S9566-69
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S9569-70
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S9570-73
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S9573
Authority for Committees:
  Pages S9573-74
Additional Statements:
  Pages S9574-76
Record Votes: Four record votes were taken today. (Total--227)
  Pages S9502-03, S9510, S9522, S9544-45
Recess: Senate convened at 9 a.m., and recessed at 8:47 p.m., until 
9:30 a.m., on Monday, July 25, 1994. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S9576.)