[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 98 (Monday, July 25, 1994)]
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                                              Monday, July 25, 1994

                              Daily Digest


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S9579-S9651
Measures Introduced: Two bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 2313 and S. 2314, and S. Res. 244.
  Page S9642
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 2313, to authorize appropriations for Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission for fiscal years 1994 and 1995. (S. Rept. No. 103-319)
Page S9642
Measures Passed:
  Helsinki Human Rights Day: Committee on the Judiciary was discharged 
from further consideration of S.J. Res. 195, to designate August 1, 
1994, as ``Helsinki Human Rights Day,'' and the measure was then 
passed.
  Page S9649
  Honor Federal Firefighters: Senate agreed to S. Res. 244, honoring 
the three Federal firefighters who died in a helicopter crash while on 
their way to fight a fire in the Gila National Forest.
  Pages S9649-50
Interior Appropriations, 1995: Senate began consideration of H.R. 2382, 
making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, agreeing to 
committee amendments, with certain exceptions, and taking action on 
amendments proposed thereto, as follows:
  Pages S9588-S9641
Adopted:
  (1) Byrd Amendment No. 2382, of a technical nature.
Page S9604
  (2) Byrd Amendment No. 2383, to correct the amount of funding for 
cyclical maintenance of tribally owned fish hatcheries and related 
facilities.
Page S9604
  (3) Byrd Amendment No. 2384, to correct the date by which payments 
are to be made for grants to operate Bureau of Indian Affairs schools.
Page S9604
  (4) Byrd Amendment No. 2385, to clarify that the Department of the 
Interior may fund research work orders incrementally.
Page S9604
  (5) Byrd Amendment No. 2386, to allow service and rental contracts to 
be executed for a 12-month period at any time during the fiscal year.
Pages S9604-05
  (6) Byrd (for Burns) Amendment No. 2387, to provide funds for the 
recruitment and training of American Indians for graduate training in 
the field of psychology.
Pages S9604-05
  (7) Byrd Amendment No. 2388, to provide for ongoing operations of the 
Government of Palau in the event the Compact of Free Association for 
Palau is not implemented prior to the start of fiscal year 1995.
Pages S9604-05
  (8) Byrd Amendment No. 2389, to reduce funding in the Compact of Free 
Association for Palau.
Pages S9604-05
  (9) Byrd (for DeConcini) Amendment No. 2390, to authorize the Indian 
Health Service to retain cash payments for meals on the same basis as 
payroll-deducted meal payments.
Pages S9604-05
  (10) Byrd (for Dorgan) Amendment No. 2391, to increase funding for 
the Operation of Indian Programs and reduce funding for the Naval 
Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves.
Pages S9604-05
  (11) Byrd (for Kassebaum) Amendment No. 2392, to reduce the amount 
provided for emergencies and hardships in the National Park Service 
land acquisition account, and provide funds for an initiative to 
establish an inter-connected network of historic frontier military 
forts in Kansas.
Pages S9604-06
  (12) Byrd (for Murray/Gorton) Amendment No. 2393, to provide for the 
completion of the Johnston Ridge Observatory at the Mount St. Helens 
National Volcanic Monument.
Pages S9604, S9606
  (13) Byrd (for Stevens) Amendment No. 2394, to allow Alaska Native 
Claims Settlement Act villages to be eligible to participate in the 
Indian Health Service Sanitation Facilities Program.
Pages S9604, S9606
  (14) By a unanimous vote of 92 yeas (Vote No. 229), Byrd Amendment 
No. 2395, to provide funds to reimburse the representatives of 
employees who die in the line of duty for burial costs and related 
costs.
Pages S9606, S9626
  (15) Baucus Amendment No. 2398, to require a period of review of 
proposed regulations relating to law enforcement activities of the 
Forest Service.
Pages S9627-28
  (16) By a unanimous vote of 89 yeas (Vote No. 231), McCain Amendment 
No. 2399, to require certain Federal agencies to prepare and submit to 
Congress rankings of the proposals of such agencies for land 
acquisition.
Pages S9628-29
Rejected:
  Helms Amendment No. 2396 (to committee amendment on page 81, line 7) 
to prohibit the use of National Endowment for the Arts funds to provide 
financial assistance for projects or works involving the mutilation of 
living or dead human beings, or the drawing or letting of blood. (By 49 
yeas to 42 nays (Vote 230), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S9607-17, S9626
Withdrawn:
  (1) Jeffords Amendment No. 2397 (to committee amendment on page 81, 
line 7) to restore funding to the National Endowment for the Arts.
Pages S9617-26, S9638-39
  (2) Bumpers Amendment No. 2400, to impose a moratorium on patenting 
of hard-rock mining claims by the Bureau of Mines.
Pages S9630-38
  Senate will resume consideration of the bill and amendments to be 
proposed thereto, on Tuesday, July 26.
Motion To Request Attendance: During today's proceedings, by 74 yeas to 
13 nays (Vote No. 228), Senate agreed to a motion to request the 
attendance of absent Senators.
  Pages S9606-07
Executive Reports of Committees: The Senate received the following 
executive report of a committee:
  A report to accompany the nomination of Stephen G. Breyer to be an 
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. (Exec. Rept. 103-
31)
Page S9642
Communications:
  Page S9642
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S9642
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S9642-44
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S9644-45
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S9645-46
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S9646
Authority for Committees:
  Pages S9646-47
Additional Statements:
  Pages S9647-49
Record Votes: Four record votes were taken today. (Total--231)
  Pages S9607, S9626, S9629
Recess: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and recessed at 6:41 p.m., until 
8 a.m., on Tuesday, July 26, 1994. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on pages S9650-
51.)