[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 99 (Tuesday, July 26, 1994)]
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                                             Tuesday, July 26, 1994

                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed Interior Appropriations, 1995.
      The Senate and House met in a joint meeting to receive addresses 
      from King Hussein of Jordan and Prime Minister Rabin of Israel.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S9653-S9752
Measures Introduced: Eleven bills and one resolution were introduced, 
as follows: S. 2315-2325, and S. Res. 245.
  Pages S9733-34
Measures Passed:
  Interior Appropriations, 1995: Senate passed H.R. 4602, making 
appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, after agreeing to 
remaining excepted committee amendments, and taking action on 
amendments proposed thereto, as follows:
  Pages S9664-97, S9699-S9722
Adopted:
  (1) Byrd Amendment No. 2402, to provide that funds to reimburse the 
representatives of employees who die in the line of duty for burial 
costs and related costs may not exceed $10,000 per employee.
Page S9671
  (2) Byrd (for Wofford/Cochran) Amendment No. 2403, to provide for 
costs associated with certain timber sales.
Pages S9673-74
  (3) Hutchison Amendment No. 2405, to express the sense of the Senate 
that the Secretary of the Interior should take steps necessary to 
minimize adverse impacts on uses of the Edwards Aquifer while 
conserving threatened and endangered species.
Pages S9674-75
  (4) Moseley-Braun/Dole Amendment No. 2406, to provide funds for a 
grant program to restore and preserve historic buildings at 
historically black colleges and universities.
Pages S9682-83
  (5) Wallop Amendment No. 2407, to require a study of units of the 
National Park System and National Wildlife Refuge System for 
deauthorization.
Pages S9683-86
  (6) Byrd (for Leahy/Lieberman) Amendment No. 2408, to provide for the 
purchase of the Greenland high seas fisheries quota of Atlantic salmon.
Page S9687
  (7) Murkowski Modified Amendment No. 2409, relating to the withdrawal 
of lands from timber management in Alaska.
Pages S9694-95, S9701-05
  (8) Murkowski Amendment No. 2410, to provide design and construction 
drawings for the replacement of buildings accidentally destroyed by the 
National Park Service.
Pages S9695-97
  (9) Bingaman/Domenici Amendment No. 2411, to require the Assistant 
Secretary for Indian Affairs to submit a report to Congress concerning 
the Shiprock Campus of Navajo Community College.
Page S9705
  (10) Domenici/Bingaman Amendment 2412, to provide funds for the 
Southwestern Fisheries Technology Center.
Page S9707
Rejected:
  Bradley Amendment No. 2401, to reduce funding for the Department of 
Energy for fossil energy research and development. (By 63 yeas to 37 
nays (Vote No. 232), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S9665-71, S9672-73, S9674
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 43 yeas to 56 nays (Vote No. 233), Senate failed to table 
committee amendment on page 49, lines 12-14, relating to the 
construction of a bridge to Ellis Island.
Pages S9675-81
  Senate insisted on its amendments, requested a conference with the 
House thereon, and the Chair appointed the following conferees: 
Senators Byrd, Johnston, Leahy, DeConcini, Bumpers, Hollings, Reid, 
Murray, Nickles, Stevens, Cochran, Domenici, Gorton, Hatfield, and 
Burns.
Page S9722
  Yavapai-Prescott Indian Water Rights: Senate passed S. 1146, to 
provide for the settlement of the water rights claims of the Yavapai-
Prescott Indian Tribe in Yavapai County, Arizona, after agreeing to a 
committee amendment in the nature of a substitute.
  Page S9723
  Veterans Health Programs Improvement: Senate passed S. 1030, to amend 
title 38, United States Code, to improve the Department of Veterans 
Affairs program of sexual trauma services for veterans, to improve 
certain Department of Veterans Affairs programs for women veterans, to 
extend the period of entitlement to inpatient care for veterans exposed 
to Agent Orange or ionizing radiation, to establish a hospice care 
pilot program, to establish a rural health care clinics program, to 
authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide per diem 
payments and construction grants to State homes for adult day care 
services, and to establish an education debt reduction program, after 
agreeing to the following amendment proposed thereto:
  Page S9727
  Mitchell (for Rockefeller) Amendment No. 2413, relating to a certain 
exemption from taxation.
Page S9748
  Prior to this action, Senate vitiated its action of May 25, 1994, 
when the bill was originally passed, amended.
Page S9727
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations: 
Richard Holbrooke, of New York, to be an Assistant Secretary of State.
  James W. Swihart, Jr., of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic 
of Lithuania.
  Henry L. Young, of Texas, to be United States Marshal for the 
Northern District of Texas for the term of four years.
  A routine list in the Army.
Pages S9751-52
Messages From the House:
  Page S9733
Measures Referred:
  Page S9733
Communications:
  Pages S9733-34
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S9734-44
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S9744-45
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S9745-48
Authority for Committees:
  Page S9748
Additional Statements:
  Pages S9749-51
Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--233)
  Pages S9674, S9681
Recess: Senate convened at 8 a.m., and recessed at 7:26 p.m., until 
9:30 a.m., on Wednesday, July 27, 1994. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S9751.)