[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 101 (Thursday, July 28, 1994)]
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                                            Thursday, July 28, 1994

                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      House Committees ordered reported 14 sundry measures.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S9955-S10066
Measures Introduced: Five bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 2331-2335, and S. Res. 246.
  Pages S10051, S10059
Measures Passed:
  Death of Hugh Scott: Senate agreed to S. Res. 246, relative to the 
death of the Honorable Hugh Scott, formerly a Senator from the State of 
Pennsylvania.
  Page S10065
Improving America's Schools Act: Senate continued consideration of S. 
1513, entitled ``Improving America's Schools Act of 1993'', with a 
modified committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, taking 
action on amendments proposed thereto, as follows:
  Pages S9981-97, S9998-S10021, S10023-43
Adopted:
  (1) By 60 yeas to 40 nays (Vote No. 239), Gorton Amendment No. 2418, 
to provide local school officials control over violence in classrooms 
and on school property.
Pages S9982-87, S10004-17
  (2) Specter Amendment No. 2419, to provide demonstration projects to 
test the effectiveness of private management of public education 
programs.
Pages S9987-88
  (3) Specter/Pell Amendment No. 2420, to establish a grant program to 
provide workplace and community transition training to youth offenders 
in prisons.
Pages S9988-90
  (4) Specter Modified Amendment No. 2421, to authorize a demonstration 
to test the effectiveness of prenatal education and counseling on 
student pregnancy outcomes.
Pages S9990-91
  (5) Moseley-Braun/Kennedy Modified Amendment No. 2422, to require 
institutions of higher education to disclose participation rates, and 
program support expenditures, in college athletic programs.
Pages S9993-95, S10001-02, S10004
  (6) Simon Modified Amendment No. 2423, to provide financial 
incentives and assistance to States or local educational agencies to 
enable them to increase the amount of time that students spend in 
academic programs, and to promote flexibility in school scheduling.
Pages S9995-97, S10019-21
  (7) Simon Amendment No. 2424, to increase funds for the Women's 
Educational Equity Program.
Pages S9999-S10000
  (8) By a unanimous vote of 100 yeas (Vote No. 240), Jeffords Modified 
Amendment No. 2425, to provide local school officials control over 
violence in classrooms and on school property.
Pages S10008-18
  (9) Byrd Amendment No. 2426, to require a report to Congress on data 
collected on violence in elementary and secondary schools.
Pages S10023-24
  (10) Byrd Amendment No. 2427, to prohibit the use of funds to local 
educational agencies unless such agencies have a policy requiring 
referral to the criminal justice or juvenile delinquency system of any 
student who brings a firearm or weapon to a school served by such 
agencies.
Pages S10023-24
Rejected:
  By 46 yeas to 54 nays (Vote No. 241), Bumpers/Cochran Amendment No. 
2428, to amend the title I formula to remove the effort and equity 
factors and instead use a county's income per child on a national 
standard.
Pages S10024-38
Pending:
  Hatch Amendment No. 2429, to remove the arbitrary floor ceiling of 
the title I formula, and create an equalization factor allowing States 
to control the distribution of resources among local school districts 
in the State.
Pages S10041-43
  A unanimous-consent time-agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill and certain amendments to be proposed to the 
bill on Monday, August 1, 1994, with votes to occur thereon.
Page S10039
Nomination--Agreement: A unanimous-consent time-agreement was reached 
providing for the consideration of the nomination of Stephen G. Breyer, 
of Massachusetts, to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of 
the United States, on Friday, July 29, 1994, at 9 a.m.
  Page S10023
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Diana E. Murphy, of Minnesota, to be United States Circuit Judge for 
the Eighth Circuit.
  Shira A. Scheindlin, of New York, to be United States District Judge 
for the Southern District of New York.
  Dominic J. Squatrito, of Connecticut, to be United States District 
Judge for the District of Connecticut.
  3 Army nominations in the rank of general.
Page S10066
Messages From the House:
  Page S10050
Communications:
  Page S10050
Petitions:
  Pages S10050-51
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S10051-58
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S10058-59
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S10059-62
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S10062
Authority for Committees:
  Pages S10062-63
Additional Statements:
  Pages S10063-65
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total-241)
  Pages S10017, S10018, S10038
Recess: Senate convened at 8:30 a.m. and, as a further mark of respect 
to the memory of the late former Senator Hugh Scott, of Pennsylvania, 
in accordance with S. Res. 246, recessed at 10:18 p.m., until 8:45 
a.m., on Friday, July 29, 1994. (For Senate's program, see the remarks 
of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S10065.)