[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 105 (Wednesday, August 3, 1994)]
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                                               Wednesday, August 3, 1994

                              Daily Digest

[D03AU4-1]{D927}Senate


                                 Senate

[D03AU4-2]{D927}Chamber Ac
Chamber Action
[D03AU4-3]{D927}Routine Pr
Routine Proceedings, pages S10397-S10543
Measures Introduced: Six bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 2353-2358, and S. Res. 247.
  Page S10538
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
[D03AU4-4]{D927}S. 823, to
  S. 823, to amend the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 
1966 to improve the management of the National Wildlife Refuge System, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 103-324)
Page S10538
Measures Passed:
  Condemning International Terrorism: Senate agreed to S. Res. 247, 
condemning the recent acts of international terrorism committed against 
Jewish communities in Argentina, Panama, and Great Britain.
  Pages S10489-90
VA/HUD Appropriations, 1995: Senate continued consideration of H.R. 4624, 
making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing 
and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, 
commissions, corporations, and offices 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 S10397-S10489, S10490-S10500, S10503-21
Adopted:
[D03AU4-5]{D927}(1) By a u
  (1) By a unanimous vote of 100 yeas (Vote No. 254), Dole/Gregg Amendment 
No. 2445, to express the sense of the Senate concerning authorization for 
the deployment of United States Armed Forces in Haiti.
Pages S10415-33
[D03AU4-6]{D927}(2) Mikuls
  (2) Mikulski (for Riegle) Amendment No. 2448 (to committee amendment on 
page 47), of a perfecting nature.
Pages S10518-19
[D03AU4-7]{D927}(3) Mikuls
  (3) Mikulski Amendment No. 2449, to make technical and conforming 
corrections, and to make further amendments.
Pages S10519-21
Rejected:
[D03AU4-8]{D927}(1) By 36
  (1) By 36 yeas to 64 nays (Vote No. 253), Bumpers Amendment No. 2444, to 
reduce funding for the implementation of the Space Station Program for the 
purpose of terminating the program.
Pages S10397-S10415
[D03AU4-9]{D927}(2) Johnst
  (2) Johnston Amendment No. 2446, to impose a limitation on the use of 
funding to promulgate, implement, or enforce an EPA regulation mandating a 
specified percentage market share for ethanol oxygenates in reformulated 
gasoline, and to reduce funding for NASA procurement expenses. (By 51 yeas 
to 50 nays, with the Vice President voting in the affirmative (Vote No. 
255), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S10433-89
Withdrawn:
[D03AU4-10]{D927}Murkowski
  Murkowski Amendment No. 2447, to achieve funding parity between the Arctic 
and Antarctic research programs funded under the United States Polar 
Research Programs of the National Science Foundation.
Pages S10491-92
[D03AU4-11]{D927}A unanimou
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill and certain amendments to be proposed thereto, on 
Thursday, August 4.
Messages From the House:
  Page S10537
Measures Referred:
  Page S10537
Communications:
  Pages S10537-38
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S10538
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S10538-40
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S10540
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S10540-42
Authority for Committees:
  Page S10542
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total--255)
  Pages S10415, S10433, S10489
Recess: Senate convened at 9 a.m., recessed at 8:15 p.m., until 9 a.m., on 
Thursday, August 4, 1994. (For Senate's program, see the remarks of the 
Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on pages S10542-43.)
[D03AU4-12]{D927}Committee