[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 106 (Thursday, August 4, 1994)]
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                                           Thursday, August 4, 1994

                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed VA/HUD Appropriations, 1995.
      House cleared conference reports on interstate banking and 
      branching, community development financial institutions, and 
      foreign operations appropriations.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S10545-S10645
Measures Introduced: Six bills were introduced, as follows: S. 2359-
2364.
  Page S10631
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follow:
  Special Report on Further Revised Allocation to Subcommittees of 
Budget Totals. (S. Rept. No. 103-325)
Page S10631
Measures Passed:
  VA/HUD Appropriations, 1995: By 86 yeas to 9 nays (Vote No. 262), 
Senate passed 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, after agreeing to 
further committee amendments, and taking action on amendments proposed 
thereto, as follows:
  Pages S10545-S10600
Adopted:
  (1) Reid Amendment No. 2451, to prohibit the use of funds to provide 
any individual assistance or benefit to individuals or entities in the 
United States unless the Federal entity or official to which the funds 
are made available takes reasonable actions to determine whether the 
individual is in a lawful immigration status in the United States.
Pages S10557-58
  (2) By a unanimous vote of 98 yeas (Vote No. 259), Lautenberg 
Modified Amendment No. 2453, to express the sense of the Senate 
condemning the murder of a doctor and escort serving a reproductive 
health clinic in Pensacola, Florida, and urging the Administration to 
take steps to protect persons who work at, and women who wish to enter 
such clinics.
Pages S10567-70, S10579
  (3) Mikulski Amendment No. 2456, to provide funds for a medical 
center/nursing home in Brevard County, Florida, and for a satellite 
outpatient clinic in Orlando, Florida.
Page S10580
  (4) Mikulski (for Brown) Amendment No. 2457, to express the sense of 
the Senate concerning the Environmental Protection Agency action to 
modify its existing environmental audition policy to consider the 
environmental self-evaluation privilege.
Page S10580
Rejected:
  (1) Murkowski Amendment No. 2450, to prohibit the use of funds for 
the construction of acute care, inpatient hospital capacity by the 
Department of Veterans Affairs. (By 62 yeas to 36 nays (Vote No. 256), 
Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S10547-57
  (2) Cohen/Mack Amendment No. 2452, to eliminate funding for Section 8 
housing subsidies financed by pension funds. (By 55 yeas to 43 nays 
(Vote No. 257), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S10560-65
  (3) By 27 yeas to 71 nays (Vote No. 260), Smith Amendment No. 2454 
(to committee amendment on page 22, lines 18-25), to redistribute 
$135,000,000 from special purpose grants to community development block 
grants.
Pages S10570-75, S10580
  (4) By 37 yeas to 61 nays (Vote No. 261), Smith Amendment No. 2455 
(to committee amendment on page 60), to redistribute Water 
Infrastructure/State Revolving funds on an equitable basis.
Pages S10576-80
Withdrawn:
  Helms Amendment No. 2458, to express the sense of the Senate 
regarding the role of the Senate in consideration the GATT agreement.
Pages S10582-91
  During consideration of this bill today, the Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 14 yeas to 84 nays (Vote No. 258), 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 S10565-67, S10579
  Senate insisted on its amendments, requested a conference with the 
House thereon, and the Chair appointed the following conferees: 
Senators Mikulski, Leahy, Johnston, Lautenberg, Kerrey, Feinstein, 
Byrd, Gramm, D'Amato, Nickles, Bond, Burns, and Hatfield.
Page S10599
  Desalinization Research and Development Act: Senate passed S. 617, to 
authorize research into the desalinization of water and water reuse and 
to authorize a program for States, cities, or any qualifying agency 
which desires to own and operate a desalinization or water reuse 
facility to develop such facilities, after agreeing to committee 
amendments.
  Pages S10609-12
  National U.S. Seafood Week: Committee on the Judiciary was discharged 
from further consideration of S.J. Res. 194, to designate the second 
week of August 1994, and the second week of August 1995, as ``National 
U.S. Seafood Week,'' and the resolution was then agreed to, after 
agreeing to the following amendment proposed thereto:
  Page S10612
  Reid (for Biden) Amendment No. 2459, to strike the second week of 
August 1995.
Page S10612
Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations, 1995--Agreement: A unanimous-
consent agreement was reached providing for the consideration of H.R. 
4606, making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 1995, on Friday, August 5.
  Page S10600
Messages From the House:
  Pages S10629-30
Petitions:
  Pages S10630-31
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S10631-41
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S10641-42
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S10642-43
Authority for Committees:
  Pages S10643-44
Additional Statements:
  Pages S10644-45
Record Votes: Seven record votes were taken today. (Total--262)
  Pages S10557, S10564-65, S10579-80, S10599
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9 a.m., and adjourned at 8:54 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m., on Friday, August 5, 1994. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S10645.)