[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 9 (Tuesday, January 17, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D47]
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                            Tuesday, January 17, 1995 [[Page D47]] 

                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S957-S1015
Measures Introduced: Two bills and ten resolutions were introduced, as 
follows: S. 231 and 232; S.J. Res. 18 and 19; and S. Res. 54-61.
  Pages S1003-04
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. Res. 54, authorizing expenditures by the Judiciary Committee.
  S. Res. 56, authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Commerce, 
Science, and Transportation.
Page S1003
Measures Passed:
  Majority Committee Appointments: Senate agreed to S. Res. 57, making 
majority party appointments to the Small Business and Aging Committees 
for the 104th Congress.
  Page S1014
  Joint Committee Membership: Senate agreed to S. Res. 58, providing 
for members on the part of the Senate of the Joint Committee on 
Printing and the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library.
  Page S1014
  Printing Authority: Senate agreed to S. Res. 59, to authorize the 
printing of a collection of the rules of the committees of the Senate.
  Page S1014
Unfunded Mandates: Senate continued consideration of S. 1, to curb the 
practice of imposing unfunded Federal mandates on States and local 
governments; to strengthen the partnership between the Federal 
Government and State, local, and tribal governments; to end the 
imposition, in the absence of full consideration by Congress, of 
Federal mandates on State, local, and tribal governments without 
adequate funding, in a manner that may displace other essential 
governmental priorities; and to ensure that the Federal Government pays 
the costs incurred by those governments in complying with certain 
requirements under Federal statutes and regulations, with certain 
excepted committee amendments, taking action on amendments proposed 
thereto, as follows:
  Pages S961-85, S987-S1000
Rejected:
  Committee amendment number 9, beginning on page 15, line 6, to modify 
language relating to reports on Federal mandates. (By 55 yeas to 39 
nays (Vote No. 20), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S961-76
  Committee amendment number 10, beginning on page 15, line 23, 
relating to committee report requirements under Federal 
intergovernmental mandates. (By 52 yeas to 42 nays (Vote No. 21), 
Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S987-88
Pending:
  Committee amendment number 11, beginning on page 25, line 11, 
pertaining to committee jurisdiction. (By 27 yeas to 66 nays (Vote No. 
22), Senate failed to table the amendment.)
Pages S988-98
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the bill and, in 
accordance with the provisions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate, a vote on the cloture motion will occur on Thursday, 
January 19.
Pages S998-S1000
  Senate will resume consideration of the bill on Wednesday, January 
18.
Messages From the House:
  Page S1002
Communications:
  Pages S1002-03
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S1004-08
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S1008
Authority for Committees:
  Page S1014
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total--22)
  Pages S976, S998
Recess: Senate convened at 9:15 a.m., and recessed at 7:37 p.m., until 
11:30 a.m., on Wednesday, January 18, 1995. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on pages 
S1014-15.)