[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 22 (Friday, February 3, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D136]
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                            Friday, February 3, 1995 [[Page D136]] 

                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S2075-S2146
Measures Introduced: Six bills were introduced, as follows: S. 351-356.
  Page S2124
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 178, to amend the Commodity Exchange Act to extend the 
authorization for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. (S. Rept. 
No. 104-7)
Page S2124
Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment: Senate continued 
consideration of H.J. Res. 1, proposing a balanced budget amendment to 
the Constitution of the United States.
  Pages S2084-S2119
Pending:
  Daschle motion to commit the resolution, with instructions to report 
back forthwith, with Daschle Amendment No. 231, to require a budget 
plan before the amendment takes effect.
Pages S2089-S2119
  Dole Amendment No. 232 (with instructions to commit), to establish 
that if Congress has not passed a Balanced Budget Amendment to the 
Constitution by May 1, 1995, within 60 days thereafter, the President 
shall transmit to Congress a detailed plan to balance the budget by the 
year 2002.
Pages S2090-S2119
  Dole Amendment No. 233 (to Amendment No. 232), in the nature of a 
substitute.
Pages S2090-S2119
  Senate will resume consideration of the resolution on Monday, 
February 6.
Unfunded Mandate Reform: Senate disagreed to the amendments of the 
House to 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, agreed to the request of the House for a conference 
thereon, and the Chair appointed the following conferees: Senators 
Roth, Domenici, Kempthorne, Glenn, and Exon.
  Pages S2140-45
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting the report on the national emergency with Haiti; 
referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM-
8).
Pages S2122-23
  Transmitting the report of a proclamation to amend the Generalized 
System of Preferences; referred to the Committee on Finance. (PM-9).
Page S2123
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Eldon E. Fallon, of Louisiana, to be United States District Judge for 
the Eastern District of Louisiana.
  Routine lists in the Coast Guard, Air Force, Army, Marine Corps.
Pages S2145-46
Messages From the President:
  Pages S2122-23
Messages From the House:
  Page S2124
Measures Referred:
  Page S2145
Communications:
  Page S2124
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S2124-35
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S2135
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S2135-38
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S2138
Additional Statements:
  Pages S2138-39
Recess: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and recessed at 4:55 p.m., until 
10 a.m., on Monday, February 6, 1995. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S2145.)