[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 24 (Tuesday, February 7, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D150]
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                           Tuesday, February 7, 1995 [[Page D150]] 

                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S2217-S2276
Measures Introduced: Nine bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 360-368 and S. Con. Res. 5.
  Pages S2268, S2274
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 S2218-55
 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 S2218, S2230-31, S2253-54
  Dole Amendment No. 232 (to 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.
Page S2218
  Dole Amendment No. 233 (to Amendment No. 232), in the nature of a 
substitute.
Page S2218
  Senate will resume consideration of the resolution on Wednesday, 
February 8, with a vote on a motion to table the Daschle motion to 
commit to occur thereon.
Page S2217
Appointments:
   Senate Arms Control Observer Group: The Chair, on behalf of the 
Majority Leader, pursuant to S. Res. 105, adopted April 13, 1989, as 
amended by S. Res. 280, adopted October 8, 1994, announced the 
following appointments and designations to the Senate Arms Control 
Observer Group: Senator Stevens as Majority Administrative Co-Chairman; 
and Senators Thurmond and Lugar as Co-Chairmen for the Majority.
  Page S2255
   Joint Committee on Taxation: The Chair announced, on behalf of the 
Chairman of the Finance Committee, pursuant to section 8002 of title 
26, United States Code, a substitution in the membership of the Joint 
Committee on Taxation: Senator Hatch for the duration of the 104th 
Congress only, in lieu of Senator Dole, resigned.
  Page S2255
Messages From the House:
  Page S2267
Measures Referred:
  Page S2267
Communications:
  Pages S2267-68
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S2268-73
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S2273
Amendments Submitted:
  Page S2274
Additional Statements:
  Pages S2274-76
Recess: Senate convened at 10 a.m., and recessed at 6:19 p.m., until 
9:15 a.m., on Wednesday, February 8, 1995. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S2276.)