[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 46 (Monday, March 13, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D337]
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                              Monday, March 13, 1995 [[Page D337]] 

                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3823-S3852
Measures Introduced: Four bills were introduced, as follows: S. 542-
545.
  Page S3842
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations/Defense: Senate continued 
consideration of H.R. 889, making emergency supplemental appropriations 
and rescissions to preserve and enhance the military readiness of the 
Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, 
with certain excepted committee amendments, and the following 
amendments proposed thereto:
  Pages S3831-40
Pending:
  Bumpers Amendment No. 330, to restrict the obligation or expenditure 
of funds on the NASA/Russian Cooperative MIR program.
Page S3831
  Kassebaum Amendment No. 331 (to committee amendment beginning on page 
1, line 3), to limit funding of an Executive order that would prohibit 
Federal contractors from hiring permanent replacements for striking 
workers.
Page S3831
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that the first 
cloture vote on the Kassebaum Amendment No. 331, listed above, 
scheduled to occur at 5:30 p.m. today, be vitiated and rescheduled to 
occur on Wednesday, March 15, at 10:30 a.m.
Page S3825
  A further unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that the 
second cloture vote on Kassebaum Amendment No. 331, listed above, 
scheduled to occur on Tuesday, March 14, be rescheduled to occur (if 
necessary) on Thursday, March 16, at a time to be determined.
Page S3825
  Senate will continue consideration of the bill on Tuesday, March 14, 
1995.
Unfunded Mandates/Conference Report--Agreement: A unanimous-consent 
time agreement was reached providing for the consideration of the 
conference report on 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, on Tuesday, March 14, 1995.
  Page S3851
Communications:
  Page S3842
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S3842-48
Notices of Hearings:
  Pages S3848-49
Authority for Committees:
  Page S3849
Additional Statements:
  Pages S3849-51
Recess: Senate convened at 12:30 p.m., and recessed at 5:14 p.m., until 
11:30 a.m., on Tuesday, March 14, 1995. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S3851.)