[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 47 (Tuesday, March 14, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
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                             Tuesday, March 14, 1995 [[Page D342]] 

                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      House Committee ordered reported Contract With America Tax Relief 
      Act.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3853-S3908
Measures Introduced: Eleven bills were introduced, as follows: S. 546-
556.
  Page S3891
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 S3853-54, S3869-75
Pending:
  Bumpers Amendment No. 330, to restrict the obligation or expenditure 
of funds on the NASA/Russian Cooperative MIR program.
Page S3869
  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.
Pages S3853-54, S3869-75
  Senate will continue consideration of the bill on Wednesday, March 
15, 1995, with a vote on a motion to invoke cloture on Kassebaum 
Amendment No. 331, listed above, to occur at 10:30 a.m.
Unfunded Mandates/Conference Report: Senate began 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.
  Pages S3859-60, S3875-90
  A vote on the adoption of the conference report will occur on 
Wednesday, March 15.
Appointments:
  British-American Interparliamentary Group: The Chair, on behalf of 
the President pro tempore, and upon the recommendation of the Minority 
Leader, pursuant to Public Law 102-138, appointed Senator Heflin as 
Vice Chairman of the Senate Delegation to the British-American 
Interparliamentary Group during the 104th Congress.
  Page S3867
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Mary Beck Briscoe, of Kansas, to be United States Circuit Judge for 
the Tenth Circuit.
  4 Air Force nominations in the rank of general.
  1 Army nomination in the rank of general.
  1 Marine Corps nomination in the rank of Commandant of the Marine 
Corps.
  1 Navy nomination in the rank of admiral.
  A routine list in the Army.
Page S3908
Messages From the House:
  Page S3890
Measures Read First Time:
  Page S3890
Communications:
  Pages S3890-91
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S3891-S3903
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S3903-05
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S3905
Authority for Committees:
  Page S3905
Additional Statements:
  Pages S3905-07
Adjournment: Senate convened at 11:30 a.m., and adjourned at 6:19 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m., on Wednesday, March 15, 1995. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on pages 
S3907-08.) [[Page D343]]