[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 48 (Wednesday, March 15, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D352]
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                           Wednesday, March 15, 1995 [[Page D351]] 

                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate agreed to the Conference Report on the Unfunded Mandate 
      Reform Act.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3909-S4000
Measures Introduced: Eleven bills were introduced, as follows: S. 557-
567.
  Pages S3963-64
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 S3909-18, S3926-39, S3944-61
Pending:
  Bumpers Amendment No. 330, to restrict the obligation or expenditure 
of funds on the NASA/Russian Cooperative MIR program.
Page S3909
Withdrawn:
  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 S3909-18, S3928-29
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate took the following 
action:
  By 58 yeas to 39 nays (Vote No. 103), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
failed to close further debate on Kassebaum Amendment No. 331 (to 
committee amendment beginning on page 1, line 3), listed above.
Page S3918
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for the pending 
cloture vote on the Kassebaum Amendment No. 331 (listed above), 
scheduled to occur on Thursday, March 16, be vitiated, the amendment be 
withdrawn, and the bill be returned to the Senate calendar.
Page S3961
Unfunded Mandates/Conference Report: By 91 yeas to 9 nays (Vote No. 
104), Senate agreed to 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 S3918-22
Paperwork Reduction Act: Senate disagreed to the amendment of the House 
to S. 244, to further the goals of the Paperwork Reduction Act to have 
Federal agencies become more responsible and publicly accountable for 
reducing the burden of Federal paperwork on the public, agreed to the 
request for a conference thereon, and appointed as conferees Senators 
Roth, Cohen, Cochran, Glenn, and Nunn.
  Pages S3994-S4000
Senate Disaster Task Force Report: Senate received the final report of 
the Senate Task Force on Funding Disaster Relief.
  Page S3922
Messages From the President: Senate received the following message from 
the President of the United States: Transmitting the report of the 
Executive order prohibiting certain transactions with respect to the 
development of Iranian petroleum resources; referred to the Committee 
on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM-33).
  Page S3963
Messages From the President:
  Page S3963
Messages From the House:
  Page S3963
Measures Referred:
  Page S3963
Measures Placed on Calendar:
  Pages S3949, S3963
Communications:
  Page S3963
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S3964-92 [[Page D352]] 
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S3992
Authority for Committees:
  Pages S3992-93
Additional Statements:
  Pages S3993-94
Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--104)
  Pages S3918, S3922
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 6:50 p.m., 
until 9 a.m., on Thursday, March 16, 1995. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S4000.)