[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 62 (Tuesday, April 4, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5156-S5157]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                          AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED

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       EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS AND RESCISSIONS ACT

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                      WELLSTONE AMENDMENT NO. 450

  Mr. WELLSTONE proposed an amendment to the bill (H.R. 1158) making 
emergency supplemental appropriations for additional disaster 
assistance and making rescissions for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 1995, and for other purposes; as follows:

       At an appropriate place in the bill, insert the following:
       ``Sec.   . It is the Sense of the Senate that before the 
     Senate is required to vote on the question of whether the WIC 
     program and other nutrition programs should be converted to 
     block grant programs to be administered by the states, a full 
     and complete investigation should be conducted by the Senate 
     Committee on Agriculture to determine whether, and if so, to 
     what extent, such a proposed substantial change in national 
     policy is the result of the improper influence of the food 
     industry and lobbyists acting on the industry's behalf.''
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                 DOLE (AND McCONNELL) AMENDMENT NO. 451

  Mr. DOLE (for himself and Mr. McConnell) proposed an amendment to 
amendment No. 450 proposed by Mr. Wellstone to the bill H.R. 1158, 
supra; as follows:

       In lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted, insert the 
     following:
    [[Page S5157]] foreign operations, export financing and related 
                                programs

                     bilateral economic assistance

                  funds appropriated to the president

                           debt restructuring

                         debt relief for jordan

       For the cost, as defined in section 502 of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974, of modifying direct loans 
     to Jordan issued by the Export-Import Bank or by the Agency 
     for International Development or by the Department of 
     Defense, or for the cost of modifying: (1) concessional loans 
     authorized under Title I of the Agricultural Trade 
     Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as amended, and (2) 
     credits owed by Jordan to the Commodity Credit Corporation, 
     as a result of the Corporations's status as a guarantor of 
     credits in connection with export sales to Jordan; as 
     authorized under subsection (a) under the heading, ``Debt 
     Relief for Jordan'', in title VI of Public Law 103-306, 
     $275,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 1996: 
     Provided, That not more than $50,000,000 of the funds 
     appropriated by this paragraph may be obligated prior to 
     October 1, 1995.
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                       BINGAMAN AMENDMENT NO. 452

  (Ordered to lie on the table.)
  Mr. BINGAMAN submitted an amendment intended to proposed by him to 
amendment No. 420 proposed by Mr. Hatfield to the bill H.R. 1158, 
supra; as follows:

       On page 35, lines 21 through 23, strike all beginning with 
     ``$15,200,000'' through ``title III-B, $5,000,000, and'', and 
     insert ``$5,200,000 are rescinded as follows: from the 
     Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965,''.
       On page 43, line 17, strike ``$1,300,000,000'' and insert 
     ``$1,310,000,000''.
     

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