[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 86 (Tuesday, May 23, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
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                               Tuesday, May 23, 1995 [[Page D647]] 

                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S7137-S7268
Measures Introduced: Seven bills were introduced, as follows: S. 841-
847.
  Page S7244
Congressional Budget: Senate continued consideration of S. Con. Res. 
13, setting forth the congressional budget for the United States 
Government for the fiscal years 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 
2002, taking action on amendments proposed thereto, as follows:
  Pages S7137-S7229
Adopted:
  Stevens/Domenici Amendment No. 1129, to express the sense of the 
Congress regarding full funding for Decade of the Brain research.
Pages S7217-20
Rejected:
  (1) By 50 yeas to 50 nays (Vote No. 177), Roth Amendment No. 1121, to 
express the sense of the Senate that the number of Federal full-time 
equivalent positions should be further reduced.
Page S7197
  (2) By 31 yeas to 69 nays (Vote No. 178), Gramm Amendment No. 1123, 
in the nature of a substitute.
Pages S7161-79, S7197-98
  (3) By 40 yeas to 60 nays (Vote No. 180), Thurmond Amendment No. 
1125, to restore adequate defense budget levels and to provide for 
offsetting reductions from non-defense discretionary spending and non-
defense spending in the defense budget.
Pages S7185-96, S7198
Pending:
  (1) Harkin/Bumpers Amendment No. 1126, to reduce unnecessary military 
spending, holding military spending to a freeze in overall spending 
over 7 years protecting readiness and modernization activities and 
shifting the savings to education and job training, restoring a portion 
of the reductions proposed for those programs in the resolution.
Pages S7199-S7203
  (2) Feingold/Hollings Amendment No. 1127, to strike the budget 
surplus allowance provision (Section 204) from the resolution to 
eliminate the use of the fiscal dividend for further tax cuts.
Pages S7203-08
  (3) Snowe Amendment No. 1128, to increase funding for mandatory 
spending in function 500 (Education).
Pages S7208-17
  (4) Bumpers Amendment No. 1130, to strike the proposed change in the 
budget process rules which would permit the scoring of revenue derived 
from the sale of federal assets.
Pages S7220-25
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the pending amendments and certain amendments to be 
proposed on Wednesday, May 24, 1995.
Page S7198
  During consideration of this measure today, the Senate took the 
following action:
  By 47 yeas to 53 nays (Vote No. 176), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected a motion to waive section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act 
of 1974 with respect to consideration of Bradley Amendment No. 1122, to 
lessen tax increases on working families by using amounts set aside for 
a tax cut. Subsequently, a point of order that the amendment was in 
violation of Section 305(b)(2) of the Congressional Budget Act was 
sustained, and the amendment was ruled out of order.
Pages S7138-57, S7197
  By 47 yeas to 53 nays (Vote No. 179), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected a motion to waive section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act 
with respect to consideration of Exon Amendment No. 1124, to restore 
funding for seniors, education, agriculture, working families, 
veterans, and other Americans, using amounts set aside for a tax cut. 
Subsequently, a point of order that the amendment was in violation of 
Section 304(b)(2) of the Congressional Budget Act was sustained, and 
the amendment was ruled out of order.
Pages S7181-85, S7198
  Senate will continue consideration of the resolution on Wednesday, 
May 24, 1995.
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting the report relative to emigration laws and policies of 
the Republic of Romania; referred to the Committee on Finance. (PM-51).
Page S7244
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
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  Eugene Branstool, of Ohio, to be a Member of the Board of Directors 
of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation.
  Karl N. Stauber, of Minnesota, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture 
for Research, Education, and Economics. (New Position)
  Karl N. Stauber, of Minnesota, to be a Member of the Board of 
Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation.
  8 Air Force nominations in the rank of general.
  1 Army nomination in the rank of Chief of Staff of the Army.
  6 Army nominations 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.
  Routine lists in the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy.
Pages S7230-31, S7279-80
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Routine lists in the Air Force, Army, and Navy.
Pages S7268-79
Messages From the President:
  Page S7244
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S7244
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S7244-47
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S7247-48
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S7248-57
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S7257
Authority for Committees:
  Page S7258
Additional Statements:
  Pages S7258-68
Record Votes: Five record votes were taken today. (Total--180)
  Pages S7197-98
Recess: Senate convened at 8:30 a.m., and recessed at 10:35 p.m., until 
8 a.m., on Wednesday, May 24, 1995. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S7268.)