[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 88 (Thursday, May 25, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
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                              Thursday, May 25, 1995 [[Page D665]] 

                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed Supplemental Rescissions Conference Report and 
      Congressional Budget Resolution.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S7405-S7581
Measures Introduced: Sixteen bills and five resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 851-866, S. Res. 125-127, and S. Con. Res. 
15 and 16.
  Page S7497
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 333, to direct the Secretary of Energy to institute certain 
procedures in the performance of risk assessments in connection with 
environmental restoration activities, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 104-87)
  S. 291, to reform the regulatory process, to make government more 
efficient and effective, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute. (S. Rept. No. 104-88)
Pages S7496-97
Measures Passed:
  Congressional Adjournment: Senate agreed to H. Con. Res. 72, 
providing for an adjournment of the two Houses.
  Pages S7422-23
  Honoring Father Joseph Damien de Veuster: Senate agreed to S. Res. 
125, honoring the contributions of Father Joseph Damien de Veuster for 
his service to humanity.
  Pages S7578-79
  Congressional Budget: By 57 yeas to 42 nays (Vote No. 232), Senate 
passed H. Con. Res. 67, setting forth the congressional budget for the 
United States Government for the fiscal years 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 
2000, 2001, and 2002, after striking all after the resolving clause and 
inserting in lieu thereof the text of S. Con Res. 13, Senate companion 
measure, and after taking action on amendments proposed thereto, as 
follows:
  Pages S7408-73
Adopted:
  (1) By a unanimous vote of 99 yeas (Vote No. 206), Exon (for Leahy) 
Amendment No. 1170, to express the sense of the Senate regarding the 
nutritional health of children.
Pages S7409-10
  (2) Exon (for Leahy) Amendment No. 1171, to express the sense of the 
Senate that Federal funding of law enforcement programs should be 
maintained, and Federal funding for the Violent Crime Reduction Trust 
Fund should not be reduced.
Page S7410
  (3) Exon (for Feingold) Amendment No. 1173, to express the sense of 
the Senate regarding the need to enact long-term care reforms to 
achieve lasting deficit reduction.
Pages S7411-12
  (4) Exon (for Baucus) Amendment No. 1178, to express the sense of the 
Senate regarding mandatory major assumptions under Function 270: 
Energy. (By 35 yeas to 64 nays (Vote No. 212), Senate earlier failed to 
table the amendment.)
Pages S7416-17
  (5) Exon (for Levin/Simon) Amendment No. 1179, to express the sense 
of the Senate regarding reducing overhead expenses in the Department of 
Defense.
Pages S7417-18
  (6) Exon (for Baucus) Modified Amendment No. 1180, to express the 
sense of the Senate regarding the essential air service program of the 
Department of Transportation.
Page S7418
  (7) By 54 yeas to 45 nays (Vote No. 214), Domenici (for Grams/
Abraham/Lieberman) Amendment No. 1182, to establish procedures to 
provide family tax relief and incentives to stimulate savings, 
investment, job creation, and economic growth.
Pages S7418-19
  (8) Exon (for Bingaman/Jeffords) Amendment No. 1191, to express the 
sense of the Senate regarding the priority that should be given to 
renewable energy and energy efficiency research, development, and 
demonstration activities.
Pages S7428-29
  (9) By 67 yeas to 32 nays (Vote No. 231), Domenici (for Snowe) 
Amendment No. 1197, to reduce the reconciliation instructions to the 
Committee on Labor and Human Resources from $13,795,000,000 in outlays 
over seven years to $4,395,000,000 by closing tax loopholes.
Pages S7442-44 [[Page D666]] 
Rejected:
  (1) By 31 yeas to 68 nays (Vote No. 204), Exon (for Lautenberg) 
Amendment No. 1168, to allow the transfer of $1 billion from the 
military budget for use in strengthening enforcement of immigration 
laws.
Page S7408
  (2) By 26 yeas to 73 nays (Vote No. 205), Exon (for Lautenberg) 
Amendment No. 1169, to allow the transfer of $2 billion from the 
military budget for use in addressing the problem of domestic violence.
Page S7409
  (3) Exon (for Harkin) Amendment No. 1172), to provide for additional 
medicare payment safeguards. (By 63 yeas to 36 nays (Vote No. 207), 
Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S7410-11
  (4) Exon (for Harkin) Amendment No. 1174, to express the sense of the 
Senate regarding losses to medicare and medicaid and other health 
programs due to disease and disability caused by tobacco products. (By 
68 yeas to 31 nays (Vote No. 208), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Page S7412
  (5) Exon (for Baucus) Modified Amendment No. 1181, to express the 
sense of the Senate regarding funding for the National Railroad 
Passenger Corporation. (By 50 yeas to 49 nays (Vote No. 213), Senate 
tabled the amendment.)
Page S7418
  (6) By 39 yeas to 60 nays (Vote No. 215), Exon (for Conrad) Amendment 
No. 1183, in the nature of a substitute.
Pages S7419-22
  (7) Exon (for Simon/Pell/Kennedy) Amendment No. 1184, to eliminate 
Section 207: Credit Reform and Guaranteed Student Loans. (By 56 yeas to 
43 nays (Vote No. 216), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Page S7423
  (8) Exon (for Harkin) Amendment No. 1185, to reduce military spending 
by $100 to reduce the deficit. (By 73 yeas to 26 nays (Vote No. 221), 
Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S7423-24, S7428
  (9) Domenici (for Craig) Amendment No. 1186 (to Amendment No. 1185), 
to express the sense of the Congress that swine research be reduced by 
$100. (The amendment fell when Amendment No. 1185, listed above, was 
tabled.)
Pages S7424, S7428
  (10) Exon (for Simon/Bumpers) Amendment No. 1187, to eliminate the 
firewall between defense and nondefense discretionary accounts. (By 65 
yeas to 33 nays (Vote No. 217), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S7424-25
  (11) Exon (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 1188, to express the sense of 
the Senate regarding the inclusion in Medicare spending in the 
concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1996. (By 58 yeas 
to 41 nays (Vote No. 218), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S7425, S7427
  (12) Exon (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 1189, to restore $28 billion in 
outlays over seven years to reduce by $22 billion the discretionary 
cuts proposed in elementary and secondary education programs and reduce 
the reconciliation instructions to the Committee on Labor and Human 
Resources by $6 billion by closing corporate tax loopholes. (By 54 yeas 
to 45 nays (Vote No. 219), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S7425-28
  (13) Exon (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 1190, to add $8,871,091,316 in 
Budget Authority and $6,770,659,752 in Outlays to Function 500 over 
seven years to restore funding to the Pell Grant Program by closing tax 
loopholes. (By 54 yeas to 45 nays (Vote No. 220), Senate tabled the 
amendment.)
Pages S7426-28
  (14) Exon (for Bradley) Amendment No. 1193, to restore cuts in 
Medicare and NIH by raising the tobacco tax by $1 a pack. (By 62 yeas 
to 38 nays (Vote No. 223), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S7430-33
  (15) Exon (for Bradley) Amendment No. 1194, to express the sense of 
the Senate that Congress should remove tax loopholes and use the 
savings from closing special interest tax loopholes to reduce tax rates 
broadly for all classes of taxpayers. (By 53 yeas to 47 nays (Vote No. 
224), Senate tabled the amendment.
Pages S7433-34
  (16) By 45 yeas to 55 nays (Vote No. 226), Exon (for Wellstone) 
Amendment No. 1195, to express the sense of the Senate that the 
Committee on Finance will limit or eliminate excessive and unnecessary 
tax expenditures, and express the sense of the Senate regarding the 
delivery of veterans' services.
Pages S7435-37
  (17) By 12 yeas to 87 nays (Vote No. 227), Exon (for Wellstone) 
Amendment No. 1138, to reduce fiscal year 1996 defense spending by $10 
billion and apply the savings to deficit reduction.
Pages S7436-37
  (18) Exon (for Wellstone) Amendment No. 1136, to direct the Committee 
on Finance to further reduce the deficit by limiting or eliminating 
excessive and unnecessary tax expenditures. (By 84 yeas to 15 nays 
(Vote No. 228), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S7437-39, S7443-44
  (19) Exon (for Wellstone) Amendment No. 1141, to express the sense of 
the Senate regarding low-priority domestic discretionary funding to be 
reduced in order to pay for partial restoration of funding for the 
National Institutes of Health. (By 81 yeas to 18 nays (Vote No. 229), 
Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S7439-40, S7444
  (20) Exon (for Bradley) Amendment No. 1196, in the nature of a 
substitute. (By 86 yeas to 13 nays (Vote No. 230), Senate tabled the 
amendment.)
Pages S7440-42, S7444
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
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  By 42 yeas to 57 nays (Vote No. 209), 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 Exon (for Johnston) Amendment 
No. 1175, to provide for the restoration of Medicare funding. 
Subsequently, a point of order that the amendment was in violation of 
Section 305(b)(2) was sustained, and the amendment was ruled out of 
order.
Pages S7412-13
  By 46 yeas to 53 nays (Vote No. 210), 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 Exon (for Reid) Amendment No. 
1176, to restore funding for national parks 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) was sustained, and the amendment was 
ruled out of order.
Page S7413
  By 43 yeas to 56 nays (Vote No. 211), 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 Exon (for Sarbanes) Amendment 
No. 1177, to restore funding for water infrastructure grants. 
Subsequently, a point of order that the amendment was in violation of 
Section 305(b)(2) was sustained, and the amendment was ruled out of 
order.
Pages S7413-16
  By 44 yeas to 56 nays (Vote No. 222), 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 Exon (for Bradley) Amendment 
No. 1192, to establish a process to identify and control tax 
expenditures by setting a target for cuts. Subsequently, a point of 
order that the amendment was in violation of Section 305(b)(2) was 
sustained, and the amendment was ruled out of order.
Pages S7429-30, S7433
  By 40 yeas to 60 nays (Vote No. 225), Senate rejected a motion to 
recommit the resolution to the Committee on the Budget with 
instructions.
Pages S7434-35, S7437
  Senate insisted on its amendment, requested a conference with the 
House thereon, and the Chair was authorized to appoint conferees on the 
part of the Senate.
Page S7423
  Subsequently, S. Con. Res. 13 was returned to the Senate Calendar.
Page S7578
Supplemental Rescissions Conference Report-Agreement: By 61 yeas to 38 
nays (Vote No. 203), Senate agreed to the conference report on H.R. 
1158, making emergency supplemental appropriations for additional 
disaster assistance and making rescissions for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1995, clearing the measure for the President.
  Pages S7405-07
Comprehensive Terrorism Prevention Act: Senate began consideration of 
S. 735, to prevent and punish acts of terrorism, taking action on 
amendments proposed thereto, as follows:
  Pages S7479-89
Pending:
  Hatch Amendment No. 1199, in the nature of a substitute.
Pages S7479-89
  Senate will continue consideration of the bill on Friday, May 26, 
1995.
Appointments:
  Advisory Committee on Records of Congress: The Chair announced, on 
behalf of the Republican Leader, pursuant to Public Law 101-509, his 
appointment of Dr. William L. Richter, of Kansas, to the Advisory 
Committee on the Records of Congress.
  Page S7581
  Advisory Committee on Records of Congress: The Chair announced, on 
behalf of the Secretary of the Senate, pursuant to Public Law 101-509, 
her appointment of Richard N. Smith, of California, to the Advisory 
Committee on the Records of Congress.
  Page S7581
Authority for Committees: All committees were authorized to file 
executive and legislative reports during the recess/adjournment of the 
Senate on Wednesday, May 31, 1995, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
  Page S7579
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting the report on the state of small business; referred to 
the Committee on Small Business. (PM-53).
Pages S7495-96
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  Ronna Lee Beck, of the District of Columbia, to be an Associate Judge 
of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for the term of 
fifteen years.
  Linda Kay Davis, of the District of Columbia, to be an Associate 
Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for the term of 
fifteen years.
  Eric T. Washington, of the District of Columbia, to be an Associate 
Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for the term of 
fifteen years.
  Rose Ochi, of California, to be an Associate Director for National 
Drug Control Policy.
  George K. McKinney, of Maryland, to be United States Marshal for the 
District of Maryland for the term of four years.
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  Bruce A. Morrison, of Connecticut, to be a Director of the Federal 
Housing Finance Board for a term expiring February 27, 2000.
  J. Timothy O'Neill, of Virginia, to be a Director of the Federal 
Housing Finance Board for the remainder of the term expiring February 
27, 1997.
  G. Edward DeSeve, of Pennsylvania, to be Controller, Office of 
Federal Financial Management, Office of Management and Budget.
  S. David Fineman, of Pennsylvania, to be a Governor of the United 
States Postal Service for the term expiring December 8, 2003.
  Susan Y. Illston, of California, to be United States District Judge 
for the Northern District of California.
  Inez Smith Reid, of the District of Columbia, to be an Associate 
Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals for the term of 
fifteen years.
  Mary Beck Briscoe, of Kansas, to be United States Circuit Judge for 
the Tenth Circuit.
  John Garvan Murtha, of Vermont, to be United States District Judge 
for the District of Vermont.
  George A. O'Toole, Jr., of Massachusetts, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Massachusetts.
  John W. Carlin, of Kansas, to be Archivist of the United States.
  Robert F. Rider, of Delaware, to be a Governor of the United States 
Postal Service for the remainder of the term expiring December 8, 1995.
  Patrick M. Ryan, of Oklahoma, to be United States Attorney for the 
Western District of Oklahoma for the term of four years.
  71 Air Force nominations in the rank of general.
  1 Army nomination in the rank of Vice Chief of Staff of the Army.
  18 Army nominations in the rank of general.
  4 Navy nominations in the rank of admiral.
  Routine lists in the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps.
Pages S7579-83
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Kenneth H. Bacon, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Defense.
  Sheryl R. Marshall, of Massachusetts, to be a Member of the Federal 
Retirement Thrift Investment Board for a term expiring October 11, 
1998.
  Peggy A. Nagae, of Oregon, to be a Member of the Board of Directors 
of the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund for a term of three years.
Page S7581
Messages From the President:
  Pages S7495-96
Messages From the House:
  Page S7496
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S7497
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S7498-S7528
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S7528
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S7530-70
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S7570
Authority for Committees:
  Page S7571
Additional Statements:
  Pages S7571-77
Record Votes: Thirty record votes were taken today. (Total--232)
  Pages S7405, S7408-13, S7416-19, S7422-23, S7425, S7427-28, S7433-34, 
S7437, S7443-44, S7473
Recess: Senate convened at 9 a.m., and recessed at 8:32 p.m., until 10 
a.m., on Friday, May 26, 1995. (For Senate's program, see the remarks 
of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S7581.)