[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 96 (Tuesday, June 13, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
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                              Tuesday, June 13, 1995 [[Page D719]] 

                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S8199-S8292
Measures Introduced: Three bills were introduced, as follows: S. 917-
919.
  Pages S8254-55
Telecommunications Competition/Deregulation Act: Senate continued 
consideration of S. 652, to provide for a pro-competitive, de-
regulatory national policy framework designed to accelerate rapidly 
private sector deployment of advanced telecommunications and 
information technologies and services to all Americans by opening all 
telecommunications markets to competition, taking action on amendments 
proposed thereto, as follows:
  Pages S8206-54
Adopted:
  (1) Conrad Amendment No. 1275, to provide means of limiting the 
exposure of children to violent programming on television. (By 26 yeas 
to 73 nays, 1 voting present (Vote No. 256), Senate earlier failed to 
table the amendment.)
Pages S8225-30, S8232-35, S8251-52
  (2) Lieberman Modified Amendment No. 1347 (to Amendment No. 1275), to 
revise the provisions relating to the establishment of a system for 
rating violence and other objectionable content on television.
Pages S8226-27, S8230-35, S8247-51
  (3) By a unanimous vote of 100 yeas (Vote No. 257), Simon/Dole 
Amendment No. 1349, to express the sense of the Senate regarding 
limiting the amount of broadcasting of violent and aggressive 
programming.
Pages S8250, S8252
  (4) Kerrey Amendment No. 1335, to provide that the incidental 
services which Bell operating companies may provide shall include two-
way interactive video services or Internet services to or for 
elementary and secondary schools.
Pages S8237, S8252
  (5) Pressler (for Exon) Amendment No. 1350, to assure that the 
national security is protected when considering grants of common 
carrier license to foreign entities and other persons.
Pages S8252-54
  (6) Pressler (for Byrd) Amendment No. 1351 (to Amendment No. 1350), 
to require a report on objections to determinations of the Federal 
Communications Commission for purposes of termination of foreign 
ownership restrictions and to revise the determinations of market 
opportunities for such purposes.
Pages S8253-54
Rejected:
  (1) Thurmond Modified Amendment No. 1265 (to Amendment No. 1264), to 
provide for the review by the Attorney General of the United States of 
the entry of the Bell operating companies into interexchange 
telecommunications and manufacturing markets. (By 57 yeas to 43 nays 
(Vote No. 250), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S8206-09, S8215-25
  (2) By 18 yeas to 82 nays (Vote No. 251), McCain Amendment No. 1276, 
to require a voucher system to provide for payment of universal 
service.
Pages S8209-12, S8239
  (3) Bumpers/Daschle Amendment No. 1348, to protect consumers of 
electric utility holding companies engaged in the provision of 
telecommunications services. (By 52 yeas to 48 nays (Vote No. 252), 
Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S8235-37, S8239-40
  (4) By 47 yeas to 52 nays, 1 voting present (Vote No. 255), upon 
reconsideration, Dorgan Modified Amendment No. 1278, to provide Federal 
Communications review of television broadcast ownership restrictions.
Pages S8241-47
  Prior to this action, by 51 yeas to 48 nays, 1 voting present (Vote 
No. 253), Senate earlier agreed to Amendment No. 1278, listed above.
Pages S8213-15, S8241-46
Withdrawn:
  Dorgan Modified Amendment No. 1264, to require Department of Justice 
approval for Regional Bell Operating Company entry into long distance 
services, based on the VIII(c) standard.
Pages S8206, S8225
Pending:
  Feinstein/Kempthorne Amendment No. 1270, to strike the authority of 
the Federal Communications Commission to preempt State or local 
regulations that establish barriers to entry for interstate or 
intrastate telecommunications services.
Page S8206
  Gorton Amendment No. 1277 (to Amendment No. 1270), to limit, rather 
than strike, the preemption language.
Pages S8212-13
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  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 48 yeas to 52 nays (Vote No. 254), Senate rejected a motion to 
table the motion to reconsider Vote No. 253, listed above.
Page S8246
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill and the amendments pending thereto, on 
Wednesday, June 14, with votes to occur thereon.
Page S8289
  A second motion was entered to close further debate on the bill, and 
in accordance with the provisions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate, a vote on the cloture motion will occur on Thursday, June 
15.
Page S8254
  Senate will resume consideration of the bill on Wednesday, June 14, 
with a cloture vote to occur thereon.
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting the report of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development for calendar year 1993; referred to the Committee on 
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM-55).
Page S8254
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  Robert F. Rider, of Delaware, to be a Governor of the United States 
Postal Service for the term expiring December 8, 2004.
  John D. Hawke, Jr., of New York, to be Under Secretary of the 
Treasury.
  Linda Lee Robertson, of Oklahoma, to be a Deputy Under Secretary of 
the Treasury.
Pages S8245, S8292
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Edward Scott Blair, of Tennessee, to be United States Marshal for the 
Middle District of Tennessee for the term of four years.
  Michael William Cotter, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Turkmenistan.
  James E. Goodby, of the District of Columbia, for the rank of 
Ambassador during his tenure of service as Principal Negotiator and 
Special Representative of the President for Nuclear Safety and 
Dismantlement.
  Victor Jackovich, of Iowa, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Slovenia.
  A. Elizabeth Jones, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Kazakhstan.
  John Raymond Malott, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to Malaysia.
  John K. Menzies, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  Kenneth Michael Quinn, of Iowa, to be Ambassador to Cambodia.
  John Todd Stewart, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Moldova.
  Routine lists in the Air Force, Navy.
Page S8292
Messages From the President:
  Page S8254
Communications:
  Page S8254
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S8255-65
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S8265
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S8265-88
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S8288
Authority for Committees:
  Pages S8288-89
Additional Statements:
  Page S8289
Record Votes: Eight record votes were taken today. (Total--257)
  Pages S8225, S8239, S8240, S8246, S8247, S8251, S8252
Recess: Senate convened at 9:15 a.m., and recessed at 9:28 p.m., until 
9 a.m., on Wednesday, June 14, 1995. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S8289.)