[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 97 (Wednesday, June 14, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
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                            Wednesday, June 14, 1995 [[Page D728]] 

                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S8293-S8415
Measures Introduced: Four bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 920-923, and S. Res. 133.
  Page S8380
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 922, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1996 for 
intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States 
Government and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and 
Disability System, and for other purposes. (S. Rept. No. 104-97)
Page S8380
Telecommunications Competition/Deregulation Act: Senate continued 
consideration of S. 652, to provide for a pro-competitive, deregulatory 
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 S8305-76, S8379 S8413-15
Adopted:
  (1) Gorton Amendment No. 1277 (to Amendment No. 1270), to limit, 
rather than strike, the preemption language.
Pages S8305-08
  (2) Pressler (for Moseley-Braun) Modified Amendment No. 1282, to 
recognize the National Education Technology Funding Corporation as a 
nonprofit corporation operating under the laws of the District of 
Columbia, and to provide authority for Federal departments and agencies 
to provide assistance to such corporation.
Pages S8308-10, S8351-52
  Subsequently, the amendment was further modified.
Page S8308
  (3) Pressler (for Simon) Modified Amendment No. 1284, to require 
audits to ensure that the Bell operating companies meet the separate 
affiliate subsidiary requirements and safeguards.
Pages S8308-10
  (4) Kerrey Modified Amendment No. 1306, to protect ratepayers from 
having to pay civil penalties for violations by local exchange carriers 
of interconnection and other duties.
Pages S8311-12
  (5) Kerrey Amendment No. 1313, to clarify State ratemaking authority.
Pages S8314-17
  (6) Kerrey Modified Amendment No. 1310, to clarify that pricing 
flexibility should not have the effect of shifting revenues from 
competitive services to non-competitive services. (Previously, the 
amendment was offered and withdrawn.)
Pages S8317-19, S8327
  (7) Leahy Modified Amendment No. 1288, to revise title IV of the bill 
and provide for a study of the legal and technical means of restricting 
access to obscenity on interactive telecommunications systems.
Pages S8327-47
  (8) By 84 yeas to 16 nays (Vote No. 263), Exon/Coats Amendment No. 
1362 (to Amendment No. 1288), in the nature of a substitute.
Pages S8328-47
  (9) Breaux/Leahy Amendment No. 1421, to establish that a State may 
not require a Bell operating company to implement toll dialing parity 
in an intraLATA area before a Bell operating company has been granted 
authority to provide interLATA services in that area or before three 
years after the enactment of this Act.
Pages S8348-50
  (10) Brown Amendment No. 1317, of a technical nature.
Page S8350
  (11) Brown Modified Amendment No. 1318, of a technical nature.
Pages S8350, S8352, S8354
  (12) Dorgan Amendment No. 1272, to require broadcasters to receive 
viewer input on the violent content of programming upon license 
renewal.
Pages S8350-51
  (13) Specter Modified Amendment No. 1294, to promote the use of 
telecommuting by the American work force.
Pages S8352-53
  (14) Harkin Modified Amendment No. 1323, to postpone the effective 
date of the authority to provide alarm monitoring services.
Pages S8355-56
  (15) Harkin Amendment No. 1322, to prevent unfair billing practices 
for information or services provided over calls to 800 numbers.
Pages S8356-58
  (16) Harkin Amendment No. 1324, to combat telemarketing fraud through 
reasonable disclosure of certain records for telemarketing 
investigations.
Pages S8358-59
  (17) Kerry Modified Amendment 1342, to prohibit redlining of any 
high-cost area or any area on [[Page D729]] the basis of rural location 
or the income of the resident of such area.
Pages S8359-60
  (18) Stevens Modified Amendment No. 1300, to promote competition in 
the provision of telecommunications services and to reduce the need for 
universal service support mechanisms.
Pages S8367-68, S8370-71
  (19) Stevens Amendment No. 1301, to modify the definition of LATA as 
it applies to commercial mobile services.
Pages S8368-70
  Subsequently, the amendment was modified.
Pages S8368-70 S8378
  (20) Stevens Amendment No. 1302, to provide interconnection rules for 
commercial mobile services providers.
Pages S8368-70
  (21) Stevens Amendment No. 1304, to make a technical correction.
Pages S8368-70
  (22) Inouye (for Robb) Amendment No. 1280, to establish restrictions 
on access by children to obscene and indecent material on electronic 
information networks open to the public.
Pages S8368-69, S8371
Rejected:
  (1) By 44 yeas to 56 nays (Vote No. 258), 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.
Pages S8305-08
  (2) Kerrey Amendment No. 1344, to provide for the representation of 
consumers on the Federal-State Board on Universal Service. (By 55 yeas 
to 45 nays (Vote No. 260), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S8314-15
  (3) Kerrey Amendment No. 1307, to require more than ``an'' 
interconnection agreement prior to long distance entry by a Bell 
Operating Company. (By 79 yeas to 21 nays (Vote No. 261), Senate tabled 
the amendment.)
Pages S8319-22, S8326
  (4) Boxer/Levin Modified Amendment No. 1340, to preserve the basic 
tier of cable services. (By 60 yeas to 38 nays (Vote No. 262), Senate 
tabled the amendment.)
Pages S8322-26
  Subsequently, Boxer/Levin Amendment No. 1354 (to Amendment No. 1340), 
in the nature of a substitute, fell when its provisions were 
incorporated into Amendment No. 1340, listed above.
Pages S8322-26
Withdrawn:
  Dorgan Amendment No. 1343, to provide for Commission notification of 
the Attorney General of any approval of Bell Company entry into long 
distance.
Pages S8353-54
Pending:
  (1) Hollings (for Breaux) Amendment No. 1299, to require that at 
least 80% of vessels required to implement the Global Maritime Distress 
and Safety System have the equipment installed and operating in good 
working condition.
Pages S8354-55
  (2) Pressler (for McCain) Amendment No. 1285, to means test the 
eligibility of the community users.
Page S8355
  (3) Simon Modified Amendment No. 1283, to revise the authority 
relating to Federal Communications Commission rules on radio ownership.
Page S8360
  (4) Heflin Amendment No. 1367, to provide for a local exchange 
carrier to acquire cable systems.
Page S8360
  (5) Pressler (for Dole) Amendment No. 1341, to strike the volume 
discounts provisions.
Pages S8360-61
  (6) Warner Modified Amendment No. 1325, to require additional rules 
as a precondition to the authority for the Bell operating companies to 
engage in research and design activities relating to manufacturing.
Pages S8361-63
  (7) Lieberman Amendment No. 1298, to establish a determination of 
reasonableness of cable rates.
Pages S8364-66
  (8) Rockefeller Amendment No. 1292, to eliminate any possible 
jurisdictional question arising from universal service references in 
the health care providers for rural areas provision.
Pages S8366-67
  (9) Stevens/Inouye Amendment No. 1303, to ensure that resale of local 
services and functions is offered at an appropriate price for providing 
such services.
Page S8369
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 89 yeas to 11 nays (Vote No. 259), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, having voted in the affirmative, Senate agreed 
to close further debate on the bill.
Pages S8310-11
  A unanimous-consent time agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill and pending amendments with votes to occur 
thereon, on Thursday, June 15, 1995.
Pages S8378-79
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations: Beth 
Susan Slavet, of Massachusetts, to be a Member of the Merit Systems 
Protection Board for the term of seven years expiring March 1, 2002.
  Page S8415
Messages From the House:
  Page S8380
Measures Referred:
  Page S8380
Communications:
  Page S8380
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S8380
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S8380-86
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S8386
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S8386-S8401 [[Page D730]] 
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S8401
Authority for Committees:
  Pages S8401-02
Additional Statements:
  Pages S8402-13
Record Votes: Six record votes were taken today. (Total--263)
  Pages S8308, S8310-11, S8315, S8326, S8347
Recess: Senate convened at 9 a.m., and recessed at 9:16 p.m., until 9 
a.m., on Thursday, June 15, 1995. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on pages S8379 
and S8415.)