[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 101 (Tuesday, June 20, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
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                             Tuesday, June 20, 1995 [[Page D 757]] 

                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      House Committee ordered reported the Comprehensive Antiterrorism 
      Act of 1995.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S8635-S8720
Measures Introduced: Seven bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 944-950, and S. Res. 137.
  Page S8684
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. Res. 97, expressing the sense of the Senate with respect to peace 
and stability in the South China Sea, with amendments.
Page S8683
Measures Passed:
Senate Page Residence: Senate agreed to S. Res. 137, to provide for the 
deposit of funds for the Senate page residence.
  Pages S8716-17
National Highway System Designation Act: Senate resumed consideration 
of S. 440, to amend title 23, United States Code, to provide for the 
designation of the National Highway System, with a modified committee 
amendment in the nature of a substitute, taking action on amendments 
proposed thereto, as follows:
  Pages S8635-53, S8655-78
Adopted:
  (1) By 51 yeas to 49 nays (Vote No. 269), Reid Amendment No. 1427, to 
provide that the national maximum speed limit shall apply only to 
commercial motor vehicles.
Pages S8635-40, S8653
  (2) Chafee (for Mack) Amendment No. 1429, to express the sense of the 
Senate regarding the Federal-State funding relationship for 
transportation.
Page S8643
  (3) Chafee (for Inhofe) Amendment No. 1432, to promote engineering 
and design quality and ensure maximum competition by professional 
companies which provide engineering and design services.
Page S8656
  (4) Chafee (for Jeffords/Leahy) Amendment No. 1433, to make a 
technical correction to clarify the intent of Congress with respect to 
the Federal share applicable to a project for the construction, 
reconstruction, or improvement of an economic growth center development 
highway on the Federal-aid primary, urban, or secondary system.
Pages S8656-57
  (5) Baucus (for Daschle) Amendment No. 1434, to permit the full 
implementation of a border city agreement by exempting vehicles using 
certain routes between Sioux City, Iowa, and the borders between Iowa 
and South Dakota and between Iowa and Nebraska from the overall gross 
weight limitation applicable to vehicles using the Interstate System 
and by permitting longer combination vehicles on the routes.
Pages S8657-58
  (6) Baucus (for Boxer) Amendment No. 1435, to revise the authority 
for a congestion relief project in California.
Page S8658
  (7) Baucus (for Kohl) Amendment No. 1436, to provide that if a 
certain route in Wisconsin is designated as part of the Interstate 
System, certain vehicle weight limitations shall not apply.
Pages S8658-59
  (8) By 75 yeas to 21 nays (Vote No. 272), McCain Amendment No. 1438, 
to prohibit the use of funds for future highway demonstration projects.
Pages S8675-77
  (9) Warner (for Thurmond/Hollings/Helms/Faircloth) Amendment No. 
1439, to provide for the routing of Interstate 73/74 in the States of 
North Carolina and South Carolina.
Page S8677
  (10) Warner (for Simon) Amendment No. 1440, to clarify the treatment 
of the Centennial Bridge, Rock Island, Illinois.
Page S8677
  (11) Warner (for Gregg/Bond) Amendment No. 1441, to place a 
moratorium on certain emissions testing requirements.
Pages S8677-78
Rejected:
  (1) Lautenberg/DeWine Modified Amendment No. 1428, to require States 
to post maximum speed limits on public highways in accordance with 
certain highway designations and descriptions. (By 65 yeas to 35 nays 
(Vote No. 270), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S8640-53
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  (2) By 45 yeas to 52 nays (Vote No. 271), Smith Amendment No. 1437, 
to provide for the elimination of penalties for noncompliance with 
motorcycle helmet and automobile safety belt requirements.
Pages S8659-75
  Senate may resume consideration of the bill and amendments to be 
proposed thereto, on Wednesday, June 21.
Nomination--Agreement: A unanimous-consent time-agreement was reached 
providing for the consideration of the nomination of Henry W. Foster, 
Jr., of Tennessee, to be Medical Director in the Regular Corps of the 
Public Health Service, subject to qualifications therefore as provided 
by law and regulations, and to be Surgeon General of the Public Health 
Service on Wednesday, June 21 and Thursday, June 22.
  Pages S8678-79
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the nomination 
(listed above) and, by unanimous consent, a vote on the cloture motion 
will occur at 12 Noon, on Wednesday, June 21, 1995, and if cloture is 
invoked, the Senate immediately begin post-cloture debate under the 
provisions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate.
Page S8679
  A second motion was entered to close further debate on the nomination 
(listed above) and, by unanimous consent, a vote on this cloture motion 
could occur at 2 p.m., on Thursday, June 22, 1995.
Page S8679
Legislative Line Item Veto--Conferees: Senate disagreed to the 
amendments of the House to S. 4, to grant the power to the President to 
reduce budget authority, requested a conference with the House thereon, 
and the Chair appointed the following conferees: Senators Roth, 
Stevens, Thompson, Cochran, McCain, Glenn, Levin, Pryor, Sarbanes, 
Domenici, Grassley, Nickles, Gramm, Coats, Exon, Hollings, Johnston, 
and Dodd.
  Pages S8717-18
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting a report of an agreement between the United States and 
the Government of Latvia relative to fisheries; pursuant to Public Law 
94-265, which was referred jointly to the Committee on Commerce, 
Science and Transportation, and the Committee on Foreign Relations. 
(PM-56).
Page S8682
Messages From the President:
  Page S8682
Messages From the House:
  Page S8682
Measures Referred:
  Page S8682
Measures Placed on Calendar:
  Page S8682
Communications:
  Page S8683
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Pages S8683-84
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S8684-S8712
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S8712
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S8713-15
Authority for Committees:
  Page S8715
Additional Statements:
  Pages S8715-16
Record Votes: Four record votes were taken today. (Total--272)
  Pages S8653, S8675, S8677
Recess: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and recessed at 7:29 p.m., until 
9 a.m., on Wednesday, June 21, 1995. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on pages S8718-19.)