[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 136 (Tuesday, September 5, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1034-D1036]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                        Tuesday, September 5, 1995 

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      See Resume of Congressional Activity.
      Senate passed Department of Defense Appropriations.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S12527-S12647
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  Reported on Wednesday, August 30, during the adjournment:
  S. 856, to amend the National Foundation on the Arts and the 
Humanities Act of 1965, the Museum Services Act, and the Arts and 
Artifacts Indemnity Act to improve and extend the Acts, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 104-135)
  S. 619, to phase out the use of mercury in batteries and provide for 
the efficient and cost-effective collection and recycling or proper 
disposal of used nickel cadmium batteries, small sealed lead-acid 
batteries, and certain other batteries, with amendments. (S. Rept. No. 
104-136)
Page S12614
Measures Passed:
  Department of Defense Appropriations, 1996: By 62 yeas to 35 nays 
(Vote No. 397), Senate passed S. 1087, making appropriations for the 
Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, as 
amended.
  Page S12567
  Expo '98: Senate agreed to S. Con. Res. 22, expressing the sense of 
the Congress that the United States should participate in Expo '98 in 
Lisbon, Portugal.
  Page S12633
Department of Defense Authorizations, 1996: Senate resumed 
consideration of S. 1026, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
1996 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, for defense activities of the Department of Energy, and 
to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed 
Forces, taking action on amendments proposed thereto, as follows:

  Pages S12527-56, S12564-S12604
Adopted:
  (1) Bingaman/Domenici Amendment No. 2427, to extend assistance 
payments under the Atomic Energy Community Act to Los Alamos County and 
the Los Alamos School Board until June 30, 1997.
Page S12528
  (2) Bingaman Amendment No. 2157, to require the Secretary of Defense 
to take such actions as are necessary to reduce the cost of renovation 
of the Pentagon Reservation to not more than $1,118,000,000.

Pages S12528-29, S12550-51
  (3) Brown Modified Amendment No. 2428, to urge the Secretary of the 
Army to move expeditiously to lease the Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, 
Aurora, Colorado, recommended for closure under the Defense Base 
Closure and Realignment Act.
Pages S12529-30, S12547-48
  (4) Exon/Bingaman Amendment No. 2429, to establish that nothing in 
this Act shall be construed as an authorization to conduct hydronuclear 
tests.
Pages S12533-34, S12546-47
  (5) Exon (for Harkin) Amendment No. 2430, to increase the amount 
provided for the Civil Air Patrol by $5,000,000.
Pages S12534-35
  (6) Warner (for Thurmond) Amendment No. 2431, to increase the 
authorization of appropriations for operation and maintenance for the 
Air Force Reserve by $10,000,000, and to offset that increase by 
reducing the authorization of appropriations for operation and 
maintenance for Defense-wide activities by $10,000,000.
Page S12535
  (7) Exon (for Glenn) Amendment No. 2432, to provide $9,500,000 for 
the seismic monitoring to detect nuclear explosions.
Pages S12535-36
  (8) Warner (for Helms) Amendment No. 2433, to make a technical 
correction.
Page S12536
  (9) Exon (for Simon) Amendment No. 2434, to state a rule of 
construction to clarify the supremacy of the Secretary of State's 
authority to coordinate 

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policy on international military education and training.
Page S12536
  (10) Warner (for Smith) Amendment No. 2435, to provide $5,000,000 for 
continued development of the depressed altitude guided gun round 
(DAGGR) system.
Pages S12536-37
  (11) Exon (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2436, to require the Army to 
provide a report to the Congress on plans to provide T700-701C engine 
upgrades for Army AH-64D helicopters.
Page S12537
  (12) Warner (for Dole/Thurmond) Amendment No. 2437, to clarify that 
the $54,968,000 authorized to be appropriated for the Joint Primary 
Aircraft Training System (JPATS) is for procurement of eight JPATS 
aircraft.
Page S12537
  (13) Exon (for Heflin/Shelby) Amendment No. 2438, to provide 
$15,000,000 for procurement of direct support electronic system test 
sets (DSESTS) test program sets for the M1 Abrams series tanks and the 
Bradley infantry fighting vehicle.
Pages S12537-38
  (14) Warner (for Domenici) Amendment No. 2439, to amend the effective 
date for the authority to pay transitional compensation for dependents 
of members of the Armed Forces separated for dependent abuse.

Pages S12538-39
  (15) Exon (for Robb) Amendment No. 2440, to require the Secretary of 
Defense to submit a report on the feasibility of using private sources 
for performance of certain functions currently performed by military 
aircraft.
Pages S12539, S12554-55
  (16) Warner (for Brown) Amendment No. 2441, to require the Department 
of Defense to conduct a study to assess the risks associated with 
transportation of the unitary stockpile within the continental United 
States and of the assistance available to communities in the vicinity 
of chemical weapons stockpile installations that are affected by base 
closures and realignments.
Pages S12539-40
  (17) Exon (for Mikulski) Amendment No. 2442, to provide for the 
disposal of property and facilities at Fort Holabird, Maryland, as a 
result of the closure of the installation under the 1995 round of the 
base closure process.
Page S12540
  (18) Warner Amendment No. 2443, to designate the NAUTICUS building in 
Norfolk, Virginia, as the ``National Maritime Center''.

Pages S12540-41
  (19) Exon (for Boxer) Amendment No. 2444, to require a report on the 
disposal of certain property at the former Fort Ord Military Complex, 
California.
Page S12541
  (20) Warner (for Stevens) Amendment No. 2445, to continue until May 
1, 1996, the application of certain laws with respect to the ocean 
transportation of commercial items by the federal government.

Pages S12541-42
  (21) Exon (for Robb) Amendment No. 2446, to require that the fiscal 
year 1997 report on budget submissions regarding reserve components 
include a listing of specific amounts for specific purposes on the 
basis of an assumption of funding of the reserve components in the same 
total amount as the funding provide for fiscal year 1996.
Page S12542
  (22) Exon (for Pryor/Feinstein/Boxer) Amendment No. 2447, to provide 
the military services greater flexibility to negotiate longer interim 
leases for the reuse of property at a closing of a military 
installation.
Pages S12542-43
  (23) Warner (for Grassley) Amendment No. 2448, to direct the 
Department of Defense to devise a plan for disposing of executive 
aircraft and VIP helicopters operated by the Department of Defense 
(Operation Support Aircraft--OSA), and to prescribe regulations to 
require the use of commercial airlines for routine official travel.

Pages S12543-44
  (24) Warner (for Domenici/Inouye) Amendment No. 2449, to transfer 
funds for procurement of communications equipment for Army echelons 
above corps.
Pages S12544-45
  (25) Exon (for Simon) Amendment No. 2450, to authorize the conveyance 
of certain parcels of real property at Fort Sheridan, Illinois.

Pages S12545-46
  (26) Levin Modified Amendment No. 2451, to express the sense of the 
Senate that the Senate should promptly consider giving its advice and 
consent to ratification of the START II Treaty and the Chemical Weapons 
Convention.
Pages S12552-54
  (27) Levin Amendment No. 2216, to require reports to Congress on the 
results of residual value negotiations between the United States and 
Germany.
Pages S12555-56
  (28) Nunn (for Pryor) Amendment No. 2452, relating to the testing of 
theater missile defense interceptors.
Pages S12597-98
  (29) Warner (for Thurmond) Amendment No. 2453, of a technical nature.
                                                            Page S12598
  (30) Nunn (for Byrd) Amendment No. 2454, to make funds available for 
the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory for essential safety functions.

Pages S12598-99
  (31) Warner (for Thurmond) Amendment No. 2455, to revise for fiscal 
and technical purposes the provisions relating to military construction 
projects authorizations.
Pages S12599-S12600
  (32) Nunn (for Feinstein) Amendment No. 2456, to authorize a land 
conveyance at the Naval Communication Station, Stockton, California.

Pages S12600-01
  (33) Nunn (for Harkin/Boxer) Amendment No. 2457, to establish a 
restriction on reimbursement of certain costs.
Page S12601

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  (34) Nunn (for Johnston) Amendment No. 2458, to improve the 
management of environmental restoration and waste management activities 
authorized under this Act.
Pages S12601-02
  (35) Nunn (for Dorgan/Conrad) Amendment No. 2459, to authorize the 
conveyance of the William Langer Jewel Bearing Plant to the Job 
Development Authority of Rolla, North Dakota.
Pages S12603-04
  (36) Nunn Amendment No. 2460, to authorize a land conveyance to 
Gainesville, Georgia.
Page S12604
Withdrawn:
  Brown Amendment No. 2125, to clarify restrictions on assistance to 
Pakistan.
Pages S12527-28, S12532
Pending:
  Nunn Amendment No. 2425, to establish a missile defense policy.

Pages S12579-97
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill, the pending amendment, and further 
amendments to be proposed thereto, on Wednesday, September 6, 1995, 
with a vote on final passage to occur thereon.
Page S12579
Removal of Injunction of Secrecy: The injunction of secrecy was removed 
from the following treaties:
  Extradition Treaty with the Philippines (Treaty Doc. No. 104-16).
  Convention for Protection of Plants (Treaty Doc. No. 104-17); and
  Treaty with Philippines on Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters 
(Treaty Doc. No. 104-18).
  The treaties were transmitted to the Senate today, considered as 
having been read for the first time, and referred, with accompanying 
papers, to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be 
printed.
Pages S12632-33
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Patricia J. Beneke, of Iowa, to be an Assistant Secretary of the 
Interior.
  Merrick B. Garland, of Maryland, to be United States Circuit Judge 
for the District of Columbia Circuit.
  Gail Clements McDonald, of Maryland, to be Administrator of the Saint 
Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation for the remainder of the term 
expiring March 20, 1998.
  Routine lists in the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Foreign Service, 
Navy.
Pages S12634-47
Nominations Withdrawn: Senate received notification of the withdrawal 
of the following nominations:
  Leland M. Shurin, of Missouri, to be United States District Judge for 
the Western District of Missouri, which was sent to the Senate on April 
4, 1995.
  John D. Snodgrass, of Alabama, to be United States District Judge for 
the Northern District of Alabama, which was sent to the Senate on 
January 11, 1995.
Page S12647
Communications:
  Pages S12610-14
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S12614-15
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S12615-21
Additional Statements:
  Pages S12621-33
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--397)

  Page S12567
Recess: Senate convened at 10 a.m., and recessed at 8:19 p.m., until 
9:15 a.m., on Wednesday, September 6, 1995. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on pages 
S12633-34.)