[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 139 (Friday, September 8, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1056-D1065]
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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S12873-S13142
Measures Introduced: Five bills and two resolutions were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1223-1227, and S. Res. 168 and 169.
  Page S12959
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. Res. 168, concerning the Select Committee on Ethics investigation 
of Senator Packwood of Oregon. (S. Rept. No. 104-137)
Page S12967
Measures Passed:
  Department of Defense Appropriations, 1996: Senate passed H.R. 2126, 
making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 1996, after striking all after the enacting clause 
and inserting in lieu thereof the text of S. 1087, as passed by the 
Senate on September 5, 1995.
  Page S12893
  Senate insisted on its amendment, requested a conference with the 
House thereon, and the Chair appointed the following conferees: 
Senators Stevens, Cochran, Specter, Domenici, Gramm, Bond, McConnell, 
Mack, Shelby, Hatfield, Inouye, Johnston, Byrd, Leahy, Bumpers, 
Lautenberg, and Harkin.
Page S12893
  Subsequently, S. 1187 was indefinitely postponed.
Page S12893
  Welcoming the Dalai Lama: Senate agreed to S. Res. 169, expressing 
the sense of the Senate welcoming His Holiness the Dalai Lama on his 
visit to the United States.
  Page S12967
Family Self-Sufficiency Act: Senate continued consideration of H.R. 4, 
to restore the American family, reduce illegitimacy, control welfare 
spending and reduce welfare dependence, with a committee amendment in 
the nature of a substitute, taking action on amendments proposed 
thereto, as follows:
  Pages S12873-S12958, S13139
Adopted:
  (1) By 92 yeas to 6 nays (Vote No. 401), Brown Amendment No. 2465 (to 
Amendment No. 2280), to provide that funds are expended in accordance 
with State laws and procedures relating to the expenditure of State 
revenues.
Pages S12875-76
  (2) By 91 yeas to 6 nays (Vote No. 402), Santorum Amendment No. 2477 
(to Amendment No. 2280), to eliminate certain welfare benefits with 
respect to fugitive felons and probation and parole violators, and to 
facilitate sharing of information with law enforcement officers.
Pages S12874, S12876
  (3) By 87 yeas to 5 nays (Vote No. 404), Brown Amendment No. 2508 (to 
Amendment No. 2280), to impose a cap on the amount of funds that can be 
used for administrative purposes.
Pages S12891, S12894-95
  (4) By a unanimous vote of 91 yeas (Vote No. 405), Boxer Modified 
Amendment No. 2482 (to Amendment No. 2280), to provide that 
noncustodial parents who are delinquent in paying child support are 
ineligible for means-tested Federal benefits.
Page S12897
  (5) Craig/Shelby Amendment No. 2524 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
provide for a good cause exception for hospital-based programs 
providing for voluntary acknowledgment of paternity.
Page S12898
  (6) Moynihan/Dole Amendment No 2548 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
direct the Commissioner of Social Security to develop a prototype of a 
counterfeit-resistant social security card, and to provide for a study 
and report on the development of such card.
Pages S12915-16
Rejected:
  By 41 yeas to 56 nays (Vote No. 403), Moynihan Amendment No. 2466 (to 
Amendment No. 2280), in the nature of a substitute.
Pages S12879-88
Pending:
  Dole Modified Amendment No. 2280, of a perfecting nature.
Page S12873
  Subsequently, the amendment was further modified.
Pages S12873-S12958, S13139
  Feinstein Modified Amendment No. 2469 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
provide additional funding to States to accommodate any growth in the 
number of people in poverty.
Page S12873
  Feinstein Amendment No. 2470 (to Amendment No. 2280), to impose a 
child support obligation on paternal grandparents in cases in which 
both parents are minors.
Page S12873
  Moseley-Braun Amendment No. 2471 (to Amendment No. 2280), to require 
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voucher program for providing assistance to minor children in families 
that are eligible for but do not receive assistance.
Page S12873
  Moseley-Braun Amendment No. 2472 (to Amendment No. 2280), to prohibit 
a State from imposing a time limit for assistance if the State has 
failed to provide work activity-related services to an adult individual 
in a family receiving assistance under the State program.
Page S12873
  Moseley-Braun Amendment No. 2473 (to Amendment No. 2280), to modify 
the job opportunities to certain low-income individuals program.
Page S12873
  Moseley-Braun Amendment No. 2474 (to Amendment No. 2280), to prohibit 
a State from reserving grant funds for use in subsequent fiscal years 
if the State has reduced the amount of assistance provided to families 
under the State program in the preceding fiscal year.
Page S12873
  Feinstein Amendment No. 2478 (to Amendment No. 2280), to provide 
equal treatment for naturalized and native-born citizens.
Page S12873
  Feinstein Amendment No. 2479 (to Amendment No. 2280), to provide for 
State and county demonstration programs.
Page S12873
  Feingold Amendment No. 2480 (to Amendment No. 2280), to study the 
impact of amendments to the child and adult care food program on 
program participation and family day care licensing.
Page S12873
  Feingold Amendment No. 2481 (to Amendment No. 2280), to provide for a 
demonstration project for the elimination of take-one-take-all 
requirement.
Page S12873
  Bingaman Amendment No. 2483 (to Amendment No. 2280), to require the 
development of a strategic plan for a State family assistance program.
Pages S12874-75
  Bingaman Amendment No. 2484 (to Amendment No. 2280), to provide 
funding for State programs for the treatment of drug addiction and 
alcoholism and for the National Institute on Drug Abuse Research.
Page S12875
  Bingaman Amendment No. 2485 (to Amendment No. 2280), to provide 
Indian vocational education grants.
Page S12875
  Simon Amendment No. 2468 (to Amendment No. 2280), to provide grants 
for the establishment of community works progress programs.
Page S12876
  Levin Amendment No. 2486 (to Amendment No. 2280), to require 
recipients of assistance under a State program funded under part A of 
title IV of the Social Security Act to participate in State mandated 
community service activities if they are not engaged in work after 6 
months receiving benefits.
Pages S12876-77
  Breaux Amendment No. 2487 (to Amendment No. 2280), to maintain the 
welfare partnership between the States and the Federal Government.
Page S12877
  Breaux Amendment No. 2488 (to Amendment No. 2280), to maintain the 
welfare partnership between the States and the Federal Government.
Page S12877
  Breaux Amendment No. 2489 (to Amendment No. 2280), to improve 
services provided as workforce employment activities.
Pages S12877-78
  Breaux Amendment No. 2490 (to Amendment No. 2280), to strike 
provisions relating to workforce development and workforce preparation.
Page S12878
  Rockefeller Modified Amendment No. 2491 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
provide States with the option to exempt families residing in areas of 
high unemployment from the time limit.
Pages S12883, S12902-03
  Rockefeller Modified Amendment No. 2492 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
provide for a State option to exempt certain individuals from the 
participation rate calculation and the time limit.
Pages S12883, S12903
  Snowe/Bradley Amendment No. 2493 (to Amendment No. 2280), to clarify 
provisions relating to the distribution to families of collected child 
support payments.
Pages S12885-86
  Snowe Amendment No. 2494 (to Amendment No. 2280), to clarify that the 
penalty provisions do not apply to certain single custodial parents in 
need of child care and to exempt certain single custodial parents in 
need of child care from the work requirements.
Page S12886
  Pryor Amendment No. 2495 (to Amendment No. 2280), to modify the 
penalty provisions.
Page S12886
  Bradley Amendment No. 2496 (to Amendment No. 2280), to modify the 
provisions regarding the State plan requirements.
Page S12887
  Bradley Amendment No. 2497 (to Amendment No. 2280), to prohibit a 
State from shifting the costs of aid or assistance provided under the 
aid to families with dependent children or the JOBS programs to local 
governments.
Page S12887
  Bradley Amendment No. 2498 (to Amendment No. 2280), to provide that 
existing civil rights laws shall not be preempted by this Act.
Page S12887
  Bond Amendment No. 2499 (to Amendment No. 2280), to establish that 
States shall not be prohibited by the Federal Government from 
sanctioning welfare recipients who test positive for use of controlled 
substances.
Pages S12888-89
  Glenn Amendment No. 2500 (to Amendment No. 2280), to ensure that 
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homemakers is included among workforce employment activities and 
workforce education activities for which funds may be used under this 
Act.
Page S12889
  Grassley (for Pressler) Amendment No. 2501 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to provide a State option to use an income tax intercept to collect 
overpayments in assistance under the State program funded under part A 
of title IV of the Social Security Act.
Pages S12889-90
  Grassley (for Cohen) Modified Amendment No. 2502 (to Amendment No. 
2280), to ensure that programs are implemented consistent with the 
First Amendment.
Pages S12890, S12914
  Wellstone Amendment No. 2503 (to Amendment No. 2280), to prevent an 
increase in the number of hungry children in States that elect to 
participate in a food assistance block grant program.
Page S12890
  Wellstone Amendment No. 2504 (to Amendment No. 2280), to prevent an 
increase in the number of hungry and homeless children in States that 
receive block grants for temporary assistance for needy families.
Page S12890-91
  Wellstone Amendment No. 2505 (to Amendment No. 2280), to express the 
sense of the Senate regarding continuing medicaid coverage for 
individuals who lose eligibility for welfare benefits because of more 
earnings or hours of employment.
Page S12891
  Wellstone Amendment No. 2506 (to Amendment No. 2280), to provide for 
an extension of transitional medicaid benefits.
Page S12891
  Wellstone Amendment No. 2507 (to Amendment No. 2280), to exclude 
energy assistance payments for one-time costs of weatherization or 
repair or replacement of unsafe or inoperative heating devices from 
income under the food stamp program.
Page S12891
  Simon Amendment No. 2509 (to Amendment No. 2280), to eliminate 
retroactive deeming requirements for those legal immigrants already in 
the United States.
Page S12891
  Simon Amendment No. 2510 (to Amendment No. 2280), to maintain a 
national Job Corps program, carried out in partnership with States and 
communities.
Page S12891
  Abraham/Lieberman Amendment No. 2511 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
express the sense of the Senate that the Congress should adopt 
enterprise zone legislation in the 104th Congress.
Page S12892
  Abraham Amendment No. 2512 (to Amendment No. 2280), to increase the 
block grant amount to States that reduce out-of-wedlock births.
Page S12892
  Feinstein Amendment No. 2513 (to Amendment No. 2280), to limit 
deeming of income to cash and cash-like programs, and to retain SSI 
eligibility and exempt deeming of income requirements for victims of 
domestic violence.
Page S12892
  Moynihan (for Lieberman) Amendment No. 2514 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to establish a job placement performance bonus that provides an 
incentive for States to successfully place individuals in unsubsidized 
jobs.
Pages S12892-93
  Moynihan (for Lieberman) Amendment No. 2515 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to establish a national clearinghouse on teenage pregnancy, set 
national goals for the reduction of out-of-wedlock and teenage 
pregnancies, and require States to establish a set-aside for teenage 
pregnancy prevention activities.
Page S12893
  Hatch Amendment No. 2516 (to Amendment No. 2280), to establish a 
block grant program for the provision of child care services.
Page S12895
  Hatch (for DeWine) Amendment No. 2517 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
provide for quarterly reporting by banks with respect to common trust 
funds.
Page S12895
  Hatch (for DeWine) Amendment No. 2518 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
modify the method for calculating participation rates to more 
accurately reflect the total case load of families receiving assistance 
in the State.
Pages S12895-96
  Hatch (for DeWine) Amendment No. 2519 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
provide for a rainy day contingency fund.
Page S12896
  Hatch (for Burns) Amendment No. 2520 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
establish procedures for the reduction of certain personnel in the 
Department of Health and Human Services.
Page S12896
  Hatch (for Simpson) Amendment No. 2521 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
ensure State eligibility and benefit restrictions for immigrants are no 
more restrictive than those of the Federal government.
Page S12896
  Hatch (for Kassebaum) Amendment No. 2522 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
modify provisions relating to funds for other child care programs.
Pages S12896-97
  Helms Amendment No. 2523 (to Amendment No. 2280), to require single, 
able-bodied individuals receiving food stamps to work at least 40 hours 
every 4 weeks.
Page S12897
  Exon Amendment No. 2525 (to Amendment No. 2280), to prohibit the 
payment of certain Federal benefits to any person not lawfully present 
within the United States.
Pages S12898-99
  Shelby Amendment No. 2526 (to Amendment No. 2280), to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a refundable credit for 
adoption expenses and to exclude from gross income employee and 
military adoption assistance benefits and withdrawals from IRAs for 
certain adoption expenses.
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  Shelby Amendment No. 2527 (to Amendment No. 2280), to improve 
provisions relating to the optional State food assistance block grant.
Page S12900
  Moynihan (for Conrad/Lieberman) Amendment No. 2528 (to Amendment No. 
2280), to provide that a State that provides assistance to unmarried 
teenage parents under the State program require such parents as a 
condition of receiving such assistance to live in an adult-supervised 
setting and attend high school or other equivalent training program.
Pages S12900-02
  Moynihan (for Conrad/Bradley) Amendment No. 2529 (to Amendment No. 
2280), to provide States with the maximum flexibility by allowing 
States to elect to participate in the TAP and WAGE programs.
Page S12902
  Moynihan (for Conrad) Amendment No. 2530 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
provide that a State that provides assistance to unmarried teenage 
parents under the State program require such parents as a condition of 
receiving such assistance to live in an adult-supervised setting and 
attend high school or other equivalent training program.
Page S12902
  Moynihan (for Conrad) Amendment No. 2531 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
prevent States from receiving credit toward work participation rates 
for individuals who leave the rolls due to a time limit.
Page S12902
  Moynihan (for Conrad) Amendment No. 2532 (to Amendment No. 2280), in 
the nature of a substitute.
Page S12902
  Moynihan (for Levin) Amendment No. 2533 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
improve the provisions relating to incentive grants.
Page S12902
  Moynihan (for Pell) Amendment No. 2475 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
clarify that each State must carry out activities through at least 1 
Job Corps center.
Page S12903
  Moynihan (for Dodd) Amendment No. 2534 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
award national rapid response grants to address major economic 
dislocations.
Pages S12903-04
  Moynihan (for Dorgan) Amendment No. 2535 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
express the sense of the Senate on legislative accountability for the 
unfunded mandates imposed by welfare reform legislation.
Page S12904
  Moynihan (for Lieberman) Amendment No. 2536 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to establish bonus payments for States that achieve reductions in out-
of-wedlock pregnancies, establish a national clearinghouse on teenage 
pregnancy, set national goals for the reduction of out-of-wedlock and 
teenage pregnancies, and require States to establish a set-aside for 
teenage pregnancy prevention activities.
Pages S12904-05
  Moynihan (for Lieberman) Amendment No. 2537 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to establish a national clearinghouse on teenage pregnancy, set 
national goals for the reduction of out-of-wedlock and teenage 
pregnancies, and require States to establish a set-aside for teenage 
pregnancy prevention activities.
Pages S12905-06
  Moynihan Amendment No. 2538 (to Amendment No. 2280), to strike the 
provisions repealing trade adjustment assistance.
Page S12906
  Hatch (for Coats/Ashcroft) Amendment No. 2539 (to Amendment No. 
2280), to provide a tax credit for charitable contributions to 
organizations providing poverty assistance.
Pages S12906-07
  Hatch (for McCain) Amendment No. 2540 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
remove barriers to interracial and interethnic adoptions.
Pages S12907-08
  Hatch (for McCain) Amendment No. 2541 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
provide that States are not required to comply with excessive data 
collection and reporting requirements unless the Federal Government 
provides sufficient funding to allow States to meet such excessive 
requirements.
Page S12908
  Hatch (for McCain) Amendment No. 2542 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
remove the maximum length of participation in the work supplementation 
or support program.
Page S12908
  Hatch (for McCain) Amendment No. 2543 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
make job readiness workshops a work activity.
Page S12908
  Hatch (for McCain) Amendment No. 2544 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
permit States to enter into a corrective action plan prior to the 
deduction of penalties from the block grant.
Page S12908
  Harkin Amendment No. 2545 (to Amendment No. 2280), to require each 
family receiving assistance under the State program funded under part A 
of title IV of the Social Security Act to enter into a personal 
responsibility contract or a limited benefit plan.
Pages S12908-10
  Chafee Amendment No. 2546 (to Amendment No. 2280), to maintain the 
welfare partnership between the States and the Federal Government.
Page S12910
  Chafee (for Cohen) Amendment No. 2547 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
deny supplemental security income cash benefits by reason of disability 
to drug addicts and alcoholics, and to require beneficiaries with 
accompanying addiction to comply with appropriate treatment 
requirements as determined by the Commissioner.
Pages S12914-15
  Moynihan (for Kerrey) Amendment No. 2549 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
allow a State to revoke an election to participate in the optional 
State food assistance block grant.
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  Moynihan (for Kohl) Amendment No. 2550 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
exempt the elderly, disabled, and children from an optional State food 
assistance block grant.
Page S12916
  Moynihan (for Kohl) Amendment No. 2551 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
expand the food stamp employment and training program.
Page S12916
  Moynihan (for Bryan) Amendment No. 2552 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
provide that a recipient of welfare benefits under a means-tested 
program for which Federal funds are appropriated is not unjustly 
enriched as a result of defrauding another means- tested welfare or 
public assistance program.
Pages S12916-17
  Moynihan (for Bryan) Amendment No. 2553 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
require a recipient of assistance based on need, funded in whole or in 
part by Federal funds, and the noncustodial parent to cooperate with 
paternity establishment and child support enforcement in order to 
maintain eligibility for such assistance.
Page S12917
  Moynihan (for Bryan) Amendment No. 2554 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
provide that State welfare and public assistance agencies can notify 
the Internal Revenue Service to intercept Federal income tax refunds to 
recapture over-payments of welfare or public assistance benefits.
Page S12917
  Moynihan (for Bryan) Amendment No. 2555 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
provide State welfare or public assistance agencies an option to 
determine eligibility of a household containing an ineligible 
individual under the Food Stamp program.
Page S12917
  Hatfield Amendment No. 2467 (to Amendment No. 2280), to increase the 
participation of teacher, parents, and students in developing and 
improving workforce education activities.
Page S12917
  Hatch (for Nickles) Amendment No. 2556 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
require the transmission of quarterly wage reports in order to relay 
information to the State Director of New Hires to assist in locating 
absent parents.
Pages S12917-18
  Hatch (for Jeffords) Amendment No. 2557 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
amend the definition of work activities to include vocational education 
training that does not exceed 24 months.
Page S12918
  Hatch (for Jeffords) Amendment No. 2558 (to Amendment No 2280), to 
provide for the State distribution of funds for secondary school 
vocational education, postsecondary and adult vocational education, and 
adult education.
Page S12918
  Hatch (for Kyl) Amendment No. 2559 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
require the establishment of local workforce development boards.
Pages S12918-20
  Dodd Amendment No. 2560 (to Amendment No. 2280), to provide for the 
establishment of a supplemental child care grant program.
Pages S12920-25, S12929
  Ashcroft Amendment No. 2561 (to Amendment No. 2280), to replace the 
supplemental security income program for the disabled and blind with a 
block grant to the States.
Page S12925
  Ashcroft Amendment No. 2562 (to Amendment No. 2280), to convert the 
food stamp program into a block grant program.
Page S12925
  Graham (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2563 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
terminate sponsor responsibilities upon the date of naturalization of 
the immigrant.
Page S12925
  Graham (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2564 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
grant the Attorney General flexibility in certain public assistance 
determinations for immigrants.
Page S12925
  Graham Amendment No. 2565 (to Amendment No. 2280), to provide a 
formula for allocating funds that more accurately reflects the needs of 
States with children below the poverty line.
Pages S12925-26
  Graham Amendment No. 2566 (to Amendment No. 2280), to require each 
responsible Federal agency to determine whether there are sufficient 
appropriations to carry out the Federal intergovernmental mandates 
required by this Act, and to provide that the mandates will not be 
effective under certain conditions.
Page S12926
  Graham Amendment No. 2567 (to Amendment No. 2280), to provide that 
the Secretary, in ranking States with respect to the success of their 
work programs, shall take into account the average number of minor 
children in families in the State that have incomes below the poverty 
line and the amount of funding provided each State for such families.
Page S12926
  Graham Amendment No. 2568 (to Amendment No. 2280), to set national 
work participation rate goals and to provide that the Secretary shall 
adjust the goals for individual States based on the amount of Federal 
funding the State receives for minor children in families in the State 
that have incomes below the poverty line.
Page S12926
  Graham Amendment No. 2569 (to Amendment No. 2280), to provide for the 
prospective application of the provisions of title V.
Pages S12926-27
  Dodd (for Leahy) Amendment No. 2570 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
reduce fraud and trafficking in the Food Stamp program by providing 
incentives to States to implement Electronic Benefit Transfer systems.
Page S12927
  Jeffords Amendment No. 2571 (to Amendment No. 2280), to modify the 
maintenance of effort provision.
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  Santorum (for Domenici) Amendment No. 2572 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to improve the child support enforcement system by giving States better 
incentives to improve collections.
Pages S12927-28
  Santorum (for Domenici) Amendment No. 2573 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to maintain the welfare partnership between the States and the Federal 
Government.
Page S12928
  Santorum (for Domenici) Amendment No. 2574 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to express the sense of the Senate regarding the inability of the 
noncustodial parent to pay child support.
Page S12928
  Santorum (for Domenici) Amendment No. 2575 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to allow States maximum flexibility in designing their Temporary 
Assistance programs.
Page S12928
  Santorum (for Domenici) Amendment No. 2576 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to create a national child custody database, and to clarify exclusive 
continuing jurisdiction provisions of the Parental Kidnapping 
Prevention Act.
Pages S12928-29
  Santorum (for D'Amato) Amendment No. 2577 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
change the date for the determination of fiscal year 1994 expenditures.
Page S12929
  Santorum (for D'Amato) Amendment No. 2578 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
relating to claims arising before effective dates.
Page S12929
  Santorum (for D'Amato) Amendment No. 2579 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
terminating efforts to recover funds for prior fiscal years.
Page S12929
  Santorum (for Grams) Amendment No. 2580 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
limit vocational education activities counted as work.
Pages S12929-31
  Jeffords Amendment No. 2581 (to Amendment No. 2280), to strike the 
increase to the grant to reward States that reduce out-of-wedlock 
births.
Page S12931
  Dodd (for Wellstone) Amendment No. 2582 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the minimum wage 
rate under such Act.
Page S12931
  Dodd (for Wellstone) Amendment No. 2583 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
exempt women and children who have been battered or subject to extreme 
cruelty from certain requirements of the bill.
Pages S12931-32
  Dodd (for Wellstone) Amendment No. 2584 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
exempt women and children who have been battered or subjected to 
extreme cruelty from certain requirements of the bill.
Page S12932
  Stevens Amendment No. 2585 (to Amendment No. 2280), of a technical 
nature.
Page S12932
  Santorum (for Cohen) Amendment No. 2586 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
modify the religious provider provision.
Page S12933
  Santorum (for Specter) Amendment No. 2587 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
maintain a national Job Corps program, carried out in partnership with 
States and communities.
Page S12933
  Santorum (for Chafee) Amendment No. 2588 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
require States to provide voucher assistance for children born to 
families receiving assistance.
Page S12937
  Santorum (for McCain) Amendment No. 2589 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
provide for child support enforcement agreements between the States and 
Indian tribes or tribal organizations.
Pages S12937-38
  Moynihan Amendment No. 2590 (to Amendment No. 2280), to provide that 
case record data submitted by the States be desegregated, and to 
provide funding for certain research, demonstration, and evaluation 
projects.
Pages S12938-39
  Moynihan (for Boxer) Amendment No. 2591 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
provide for a child care maintenance of effort.
Page S12939
  Moynihan (for Boxer) Amendment No. 2592 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
provide that State authority to restrict benefits to noncitizens does 
not apply to foster care or adoption assistance programs.
Page S12939
  Moynihan (for Boxer) Amendment No. 2593 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
expressing the sense of the Senate on restrictions on providing medical 
information by recipients of Federal aid.
Page S12939
  Santorum (for Faircloth) Amendment No. 2594 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to prohibit direct cash benefits for out-of-wedlock births to minors 
except under certain conditions.
Pages S12939-40
  Santorum (for Faircloth) Amendment No. 2595 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to submit a 
report regarding disqualification of illegal aliens from housing 
assistance programs.
Page S12940
  Santorum (for Faircloth) Amendment No. 2596 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to express the sense of the Congress regarding a work requirement for 
public housing residents.
Page S12940
  Santorum (for Faircloth) Amendment No. 2597 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to require ongoing State evaluations of activities carried out through 
statewide workforce development systems.
Page S12940
  Santorum (for Faircloth) Amendment No. 2598 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to provide for transferability of funds.
Page S12940
  Santorum (for Faircloth) Amendment No. 2599 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to provide for transferability of funds allotted for workforce 
preparation activities for at-risk youth.
Page S12940

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  Santorum (for Faircloth) Amendment No. 2600 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to allow a State agency to make cash payments to certain individuals in 
lieu of food stamp allotments.
Page S12940
  Santorum (for Faircloth) Amendment No. 2601 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to integrate the temporary assistance to needy families with food stamp 
work rules.
Page S12940
  Santorum (for Faircloth) Amendment No. 2602 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to limit vocational education activities counted as work.
Page S12940
  Santorum (for Faircloth) Amendment No. 2603 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to deny assistance for out-of-wedlock births to minors.
Pages S12940-41
  Santorum (for Faircloth) Amendment No. 2604 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to provide for no additional cash assistance for children born to 
families receiving assistance.
Page S12941
  Santorum (for Faircloth) Amendment No. 2605 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to deny assistance for out-of-wedlock births to minors.
Page S12941
  Santorum (for Faircloth) Amendment No. 2606 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to provide for provisions relating to paternity establishment and 
fraud.
Page S12941
  Santorum (for Faircloth) Amendment No. 2607 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to require State goals and a State plan for reducing illegitimacy.
Page S12941
  Santorum (for Faircloth) Amendment No. 2608 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to provide for an abstinence education program.
Page S12941
  Santorum (for Faircloth) Amendment No. 2609 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to prohibit teenage parents from living in the home of an adult 
relative or guardian who has a history of receiving assistance.
Pages S12941-42
  Moynihan Amendment No. 2610 (to Amendment No. 2280), to amend title 
13, United States Code, to require that any data relating to the 
incidence of poverty produced or published by the Secretary of Commerce 
for subnational areas is corrected for differences in the cost of 
living in those areas.
Page S12942
  Moynihan Amendment No. 2611 (to Amendment No. 2280), to correct 
imbalances in certain States in the Federal tax to Federal benefit 
ratio by reallocating the distribution of Federal spending.
Pages S12942-43
  Abraham/Lieberman Amendment No. 2476 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
express the sense of the Senate that the Congress should adopt 
enterprise zone legislation in the 104th Congress.
Page S12944
  Santorum (for Gramm) Amendment No. 2612 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
limit the State option for work participation requirement exemptions to 
the first 12 months to which the requirement applies.
Page S12944
  Santorum (for Gramm) Amendment No. 2613 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
require that certain individuals who are not required to work are 
included in the participation rate calculation.
Page S12944
  Santorum (for Gramm) Amendment No. 2614 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
provide for increased penalties for failure to meet work requirements.
Page S12944
  Santorum (for Gramm) Amendment No. 2615 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
reduce the Federal welfare bureaucracy.
Pages S12944-45
  Santorum (for Gramm) Amendment No. 2616 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
require paternity establishment as a condition of benefit receipt.
Page S12945
  Santorum (for Gramm) Amendment No. 2617 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
prohibit the use of Federal funds for legal challenges to welfare 
reform.
Page S12945
  Moynihan Amendment No. 2618 (to Amendment No. 2280), to eliminate the 
requirement that HHS reduce full-time equivalent positions by specific 
percentages and retain requirements to evaluate the number of FTE 
positions required to carry out the activities under the bill and to 
take action to reduce the appropriate number of positions.
Pages S12945-46
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2619 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
terminate sponsor responsibilities upon the date of naturalization of 
the immigrant.
Page S12946
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2620 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
grant the Attorney General flexibility in certain public assistance 
determinations for immigrants.
Page S12946
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2621 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
ensure that programs are implemented consistent with the First 
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Page S12946
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2622 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
repeal food stamp provisions relating to children living at home and to 
reduce tax benefits for foreign corporations.
Page S12946
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2623 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
permit States to apply for waivers with respect to the 15 percent cap 
on hardship exemptions from the 5-year time limitation.
Page S12946
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2624 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
permit States to provide non-cash assistance to children ineligible for 
aid because of the 5-year time limitation.
Page S12946

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  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2625 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
require States to have in effect laws regarding duration of child 
support.
Page S12946
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2626 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
eliminate a repeal relating to the Trade Act of 1974.
Page S12946
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2627 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
improve provisions relating to the Trade Act of 1974.
Page S12946
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2628 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
improve provisions relating to the Wagner-Peyser Act.
Page S12946
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2629 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
improve provisions relating to the unemployment trust fund.
Pages S12946-47
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2630 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
clarify that the responsibilities of the National Board are advisory.
Page S12947
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2631 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
improve provisions relating to workforce development activities and 
funds made available through the unemployment trust fund.
Page S12947
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2632 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
exclude employment and training programs under the Food Stamp Act of 
1977 from the list of activities that may be provided as workforce 
employment activities.
Page S12947
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2633 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
provide for the State distribution of funds for secondary school 
vocational education, postsecondary and adult vocational education, and 
adult education.
Page S12947
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2634 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
establish a job placement performance bonus that provides an incentive 
for States to successfully place individuals in unsubsidized jobs.
Page S12947
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2635 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
require that 25 percent of the funds for workforce employment 
activities be expended to carry out such activities for dislocated 
workers.
Page S12947
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2636 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
establish a definition of a local workforce development board.
Page S12947
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2637 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
provide a conforming amendment with respect to local workforce 
development boards.
Page S12947
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2638 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
require the establishment of local workforce development boards.
Pages S12947-48
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2639 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
clarify the role of the summer jobs program.
Page S12948
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2640 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
expand the provisions relating to the limitation of the use of funds 
under title VII.
Pages S12948-49
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2641 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
improve the State apportionment of funds by activity.
Page S12949
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2642 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
clarify the role of the summer jobs program.
Page S12949
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2643 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
increase the authorization of appropriations for workforce development 
activities.
Page S12949
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2644 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
limit the percentage of the flex account funds that may be used for 
economic development activities.
Pages S12949-50
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2645 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
make a conforming amendment regarding limiting the percentage of the 
flex account funds that may be used for economic development 
activities.
Page S12950
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2646 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
provide for national activities.
Page S12950
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2647 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
ensure that students have broad exposure to a wide range of knowledge 
on occupations and choices for skill training.
Page S12950
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2648 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
clarify the advisory nature of the responsibilities of the National 
Board.
Page S12950
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2649 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
provide both women and men with access to training in occupations or 
fields of work in which women or men comprise less than 25 percent of 
the individuals employed in such occupations or fields of work, with 
respect to workforce development activities.
Page S12950
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2650 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
provide both women and men with access to training in occupations or 
fields of work in which women or men comprise less than 25 percent of 
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occupations or fields of work, with respect to workforce preparation 
activities for at-risk youth.
Pages S12950-51
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2651 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
ensure that States reference existing academic and occupational 
standards in their State plans.
Page S12951
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2652 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
ensure that State plans describe activities that will enable States to 
meet their benchmarks.
Page S12951
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2653 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
clarify that the term ``labor market information'' refers to labor 
market and occupational information.
Page S12951
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2654 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
explicitly include occupational information in labor market information 
system provided under workforce employment activities.
Pages S12951-52
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2655 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
provide a conforming amendment relating to labor market and 
occupational information.
Page S12952
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2656 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
maintain the administration of the school-to-work programs in the 
School-to-Work office.
Page S12952
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2657 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
make the list of workforce education activities for which funds may be 
used more consistent with the provisions of the amendments made by the 
Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act 
Amendments of 1990, and the provisions of the School-to-Work 
Opportunities Act of 1994.
Page S12952
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2658 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
clarify the role of the State educational agency with respect to 
workforce education activities and at-risk youth.
Page S12952
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2659 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
include the participation and resources of the education community with 
that of business, industry, and labor in the development of statewide 
workforce development systems, local partnerships, and local workforce 
development boards.
Page S12952
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2660 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
include volunteers among those for whom the National Center for 
Research in Education and Workforce Development conducts research and 
development, and provide technical assistance.
Page S12953
  Moynihan (for Kerry) Amendment No. 2661 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
provide supplemental security income benefits to persons who are 
disabled by reason of drug or alcohol abuse.
Page S12953
  Moynihan (for Kerry) Amendment No. 2662 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
provide demonstration projects for using neighborhood schools as 
centers for beneficial activities for children and their parents in 
order to break the welfare cycle.
Pages S12953-54
  Moynihan (for Kerry) Amendment No. 2663 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
provide demonstration projects for using neighborhood schools as 
centers for beneficial activities for children and their parents in 
order to break the welfare cycle.
Pages S12954-55
  Moynihan (for Kerry) Amendment No. 2664 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
require applicants for assistance who are parents to enter into a 
Parental Responsibility Contract and perform satisfactorily under its 
terms as a condition of receipt of that assistance.
Pages S12955-56
  Moynihan (for Harkin) Amendment No. 2665 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
reduce the income tax rate for individuals to equal the estimated cost 
of certain repealed programs.
Page S12956
  Moynihan (for Kerry) Amendment No. 2666 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
make the workforce development system more responsive to changing local 
labor markets.
Page S12956
  Moynihan (for Breaux) Amendment No. 2667 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
improve the services provided as workforce employment activities.
Page S12956
  Moynihan (for Mikulski) Amendment No. 2668 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to eliminate a repeal of title V of the Older American Act of 1965.
Page S12956
  Moynihan (for Mikulski) Amendment No. 2669 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to encourage 2-parent families.
Page S12956
  Moynihan (for Kerrey) Amendment No. 2670 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
allow a State to revoke an election to participate in optional State 
food assistance block grant.
Page S12956
  Moynihan (for Daschle) Amendment No. 2671 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
provide a 3 percent set aside for the funding of family assistance 
grants for Indians.
Pages S12956-57
  Moynihan (for Daschle) Amendment No. 2672 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
provide for a contingency grant fund.
Pages S12957-58
  Santorum Amendment No. 2673 (to Amendment No. 2280), regarding 
implementation of electronic benefit transfer system.
  Santorum (for McConnell) Amendment No. 2674 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to timely rapid implementation of provisions relating to the child and 
adult care food program.
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  Santorum (for McConnell) Amendment No. 2675 (to clarify the school 
data provision of the child and adult care food program.
Page S12958
  Santorum (for Packwood) Amendment No. 2676, to strike the increase to 
the grant to reward States that reduce out-of-wedlock births.
Page S12958
  Moynihan (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 2677 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
provide for an extension of transitional medicaid benefits.
Page S12958
  Santorum (for D'Amato) Amendment No. 2678 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
relating to the eligibility of States to receive funds.
Page S13139
  Moynihan (for Kerry) Amendment No. 2679 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
provide supplemental security income benefits to persons who are 
disabled by reason of drug or alcohol abuse.
Page S13139
  Moynihan (for Harkin) Amendment No. 2680 (to Amendment No. 2280), to 
assure continued taxpayer savings through competitive bidding in WIC.
Page S13139
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill and amendments pending thereto, on Monday, 
September 11.
Pages S12910-11
Department of Defense Authorizations--Conferees: Pursuant to the order 
of September 6, 1995, the Chair appointed conferees on H.R. 1530, 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, as follows: 
Senators Thurmond, Warner, Cohen, McCain, Lott, Coats, Smith, 
Kempthorne, Hutchison, Inhofe, Santorum, Nunn, Exon, Levin, Kennedy, 
Bingaman, Glenn, Byrd, Robb, Lieberman, and Bryan.
  Page S13138
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting the report of a revised deferral of budgetary resources; 
which was referred jointly, pursuant to the order of January 30, 1975 
as modified by the order of April 11, 1986, to the Committee on the 
Budget, to the Committee on Appropriations, and to the Committee on 
Foreign Relations. (PM-79).
Page S12958
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Robert Nelson Baldwin, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Board of 
Directors of the State Justice Institute for a term expiring September 
17, 1998.
  Jeffrey R. Shafer, of New Jersey, to be an Under Secretary of the 
Treasury.
  Melissa T. Skolfield, of Louisiana, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
Health and Human Services.
  1 Navy nomination in the rank of admiral.
  Routine list in the Navy.
Pages S13139-42
Messages From the President:
  Page S12958
Messages From the House:
  Pages S12958-59
Measures Placed on Calendar:
  Page S12959
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S12959-66
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S12966-67
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S12968-13133
Authority for Committees:
  Page S13133
Additional Statements:
  Pages S13133-38
Record Votes: Four record votes were taken today. (Total--404)
  Pages S12876, S12888, S12895
Recess: Senate convened at 9:15 a.m., and recessed at 5:05 p.m., until 
10 a.m., on Monday, September 11, 1995. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S13139.)