[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 142 (Wednesday, September 13, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1084-D1085]
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                                      Wednesday, September 13, 1995

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHT

      House passed the Intelligence Authorization and Deficit Reduction 
      Lock-Box bills.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S13481-S13553
Measures Introduced: Five bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1235-1239, and S. Res. 171.
  Page S13540
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  H.R. 2099, making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans 
Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent 
agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for fiscal 
year ending September 30, 1996, and for other purposes, with 
amendments. (S. Rept. No. 104-140)
Page S13540
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 S13481-S13539
Adopted:
  (1) By 66 yeas to 34 nays (Vote No. 416), Domenici Modified Amendment 
No. 2575 (to Amendment No. 2280), to strike the mandatory family cap.
Pages S13486-89
  (2) 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.
Page S13491
  (3) By 55 yeas to 45 nays (Vote No. 418), Mikulski Amendment No. 2668 
(to Amendment No. 2280), to eliminate a repeal of title V of the Older 
Americans Act of 1965.
Pages S13491-95
  (4) Lieberman Modified 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 S13504-07
  (5) By a unanimous vote of 100 yeas (Vote No. 420), Boxer Modified 
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.
Pages S13495, S13497, S13515-16
  (6) Division 1 of Cohen Amendment No. 2586 (to Amendment No. 2280), 
to modify the religious provider provision.
Pages S13516-22
  (7) By 59 yeas to 41 nays (Vote No. 421), Division 2 of Cohen 
Amendment No. 2586 (to Amendment No. 2280), to modify the religious 
provider provision.
Pages S13516-23
  (8) Harkin Amendment No. 2680 (to Amendment No. 2280), to express the 
sense of the Senate regarding competitive bidding for infant formula.
Pages S13523-24
  (9) 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.
Page S13524
Rejected:
  (1) By 42 yeas to 58 nays (Vote No. 413), Moseley-Braun Amendment No. 
2471 (to Amendment No. 2280), to require States to establish a voucher 
program for providing assistance to minor children in families that are 
eligible for but do not receive assistance.
Pages S13481-83
  (2) By 40 yeas to 60 nays (Vote No. 414), Moseley-Braun Amendment No. 
2472 (to Amendment No. 2280), to prohibit a State form 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.
Pages S13483-84
  (3) By 34 yeas to 66 nays (Vote No. 415), Graham/Bumpers Amendment 
No. 2565 (to Amendment No. 2280), to provide a formula for allocating 

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funds that more accurately reflects the needs of States with children 
below the poverty line.
Pages S13484-86
  (4) By 38 yeas to 62 nays (Vote No. 417), 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 S13489-91
  (5) By 24 yeas to 76 nays (Vote No. 419), Faircloth Amendment No. 
2603 (to Amendment No. 2280), to deny assistance for out-of-wedlock 
births to minors.
Pages S13507-16
Withdrawn:
  Coats/Ashcroft Amendment No. 2539 (to Amendment No. 2280), to provide 
a tax credit for charitable contributions to organizations providing 
poverty assistance.
Pages S13497-S13504
Pending:
  Dole Modified Amendment No. 2280, of a perfecting nature.
Pages S13481-S13539
  Subsequently, the amendment was further modified.
Pages S13495-97
  Daschle Amendment No. 2672 (to Amendment No. 2280), to provide for 
the establishment of a Contingency Fund for State Welfare Programs.
Pages S13486-87
  Faircloth Amendment No. 2608 (to Amendment No. 2280), to provide for 
an abstinence education program.
Pages S13486-87
  Wellstone Amendment No. 2584 (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 S13525-27
  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 S13527-29
  Conrad 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 S13529-33
  Jeffords Amendment No. 2581 (to Amendment No. 2280), to strike the 
increase to the grant to reward States that reduce out-of-wedlock 
births.
Pages S13523, S13533-36
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill and certain amendments pending thereto, on 
Thursday, September 14, 1995.
Page S13524
Messages From the House:
  Page S13540
Communications:
  Page S13540
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S13540-45
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S13545
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S13547-49
Authority for Committees:
  Page S13549
Additional Statements:
  Pages S13549-52
Record Votes: Nine record votes were taken today. (Total--421)
  Pages S13483-84, S13486, S13489, S13491, S13495, S13516, S13522-23
Recess: Senate convened at 9 a.m., and recessed at 8:56 p.m., until 
9:15 a.m., on Thursday, September 14, 1995. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S13552.)