[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 145 (Monday, September 18, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1105-D1106]
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                                         Monday, September 18, 1995

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                              Daily Digest


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S13677-S13747
Measures Introduced: Nine bills were introduced, as follows: S. 1250-
1258.
  Page S13728
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  Reported on Friday, September 15, 1995, during the recess of the 
Senate.
  H.R. 2127, making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health 
and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 1996, with amendments. (S. Rept. No. 104-145)
                                                            Page S13728
  Reported today:
  S. 977, to correct certain references in the Bankruptcy Code.
  S. 1111, to amend title 35, United States Code, with respect to 
patents on biotechnological processes.
  S.J. Res. 20, granting the consent of Congress to the compact to 
provide for joint natural resource management and enforcement of laws 
and regulations pertaining to natural resources and boating at the 
Jennings Randolph Lake Project lying in Garrett County, Maryland and 
Mineral County, West Virginia, entered into between the States of West 
Virginia and Maryland.
Page S13728
Agriculture Appropriations, 1996: Senate began consideration of H.R. 
1976, making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food 
and Drug Administration, and related agencies programs for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 1996, with committee amendments, taking 
action on amendments proposed thereto, as follows:

  Pages S13680-S13704, S13705-08, S13710-25
Adopted:
  (1) Reid Amendment No. 2685, to prohibit the use of funds for 
salaries and expenses of the Board of Tea Experts.
Pages S13694-96
  (2) Brown Amendment No. 2687 (to committee amendment beginning on 
page 83, line 4, through page 82, line 2), to eliminate the Board of 
Tea Experts.
Pages S13697-99
  (3) Brown Modified Amendment No. 2689 (to committee amendment 
beginning on page 83, line 4, through page 84, line 2), to prohibit the 
use of funds to pay salaries and expenses of Department of Agriculture 
employees to grade or inspect tobacco or to administer price support 
functions for tobacco.
Pages S13702-04, S13711
  (4) Brown Amendment No. 2690, to limit the use of funds by the 
Department of Agriculture to activities that do not interfere with the 
primacy of state water law.
Pages S13711-12
  (5) Daschle (for Kerrey/Kohl) Amendment No. 2686 (to committee 
amendment beginning on page 83, line 4, through page 84, line 2), to 
eliminate provisions providing cotton crop loss disaster payments, and 
to increase funding for the Rural Community Advancement Program, the 
Rural Development Loan Fund, and for Rural Technology and Cooperative 
Development Grants. (By 37 yeas to 53 nays (Vote No. 439), Senate 
earlier failed to table the amendment.)

Pages S13696, S13706-07, S13714-18
Pending:
  Brown Modified Amendment No. 2688 (to committee amendment beginning 
on page 83, line 4, through page 84, line 2), to prohibit the use of 
funds for salaries and expenses of Department of Agriculture employees 
who carry out a price support or production adjustment program for 
peanuts.
Pages S13699-S13702
  Bryan/Bumpers Amendment 2691, to eliminate funding to carry out the 
market promotion program.
Pages S13718-25
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill and certain amendments to be proposed 
thereto.
Page S13747
  Senate will continue consideration of the bill on Tuesday, September 
19, 1995.
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting the report on the national emergency with respect to 
Angola; referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban 
Affairs. (PM-80).
Pages S13725-26
  Transmitting the report on the national emergency with respect to 
Iran; referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. 
(PM-81).
Pages S13726-27
  Transmitting the notice of the continuation of the emergency with 
respect to UNITA; referred to the 

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Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM-82).

Page S13727
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  Paul M. Homan, of the District of Columbia, to be Special Trustee, 
Office of Special Trustee for American Indians, Department of the 
Interior.
Pages S13746, S13747
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Jane Bobbitt, of West Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
Commerce, vice Loretta L. Dunn, resigned.
  Donna Dearman Smith, of Alabama, to be a Member of the Board of 
Trustees of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education 
Foundation for a term expiring March 3, 1998, vice Howard W. Cannon, 
term expired.
  Hazel Rollins O'Leary, of Minnesota, to be the Representative of the 
United States of America to the Thirty-ninth Session of the General 
Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
  Shirley Ann Jackson, of New Jersey, to be the Alternate 
Representative of the United States of America to the Thirty-ninth 
Session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy 
Agency.
  Nelson F. Sievering, Jr., of Maryland, to be the Alternate 
Representative of the United States of America to the Thirty-ninth 
Session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy 
Agency.
  John B. Ritch III, of the District of Columbia, to be the Alternate 
Representative of the United States of America to the Thirty-ninth 
Session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy 
Agency.
Page S13747
Nomination Withdrawn: Senate received notification of the withdrawal of 
the following nomination:
  Howard W. Cannon, of Nevada, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees 
of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education 
Foundation, which was sent to the Senate on January 5, 1995.

Page S13747
Messages From the President:
  Page S13725
Messages From the House:
  Page S13727
Measures Referred:
  Page S13727
Measures Read First Time:
  Page S13746
Communications:
  Page S13727
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S13728-43
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S13743-44
Amendments Submitted:
  Page S13744
Authority for Committees:
  Page S13744
Additional Statements:
  Page S13744
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total-439)

  Page S13717
Recess: Senate convened at 9:45 a.m., and recessed at 8 p.m., until 9 
a.m., on Tuesday, September 19, 1995. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S13747.)