[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 148 (Thursday, September 21, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1128-D1130]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                      Thursday, September 21, 1995 

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed Foreign Operations Appropriations, 1996.
      House passed Cuban liberty and solidarity bill.


                                 Senate

Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S13993-S14106
Measures Introduced: One bill was introduced, as follows: S. 1265.

  Page S14087
Measures Passed:
  Foreign Operations Appropriations, 1996: By 91 yeas to 9 nays (Vote No. 
458), Senate passed H.R. 1868, making appropriations for foreign operations, 
export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 1996, after agreeing to committee amendments, and after taking action on 
amendments proposed thereto, as follows:
  Pages S13995-S14081
Adopted:
  (1) By 55 yeas to 45 nays (Vote No. 454), Brown Amendment No. 2708 (to 
committee amendment beginning on page 15, line 17 through page 16, line 24), 
to clarify restrictions on assistance to Pakistan.
Pages S13995-S14005
  (2) Cohen Amendment No. 2724, to provide for a report to Congress on 
Russian military operations.
Pages S14013-14
  (3) Dole Amendment No. 2726, to provide for a limitation on assistance to 
countries that restrict the transport or delivery of United States 
humanitarian assistance.
Pages S14027-33
  (4) Helms Amendment No. 2727 (to committee amendment on page 2, line 25), 
to prohibit the use of funds for relocating the Agency for International 
Development to the Federal Triangle Building, Washington, D.C.

Pages S14033-34
  (5) Helms Amendment No. 2729 (to committee amendment on page 113, lines 
25-26, page 119, line 15, and page 120, lines 3, 4, 15, 19, 20), to amend 
the Middle East Peace Facilitation Act.
Page S14036
  (6) McConnell (for Cochran) Amendment No. 2734, providing funds for the 
World Food Program.
Pages S14052-55, S14074
  (7) McConnell (for Shelby) Amendment No. 2735, providing funds for the 
International Fertilizer Development Center.
Pages S14052-55, S14074
  (8) McConnell (for Inouye) Amendment No. 2736, to make funds available for 
the support of the United States Telecommunications Training Institute.

Pages S14052-55, S14074
  (9) McConnell (for Coverdell) Amendment No. 2737, to increase amounts 
appropriated for international narcotics control and to decrease amounts 
available to the Agency for International Development.

Pages S14052-55, S14074
  (10) McConnell (for Gorton) Amendment No. 2738, to provide for the 
transfer of excess defense articles to Estonia.
Pages S14055-57, S14074
  (11) McConnell (for Stevens) Amendment No. 2739, providing funds for 
endowments established under the United States-Egypt Economic, Technical and 
Related Assistance Agreements of 1978.
Pages S14055-57, S14074
  (12) McConnell (for Domenici) Amendment No. 2740, to provide payment to 
the North American Development Bank by the Secretary of the Treasury, for 
the United States share of the paid-in portion of the capital stock, 
$25,000,000, to remain available until expended.
Pages S14055-57, S14074
  (13) McConnell (for Wellstone) Amendment No. 2741, providing funds for the 
United Nations Fund for Victims of Torture.
Pages S14057-58, S14074
  (14) McConnell (for Dodd) Amendment No. 2742, to increase transfer 
authority for the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

Pages S14057-58, S14074
  (15) McConnell (for Dodd/Leahy) Amendment No. 2743, expressing the sense 
of the Congress that the Government of Guatemala has made significant 
progress towards negotiating an end to Guatemala's civil conflict.

Pages S14057-59, S14074
  (16) McConnell (for McCain/Kerry) Amendment No. 2744, to permit the 
continued provision of assistance to Burma only if certain conditions are 
satisfied.
Pages S14058-59, S14074
  (17) McConnell (for Kerry) Amendment No. 2745, to express the Sense of the 
Senate concerning the provision of spare parts and other military equipment 
to Peru.
Pages S14059-60, S14074

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  (18) McConnell (for Pell) Amendment No. 2746, to ensure that the current 
proportion of economic assistance continues to be channeled through private 
and voluntary organizations and cooperatives.
Pages S14060-61, S14074
  (19) McConnell (for Pell/Leahy) Amendment No. 2747, to provide that 
certain funds for Turkey be made available only through non-governmental 
organizations to be used only for projects in the ten southeastern provinces 
currently under a state of emergency, and shall be used only for projects 
designed to promote economic development, cultural and ethnic tolerance, and 
human rights activities, and to support the development and activities of 
non-governmental organizations.
Pages S14061-64, S14074
  (20) McConnell (for Leahy) Amendment No. 2748, to provide that the 
President should seek the agreement of the Prime Minister of Turkey to 
permit access throughout Turkey for international humanitarian organizations 
which operate confidentially, and report to the committee on Appropriations 
by June 1, 1996, on progress towards such agreement.

Pages S14061-64, S14074
  (21) McConnell (for Brown) Amendment No. 2749, to amend the NATO 
Participation Act of 1994 to expedite the transition to full membership in 
and cooperation with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization of European 
countries emerging from Communist domination.
Pages S14061-64, S14074
  (22) McConnell (for Byrd) Amendment No. 2750, to provide a substitute for 
the provision relating to the Korean Peninsula Energy Development 
Organization.
Pages S14064-65, S14074
  (23) McConnell Amendment No. 2751, to provide that funds for Armenia shall 
be in addition to funds justified for programs in the fiscal year 1996 
congressional presentation documents.
Pages S14065-69, S14074
  (24) McConnell (for Pressler) Amendment No. 2752, to express the sense of 
the Congress regarding the recent elections in Hong Kong.

Pages S14065-69, S14074
  (25) McConnell Amendment No. 2753, to impose sanctions against Burma, and 
countries assisting Burma, unless Burma observes basic human rights and 
permits political freedoms.
Pages S14065-69, S14074
  (26) McConnell (for Cohen) Amendment No. 2754, to express the sense of the 
Senate on Thailand.
Pages S14069-70, S14074
  (27) McConnell Amendment No. 2755, to provide for an extension of the tied 
aid credit program and authority to conduct a demonstration project.

Pages S14070-72, S14074
  (28) McConnell (for Leahy) Amendment No. 2756, to make available certain 
funds to UNIFEM.
Pages S14070-72, S14074
  (29) McConnell (for Leahy) Amendment No. 2757, to provide for a 
conventional weapons review.
Pages S14070-72, S14074
  (30) McConnell (for Leahy) Amendment No. 2758, to extend the authority to 
administer au pair programs through fiscal year 1999.

Pages S14070-72, S14074
  (31) McConnell Amendment No. 2759, to provide that certain funds may be 
obligated and expended notwithstanding section 10 of Public Law 91-672 and 
section 15 of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956.

Pages S14070-72, S14074
  (32) McConnell (for Dole) Amendment No. 2760, to limit the availability of 
funds for the Government of Haiti until certain human rights conditions are 
met.
Pages S14070-72, S14074
  (33) McConnell (for Dole) Amendment No. 2761, to increase the total value 
of defense articles and defense services which may be transferred to the 
Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina under the legislation.

Pages S14072-74
  (34) McConnell (for Dole) Amendment No. 2762, to establish the Croatian-
American Enterprise Fund and make available funds to support the Fund.

Pages S14072-74
  (35) McConnell (for Dole) Amendment No. 2763, to earmark funds for 
humanitarian assistance to the former Yugoslavia.
Pages S14072-74
  (36) McConnell (for Dole) Amendment No. 2764, to impose sanctions against 
countries harboring war criminals.
Pages S14072-74
  (37) McConnell (for Dole/Biden) Amendment No. 2765, to limit the use of 
funds for Bosnia and Herzegovina (other than for refugee or disaster 
assistance) to activities in the territory of the Bosniac-Croat Federation. 
                                                             Pages S14073-74
  (38) McConnell (for Cohen) Amendment No. 2766, expressing the sense of the 
Senate regarding Russian compliance with the Treaty of the Conventional 
Armed Forces in Europe and priorities for modifying existing arms control 
treaties.
Pages S14073-74
  (39) McConnell (for Kassebaum) Amendment No. 2767, to require the 
submission to Congress of a plan making recommendations for a strategic 
reorganization of the United Nations.
Page S14074
Rejected:
  (1) Harkin Amendment No. 2725, to express the sense of the Senate on the 
conference on S. 4, the Line Item Veto Act. (By 76 yeas to 24 nays (Vote No. 
455), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S14015-19
  (2) By 43 yeas to 57 nays (Vote No. 456), Helms Amendment No. 2730 (to 
committee amendment on pages 44-45), to restrict the availability of funds 
for the United Nations Population Fund.
Pages S14036-45, S14049
Withdrawn:
  (1) Kerry Amendment No. 2732 (to committee amendment on page 23, line 10 
through page 28, 

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line 5), to strike provisions which provide funds to establish FBI 
Legal Attache offices and related programs in certain foreign countries and 
for international law enforcement training and cooperation in Central Europe 
and the New Independent States.
Pages S14045-49
  (2) Kerry Amendment No. 2733 (to committee amendment on page 29, lines 17-
24), to strike provisions which provide funds to establish and maintain an 
FBI Legal Attache office in Cairo, Egypt.
Pages S14045-49
  (3) Bingaman Amendment No. 2728, to allow residents of the United States 
to send to their immediate family members in Cuba small amounts of money to 
pay for basic necessities such as food, clothing, and medical care.

Pages S14034-36
  (4) Bingaman Amendment No. 2731 (to Amendment No. 2728), to allow 
residents of the United States to send to their immediate family members in 
Cuba small amounts of money to pay for basic necessities such as food, 
clothing, and medical care.
Pages S14037-38
  (5) Murkowski Amendment No. 2712, to set forth requirements for 
implementation of the Agreed Framework Between the United States and North 
Korea Act relating to the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization. 
                                                                 Page S14050
  (6) Helms (for Dole/Helms) Amendment No. 2707 (to committee amendment on 
page 2, line 25), to provide for the streamlining and consolidation of the 
foreign affairs agencies of the United States. (By 43 yeas to 57 nays (Vote 
No. 457), Senate earlier failed to table the amendment.)

Pages S14019-26, S14050
  Senate insisted on its amendments, requested a conference with the House 
thereon, and the Chair appointed the following conferees: Senators 
McConnell, Specter, Mack, Gramm, Jeffords, Gregg, Shelby, Hatfield, Leahy, 
Inouye, Lautenberg, Harkin, Mikulski, Murray, and Byrd.
Page S14081
  Mercury-Containing Battery Management Act: Senate passed 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, 
after agreeing to committee amendments.
  Pages S14100-03
Military Construction Appropriations, 1996 Conference Report-Agreement: A 
unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for the consideration of 
the conference report on H.R. 1817, making appropriations for military 
construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the 
Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, on 
Friday, September 22, 1996, with a vote to occur thereon.
  Page S14100
Legislative Branch Appropriations, 1996 Conference Report--Agreement: A 
unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for the consideration of 
the conference report on H.R. 1854, making appropriations for the 
Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, on Friday, 
September 22, 1996, with a vote to occur thereon.
  Page S14100
District of Columbia Appropriations, 1996--Agreement: A unanimous-consent 
agreement was reached providing for the consideration of S. 1244, making 
appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other 
activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of said 
District for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, on Friday, September 
22, 1996.
  Page S14100
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages from the 
President of the United States:
  Transmitting the report entitled ``Highway Safety: 1994''; referred to the 
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (PM--83).
Page S14083
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  John Wade Douglass, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
                                                                 Page S14106
Messages From the President:
  Page S14083
Messages From the House:
  Pages S14083-84
Measures Referred:
  Page S14084
Communications:
  Pages S14084-85
Petitions:
  Page S14085
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Pages S14085-87
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Page S14087
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S14087
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S14087-96
Authority for Committees:
  Page S14096
Additional Statements:
  Pages S14096-S14100
Record Votes: Five record votes were taken today. (Total--458)

  Pages S14005, S14019, S14049, S14050, S14081
Recess: Senate convened at 9:15 a.m., and recessed at 8:16 p.m., until 9:30 
a.m., on Friday, September 22, 1995. (For Senate's program, see the remarks 
of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S14105.)