[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 151 (Tuesday, September 26, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1147-D1148]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                            Tuesday, September 26, 1995 

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate

Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S14223-S14334
Measures Introduced: Three bills were introduced, as follows: S. 1273-1275. 
                                                                 Page S14312
VA/HUD Appropriations, 1996: Senate continued consideration of 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, with certain excepted committee amendments, taking action on 
amendments proposed thereto, as follows:
  Pages S14223-S14307
Adopted:
  (1) Bond Amendment No. 2778, to ensure that veterans in the State of 
Hawaii are given appropriate and equal access to VA-funded medical care.

Pages S14228-30
  (2) Stevens/Murkowski Amendment No. 2779, to provide for a 1-year 
exemption from the oxygenated fuel requirements of the Clean Air Act for 
Fairbanks, Alaska.
Pages S14246-48
  (3) Chafee Amendment No. 2780 (to committee amendment on page 143, line 17 
through page 151, line 10), to modify the provisions with respect to 
arsenic.
Pages S14248-49
  (4) Jeffords Amendment No. 2783, to require the Environmental Protection 
Agency to give priority to small businesses in its green programs and to 
require the EPA to perform a study to determine the feasibility of making 
these programs self-sufficient.
Pages S14281-86
  (5) McCain Amendment No. 2787, to require the Department of Veterans 
Affairs to allocate funding to insure that veterans have equal access to 
quality health care.
Pages S14299-S14302
Rejected:
  (1) By 35 yeas to 64 nays (Vote No. 463), Bumpers Amendment No. 2776 (to 
committee amendment on page 158, lines 13-14), to reduce the appropriation 
for the implementation of the space station program for the purpose of 
terminating the program.
Pages S14230-46
  (2) By 47 yeas to 52 nays (Vote No. 464), Mikulski Amendment No. 2781, to 
restore funding for national and community service programs.

Pages S14249-71
Withdrawn:
  Inouye Amendment No. 2777, to make available $38,000,000 for construction 
at the Spark M. Matsunaga Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 
Hawaii.
Pages S14226-28
Pending:
  Sarbanes Amendment No. 2782, to restore homeless assistance funding to 
fiscal year 1995 levels using excess public housing agency project reserves.
                                                     Pages S14273-79, S14281
  Rockefeller Amendment No. 2784, to strike section 107 which limits 
compensation for mentally disabled veterans and offset the loss of revenues 
by ensuring that any tax cut benefits only those families with incomes less 
than $100,000.
Pages S14286-89
  Rockefeller Amendment No. 2785 (to committee amendment on page 8, lines 9-
10), to increase funding for veterans' medical care and offset the increase 
in funds by ensuring that any tax cut benefits only those families with 
incomes less that $100,000.
Pages S14290-95
  Baucus Amendment No. 2786, to provide that any provision that limits 
implementation or enforcement of any environmental law shall not apply if 
the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency determines that 
application of the prohibition or limitation would diminish the protection 
of human health or the environment otherwise provided by law.

Pages S14295-99
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill and certain amendments to be proposed thereto.

Page S14295
  Senate will continue consideration of the bill on Wednesday, September 27, 
1995.
Small Business Lending Enhancement Act--Conferees: Senate disagreed to the 
amendments of the House to S. 895, to amend the Small Business Act to reduce 
the level of participation by the Small Business Administration in certain 
loans guaranteed by the Administration, agreed to the request of the House 
for a conference thereon, and the Chair appointed the following conferees: 
Senators Bond, Burns, Coverdell, Bumpers, and Nunn.
  Page S14333
Messages From the House:
  Page S14309
Communications:
  Pages S14309-10
Petitions:
  Pages S14310-12
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S14312
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S14312-18 

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Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S14318-19
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S14319-21
Authority for Committees:
  Page S14321
Additional Statements:
  Pages S14321-24
Text of S. 1244 as Previously Passed:
  Pages S14324-32
Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--464)

  Pages S14246, S14271
Recess: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and recessed at 8:55 p.m., until 9 
a.m., on Wednesday, September 27, 1995. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on pages S14333-34.)