[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 152 (Wednesday, September 27, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1151-D1153]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                     Wednesday, September 27, 1995 

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed VA/HUD Appropriations, 1996.
      House passed teamwork for employees and managers bill.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S14335-S14431
Measures Introduced: Four bills were introduced, as follows: S. 1276-
1279.
  Pages S14407-08
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S.J. Res. 31, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the 
United States to grant Congress and the States the power to prohibit 
the physical desecration of the flag of the United States. (S. Rept. 
No. 104-148)
Measures Passed:
  VA/HUD Appropriations, 1996: By 55 yeas to 45 nays (Vote No. 470), 
Senate passed 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, after agreeing to excepted 
committee amendments, and after taking action on amendments proposed 
thereto, as follows:
  Pages S14337-94
Adopted:
  (1) Feingold Amendment No. 2789 (to committee amendment beginning on 
page 51, line 3 through page 128, line 20), to strike the provision 
relating to spending limitations on Fair Housing Act enforcement.

Pages S14355-64
  (2) Chafee Amendment No. 2790 (to committee amendment beginning on 
page 143, line 17 through page 151, line 10), relating to the 
pretreatment requirements for a pharmaceutical plant in Kalamazoo, 
Michigan.
Pages S14364-65
  (3) Bingaman Amendment No. 2791, relating to housing assistance to 
residents of colonias.
Pages S14365-66
  (4) Chafee Amendment No. 2792, to make funds available to support 
continuation of the Superfund Brownfields Redevelopment Initiative.

Page S14367
  (5) Thurmond Amendment No. 2793, to provide funding for the Service 
Members Occupational Conversion and Training Program.
Pages S14367-68
  (6) Mikulski (for Harkin) Amendment No. 2794, relating to the 
manufacturing, processing, or the distribution of certain fishing 
sinkers.
Page S14368
  (7) Bond Amendment No. 2795 (to committee amendment beginning on page 
51, line 3 through page 128, line 20), to provide HUD with the 
authority to renew expiring section 8 project-based contracts through a 
budget-based analysis.
Pages S14368-69
  (8) Bond (for Simon/Moseley-Braun) Amendment No. 2796, to provide for 
a delay in the transfer of fair housing enforcement from the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development to the Department of Justice.

Pages S14381-84, S14387
  (9) Bond (for Johnston) Amendment No. 2797, to provide for a study by 
the National Academy of Sciences with respect to indoor radon and other 
naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM).

Pages S14381, S14384, S14387
  (10) Bond (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 2798, to reduce energy costs 
of Federal facilities for which funds are made available under this 
Act.
Pages S14381, S14384-85, S14387
  (11) Bond Amendment No. 2799, to increase amounts provided for FEMA 
salaries and expenses, Office of the Inspector General, and emergency 
food and shelter.
Pages S14381, S14385, S14387
  (12) Bond Amendment No. 2800, to make technical corrections and 
modifications.
Pages S14381, S14385-87
  (13) Bond (for Kempthorne) Amendment No. 2801, to extend the date 
that funds are reserved for the safe drinking water revolving fund, if 
authorized, to April 30, 1996.
Pages S14381, S14386-87
  (14) Bond (for Faircloth) Amendment No. 2802, to prevent HUD from 
investigating any person or persons that exercise their right to free 
speech, to 

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block housing or zoning decisions that HUD may view as a violation of 
the Fair Housing Act.
Pages S14381, S14386-87
  (15) Bond (for Faircloth) Amendment No. 2803, to preserve the 
national occupancy standard of two persons per bedroom.

Pages S14381, S14386-87
  (16) Bond (for Feinstein) Amendment No. 2804, relating to eligible 
activities under section 105 of the Housing and Community Development 
Act of 1974.
Pages S14381, S14386-87
  (17) Bond (for Warner) Amendment No. 2805, to impose a moratorium 
during fiscal year 1996, and to require a report on the conversion of 
Environmental Protection Agency contracts for research and development.
                                                Pages S14381, S14386-87
  (18) Bond (for Moynihan/D'Amato) Amendment No. 2806, relating to a 
special purpose grant for the renovation of the central terminal in 
Buffalo, New York.
Pages S14381, S14386-87
  (19) Bond Amendment No. 2807, to provide funding for the Corporation 
for National and Community Service to permit the orderly termination of 
previously initiated activities and programs, including the 
Corporation's Office of Inspector General.
Pages S14381, S14386-87
  (20) Bond (for Feingold) Amendment No. 2808, to provide for a report 
on the impact of community development grants on plant relocations and 
job dislocation.
Pages S14381, S14387
Rejected:
  (1) By 39 yeas to 61 nays (Vote No. 467), 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 S14337-38, S14341-43
  (2) Sarbanes Amendment No. 2782, to restore homeless assistance 
funding to fiscal year 1995 levels using excess public housing agency 
project reserves. (By 52 yeas to 48 nays (Vote No. 468), Senate tabled 
the amendment.)
Pages S14337, S14343-45
  During consideration of this bill today, the following action also 
occurred:
  By 47 yeas to 53 nays (Vote No. 465), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected a motion to waive certain provisions of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 with respect to the consideration of 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. Subsequently, a point of order that the amendment was in 
violation of the Congressional Budget Act was sustained, and the 
amendment thus fell.
Pages S14337-41
  By 51 yeas to 49 nays (Vote No. 466), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected a motion to waive certain provisions of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 with respect to the consideration of 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 than $100,000. Subsequently, a point of order that the 
amendment was in violation of the Congressional Budget Act was 
sustained, and the amendment thus fell.
Pages S14337, S14341
  By 45 yeas to 54 nays (Vote No. 469), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
reject a motion to waive certain provisions of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974 with respect to consideration of Lautenberg Modified 
Amendment No. 2788, to restore funding for hazardous waste clean up, 
for sewage treatment grants, and provide funds for the Council of 
Environmental Quality, and offset the increase in funds by ensuring 
that any tax cut benefits only those families with incomes less than 
$150,000.
Pages S14346-55, S14363
  Senate insisted on its amendments, requested a conference with the 
House thereon, and the Chair appointed the following conferees: 
Senators Bond, Gramm, Burns, Stevens, Shelby, Bennett, Hatfield, 
Mikulski, Leahy, Johnston, Lautenberg, Kerrey, and Byrd.
Page S14389
Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations, 1996--Consideration: A unanimous-
consent agreement was reached providing for the consideration of a 
motion(s) to proceed to consideration of 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, on Thursday, September 28, 1995, with a vote on the 
motion to occur at 10 a.m.
  Page S14407
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Michael V. Dunn, of Iowa, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
Agriculture.
  Michael V. Dunn, of Iowa, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of 
the Commodity Credit Corporation.
  42 Army nominations in the rank of general.
Page S14431
Messages From the House:
  Page S14407
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S14408-19 

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Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S14419-20
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S14420-27
Authority for Committees:
  Page S14427
Additional Statements:
  Pages S14427-30
Record Votes: Six record votes were taken today. (Total--470)

  Pages S14340-41, S14343, S14345, S14363, S14389
Recess: Senate convened at 9 a.m., and recessed at 6:20 p.m., until 9 
a.m., on Thursday, September 28, 1995. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on pages S14430-31.)