[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 159 (Friday, October 13, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
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                                           Friday, October 13, 1995

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S15143-S15180
Measures Introduced: Five bills were introduced, as follows: S. 1319-
1323.
  Page S15166
Measures Passed:
  Congressional Award Act Amendments: Senate passed S. 1267, to amend 
the Congressional Award Act to revise and extend authorities for the 
Congressional award Board.
  Page S15170
  Week Without Violence: Committee on the Judiciary was discharged from 
further consideration of S. Res. 180, proclaiming October 15, 1995, 
through October 21, 1995, as the ``Week Without Violence'', and the 
resolution was then agreed to.
  Page S15170
Telecommunications Competition and Deregulation Act: Senate disagreed 
with the amendments of the House to S. 652, to provide for a pro-
competitive, de-regulatory national policy framework designed to 
accelerate rapidly private sector deployment of advanced 
telecommunications and information technologies and services to all 
Americans by opening all telecommunications markets to competition, 
agreed to the request of the House for a conference thereon, and the 
Chair appointed the following conferees: Senators Pressler, Stevens, 
McCain, Burns, Gorton, Lott, Hollings, Inouye, Ford, Exon, and 
Rockefeller.
  Pages S15144-52
Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act--Cloture Motion Filed: A 
third motion was entered to close further debate on the pending Dole 
Amendment No. 2898, in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 927, Cuban 
Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act and, in accordance with the 
provisions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, a vote on 
the cloture motion could occur on Wednesday, October 18, 1995.

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Ryan White CARE Reauthorization Act--Conferees: Senate disagreed to the 
amendments of the House to S. 641, to reauthorize the Ryan White CARE 
Act of 1990, requested a conference with the House thereon, and the 
Chair was authorized to appoint the following conferees: Senators 
Kassebaum, Jeffords, Frist, Kennedy, and Dodd.
  Pages S15170-76
Commerce, Justice, State Appropriations, 1996--Conferees: The Chair, 
pursuant to the order of Friday, September 29, 1995, appointed 
conferees on H.R. 2076, making appropriations for the Departments of 
Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies 
programs for the fiscal year ending September 3, 1996, as follows: 
Senators Gregg, Hatfield, Stevens, Domenici, McConnell, Jeffords, 
Cochran, Hollings, Byrd, Inouye, Bumpers, Lautenberg, and Kerrey.

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Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  David P. Rawson, of Michigan, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Mali.
  Gerald Wesley Scott, of Oklahoma, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
The Gambia.
  Ralph R. Johnson, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Slovak 
Republic.
  Robert E. Gribbin III, of Alabama, to be Ambassador to the Republic 
of Rwanda.
  A routine list in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration.
Page S15180
Communications:
  Pages S15165-66
Statements on Introduced Bills:
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Additional Cosponsors:
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Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S15166-67
Authority for Committees:
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Additional Statements:
  Pages S15167-70
Recess: Senate convened at 9:45 a.m., and recessed at 3:52 p.m., until 
9:45 a.m., on Tuesday, October 17, 1995. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on pages S15179-80.)

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