[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 167 (Thursday, October 26, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1258-D1260]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                        Thursday, October 26, 1995 

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHT

      House passed the budget reconciliation bill.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S15707-S15977
Measures Introduced: Three bills were introduced, as follows: S. 1364-
1366.
  Page S15849
Measures Reported: Report made as follows:
  S. 848, to grant the consent of Congress to an amendment of the 
Historic Chattahoochee Compact between the States of Alabama and 
Georgia.
Page S15849
Budget Reconciliation: Senate continued consideration of S. 1357, to 
provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 105 of the concurrent 
resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1996, taking action on 
motions/amendments pending thereto:
  Pages S15707-70, S15773-S15840
Adopted:
  (1) By a unanimous vote of 99 yeas (Vote No. 500), Abraham Amendment 
No. 2950, to establish beneficiary incentive programs to collect 
information on fraud and abuse against the Medicare program and to 
collect information on program efficiency.
Pages S15707, S15777
  (2) By a unanimous vote of 99 yeas (Vote No. 504), Kassebaum 
Amendment No. 2962, to strike the provisions relating to loan payments 
from institutions, the elimination of the grace period interest 
subsidy, and the PLUS loan interest rate and rebate.

Pages S15773-76, S15779-81
  (3) By a unanimous vote of 99 yeas (Vote No. 507), McCain Amendment 
No. 2964, to express the sense of the Senate regarding the need to 
raise the Social Security earnings limit.
Pages S15786-95, S15827
  (4) By 79 yeas to 20 nays (Vote No. 508), Helms Amendment No. 2965, 
to allow senior citizens to continue to choose their doctors.

Pages S15786-95, S15827
  (5) By a unanimous vote of 99 yeas (Vote No. 509), Brown Amendment 
No. 2969, to provide that the $1,000,000 limit on deductibility of 
compensation paid to an employee is extended to employees of all 
businesses, and to use the resulting revenues to reduce the Social 
Security earnings penalty.
Pages S15795-96, S15827-28
  (6) By 60 yeas to 39 nays (Vote No. 513), Chafee/Conrad Amendment No. 
2973, to guarantee coverage under the Medicaid program for low-income 
aged, blind, and disabled individuals eligible for supplemental 
security income benefits under title XVI of the Social Security Act.

Pages S15805-07, S15829-30
  (7) By a unanimous vote of 99 yeas (Vote No. 515), Bond/Pryor 
Modified Amendment No. 2975, to increase the health insurance deduction 
for self-employed individuals and to strike the long-term care 
insurance provisions.
Pages S15808-12, S15830
  (8) Snowe Amendment No. 2976, to express the sense of the Senate 
regarding the coverage of treatment of breast and prostate cancer under 
Medicare.
Page S15813
Rejected:
  (1) By 46 yeas to 53 nays (Vote No. 499), Rockefeller motion to 
commit the bill to the Committee on Finance, with instructions, 
regarding Medicare.
Pages S15707, S15776
  (2) Bradley motion to commit the bill to the Committee on Finance, 
with instructions, regarding Earned Income Tax Credit. (By 53 yeas to 
46 nays (Vote No. 501), Senate tabled the motion.)

Pages S15707-13, S15777-78
  (3) Graham motion to commit the bill to the Committee on Finance, 
with instructions, regarding Medicaid. (By 51 yeas to 48 nays (Vote No. 
502), Senate tabled the motion.)
Pages S15713-33, S15778-79
  (4) Kennedy Amendment No. 2959, to strike those provisions that 
impose higher student loan costs on students and families. (By 51 yeas 
to 48 nays (Vote No. 503), Senate tabled the motion.)

Pages S15733-50, S15779
  (5) Bumpers motion to commit the bill to the Committee on Finance, 
with instructions, regarding 

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deficit reduction. (By 53 yeas to 46 nays (Vote No. 505), Senate tabled 
the motion.)
Pages S15750-57, S15781-82
  (6) By 46 yeas to 53 nays (Vote No. 512), Byrd/Ford Amendment No. 
2972, to strike the reductions in highway demonstration projects and to 
provide an offsetting revenue increase.
Pages S15803-05, S15829
  (7) Breaux Amendment No. 2963, to provide for a partially refundable 
child tax credit. (By 53 yeas to 46 nays (Vote No. 514), Senate tabled 
the amendment.)
Pages S15807-08, S15830
  (8) Biden motion to commit the bill to the Committee on Finance, with 
instructions, regarding a tax deduction for costs of college education. 
(By 55 yeas to 44 nays (Vote No. 516), Senate tabled the motion.)

Pages S15812-13, S15831
Withdrawn:
  (1) Brown Modified Amendment No. 2949 (to instructions of Rockefeller 
motion to commit), instructions that the committee should consider the 
findings of the trustees of the Federal Insurance Trust Fund.

Page S15707
  (2) Harkin Amendment No. 2957 (to Amendment No. 2950), to strengthen 
efforts to combat Medicare waste, fraud and abuse.
Page S15707
  (3) Nickles/Brown Amendment No. 2958 (to instructions of Bradley 
motion to commit the bill), to increase the Earned Income Tax Credit 
for families.
Page S15707
  During consideration of this bill today, the following action also 
occurred:
  By 46 yeas to 53 nays (Vote No. 506), 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 with respect to consideration of the Baucus motion to commit 
the bill to the Committee on Finance, with instructions, regarding 
rural restoration. Subsequently, a point of order that the motion was 
in violation of the Congressional Budget Act was sustained, and the 
motion was ruled not in order.
Pages S15757-70, S15782
  By 43 yeas to 56 nays (Vote No. 510), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected a motion to waive section 305(b)(2) of the Congressional 
Budget Act with respect to consideration of Harkin Amendment No. 2970, 
to strengthen efforts to combat Medicare waste, fraud and abuse. 
Subsequently, a point of order that the amendment was in violation of 
the Congressional Budget Act was sustained, and the amendment thus 
fell.
Pages S15796-S15801, S15828
  By 25 yeas to 74 nays (Vote No. 511), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected a motion to waive section 305(b)(2) of the Congressional 
Budget Act with respect to consideration of McCain Amendment No. 2971, 
to eliminate corporate welfare in Federal programs. Subsequently, a 
point of order that the amendment was in violation of the Congressional 
Budget Act was sustained, and the amendment thus fell.

Pages S15801-03, S15828-29
  By 47 yeas to 52 nays (Vote No. 517), 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 with respect to consideration of Dorgan Amendment No. 2977, 
to end deferral for United States shareholders on income of controlled 
foreign corporations attributable to property imported into the United 
States. Subsequently, a point of order that the amendment was in 
violation of the Congressional Budget Act was sustained, and the 
amendment thus fell.
Pages S15814-16, S15831-32
Pending:
  Gramm Amendment No. 2978, to provide states additional flexibility in 
providing for Medicaid beneficiaries.
Pages S15816-17
  Kerry/Kennedy Amendment No. 2979, to express the sense of the Senate 
that the Senate should debate and vote on whether to raise the minimum 
wage before the end of the first session of the 104th Congress.

Pages S15817-18
  Domenici (for Murkowski/Johnston) Amendment No. 2980, of a technical 
nature.
Page S15818
  Kennedy/Kassebaum Amendment No. 2981, to strike the provision 
allowing the transfer of excess pension assets.
Pages S15818-21
  Wellstone Amendment No. 2982, to eliminate the tax deduction for oil 
drilling, to eliminate the corporate minimum tax provisions, to 
eliminate the foreign earned income exclusion, and to eliminate the 
section 936 possession tax credit.
Pages S15821-23
  Pryor/Cohen Amendment No. 2983, to provide for the continuation of 
requirements for nursing facilities in the Medicaid program.

Pages S15823-25
  Senate will continue consideration of the bill on Friday, October 27, 
1995.
Messages From the House:
  Page S15844
Communications:
  Pages S15844-45
Petitions:
  Pages S15845-49
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S15849
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S15849-51
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S15851
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S15852-971
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S15971
Authority for Committees:
  Page S15971
Additional Statements:
  Page S15971 

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Record Votes: Nineteen record votes were taken today. (Total-517)

  Pages S15776, S15777, S15778, S15779, S15781, S15782, S15827, S15828, 
S15828-29, S15829, S15829-30, S15830, S15831, S15831-32
Recess: Senate convened at 9 a.m., and recessed on Friday, October 27, 
1995 at 12:23 a.m., to reconvene at 9:15 a.m. the same day. (For 
Senate's program, see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in 
today's Record on page S15771.)