[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 183 (Friday, November 17, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1367-D1368]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


 
                                          Friday, November 17, 1995
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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHT

      House passed the conference report on the balanced budget and 
      Bosnia deployment bill.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S17203-S17420
Measures Introduced: Six bills were introduced, as follows: S. 1418-
1423.
  Page 17336
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 755, to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to provide for the 
privatization of the United States Enrichment Corporation, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 104-173)
  S. 1341, to provide for the transfer of certain lands to the Salt 
River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and the city of Scottsdale, 
Arizona, with amendments. (S. Rept. No. 104-174)
Page 17336
Measures Passed:
  Coast Guard Authorizations: Senate passed S. 1004, to authorize 
appropriations for the United States Coast Guard, after agreeing to a 
committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, and agreeing to the 
following amendments proposed thereto:
  Pages S17362-S17420
Adopted:
  (1) Lott (for Stevens) Amendment No. 3058, to make technical 
corrections.
Pages S17393-94
  (2) Lott (for Stevens) Amendment No. 3059, to clarify the financial 
responsibility requirements for offshore facilities.
Pages S17394-97
  (3) Lott (for Kerry) Amendment No. 3060, to provide for the 
deauthorization of a navigation project in Cohasset Harbor, 
Massachusetts.
Page S17397
  National Family Week: Committee on the Judiciary was discharged from 
further consideration of S. Res. 146, designating the week beginning 
November 19, 1995, and the week beginning on November 24, 1996, as 
``National Family Week'', and the resolution was then agreed to.

  Page S17420
National Highway System Designation Act--Conference Report: By 80 yeas 
to 16 nays (Vote No. 582), Senate agreed to the conference report on S. 
440, to amend title 23, United States Code, to provide for the 
designation of the National Highway System.
  Pages S17203-27
Budget Reconciliation--Conference Report: By 52 yeas to 47 nays (Vote 
No. 584), Senate receded from its amendment to H.R. 2491, to provide 
for reconciliation pursuant to section 105 of the concurrent resolution 
on the budget for fiscal year 1996, and concurred therein with a 
further amendment. (Pursuant to the Budget Act, that amendment is the 
text of the conference report (H. Rept. No. 104-350), excluding the 
provisions stricken on the point of order, listed below.)

  Pages S17227-44, S17247-S17330
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 54 yeas to 45 nays (Vote No. 583), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
failed to waive the Congressional Budget Act with respect to 
consideration of Section 1853(f) of the Social Security Act as added by 
Section 8001 of the bill. Subsequently, a point of order that the bill 
was in violation of section 313(b)(1) (A) and (D) of the Congressional 
Budget Act was sustained, and the provisions were stricken from the 
bill.
Pages S17315-27
Securities Litigation Reform Act: Senate insisted on its amendments to 
H.R. 1058, to amend the Federal securities laws to curb certain abusive 
practices in private securities litigation, agreed to the request of 
the House for a conference thereon, and the Chair appointed the 
following conferees: Senators D'Amato, Gramm, Bond, Grams, Domenici, 
Sarbanes, Dodd, Kerry, and Bryan.
  Pages S17361-62
Messages From the House:
  Page S17335
Communications:
  Page S17336
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S17336-48
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S17348   
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Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S17348-55
Authority for Committees:
  Page S17355
Additional Statements:
  Pages S17355--61
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total-584)

  Page S17227, S17327, S17330
Recess: Senate convened at 10 a.m., and recessed at 10:07 p.m., until 
9:15 a.m., on Saturday, November 18, 1995. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S17245.)