[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 188 (Tuesday, November 28, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1388-D1389]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                        Tuesday, November 28, 1995 

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                              Daily Digest

                                2Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S17541-S17698
Measures Introduced: Six bills were introduced, as follows: S. 1427-
1432.
  Page S17666
Measures Passed:
   ICC Sunset Act: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 
was discharged from further consideration of H.R. 2539, to abolish the 
Interstate Commerce Commission, and to amend subtitle IV of title 49, 
United States Code, to reform economic regulation of transportation, 
and the bill was then passed after striking all after the enacting 
clause and inserting in lieu thereof the text of S. 1396, Senate 
companion measure, after agreeing to a committee amendment in the 
nature of a substitute, and taking action on amendments proposed 
thereto, as follows:
  Pages S17551-90, S17592-S17602
Adopted:
  (1) Pressler/Exon amendment No. 3063, to make technical corrections. 
                                                        Pages S17582-83
  Subsequently, the amendment was modified.
Page S17601
  (2) By a unanimous vote of 97 yeas (Vote No. 586), Byrd amendment No. 
3036, to provide for a minimum penalty of 30 years of imprisonment and 
a maximum penalty of life imprisonment for the destruction of a motor 
vehicle or motor vehicle facility if a motor vehicle carrying high 
level nuclear waste or spent nuclear fuel is involved, or for wrecking 
or sabotaging a train that carries high-level nuclear waste or spent 
nuclear fuel.
Pages S17594-96
  (3) Boxer amendment No. 3065, to provide for the comparable treatment 
of Federal employees and Members of Congress and the President during a 
fiscal hiatus.
Pages S17593-94, S17596-99
Rejected:
  Dorgan/Bond amendment No. 3064, to establish certain competition 
standards with respect to mergers by railroad carriers. (By 62 yeas to 
35 nays (Vote No. 585), Senate tabled the amendment.)

Pages S17585-90, S17594-96
Withdrawn:
  Ashcroft amendment No. 3067, relating to the transportation of 
household goods by motor carriers.
Pages S17600-02
  Subsequently, S. 1396 was returned to the Senate Calendar.

Page S17602
Product Liability Fairness Act--Conferees: Senate insisted on its 
amendment to H.R. 956, to establish legal standards and procedures for 
product liability litigation, agreed to the request of the House for a 
conference thereon, and the Chair appointed the following conferees: 
Senators Pressler, Gorton, Lott, Stevens, Snowe, Ashcroft, Hollings, 
Inouye, Ford, Exon, and Rockefeller.
  Page S17674
Safe Drinking Water Act Reauthorization: A unanimous-consent agreement 
was reached providing for the consideration of S. 1316, to reauthorize 
and amend title XIV of the Public Health Service Act (commonly known as 
the ``Safe Drinking Water Act''), on Wednesday, November 29, 1995.

  Page S17675
Messages from the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting the annual report of the Railroad Retirement Board for 
fiscal year 1994; referred to the Committee on Labor and Human 
Resources. (PM-97).
Page S17664
  Transmitting the report concerning the national emergency with 
respect to Iran; referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs. (PM-98).
Pages S17664-65
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Received on Monday, November 27, during the adjournment:
  Ann L. Aiken, of Oregon, to be United States District Judge for the 
District of Oregon.
  Joseph A. Greenaway, of New Jersey, to be United States District 
Judge for the District of New Jersey.
  Faith S. Hochberg, of New Jersey, to be United States District Judge 
for the District of New Jersey.
  Ann D. Montgomery, of Minnesota, to be United States District Judge 
for the District of Minnesota.
Page S17675
  Received today:
  James E. Johnson, of New Jersey, to be an Assistant Secretary of the 
Treasury.

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  H. Martin Lancaster, of North Carolina, to be an Assistant Secretary 
of the Army.
  LeVar Burton, of California, to be a Member of the National 
Commission on Libraries and Information Science for a term expiring 
July 19, 2000.
  Routine lists in the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard.
Pages S17675-98
Messages From the President:
  Pages S17664-65
Messages From the House:
  Page S17665
Measures Read First Time:
  Pages S17674-75
Communications:
  Page S17665
Petitions:
  Pages S17665-66
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S17666-69
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S17669
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S17669-71
Authority for Committees:
  Page S17671
Additional Statements:
  Pages S17671-74
Notices of Proposed Rulemaking:
  Pages S17603-64
Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--586)

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Adjournment: Senate convened at 10:30 a.m., and adjourned at 7:35 p.m., 
until 10 a.m., on Wednesday, November 29, 1995. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S17675.)