[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 194 (Thursday, December 7, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1430-D1431]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                        Thursday, December 7, 1995 

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed Commerce, Justice, State Appropriations Conference 
      Report.
      Senate passed Partial-Birth Abortion Ban.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S18117-S18251
Measures Introduced: Eight bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1453-1460, and S. Res. 198.
  Page S18232
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  Special Report entitled ``Revised Allocation to Subcommittees of 
Budget Totals from the Concurrent Resolution for Fiscal Year 1996'' (S. 
Rept. No. 104-180)
  S. 1459, to provide for uniform management of livestock grazing on 
Federal land. (S. Rept. No. 104-181)
  S. 776, to reauthorize the Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation Act and 
the Anadromous Fish Conservation Act, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 104-182)
  S. 956, to amend title 28, United States Code, to divide the ninth 
judicial circuit of the United States into two circuits, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute.
  S. 1340, to require the President to appoint a Commission on 
Concentration in the Livestock Industry, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute.
Page S18232
Measures Passed:
  Partial-Birth Abortion Ban: By 54 yeas to 44 nays (Vote No. 596), 
Senate passed H.R. 1833, to amend title 18, United States Code, to ban 
partial-birth abortions, after taking action on amendments proposed 
thereto, as follows:
  Pages S18183-S18228
Adopted:
  (1) Smith Amendment No. 3080, to provide a life-of-the-mother 
exception.
Pages S18183-98
  (2) By a unanimous vote of 98 yeas (Vote No. 592), Dole Amendment No. 
3081 (to Amendment No. 3080), of a perfecting nature.
Pages S18183-98
  (3) Brown Amendment No. 3085, to limit the ability of dead beat 
fathers and those who consent to the mother receiving a partial-birth 
abortion to collect relief.
Pages S18222-23
  (4) Brown Amendment No. 3090, to limit liability under this Act to 
the physician performing the procedure involved.
Page S18223
  (5) Smith Amendment No. 3091, to strike the affirmative defense 
provisions.
Page S18223
Rejected:
  By 47 yeas to 51 nays (Vote No. 593), Boxer Amendment No. 3083 (to 
Amendment No. 3082), to clarify the application of certain provisions 
with respect to abortions where necessary to preserve the life or 
health of the woman.
Pages S18183-98
  By 44 yeas to 53 nays (Vote No. 595), Feinstein/Simpson Amendment No. 
3092, in the nature of a substitute.
Pages S18224-27
Withdrawn:
  Pryor Amendment No. 3082, to clarify certain provisions of law with 
respect to the approval and marketing of certain prescription drugs.

Page S18222
  Smith (for DeWine/Dodd) Amendment No. 3088 (to Amendment No. 3082), 
to express the sense of the Senate that the Senate Committee on the 
Judiciary should conduct hearings to investigate the effect of the new 
patent provisions of title 35, United States Code, (as amended by the 
Uruguay Round Agreements Act) on the approval of generic drugs. (By 48 
yeas to 49 nays, 1 responding present (Vote No. 594), Senate failed to 
table the amendment.)
Pages S18198-S18222
  Subsequently, the amendment fell when Amendment No. 3028, listed 
above, was withdrawn.
  Technical Changes: Senate agreed to S. Res. 198, to make certain 
technical changes to S. Res. 158.
Pages S18249-50
  Technical Corrections: Committee on Indian Affairs was discharged 
from further consideration of S. 

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1431, to make certain technical corrections in laws relating to Native 
Americans, and the bill was then passed.
Pages S18250-51
Commerce/Justice/State/Judiciary Appropriations--Conference Report: By 
50 yeas to 48 nays (Vote No. 591), Senate agreed to the conference 
report on H.R. 2076, making appropriations for the Departments of 
Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, clearing the measure for the 
President.
  Pages S18127-83
ICC Termination Act--Conferees: Senate insisted on its amendment to 
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, agreed to the request of the House for a 
conference thereon, and the Chair appointed the following conferees: 
Senators Pressler, Stevens, Burns, Lott, Hutchison, Ashcroft, Hollings, 
Inouye, Exon, Rockefeller, and Breaux.
  Page S18249
Flag Desecration--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached 
providing for the consideration of S.J. Res. 31, proposing an amendment 
to the Constitution of the United States authorizing the Congress and 
the States to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the 
United States, on Friday, December 8, 1995.
  Pages S18228-29
  Subsequently, the pending cloture vote on the motion to proceed to 
consideration of the resolution, scheduled for Friday, December 8, 
1995, was vitiated.
Pages S18228-29
Start II Treaty--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached 
providing for the consideration of The Treaty with the Russian 
Federation for Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive 
Arms (the START II Treaty) (Treaty Doc. No. 103-1).
  Page S18251
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Charles N. Clevert, Jr., of Wisconsin, to be United States District 
Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
  Bernice B. Donald, of Tennessee, to be United States District Judge 
for the Western District of Tennessee.
  Charles H. Twining, of Maryland, a Career Member of the Senior 
Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to serve concurrently and 
without additional compensation as Ambassador of the United States of 
America to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea.
  29 Air Force nominations in the rank of general.
Page S18251
Messages From the House:
  Pages S18231-32
Measures Placed on Calendar:
  Page S18232
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S18232
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S18233-44
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S18244-45
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S18245-46
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S18246
Authority for Committees:
  Page S18246
Additional Statements:
  Pages S18246-49
Record Votes: Six record votes were taken today. (Total--596)

  Pages S18182-83, S18198, S18222, S18227, S18228
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9 a.m., and adjourned at 11:17 p.m., 
until 10 a.m., on Friday, December 8, 1995. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S18251.)