[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 204 (Tuesday, December 19, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1487-D1488]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                        Tuesday, December 19, 1995 

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate agreed to DOD Authorizations Conference Report.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S18835-S18933
Measures Introduced: One bill and two resolutions were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1485, and S. Res. 199 and 200.
  Pages S18919-20
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 1196, to transfer certain National Forest System lands adjacent to 
the townsite of Cuprum, Idaho. (S. Rept. No. 104-189)
  S. 426, to authorize the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity to establish a 
memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr., in the District of Columbia. (S. 
Rept. No. 104-190)
  S. Res. 199, directing the Senate Legal Counsel to bring a civil 
action to enforce a subpoena of the Special Committee to Investigate 
Whitewater Development Corporation and Related Matters to William H. 
Kennedy, III. (S. Rept. No. 104-191)
  S. 884, to designate certain public lands in the State of Utah as 
wilderness, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. 
No. 104-192)
  S. 1180, to amend title XIX of the Public Health Service Act to 
provide for health performance partnerships, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 104-193)
  H.R. 965, to designate the Federal building located at 600 Martin 
Luther King, Jr. Place in Louisville, Kentucky, as the ``Romano L. 
Mazzoli Federal Building''.
  H.R. 1253, to rename the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge 
as the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge.
  S. 776, to reauthorize the Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation Act and 
the Anadromous Fish Conservation Act.
  S. 1315, to designate the Federal Triangle Project under construction 
at 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest, in the District of 
Columbia, as the ``Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade 
Center''.
  S. 1388, to designate the United States courthouse located at 800 
Market Street in Knoxville, Tennessee, as the ``Howard H. Baker, Jr. 
United States Courthouse''.
Page S18919
Passage Vitiated:
  Export Sanctions: Senate vitiated passage of S. 1228, to impose 
sanctions on foreign persons exporting petroleum products, natural gas, 
or related technology to Iran, and the bill was returned to the Senate 
calendar.
  Page S18835
National Defense Authorizations Act--Conference Report: By 51 yeas to 
43 nays (Vote No. 608), Senate agreed to the conference report on H.R. 
1530, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1996 for military 
activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and 
for defense activities of the Department of Energy, and to prescribe 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, clearing 
the measure for the President.
  Pages S18835-S18902, S18904-05
Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations, 1996: A unanimous-consent agreement 
was reached providing for the cloture vote on a motion to proceed to 
the consideration of H.R. 2127, making appropriations for the 
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and 
related agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, to 
occur on Wednesday, December 20, 1995.
  Page S18931
Subpoena Enforcement--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was 
reached providing for the consideration of S. Res. 199, directing the 
Senate Legal Counsel to bring a civil action to enforce a subpoena of 
the Special Committee to Investigate the Whitewater Development 
Corporation, on Wednesday, December 20, 1995.
  Pages S18920-21
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Speight Jenkins, of Washington, to be a Member of the National 
Council on the Arts for a term expiring September 3, 2000.

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  Mary Ann Vial Lemmon, of Louisiana, to be United States District 
Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
  Michael D. Schattman, of Texas, to be United States District Judge 
for the Northern District of Texas.
Page S18933
Messages From the House:
  Pages S18917-18
Measures Referred:
  Page S18918
Measures Read First Time:
  Page S18918
Communications:
  Page S18918
Petitions:
  Pages S18918-19
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S18919
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Page S18920
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S18920
Authority for Committees:
  Page S18922
Additional Statements:
  Pages S18922-31
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total-608)

  Pages S18904-05
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 8:08 p.m., 
until 10 a.m., on Wednesday, December 20, 1995. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on 
pages S18932-33.)