[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 17 (Wednesday, February 7, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D68-D70]
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                                        Wednesday, February 7, 1996

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed Farm Bill.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S1001-S1159
Measures Introduced: Four bills and two resolutions were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1563-1566, S. Res. 225, and S. Con. Res. 41.
  Page S1083
Measures Passed:
   Farm Bill: By 64 yeas to 32 nays (Vote No. 19), Senate passed S. 
1541, to extend, reform, and improve agricultural commodity, trade, 
conservation, and other programs, taking action on amendments proposed 
thereto, as follows:
  Pages S1001-59
Adopted:
  (1) Craig (for Leahy/Lugar) Modified Amendment No. 3184, in the 
nature of a substitute.
Pages S1001-59
  (2) By 50 yeas to 46 nays (Vote No. 10), Wellstone (for Kohl) 
Amendment No. 3442 (to Amendment No. 3184), to eliminate the provision 
granting consent to the Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact.

Pages S1001-10, S1035-36
  (3) Brown Modified Amendment No. 3443 (to Amendment No. 3184), to 
direct the Secretary of Agriculture to ensure that private property 
rights, including water rights, will be recognized and protected in the 
course of special use permitting decisions for existing water supply 
facilities.
Pages S1010-12, S1036
  (4) Lugar Modified Amendment No. 3444 (to Amendment No. 3184), to 
establish oilseed loan rates, to include provisions on trade, research, 
credit, rural development, and promotion, to restore an authorization 
for ethanol research, to authorize a Wildlife Habitat Incentives 
Program, to reauthorize the fluid milk promotion program, to authorize 
the Foreign Market Development Cooperator program, to allow USDA to 
make adjustments in contract acres, to authorize grants for water and 
wastewater systems in rural and native villages in Alaska, to provide 
for a reduced application process for the Indian Reservation Extension 
Agent program and for equitable participation in USDA programs by 
tribally-controlled colleges, and to make certain further technical and 
clarifying changes.
Pages S1012-15, S1030
  (5) By 58 yeas to 38 nays (Vote No. 14), Bryan Amendment No. 3447 (to 
Amendment No. 3184), to provide that funds made available for the 
market promotion program may be used to provide cost-share assistance 
only to small businesses or Capper-Volstead cooperatives and to cap the 
market promotion program.
Pages S1024-27, S1038-39
  (6) By 57 yeas to 39 nays (Vote No. 15), Harkin Amendment No. 3448 
(to Amendment No. 3184), to amend the eligibility criteria for the 
Environmental Quality Incentive Program.
Pages S1027-29, S1039
  (7) Ford/Daschle Amendment No. 3449 (to Amendment No. 3184), to 
provide funds for rural development and related activities.

Pages S1029-30
  (8) Lugar (for Kempthorne) Amendment No. 3453 (to Amendment No. 
3184), to require the Department of Agriculture to allow the private 
sector to develop farm management plans.
Page S1048
  (9) Lugar (for Graham/Mack) Amendment No. 3454 (to Amendment No. 
3184), to provide for the development of a pilot project for crop 
insurance coverage that indemnified crop losses due to a natural 
disaster such as insect infestation or disease.
Page S1053
  (10) Lugar (for Santorum) Amendment No. 3455 (to Amendment No. 3184), 
to establish a farmland protection program.
Pages S1053-54
  (11) Leahy (for Johnston) Amendment No. 3456 (to Amendment No. 3184), 
to make available to rice producers a price support at a level not less 
than 50%, or more that 90% of the parity price for rice as the 
Secretary determines will not result in increasing stocks of rice to 
the Commodity Credit Corporation.
Page S1054
  (12) Leahy (for Pryor) Amendment No. 3457 (to Amendment No. 3184), of 
a perfecting nature.
Page S1054

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  (13) Leahy (for Boxer) Amendment No. 3458 (to Amendment No. 3184), to 
express the sense of the Senate that the Department of Agriculture 
should continue to make methyl bromide alternative research and 
extension activities a high priority of the Department.
Page S1054
  (14) Leahy (for Conrad) Amendment No. 3459 (to Amendment No. 3184), 
to reduce uncertainty among farmers as to the status of agricultural 
lands with respect to environmental and conservation programs.

Page S1054
  (15) Leahy (for Conrad) Amendment No. 3460 (to Amendment No. 3184), 
to improve the provisions and flexibility relating to rural business 
and cooperative development.
Page S1054
  (16) Leahy (for Conrad) Amendment No. 3461 (to Amendment No. 3184), 
to change the land ownership requirement applicable to qualified 
beginning farmers and ranchers for the purposes of the consolidated 
Farm and Rural Development Act.
Page S1054
  (17) Lugar (for Craig) Amendment No. 3462 (to Amendment No. 3184), to 
require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish standards for the 
labeling of sheep carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat, or meat food 
products as lamb or mutton.
Page S1055
Rejected:
  (1) By 37 yeas to 59 nays (Vote No. 11), Harkin Modified Amendment 
No. 3445 (to Amendment No. 3184), to strike the section relating to the 
Commodity Credit Corporation interest rate.
Pages S1015-18, S1036-37
  (2) By 35 yeas to 61 nays (Vote No. 12), Harkin Amendment No. 3446 
(to Amendment No. 3184), to provide for the continued carrying out of 
the Farmer Owned Reserve program.
Pages S1018, S1037
  (3) Santorum Amendment No. 3225 (to Amendment No. 3184), to reform 
the peanut program by establishing a national average quota support 
rate for each of the 1996 through 2000 crops of quota peanuts, and to 
eliminate the quota for the 2001 and 2002 crops of peanuts. (By 59 yeas 
to 36 nays (Vote No. 13), Senate tabled the amendment.)

Pages S1018-23, S1031, S1037-38
  (4) By 35 yeas to 61 nays (Vote No. 16), Gregg Amendment No. 3450 (to 
Amendment No. 3184), to strike provisions extending the sugar program. 
                                               Pages S1030-35, S1039-40
  (5) By 48 yeas to 48 nays (Vote No. 17), Dorgan Amendment No. 3451 
(to Amendment No. 3184), to require farmers to plant crops to receive 
Federal payments.
Pages S1040-43, S1052
  (6) By 33 yeas to 63 nays (Vote No. 18), Daschle Amendment No. 3452 
(to Amendment No. 3184), to amend the commodity payment provisions.

Pages S1043-53
Withdrawn:
  Hatch Amendment No. 3277 (to Amendment No. 3184), to permit 
participating households to use food stamp benefits to purchase 
nutritional supplements of vitamins, minerals, or vitamins and 
minerals.
Pages S1049-52
  Max Rosenn U.S. Courthouse: Committee on Environment and Public Works 
was discharged from further consideration of H.R. 1718, to designate 
the United States courthouse located at 197 South Main Street in 
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, as the ``Max Rosenn United States 
Courthouse'', and the bill was then passed, clearing the measure for 
the President.
  Pages S1077-78
  E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse: Committee on Environment and 
Public Works was discharged from further consideration of S. 1510, to 
designate the United States Courthouse in Washington, District of 
Columbia, as the ``E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse'', and 
the bill was then passed.
  Page S1078
  Technology Transfer Improvements Act: Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation was discharged from further consideration of H.R. 
2196, to amend the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 
with respect to inventions made under cooperative research and 
development agreements, and the bill was then passed, after agreeing to 
the following amendment proposed thereto:
  Pages S1078-83
  Dole (for Rockefeller/Rockefeller) Amendment No. 3463, of a 
perfecting nature.
Pages S1078-83
D.C. Appropriations Conference Report--Agreement: A unanimous-consent 
agreement was reached providing for the consideration of the conference 
report on H.R. 2546, making appropriations for the government of the 
District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in 
part against the revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1996.
  Page S1158
Appointments:
  Washington's Farewell Address: The Chair, on behalf of the Vice 
President, pursuant to the order of the Senate of January 24, 1901, as 
modified by the order of February 7, 1996, appointed Senator Akaka to 
read Washington's Farewell Address on February 26, 1996.
  Page S1158
Messages From the House:
  Page S1083
Measures Placed on Calendar:
  Page S1083
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S1083-84
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S1084-86
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S1086-S1151
  
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Authority for Committees:
  Page S1151
Additional Statements:
  Pages S1151-58
Record Votes: Ten record votes were taken today. (Total-19)

  Pages S1036-40, S1052-53, S1059
Recess: Senate convened at 7:30 a.m., and recessed at 6:44 p.m., until 
11 a.m., on Friday, February 9, 1996.