[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 18 (Friday, February 9, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
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                                           Friday, February 9, 1996

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S1161-S1263
Measures Introduced: Two bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1567 and S. 1568, and S. Con. Res. 42.
  Page S1180
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 1005, to amend the Public Buildings Act of 1959 to improve the 
process of constructing, altering, purchasing, and acquiring public 
buildings, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. 
No. 104-232)
  S. 604, to amend title 49, United States Code, to relieve farmers and 
retail farm suppliers from limitations on maximum driving and on-duty 
time in the transportation of agricultural commodities or farm supplies 
if such transportation occurs within a 100-air mile radius of the 
source of the commodities or the distribution point for the farm 
supplies, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. 
No. 104-233)
  S. 772, to provide for an assessment of the violence broadcast on 
television. (S. Rept. No. 104-234)
Page S1180
Age Discrimination in Employment--Agreement: A unanimous-consent 
agreement was reached providing for the consideration of H.R. 849, to 
amend the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to reinstate an 
exemption for certain bona fide hiring and retirement plans applicable 
to State and local firefighters and law enforcement officers.

  Pages S1262-63
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting the report on the national emergency with respect to 
Iraq; referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. 
(PM-118).
Pages S1176-77
  Transmitting the report on the national emergency with respect to the 
Middle East peace process; referred to the Committee on Banking, 
Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM-119).
Page S1178
  Transmitting the report of the Agreement Between the United States 
and the Republic of Poland; referred to the Committee on Commerce, 
Science, and Transportation. (PM-120).
Page S1178
  Transmitting the report with respect to Japan; referred to the 
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (PM-121).

Pages S1178-79
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  The following-named Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, 
Class of Career Minister, for the personal rank of Career Ambassador in 
recognition of especially distinguished service over a sustained 
period:
  J. Stapleton Roy, of Pennsylvania.
  Routine lists in the Army, Coast Guard.
Page S1263
Messages From the President:
  Pages S1176-79
Communications:
  Pages S1179-80
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S1180-85
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S1185-87
Additional Statements:
  Pages S1187-91
Text of S. 1541 as passed the Senate:
  Pages S1191-S1262
Recess: Senate convened at 11 a.m., and recessed at 1:27 p.m., until 
10:30 a.m., on Tuesday, February 13, 1996, for a pro forma session.