[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 35 (Thursday, March 14, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D196-D199]
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                                           Thursday, March 14, 1996

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      House Committees ordered reported 9 sundry measures.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S2005-S2142
Measures Introduced: Six bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1613-1618, and S. Res. 231.
  Page S2101
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 487, to amend the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 104-241)
Measures Passed:
  Expressing Condolences to Scotland: Senate agreed to S. Res. 231, 
expressing sympathies to the people of Scotland.
  Pages S2101, S2104
  Further Continuing Appropriations: Senate passed H.J. Res. 163, 
making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996. 
                                                             Page S2094
Continuing Appropriations: Senate continued consideration of H.R. 3019, 
making appropriations for fiscal year 1996 to make a further 
downpayment toward a balanced budget, taking action on amendments 
proposed thereto, as follows: 
                           Pages S2005-30, S2031-33, S2038-79, S2081-94
Adopted:
  Craig Amendment No. 3494 (to Amendment No. 3466), to provide for 
payment for attorney's fees and expenses relating to certain actions 
brought under the Legal Services Corporation Act.
Page S2029
  Hatch/Grassley Modified Amendment No. 3495 (to Amendment No. 3466), 
to provide additional funding for the Office of National Drug Control 
Policy.
Pages S2031-33, S2039-40
  Hatfield (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 3497 (to Amendment No. 3466), 
to restore funding for the Competitiveness Policy Council.
Page S2039
  Faircloth Amendment No. 3502 (to Amendment No. 3466), to require that 
contracts to carry out programs of assistance for Bosnia and 
Herzegovina using funds appropriated for that purpose be entered into 
only with corporations and other organizations organized in the United 
States.
Page S2056
  Gorton Amendment No. 3503 (to Amendment No. 3466), to partially 
restore funds in the Department of the Interior's and the Department of 
Energy's administrative accounts.
Pages S2056-57
  Gorton (for Stevens) Amendment No. 3504 (to Amendment No. 3466), to 
provide emergency funding for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to 
repair damage caused by flooding in Alaska.
Pages S2056-57
  Gorton (for Kempthorne) Amendment No. 3505 (to Amendment No. 3466), 
to provide emergency funding for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to 
provide technical assistance to other agencies involved in disaster 
response.
Pages S2056-57
  Gorton (for Daschle) Amendment No. 3506 (to Amendment No. 3466), to 
provide funding for the Indian Health Services for inhalant abuse 
treatment programs.
Pages S2056-57
  Gorton (for Hatfield) Amendment No. 3507 (to Amendment No. 3466), to 
provide funds for repairs at the Amalgamated Mine site in the 
Willamette National Forest.
Pages S2056-57
  Cohen/Bumpers Amendment No. 3501 (to Amendment No. 3466), to permit 
recipients of Legal Services Corporation grants to use funds derived 
from non-Federal sources to testify at legislative hearings or to 
respond to requests for certain information. 
                                        Pages S2055-56, S2060, S2067-68
  Warner (for Hatfield) Amendment No. 3527 (to Amendment No. 3466), to 
provide assistance to meet unanticipated needs for the defense of 
Israel against terrorism.
Pages S2071, S2093-94
Rejected:
  By 42 yeas to 54 nays (Vote No. 33), Murray Modified Amendment No. 
3493 (to Amendment No. 3466), to repeal the emergency salvage timber 
sale program.
Pages S2005-28
  By 43 yeas to 52 nays (Vote No. 35), McConnell/Dole Amendment No. 
3500 (to Amendment No. 3466), to strike provisions concerning 
certification of population programs.
Pages S2043-44, S2044-54

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Pending:
  Hatfield Modified Amendment No. 3466, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                             Page S2005
  Lautenberg Amendment No. 3482 (to Amendment No. 3466), to provide 
funding for programs necessary to maintain essential environmental 
protection.
Pages S2005, S2088-92
  Hatch Amendment No. 3499 (to Amendment No. 3466), to provide funds to 
the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department.
Page S2044
  Boxer/Murray Amendment No. 3508 (to Amendment No. 3466), to permit 
the District of Columbia to use local funds for certain activities. 
                                               Pages S2057-59, S2084-86
  Gorton Amendment No. 3496 (to Amendment No. 3466), to designate the 
``Jonathan M. Wainwright Memorial VA Medical Center'', located in Walla 
Walla, Washington.
Page S2060
  Simon Amendment No. 3510 (to Amendment No. 3466), to revise the 
authority relating to employment requirements for recipients of 
scholarships or fellowships from the National Security Education Trust 
Fund.
Pages S2061-62
  Simon Amendment No. 3511 (to Amendment No. 3466), to provide funding 
to carry out title VI of the National Literary Act of 1991, title VI of 
the Library Services and Construction Act, and section 109 of the 
Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973.
Pages S2061-62
  Coats Amendment No. 3513 (to Amendment No. 3466), to amend the Public 
Health Service Act to prohibit governmental discrimination in the 
training and licensing of health professionals on the basis of the 
refusal to undergo or provide training in the performance of induced 
abortions.
Pages S2062-63, S2086
  Bond (for Pressler) Amendment No. 3514 (to Amendment No. 3466), to 
provide funding for a Radar Satellite project at NASA.
Pages S2063-64
  Bond Amendment No. 3515 (to Amendment No. 3466), to clarify rent 
setting requirements of law regarding housing assisted under section 
236 of the National Housing Act to limit rents charged moderate income 
families to that charged for comparable, nonassisted housing, and 
clarify permissible uses of rental income by such projects, in excess 
of operating costs and debt service.
Pages S2063-64
  Bond Amendment No. 3516 (to Amendment No. 3466), to increase in 
amount available under the HUD Drug Elimination Grant Program for drug 
elimination activities in and around federally-assisted low-income 
housing developments by $30 million, to be derived from carry-over HOPE 
program balances.
Pages S2063-64
  Bond Amendment No. 3517 (to Amendment No. 3466), to establish a 
special fund dedicated to enable the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development to meet crucial milestones in restructuring its 
administrative organization and more effectively address housing and 
community development needs of States and local units of government and 
to clarify and reaffirm provisions of current law with respect to the 
disbursement of HOME and CDBG funds allocated to the State of New York.
                                                         Pages S2063-64
  Lautenberg Amendment No. 3518 (to Amendment No. 3466), relating to 
labor-management relations.
Pages S2064-65
  Santorum Amendment No. 3484 (to Amendment No. 3466), expressing the 
sense of the Senate regarding the budget treatment of Federal disaster 
assistance.
Page S2065
  Santorum Amendment No. 3485 (to Amendment No. 3466), expressing the 
sense of the Senate regarding the budget treatment of Federal disaster 
assistance.
Page S2065
  Santorum Amendment No. 3486 (to Amendment No. 3466), to require that 
disaster relief provided under this Act be funded through amounts 
previously made available to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, 
to be reimbursed through regular annual appropriations Acts. 
                                                             Page S2065
  Santorum Amendment No. 3487 (to Amendment No. 3466), to reduce all 
Title I discretionary spending by the appropriate percentage (.367%) to 
offset Federal disaster assistance.
Page S2065
  Santorum Amendment No. 3488 (to Amendment No. 3466), to reduce all 
Title I ``Salary and Expense'' and ``Administrative Expense'' accounts 
by the appropriate percentage (3.5%) to offset Federal disaster 
assistance.
Page S2065
  Gramm Amendment No. 3519 (to Amendment No. 3466), to make the 
availability of obligations and expenditures contingent upon the 
enactment of a subsequent act incorporating an agreement between the 
President and Congress relative to Federal expenditures. 
                                                         Pages S2065-66
  Wellstone Amendment No. 3520 (to Amendment No. 3466), to urge the 
President to release already-appropriated fiscal year 1996 emergency 
funding for home heating and other energy assistance, and to express 
the sense of the Senate on advance-appropriated funding for FY 1997. 
                                                     Pages S2066, S2068
  Bond (for McCain) Amendment No. 3521 (to Amendment No. 3466), to 
require that disaster funds made available to certain agencies be 
allocated in accordance with the established prioritization processes 
of the agencies.
Page S2067
  Bond (for McCain) Amendment No. 3522 (to Amendment No. 3466), to 
require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to develop a plan for the 
allocation of health care resources of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs.
Page S2067

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  Warner Amendment No. 3523 (to Amendment No. 3466), to prohibit the 
District of Columbia from enforcing any rule or ordinance that would 
terminate taxicab service reciprocity agreements with the States of 
Virginia and Maryland.
Page S2068
  Murkowski/Stevens Amendment No. 3524 (to Amendment No. 3466), to 
reconcile seafood inspection requirements for agricultural commodity 
programs with those in use for general public consumers. 
                                               Pages S2069-70, S2078-80
  Murkowski Amendment No. 3525 (to Amendment No. 3466), to provide for 
the approval of an exchange of lands within Admiralty Island National 
Monument.
Page S2070
  Warner (for Thurmond) Amendment No. 3526 (to Amendment No. 3466), to 
delay the exercise of authority to enter into multiyear procurement 
contracts for C-17 aircraft.
Pages S2070-71
  Burns Amendment No. 3528 (to Amendment No. 3466), to allow the 
refurbishment and continued operation of a small hydroelectric facility 
in central Montana by adjusting the amount of charges to be paid to the 
United States under the Federal Power Act.
Page S2071
  Burns Amendment No. 3529 (to Amendment No. 3466), to provide for 
Impact Aid school construction funding.
Page S2072
  Burns Amendment No. 3530 (to Amendment No. 3466), to establish a 
Commission on restructuring the circuits of the United States Courts of 
Appeals.
Page S2072
  Coats (for Dole/Lieberman) Amendment No. 3531 (to Amendment No. 
3466), to provide for low-income scholarships in the District of 
Columbia.
Pages S2072-76
  Coverdell Amendment No. 3532 (to Amendment No. 3466), to provide 
funds for employment-related activities of the 1996 Paralympic Games. 
                                                             Page S2076
  Bond/Mikulski Amendment No. 3533 (to Amendment No. 3482), to increase 
appropriations for EPA water infrastructure financing, Superfund toxic 
waste site cleanups, operating programs, and to increase funding for 
the Corporation for National and Community Service (AmeriCorps). 
                                                         Pages S2088-92
Withdrawn:
  Harkin Amendment No. 3498 (to Amendment No. 3466), to establish a 
fraud and abuse control program in order to prevent health care fraud 
and abuse.
Pages S2040-43, S2044
  Mikulski Amendment No. 3509 (to Amendment No. 3466), to provide 
additional funding for the Corporation for National and Community 
Service, and to express the Sense of the Congress regarding the 
financial management of taxpayers' funds.
Pages S2059-60, S2092-93
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 36 yeas to 57 nays (Vote No. 36), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chose and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected a motion to waive certain provisions of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 with respect to consideration of Grams Amendment No. 
3492 (to Amendment No. 3466), to establish a lock-box deficit reduction 
and revenues generated by tax cuts. Subsequently, a point of order that 
the amendment was in violation of section 306 of the Congressional 
Budget Act was sustained, and the amendment was ruled out of order. 
                                                         Pages S2081-84
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill and the amendments pending thereto, with 
votes to occur on, or in relation thereto, on Tuesday, March 19, 1995. 
                                                             Page S2094
Whitewater Investigation--Cloture Vote: By 51 yeas to 46 nays (Vote No. 
34), three-fifths of those Senators duly chosen and sworn not having 
voted in the affirmative, Senate failed to agree to close further 
debate on the motion to proceed to the consideration of S. Res. 227, to 
authorize the use of additional funds for salaries and expenses of the 
Special Committee to Investigate Whitewater Development Corporation and 
Related Matters.
  Pages S2033-36
Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act--Agreement: A 
unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for the consideration 
of S. 942, to promote increased understanding of Federal regulations 
and increased voluntary compliance with such regulations by small 
entities, to provide for the designation of regional ombudsmen and 
oversight boards to monitor the enforcement practices of certain 
Federal agencies with respect to small business concerns, and to 
provide relief from excessive and arbitrary regulatory enforcement 
actions against small entities, on Friday, March 15, 1996.
  Page S2095
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Received on Wednesday, March 13, 1996, during the recess of the 
Senate:
  Transmitting the report of five proposed rescissions of budgetary 
resources; which was referred jointly, pursuant to the order of January 
30, 1975 as modified by the order of April 11,1986, to the Committee on 
Appropriations, the Committee on the Budget, and the Committee on Armed 
Services. (PM-131).
Page S2099
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:

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  James E. Johnson, of New Jersey, to be an Assistant Secretary of the 
Treasury.
  92 Air Force nominations in the rank of general.
  39 Army nominations in the rank of general.
  3 Navy nominations in the rank of admiral.
Pages S2138-39
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Robert E. Anderson, of Minnesota, to be a Member of the Board of 
Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences for 
a term expiring June 20, 2001.
  Lonnie R. Bristow, of California, to be a Member of the Board of 
Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences for 
a term expiring June 20, 2001.
  Shirley Ledbetter Jones, of Arkansas, to be a Member of the Board of 
Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences for 
a term expiring May 1, 2001.
  Susan Bass Levin, of New Jersey, to be a Member of the Board of 
Trustees of the Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation for a term 
expiring December 10, 1999.
  Kevin Emanuel Marchman, of Colorado, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development.
  1 Army nomination in the rank of general.
  1 Marine Corps nomination in the rank of general.
  Routine list in the Navy.
Pages S2140-42
Messages From the President:
  Page S2099
Messages From the House:
  Pages S2099-S2100
Measures Read First Time:
  Page S2100
Communications:
  Page S2100
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S2101
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S2101-04
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S2104
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S2105-35
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S2135
Authority for Committees:
  Pages S2135-36
Additional Statements:
  Page S2136-38
Record Votes: Four record votes were taken today. (Total-36) 
                                    Pages S2028, S2036, S2054, S2083-84
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 10:49 p.m., 
until 9:45 a.m., on Friday, March 15, 1996. (for Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S2140.)