[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 37 (Monday, March 18, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D217-D219]
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                                             Monday, March 18, 1996

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S2213-S2260
Measures Introduced: One resolution was introduced, as follows: S. Res. 
232.
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Measures Passed:
  Commending Jean Lauver: Senate agreed to S. Res. 232, to commend Jean 
Schrag Lauver for her long, dedicated, and exemplary service to the 
United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. 
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Continuing Appropriations: Senate resumed 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 S2219-43
Adopted:
  (1) Hatch Amendment No. 3499 (to Amendment No. 3466), to provide 
funds to the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department. 
                                                             Page S2233
  (2) 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.
Page S2233
  (3) Lautenberg Amendment No. 3518 (to Amendment No. 3466), relating 
to labor-management relations.
Page S2233
  (4) Burns Amendment No. 3529 (to Amendment No. 3466), to provide for 
Impact Aid school construction funding.
Page S2233
  (5) Hatfield (for Hutchison) Amendment No. 3549 (to Amendment No. 
3466), to provide funds to continue the activities of Sematech. 
                                                             Page S2233
  (6) Hatfield (for Leahy) Amendment No. 3550 (to Amendment No. 3466), 
to provide funds for carrying out training and activities relating to 
the detection and clearance of landmines for humanitarian purposes. 
                                                             Page S2233
Pending:
  Hatfield Modified Amendment No. 3466, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                         Pages S2220-43
  Lautenberg Amendment No. 3482 (to Amendment No. 3466), to provide 
funding for programs necessary to maintain essential environmental 
protection.
Page S2219
  Boxer/Murray Amendment No. 3508 (to Amendment No. 3466), to permit 
the District of Columbia to use local funds for certain activities. 
                                                             Page S2219
  Gorton Amendment No. 3496 (to Amendment No. 3466), to designate the 
``Jonathan M. Wainwright Memorial VA Medical Center'', located in Walla 
Walla, Washington.
Page S2233
  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.
Page S2219
  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.
Page S2219
  Bond (for Pressler) Amendment No. 3514 (to Amendment No. 3466), to 
provide funding for a Radar Satellite project at NASA.
Page S2219
  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, non-assisted housing, and 
clarify permissible uses of rental income in such projects, in excess 
of operating costs and debt service.
Page S2219
  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.
Page S2219
  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

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and reaffirm provisions of current law with respect to the disbursement 
of HOME and CDBG funds allocated to the State of New York.
Page S2219
  Santorum Amendment No. 3484 (to Amendment No. 3466), expressing the 
sense of the Senate regarding the budget treatment of Federal disaster 
assistance.
Page S2219
  Santorum Amendment No. 3485 (to Amendment No. 3466), expressing the 
sense of the Senate regarding the budget treatment of Federal disaster 
assistance.
Page S2219
  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 S2219
  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 S2219
  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 S2219
  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 S2219-20
  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 fiscal year 
1997.
Page S2220
  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 S2220
  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 S2220
  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 S2220
  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.
Page S2220
  Murkowski Amendment No. 3525 (to Amendment No. 3466), to provide for 
the approval of an exchange of lands within Admiralty Island National 
Monument.
Page S2220
  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.
Page S2220
  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 S2220
  Coats (for Dole/Lieberman) Amendment No. 3531 (to Amendment No. 
3466), to provide for low-income scholarships in the District of 
Columbia.
Page S2220
  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). 
                                                             Page S2232
  Hatfield (for Burns) Amendment No. 3551 (to Amendment No. 3466), to 
divide the ninth judicial circuit of the United States into two 
circuits.
Pages S2235-43
  Burns Amendment No. 3552 (to Amendment No. 3551), to establish a 
Commission on restructuring the circuits of the United States Courts of 
Appeals.
Pages S2236-37
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate took the following 
action:
  Burns Amendment No. 3530 (to Amendment No. 3466), to establish a 
Commission on restructuring the circuits of the United States Courts of 
Appeals was ruled out of order on a point of order that the amendment 
was not relevant to Amendment No. 3466, listed above, and the amendment 
thus fell, and Burns Amendment No. 3548 (to Amendment No. 3530), to 
divide the ninth judicial circuit of the United States into two 
circuits, also fell.
Pages S2220-32
  Senate will resume consideration of the bill and amendments pending 
thereto, on Tuesday, March 19, 1995, with votes to occur thereon 
beginning at 2:15 p.m.
Whitewater Investigation Extension--Cloture Motion Filed: A fifth 
motion was entered to close further debate on the motion to proceed to 
consideration of S. Res. 227, to authorize the use of additional funds 
for salaries and expenses of the Special Committee to Investigate 
Whitewater Development

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Corporation and Related Matters and, by consent agreement, a vote on 
the cloture motion will occur on Wednesday, March 20, 1996. 
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  By prior consent agreement, a vote on the fourth cloture motion will 
occur on Tuesday, March 19, 1996.
Product Liability Conference Report--Cloture Motion Filed: A second 
motion was entered to close further debate on the conference report on 
H.R. 956, to establish legal standards and procedures for product 
liability litigation, and by consent agreement, a vote, if necessary, 
will occur on Wednesday, March 20, 1996.
  Page S2259
  By prior consent agreement, a vote on the first cloture motion will 
occur on Tuesday, March 19, 1996.
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting the report of the agreement for cooperation between the 
United States and the Argentine Republic concerning the peaceful uses 
of nuclear energy; referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (PM-
132).
Pages S2243-44
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Christopher Robert Hill, of Rhode Island, to be Ambassador to the 
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
  Dane Farnsworth Smith, Jr., of New Mexico, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Senegal.
  George F. Ward, Jr., of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Namibia.
  Sharon P. Wilkinson, of New York, to be Ambassador to Burkina Faso.
  A routine list in the Foreign Service.
Page S2260
Messages From the President:
  Pages S2243-44
Communications:
  Page S2244
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S2244-45
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S2245-48
Notices of Hearings:
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Authority for Committees:
  Page S2248
Additional Statements:
  Pages S2248-59
Adjournment: Senate convened at 11 a.m., and adjourned at 7:20 p.m., 
until 9 a.m., on Tuesday, March 19, 1996. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on pages 
S2259-60.)