[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 47 (Monday, April 15, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D301-D302]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                             Monday, April 15, 1996

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      See Resume of Congressional Activity.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3251-S3336
Measures Introduced: Six bills and three resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 1666-1671, S. Res. 241 and 242, and S. Con. Res. 51. 
                                                             Page S3311
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  Reported on Wednesday, April 10, during the adjournment:
  S. 1664, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to increase 
control over immigration to the United States by increasing border 
patrol and investigative personnel and detention facilities, improving 
the system used by employers to verify citizenship or work-authorized 
alien status, increasing penalties for alien smuggling and document 
fraud, and reforming asylum, exclusion, and deportation law and 
procedures; to reduce the use of welfare by aliens; and for other 
purposes. (S. Rept. No. 104-249)
  S. 1665, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reform the 
standards and procedures for the lawful admission of immigrants and 
nonimmigrants into the United States. (S. Rept. No. 104-250)
  S. 1239, to amend title 49, United States Code, with respect to the 
regulation of interstate transportation by common carriers engaged in 
civil aviation, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. 
Rept. No. 104-251)
Page S3311
Measures Passed:
  Office of Compliance Final Regulations: Senate agreed to S. Res. 242, 
to provide for the approval of final regulations that are applicable to 
the Senate and the employees of the Senate, and that were issued by the 
Office of Compliance on January 22, 1996.
  Page S3327
  Office of Compliance Final Regulations: Senate agreed to S. Con. Res. 
51, to provide for the approval of final regulations that are 
applicable to employing offices that are not employing offices of the 
House of Representatives and Senate, and to covered employees who are 
not employees of the House of Representatives or the Senate, and that 
were issued by the Office of Compliance on January 22, 1996. 
                                                             Page S3327
Illegal Immigration Reform: Senate began consideration of S. 1664, to 
amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to increase control over 
immigration to the United States by increasing border patrol and 
investigative personnel and detention facilities, improving the system 
used by employers to verify citizenship or work-authorized alien 
status, increasing penalties for alien smuggling and document fraud, 
and reforming asylum, exclusion, and deportation law and procedures; 
and to reduce the use of welfare by aliens, taking action on amendments 
proposed thereto, as follows:
  Pages S3276-S3310, S3328-30
Pending:
  Dorgan Amendment No. 3667, to express the sense of the Senate that a 
balanced budget constitutional amendment should protect the Social 
Security system by excluding the receipts and outlays of the Social 
Security trust funds from the budget.
Pages S3280-81, S3303-09
  Simpson Amendment No. 3669, to prohibit foreign students on F-1 visas 
from obtaining free public elementary or secondary education. 
                                                         Pages S3301-02
  Simpson Amendment No. 3670, to establish a pilot program to collect 
information relating to nonimmigrant foreign students.
Pages S3302-03
  Simpson Amendment No. 3671, to create new ground of exclusion and of 
deportation for falsely claiming U.S. citizenship.
Page S3303
  Simpson Amendment No. 3672 (to Amendment No. 3667), in the nature of 
a substitute.
Pages S3303-09
  Senate will continue consideration of the bill and amendments pending 
thereto, on Tuesday, April 16, 1996.
Whitewater Investigation Extension--Cloture Filed: A motion was entered 
to close further debate

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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 and, in accordance with the provisions of rule XXII of 
the Standing Rules of the Senate, a vote on the cloture motion will 
occur on Wednesday, April 17, 1996.
  Page S3327
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Elizabeth K. Julian, of Texas, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development.
  Robert Clarke Brown, of Ohio, to be a Member of the Board of 
Directors of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority for a term 
of six years.
  Daniel Guttman, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the 
Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission for a term expiring 
April 27, 2001.
  Lowell Lee Junkins, of Iowa, to be a Member of the Board of Directors 
of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation.
  Martin A. Kamarck, of Massachusetts, to be President of the Export-
Import Bank of the United States for the remainder of the term expiring 
January 20, 1997.
  Yolanda Townsend Wheat, of Missouri, to be a Member of the National 
Credit Union Administration Board for the term of six years expiring
  August 2, 2001.
  Morris N. Hughes, Jr., of Nebraska, to be Ambassador to the Republic 
of Burundi.
  2 Air Force nominations in the rank of general.
  Routine lists in the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.
Pages S3330-36
Messages From the House:
  Pages S3310-11
Measures Placed on Calendar:
  Page S3311
Measures Read First Time:
  Page S3311
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S3311-16
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S3316-17
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S3317-19
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S3319
Authority for Committees:
  Pages S3319-20
Additional Statements:
  Pages S3320-27
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m., and adjourned at 6:35 p.m., 
until 9:45 a.m., on Tuesday, April 16, 1996. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S3328.)