[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 51 (Friday, April 19, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D340-D341]
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                                             Friday, April 19, 1996

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3695-S3748
Measures Introduced: Two bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1688 and S. 1689, and S. Res. 249.
  Page S3731
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 1422, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire 
property in the town of East Hampton, Suffolk County, New York, for 
inclusion in the Amagansett National Wildlife Refuge. (S. Rept. No. 
104-255)
Page S3731
Measures Passed:
  Oklahoma City Bombing Anniversary: Senate agreed to S. Res. 249, 
expressing the sense of the Senate on the anniversary of the Oklahoma 
City bombing.
  Pages S3695-97
Congressional Term Limits: Senate began consideration of S.J. Res. 21, 
proposing a constitutional amendment to limit congressional terms, with 
a committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, taking action on 
amendments proposed thereto, as follows:
  Pages S3715-25, S3727-29
Pending:
  Thompson (for Ashcroft) Amendment No. 3692, in the nature of a 
substitute.
Page S3715
  Thompson (for Brown) Amendment No. 3693 (to Amendment No. 3692), to 
permit each State to prescribe the maximum number of terms to which a 
person may be elected to the House of Representatives and the Senate. 
                                                             Page S3715
  Thompson (for Ashcroft) Amendment No. 3694, of a perfecting nature. 
                                                             Page S3715
  Thompson (for Brown) Amendment No. 3695 (to Amendment No. 3694), to 
permit each State to prescribe the maximum number of terms to which a 
person may be elected to the House of Representatives and the Senate. 
                                                         Pages S3715-16
  Thompson Amendment No. 3696, to change the length of limits on 
Congressional terms to 12 years in the House of Representatives and 12 
years in the Senate.
Page S3716
  Thompson (for Brown) Amendment No. 3697 (to Amendment No. 3696), to 
permit each State to prescribe the maximum number of terms to which a 
person may be elected to the House of Representatives and the Senate. 
                                                             Page S3716
  Thompson motion to recommit the resolution to the Committee on the 
Judiciary with instructions.
Pages S3716-17
  Thompson (for Ashcroft) Amendment No. 3698 (to the motion to 
recommit), to change instructions to report back with limits on 
Congressional terms of 6 years in the House of Representatives and 12 
years in the Senate.
Pages S3716-17
  Thompson (for Brown) Modified Amendment No. 3699 (to Amendment No. 
3698), to change instructions to report back with language allowing 
each State to set the terms of members of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate from that State.
Pages S3716-17, S3723
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the reported 
committee amendment 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 Tuesday, April 23, 1996.
Page S3729
  Senate will continue consideration of the resolution on Monday, April 
22, 1996.
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  1 Army nomination in the rank of general.
  3 Navy nominations in the rank of admiral.
  Routine lists in the Army, Air Force, and Coast Guard.
Page S3748
Messages From the House:
  Page S3731
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S3731-33
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S3733
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S3733-34
Authority for Committees:
  Page S3734
Additional Statements:
  Pages S3734-41
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m., and adjourned at 3:50 p.m., 
until 11 a.m., on Monday, April 22, 1996. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on pages S3747-
48.)

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