[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 52 (Monday, April 22, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D347]
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                                             Monday, April 22, 1996

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3749-S3803
Measures Introduced: Three bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1690-1692, and S.J. Res. 52.
  Page S3792
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 1324, to amend the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend 
the solid-organ procurement and transplantation programs, and the bone 
marrow donor program, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. 
(S. Rept. No. 104-256)
Page S3792
Congressional Term Limits: Senate resumed 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 S3769-86
  Pending:
  Thompson (for Ashcroft) Amendment No. 3692, in the nature of a 
substitute.
Page S3769
  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 S3769
  Thompson (for Ashcroft) Amendment No. 3694, of a perfecting nature. 
                                                             Page S3769
  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. 
                                                             Page S3769
  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 S3769
  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 S3769
  Thompson motion to recommit the resolution to the Committee on the 
Judiciary with instructions.
Page S3769
  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 S3769-86
  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.
Page S3769
  Senate will continue consideration of the resolution on Tuesday, 
April 23, 1996, with a vote on a motion to close further debate on the 
committee substitute to occur thereon.
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Victor H. Ashe, of Tennessee, to be a Member of the Board of 
Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service for a 
term expiring October 6, 2000.
  Alan G. Lowry, of California, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees 
of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation for a term expiring 
May 29, 2001.
  1 Air Force nomination in the rank of general.
Page S3803
Messages From the House:
  Page S3792
Communications:
  Page S3792
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S3792-97
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S3797
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S3797-98
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S3798
Additional Statements:
  Pages S3798-S3803
Adjournment: Senate convened at 11 a.m., and adjourned at 6:46 p.m., 
until 10 a.m., on Tuesday, April 23, 1996. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S3803.)