[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 53 (Tuesday, April 23, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D352-D353]
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                                            Tuesday, April 23, 1996

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3805-S4002
Measures Introduced: Four bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1693-1696, and S. Con. Res. 53.
  Pages S3953-54
Measures Passed:
Health Care Availability and Affordability Act: By a unanimous vote of 
100 yeas (Vote No. 78), Senate passed H.R. 3103, to amend the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 to improve portability and continuity of health 
insurance coverage in the group and individual markets, to combat 
waste, fraud, and abuse in health insurance and health care delivery, 
to promote the use of medical savings accounts, to improve access to 
long-term care services and coverage, and to simplify the 
administration of health insurance, after having struck, pursuant to 
the order of Thursday, April 18, 1996, all after the enacting clause 
and inserting in lieu thereof the text of S. 1028, Senate companion 
measure, as amended.
  Pages S3817-33, S3836-64
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 S3805-17, S3864-79
Pending:
  Thompson (for Ashcroft) Amendment No. 3692, in the nature of a 
substitute.
Page S3805
  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 S3805
  Thompson (for Ashcroft) Amendment No. 3694, of a perfecting nature. 
                                                             Page S3805
  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 S3805
  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 S3805
  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 S3805
  Thompson motion to recommit the resolution to the Committee on the 
Judiciary with instructions.
Page S3805
  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.
Page S3805
  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 S3805
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate took the following 
action:
  By 58 yeas to 42 nays (Vote No. 79), 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 committee amendment in 
the nature of a substitute.
Pages S3878-79
  Subsequently, the resolution was returned to the Senate calendar. 
                                                             Page S3892
Immigration Reform: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing 
for further 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, on Wednesday, April 24, 1996.
  Page S4002

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Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting the report relative to narcotics traffickers; referred 
to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM-140). 
                                                         Pages S3952-53
Messages From the President:
  Pages S3952-53
Messages From the House:
  Page S3953
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S3954-57
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S3957-58
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S3997-99
Authority for Committees:
  Pages S3999-S4000
Additional Statements:
  Pages S4000-02
Notice of Issuance of Final Regulations:
  Pages S3896-S3952
Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total-79) 
                                                  Pages S3836, S3878-79
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m., and adjourned at 6:27 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m., on Wednesday, April 24, 1996. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S4000.)