[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 54 (Wednesday, April 24, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D361-D362]
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                                          Wednesday, April 24, 1996

[[Page D361]]

                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      House Committees ordered reported 15 sundry measures.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S4003-S4093
Measures Introduced: Five bills and four resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 1697-1701, S. Res. 250, S. Con. Res. 54-56.
  Page S4063
Measures Passed:
  Enrollment Correction: Senate agreed to S. Con. Res. 54, to correct 
the enrollment of S. 735, to prevent and punish acts of terrorism. 
                                                         Pages S4016-17
  Enrollment Correction: Senate agreed to S. Con. Res. 55, to correct 
the enrollment of S. 735, to prevent and punish acts of terrorism. 
                                                         Pages S4016-17
  Further Continuing Appropriations: Senate agreed to H.J. Res. 175, 
making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 1996, clearing 
the measure for the President.
  Pages S4047-48
  Higher Education Grant Program: Senate passed H.R. 3055, to amend 
section 326 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to permit continued 
participation by Historically Black Graduate Professional Schools in 
the grant program authorized by that section, clearing the measure for 
the President.
  Page S4092
Illegal Immigration Reform: Senate resumed 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 S4012-16, S4017-47, S4049-59
Adopted:
  Simpson Amendment No. 3726 (to Amendment No. 3725), to establish a 
pilot program to collect information relating to nonimmigrant foreign 
students.
Pages S4014-16, S4017
  Simpson Amendment No. 3727 (to Amendment No. 3725), to create new 
ground of exclusion and of deportation for falsely claiming U.S. 
citizenship.
Pages S4017-18
  Simpson Amendment No. 3728 (to Amendment No. 3725), to criminalize 
voting by aliens for candidates for a Federal office, and to make 
unlawful voting a ground for exclusion and deportation. 
                                                         Pages S4018-19
  Simpson Amendment No. 3729 (to Amendment No. 3725), to prohibit 
foreign students on F-1 visas from obtaining free public elementary or 
secondary education.
Pages S4019-20
  By 92 yeas to 6 nays (Vote No. 81), Simpson Modified Amendment No. 
3672 (to Amendment No. 3667), in the nature of a substitute. 
(Subsequently, the amendment fell after having been incorporated into 
Amendment No. 3667, listed below, which was tabled.) 
                                               Pages S4012-16, S4049-55
  Kyl Amendment No. 3735 (to Amendment No. 3725), to require physical 
and mental examinations for certain aliens seeking entry into the 
United States.
Pages S4056-58
Rejected:
  By 20 yeas to 79 nays (Vote No. 80), Simpson Amendment No. 3730 (to 
Amendment No. 3725), to repeal the ban on the search of open-fields by 
employees of the INS when they have probable cause to believe an 
illegal act has occurred.
Pages S4020-47
  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. (By 57 yeas to 42 nays (Vote No. 
82), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S4012-16, S4049-55
Withdrawn:
  Kennedy Amendment No. 3734 (to Amendment No. 3725), to provide for an 
increase in the minimum wage rate.
Page S4056

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Pending:
  Simpson Amendment No. 3669, to prohibit foreign students on F-1 visas 
from obtaining free public elementary or secondary education. 
                                                         Pages S4012-16
  Simpson Amendment No. 3670, to establish a pilot program to collect 
information relating to nonimmigrant foreign students.
Pages S4012-16
  Simpson Amendment No. 3671, to create new ground of exclusion and of 
deportation for falsely claiming U.S. citizenship.
Pages S4012-16
  Simpson Amendment No. 3722 (to Amendment No. 3669), in the nature of 
a substitute.
Pages S4013-16
  Simpson Amendment No. 3723 (to Amendment No. 3670), in the nature of 
a substitute.
Pages S4013-16
  Simpson Amendment No. 3724 (to Amendment No. 3671), in the nature of 
a substitute.
Pages S4014-16
  Simpson motion to recommit the bill to the Committee on the Judiciary 
with instructions to report back forthwith.
Pages S4014-16
  Simpson Amendment No. 3725 (to instructions of motion to recommit), 
to prohibit foreign students on F-1 visas from obtaining free public 
elementary or secondary education.
Pages S4014-16, S4017-47
  Coverdell (for Dole/Coverdell) Amendment No. 3737 (to Amendment No. 
3725), to establish grounds for deportation for offenses of domestic 
violence, stalking, crimes against children, and crimes of sexual 
violence without regard to the length of sentence imposed. 
                                                         Pages S4058-59
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  A motion was entered to close further debate on Dorgan Amendment No. 
3667, listed above and, in accordance with the provisions of rule XXII 
of the Standing Rules of the Senate, a vote on the cloture motion could 
occur on Friday, April 26, 1996.
Page S4037
  Subsequently, the aforementioned cloture motion become moot upon the 
tabling of Amendment No. 3667.
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill on Thursday, April 25, 1996.
Page S4092
Measure Indefinitely Postponed:
  Vessel Documentation: Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
Transportation was discharged from further consideration of S. 1298, to 
authorize the Secretary of Transportation to issue a certificate of 
documentation with appropriate endorsement for employment in the 
coastwise trade for the vessel SHOOTER, and the measure was 
indefinitely postponed.
  Page S4092
Messages From the House:
  Page S4062
Measures Referred:
  Page S4062
Measures Placed on Calendar:
  Page S4062
Measures Read First Time:
  Page S4062
Communications:
  Pages S4062-63
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S4063-72
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S4072-73
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S4075-80
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S4080
Authority for Committees:
  Pages S4080-81
Additional Statements:
  Pages S4081-92
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total-82) 
                                                     Pages S4047, S4055
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 8:05 p.m., 
until 8:30 a.m., on Thursday, April 25, 1996. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S4092.)