[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 56 (Monday, April 29, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D384-D385]
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                                             Monday, April 29, 1996

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                              Daily Digest


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S4269-S4367
Measures Introduced: Six bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1711-1716, and S.J. Res. 53.
  Pages S4316-17
Illegal Immigration Reform: Senate continued 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 S4286-S4315
Adopted:
  Hatch (for Simpson) Amendment No. 3866, to grant emergency authority 
to Sentencing Commission to expedite required changes, to permit State 
law enforcement officers to transport illegal aliens across State 
lines, to eliminate provisions authorizing the use of Federal retirees, 
to exempt the School Lunch program, and other child nutrition programs, 
to permit aliens authorized to work and aliens outside the United 
States to enter into contracts with the Federal Government, to clarify 
the ``benefits of residence'' provision, to clarify eligibility for 
Social Security benefits, to further define ``eligible alien'', to 
establish a limitations period on public charge deportability, to 
modify the public charge period for battered aliens, to exempt the 
receipt of certain Federal education assistance from the definition of 
``public charge'', to delay the deeming requirement in the case of 
battered aliens, to strike section 207, to establish eligibility for 
financial assistance for public and assisted housing, and to amend 
certain further miscellaneous provisions.
Pages S4303-06
Withdrawn:
  Dole (for Simpson) Amendment No. 3744 (to Amendment No. 3743), of a 
perfecting nature.
Pages S4286, S4308
  Dole motion to recommit the bill to the Committee on the Judiciary 
with instructions to report back forthwith.
Pages S4286, S4308
  Lott Amendment No. 3745 (to the instructions of the motion to 
recommit), to require the report to Congress on detention space to 
state the amount of detention space available in each of the preceding 
10 years. (The amendment fell when the motion to recommit the bill was 
withdrawn.)
Page S4286
  Dole Modified Amendment No. 3746 (to Amendment No. 3745), to 
authorize the use of volunteers to assist in the administration of 
naturalization programs, port of entry adjudications, and criminal 
alien removal. (The amendment fell when the motion to recommit the bill 
was withdrawn.)
Page S4286
Pending:
  Dole (for Simpson) Amendment No. 3743, of a perfecting nature. 
                                                             Page S4286
  Graham Amendment No. 3760, to condition the repeal of the Cuban 
Adjustment Act on a democratically elected government in Cuba being in 
power.
Pages S4311-12
  Graham/Specter Amendment No. 3803, to clarify and enumerate specific 
public assistance programs with respect to which the deeming provisions 
apply.
Pages S4313-14
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By a unanimous vote of 91 yeas (Vote No. 90), three-fifths of those 
Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
agreed to close further debate on Amendment No. 3743, listed above. 
                                                             Page S4308
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the bill 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, May 
1, 1996.
Page S4308
  Senate will continue consideration of the bill on Tuesday, April 30, 
1996.
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting the report of a suspension under the Department of the 
Interior and Related Agencies

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Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1996; referred to the Committee on 
Appropriations. (PM-141).
Page S4315
  Transmitting, the report on the 1996 National Drug Control Strategy; 
to the Committee on the Judiciary. (PM-142).
Pages S4315-16
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Avis T. Bohlen, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Bulgaria.
  Marisa R. Lino, of Oregon, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Albania.
  John Francis Maisto, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Venezuela.
  Anne W. Patterson, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
El Salvador.
Page S4367
Messages From the President:
  Pages S4315-16
Measures Placed on Calendar:
  Page S4316
Communications:
  Page S4316
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S4317-27
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S4327
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S4328-58
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S4358
Authority for Committees:
  Page S4358
Additional Statements:
  Pages S4358-67
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--90)
  Page S4308
Adjournment: Senate convened at 11:30 a.m., and adjourned at 6:43 p.m., 
until 9 a.m., on Tuesday, April 30, 1996. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S4367.)