[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 59 (Thursday, May 2, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D409-D410]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                              Thursday, May 2, 1996

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate agreed to Ryan White CARE Reauthorization Conference 
      Report.
      Senate passed Illegal Immigration Reform.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S4571-S4651
Measures Introduced: Seven bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1721-1727, and S.J. Res. 54.
  Page S4618
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 1474, to provide new authority for probation and pretrial services 
officers.
Page S4617
Measures Passed:
  Nicodemus Historic Site/New Bedford Historic Landmark: Senate passed 
S. 1720, to establish the Nicodemus National Historic Site and the New 
Bedford National Historic Landmark.
  Pages S4587-90
  Illegal Immigration Reform: By 97 yeas to 3 nays (Vote No. 108), 
Senate passed H.R. 2202, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act 
to improve deterrence of illegal immigration to the United States by 
increasing border patrol and investigative personnel, by increasing 
penalties for alien smuggling and for document fraud, by reforming 
exclusion and deportation law and procedures, by improving the 
verification system for eligibility for employment, and through other 
measures, and to reform the legal immigration system and facilitate 
legal entries into the United States, after striking all after the 
enacting clause and inserting in lieu thereof the text of S. 1664, 
Senate companion measure, as amended, and after taking action on 
further amendments proposed thereto, as follows: 
                                     Pages S4576-87, S4590, S4592-S4611
Adopted:
  Simpson Amendment No. 3853 (to Amendment No. 3743), relating to pilot 
projects on systems to verify eligibility for employment in the United 
States and to verify immigration status for purposes of eligibility for 
public assistance or certain other government benefits. 
                                              Pages S4576, S4578, S4590
  Simpson Amendment No. 3854 (to Amendment No. 3743), to define 
``regional project'' to mean a project conducted in an area which 
includes more than a single locality but which is smaller than an 
entire State.
Pages S4576, S4578, S4590
  Snowe Amendment No. 3873 (to Amendment No. 3743), to require a study 
and review of allegations of harassment by Canadian customs agents for 
the purpose of deterring cross-border commercial activity along the 
United States-New Brunswick border.
Page S4595
  Snowe Modified Amendment No. 3874 (to Amendment No. 3743), to express 
the sense of Congress on the discriminatory application of the New 
Brunswick Provincial Sales Tax.
Page S4595
  Simpson Amendment No. 3951 (to Amendment No. 3743), to make certain 
further amendments.
Pages S4595-97
  Dole (for Simpson) Amendment No. 3743, of a perfecting nature. 
                                                     Pages S4576, S4610
Rejected:
  By 30 yeas to 70 nays (Vote 105), Graham Amendment No. 3759 (to 
Amendment No. 3743), to suspend Federal requirements imposed on state 
and local governments if requirements would constitute unfunded 
mandates.
Pages S4581-85, S4587, S4592, S4594
  By 40 yeas to 60 nays (Vote No. 106), Chafee/Mack Amendment No. 3840 
(to Amendment No. 3743), to provide that the emergency benefits 
available to illegal immigrants also are made available to legal 
immigrants as exceptions to the deeming requirements. 
                                                  Pages S4585-87, S4594
Withdrawn:
  Dewine/Abraham Amendment No. 3835 (to Amendment No. 3743), to make 
persecution for resistance to coercive population control policies a 
basis for the granting of asylum.
Pages S4592-93
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:

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  By a unanimous vote of 100 yeas (Vote No. 107), three-fifths of those 
Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
agreed to close further debate on the bill.
Pages S4610-11
  Subsequently, S. 1664 was returned to the Senate calendar. 
                                                             Page S4611
Ryan White CARE Reauthorization Conference Report: Senate agreed to the 
conference report on S. 641, to reauthorize the Ryan White CARE Act of 
1990, clearing the measure for the President.
  Pages S4646-49
White House Travel Office/Former Employees--Agreement: A unanimous-
consent agreement was reached providing for the consideration of H.R. 
2937, for the reimbursement of legal expenses and related fees incurred 
by former employees of the White House Travel Office with respect to 
the termination of their employment in that office on May 19, 1993, on 
Monday, May 6, 1996.
  Page S4649
Appointments:
   Canada-U.S. Interparliamentary Group: The Chair, on behalf of the 
Vice President, pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 276d-276g, as amended, appointed 
the following Senators as members of the Senate Delegation to the 
Canada-U.S. Interparliamentary Group during the Second Session of the 
104th Congress, to be held in Southeast Alaska, May 10-14, 1996: 
Senators, Chafee, Hatch, Pryor, Pressler, Grassley, Gorton, Jeffords, 
Mack, Burns, Bennett, Inhofe, DeWine, and Grams.
  Page S4650
   Mexico-U.S. Interparliamentary Group: The Chair, on behalf of the 
Vice President, pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 276h-276k, as amended, appointed 
the following Senators as members of the Senate Delegation to the 
Mexico-U.S. Interparliamentary Group during the Second Session of the 
104th Congress, to be held in Zacatecas, Mexico, May 3-5, 1996: 
Senators Murkowski, Brown, and Coverdell.
  Page S4650
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  Thomas Paul Grumbly, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Energy.
  Alvin L. Alm, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy 
(Environmental Management).
Page S4651
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  11 Army nominations in the rank of general.
  2 Navy nominations in the rank of admiral.
Page S4651
Messages From the House:
  Page S4616
Measures Referred:
  Page S4616
Communications:
  Pages S4616-17
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Pages S4617-18
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S4618-27
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S4627-28
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S4628-29
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S4629
Authority for Committees:
  Pages S4629-30
Additional Statements:
  Pages S4630-46
Record Votes: Four record votes were taken today. (Total-108) 
                                                  Pages S4594, S4610-11
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9 a.m., and adjourned at 6:02 p.m., 
until 10 a.m., on Friday, May 3, 1996. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on pages S4649-50.)