[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 80 (Tuesday, June 4, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D560]
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                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Bills Introduced: 16 public bills, H.R. 3562-3577; were introduced. 
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Reports Filed: One report was filed as follows:
  H.R. 848, to increase the amount authorized to be appropriated for 
assistance for highway relocation regarding the Chickamauga and 
Chattanooga National Military Park in Georgia, amended (H. Rept. 104-
603).
Page H5817
Speaker Pro Tempore. Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he 
appointed Representative Coble to act as Speaker pro tempore for today.
                                                             Page H5759
Recess: the House recessed at 1:02 p.m. and reconvened at 2 p.m. 
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Suspensions: House voted to suspend the rules and pass the following 
measures:
  Veterans Health Care: H.R. 3376, amended, to authorize major medical 
facility projects and major medical facility leases for the Department 
of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 1997;
  Pages H5766-74
  Mandatory Federal Prison Drug Treatment: H.R. 2650, amended, to amend 
title 18, United States Code, to eliminate certain sentencing 
inequities for drug offenders.
  Pages H5774-76
  Copyright Clarification: H.R. 1861, amended, to make technical 
corrections in the Satellite Home Viewer Act of 1994 and other 
provisions of title 17, United States Code;
  Pages H5781-84
  Boating and Aviation Safety: H.R. 234, amended, to amend title 11 of 
the United States Code to make nondischargeable a debt for death or 
injury caused by the debtor's operation of watercraft or aircraft while 
intoxicated;
  Pages H5784-86
  Administrative Dispute Resolution: H.R. 2977, amended, to reauthorize 
alternative means of dispute resolution in the Federal administrative 
process;
  Pages H5786-89
  Office of Government Ethics: H.R. 3235, to amend the Ethics in 
Government Act of 1978, to extend the authorization of appropriations 
for the Office of Government Ethics for 3 years; and
  Pages H5789-90
  Drought Relief: H. Con. Res. 181, amended, expressing the sense of 
Congress that the Secretary of Agriculture should dispose of all 
remaining commodities in the disaster reserve maintained under the 
Agricultural Act of 1970 to relieve the distress of livestock producers 
whose ability to maintain livestock is adversely affected by the 
prolonged drought conditions existing in certain areas of the United 
States. Agreed to amend the title.
  Pages H5791-92
Counterfeiting Prevention: The House voted to suspend the rules and 
pass H.R. 2511, amended, to control and prevent commercial 
counterfeiting. Subsequently, S. 1136, a similar Senate-passed measure 
was passed in lieu after being amended to contain the language of H.R. 
2511, as passed the House.
  Pages H5776-80
  House then insisted on its amendment to S. 1136 and asked a 
conference. Appointed as conferees: Representatives Hyde, Moorhead, 
Goodlatte, Conyers, and Schroeder. H.R. 2511 was then laid on the 
table.
Pages H5780-81
Presidential Message--Export Administration Act: Read a message from 
the President wherein he transmits his 6-month periodic report 
regarding the threat to the national security caused by the lapse of 
the Export Administration Act of 1979--referred to the Committee on 
International Relations and ordered printed (H. Doc. 104-225). 
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Amendments: Amendments ordered printed pursuant to the rule appear on 
pages H5818-20.
Quorum Calls--Votes: No quorum calls or votes developed during the 
proceedings of the House today.
Adjournment: Met at 12:30 p.m. and adjourned at 7:05 p.m.