[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 82 (Thursday, June 6, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D571-D572]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                             Thursday, June 6, 1996

[[Page D571]]

                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate rejected Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S5873-S5953
Measures Introduced: Six bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1845-1850, and S. J. Res. 56.
  Pages S5939-40
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 1718, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1997 for 
intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States 
Government, the Community Management Account, and for the Central 
Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, with amendments. 
(S. Rept. No. 104-277)
Page S5939
Measure Passed:
  FDR Memorial Membership: Committee on Rules and Administration was 
discharged from further consideration of S. 1634, to amend the 
resolution establishing the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial 
Commission to extend the service of certain members, and the bill was 
then passed.
  Page S5952
Measure Rejected:
  Balanced Budget Amendment: By 64 years to 35 nays (Vote No. 158), 
two-thirds of Senators voting, a quorum being present, not having voted 
in the affirmative, upon reconsideration, Senate again failed to pass 
H.J. Res. 1, proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution 
of the United States.
  Pages S5873-S5903
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  Marca Bristo, of Illinois, to be a Member of the National Council on 
Disability for a term expiring September 17, 1998.
  Kate Pew Wolters, of Michigan, to be a Member of the National Council 
on Disability for a term expiring September 17, 1998.
  David Finn, of New York, to be a Member of the National Council on 
the Humanities for a term expiring January 26, 2000.
  William P. Foster, of Florida, to be a Member of the National Council 
on the Arts for a term expiring September 3, 2000.
  Patricia Wentworth McNeil, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant 
Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education, Department of Education.
  Wallace D. McRae, of Montana, to be a Member of the National Council 
on the Arts for a term expiring September 3, 1998.
  Patrick Davidson, of California, to be a Member of the National 
Council on the Arts for a term expiring September 3, 2000.
  Townsend D. Wolfe, III, of Arkansas, to be Member of the National 
Council on the Arts for a term expiring September 3, 2000.
  Speight Jenkins, of Washington, to be a Member of the National 
Council on the Arts for a term expiring September 3, 2000.
  Routine lists in the Foreign Service, Public Health Service. 
                                                         Pages S5952-53
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Robert L. Hinkle, of Florida, to be United States District Judge for 
the Northern District of Florida.
  Mary Ann Gooden Terrell, of the District of Columbia, to be an 
Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for 
the term of fifteen years.
Page S5953
Measures Referred:
  Page S5937
Communications:
  Pages S5937-39
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S5939
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S5940-45
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S5945
Notices of Hearings:
  Pages S5945-46
Authority for Committees:
  Page S5946
Additional Statements:
  Pages S5946-51

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Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--158) 
                                                             Page S5903
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9 a.m., and adjourned at 6:47 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m., on Friday, June 7, 1996. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on pages S5952-
53.)