[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 86 (Wednesday, June 12, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D600-D601]
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                                           Wednesday, June 12, 1996

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S6113-S6166
Measures Introduced: Five bills and three resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 1864-1868, and S. Res. 259-261.
  Page S6144
Measures Passed:
  Administrative Dispute Resolution Act: Senate passed H.R. 2977, to 
reauthorize alternative means of dispute resolution in the Federal 
administrative process, after striking all after the enacting clause 
and inserting in lieu thereof the text of S. 1224, Senate companion 
measure, after agreeing to a committee amendment in the nature of a 
substitute, and the following amendments proposed thereto: 
                                                         Pages S6155-63
  Lott (for Levin/Grassley) Amendment No. 4045, to reauthorize the 
Negotiated Rulemaking Act of 1990.
Page S6161
  Lott (for Cohen) Amendment No. 4046, to provide the United States 
Court of Federal Claims with exclusive jurisdiction over contract bid 
protests.
Pages S6161-62
  Senate insisted on its amendment, requested a conference with the 
House thereon, and the Chair was authorized to appoint conferees on the 
part of the Senate.
Page S6162
  Subsequently, S. 1224 was returned to the Senate calendar. 
                                                             Page S6162
  Emergency Livestock Feed Assistance: Senate agreed to S. Res. 259, to 
express the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Agriculture 
should use the disaster reserve established under section 813 of the 
Agricultural Act of 1970 to alleviate distress to all livestock 
producers who have suffered feed losses due to drought, flooding, or 
other natural disasters in 1996 in the most cost efficient manner 
practicable, including cash payments from the sale of commodities in 
the disaster reserve, and should provide voluntary conservation 
assistance to persons who hay or graze on conservation reserve lands. 
                                                             Page S6163
  Emergency Livestock Feed Assistance: Senate agreed to S. Res. 260, to 
express the sense of the Senate that livestock producers who are not 
eligible for emergency livestock feed assistance in the 1996 crop year, 
and who have suffered feed losses due to drought, flooding, or other 
natural disasters in 1996, should receive special consideration for 
assistance from commodities or the sale of commodities currently 
available in the disaster reserve established under section 813 of the 
Agricultural Act of 1970.
  Pages S6163-64
  Emergency Livestock Feed Assistance: Senate agreed to S. Res. 261, to 
express the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Agriculture 
should allow livestock producers who had qualified for emergency 
livestock feed assistance in the 1995 crop year to be eligible for 
emergency livestock feed assistance in the 1996 crop year.
  Page S6164
Congressional Budget Resolution: Senate continued consideration of the 
provisions of the conference report on H. Con. Res. 178, establishing 
the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal 
year 1997 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal 
years 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002.
  Pages S6117-37, S6164
  A unanimous-consent time-agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the conference report on Thursday, June 13, 1996, with 
a scheduled vote to occur thereon at 12 noon.
Page S6164
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting the report concerning the annual report of the National 
Endowment for the Arts for fiscal year 1995; referred to the Committee 
on Labor and Human Resources. (PM-153).
Pages S6141-42
Messages From the President:
  Pages S6141-42
Messages From the House:
  Page S6142
Measures Referred:
  Pages S6138, S6142
Communications:
  Pages S6142-43
Petitions:
  Pages S6143-44
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S6144-50
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S6150-51
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S6151-52

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Notices of Hearings:
  Page S6152
Authority for Committees:
  Page S6152
Additional Statements:
  Pages S6152-55
Adjournment: Senate convened at 11:30 a.m., and adjourned at 5:30 p.m., 
until 10 a.m., on Thursday, June 13, 1996. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on pages S6164-
66.)