[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 91 (Wednesday, June 19, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D634-D636]
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                                           Wednesday, June 19, 1996

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      House Committees ordered reported 14 sundry measures.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S6421-S6547
Measures Introduced: Nine bills were introduced, as follows: S. 1885-
1893.
  Page S6517
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 253, to repeal certain prohibitions against political 
recommendations relating to Federal employment, to reenact certain 
provisions relating to recommendations by Members of Congress. (S. 
Rept. No. 104-282)
  S. 1577, to authorize appropriations for the National Historical 
Publications and Records Commission for fiscal years 1998, 1999, 2000, 
and 2001. (S. Rept. No. 104-283)
  H.R. 2739, to provide for a representational allowance for Members of 
the House of Representatives, to make technical and conforming changes 
to sundry provisions of law in consequence of administrative reforms in 
the House of Representatives, with amendments.
  S. 1888, to extend energy conservation programs under the Energy 
Policy and Conservation Act through September 30, 1996.
Page S6517
DOD Authorizations: Senate continued consideration of S. 1745, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1997 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the department of Energy, and to prescribe 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, with 
committee amendments, taking action on amendments proposed thereto, as 
follows:
  Pages S6421-S6508
Adopted:
  Inouye Amendment No. 4050, to codify existing practices of the Army 
and Air Force regarding the grade of the Chief of the Army Nurse Corps 
and of the Chief of the Air Force Nurse Corps.
Pages S6425-26
  Kerry Amendment No. 4055, to provide for the Secretary of Defense to 
make payment to Vietnamese personnel who infiltrated into North Vietnam 
to perform covert operations as part of OPLAN 34A or its predecessor. 
                                                         Pages S6438-43
  Grams/Robb Modified Amendment No. 4052, to express the sense of the 
Senate regarding the reopening of Pennsylvania Avenue. (By 39 yeas to 
59 nays (Vote No. 161), Senate earlier failed to table the amendment.) 
                                        Pages S6432-36, S6438, S6441-50
  Reid Amendment No. 4056 (to Amendment No. 4052), to provide that a 
plan for the reopening of Pennsylvania Avenue is certified to protect 
the security of the people who live and work in the White House. 
                                                         Pages S6447-49
  Craig Amendment No. 4057, to express the sense of the Senate that the 
United States-Japan Semiconductor Trade Agreement should be 
renegotiated.
Pages S6450-53
  Murray Amendment No. 4059, to repeal the restriction on the use of 
Department of Defense facilities for abortions. (By 45 yeas to 51 yeas 
(Vote No. 163), Senate earlier failed to table the amendment.) 
                                                         Pages S6460-69
  Simpson Amendment No. 4061, to authorize funds for phase I 
construction of a combined support maintenance shop at Camp Guernsey, 
Wyoming.
Pages S6479-81, S6492-93
  McCain Amendment No. 4072 (to Amendment No. 4061), to require that 
the project be in the future years defense plan.
Pages S6492-93
  Reid/Bryan Amendment No. 4062, to strike the authorization for the 
military construction project of the National Security Agency at Fort 
Meade, Maryland, to authorize funds for the construction of a ramp 
addition for C-130 aircraft at Reno International Airport, Nevada, and 
to authorize funds for the construction of a jet engine test facility/
aircraft test enclosure at Fallon Naval Air Station, Nevada. 
                                                         Pages S6481-82
  Kempthorne (for Cohen) Amendment No. 4063, to specify funding and 
requirements for research, development, test, and evaluation of 
advanced submarine technologies.
Pages S6484-85

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  Nunn (for Byrd) Amendment No. 4064, to ensure that the annual report 
from the Reserve Forces Policy Board is submitted as a report that is 
separate from the annual report of the Secretary of Defense on the 
expenditures, work, and accomplishments of the Department of Defense. 
                                                             Page S6485
  Kempthorne (for Gorton/Cohen/Glenn) Amendment No. 4065, to provide 
for managed health care services to be furnished under the health care 
delivery system of the uniformed services by transferees of Public 
Health Service hospital or other stations previously deemed to be 
uniformed services treatment facilities that enter into agreements with 
the Secretary of Defense to provide such services on an enrollment 
basis.
Pages S6485-88
  Nunn (for Sarbanes/Mikulski) Amendment No. 4066, to authorize the 
Secretaries of the military departments and the Secretary of 
Transportation to carry out a food donation pilot program at the 
services academies.
Page S6488
  Kempthorne (for Warner) Amendment No. 4067, to provide for the 
designation of a memorial as the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, 
Virginia.
Pages S6488-89
  Nunn (for Byrd/Ford/Feinstein) Amendment No. 4068, to increase funds 
for the Air National Guard for support of 10 primary authorized C-130 
aircraft for each airlift squadron in the Air National Guard of 
Kentucky, West Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and California, and 
to increase various personnel end strength authorizations by 385 for 
support of such aircraft.
Pages S6489-90
  Kempthorne (for Cohen) Amendment No. 4069, to modify the 
specification of the source authorization of appropriations for certain 
submarine program contracts.
Page S6490
  Nunn (for Simon) Amendment No. 4070, to improve the National Security 
Education Program.
Pages S6490-91
  Kempthorne (for Cohen) Amendment No. 4071, to require a modification 
of a plan for development of a program leading to production of a more 
capable and less expensive submarine than the New Attack Submarine in 
order to advance by three years the earliest fiscal year in which a 
design for a next submarine for serial production may be selected. 
                                                         Pages S6491-92
  Kempthorne (for Smith/Santorum) Amendment No. 4073, to waive a 
limitation on use of funds in the National Defense Sealift Fund for 
purchasing three ships for the purpose of enhancing Marine Corps 
prepositioning squadrons.
Page S6493
  Nunn (for Bingaman/Smith) Amendment No. 4074, to revise and improve 
the authority for research projects under transactions other than 
contracts and grants and for certain cooperative research and 
development agreements.
Pages S6493-95
  Kempthorne (for Grassley/Boxer/Harkin) Amendment No. 4075, to make 
reimbursement of Government contractors for costs of excessive amounts 
of compensation for contractor personnel unallowable under Government 
contracts.
Pages S6495-S6502
  Nunn (for Boxer) Amendment No. 4076, to amend the reporting 
requirement under demonstration project for purchase of fire, security, 
police, public works, and utility services from local government 
agencies.
Page S6502
  Kempthorne (for McCain) Amendment No. 4077, to authorize agreements 
with Indian tribes for services under the Defense Environmental 
Restoration Program.
Page S6502
  Nunn Amendment No. 4078, to revise the description of a category of 
expenses for which humanitarian and civic assistance funds may be used.
                                                             Page S6502
  Kempthorne Amendment No. 4079, to revise the eligibility requirements 
for grants and contracts under the University Research Initiative 
Support Program.
Pages S6502-03
  Kempthorne (for Lott) Amendment No. 4080, to strike provisions 
relating to the prohibition on the use of funds for Office of Naval 
Intelligence representation or related activities.
Page S6503
  Kempthorne (for Nickles/Inhofe) Amendment No. 4081, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Army to convey certain real property located at Fort 
Sill, Oklahoma.
Pages S6503-04
  Kempthorne (for McCain) Amendment No. 4082, to revise the provision 
relating to the environmental restoration accounts.
Page S6504
Rejected:
  By 44 yeas to 53 nays (Vote No. 160), Dorgan Amendment No. 4048, to 
reduce funds authorized for research, development, test, and evaluation 
for national missile defense.
Pages S6421-24
  Bingaman Modified Amendment No. 4058, to strike provisions that 
predetermine the outcome of an ongoing Department of Defense study on 
space control and to provide a framework for space control decisions to 
be made. (By 52 yeas to 46 nays (Vote No. 162), Senate tabled the 
amendment.)
Pages S6453-59
  McCain/Glenn Amendment No. 4060, to reduce funds for military 
construction projects not included in the Administration request for 
such projects for fiscal year 1997. (By 83 yeas to 13 nays (Vote No. 
164), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S6469-78
Pending:
  Kyl/Reid Amendment No. 4049, to authorize underground nuclear testing 
under limited conditions.
Pages S6424-32, S6482-83

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  Senate will continue consideration of the bill, the pending 
amendment, and amendments to be proposed thereto, on Thursday, June 20, 
1996.
Removal of Injunction of Secrecy: The injunction of secrecy was removed 
from the following treaty:
  International Natural Rubber Agreement. (Treaty Doc. No. 104-27).
  The treaty was transmitted to the Senate today, considered as having 
been read for the first time, and referred, with accompanying papers, 
to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. 
                                                             Page S6455
Messages From the House:
  Page S6513
Measures Referred:
  Page S6513
Measures Placed on Calendar:
  Page S6513
Communications:
  Pages S6513-14
Petitions:
  Pages S6514-17
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S6517
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S6517-33
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S6533
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S6533-41
Notices of Hearings:
  Pages S6541-42
Authority for Committees:
  Page S6542
Additional Statements:
  Pages S6542-47
Record Votes: Five record votes were taken today. (Total--164) 
                                Pages S6424, S6447, S6459, S6469, S6478
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9 a.m., and adjourned at 9:29 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m., on Thursday, June 20, 1996. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S6547.)