[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 100 (Tuesday, July 9, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D709-D710]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                              Tuesday, July 9, 1996

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed Small Business Job Protection Act.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S7421-S7505
Measures Introduced: Four bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1933-1936, and S. Res. 277.
  Page S7492
Measures Passed:
  Small Business Job Protection Act: By 74 yeas to 24 nays (Vote No. 
186), Senate passed H.R. 3448, to provide tax relief for small 
businesses, to protect jobs, to create opportunities, and to increase 
the take home pay of workers, after agreeing to a committee amendment, 
and taking action on amendments proposed thereto, as follows: 
                                                         Pages S7421-69
Adopted:
  By 96 yeas to 2 nays (Vote No. 185), Roth Modified Amendment No. 
4436, to modify certain small business provisions, to address certain 
pension simplification issues, to provide a further extension of 
certain expiring tax provisions, to allow certain teaching hospitals to 
provide tax-free academic housing to faculty and medical and nursing 
students, to establish revenue offsets, and to make certain technical 
corrections.
Pages S7423-24, S7466-68
Rejected:
  By 46 yeas to 52 nays (Vote No. 183), Bond Amendment No. 4272, to 
modify the payment of wages provisions.
Pages S7467-68
  By 46 yeas to 52 nays (Vote No. 184), Kennedy Amendment No. 4435, to 
amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an increase 
in the minimum wage rate and to exempt computer professionals from the 
minimum wage and maximum hour requirements, and to amend the Portal-to-
Portal Act of 1947 relating to the payment of wages to employees who 
use employer-owned vehicles.
Page S7468
  Land Conveyance: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry 
was discharged from further consideration of H.R. 701, to authorize the 
Secretary of Agriculture to convey lands to the City of Rolla, 
Missouri, and the bill was then passed, clearing the measure for the 
President.
  Page S7502
  Private Relief: Senate passed H.R. 419, for the relief of Benchmark 
Rail Group, Inc., clearing the measure for the President.
  Page S7502
Teamwork for Employees and Management Act: Senate began consideration 
of S. 295, to permit labor management cooperative efforts that improve 
America's economic competitiveness to continue to thrive, taking action 
on amendments proposed thereto, as follows:
  Pages S7469-89
Pending:
  Dorgan Modified Amendment No. 4437, of a perfecting nature. 
                                               Pages S7470-73, S7484-85
  Kassebaum Amendment No. 4438, of a perfecting nature. 
                                                         Pages S7482-84
  Senate will continue consideration of the bill and amendments 
proposed thereto, on Wednesday, July 10, 1996, with votes to occur 
thereon.
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting the report of the Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource 
Management, Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration for fiscal years 1994 and 1995; to the Committee on 
Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (PM-157).
Page S7489
  Transmitting the report of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting 
for fiscal year 1995; referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation. (PM-158).
Page S7489
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  1 Navy nomination in the rank of admiral.
  Routine lists in the Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy.
Page S7505
Messages From the President:
  Page S7489
Communications:
  Page S7490

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Petitions:
  Pages S7490-92
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S7492-93
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S7493
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S7494-99
Authority for Committees:
  Page S7499
Additional Statements:
  Pages S7499-S7501
Record Votes: Four record votes were taken today. (Total--186) 
                                                         Pages S7467-68
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 7:15 p.m., 
until 11 a.m., on Wednesday, July 10, 1996. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S7505.)