[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 42 (Thursday, April 10, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D315-D316]
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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S2951-S3066
Measures Introduced: Eighteen bills and three resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 545-562, S.J. Res. 25, S. Con. Res. 20, and 
S. Res. 70.
  Page S3010
Measures Passed:
  Israeli Embassy Bombing: Senate agreed to S. Con. Res. 20, expressing 
the sense of Congress regarding the status of the investigation of the 
bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires in 1992. 
                                                         Pages S3064-65
  Natural Resource Conservation Center Commemoration: Senate passed 
H.R. 785, to designate the J. Phil Campbell, Senior, Natural Resource 
Conservation Center, clearing the measure for the President. 
                                                             Page S3065
  Juneteenth Independence Day: Committee on the Judiciary was 
discharged from further consideration of S.J. Res. 11, commemorating 
``Juneteenth Independence Day,'' June 19, 1865, the day on which 
slavery finally came to an end in the United States, and the resolution 
was then passed.
  Pages S3065-66
  Holocaust Remembrance: Senate agreed to H. Con. Res. 11, permitting 
the use of the Rotunda of the Capitol for a ceremony as part of the 
commemoration of the days of remembrance of victims of the Holocaust. 
                                                             Page S3066
Nuclear Waste Policy Act: Senate continued consideration of S. 104, to 
amend the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, taking action on the 
following amendments proposed thereto:
  Pages S2951-63, S2971
Adopted:
  Thurmond/Hollings Amendment No. 27 (to Amendment No. 26), to provide 
that the Savannah River Site and Barnwell County, South Carolina shall 
not be available for construction for an interim storage facility. 
                                                         Pages S2951-63
  Murkowski Amendment No. 36 (to Amendment No. 26), to give authority 
to the Secretary of Energy to collect fees for electricity generated by 
civilian nuclear power reactors sold during an offsetting collection 
period.
Pages S2975-77
  By 60 yeas to 33 nays (Vote No. 37), Thompson (for Frist/Thompson) 
Amendment No. 37 (to Amendment No. 26), to provide that the President 
shall not designate the Oak Ridge Reservation in the State of Tennessee 
as a site for construction of an interim storage facility. 
                                                  Pages S2977-80, S2987
  Domenici Amendment No. 40 (to Amendment No. 26), to prevent ``double 
counting'' in the determination of the fee collected for electricity 
generated by civilian nuclear power reactors and sold.
Pages S2989-90
Rejected:
  Reid/Bryan Modified Amendment No. 28 (to Amendment No. 27), providing 
that the transportation of spent nuclear fuel or high-level radioactive 
waste to a centralized interim storage site or to a permanent 
repository shall not cross any state line without the express written 
consent of the Governor of the State of entry. (By 72 yeas to 24 nays 
(Vote No. 36), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S2952-63
  By 24 yeas to 69 nays (Vote No. 38), Bumpers Amendment No. 33 (to 
Amendment No. 26), to clarify Congressional intent with respect to 
enactment of this Act in response to DOE's inability to meet the 
January 31, 1998 contractual deadline to start disposing of spent 
nuclear fuel.
Pages S2990-92, S2994-95
  By 36 yeas to 56 nays (Vote No. 39), Bingaman Amendment No. 41 (to 
Amendment No. 26), to strike the ban on designating certain sites as 
interim storage facilities.
Pages S2992-95
Pending:
  Murkowski Amendment No. 26, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                               Pages S2951-63, S2971-96
  Reid (for Wellstone) Amendment No. 29 (to Amendment No. 26), to 
ensure that emergency response personnel in all jurisdictions on 
primary and alternative shipping routes have received training and have 
been determined to meet standards set by the Secretary before shipments 
of spent nuclear fuel and high-level nuclear waste.
Page S2977
  Reid (for Wellstone) Amendment No. 30 (to Amendment No. 26), to 
express the sense of the

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Senate regarding Federal assistance for elderly and disabled legal 
immigrants.
Page S2977
  Lott (for Domenici) Amendment No. 42, (to Amendment No. 26), to 
provide that no points of order, which require 60 votes in order to 
adopt a motion to waive such point of order, shall be considered to be 
waived during the consideration of a joint resolution under section 401 
of this Act.
Page S2996
  Lott (for Murkowski) Amendment No. 43 (to Amendment No. 42), to 
establish the level of annual fee for each civilian nuclear power 
reactor.
Page S2996
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill and certain amendments to be proposed 
thereto, with final disposition to occur thereon on Tuesday, April 15, 
1996, and pursuant to the agreement, the cloture vote scheduled for 
Friday, April 11, 1997, on Amendment No. 26, listed above, was 
vitiated.
Pages S2995-96
  Senate will resume consideration of the bill on Monday, April 14, 
1997.
Nomination Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nomination:
  Pete Peterson, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Socialist Republic 
of Vietnam.
Pages S3001-10, S3066
Messages From the House:
  Page S3010
Measures Referred:
  Page S3010
Measures Placed on Calendar:
  Page S3010
Communications:
  Pages S3010-11
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S3011-57
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S3057-58
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S3059-62
Notices of Hearings:
  Pages S3062-63
Authority for Committees:
  Page S3063
Additional Statements:
  Pages S3063-64
Record Votes: Four record votes were taken today. (Total-39) 
                                        Pages S2962-63, S2987, S2994-95
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 8:11 p.m., 
until 10 a.m., on Monday, April 14, 1997. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S3066.)