[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 49 (Wednesday, April 23, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D372]
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                                          Wednesday, April 23, 1997

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                              Daily Digest


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3467-S3566
Measures Introduced: Ten bills and two resolutions were introduced, as 
follows: S. 631-640 and S.J. Res. 26 and 27.
  Page S3550
Chemical Weapons Convention: Pursuant to the order of Thursday, April, 
17, 1997, the Committee on Foreign Relations was discharged from 
further consideration of the Convention on the Prohibition of 
Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on 
Their Destruction, opened for signature and signed by the United States 
at Paris on January 13, 1993 (Treaty Doc. 103-21), and the Senate began 
consideration thereon as having passed through its various 
parliamentary stages, up to and including the presentation of the 
resolution of ratification.
  Pages S3468-S3545
  Also, pursuant to the order of Thursday, April 17, 1997, the 
Committee on Foreign Relations was discharged from further 
consideration of S. Res. 75, to advise and consent to the ratification 
of the Chemical Weapons Convention, subject to certain conditions, and 
the Senate began consideration of the resolution as a substitute for 
the resolution of ratification.
Page S3468, S3486
  During consideration of this measure today, the Senate took the 
following actions:
  Agreed to a motion to reconsider the vote by which S. Res. 75, listed 
above, was rejected by voice vote.
Page S3486
  Agreed to conditions, declarations, statements and understandings, 
with 5 exceptions, as follows:
  (1) Conditions the depositing of the instrument of ratification on 
the President's certification to Congress of Russia's elimination of 
chemical weapons.
  (2) To require that before depositing the instrument of ratification, 
the President certified to Congress that countries which have been 
determined to have offensive chemical weapons programs have ratified or 
otherwise acceded to the Convention.
  (3) To require the President to exercise the right to bar certain 
inspectors.
  (4) To require the President to certify to Congress that the State 
Parties have made an agreement to amend the Convention to stem the 
proliferation of chemical weapons.
  (5) To require the President to certify to congress that compliance 
with the Convention is effectively verifiable.
Pages S3486-92
  Senate will continue consideration of the Treaty on Thursday, April 
24, 1997, in open and closed session.
Communications:
  Pages S3548-50
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S3550-59
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S3559-61
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S3561
Authority for Committees:
  Page S3561
Additional Statements:
  Pages S3561-66
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m., and adjourned at 7:06 p.m., 
until 10 a.m., on Thursday, April 24, 1997. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S3566.)