[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 58 (Wednesday, May 7, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D439-D440]
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                                             Wednesday, May 7, 1997

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S4043-S4132
Measures Introduced: Nine bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 709-717 and S. Res. 85.
  Page S4106
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 717, to amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, to 
reauthorize and make improvements to that Act.
Supplemental Appropriations: Senate continued consideration of S. 672, 
making supplemental appropriations and rescissions for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 1997, taking action on amendments proposed 
thereto, as follows:
  Pages S4043-S4104
Adopted:
  Stevens (for Byrd) Amendment No. 140, to modify eligibility for 
emergency rail assistance funds.
Page S4043
  Stevens Amendment No. 208, to prohibit the use of funds made 
available in Public Law 104-208 for assistance to Uruguay unless the 
Secretary of State certifies to the Committees on Appropriations that 
all cases involving seizure of United States business assets have been 
resolved.
Page S4045
  By 89 yeas to 11 nays (Vote No. 58), D'Amato Amendment No. 145, to 
rescind certain Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) funds, and 
extend the transition period for aliens receiving SSI funds. 
                                               Pages S4047-50, S4067-68
  Hollings Amendment No. 231, to specify that none of the funds made 
available in any appropriations Act for fiscal year 1997 may be used by 
the Department of Commerce for the use of sampling data in the next 
census for purposes of the apportionment of Representatives in 
Congress.
Pages S4069-76
  Feingold Amendment No. 83, to prohibit the use of funds for 
operations or activities of the Armed Forces relating to Bosnia ground 
deployment after September 30, 1997.
Pages S4077-79, S4082-89
  Hutchison Amendment No. 177 (to Amendment No. 83), to change the date 
for prohibition of the use of funds to June 30, 1998. 
                                               Pages S4078-79, S4082-89
  Stevens (for Biden) Amendment No. 131, to provide funding for the 
Delaware River Basin Commission and the Susquehanna River Basin 
Commission.
Page S4079
  Stevens Amendment No. 224 (to Amendment No. 131), to provide that the 
Federal representative to the river Basin Commission shall be the 
Secretary of the Interior or his designee.
Page S4079
  Stevens (for Johnson/Daschle) Amendment No. 70, to provide funds for 
channel restoration and improvements on the James River in South 
Dakota.
Page S4080
  Stevens Amendment No. 225 (to Amendment No. 70, to clarify that if 
the Secretary of the Army determines that the need for such restoration 
and improvements constitutes an emergency.
Page S4080
  Stevens (for Daschle) Modified Amendment No. 90, to provide funding 
for the Partners in Wildlife Program of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 
Service to pay private landowners for the voluntary use of private land 
to store water in restored wetlands.
Pages S4080-81
  Stevens (for Domenici) Amendment No. 144, to make certain technical 
amendments with respect to education programs.
Page S4081
  Stevens (for Bumpers) Amendment No. 97, to extend the dredging 
participation in the Small Business Administration Program Act of 1988.
                                                             Page S4089
  Stevens (for Specter) Amendment No. 76, to require the Secretary of 
Agriculture to collect and disseminate statistically reliable 
information from milk manufacturing plants on prices received for bulk 
cheese and to require the Secretary to report to Congress on the rate 
of reporting compliance.
Pages S4089-90
  Stevens (for Bond) Amendment No. 169, to increase the number of units 
available for FHA insurance under the HUD/State Housing Finance Agency 
Risk-Sharing program.
Page S4096
  Stevens (for Conrad) Amendment No. 232, to make an additional 
$10,000,000 available for the cost of subsidized guaranteed farm 
operating loans under Title II, Chapter 1.
Pages S4096-97
  Stevens (for Conrad) Amendment No. 233, to reduce funding for the 
Emergency Food Assistance

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Program commodity purchases to offset emergency disaster funding for 
subsidized guaranteed farm operating loans and additional funding for 
flood plain easements.
Pages S4096-97
  Stevens (for Conrad) Amendment No. 234, to provide additional funds 
to repair damages to waterways and watersheds resulting from flooding. 
                                                         Pages S4096-97
  Stevens (for Kerrey) Amendment No. 235, to assure sufficient funding 
for Essential Air Service under the Rural Air Service Survival Act. 
                                                             Page S4104
Rejected:
  Bumpers Amendment No. 64, to strike section 310, which would block 
implementation of a Department of Interior policy on rights-of-way on 
federal land. (By 51 yeas to 49 nays (Vote No. 59), Senate tabled the 
amendment.)
Pages S4050-67, S4068-69
  McCain Amendment No. 107, to strike earmarks for unrequested highway 
and bridge projects, parking garages, and theater restoration. 
                                                         Pages S4091-93
Pending:
  Reid/Baucus Amendment No. 171, to substitute provisions waiving 
formal consultation requirements and ``takings'' liability under the 
Endangered Species Act for operating and repairing flood control 
projects damaged by flooding.
Page S4043
  Byrd Amendment No. 59, to strike those provisions providing for 
continuing appropriations in the absence of regular appropriations for 
fiscal year 1998.
Pages S4097-S4104
Withdrawn:
  D'Amato Amendment No. 166, to rescind JOBS funds and extend the 
transition period for aliens receiving SSI funds.
Pages S4046-48
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By a unanimous vote of 100 yeas (Vote No. 57), three-fifths of those 
Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
agreed to close further debate on the bill.
Page S4046
  Senate will continue consideration of the bill on Thursday, May 8, 
1997.
Appointments:
  Senate Arms Control Observer Group: The Chair, on behalf of the 
Democratic Leader, pursuant to S. Res. 105, adopted April 13, 1989, as 
amended, by S. Res. 280, adopted October 8, 1994, announced the 
following appointments to the Senate Arms Control Observer Group: 
Senators Kerry and Durbin.
  Pages S4131-32
  Commission on Maintaining U.S. Nuclear Weapons Expertise: The Chair, 
on behalf of the Democratic Leader, after consultation with the 
Republican Leader, pursuant to Public Law 104-201, appointed Charles B. 
Curtis, of Maryland, to the Commission on Maintaining United States 
Nuclear Weapons Expertise.
  Pages S4131-32
Messages From the House:
  Page S4106
Measures Referred:
  Page S4106
Communications:
  Page S4106
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S4106
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S4106-15
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S4115-16
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S4117-28
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S4128
Authority for Committees:
  Pages S4128-29
Additional Statements:
  Page S4129
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total--59) 
                                                  Pages S4046, S4068-69
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 8:02 p.m., 
until 9:15 a.m., on Thursday, May 8, 1997. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S4132.)