[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 64 (Thursday, May 15, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D486-D487]
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                                             Thursday, May 15, 1997

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                              Daily Digest

HIGHLIGHTS

      House passed H.R. 1469, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act 
      for FY 1997.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S4507-S4623
Measures Introduced: Twelve bills and one resolution were introduced, 
as follows: S. 745-756, and S. Res. 86.                      
  Page S4588
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 430, to amend the Act of June 20, 1910, to protect the permanent 
trust funds of the State of New Mexico from erosion due to inflation 
and modify the basis on which distributions are made from those funds. 
(S. Rept. No. 105-18)                                        
Page S4588
Measures Passed:
  Boys and Girls Clubs of America Facilities: Senate passed S. 476, to 
provide for the establishment of not less than 2,500 Boys and Girls 
Clubs of America facilities by the year 2000.            
  Pages S4576-79
Family Friendly Workplace Act:  Senate resumed consideration of S. 4, 
to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide to private 
sector employees the same opportunities for time-and-a-half 
compensatory time off, biweekly work programs, and flexible credit hour 
programs as Federal employees currently enjoy to help balance the 
demands and need of work and family, to clarify the provisions relating 
to exemptions of certain professionals from the minimum wage and 
overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, with a 
modified committee amendment.                            
  Pages S4508-15
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 53 yeas to 47 nays (Vote No. 68), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
failed to close further debate on the modified committee amendment. 
                                                             Page S4514
Partial-Birth Abortion Ban: Senate resumed consideration of H.R. 1122, 
to amend title 18, United States Code, to ban partial-birth abortions, 
taking action on amendments proposed thereto, as follows: 
                                                         Pages S4517-75
Rejected:
  By 28 yeas to 72 nays (Vote No. 69), Feinstein Amendment No. 288, in 
the nature of a substitute.                              
Pages S4517-37
  By 36 yeas to 64 nays (Vote No. 70), Daschle Amendment No. 289, in 
the nature of a substitute.                              
Pages S4537-75
Appointments:
   Mexico-United States Interparliamentary Group: The Chair, on behalf 
of the Vice President, pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 276h-276k, as amended, 
appointed Senators Hatch, Shelby, and McCain as members of the Senate 
Delegation to the Mexico-United States Interparliamentary Group meeting 
to be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, May 16-18, 1997.         
  Page S4620
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting, a report relative to the Conventional Armed Forces in 
Europe Flank Document; to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (PM-35). 
                                                             Page S4587
  Transmitting, a report relative to the Conventional Armed Forces in 
Europe Flank Document; to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (PM-36). 
                                                         Pages S4587-88
  Transmitting the report on the national security strategy of the 
United States; referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (PM-37). 
                                                             Page S4588
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Henry Harold Kennedy, Jr., of the District of Columbia, to be United 
States District Judge for the District of Columbia.

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  Rodney W. Sippel, of Missouri, to be United States District Judge for 
the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri.
  1 Navy nomination in the rank of admiral.
  Routine lists in the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, 
Navy.                                                    
Pages S4622-23
Messages From the President:                             
  Pages S4586-88
Messages From the House:                                     
  Page S4588
Measures Referred:                                           
  Page S4588
Statements on Introduced Bills:                       
  Pages S4588-S4606
Additional Cosponsors:                                       
  Page S4611
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S4613-15
Notices of Hearings:                                     
  Pages S4615-16
Authority for Committees:                                    
  Page S4616
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S4616-20
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total-70) 
                                              Pages S4514, S4537, S4575
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:15 a.m., and adjourned at 9:23 p.m., 
until 10 a.m., on Friday, May 16, 1997. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S4620.)