[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 74 (Tuesday, June 3, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D554-D555]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                              Tuesday, June 3, 1997

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      The House agreed to a conference with the Senate on H. Con. Res. 
      84, Concurrent Budget Resolution, and appointed conferees.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S5197-S5276
Measures Introduced: Ten bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 820-829, and S.J. Res. 31.
  Page S5253
Family Friendly Workplace Act: Senate continued 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, taking action on amendments proposed 
thereto, as follows:
  Pages S5218-48
Pending:
  Grassley Amendment No. 253, to provide protections in bankruptcy 
proceedings for claims relating to compensatory time off and flexible 
work credit hours.
Pages S5220-21
  Grassley Modified Amendment No. 256, to apply to Congress the same 
provisions relating to compensatory time off, biweekly work programs, 
flexible credit hour programs, and exemptions of certain professionals 
from the minimum wage and overtime requirements as apply to private 
sector employees.
Pages S5221, S5247-48
  Gorton Modified Amendment No. 265, to prohibit coercion by employers 
of certain public employees who are eligible for compensatory time off 
under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and provide for additional 
remedies in a case of coercion by such employers of such employees. 
                                                  Pages S5221-22, S5247
  Senate will continue consideration of the bill on Wednesday, June 4, 
1997, with a vote on a motion to close further debate on the modified 
committee to occur thereon.
Concurrent Budget Resolution--Conferees: The Chair, pursuant to the 
order of May 23, 1997, appointed conferees to H. Con. Res. 84, 
establishing the congressional budget for the United States government 
for fiscal year 1998 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for 
fiscal years 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002, as follows: Senators Domenici, 
Grassley, and Lautenberg.
  Page S5235
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting the report concerning emigration laws and policies of 
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine; referred to the 
Committee on Finance. (PM-43).
Page S5250
  Transmitting the report concerning the extension of waiver authority 
for Albania, Belarus, Kazakstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan 
and Uzbekistan; referred to the Committee on Finance. (PM-44). 
                                                             Page S5250
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nomination:
  Beth Nolan, of New York, to be an Assistant Attorney General. 
                                                             Page S5276
Messages From the President:
  Page S5250
Messages From the House:
  Page S5250
Petitions:
  Pages S5250-53
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S5253
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S5253-64
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S5264-65
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S5265-68
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S5268
Authority for Committees:
  Page S5268
Additional Statements:
  Pages S5268-76

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Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 7:19 p.m., 
until 3 p.m., on Wednesday, June 4, 1997. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S5276.)