[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 86 (Thursday, June 19, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D638-D639]
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                                            Thursday, June 19, 1997

[[Page D638]]

                              Daily Digest


 HIGHLIGHTS

       Senate passed Intelligence Authorizations.


                                 Senate


 Chamber Action
   Routine Proceedings, pages S5951-S6015
 Measures Introduced:  Five bills were introduced, as follows: S. 937-
941.                                                  
  Pages S5999-S6000
 Measures Reported:  Reports were made as follows:
   Special Report entitled ``Allocation to Subcommittees of budget 
Totals from the Concurrent Resolution for Fiscal Year 1998''. (S. Rept. 
No. 105-31)
   S. 648, to establish legal standards and procedures for product 
liability litigation. (S. Rept. No. 105-32)                  
Page S5999
 Measures Passed:
  Intelligence Authorizations: By 98 yeas to 1 nays (Vote No. 109), 
Senate passed S. 858, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1998 
for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United 
States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central 
Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, after taking 
action on amendments proposed thereto, as follows:       
  Pages S5963-78
 Adopted:
   By a unanimous vote of 99 yeas (Vote 107), Wellstone Amendment No. 
415, to express the sense of the Senate that any tax legislation 
enacted should meet a standard of fairness in its distributional 
impact.                                        
Pages S5966-70, S5974-75
Rejected:
   By 43 yeas to 56 nays (Vote No. 108), Torricelli Amendment No. 416, 
to require an unclassified statement of the aggregate amount of 
appropriations for intelligence activities.              
Pages S5970-75
 DOD Authorizations:  Senate began consideration of S. 936, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1998 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, and to prescribe 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, taking 
action on amendments proposed thereto, as follows:       
  Pages S5978-98
 Adopted:
   Lautenberg Amendment No. 417, to strike section 3138, relating to a 
prohibition on recovery of certain additional costs for environmental 
response actions associated with the Formerly Utilized Site Remedial 
Action Project program, and to require a report on the remediation 
activities of the Department of Energy.                  
Pages S5985-89
   Smith Amendment No. 418 (to Amendment No. 417), to require a report 
to Congress regarding the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action 
program of the Department of Energy.                     
Pages S5988-89
   By a unanimous vote of 94 yeas (Vote No. 110), Feinstein/Biden 
Amendment No. 419, to prohibit the distribution of certain information 
relating to explosives, destructive devices, and weapons of mass 
destruction.                                   
Pages S5989-91, S5996-98
 Pending:
   Cochran/Durbin Amendment No. 420, to require a license to export 
computers with composite theoretical performance equal to or greater 
than 2,000 million theoretical operations per second.   
Pages S5991-96, S5998
   Senate will continue consideration of the bill on Friday, June 20, 
1997.
 Nominations Received:  Senate received the following nominations: 
Stephen R. Sestanovich, of the District of Columbia, as Ambassador at 
Large and Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for the New 
Independent States.
   Louis Caldera, of California, to be a Managing Director of the 
Corporation for National and Community Service.
   2 Army nominations in the rank of general.                
Page S6015
 Messages From the House:                                    
  Page S5999
 Measures Referred:                                          
  Page S5999
 Communications:                                             
  Page S5999

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 Executive Reports of Committees:                            
  Page S5999
 Statements on Introduced Bills:                         
  Pages S6000-04
 Additional Cosponsors:                                      
  Page S6005
 Amendments Submitted:                                   
  Pages S6005-07
 Notices of Hearings:                                        
  Page S6007
 Authority for Committees:                                   
  Page S6007
 Additional Statements:                                  
  Pages S6007-15
 Record Votes:  Four record votes were taken today. (Total-110) 
                                                  Pages S5974-76, S5998
 Adjournment:  Senate convened at 10 a.m., and recessed at 8 p.m., 
until 10 a.m., on Friday, June 20, 1997. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S6015.)