[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 87 (Friday, June 20, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D646]
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                                              Friday, June 20, 1997

[[Page D646]]

                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      House Committees ordered reported the following: The Financial 
      Services Competitives Act; the Balanced Budget Act; the Revenue 
      Reconciliation Act; and the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S6017-S6048
Measures Introduced: Eight bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 942-949, and S. Con. Res. 34.
  Pages S6040-41
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 949, to provide revenue reconciliation pursuant to section 104(b) 
of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1998. (S. 
Rept. No. 105-33)
  S. 947, to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 104(a) of 
the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1998. 
                                                             Page S6040
Measures Passed:
  Electric and Magnetic Fields Research Extension: Senate passed H.R. 
363, to amend section 2118 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to extend 
the Electric and Magnetic Fields Research and Public Information 
Dissemination program, clearing the measure for the President. 
                                                             Page S6048
DOD Authorizations: Senate continued 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 S6019-24, S6026-27
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 S6019-24, S6026
  Grams Amendment No. 422 (to Amendment No. 420), to require the 
Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study on the 
availability and potential risks relating to the sale of certain 
computers.
Pages S6022-24, S6026
  Coverdell (for Inhofe/Coverdell/Cleland) Amendment No. 423, to define 
depot-level maintenance and repair, to limit contracting for depot-
level maintenance and repair at installations approved for closure or 
realignment in 1995, and to modify authorities and requirements 
relating to the performance of core logistics functions. 
                                                         Pages S6026-27
  Senate will continue consideration of the bill on Tuesday, June 24, 
1997.
Authority for Committee: Committee on Finance was authorized until 12 
midnight, today, to file a report.
  Page S6048
Messages From the House:
  Page S6040
Communications:
  Page S6040
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S6041-44
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S6044
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S6045-46
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S6046
Authority for Committees:
  Page S6046
Additional Statements:
  Pages S6046-48
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m., and recessed at 3:32 p.m., 
until 10 a.m., on Monday, June 23, 1997. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S6048.)