[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 94 (Monday, July 7, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D700-D701]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                               Monday, July 7, 1997

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      See Resume of Congressional Activity.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S6875-S6953
Measures Introduced: Five bills were introduced, as follows: S. 986-
990.
  Page S6907
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  Reported on Tuesday, July 1, during the adjournment:
  Report to accompany S. 507, to establish the United States Patent and 
Trademark Organization as a Government corporation, and to amend the 
provisions of title 35, United States Code, relating to procedures for 
patent applications, commercial use of patents, and reexamination 
reform. (S. Rept. No. 105-42)
  S. 830, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the 
Public Health Service Act to improve the regulation of food, drugs, 
devices, and biological products, and biological products, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 105-43) 
                                                             Page S6907
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 S6877-S6906
Adopted:
  Thurmond Amendment No. 718, to increase the amount required to be 
derived from sales of strategic and critical materials in the National 
Defense Stockpile by fiscal year 2007.
Page S6885
  Levin Amendment No. 719, to clarify the protections relating to 
disclosures of classified information to Congress or the Department of 
Justice by contractor employees.
Page S6886
  Thurmond Amendment No. 720, to prohibit the provision of burial 
benefits to individuals convicted of Federal capital offenses. 
                                                             Page S6886
  Levin (for Byrd) Amendment No. 721, to provide the force structure 
necessary for maintaining five Air National Guard C-130 aircraft units 
with 12 primary aircraft authorized, one each at Martinsburg, West 
Virginia, Louisville, Kentucky, Charlotte, North Carolina, Nashville, 
Tennessee, and Channel Island, California, and for preserving the 
number of primary aircraft authorized for Air Force Reserve C-130 
aircraft units at General Mitchell International Airport and Air 
Reserve Station, Wisconsin, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, and 
Willow Grove Air Reserve Station, Pennsylvania.
Pages S6886-87
  Thurmond (for Allard) Amendment No. 722, to modify authority for the 
conveyance of certain lands at Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Colorado. 
                                                             Page S6887
  Levin (for Rockefeller) Amendment No. 723, to require a study of eye 
safety at small arms firing ranges of the Armed Forces and the 
development of an eye injury reporting protocol for the ranges. 
                                                         Pages S6887-88
  Thurmond (for Kempthorne) Amendment No. 724, to extend to the 
Secretary of Transportation the authority to pay a reserve affiliation 
agreement bonus.
Pages S6888-89
  Thurmond (for Kempthorne) Amendment No. 725, to increase the number 
of years of commissioned service provided for mandatory retirement of 
generals and admirals serving in grades above major general and rear 
admiral.
Page S6889
  Thurmond (for Shelby) Amendment No. 726, to authorize a land 
conveyance at the Army Reserve Center, Greensboro, Alabama. 
                                                         Pages S6889-90
  Thurmond (for Campbell) Amendment No. 727, to require the display of 
the POW/MIA flag on various occasions and in various locations. 
                                                             Page S6890
  Thurmond (for McCain) Amendment No. 728, to provide a Federal charter 
for the Air Force Sergeants Association in the District of Columbia. 
                                                         Pages S6890-91

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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 S6877, S6894-S6900
  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.
Page S6877
  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.
Page S6877
  Lugar Modified Amendment No. 658, to increase (with offsets) the 
funding, and to improve the authority, for cooperative threat reduction 
programs and related Department of Energy programs. 
                                               Pages S6880-85, S6891-93
  Senate will continue consideration of the bill on Tuesday, July 8, 
1997.
Messages From the House:
  Page S6907
Measures Placed on Calendar:
  Page S6907
Communications:
  Page S6907
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S6907-18
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S6918-19
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S6919-52
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S6952
Adjournment: Senate convened at 12 Noon and adjourned at 5:10 p.m., 
until 10 a.m., on Tuesday, July 8, 1997. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S6953.)