[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 95 (Tuesday, July 8, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D707-D708]
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                                              Tuesday, July 8, 1997

[[Page D707]]

                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      House passed H.R. 2016, Military Construction Appropriations Act 
      for FY 1998.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S6955-S7034
Measures Introduced: Seven bills and two resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 991-997, and S. Con. Res. 36-37.              
  Page S6990
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 S6960-70, S6974-89
Adopted:
  Thurmond Amendment No. 744, to extend the Chiropractic Health Care 
Demonstration Project for two years.                     
Pages S6975-76
  Levin (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 648, to require a report on 
Department of Defense policies and programs to promote health 
lifestyles among members of the Armed Forces and their dependents. 
                                                             Page S6976
  Thurmond (for Helms) Amendment No. 745, to authorize the Secretary of 
the Army to donate excess furniture, and other excess property, of 
closed Army chapels to religious organizations that have suffered 
damage or destruction of property as a result of acts of arson or 
terrorism.                                               
Pages S6976-77
  Levin (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 649, to provide for increased 
administrative flexibility and efficiency in the management of the 
Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps.                 
Pages S6977-78
  Thurmond (for Jeffords) Amendment No. 746, to require the procurement 
of recycled copier paper by the Department of Defense.       
Page S6978
  Levin (for Harkin/Durbin) Amendment No. 747, to improve the 
provisions on depot, inventory, and financial management reform. 
                                                         Pages S6978-79
  Thurmond (for Thompson/Glenn) Amendment No. 748, to streamline 
electronic commerce in Federal procurement.              
Pages S6979-80
  Levin (for Graham) Amendment No. 749, to require the Secretary of 
Defense to review the command selection process for District Engineers 
of the Army Corps of Engineers.                              
Page S6980
  Thurmond (for Santorum/Lieberman) Amendment No. 750, to extend for 
two years the applicability of fulfillment standards developed for 
purposes of certain defense acquisition workforce training 
requirements.                                                
Page S6980
  Levin (for Cleland) Amendment No. 712, to express the sense of 
Congress reaffirming the commitment of the United States to provide 
quality health care for military retirees.                   
Page S6980
  Levin (for Harkin/Kempthorne) Amendment No. 751, to require the 
Secretary of Defense to initiate actions to eliminate or mitigate the 
need for some military families to subsist at poverty level standards 
of living.                                               
Pages S6980-81
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.        
Page S6960
  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 S6960
  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 S6960

[[Page D708]]


  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 S6960, S6974-75
  Gorton Amendment No. 645, to provide for the implementation of 
designated provider agreements for uniformed services treatment 
facilities.                                              
Pages S6961-62
  Wellstone Amendment No. 669, to provide funds for the bioassay 
testing of veterans exposed to ionizing radiation during military 
service.                                                 
Pages S6962-63
  Wellstone Modified Amendment No. 668, to require the Secretary of 
Defense to transfer $400,000,000 to the Secretary of Veterans' Affairs 
to provide funds for veterans' health care and other purposes. 
                                                  Pages S6963-64, S6987
  Cleland Amendment No. 712, to express the sense of Congress 
reaffirming the commitment of the United States to provide quality 
health care for military retirees.                
Pages S6964-65, S6967
  Wellstone Modified Amendment No. 670, to require the Secretary of 
Defense to transfer $5,000,000 to the Secretary of Agriculture to 
provide funds for outreach and startup for the school breakfast 
program.                                          
Pages S6967-68, S6987
  Wellstone Modified Amendment No. 666, to provide for the transfer of 
funds for Federal Pell Grants.                    
Pages S6968-70, S6987
  Gorton/Murray/Feinstein Amendment No. 424, to reestablish a selection 
process for donation of the USS Missouri.                
Pages S6981-85
  Murkowski Modified Amendment No. 753, to require the Secretary of 
Defense to submit a report to Congress on the options available to the 
Department of Defense for the disposal of chemical weapons and agents. 
                                                         Pages S6985-86
  Kyl Amendment No. 607, to impose a limitation on the use of 
Cooperative Threat Reduction funds for destruction of chemical weapons.
                                                         Pages S6987-88
  Kyl Amendment No. 605, to advise the President and Congress regarding 
the safety, security, and reliability of United States Nuclear weapons 
stockpile.                                               
Pages S6988-89
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 46 yeas to 45 nays (Vote No. 161), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
failed to agree to close further debate on the bill.         
Page S6974
  A second motion was entered to close further debate on the bill, and 
in accordance with the provisions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate, a vote on the cloture motion will occur on Thursday, July 
10, 1997.                                                    
Page S6989
  Senate will continue consideration of the bill on Wednesday, July 9, 
1997.
Removal of Injunction of Secrecy: The injunction of secrecy was removed 
from the following treaties:
  Extradition Treaty with Luxembourg (Treaty Doc. 105-10);
  Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty with Luxembourg (Treaty Doc. 105-11); 
and
  Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty with Poland (Treaty Doc. 105-12).
  The treaties were transmitted to the Senate today, considered as 
having been read for the first time, and referred, with accompanying 
papers, to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be 
printed.                                                 
Pages S7027-28
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Richard Dale Kauzlarich, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  Donna Jean Hrinak, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Bolivia.
  1 Air Force nomination in the rank of general.
  3 Army nominations in the rank of general.
  Routine lists in the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy. 
                                                         Pages S7028-34
Communications:                                          
  Pages S6989-90
Statements on Introduced Bills:                       
  Pages S6990-S7012
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S7013-14
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S7014-20
Notices of Hearings:                                         
  Page S7020
Authority for Committees:                                    
  Page S7020
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S7020-27
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--161) 
                                                             Page S6974
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m., and adjourned at 6:55 p.m., 
until 9:15 a.m., on Wednesday, July 9, 1997. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S7028.)