[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 96 (Wednesday, July 9, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D715-D717]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                            Wednesday, July 9, 1997

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      The House passed H.R. 858, Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery 
      and Economic Stability Act.
      The House passed H.R. 1775, FY 1998 Intelligence Authorization 
      Act.
      House Committee ordered reported the following appropriations for 
      fiscal year 1998: Agricultural, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
      Administration, and Related Agencies; and the Foreign Operations, 
      Export Financing and Related Programs.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S7035-S7130
Measures Introduced: Two bills and two resolutions were introduced, as 
follows: S. 998-999 and S. Res. 106-107.                  
  Page S7116-17
Measures Passed:
  Federal Surplus Property Transfer: Senate passed H.R. 680, to amend 
the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to 
authorize the transfer of surplus personal property to States for 
donation to nonprofit providers of necessaries to impoverished families 
and individuals, and to authorize the transfer of surplus real property 
to States, political subdivisions and instrumentalities of States, and 
nonprofit organizations for providing housing or housing assistance for 
low-income individuals or families, after agreeing to the following 
amendment proposed thereto:                              
  Pages S7128-29
  Brownback (for Thompson/Glenn) Amendment No. 788, to provide that the 
Administrator of General Services shall ensure that nonprofit 
organizations shall consider the mental or physical disability of 
individuals for purposes of self-help requirements.          
Page S7129
  National Gambling Impact Study Commission Protection: Senate passed 
H.R. 1901, to clarify that the protections of the Federal Tort Claims 
Act apply to the members and personnel of the National Gambling Impact 
Study Commission, clearing the measure for the President.    
  Page S7129
  Records Production Authorization: Senate agreed to S. Res. 107, to 
authorize the production of records by Senator Robert C. Byrd and 
Senator John D. Rockefeller IV.                              
  Page S7129
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 S7042-52, S7054-S7113
Adopted:
  By a unanimous vote of 98 yeas (Vote No. 164), Dodd/McCain Amendment 
No. 765, to express the sense of the Congress in commending Mexico and 
the citizens of Mexico on the conduct of free and fair elections. 
                                                  Pages S7050-51, S7088
  By 66 yeas to 33 nays (Vote No. 165), Dorgan Amendment No. 771 (to 
Amendment No. 705), to require a report on the actual costs and savings 
attributable to previous base closure rounds and on the need for 
additional base closure rounds.                
Pages S7069-84, S7088-90
  McCain Modified Amendment No. 705, to grant authority to carry out 
base closure or realignment of military installations after 1997, as 
amended.                                       
Pages S7056-84, S7088-90
  Warner (for Kempthorne) Amendment No. 644, to make retroactive the 
entitlement of certain Medal of Honor recipients to the special pension 
provided for persons entered and recorded on the Army, Navy, Air Force, 
and Coast Guard Medal of Honor Roll.                         
Page S7104
  Levin (for Leahy/Jeffords) Amendment No. 596, to authorize funds for 
the construction of a combined

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support maintenance shop, Camp Johnson, Colchester, Vermont. 
                                                             Page S7104
  Warner (for Bond) Amendment No. 781, to authorize funds for the 
construction of an Army National Guard readiness center at Macon, 
Missouri.                                                
Pages S7104-05
  Levin (for Inouye) Amendment No. 610, to authorize funds for the 
addition and alteration of an administrative facility at Bellows Air 
Force Station, Hawaii.                                       
Page S7105
  Warner (for Thurmond/Levin) Amendment No. 782, to make certain 
adjustments in the authorizations relating to military construction 
projects.                                                    
Page S7105
  Levin (for Bingaman/Domenici) Amendment No. 783, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Air Force to enter into an agreement for the use of a 
medical resource facility in Alamagordo, New Mexico.     
Pages S7105-06
  Warner (for Specter) Amendment No. 784, to require a report on the 
policies and practices of the Department of Defense relating to the 
protection of members of the Armed Forces abroad from terrorist attack.
                                                             Page S7106
  Warner (for Santorum/Specter) Amendment No. 785, to express the sense 
of the Congress regarding the transfer of the ground communication-
electronic workload from McClellan Air Force Base, California, to 
Tobyhanna Army Depot, Pennsylvania, in accordance with the schedule 
provided for the realignment of the performance of such workload; and 
to prohibit privatization of the performance of that workload in place.
                                                             Page S7106
  Warner (for Thurmond) Amendment No. 786, to make technical 
corrections.                                             
Pages S7106-07
  Warner (for Chafee/Baucus) Amendment No. 706, to enhance fish and 
wildlife conservation and natural resources management programs under 
the Sikes Act.                                           
Pages S7107-08
  Levin (for Robb) Modified Amendment No. 624, to require the Secretary 
of the Navy to carry out a program to demonstrate expanded use of 
multitechnology automated reader cards throughout the Navy and the 
Marine Corps.                                            
Pages S7108-09
  Warner (for Craig) Amendment No. 631, to restore the garnishment and 
involuntary allotment provisions of title 5, United States Code, to the 
provisions as they were in effect before amendment by the National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996.              
Page S7109
  Gorton Amendment No. 645, to provide for the implementation of 
designated provider agreements for uniformed services treatment 
facilities.                                                  
Page S7109
  Warner/Kennedy Amendment No. 787, to make technical corrections to 
section 123, relating to the cost limitation for the Seawolf submarine 
program.                                                 
Pages S7109-10
  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 S7042, S7110-11
Rejected:
  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. (By 65 yeas to 33 nays (Vote No. 162), Senate tabled the 
amendment.)                             
Pages S7042, S7054-56, S7083-87
  By 46 yeas to 53 nays (Vote No. 163), Gorton/Murray/Feinstein 
Amendment No. 424, to reestablish a selection process for donation of 
the U.S.S. Missouri.                              
Pages S7042, S7085-88
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 S7042, S7098-S7103
  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 S7042
  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 S7042
  Wellstone Amendment No. 669, to provide funds for the bioassay 
testing of veterans exposed to ionizing radiation during military 
service.                                             
Pages S7042, S7103
  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. 
                                                             Page S7042
  Wellstone Modified Amendment No. 666, to provide for the transfer of 
funds for Federal Pell Grants.                               
Page S7042
  Murkowski Modified Amendment No. 753, to require the Secretary of 
Defense to submit a report to Congress on the options available to the 
Department

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of Defense for the disposal of chemical weapons and agents. 
                                                             Page S7042
  Kyl Modified Amendment No. 607, to impose a limitation on the use of 
Cooperative Threat Reduction funds for destruction of chemical weapons.
                                                  Pages S7042, S7103-04
  Kyl Amendment No. 605, to advise the President and Congress regarding 
the safety, security, and reliability of United States Nuclear weapons 
stockpile.                                                   
Page S7042
  Dodd Amendment No. 762, to establish a plan to provide appropriate 
health care to Persian Gulf veterans who suffer from a Gulf War 
illness.                                                 
Pages S7049-50
  Dodd Amendment No. 763, to express the sense of the Congress in 
gratitude to Governor Chris Patten for his efforts to develop democracy 
in Hong Kong.                                            
Pages S7051-52
  Reid Amendment No. 772, to authorize the Secretary of Defense to make 
available $2,000,000 for the development and deployment of counter-
landmine technologies.                                   
Pages S7091-92
  Levin Amendment No. 778, to revise the requirements for procurement 
of products of Federal Prison Industries to meet needs of Federal 
agencies.                                      
Pages S7093-97, S7111-13
  Senate will continue consideration of the bill on Thursday, July 10, 
1997, with a cloture vote to occur thereon.
Removal of Injunction of Secrecy: The injunction of secrecy was removed 
from the following treaties:
  Extradition Treaty with France (Treaty Doc. 105-13);
  Extradition Treaty with Poland (Treaty Doc. 105-14).
  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.                                                     
Page S7128
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  1 Army nomination in the rank of general.
  1 Marine Corps nomination in the rank of general.        
Pages S7091, S7130
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Jamie Rappaport Clark, of Maryland, to be Director of the United 
States Fish and Wildlife Service.
  I. Miley Gonzales, of New Mexico, to be Under Secretary of 
Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics.
  Saul N. Ramirez, Jr., of Texas, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development.
  August Scumacher, Jr., of Massachusetts, to be Under Secretary of 
Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services.      
                               Page S7130
Messages From the House:                                 
  Pages S7114-15
Measures Referred:                                           
  Page S7115
Communications:                                              
  Page S7115
Petitions:                                               
  Pages S7115-16
Executive Reports of Committees:                             
  Page S7116
Statements on Introduced Bills:                              
  Page S7117
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S7117-19
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S7119-26
Authority for Committees:                                
  Pages S7126-27
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S7127-28
Record Votes: Four record votes were taken today. (Total-165) 
                                                  Pages S7087-88, S7090
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:15 a.m., and adjourned at 9:07 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m., on Thursday, July 10, 1997. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on pages 
S7129-30.)