[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 99 (Monday, July 14, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D748-D749]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                              Monday, July 14, 1997

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S7401-S7428
Measures Introduced: Six bills were introduced, as follows: S. 1011-
1016.
  Page S7423
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 39, to amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to support 
the International Dolphin Conservation Program in the eastern tropical 
Pacific Ocean, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                             Page S7423
Measures Passed:
  National Character Counts Week: Senate agreed to S. Res. 63, 
proclaiming the week of October 19 through October 25, 1997, as 
``National Character Counts Week''.
  Pages S7427-28
Department of Defense Appropriations: Senate began consideration of S. 
1005, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, taking action on amendments 
proposed thereto, as follows:
  Pages S7401-13, S7415-20
Adopted:
  Stevens Amendment No. 837, to provide an additional $60 million for 
``Former Soviet Threat Reduction'' activities for fiscal year 1998. 
                                                             Page S7404
  Inouye (for Mikulski) Amendment No. 839, to correct the source of the 
funding for procurement of digital terrain systems for F-16 aircraft. 
                                                             Page S7405
  Inouye (for Dodd) Amendment No. 840, to provide funds to establish a 
program to provide appropriate health care to Persian Gulf veterans who 
suffer from a Gulf War illness.
Page S7405
  Inouye (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 841, to provide funds for a facial 
recognition technology program.
Page S7405
  Stevens (for Snowe/Collins) Amendment No. 842, to provide funds for a 
joint service core research program to develop a prototype hybrid 
integrated sensor array for chemical and biological point detection. 
                                                             Page S7405
  Stevens (for Sessions) Amendment No. 843, to provide funds for a 
conventional munitions demilitarization program.
Page S7406
  Stevens (for Grassley) Amendment No. 844, to reduce to $1,000,000 the 
threshold amount for the applicability of the requirement for advance 
matching of Department of Defense disbursements to particular 
obligations.
Pages S7406-07
Pending:
  Stevens/Inouye Amendment No. 846, to require a report to Congress on 
all anticipated costs to the United States for the admission of the 
Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary to NATO.
Pages S7413, S7415-17
  Harkin Amendment No. 848, to prohibit the use of taxpayer funds to 
underwrite restructuring costs associated with a business merger. 
                                                         Pages S7417-20
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill and certain amendments to be proposed 
thereto, on Tuesday, July 15, 1997.
Page S7420
  A further consent agreement was reached providing that when the 
Senate receives the House companion measure, all after the enacting 
clause be stricken and the text of S. 1005, as passed by the Senate, be 
inserted in lieu thereof, that the bill be passed, the Senate insist on 
its amendment, and the Chair be authorized to appoint conferees on the 
part of the Senate.
Page S7420
Nomination Considered: Senate resumed consideration of the nomination 
of Joel I. Klein, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant 
Attorney General.
  Pages S7413-15
  During consideration of this nomination today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 78 yeas to 11 nays (Vote No. 174), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, Senate agreed to 
close further debate on the nomination.
Page S7414
Messages From the House:
  Pages S7420-21
Communications:
  Page S7421
Petitions:
  Pages S7421-23
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S7423-24
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S7424
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S7424-26
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S7426

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Additional Statements:
  Pages S7426-27
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--174) 
                                                             Page S7414
Adjournment: Senate convened at 12 noon, and adjourned at 7:43 p.m., 
until 10 a.m., on Tuesday, July 15, 1997. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S7428.)