[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 117 (Monday, September 8, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D909-D911]
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                                          Monday, September 8, 1997

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S8877-S8935
Measures Introduced: Two bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1152-1153, and S. Con. Res. 51.
  Page S8925
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  Special Report entitled ``Further Revised Allocation to Subcommittees 
of Budget Totals from the Concurrent Resolution for Fiscal Year 1998''. 
(S. Rept. No. 105-74)
Page S8925
FDA Modernization and Accountability Act: Senate resumed consideration 
of the motion to proceed to consideration of 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.
  Pages S8878-98
  Senate will begin consideration of the bill on Tuesday, September 9, 
1997.
Labor/HHS Appropriations, 1998: Senate resumed consideration of S. 
1061, making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 1998, taking action on amendments proposed 
thereto, as follows:
  Page S8898
Adopted:
  By 84 yeas to 4 nays (Vote No. 221), Reed/Collins Amendment No. 1096, 
to provide funding for State Student Incentive grants. 
                                                  Pages S8905-08, S8910
  Reid/Boxer Modified Amendment No. 1094, to provide for the conduct of 
a study concerning the health and safety effects of perchlorate on 
human beings.
Pages S8903-05, S8909-10, S8917
  Specter (for Chafee) Amendment No. 1099, to provide additional 
funding for the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission and the 
Physician Payment Review Commission.
Pages S8910-14
  Specter (for Coverdell) Amendment No. 1100, to provide training and 
technical assistance regarding incidents of elementary and secondary 
school violence, and to provide for pilot student safety toll-free 
hotlines for elementary and secondary school students.
Pages S8910-14
  Specter (for Daschle) Amendment No. 1101, to provide a comprehensive 
program for the prevention of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
Pages S8910-14
  Specter (for Faircloth) Amendment No. 1102, to require that the 
Secretary of Education certify the use of funds appropriated to the 
Department of Education for students and teachers.
Pages S8910-14
  Specter (for Feingold) Amendment No. 1103, to require the Secretary 
of Education to conduct a study regarding the costs of the anticipated 
increase in enrollments of secondary school students during the period 
1998 through 2008, and the creation of smaller class sizes for students 
enrolled in grades 1 through 3.
Pages S8910-14
  Specter (for Hollings) Amendment No. 1104, to increase funding for 
the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee. 
                                                         Pages S8910-14
  Specter (for Inhofe) Amendment No. 1105, to make funds available for 
conducting a disability return to work demonstration initiative. 
                                                         Pages S8910-14
  Specter Amendment No. 1106, to provide for additional Supplemental 
Security Income continuing disability reviews as authorized by cap 
adjustment legislation.
Pages S8910-14
  Specter (for Warner/Kennedy) Amendment No. 1107, to provide funds for 
the Millennium 200 project.
Pages S8910-14
  Specter (for Harkin) Amendment No. 1108, to provide authority to use 
fees collected for provider requested audits to cover the cost of such 
audits.
Pages S8910-14
  Harkin Amendment No. 1112, to increase funds for education 
infrastructure.
Pages S8914-15
  Harkin Amendment No. 1113, to expand efforts to combat Medicare 
waste, fraud and abuse.
Page S8915
  Harkin (for Graham/Kennedy/Abraham) Amendment No. 1114, to authorize 
appropriations for refugee and entrant assistance for fiscal years 1998 
and 1999.
Pages S8915-16
Pending:
  Gregg Amendment No. 1070, to prohibit the use of funds for national 
testing in reading and mathematics, with certain exceptions. 
                                                             Page S8898

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  Coats/Gregg Amendment No. 1071 (to Amendment No. 1070), to prohibit 
the development, planning, implementation, or administration of any 
national testing program in reading or mathematics unless the program 
is specifically authorized by Federal statute.
                                                             Page S8898
  Nickles/Jeffords Amendment No. 1081, to limit the use of taxpayer 
funds for any future International Brotherhood of Teamsters leadership 
election.
                                                             Page S8898
  Craig/Jeffords Amendment No. 1083 (to Amendment No. 1081), in the 
nature of a substitute.
                                                             Page S8898
  Durbin/Collins Amendment No. 1078, to repeal the tobacco industry 
settlement credit contained in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. 
                                                             Page S8917
  Durbin Amendment No. 1085, to provide for the conduct of a study 
concerning efforts to improve organ and tissue procurement at 
hospitals, and require a report to Congress on the study.
  Durbin (for Levin) Amendment No. 1086, to express the sense of the 
Senate that hospitals that have significant donor potential shall take 
reasonable steps to assure a skilled and sensitive request for organ 
donation to eligible families.
  Mack/Graham Amendment No. 1090, to increase the appropriations for 
the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial Fine Arts Center.
Page S8900
  McCain/Gramm Amendment No. 1091, to eliminate Medicare incentive 
payments under plans for voluntary reduction in the number of 
residents.
Pages S8901-02
  McCain/Kerry Amendment No. 1092, to ensure that payments to certain 
persons captured and interned by North Vietnam are not considered 
income or resources in determining eligibility for, or the amount of 
benefits under, a program or State plan under title XVI or XIX of the 
Social Security Act.
Pages S8902-03
  Craig/Bingaman Amendment No. 1093, to amend the Fair Labor Standards 
Act of 1938 to adjust the maximum hour exemption for agricultural 
employees.
Page S8903
  Landrieu Amendment No. 1095, to increase funds to promote adoption 
opportunities.
Pages S8904-05
  Coverdell Amendment No. 1097, to enhance food safety for children 
through preventative research and medical treatment.
Pages S8908-09
  Coverdell Amendment No. 1098 (to Amendment No. 1097), in the nature 
of a substitute.
Pages S8908-09
  Specter (for Nickles) Amendment No. 1109, to require that estimates 
of certain employer contributions be included in an individual's social 
security account statement.
Pages S8910-14
  Specter Amendment No. 1110, to reduce unemployment insurance service 
administrative expenses to offset costs of administering a welfare-to-
work jobs initiative.
Pages S8910-14
  Specter Amendment No. 1111, to provide start-up funding for the 
National Bi-partisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. 
                                                         Pages S8910-14
  Harkin (for Wellstone) Amendment No. 1087, to increase funding for 
the Head Start Act.
Page S8916
  Harkin (for Wellstone) Amendment No. 1088, to increase funding for 
Federal Pell Grants.
Page S8916
  Harkin (for Wellstone) Amendment No. 1089, to increase funding for 
the Education Infrastructure Act of 1994.
Page S8916
  Harkin/Bingaman/Kennedy Amendment No. 1115, to authorize the National 
Assessment Governing Board to develop policy for voluntary national 
tests in reading and mathematics.
Pages S8916-17
  Harkin (for Daschle) Amendment No. 1116, to express the sense of the 
Senate regarding Federal Pell Grants and a child literacy initiative. 
                                                             Page S8917
  Ford Amendment No. 1117 (to Amendment No. 1078), to express the sense 
of the Senate on compensation for tobacco growers as part of 
legislation on the national tobacco settlement.
Pages S8917-18
  Murray/Wellstone Amendment No. 1118, to clarify the family violence 
option under temporary assistance to needy families program. 
                                                             Page S8918
  Murray Amendment No. 1119, to provide funding for the National 
Institute for Literacy.
Page S8918
  Harkin (for Bennett) Amendment No. 1120, to award a grant to a State 
educational agency to help pay the expenses associated with exchanging 
State school trust lands within the boundaries of a national monument 
for Federal lands outside the boundaries of the monument. 
                                                         Pages S8918-19
  Ford (for Kerrey) Amendment No. 1121, to exempt States that were 
overpaid mandatory funds for fiscal year 1997 under the general 
entitlement formula for child care funding from any payment adjustment.
                                                             Page S8920
  Domenici (for Gorton) Amendment No. 1122, to provide certain 
education funding directly to local educational agencies. 
                                                         Pages S8920-23
  Gorton Modified Amendment No. 1076, to allow States to use funds 
received under title XXI of the Social Security Act to provide health 
insurance coverage for children with incomes above the minimum Medicaid 
eligibility requirements.
Pages S8923-24
Withdrawn:
  Wellstone Amendment No. 1087, to increase funding for the Head Start 
Act.
Pages S8898-S8900
  Wellstone Amendment No. 1088, to increase funding for Federal Pell 
Grants.
Pages S8898-S8900

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  Wellstone Amendment No. 1089, to increase funding for the Education 
Infrastructure Act of 1994.
Pages S8898-S8900
  Ford Amendment No. 1058, to prohibit the use of funds to enforce 
certain Clean Air Act requirements with respect to distilled spirits. 
                                                             Page S8920
  Senate will continue consideration of the bill on Tuesday, September 
9, 1997.
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Lynn S. Adelman, of Wisconsin, to be United States District Judge for 
the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
  Jeremy D. Fogel, of California, to be United States District Judge 
for the Northern District of California.
  Thomas M. Foglietta, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to Italy.
  Alphonse F. La Porta, of New York, to be Ambassador to Mongolia.
  Alexander R. Vershbow, of the District of Columbia, to be United 
States Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic 
Treaty Organization, with the rank and status of Ambassador 
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
Page S8935
Messages From the House:
  Page S8925
Measures Referred:
  Page S8925
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S8925-26
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S8926
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S8927-32
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S8932
Additional Statements:
  Pages S8932-35
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total-221)
  Page S8910
Adjournment: Senate convened at 11 a.m., and adjourned at 6:48 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m., Tuesday, September 9, 1997. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S8935.)