[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 122 (Monday, September 15, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D945]
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                                         Monday, September 15, 1997

[[Page D945]]

                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S9303-S9357
Measures Introduced: Four bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1175-1178 and S. Res. 122.                       
  Page S9332
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 343, to authorize the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment 
(most-favored-nation treatment) to the products of Mongolia. (S. Rept. 
No. 105-81)
  S. 747, to amend trade laws and related provisions to clarify the 
designation of normal trade relations. (S. Rept. No. 105-82) 
                                                             Page S9332
Interior Appropriations, 1998: Senate resumed consideration of H.R. 
2107, making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and 
related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, with 
certain excepted committee amendments, taking action on amendments 
proposed thereto, as follows:                            
  Pages S9303-32
Pending:
  Ashcroft Amendment No. 1188 (to committee amendment beginning on page 
96, line 12 through page 97, line 8), to eliminate funding for programs 
and activities carried out by the National Endowment for the Arts. 
                                                         Pages S9324-32
  Senate will continue consideration of the bill on Tuesday, September 
16, 1997.
Appointments:
  Canada-U.S. Interparliamentary Group: The Chair, on behalf of the 
Vice President, pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 276d-276g, as amended, appointed 
the following Senators as Members of the Senate Delegation to the 
Canada-U.S. Interparliamentary Group during the First Session of the 
105th Congress, to be held in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, 
Canada, September 11-15, 1997: Senators Murkowski, Hatch, Grassley, 
Coats, DeWine, and Enzi.                                     
  Page S9352
Removal of Injunction of Secrecy: The injunction of secrecy was removed 
from the following treaty:
  Protocol with Mexico Amending Convention for Protection of Migratory 
Birds (Treaty Doc. 105-26).
  The treaty was 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 S9352-53
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Katharine G. Abraham, of Iowa, to be Commissioner of Labor 
Statistics, Department of Labor;
  Corinne Claiborne Boggs, of Louisiana, to be Ambassador to the Holy 
See;
  Stephen W. Bosworth, of Connecticut, to be Ambassador to the Republic 
of Korea;
  Susan Robinson King, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Labor;
  Joseph A. Presel, of Rhode Island, to be Ambassador to the Republic 
of Uzbekistan;
  Richard W. Story, of Georgia, to be United States District Judge for 
the Northern District of Georgia.
  5 Army nominations in the rank of general.
  1 Marine Corps nomination in the rank of general.
  Routine lists in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. 
                                                         Pages S9353-57
Statements on Introduced Bills:                          
  Pages S9332-37
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S9337-38
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S9338-51
Notices of Hearings:                                         
  Page S9351
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S9351-52
Adjournment: Senate convened at 12 noon, and adjourned at 6:11 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m., on Tuesday, September 16, 1997. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S9353.)