[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 125 (Thursday, September 18, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D968-D970]
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                                       Thursday, September 18, 1997

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                              Daily Digest


 HIGHLIGHTS

       Senate passed Interior Appropriations, 1998.
       The House agreed to H. Res. 168, to implement the 
      recommendations of the bipartisan House Ethics Reform Task Force.


                                 Senate


 Chamber Action
   Routine Proceedings, pages S9531-S9700
 Measures Introduced:  Eight bills were introduced, as follows: S1191-
1198.                                                    
  Pages S9636-37
 Measures Reported:  Reports were made as follows:
   H.R. 1086, to codify without substantive change laws related to 
transportation and to improve the United States Code.
   S. Res. 122, declaring September 26, 1997, as ``Austrian-American 
Day''.
   S. 170, to provide for a process to authorize the use of clone 
pagers.
   S. 493, to amend section 1029 of title 18, United States Code, with 
respect to cellular telephone cloning paraphernalia, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute.                               
Page S9636
 Measures Passed:
   Interior Appropriations, 1998:   By 93 yeas to 3 nays (Vote No. 
251), Senate passed H.R. 2107, making appropriations for the Department 
of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1998, after taking action on further amendments proposed 
thereto, as follows:                                  
  Pages S9532-S9627
 Adopted:
   Stevens/Dodd Amendment No. 1219, to express a sense of the Senate 
that hearings should be conducted and legislation debated during this 
Congress that would address Federal funding for the arts. 
                                                         Pages S9536-37
   Committee amendment beginning on page 96, line 12 through page 97, 
line 8, relating to the funding for the National Endowment for the 
Arts.                                                        
Page S9537
   Enzi Modified Amendment No. 1221, to provide for limitations on 
certain Indian gaming operations.                        
Pages S9554-63
   Bryan Amendment No. 1222 (to Amendment No. 1221), to express the 
sense of the Senate that the Department of Justice should enforce 
provisions of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act requiring an approved 
tribal/state gaming compact.                              
Page S9561-62
   Gorton (for Bennett/Hatch) Amendment No. 1225, to provide funding 
for the engineering and design of road in the Wasatch-Cache National 
Forest.                                                      
Page S9572
   Gorton (for DeWine) Amendment No. 1226, to require the Chairperson 
of the National Endowment for the Arts to give priority to funding 
projects, productions, workshops, or programs that serve underserved 
populations.                                                 
Page S9572
   Gorton (for Graham) Amendment No. 1227, to direct the Secretary of 
the Interior to submit to Congress a report identifying at least 20 
sites on Federal land that are potentially suitable for Youth 
Environmental Service program activities.                
Pages S9572-73
   Reid/Bryan Amendment No. 1228, regarding the classification of 
gambling devices by the National Indian Gaming Commission. 
                                                         Pages S9573-74
   Bingaman/Murkowski Amendment No. 1229, to provide an alternative 
source of funds for operation of, or acquisition, transportation, and 
injection of petroleum products into, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. 
                                                         Pages S9588-90
   Gorton (for Murray/Gorton/Murkowski) Amendment No. 1230, relating to 
the use and disposition of Alaska Western Red Cedar.         
Page S9590
   McCain/Stevens Amendment No. 1231, to provide for the disposition of 
oil lease revenue received as a result of the Supreme Court's decision 
in United States of America v. State of Alaska.   
Pages S9590-96, S9605
   Gorton (for Smith/Wyden) Amendment No. 1234, to make certain 
emergency construction Forest Service funds available for 
reconstruction of the

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Oakridge Ranger Station, Willamette National Forest in Oregon. 
                                                             Page S9596
   Gorton (for McCain) Amendment No. 1235, to direct the Secretary of 
the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to submit to Congress a 
report on properties proposed to be acquired or exchanged with funds 
appropriated from the Land and Water Conservation Fund. 
                                                         Pages S9596-97
   Gorton (for Mack/Graham) Amendment No. 1236, to settle certain 
Miccosukee Indian land takings claims within the State of Florida. 
                                                         Pages S9597-98
   Gorton (for Bingaman/Domenici) Amendment No. 1237, to provide 
support for the Office of Navajo Uranium Workers to establish a 
diagnostic program for uranium miners and mill workers.      
Page S9598
   Gorton (for Moseley-Braun) Amendment No. 1238, to provide funding 
for the U-505 National Historic Landmark by reprogramming funds 
previously made available for the Jefferson National Expansion 
Memorial.                                                    
Page S9598
   Gorton (for Domenici/Kyl) Amendment No. 1239, to ensure an orderly 
transition to newly implemented guidelines on National Forests in 
Arizona and New Mexico.                                      
Page S9600
   Gorton (for Stevens) Amendment No. 1240, to make a technical 
correction to title 31, United States Code, relating to payments for 
entitlement land.                                        
Pages S9600-01
   Gorton/Byrd Amendment No. 1241, to reduce certain Fish and Wildlife 
Service Construction projects, National Forest System recreation and 
wildlife habitat management programs, and Forest Service Construction, 
and provide funds for further projects.                  
Pages S9601-02
   Reid Amendment No. 1242, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to 
convey certain land to Lander County, Nevada.                
Page S9602
   Gorton (for Abraham/Levin/Hatch) Amendment No. 1243, to increase 
funding for payments in lieu of taxes, and reduce certain Forest System 
funds.                                                       
Page S9602
   Reid (for Bryan/Reid) Amendment No. 1244, to direct the Secretary of 
the Interior to convey certain properties in Clark County, Nevada, to 
persons who purchased adjacent properties in good faith reliance on 
land surveys that were subsequently determined to be inaccurate. 
                                                         Pages S9602-03
   By 81 yeas to 14 nays (Vote No. 250), Murkowski Amendment No. 1245, 
to establish conditions for the transfer of rights and interests in the 
Stampede Mine Site in Alaska to the Secretary of the Interior. 
                                                         Pages S9603-05
   Gorton (for Murkowski) Amendment No. 1246, relating to the 
appointment, compensation and duties of officers and employees of the 
Presidio Trust.                                              
Page S9605
   Committee amendment beginning on page 46, line 15 through page 47, 
line 25, striking language relating to advance payments under the 
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act.      
Page S9605
   Committee amendment beginning on page 115, lines 1 through 22, 
relating to funds associated with Alaska Native regional corporation 
health care entities.                                        
Page S9605
   Committee amendment on beginning on page 123, line 9 through page 
124, line 20, relating to the use of Bureau of Land Management funds 
for surface mining.                                          
Page S9605
 Rejected:
   By 39 yeas to 61 nays (Vote No. 246), Hutchison Amendment No. 1186 
(to the committee amendment beginning on page 96, line 12 through page 
97, line 8), to provide necessary expenses of the National Endowment 
for the Arts.                                            
Pages S9532-36
   Hutchinson Modified Amendment No. 1196, to authorize the President 
to implement the recently announced American Heritage Rivers Initiative 
subject to designation of qualified rivers by Act of Congress. (By 57 
yeas to 42 nays (vote No. 247), Senate tabled the amendment.) 
                                                  Pages S9532, S9537-53
   By 34 yeas to 64 nays (Vote No. 248), Kyl Amendment No. 1223, to 
provide additional funding for law enforcement activities of the Bureau 
of Indian Affairs to reduce gang violence, and to reduce funding for 
the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.    
Pages S9563-71
 Withdrawn:
   Murkowski/Thomas Amendment No. 1232 (to Amendment No. 1231), to 
provide for the disposition of certain escrowed oil and gas revenue 
received as a result of the Supreme Court's decision in the United 
States of America v. State of Alaska.          
Pages S9593-96, S9604-05
   During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
   By 59 yeas to 39 nays (Vote No. 249), Bumpers/Gregg Amendment No. 
1224 (to committee amendment beginning on page 123, line 9 through page 
124, line 20), to ensure that Federal taxpayers receive a fair return 
for the extraction of locatable minerals on public domain land and that 
abandoned mines are reclaimed, was ruled as being in violation of 
Article 1, Section 7 of the Constitution, and not in order. 
                                                         Pages S9576-87
   Senate insisted on its amendments, requested a conference with the 
House thereon, and the Chair appointed the following conferees: 
Senators Gorton,

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Stevens, Cochran, Domenici, Burns, Bennett, Gregg, Campbell, Byrd, 
Leahy, Bumpers, Hollings, Reid, Dorgan, and Boxer.           
Page S9626
   Immigration Authority:   Senate passed S. 1198, to amend the 
Immigration and Nationality Act to provide permanent authority for 
entry into the United States of certain religious workers, after 
agreeing to the following amendment proposed thereto:    
  Pages S9633-35
   Jeffords (for Hatch/Kennedy) Amendment No. 1247, to provide for 
waiver of fees for nonimmigrants engaged in certain charitable 
activities.                                              
Pages S9634-35
 FDA Modernization and Accountability Act:  Senate resumed 
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, with a modified 
committee amendment in the nature of a substitute. (The modification 
incorporated the language of Jeffords Amendment No. 1130, in the nature 
of a substitute.)                                 
  Pages S9632, S9694-97
 Pending:
   Harkin Amendment No. 1137 (to Amendment No. 1130), authorizing funds 
for each of fiscal years 1998 through 2000 to establish within the 
National Institutes of Health an agency to be known as the National 
Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.           
Page S9632
   A 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 could occur on Tuesday, 
September 23, 1997.                                          
Page S9632
 Treasury/Postal Service Appropriations, 1998--Additional Conferees:  
Senators Stevens and Byrd were added as conferees to H.R. 2378, making 
appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal 
Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent 
Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998.      
  Page S9633
 Removal of Injunction of Secrecy:  The injunction of secrecy was 
removed from the following treaty:
   Treaty with Australia on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters 
(Treaty Doc. 105-27).
   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. 
                                                             Page S9633
 Nominations Confirmed:   Senate confirmed the following nominations:
   David A. Lipton, of Massachusetts, to be an Under Secretary of the 
Treasury.
   Timothy F. Geithner, of New York, to be a Deputy Under Secretary of 
the Treasury.                                                
Page S9632
 Nominations Received:  Senate received the following nominations:
   Paul R. Carey, of New York, to be a Member of the Securities and 
Exchange Commission.
   Laura S. Unger, of New York, to be a Member of the Securities and 
Exchange Commission.
   Jose Gerado Troncoso, of Nevada, to be United States Marshal for the 
District of Nevada.
   A routine list in the Coast Guard and Navy.        
Pages S9697-S9700
 Nomination Withdrawn:  Senate received notification of the withdrawal 
of the following nomination:
   William F. Weld, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to Mexico, which 
was sent to the Senate on July 23, 1997.                     
Page S9700
 Messages From the House:                                    
  Page S9635
 Measures Referred:                                          
  Page S9635
 Measures Placed on Calendar:                                
  Page S9635
 Communications:                                         
  Pages S9635-36
 Executive Reports of Committees:                            
  Page S9636
 Statements on Introduced Bills:                         
  Pages S9637-59
 Additional Cosponsors:                                  
  Pages S9659-60
 Amendments Submitted:                                   
  Pages S9660-89
 Notices of Hearings:                                        
  Page S9689
 Authority for Committees:                               
  Pages S9689-90
 Additional Statements:                                  
  Pages S9690-94
 Record Votes:  Six record votes were taken today. (Total--251) 
                        Pages S9536, S9553, S9571, S9587, S9605, S9626.
 Adjournment:  Senate convened at 9:10 a.m., and adjourned at 11:26 
p.m., until 9:30 a.m., on Friday, September 19, 1997. (For Senate's 
program, see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's 
Record on page S9694.)