[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 126 (Friday, September 19, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D977]
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                                         Friday, September 19, 1997

[[Page D977]]

                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S9701-S9735
Measures Introduced: Two bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1199-1200, and S. Con. Res. 53.                  
  Page S9726
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 S9701-13
Pending:
  Jeffords Amendment No. 1130, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                         Pages S9701-13
  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.       
Pages S9701-05
  Durbin Amendment No. 1140 (to Amendment No. 1130), to require that 
entities and individuals accredited to conduct review of device 
notifications be subject to the conflict of interest standards that 
apply to employees of the Food and Drug Administration. 
                                                         Pages S9705-07
  Durbin Amendment No. 1139 (to Amendment No. 1130), to eliminate 
provisions relating to the discretion of the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services to track devices or to conduct postmarket surveillance 
of devices.                                              
Pages S9707-13
  Senate will resume consideration of the bill and amendments pending 
thereto, on Tuesday, September 23, 1997, with a cloture vote on the 
bill to occur thereon.
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  Kenneth S. Apfel, of Maryland, to be Commissioner of Social Security 
for the term expiring January 19, 2001.
  Gary Gensler, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of the 
Treasury.
  Nancy Killefer, of Florida, to be Chief Financial Officer, Department 
of the Treasury.                                             
Page S9735
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  M. John Berry, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of the 
Interior.
  Terrence J. Brown, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator of 
the Agency for International Development.
  Mary Ann Cohen, of California, to be a Judge of the United States Tax 
Court for a term of fifteen years after she takes office.
  Seth Waxman, of the District of Columbia, to be Solicitor General of 
the United States.
  7 Navy nominations in the rank of admiral.                 
Page S9735
Statements on Introduced Bills:                          
  Pages S9726-29
Additional Cosponsors:                                       
  Page S9729
Authority for Committees:                                    
  Page S9730
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S9730-35
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 2:37 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m., on Tuesday, September 23, 1997. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S9735.)