[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 17 (Friday, February 27, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D140]
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                                          Friday, February 27, 1998

[[Page D140]]


                              Daily Digest


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S1133-S1176
Measures Introduced: Three bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1691-1693, and S. Res. 186.
  Page S1155
ISTEA Authorization: Senate resumed consideration of S. 1173, to 
authorize funds for construction of highways, for highway safety 
programs, and for mass transit programs, with a modified committee 
amendment in the nature of a substitute (Amendment No. 1676), taking 
action on amendments proposed thereto, as follows: 
                                                  Pages S1147-50, S1154
Adopted:
  Bond Amendment No. 1677 (to Amendment No. 1676), to require that, in 
funding natural habitat and wetland mitigation efforts related to 
Federal-aid highway projects, a preference be given, to the maximum 
extent practicable, to the use of certain mitigation banks. 
                                                         Pages S1148-50
  Senate will resume consideration of the bill on Monday, March 2, 
1998.
Agriculture Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act--Conferees: 
The Senate disagreed to the amendment of the House to S. 1150, to 
ensure that federally funded agricultural research, extension, and 
education address high-priority concerns with national multistate 
significance, and to reform, extend, and eliminate certain agricultural 
research programs, agreed to the request of the House for a conference 
thereon, and the Chair appointed the following conferees: Senators 
Lugar, Cochran, Coverdell, Harkin, and Leahy.
  Pages S1135-47
Messages From the House:
  Page S1155
Measures Referred
  Page S1155
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S1155-62
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S1162
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S1163-64
Authority for Committees:
  Page S1164
Additional Statements:
  Pages S1164-65
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 12:43 
p.m.., until 12 noon, on Monday, March 2, 1998. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record, on 
page S1173.)