[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 34 (Tuesday, March 24, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D289-D290]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                            Tuesday, March 24, 1998

[[Page D289]]


                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      House Committees ordered reported 7 sundry measures, including 
      Emergency Supplemental appropriations fiscal year 1998 and 
      Emergency Supplemental Recessions appropriations fiscal year 
      1998.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S2451-S2503
Measures Introduced: Thirty-three bills and one resolution were 
introduced, as follows: S. 1823-1855 and S. Res. 199.    
  Pages S2488-89
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. 105-172)                                       
Page S2488
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations: Senate continued consideration 
of S. 1768, making emergency supplemental appropriations for recovery 
from natural disasters, and for overseas peacekeeping efforts, for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, taking action on amendments 
proposed thereto, as follows:                            
  Pages S2452-86
Adopted:
  Stevens Amendment No. 2085, to establish a treatment of educational 
accomplishments of National Guard Challenge Program participants. 
                                                             Page S2458
  Stevens (for Kyl) Amendment No. 2079, to provide contingent emergency 
funds for the enhancement of a number of theater missile defense 
programs.                                                
Pages S2456-59
  Stevens Amendment No. 2092, to require the Federal Communications 
Commission to submit a report on universal service support for public 
institutional telecommunications users.                  
Pages S2459-60
  Leahy Amendment No. 2098, to clarify the definition of ``Great 
Lakes''.                                                 
Pages S2460-62
  Stevens (for Frist/Byrd) Amendment No. 2101, to provide exemption 
authority for air service to slot-controlled airports.       
Page S2469
  Gorton Modified Amendment No. 2102, to limit International Monetary 
Fund loans to Indonesia.                             
Pages S2470, S2482
  D'Amato Amendment No. 2109, to provide funds to compensate dairy 
producers for production losses due to natural disasters. 
                                                         Pages S2479-81
  Stevens (for Leahy) Amendment No. 2111, to eliminate the State 
matching requirement with respect to certain amounts made available for 
fiscal year 1998 for the Small Business Development Center program of 
the Small Business Administration.                       
Pages S2482-84
  Stevens (for Coverdell/Cochran/Bumpers/Boxer/Cleland) Amendment No. 
2112, to provide additional funds for emergency watershed and flood 
prevention operations.                                   
Pages S2482-84
  Stevens (for Kennedy/Kerry) Amendment No. 2113, to authorize the 
Secretary of Defense to acquire a lease or other short-term interest in 
certain cranberry bogs near the Massachusetts Military Reservation, 
Massachusetts.                                           
Pages S2482-84
  Stevens (for Coats/Lieberman) Amendment No. 2114, to extend the 
National Defense Panel to the end of fiscal year 1998.   
Pages S2482-84
  Stevens (for Shelby/Byrd/Boxer/Dorgan) Amendment No. 2115, to provide 
funds for emergency railroad rehabilitation and repair on Class II and 
Class III railroads.                                     
Pages S2482-84
  Stevens (for Gregg/Hollings) Amendment No. 2116, providing for the 
transfer of certain funds to the Department of State.    
Pages S2482-84
  Stevens (for Ashcroft) Amendment No. 2117, to encourage to use the 
voice and vote of the United States to enhance the general 
effectiveness of the International Monetary Fund.        
Pages S2484-85
  Stevens (for Hollings) Amendment No. 2118, to establish an IMF impact 
team.                                                    
Pages S2484-85
  Stevens (for Grassley) Amendment No. 2119 (to Amendment No. 2100), to 
encourage the IMF to establish bankruptcy reform in economically 
troubled nations.                                        
Pages S2484-85

[[Page D290]]

Rejected:
  Gramm/Santorum Amendment No. 2104, to establish that only that 
portion of budget authority provided in this Act that is obligated 
during fiscal year 1998 shall be designated as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985. (By 76 yeas to 24 nays (Vote No. 40), Senate tabled the 
amendment.)                                              
Pages S2471-79
Pending:
  McConnell Modified Amendment No. 2100, to provide supplemental 
appropriations for the International Monetary Fund for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 1998.                               
Pages S2463-69
  Faircloth Amendment No. 2103, to establish an Education Stabilization 
Fund to make loans to States for constructing and modernizing 
elementary and secondary schools.                        
Pages S2470-71
  Stevens (for Nickles) Amendment No. 2120, to strike certain funding 
for the Health Care Financing Administration.                
Page S2485
Withdrawn:
  Ashcroft Amendment No. 2080, to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 
1938 to provide to private sector employees the same opportunities for 
time-and-a-half compensatory time off and bi-weekly work programs as 
Federal employees currently enjoy to help balance the demands and needs 
of work and family, and to clarify the provisions relating to 
exemptions of certain professionals from the minimum wage and overtime 
requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. 
                                               Pages S2452-56, S2485-86
  Senate will continue consideration of the bill on Wednesday, March 
25, 1998.
Education Savings Act for Public and Private Schools--Cloture Vote 
Postponed: By unanimous-consent agreement, the cloture vote on the 
motion to close further debate on H.R. 2646, to amend the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 to allow tax-free expenditures from education 
individual retirement accounts for elementary and secondary school 
expenses, and to increase the maximum annual amount of contributions to 
such accounts, scheduled to occur today, was postponed.      
  Page S2481
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  William Joseph Burns, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the 
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
  Ryan Clark Crocker, of Washington, to be Ambassador to the Syrian 
Arab Republic.
  1Air Force nomination in the rank of general.
  1Army nomination in the rank of general.
  1Marine Corps nomination in the rank of general.           
Page S2503
Messages From the House:                                     
  Page S2487
Communications:                                          
  Pages S2487-88
Petitions:                                                   
  Page S2488
Statements on Introduced Bills:                          
  Pages S2489-91
Additional Cosponsors:                                       
  Page S2491
Amendments Submitted:                                 
  Pages S2492-S2501
Authority for Committees:                                    
  Page S2501
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S2501-02
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total-40)    
  Page S2479
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 7:48 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m., on Wednesday, March 25, 1998. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record, on 
page S2503.)