[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 51 (Thursday, April 30, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D434-D435]
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                                           Thursday, April 30, 1998

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate agreed to NATO Enlargement Treaty.
      Senate agreed to Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Conference 
      Report.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3809-S3960
Measures Introduced: Thirteen bills and three resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 2009-2022, and S. Res. 220-222.   
  Page S3919
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. Res. 175, A bill to designate the week of May 3, 1998 as 
``National Correctional Officers and Employees Week.''
  S. 1900, to establish a commission to examine issues pertaining to 
the disposition of Holocaust-era assets in the United States before, 
during, and after World War II, and to make recommendations to the 
President on further action, and for other purposes, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute.
  Special Report entitled ``Developments in Aging, Volume 3''. (S. 
Rept. 105-36)
  Special Report entitled ``Further Revised Allocation to Subcommittees 
of Budget Totals''. (S. Rept. 105-179)                       
Page S3918
Measures Passed:
  National Erase the Hate and Eliminate Racism Day: Senate agreed to S. 
Res. 221, to designate April 30, 1998, as ``National Erase the Hate and 
Eliminate Racism Day''.                                      
  Page S3959
  Commending Stuart Balderson: Senate agreed to S. Res. 222, to commend 
Stuart Franklin Balderson.                                   
  Page S3960
Resolution of Ratification Approved: By 80 yeas to 19 nays (Vote No. 
117), two thirds of the Senators present having voted in the 
affirmative, Senate agreed to the resolution of ratification to the 
Protocols to the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949 on Accession of Poland, 
Hungary, and the Czech (Treaty Doc. 105-36, after agreeing to the 
committee declarations and conditions, and after taking action on 
amendments proposed thereto, as follows:              
  Pages S3810-S3907
Adopted:
  Stevens Modified Amendment No. 2066, to express the sense of the 
Senate regarding the United States share of NATO's common-funded 
budgets, and to require an annual limitation on the amount of United 
States expenditures for payments to the common-funded budgets of NATO. 
                                                             Page S3847
  Stevens Modified Amendment No. 2065, to require a prior specific 
authorization of funds before any United States funds may be used to 
pay NATO enlargement costs.                       
Pages S3845-47, S3859
  Nickles/Smith Amendment No. 2327, to require that the President 
report on the Strategic Concept of NATO.                 
Pages S3867-68
Rejected:
  By 20 yeas to 80 nays (Vote No. 110), Craig Amendment No. 2316, to 
condition United States ratification of the protocols on specific 
statutory authorization for the continued deployment of United States 
Armed Forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of the NATO mission. 
                                           Pages S3810-17, S3840, S3843
  By 17 yeas to 83 nays (Vote No. 111), Moynihan/Warner Amendment No. 
2321, to express a condition regarding deferral of ratification of NATO 
enlargement until admission of Poland, Hungary, and Czech Republic to 
the European Union.                            
Pages S3817-26, S3843-44
  By 41 yeas to 59 nays (Vote No. 112), Warner/Moynihan Amendment No. 
2322, to provide for a three-year pause in further NATO expansion after 
admission of Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic.    
Pages S3826-44
  By 16 yeas to 84 nays (Vote No. 113), Conrad/Bingaman Amendment No. 
2320, to express the sense of the Senate regarding discussions with 
Russia on tactical nuclear weapons, increased transparency

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about tactical nuclear weapons, data exchange, increased warhead 
security, and facilitation of weapons dismantlement. 
                                           Pages S3810, S3851-54, S3860
  Ashcroft Amendment No. 2318, to require a Presidential certification 
that NATO is and will remain a defensive military alliance. (By 82 yeas 
to 18 nays (Vote No. 114), Senate tabled the amendment.) 
                                                  Pages S3810, S3860-62
  By 23 yeas to 76 nays (Vote No. 115), Bingaman Amendment No. 2324, to 
require a certification of United States policy not to support further 
enlargement of NATO (other than Poland, Hungary, and the Czech 
Republic) until revision of the Strategic Concept of NATO is completed.
                                               Pages S3854-56, S3862-63
  By 16 yeas to 83 nays (Vote No. 116), Smith (of New Hampshire) 
Amendment No. 2328, to condition United States ratification of the 
protocols on specific legislative action for the continued deployment 
of United States Armed Forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of the 
NATO mission.                                  
Pages S3899-S3902, S3904
Withdrawn:
  Harkin Amendment No. 2326, to urge the examination of the 
compatibility of certain programs involving nuclear weapons cooperation 
with the obligations of the United States and other NATO members under 
the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. 
                                                         Pages S3863-66
  Inhofe Amendment No. 2325, to require the President to submit the 
Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate 
Change to the Senate for its consideration under the Treaty Power of 
the Constitution.                                        
Pages S3902-03
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations--Conference Report: By 88 yeas to 
11 nays (Vote No. 118), Senate agreed to the conference report on H.R. 
3579, making emergency supplemental appropriations for recovery from 
natural disasters, and for overseas peacekeeping efforts, for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, clearing the measure for the 
President.                                               
  Pages S3907-13
Job Training Partnership Act--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement 
was reached providing for the consideration of S. 1186, to provide for 
education and training, on Friday, May 1, 1998.              
  Page S3960
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting the report concerning the Australia Group and the 
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, 
Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction; to 
the Committee on Foreign Relations. (PM-118).                
Page S3917
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  Donna Tanoue, of Hawaii, to be Chairperson of the Board of Directors 
of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for a term of five years.
  Donna Tanoue, of Hawaii, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of 
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for the remainder of the term 
expiring October 3, 2000.
  2 Air Force nominations in the rank of general.
  1 Army nomination in the rank of Chief, Army Reserve, United States 
Army.
  2 Army nominations in the rank of general.
  3 Marine Corps nominations in the rank of general.
  1 Navy nomination in the rank of admiral.
  Routine lists in the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Navy. 
                                                  Pages S3914, S3960-61
Messages From the President:                                 
  Page S3917
Messages From the House:                                     
  Page S3917
Measures Referred:                                           
  Page S3917
Communications:                                          
  Pages S3917-18
Executive Reports of Committees:                         
  Pages S3918-19
Statements on Introduced Bills:                          
  Pages S3919-43
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S3943-44
Authority for Committees:                                    
  Page S3947
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S3947-59
Record Votes: Nine record votes were taken today. (Total--118) 
                   Pages S3843-44, S3860, S3862-63, S3904, S3907, S3913
Adjournment: Senate convened at 11 a.m., and adjourned at 11:11 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m., on Friday, May 1, 1998. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S3960.)