[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 52 (Friday, May 1, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D443-D444]
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                                                Friday, May 1, 1998

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3963-S4141
Measures Introduced: Six bills were introduced, as follows: S. 2023-
2028.
  Page S4035
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 1415, to reform and restructure the processes by which tobacco 
products are manufactured, marketed, and distributed, to prevent the 
use of tobacco products by minors, to redress the adverse health 
effects of tobacco use, and for other purposes, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 105-180)
Page S4035
Measures Passed:
  National Correctional Officers and Employees Week: Senate agreed to 
S. Res. 175, to designate the week of May 3, 1998, as ``National 
Correctional Officers and Employees Week''.
  Page S4133
  U.S. Holocaust Assets Commission Act:  Senate passed 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, after agreeing to a committee amendment in the nature of a 
substitute, and the following amendment proposed thereto as follows: 
                                                         Pages S4133-36
  Kyl (for D'Amato) Amendment No. 2335, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                         Pages S4134-36
Job Training Partnership Act: Committee on Labor and Human Resources 
was discharged from further consideration of H.R. 1385, to consolidate, 
coordinate, and improve employment, training, literacy, and vocational 
rehabilitation programs in the United States, and the Senate struck all 
after the enacting clause and inserted in lieu thereof the text of S. 
1186, Senate companion measure, as amended.
  Pages S3963-S4027
  Prior to this action, Senate concluded consideration of S. 1186, 
after agreeing to a committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, 
and after taking action on amendments proposed thereto, as follows:
Adopted:
  Jeffords Amendment No. 2329, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                         Pages S4010-26
  DeWine Amendment No. 2330 (to Amendment No. 2329), to extend the 
authorizations of appropriations for the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 
and to simplify the vocational rehabilitation system, increase consumer 
involvement in the process, and coordinate the State vocational 
education program with other Federal employment programs. 
                                                         Pages S4013-16
  Ashcroft Amendment No. 2331 (to Amendment No. 2329), to prohibit the 
use of funds to carry out activities authorized under the School-to-
Work Opportunities Act of 1994.
Pages S4016-17
  Ashcroft Amendment No. 2332 (to Amendment No. 2329), to establish a 
requirement that individuals submit to drug tests, to ensure that 
applicants and participants make full use of benefits extended through 
training services.
Pages S4017-19
  Jeffords (for Lautenberg) Amendment No. 2333 (to Amendment No. 2329), 
to provide for a right for certain large units of general local 
government to submit appeals concerning designation as local areas. 
                                                         Pages S4019-20
  Jeffords (for Domenici) Amendment No. 2334 (to Amendment No. 2329), 
to establish demonstration projects to locate secondary schools at 
community college sites to conduct tech-prep programs.
Pages S4020-21
  Subsequently, S. 1186 was returned to the Senate calendar. 
                                                             Page S4027
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of H.R. 1385, listed above, on Tuesday, May 5, 1998, with 
a vote to occur thereon at 5:30 p.m.
Pages S4027, S4136
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Natalia Combs Greene, of the District of Columbia, to be an Associate 
Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for the term of 
fifteen years.
  Neal E. Kravitz, of the District of Columbia, to be an Associate 
Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for the term of 
fifteen years.
Page S4141

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Nomination Withdrawn: Senate received notification of the withdrawal of 
the following nomination:
  Kevin Emanuel Marchman, of Colorado, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development, vice Joseph Shuldiner, which was sent to 
the Senate on March 19, 1997, and on January 29, 1998.
Page S4141
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S4035-40
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S4040
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S4040-S4131
Authority for Committees:
  Page S4131
Additional Statements:
  Pages S4131-33
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 1:34 p.m., 
until 11 a.m., on Monday, May 4, 1998. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S4136.)