[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 81 (Friday, June 19, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D668-D671]
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                                              Friday, June 19, 1998

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S6641-S6733
Measures Introduced: Five bills and two resolutions were introduced, as 
follows: S. 2194-2198, S. Res. 252, and S. Con. Res. 104.    
  Page S6698
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 1677, to reauthorize the North American Wetlands Conservation Act 
and the Partnerships for Wildlife Act. (S. Rept. No. 105-218)
  H.R. 1211, for the relief of Global Exploration and Development 
Corporation, Kerr-McGee Corporation, and Kerr-McGee Chemical 
Corporation, with an amendment.
  S. Res. 176, proclaiming the week of October 18 through October 24, 
1998, as ``National Character Counts Week''.                 
Page S6697
Measures Passed:
  Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Integration of the Armed 
Forces: Senate agreed to S. Con. Res. 104, commemorating the 50th 
anniversary of the integration of the Armed Forces.      
  Pages S6723-24
  Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act: Senate passed S. 1379, to amend 
section 552 of title 5, United States Code, and the National Security 
Act of 1947 to require disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 
regarding certain persons, and disclose Nazi war criminal records 
without impairing any investigation or prosecution conducted by the 
Department of Justice or certain intelligence matters, after agreeing 
to a committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, and the 
following amendment proposed thereto:                    
  Pages S6724-30
  Warner (for DeWine/Leahy) Amendment No. 2782, in the nature of a 
substitute.                                              
Pages S6725-30
Department of Defense Authorizations: Senate resumed consideration of 
S. 2057, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1999 for military 
activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and 
for defense activities of the Department of Energy, and to prescribe 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, taking 
action on amendments proposed thereto, as follows: 
                                               Pages S6641-58, S6662-93
Adopted:
  Thurmond Amendment No. 2738, to reduce amounts authorized to be 
appropriated under titles I, II, and III and division B in order to 
reflect savings resulting from revised economic assumptions, and to 
increase funding for operation and maintenance for the Army National 
Guard and funding for verification and control technology of the 
Department of Energy.                                        
Page S6668
  Levin (for Biden) Amendment No. 2739, to provide increases in the 
monthly rates of hazardous duty pay for aerial flight crewmembers in 
grades E-4 through E-9 that are comparable to the increases that took 
effect in the rates of such pay for other grades in fiscal year 1998. 
                                                             Page S6669
  Thurmond Amendment No. 2449, regarding ship transfers to foreign 
countries.                                               
Pages S6669-70
  Levin (for Ford/Bond/Lott/Stevens/Grassley) Amendment No. 2740, to 
revise and clarify the authority for Federal support of National Guard 
drug interdiction and counterdrug activities.            
Pages S6670-71
  Thurmond Amendment No. 2741, to establish additional requirements 
relating to the relocation of Federal frequencies.       
Pages S6671-72
  Levin (for Feinstein) Amendment No. 2742, to prohibit members of the 
Armed Forces from entering into correctional facilities to present 
decorations to persons who commit certain crimes before being presented 
such decorations.                                            
Page S6672
  Thurmond/Levin Amendment No. 2743, to make technical corrections to 
certain provisions relating to military construction projects. 
                                                             Page S6672
  Thurmond (for Kempthorne/Cleland/Akaka) Amendment No. 2744, to waive 
time limitations for award of the Distinguished-Service Cross and 
Distinguished-Service medal to certain persons.          
Pages S6672-74
  Thurmond (for Warner) Amendment No. 2745, to reduce the authority in 
section 1012 to enter into long-term charters for three vessels in 
support of submarine rescue, escort, and towing.             
Page S6674

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  Thurmond (for McCain) Amendment No. 2746, to broaden the eligibility 
for diving duty special pay to include personnel who maintain 
proficiency as a diver while serving in a position for which diving is 
a nonprimary duty.                                           
Page S6674
  Thurmond (for Coats/Glenn) Amendment No. 2747, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Navy to enter into multiyear contracts under certain 
aircraft procurement programs.                               
Page S6674
  Thurmond (for Warner) Amendment No. 2748, to transfer $15,895,000 
between Navy authorizations for the remote minehunting system program. 
                                                             Page S6675
  Thurmond/Levin/Santorum/Lieberman Amendment No. 2749, to modify the 
authority relating to the Department of Defense Laboratory 
Revitalization Demonstration Program.                        
Page S6675
  Levin Amendment No. 2750, to redesignate the position of Director of 
Defense Research and Engineering, abolish the position of Assistant to 
the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Chemical and Biological 
Defense Programs, and transfer the duties of the latter position to the 
former position.                                         
Pages S6675-76
  Thurmond Amendment No. 2751, to make technical corrections to section 
802, relating to procurement of travel services.             
Page S6676
  Thurmond (for Warner) Amendment No. 2752, to require a plan for 
facilitating a rapid transition from successfully completed research 
under the Small Business Innovation Research program into defense 
acquisition programs.                                    
Pages S6676-77
  Levin (for Lieberman) Amendment No. 2753, to set aside RDT&E funds 
for a NATO alliance ground surveillance concept definition. 
                                                             Page S6677
  Thurmond (for Warner) Amendment No. 2754, to provide a period of open 
enrollment for the Survivor Benefit Plan.                
Pages S6677-78
  Thurmond (for Thompson/Glenn) Amendment No. 2755, to revise a 
definition of the term ``senior executive'' for purposes of the 
limitation on allowability of compensation for certain contractor 
personnel.                                               
Pages S6678-79
  Thurmond (for Thompson/Glenn) Amendment No. 2756, to apply certain 
revisions of commercial pricing regulations government wide. 
                                                             Page S6679
  Thurmond (for Thompson/Glenn) Amendment No. 2757, to prevent the 
automatic application to a subcontract of an exceptional waiver of 
requirements for submission of cost or pricing data that is granted in 
the case of the prime contract.                          
Pages S6679-80
  Thurmond (for DeWine/Inhofe) Amendment No. 2758, to require 
physicians providing military health care to possess unrestricted 
licenses, and to require the establishment of a system for monitoring 
the satisfaction of applicable continuing medical education 
requirements.                                            
Pages S6680-81
  Thurmond (for Grassley) Amendment No. 2759, to clarify the 
eligibility of dependents of United States Customs Service employees to 
enroll in Department of Defense dependents schools in Puerto Rico. 
                                                         Pages S6681-82
  Thurmond (for Roberts) Amendment No. 2760, to require a report 
relating to the so-called ``1 plus 1 barracks initiative''. 
                                                             Page S7782
  Levin (for Graham/DeWine/Grassley) Amendment No. 2761, to express the 
sense of the Congress that a higher priority should be given drug 
interdiction and counter-drug activities of the Department of Defense 
under the Global Military Force Policy.                      
Page S6683
  Thurmond (for Santorum) Amendment No. 2762, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Navy to enter into a barter agreement during fiscal 
years 1999 through 2003 to exchange vehicles for repair and 
remanufacture of ribbon bridges for the Marine Corps.        
Page S6683
  Levin (for Graham) Amendment No. 2763, to enhance the fiscal position 
of the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies for meeting the 
increasing responsibilities designated for the Center by the Secretary 
of Defense.                                                  
Page S6683
  Thurmond (for Gorton/Murray ) Amendment No. 2764, to authorize the 
Secretary of Energy to enter into cost-sharing partnerships to operate 
the Hazardous Materials Management and Emergency Response training 
facility, Richland, Washington.                          
Pages S6683-84
  Thurmond (for Coverdell) Amendment No. 2765, to add home school 
diploma recipients to the pilot program for treating GED recipients as 
high school graduates for enlistment purposes.               
Page S6684
  Thurmond (for Gorton) Amendment No. 2766, to state the sense of the 
Senate regarding oil spill prevention training for personnel on board 
Navy vessels.                                            
Pages S6684-85
  Levin (for Reid) Amendment No. 2767, to add $4,000,000 for research 
and development on the expeditionary common automatic recovery and 
landing system and $1,000,000 for research and development on the K-
band testing obscuration pairing system, and to offset the increase by 
reducing the amount for Marine Corps procurement for communications and 
electronic infrastructure support by $5,000,000.             
Page S6685
  Thurmond (for Mack) Amendment No. 2768, to expand certain land 
conveyance authority, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.         
Page S6685
  Thurmond (for Allard/Campbell) Amendment No. 2769, to authorize the 
conveyance of certain water rights and related rights at Rocky Mountain 
Arsenal,

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Colorado, for purposes of acquiring certain perpetual contracts for 
water.                                                   
Pages S6685-86
  Levin (for Murray) Amendment No. 2770, to make available $2,500,000 
for the activities of the Hanford Health Information Network. 
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  Thurmond/Bingaman Amendment No. 2771, to extend the authority of the 
Secretary of Energy to appoint certain scientific, engineering, and 
technical personnel.                                         
Page S6687
  Thurmond/Bingaman Amendment No. 2772, to extend the authority of the 
Department of Energy to pay voluntary separation incentive payments 
through December 31, 2000.                                   
Page S6687
  Thurmond (for Grams/D'Amato) Amendment No. 2773, to extend the 
reauthorize the Defense Production Act of 1950.          
Pages S6687-88
  Thurmond Amendment No. 2774, to establish certain budgeting and other 
policies regarding United States operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 
                                                         Pages S6688-89
  Thurmond (for Snowe/Cleland) Amendment No. 2775, to require the 
Secretary of Defense to submit to Congress a report on the objectives 
of a contingency operation when the President submits to Congress the 
first request for funding the operation.                     
Page S6689
  Levin (for Robb/Santorum) Amendment No. 2776, to carry out a pilot 
program for revitalizing the laboratories and test and evaluation 
centers of the Department of Defense.                    
Pages S6689-90
  Thurmond (for Gramm/McCain) Amendment No. 2777, to protect the voting 
rights of military personnel.                                
Page S6690
  Thurmond (for Warner) Amendment No. 2778, to require a review and 
report on research on pharmacological interventions for reversing brain 
injury resulting from head injuries incurred in combat or exposures to 
chemical weapons.                                        
Pages S6690-91
  Thurmond (for Bond) Amendment No. 2779, to modify the authority 
relating to the demonstration project to provide the FEHBP health care 
option to medicare-eligible military health care beneficiaries. 
                                                             Page S6691
  Levin/Thurmond Amendment No. 2780, to authorize amounts for NATO 
common-funded budgets.                                   
Pages S6691-92
  Levin Amendment No. 2781, to require reports on the development of 
the European Security and Defense Identity within the NATO Alliance. 
                                                             Page S6692
Pending:
  Feinstein Amendment No. 2405, to express the sense of the Senate 
regarding the Indian nuclear tests.                          
Page S6641
  Brownback Amendment No. 2407 (to Amendment No. 2405), to repeal a 
restriction on the provision of certain assistance and other transfers 
to Pakistan.                                                 
Page S6641
  Warner motion to recommit the bill to the Committee on Armed Services 
with instructions to report back forthwith with all amendments agreed 
to in status quo and with a Warner Amendment No. 2735 (to the 
instructions on the motion to recommit), condemning forced abortions in 
the People's Republic of China.                          
Pages S6665-68
  Warner Amendment No. 2736 (to the instructions of the motion to 
recommit), of a perfecting nature.                       
Pages S6665-68
  Warner Amendment No. 2737 (to Amendment No. 2736), condemning human 
rights abuses in the People's Republic of China.         
Pages S6666-68
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the bill and, in 
accordance with the provisions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate, a vote on the cloture motion will occur on Tuesday, June 
23, 1998.                                                    
Page S6666
  Senate will resume consideration of the bill on Monday, June 22, 
1998.
Nomination--Agreement: A unanimous-consent time-agreement was reached 
providing for the consideration of the nomination of Susan Oki Mollway, 
of Hawaii, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Hawaii, on Monday, June 22, 1998 at 3 p.m., with a vote to occur 
thereon.                                                     
  Page S6723
Removal of Injunction of Secrecy: The injunction of secrecy was removed 
from the following treaty:
  Treaty with Estonia on Mutual Legal Assistance In Criminal Matters 
(Treaty Doc. 105-52).
  The treaty was transmitted to the Senate today, considered as having 
been read for the first time, and referred, with accompanying papers, 
to the Committee on Foreign Relations and was ordered to be printed. 
                                                             Page S6730
Executive Reports of Committees: Senate received the following 
executive reports of a committee:
  Report to accompany the Convention for the Protection of Plants, with 
one reservation, two declarations, and one proviso. (Treaty Doc. 104-
17) (Exec. Rept. No. 105-15)                             
Pages S6697-98
  Report to accompany the International Grains Agreement, 1995, with 
one declaration and one proviso. (Treaty Doc. 105-4) (Exec. Rept. No. 
105-16)                                                      
Page S6698
  Report to accompany the Trademark Law Treaty with Regulations, with 
two declarations and one proviso. (Treaty Doc. 105-35) (Exec. Rept. No. 
105-17)                                                      
Page S6698
  Report to accompany the Amendments to the Convention on the 
International Maritime Organization, with one declaration and one 
proviso. (Treaty Doc. 104-36) (Exec. Rept. No. 105-18)       
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Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Saul N. Ramirez, Jr., of Texas, to be Deputy Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development.
  Eric David Newsom, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
State.
  1 Air Force nomination in the rank of general.             
Page S6733
Executive Reports of Committees:                         
  Pages S6697-98
Statements on Introduced Bills:                       
  Pages S6698-S6701
Additional Cosponsors:                                       
  Page S6701
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S6702-18
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S6718-23
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m., and adjourned at 3:20 p.m., 
until 12 noon, on Monday, June 22, 1998. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S6730.)