[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 91 (Friday, July 10, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D741-D742]
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                                              Friday, July 10, 1998

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S7915-S8017
Measures Introduced: Six bills were introduced, as follows: S. 2285-
2290.                                                    
  Pages S7939-40
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 2286, to amend the National School Lunch Act and the Child 
Nutrition Act of 1966 to provide children with increased access to food 
and nutrition assistance, to simplify program operations and improve 
program management, to extend certain authorities contained in those 
Acts through fiscal year 2003. (S. Rept. No. 105-243)
  S. 1695, to establish the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site 
in the State of Colorado, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute. (S. Rept. No. 105-244)
  S. 1283, to award Congressional gold medals to Jean Brown Trickey, 
Carlotta Walls LaNier, Melba Patillo Beals, Terrence Roberts, Gloria 
Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed Wair, Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, 
and Jefferson Thomas, commonly referred collectively as the ``Little 
Rock Nine'' on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the integration 
of the Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, with an amendment. 
(S. Rept. No. 105-245)
  S. 1259, to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1998 and 1999 
for the United States Coast Guard, with amendments. (S. Rept. No. 105- 
246)
  S.J. Res. 47, disapproving the extension of the waiver authority 
contained in section 402(c) of the Trade Act of 1974 with respect to 
Vietnam, unfavorably.                                        
Page S7939
Measures Passed:
  U.S. Commitments to Taiwan: Committee on Foreign Relations was 
discharged from further consideration of S. Con. Res. 107, affirming 
United States commitments under the Taiwan Relations Act, and by a 
unanimous vote of 92 yeas (Vote No. 196), Senate agreed to the 
resolution, after agreeing to the following amendment proposed: 
                                                         Pages S7915-19
  Lott Amendment No. 3121, of a perfecting nature.           
Page S7918
  Taiwan/Multilateral Economic Institutions: Senate agreed to S. Con. 
Res. 30, expressing the sense of Congress that the rules of 
multilateral economic institutions, including the International 
Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and 
Development, should be amended to allow membership for the Republic of 
China on Taiwan and other qualified economies, after agreeing to the 
following amendment proposed thereto:                        
  Page S8015
  Grams (for Helms) Amendment No. 3122, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                             Page S8015
  Indonesia/East Timor: Senate agreed to S. Res. 237, expressing the 
sense of the Senate regarding the situation in Indonesia and East 
Timor.                                                   
  Pages S8015-16
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Mary Beth West, of the District of Columbia, a Career Member of the 
Senior Executive Service, for the rank of Ambassador during her tenure 
of service as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans, 
Fisheries, and Space.
  William B. Traxler, Jr., of South Carolina, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit.
  1 Army nomination in the rank of general.                  
Page S8017
Nomination Withdrawn: Senate received notification of the withdrawal of 
the following nomination:
  Mary Beth West, of the District of Columbia, for the rank of 
Ambassador during her tenure of service as Deputy Assistant Secretary 
of State for Oceans and Space, which was sent to the Senate on February 
24, 1998.                                                    
Page S8017
Communications:                                          
  Pages S7937-39
Petitions:                                                   
  Page S7939
Statements on Introduced Bills:                          
  Pages S7940-60
Additional Cosponsors:                                       
  Page S7960
Amendments Submitted:                                        
  Page S7960
Notices of Hearings:                                         
  Page S7961
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S7961-63
Text of H.R. 6 as Previously Passed:                  
  Pages S7963-S8014

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Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--196) 
                                                             Page S7918
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 2:37 p.m., 
until 12 noon, on Monday, July 13, 1998. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S8016.)