[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 93 (Tuesday, July 14, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D752-D753]
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                                             Tuesday, July 14, 1998

[[Page D752]]

                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      House Committee ordered reported the Labor, Health and Human 
      Services, and Education appropriations for fiscal year 1999.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S8087-S8160
Measures Introduced: Eleven bills were introduced, as follows: S. 2296-
2306.
  Page S8135
Measures Passed:
   Tropical Forest Conservation Act: Committee on Foreign Relations was 
discharged from further consideration of H.R. 2870, to amend the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to facilitate protection of tropical 
forests through debt reduction with developing countries with tropical 
forests, and the bill was then passed, after striking all after the 
enacting clause and inserting in lieu thereof the text of S. 1758, 
Senate companion measure, after agreeing to the committee amendment in 
the nature of a substitute, and the following amendment proposed 
thereto:
  Pages S8152-59
  Roberts (for Helms) Amendment No. 3148, to make technical and 
clarifying corrections.
Pages S8155-57
  Subsequently, S. 1758 was placed back on the Senate Calendar. 
                                                             Page S8157
  Congressional Gold Medal: Senate passed H.R. 3156, to present a 
congressional gold medal to Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, clearing the 
measure for the President.
  Page S8159
Agriculture Appropriations, 1999: Senate resumed consideration of S. 
2159, making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food 
and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 1999, taking action on amendments proposed 
thereto, as follows:
  Page S8091
Adopted:
  Cochran Amendment No. 3128, to provide additional funding for the 
Agricultural Research Service, the Cooperative State Research, 
Education, and Extension Service, and the Rural Community Advancement 
Program, to amend the Federal Crop Insurance Protection Act by 
eliminating the surcharge on the administrative fee for fiscal year 
1999, and to restrict the Wetlands Reserve Program's new acreage 
enrollment in fiscal year 1999.
Pages S8094-95
  Cochran/Bumpers Amendment No. 3129, to make a technical correction. 
                                                             Page S8095
  Cochran/Bumpers Amendment No. 3130, to transfer funding for credit 
sales of acquired property to subsidize the cost of additional farm 
ownership loans.
Page S8095
  Bumpers Amendment No. 3131, to establish a personnel management 
demonstration project in the Department of Agriculture. 
                                                         Pages S8095-96
  Cochran (for D'Amato/Sarbanes) Amendment No. 3132, to extend for one 
year existing housing programs administered by the Rural Housing 
Service.
Pages S8096-97
  Cochran (for Graham) Amendment No. 3133, to require the Secretary of 
Agriculture to conduct a review of methyl bromide alternatives 
research.
Page S8097
  Cochran (for Gramm/Hutchison) Amendment No. 3134, to express the 
sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Agriculture should take 
certain actions to provide timely assistance to Texas agricultural 
producers that are experiencing worsening drought conditions. 
                                                         Pages S8097-98
  Cochran (for Lugar) Amendment No. 3135, to amend the Wetlands Reserve 
Program by exempting thirty year easements from payment limitations, 
and to clarify the interpretation of ``Maximum Extent Practicable'' 
regarding the Wetlands Reserve Program enrollment goal.
Page S8098
  Cochran (for Lugar) Amendment No. 3136, to make technical corrections 
to the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 
1998.
Pages S8098-99
  Cochran (for Robb) Amendment No. 3137, to reform agricultural credit 
programs of the Department of Agriculture.
Page S8099

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Pending:
  Daschle (for Harkin/Daschle) Modified Amendment No. 3127, to express 
the sense of the Senate that emergency action is necessary to respond 
to the economic hardships facing agricultural producers and their 
communities.
Pages S8093-94, S8100-23, S8128
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate took the following 
action:
  By 43 yeas to 55 nays (Vote No. 198), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected a motion to waive the Congressional Budget Act with respect to 
consideration of Daschle Amendment No. 2729, to reform and structure 
the processes by which tobacco products are manufactured, marketed, and 
distributed, to prevent the use of tobacco products by minors, and to 
redress the adverse health effects of tobacco use. Subsequently, a 
point of order that the amendment was in violation of section 302(f) of 
the Congressional Budget Act was sustained, and the amendment thus 
fell.
Pages S8091-92
  A unanimous-consent time-agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of Amendment No. 3127, listed above, on Wednesday, July 
15, 1998, with a vote on a motion to table the amendment to occur 
thereon.
Page S8129
Agriculture Export Relief: Senate concurred in the amendment of the 
House to S. 2282, to amend the Arms Export Control Act, clearing the 
measure for the President.
  Page S8152
Messages from the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting the report concerning the Comprehensive National Energy 
Strategy; referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. 
(PM-142).
Page S8133
  Transmitting the annual report on Federal Advisory Committees for 
fiscal year 1997; referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs. 
(PM-143).
Page S8133
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations: Bill 
Richardson, of New Mexico, to be Secretary of Energy.
  Page S8160
Messages From the President:
  Page S8133
Messages From the House:
  Page S8133
Communications:
  Pages S8134-35
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S8135-38
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S8138-39
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S8139-49
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S8149
Authority for Committees:
  Page S8149
Additional Statements:
  Pages S8149-52
Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--199) 
                                                     Pages S8092, S8128
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 6:05 p.m., 
until 9 a.m., on Wednesday, July 15, 1998. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on pages 
S8159-60.)