[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 20 (Thursday, February 4, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D102-D103]
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                                         Thursday, February 4, 1999

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S1199-S1288
Measures Introduced: Seventeen bills and two resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 366-382, S. Res. 32 and S. Con. Res. 5. 
                                                         Pages S1257-58
Impeachment of President Clinton: Senate, sitting as a Court of 
Impeachment, continued consideration of the articles of impeachment 
against William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States, 
taking the following action:                          
  Pages S1199-S1254
  By a unanimous vote of 100 yeas (Vote No. 9), Senate agreed to 
Division 1 (paragraph 2) of the House of Representatives motion to 
admit into evidence transcriptions and videotapes of the oral 
depositions taken pursuant to S. Res. 30, from the point that each 
witness is sworn to testify under oath to the end of any direct 
response to the last question posed by a party.       
Pages S1199-S1209
  By 30 yeas to 70 nays (Vote No. 10), Senate rejected Division 2 
(paragraph 3) of the House of Representatives motion for the Senate to 
authorize and issue a subpoena for the appearance of Monica S. Lewinsky 
before the Senate for a period of time not to exceed eight hours. 
                                                      Pages S1199-S1209
  By 27 yeas to 73 nays (Vote No. 11), Senate rejected a Murray motion 
in the nature of a substitute to Division 3 of the House of 
Representatives motion (see below).                      
Pages S1209-10
  By 62 yeas to 38 nays (Vote No. 12), Senate agreed to Division 3 
(paragraph 4) of the House of Representatives motion to move that the 
parties be permitted to present before the Senate, for a period of time 
not to exceed a total of six hours, equally divided, all or portions of 
the parts of the videotapes of the oral depositions of Monica S. 
Lewinsky, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., and Sidney Blumenthal admitted into 
evidence, and that the House be entitled to reserve a portion of its 
presentation time.                                    
Pages S1199-S1210
  By 44 yeas to 56 nays (Vote No. 13), Senate rejected a Daschle motion 
to proceed to the closing arguments of the trial of the President of 
the United States.                                           
Page S1210
  By 46 yeas to 54 nays (Vote No. 14), Senate rejected a White House 
Counsel motion to request that the House managers no later than 2 p.m., 
on Friday, February 5, 1999, designate which portions of the videotapes 
they will present as evidence on Saturday, February 6, 1999. 
                                                         Pages S1210-11
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for the Senate to 
continue to sit as a Court of Impeachment on Saturday, February 6, 1999 
and Monday, February 8, 1999.                            
Pages S1211-12
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for those parts 
of the transcripts of the depositions admitted into evidence be printed 
in the Congressional Record.                              
Page S1212-54
  A further unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for the 
deposition transcripts of Monica Lewinsky, Vernon Jordan, and Sidney 
Blumenthal, and the videotapes thereof, be immediately released to the 
managers on the Part of the House and the Counsel to the President for 
the purpose of preparing for their presentations, provided however that 
such copies shall remain at all times under the supervision of the 
Sergeant at Arms to ensure compliance with the confidentiality 
provisions of S. Res. 30, agreed to on Thursday, January 28, 1999. 
                                                             Page S1212
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting the 1998 annual report of the Council of Economic 
Advisers; to the Joint Economic Committee. (PM-3).       
Pages S1254-55
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nomination:
  Received on Wednesday, February 3, 1999:
  Routine list in the Army.
  Received today, during the adjournment:
  Thomas J. Erickson, of the District of Columbia, to be a Commissioner 
of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.                 
Page S1288
Messages From the President:                             
  Pages S1254-55
Messages From the House:                                     
  Page S1255
Communications:                                          
  Pages S1255-57
Statements on Introduced Bills:                          
  Pages S1258-82

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Additional Cosponsors:                                       
  Page S1283
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S1285-88
Record Votes: Six record votes were taken today. (Total--14). 
                                                         Pages S1209-11
Adjournment: Senate convened at 1:03 p.m., and adjourned at 4:31p.m., 
until 10:00, on Saturday, February 6, 1999. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page 1254.)