[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 30 (Thursday, February 25, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D175-D176]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                        Thursday, February 25, 1999

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate agreed to Human Rights in China Resolution.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S1971-S2056
Measures Introduced: Twenty-five bills and 5 resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 466-490, and S. Res. 50-54.
  Pages S2007-08
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. Res. 51, providing for members on the part of the Senate of the 
Joint Committee on Printing and the Joint Committee on the Library, 
without recommendation.
  S. Res. 52, to authorize the printing of a collection of the rules of 
the committees of the Senate, without recommendation.
Page S2007
Measures Passed:
  Human Rights in China: Committee on Foreign Relations was discharged 
from further consideration of S. Res. 45, expressing the sense of the 
Senate regarding the human rights situation in the People's Republic of 
China, and by a unanimous vote of 99 yeas (Vote No. 27), Senate agreed 
to the resolution.
  Pages S1972-83
Small Business Year 2000 Readiness Act--Agreement: A unanimous-consent 
agreement was reached providing for the consideration of S. 314, to 
provide for a loan guarantee program to address the Year 2000 computer 
problems of small business concerns, on Tuesday, March 2, 1999, with a 
vote to occur thereon.
  Page S1982
Special Committee on Y2K Funding Increase--Agreement: A unanimous-
consent agreement was reached providing for the Committee on Rules and 
Administration to be discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 
7, to amend Senate Resolution 208 of the 105th Congress to increase 
funding of the Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology-related 
Problems, and the Senate proceed to its consideration, with a vote to 
occur thereon, on Tuesday, March 2, 1999.
  Page S1982
Appointments:
  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki): The 
Chair, on behalf of the Vice President, pursuant to Public Law 94-304, 
as amended by Public Law 99-7, appointed Senators Hutchison, Abraham, 
and Brownback to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe 
(Helsinki).
  Page S2056
  U.S. Air Force Academy Board of Visitors: The Chair, on behalf of the 
Vice President, pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 9355(a), appointed Senator 
Allard, from the Committee on Armed Services, and Senator Burns, from 
the Committee on Appropriations, to the Board of Visitors of the U.S. 
Air Force Academy.
  Page S2056
  U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors: The Chair, on behalf of the 
Vice President, pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 6968(a), appointed Senator 
McCain, from the Committee on Armed Services, and Senator Cochran, from 
the Committee on Appropriations, to the Board of Visitors of the U. S. 
Naval Academy.
  Page S2056
  U.S. Military Academy Board of Visitors: The Chair, on behalf of the 
Vice President, pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 4355(a), appointed Senator 
Santorum, from the Committee on Armed Services, and Senator Hutchison, 
from the Committee on Appropriations, to the Board of Visitors of the 
U.S. Military Academy.
  Page S2056
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting the report on the administration of the Coastal Zone 
Management Act (CZMA) for fiscal years 1996 and 1997; referred to the 
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (PM-10). 
                                                             Page S2006
  Transmitting the report concerning the national emergency relating to 
Cuba and of the emergency authority relating to the regulation of the 
anchorage

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and movement of vessels; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs. (PM-11).
Page S2006
Messages From the President:
  Page S2006
Messages From the House:
  Page S2006
Measures Referred:
  Page S2006
Communications:
  Pages S2006-07
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S2007
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S2008-33
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S2033-34
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S2038
Authority for Committees:
  Page S2038
Additional Statements:
  Pages S2038-55
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--27). 
                                                             Page S1983
Adjournment: Senate convened at 11 a.m. and adjourned at 4:12 p.m., 
until 10 a.m. on Monday, March 1, 1999, for a pro forma session. (For 
Senate's program, see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in 
today's Record on page S2056.)