[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 71 (Monday, May 17, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D539]
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                                               Monday, May 17, 1999

[[Page D539]]

                              Daily Digest


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S5393-S5435
Measures Introduced: Five bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1058-1062, and S. Con. Res. 32.
  Page S5424
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 1059, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2000 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed 
Forces. (S. Rept. No. 106-50)
  S. 1060, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2000 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces.
  S. 1061, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2000 for 
military construction.
  S. 1062, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2000 for defense 
activities of the Department of Energy.
Page S5424
Juvenile Justice: By unanimous-consent, the following amendments were 
proposed to S. 254, to reduce violent juvenile crime, promote 
accountability by rehabilitation of juvenile criminals, and punish and 
deter violent gang crime:
  Pages S5394-S5416
  Wellstone Amendment No. 356, to improve the juvenile delinquency 
prevention challenge grant program.
Pages S5398-S5400
  Sessions/Inhofe Amendment No. 357, relating to the placement of a 
disclaimer on materials produced, procured or disseminated as a result 
of funds made available under this Act.
Pages S5400-03
  Wellstone Amendment No. 358, to provide for additional mental health 
and student service providers.
Page S5403
  Sessions (for Ashcroft) Amendment No. 348, to encourage States to 
prosecute violent juveniles as adults for certain offenses involving 
firearms.
Pages S5409-12
  Wellstone Amendment No. 359, to limit the effects of domestic 
violence on the lives of children.
Pages S5412-14
  Hatch (for Santorum) Amendment No. 360, to encourage States to 
incarcerate individuals convicted of murder, rape, or child 
molestation.
Pages S5414-15
  Ashcroft Amendment No. 361, to provide for school safety and violence 
prevention and teacher liability protection measures.
Pages S5415-16
Y2K Act: Senate resumed consideration of a motion to proceed to the 
consideration of S. 96,to regulate commerce between and among the 
several States by providing for the orderly resolution of disputes 
arising out of computer-based problems related to processing data that 
includes a 2-digit expression of that year's date.
  Page S5394
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the motion to proceed to the bill on Tuesday, May 18, 
1999, and pursuant to the order of Friday, May 14, 1999, a vote on the 
motion to close further debate on the motion to proceed will occur at 
9:45 a.m.
Page S5435
Communications:
  Pages S5421-22
Petitions:
  Pages S5422-24
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S5424-25
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S5427-34
Notices of Hearings:
  Pages S5434-35
Additional Statements:
  Page S5435
Recess: Senate convened at 12 noon, and recessed at 5:46 p.m., until 
9:30 a.m., on Tuesday, May 18, 1999. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record 
on page S5435.)