[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 74 (Thursday, May 20, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D561-D563]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                             Thursday, May 20, 1999

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate agreed to Emergency Supplemental Appropriation conference 
      report.
      Senate passed Juvenile Justice bill.
      House agreed to the Senate amendment to H.R. 4, Declaration of 
      Policy to Deploy a national Missile Defense--clearing the measure 
      for the President.
      House Committee ordered reported the Legislative appropriations 
      for Fiscal Year 2000.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S5633-S5785
Measures Introduced: Sixteen bills and one resolution were introduced, 
as follows: S. 1086-1101, and S. Res. 104.               
  Pages S5738-39
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 303, to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to enhance the 
ability of direct broadcast satellite and other multichannel video 
providers to compete effectively with cable television systems, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 106-51) 
                                                             Page S5738
Measures Passed:
  Juvenile Justice: By 73 yeas to 25 nays (Vote No. 140), Senate passed 
S. 254, to reduce violent juvenile crime, promote accountability by 
rehabilitation of juvenile criminals, and punish and deter violent gang 
crime, after taking action on the following amendments proposed 
thereto:                                    
  Pages S5633-42, S5683-S5732
Adopted:
  By 79 yeas to 21 nays (Vote No. 133), Lott (for Smith (of Oregon)/
Jeffords) Modified Amendment No. 366, to clarify provisions relating to 
pawn shops and special licensees.                        
Pages S5633-42
  By 51 yeas to 50 nays (Vote No. 134), Lautenberg/Kerrey Amendment No. 
362, to regulate the sale of firearms at gun shows.          
Page S5642
  By 75 yeas to 24 nays (Vote No. 137), Frist/Ashcroft Amendment No. 
355, to amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the 
Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 to authorize schools to apply appropriate 
discipline measures in cases where students have firearms. 
                                                         Pages S5684-91
  Harkin Amendment No. 368, to provide appropriate interventions and 
services to children who are removed from school, and to clarify 
Federal law with respect to reporting a crime committed by a child. 
                                                         Pages S5691-95
  Hatch (for Helms) Amendment No. 369, to amend the Gun-Free Schools 
Act of 1994 to require a local educational agency that receives funds 
under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to treat 
possession, on school property, of felonious quantities of illegal 
drugs the same as gun possession on such property.       
Pages S5700-02
  Hatch (for Harkin) Amendment No. 370, to amend section 10102 of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to enable local 
educational agencies to establish or expand school counseling programs.
                                                         Pages S5700-02
Rejected:
  By 41 yeas to 56 nays (Vote No. 138), Bond Modified Amendment No. 
345, to establish a commission to study the motion picture industry and 
make recommendations to Congress and the President to promote 
accountability in the motion picture industry in order to reduce 
juvenile access to violent, pornographic, or other harmful material in 
motion pictures.                               
Pages S5695-S5700, S5709
  By 48 yeas to 50 nays (Vote No. 139), Biden Amendment No. 371, to 
establish a 21st century community policing initiative. 
                                                         Pages S5702-09

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Note: The following amendment was incorporated into the Hatch/Leahy 
Amendment No. 363 (Managers' Package), which was adopted on Wednesday, 
May 19, 1999:
  Wellstone Amendment No. 356, to improve the juvenile delinquency 
prevention challenge grant program.
  Satellite Home Viewers Improvement Act: Senate passed H.R. 1554, to 
amend the provisions of title 17, United States Code, and the 
Communications Act of 1934, relating to copyright licensing and 
carriage of broadcast signals by satellite, after striking all after 
the enacting clause and inserting in lieu thereof, the text of S. 247, 
Senate companion measure, and after agreeing to the following 
amendments proposed thereto:                             
  Pages S5775-80
  Hatch (for McCain) Amendment No. 372, to enhance the ability of 
direct broadcast satellite and other multichannel video providers to 
compete effectively with cable television systems.           
Page S5778
  Hatch/Leahy Amendment No. 373 (to Amendment No. 372), to strike 
certain provisions amending title 17, United States Code.    
Page S5778
  Hatch/Leahy Amendment No. 374, to make certain technical and 
conforming amendments.                                       
Page S5778
  Hatch/Leahy Amendment No. 375, to modify the definition of unserved 
household, provide for a moratorium on copyright liability. 
                                                             Page S5778
  Subsequently, S. 247 was placed back on the Senate calendar. 
                                                             Page S5780
  Legal Representation Authorization: Senate agreed to S. Res. 104, to 
authorize testimony, production of documents, and legal representation 
in United States v. Nippon Miniature Bearing, Inc., et al.   
  Page S5780
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations--Conference Report: By 64 yeas to 
36 nays (Vote No. 136), Senate agreed to the conference report on H.R. 
1141, making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 1999.                               
  Pages S5643-82
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  A point of order was made that certain provisions of the conference 
report were in violation of Section 206 of H. Con. Res. 68, 
Congressional Budget Resolution and, by 70 yeas to 30 nays (Vote No. 
135), three fifths of those Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted 
in the affirmative, Senate agreed to a motion to waive the 
aforementioned section with respect to the consideration of the 
conference report.                                       
Pages S5655-59
Treaty Approved: The following treaty having passed through its various 
parliamentary stages, up to and including the presentation of the 
resolution of ratification, upon division, two-thirds of the Senators 
present and having voted in the affirmative, the resolution of 
ratification was agreed to:
  Amended Mines Protocol, with one reservation, nine understandings, 
and thirteen conditions. (Treaty Doc. 105-1A);           
Pages S5780-85
Department of Defense Authorization--Agreement: A unanimous-consent 
agreement was reached providing for the consideration of 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, on Monday, May 24, 
1999.                                                        
  Page S5785
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nomination:
  Gary L. Visscher, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Occupational 
Safety and Health Review Commission.              
Pages S5774-75, S5785
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Robert Clarke Brown, of Ohio, to be a Member of the Board of 
Directors of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority for a term 
expiring November 22, 2005. (Reappointment)
  James B. Lewis, of New Mexico, to be Director of the Office of 
Minority Economic Impact, Department of Energy.
  Lewis Andrew Sachs, of Connecticut, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
the Treasury.
  1 Department of Defense nomination in the rank of general and 
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.                       
Page S5785
Messages From the House:                                     
  Page S5736
Measures Referred:                                           
  Page S5736
Communications:                                          
  Pages S5736-37
Petitions:                                               
  Pages S5737-38
Executive Reports of Committees:                             
  Page S5738
Statements on Introduced Bills:                          
  Pages S5739-64
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S5764-65
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S5765-71
Authority for Committees:                                    
  Page S5771
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S5771-74
Record Votes: Eight record votes were taken today. (Total--140) 
                         Pages S5642, S5659, S5682, S5691, S5709, S5725
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 8:39 p.m., 
until 11 a.m., on Monday,

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May 24, 1999. (For Senate's program, see the remarks of the Acting 
Majority Leader in today's Record on page S5785.)