[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 83 (Monday, June 14, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D656-D657]
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                                              Monday, June 14, 1999

[[Page D656]]

                              Daily Digest


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S6921-S6973
Measures Introduced: Four bills and six resolutions were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1217-1220, S. Res. 118-122, and S. Con. Res. 39. 
                                                         Pages S6944-45
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 1217, making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, 
Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2000. (S. Rept. No. 106-76)
Measures Passed:
  Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday: Senate passed S. 322, to amend title 
4, United States Code, to add the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday to the 
list of days on which the flag should especially be displayed. 
                                                         Pages S6971-72
  Agricultural Biotechnology: Senate agreed to S. Res. 120, requesting 
that the President raise the issue of agricultural biotechnology at the 
June G-8 Summit meeting.
  Page S6972
  Legal Representation: Senate agreed to S. Res. 121, to authorize 
testimony and legal representation in C. William Kaiser v. Department 
of Veterans Affairs.
  Page S6972
  Committee Funding Resolutions: Senate agreed to S. Res. 122, 
authorizing the reporting of committee funding resolutions for the 
period October 1, 1999 through February 28, 2001.
  Pages S6972-73
Energy and Water Development Appropriations, FY 2000: Senate began 
consideration of S. 1186, making appropriations for energy and water 
development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, taking 
action on the following amendments proposed thereto: 
                                        Pages S6923-29, S6939-40, S6942
Adopted:
  Domenici Amendment No. 625, of a technical nature.
Page S6924
  Domenici (for Schumer) Amendment No. 651, to provide that $100,000 of 
the funding appropriated herein for section 107 navigation projects may 
be used by the Corps of Engineers to produce a decision document, and, 
if favorable, signing a project cost sharing agreement with a non-
Federal project sponsor for the Rochester Harbor, New York (CSX Swing 
Bridge), project.
Page S6940
  Domenici (for Reid) Amendment No. 652, to provide that $500,000 of 
the funding appropriated herein is provided for the Walker River Basin, 
Nevada project, including not to exceed $200,000 for the Federal 
assessment team for the purpose of conducting a comprehensive study of 
Walker River Basin issues.
Page S6940
  Domenici (for Sarbanes/Mikulski) Amendment No. 653, to provide that 
the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, may 
use $1,500,000 of funding appropriated herein to initiate construction 
of shoreline protection measures at Assateague Island, Maryland. 
                                                             Page S6940
  Domenici (for Inouye) Amendment No. 654, to provide $2,000,000 for 
the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii, for the purpose of monitoring 
ocean climate change indicators.
Page S6940
  Domenici Amendment No. 655, to provide that $15,000,000, of which 
$10,000,000 shall be derived from reductions in contractor travel 
balances, shall be available for civilian research and development. 
                                                             Page S6940
  Domenici Amendment No. 656, to provide that $10,000,000 of the amount 
provided for stockpile stewardship shall be available to provide 
laboratory and facility capabilities in partnership with small 
businesses for either direct benefit to Weapons Activities or regional 
economic development.
Page S6940
  Domenici (for Hutchison) Amendment No. 657, to provide that the 
Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, shall use 
$100,000 of available funds to study the economic justification and 
environmental acceptability, in accordance with section 509(a) of 
Public Law 104-303, of maintaining the Matagorda Ship Channel, Point 
Comfort Turning Basin, Texas, project, and to use available funds to 
perform any required maintenance in fiscal year 2000 once the Secretary 
determines such maintenance is justified and acceptable as required by 
Public Law 104-303.
Page S6940
  Domenici (for Mack/Graham) Amendment No. 658, to reallocate funding 
of certain water resource projects in the State of Florida. 
                                                             Page S6940

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  Domenici (for McConnell) Amendment No. 659, to modify provisions 
relating to funds of the United States Enrichment Corporation. 
                                                             Page S6940
  Domenici (for Conrad/Dorgan) Amendment No. 660, to require the Corps 
of Engineers to conduct a general reevaluation report on the project 
for flood control, Park River, Grafton, North Dakota.
                                                             Page S6940
                                                               Pending:
  Domenici Amendment No. 628, of a technical nature.
                                                             Page S6928
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that when the 
Senate receives the House companion measure, the Senate strike all 
after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the text of S. 
1186, as passed, and the House bill, as amended, be read for a third 
time and passed, that the Senate insist on its amendment, request a 
conference with the House thereon, and the Chair be authorized to 
appoint conferees on the part of the Senate. Further, that upon passage 
of the House bill, passage of S. 1186 be vitiated and then be 
indefinitely postponed.
                                                             Page S6928
Social Security and Medicare Safe Deposit Box Act: Senate began 
consideration of H.R. 1259, to amend the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974 to protect Social Security surpluses through strengthened 
budgetary enforcement mechanisms.
  Page S6971
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the bill and, in 
accordance with the provisions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate, a vote on the cloture motion will occur on Wednesday, June 
16, 1999.
                                                             Page S6971
Work Incentives Improvement Act--Agreement: A unanimous-consent 
agreement was reached providing for the consideration of S. 331, to 
amend the Social Security Act to expand the availability of health care 
coverage for working individuals with disabilities, to establish a 
Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program in the Social Security 
Administration to provide such individuals with meaningful 
opportunities to work, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute 
to be proposed thereto and agreed to, and the Senate proceed to a vote 
on final passage at a time to be determined, on Tuesday, June 15, 1999. 
Further, that it not be in order for the Senate to consider any 
conference report or House amendment to S. 331, or its House companion 
if it contains a net increase in direct spending in fiscal year 2000, 
the period fiscal years 2000 through 2004, or the period fiscal years 
2005 through 2009, as estimated by the Congressional Budget Office. 
                                                             Page S6971
Messages From the House:
  Page S6945
Measures Placed on Calendar:
  Page S6945
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Page S6945
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S6945-47
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S6949-65
Notices of Hearings:
  Pages S6965-66
Additional Statements:
  Pages S6966-69
Adjournment: Senate convened at 12 noon, and adjourned at 6:48 p.m., 
until 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, June 15, 1999. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S6973.)