[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 85 (Wednesday, June 16, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D669-D671]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                           Wednesday, June 16, 1999

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed Military Construction, Energy and Water 
      Development, and Legislative Branch Appropriations bills.
      Senate passed Work Incentives Improvement Act.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S7039-S7160
Measures Introduced: Seven bills were introduced as follows: S. 1224-
1230.                                                        
  Page S7127
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 342, to authorize appropriations for the National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration for fiscal years 2000, 2001, and 2002, with 
amendments. (S. Rept. No. 106-77)
  S. 607, reauthorize and amend the National Geologic Mapping Act of 
1992. (S. Rept. No. 106-78)                                  
Page S7127
Measures Passed:
  Military Construction Appropriations: By 97 yeas to 2 nays (Vote No. 
168), Senate passed S. 1205, making appropriations for military 
construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the 
Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000. 
                                               Pages S7039-44, S7061-64
  Work Incentives Improvement Act: By a unanimous vote of 99 yeas (Vote 
No. 169), Senate passed 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, after agreeing to 
the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, and the 
following amendment proposed thereto:          
  Pages S7044-61, S7064-78
  Roth Amendment No. 671, in the nature of substitute.   
Pages S7057-58
  Energy and Water Development Appropriations, FY2000: By 97 yeas to 2 
nays (Vote No. 172), Senate passed S. 1186, making appropriations for 
energy and water development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2000, after taking action on the following amendments proposed thereto:
                                                      Pages S7098-S7117
Adopted:
  Domenici Amendment No. 628, of a technical nature.     
Pages S7098-99
  Reid (for Levin) Amendment No. 637, to provide funds for development 
of technologies for control of zebra mussels and other aquatic nuisance 
species.                                                     
Page S7098
  Domenici (for Craig) Amendment No. 638, to provide that the Secretary 
of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, may use not to 
exceed $300,000 for expenses associated with the commemoration of the 
Lewis and Clark Bicentennial.                                
Page S7098
  Domenici (for Craig) Amendment No. 639, to make a technical 
correction providing construction funds for the Site Operations Center 
at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory. 
                                                             Page S7098
  Domenici Amendment No. 661, to clarify usage of Drought Emergency 
Assistance funds.                                            
Page S7098
  Reid (for Kerrey) Amendment No. 643, to provide that the Secretary of 
the Interior may provide $2,865,000 from funds appropriated herein for 
environmental restoration at Fort Kearny, Nebraska.          
Page S7098
  Reid (for Torricelli) Amendment No. 630, to strike the rescission of 
appropriations for the Hackensack Meadowlands flood control project, 
New Jersey.                                                  
Page S7098
  Domenici (for Santorum) Amendment No. 633, to strike the rescission 
of appropriations for the Lackawanna River project, Scranton, 
Pennsylvania.                                                
Page S7098
  Reid Amendment No. 672 (to Amendment No. 629), to provide funds for 
Boston College research in high temperature superconductivity. 
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  Reid Amendment No. 673 (to Amendment No. 631), to reduce the funding 
request from $4,000,000 to $1,500,000 for the Minnish Waterfront Park 
project, Passaic River, New Jersey.                          
                                                             Page S7098
  Domenici Amendment No. 674 (to Amendment No. 634), to provide funds 
for Lake St. Clair, Metro Beach, Michigan, section 206 project. 
                                                             Page S7098
  Reid Amendment No. 675 (to Amendment No. 642), to strike provisions 
relating to the results of a single-level appeal of jurisdictional 
determinations provided for under the Corps of Engineers Regulatory 
Program administrative appeals process.                      
                                                             Page S7098
  Domenici Amendment No. 676 (to Amendment No. 645), to provide for the 
use of Construction, General funding as directed in Public Law 105-62 
and Public Law 105-245 to initiate construction of an emergency outlet 
from Devils Lake, North Dakota, to the Sheyenne River.       
                                                             Page S7098
  Domenici (for Gorton) Amendment No. 677 (to Amendment No. 646), to 
limit the inclusion of costs of protection of, mitigation of damage to, 
and enhancement of fish, within rates charged by the Bonneville Power 
Administration, to the rate period in which the costs are incurred. 
                                                             Page S7099
  Domenici (for Bond/Ashcroft) Amendment No. 629, to make funds 
available for the University of Missouri research reactor project. 
                                                             Page S7098
  Reid (for Torricelli) Amendment No. 631, to provide funding for the 
Minnish Waterfront Park project, Passaic River, New Jersey. 
                                                             Page S7098
  Domenici (for Abraham) Amendment No. 634, to provide funding for 
water quality enhancement.                                   
                                                             Page S7098
  Reid (for Boxer) Amendment No. 642, to strike certain provisions 
relating to the use of certain funds appropriated herein to implement 
an administrative appeals process for the Corps of Engineers Regulatory 
Program, which administrative appeals process shall provide for a 
single-level appeal of jurisdictional determinations, the results of 
which shall be considered final agency action under the Administrative 
Procedures Act.                                              
                                                             Page S7098
  Domenici (for Gorton) Amendment No. 646, to prohibit the inclusion of 
costs of breaching or removing a dam that is part of the Federal 
Columbia River Power System within rates charged by the Bonneville 
Power Administration.                                    
                                                         Pages S7098-99
  Reid (for Dorgan) Amendment No. 645, to make a technical correction 
with respect to a Corps of Engineers project in the State of North 
Dakota.                                                      
                                                             Page S7098
  Reid (for Daschle) Amendment No. 678, to provide for continued 
funding of wildlife habitat mitigation for the Cheyenne River Sioux 
Tribe, Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, and State of South Dakota.   
                                                             Page S7099
  Reid (for Daschle) Amendment No. 679, to provide funds for the Lake 
Andes-Wagner/Marty II demonstration program.                 
                                                             Page S7099
  Reid Amendment No. 680, to provide funds for the Yellowstone River at 
Glendive, Montana flood control project.                     
                                                             Page S7099
  Domenici Amendment No. 681, to reduce the amount of funds from 
$1,113,227,000 to $1,086,586,000 which are provided for under 
Construction, General provisions with regard to river and harbor, flood 
control, shore protection, and related projects authorized by laws. 
                                                             Page S7099
                                                             Withdrawn:
  Jeffords Amendment No. 648, to increase funding for energy supply, 
research, and development activities relating to renewable energy 
sources, with an offset.                                 
                                                         Pages S7101-02
  During consideration of this measure today, the Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 60 yeas to 39 nays (Vote No. 171), Senate agreed to a motion to 
table the motion to appeal the ruling of the Chair that the motion to 
recommit the bill to the Committee on Appropriations, with instructions 
to report back forthwith, with Jeffords Amendment No. 682, to increase 
funding for energy supply, research, and development activities 
relating to renewable energy sources, with an offset, was ruled out of 
order.                                                   
                                                         Pages S7107-08
  Subsequently, the decision of the Chair was upheld.        
                                                             Page S7108
  Legislative Branch Appropriations, FY2000: By 95 yeas to 4 nays (Vote 
No. 173), Senate passed H.R. 1905, making appropriations for the 
Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, after 
striking certain provisions of the House bill and inserting in lieu 
thereof certain provisions of S. 1206, Senate companion measure, and 
after agreeing to the following amendments proposed thereto: 
                                                         Pages S7117-20
  Bennett (for Dodd) Amendment No. 683, to amend chapter 89 of title 5, 
United States Code, to modify service requirements relating to 
creditable service with congressional campaign committees. 
                                                         Pages S7118-19
  Bennett (for Feingold) Amendment No. 684, to further restrict 
legislative post-employment lobbying by Members and senior staffers. 
                                                         Pages S7118-19
  Senate insisted on its amendment, requested a conference with the 
House thereon, and the Chair was authorized to appoint the following 
conferees: Senators Bennett, Stevens, Craig, Cochran, Feinstein, 
Durbin, and Byrd.                                            
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  Subsequently, S. 1206 was indefinitely postponed.          
                                                             Page S7120
  J.J. ``Jake'' Pickle Federal Building: Senate passed S. 559, to 
designate the Federal building located at 33 East 8th Street in Austin, 
Texas, as the ``J.J. `Jake' Pickle Federal Building''.       
  Page S7159
Social Security and Medicare Safe Deposit Box Act: Senate resumed 
consideration of H.R. 1259, to amend the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974 to protect Social Security surpluses through strengthened 
budgetary enforcement mechanisms.                        
  Pages S7078-89
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 55 yeas to 44 nays (Vote No. 170), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
failed to agree to close further debate on H.R. 1259 (listed above). 
                                                             Page S7089
National Defense Authorization Act: Senate disagreed to the House 
amendment to 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, requested a conference with the House thereon, and the Chair 
appointed the following conferees: Senators Warner, Thurmond, McCain, 
Smith (of N.H.), Inhofe, Santorum, Snowe, Roberts, Allard, Hutchinson, 
Sessions, Levin, Kennedy, Bingaman, Byrd, Robb, Lieberman, Cleland, 
Landrieu, and Reed.                                          
  Page S7117
Y2K Act--Conferees: Senate insisted on its amendment to H.R. 775, to 
establish certain procedures for civil actions brought for damages 
relating to the failure of any device or system to process or otherwise 
deal with the transition from the year 1999 to the year 2000 (as passed 
by the Senate on June 15, 1999), requested a conference with the House 
thereon, and the Chair was authorized to appoint the following 
conferees: from the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: 
Senators McCain, Stevens, Burns, Gorton, Hollings, Kerry, and Wyden; 
from the Committee on the Judiciary: Senators Hatch, Thurmond, and 
Leahy; and from the Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology 
Problems: Senators Bennett and Dodd.                     
  Pages S7159-60
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  Thomas J. Erickson, of the District of Columbia, to be a Commissioner 
of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for the term expiring April 
13, 2003.
  1 Army nomination in the rank of general.
  1 Marine Corps nomination in the rank of general. 
                                                     Pages S7159, S7160
Messages From the House:                                     
  Page S7122
Measures Referred:                                           
  Page S7122
Communications:                                          
  Pages S7122-26
Petitions:                                               
  Pages S7126-27
Statements on Introduced Bills:                          
  Pages S7127-37
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S7138-39
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S7139-53
Notices of Hearings:                                     
  Pages S7153-54
Authority for Committees:                                    
  Page S7154
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S7154-58
Record Votes: Six record votes were taken today. (Total--173) 
                         Pages S7061, S7064, S7089, S7108, S7117, S7120
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m., and adjourned at 5:47 p.m., 
until 10 a.m. on Thursday, June 17, 1999. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S7160.)