[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 105 (Thursday, July 22, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D851-D854]
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                                                 Thursday, July 22, 1999

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed Commerce/Justice/State Appropriations bill.


                                 Senate

Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S8975-S9170
Measures Introduced: Seventeen bills and three resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 1412-1428, and S. Res. 159-161.                
  Pages S9072-73
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  Special Report entitled ``Further Revised Allocation To Subcommittees of 
Budget Totals for Fiscal Year 2000. (S. Rept. No. 106-118)
  Report to accompany S. 1386, to amend the Trade Act of 1974 to extend the 
authorization for trade adjustment assistance. (S. Rept. No. 106-119)
  S. Res. 159, authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Agriculture, 
Nutrition, and Forestry.
  S. 438, to provide for the settlement of the water rights claims of the 
Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy's Reservation.               
Page S9072
Measures Passed:
  Commerce/Justice/State Appropriations: Senate passed 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, after taking action on the following amendments proposed thereto: 
                                          Pages S8980, S8982-85, S8988-S9069
Adopted:
  Biden Amendment No. 1285, to provide additional funding for community 
oriented policing services.                                   
Pages S8989-99
  Lugar Amendment No. 1289, to appropriate funds for the National Endowment 
for Democracy and to offset such appropriations with a reduction in the 
Capital Investment Fund.                                      
Pages S9001-09
  Collins Amendment No. 1296, to express the sense of the Senate with regard 
to the Federal Communications Commission's report and order relating to 
numbering resource optimization to address the exhaustion of telephone area 
codes.                                                        
Pages S9014-15
  Hutchison Amendment No. 1297, to provide that any border patrol agent 
classified in a GS-1896 position who completes a 1-year period of service at 
a GS-9 grade and whose current rating of record is fully successful or 
higher shall be classified at a GS-11 grade and receive pay at the minimum 
rate of basic pay for a GS-11 position.                           
Page S9016
  Hutchison Amendment No. 1300, to provide that the Commissioner shall 
within 90 days develop a plan for coordinating and linking all relevant 
Immigration and Naturalization Service data bases with those of the Justice 
Department and other federal law enforcement agencies, to determine criminal 
history, fingerprint identification, and record of prior deportation. 
                                                                  Page S9016
  Enzi Amendment No. 1301, to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission 
from requiring persons to use any accounting method that does not conform to 
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. (By 45 yeas to 52 nays (Vote No. 
218), Senate earlier failed to table the amendment.)          
Pages S9020-24
  Harkin Amendment No. 1304, to provide $100,000,000 in Byrne grant funding 
offset by reducing funds for travel, supplies, and printing expenses in the 
bill by 5.8 percent and cutting funds for preliminary work on possible 
Supreme Court improvements.                                   
Pages S9028-29
  Boxer Amendment No. 1305, to prohibit the transfer of a firearm or 
ammunition to an intoxicated person.                          
Pages S9029-30
  Boxer Amendment No. 1306, to ensure that parties to the tuna convention 
pay their fair share of the expenses of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna 
Commission before they are allowed to export tuna to the United States. (By 
35 yeas to 61 nays (Vote No. 220), Senate earlier failed to table the 
amendment.)                                            
Pages S9030-33, S9047
  Gregg/Hollings Amendment No. 1308, to make certain improvements to the 
bill.                                                         
Pages S9033-34
  Gregg (for Domenici) Amendment No. 1309, to provide for security for 
certain federal personnel.                                    
Pages S9033-34
  Gregg (for Coverdell) Amendment No. 1310, to provide funds to carry out 
the drug-free workplace demonstration program.                
Pages S9033-36
  Gregg (for Stevens), Amendment No. 1311, to amend provisions relating to 
the implementation of the June 3, 1999 Agreement of the United States and 
Canada on the Treaty Between the Government

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of the United States of America and the Government of Canada Concerning 
Pacific Salmon.                                           
Pages S9033, S9036
  Gregg (for Stevens), Amendment No. 1312, to amend certain provisions for 
appropriations for costs associated with the implementation of the American 
Fisheries Act vessel documentation activities.            
Pages S9033, S9036
  Gregg (for Chafee), Amendment No. 1313, to provide funding for the 
Narragansett Bay cooperative study conducted by the Rhode Island Department 
of Environmental Management in cooperation with the Federal Government. 
                                                          Pages S9033, S9037
  Gregg (for Cochran), Amendment No. 1314, to provide funding for research 
in addictive disorders and their connection to youth violence. 
                                                          Pages S9033, S9037
  Gregg (for DeWine), Amendment No. 1315, to make an amendment with respect 
to the Crime Identification Technology Act of 1998.       
Pages S9033, S9037
  Gregg (for Grams), Amendment No. 1316, to credit reimbursements owed by 
the United Nations to the United States to reduce United States arrearages 
to the United Nations.                                    
Pages S9033, S9037
  Gregg Amendment No.1317, to provide that none of the funds appropriated or 
otherwise made available in this Act for the United Nations my be used by 
the United Nations for the promulgation or enforcement of any treaty, 
resolution, or regulation authorizing the United Nations, or any of its 
specialized agencies or affiliated organizations, to tax any aspect of the 
Internet.                                                 
Pages S9033, S9037
  Gregg/Hollings Amendment No. 1318, to revise certain provisions of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1953.                  
Pages S9033, S9037
  Gregg (for Ashcroft) Amendment No. 1319, expressing the sense of the 
Senate regarding Iran.                                    
Pages S9033, S9037
  Gregg (for Hatch) Amendment No. 1320, to provide additional funding for 
law enforcement programs regarding hate crimes.        
Pages S9033, S9037-38
  Gregg (for Snowe) Amendment No. 1321, to provide for the New England 
Fishery Management Council.                               
Pages S9033, S9038
  Gregg (for Hatch) Amendment No. 1322, to authorize a place for holding 
court in New York, to authorize the consolidation of clerks offices in West 
Virginia, and to direct the provision of space for a senior judge's chambers 
in Utah.                                                  
Pages S9033, S9038
  Hollings (for Kerry) Amendment No. 1323, to increase funding for Small 
Business Administration Microloan Technical Assistance.   
Pages S9033, S9038
  Hollings (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 1324, to enhance Federal enforcement 
of hate crimes.                                        
Pages S9033, S9038-44
  Hollings (for Graham) Amendment No. 1325, to provide for a study on older 
individuals and crime.                                    
Pages S9033, S9044
  Hollings (for Reed) Amendment No. 1326, to extend temporary protected 
status for certain nationals of Liberia.                  
Pages S9033, S9044
  Hollings (for Bryan) Amendment No. 1327, to express the sense of the 
Senate with respect to promoting travel and tourism.   
Pages S9033, S9044-45
  Hollings (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 1228, to study the benefits of 
establishing an electronic commerce extension program at the Department of 
Commerce.                                                 
Pages S9033, S9045
  Hollings (for Murray) Amendment No. 1329, to provide that, of the amounts 
provided, $6,000,000 shall be made available to Pacific Coastal tribes (as 
defined by the Secretary of Commerce) through the Department of Commerce, 
which shall allocate the funds to tribes in California and Oregon, and to 
tribes in Washington after consultation with the Washington State Salmon 
Recovery Funding Board.                                   
Pages S9033, S9045
  Hollings (for Boxer) Amendment No. 1330, to improve the process for 
deporting criminal aliens.                                
Pages S9033, S9045
  Hollings (for Dodd) Amendment No. 1331, to require Congressional 
notification prior to the sale of properties that have been used as U.S. 
embassies, U.S. Consulates or the residences of the U.S. Ambassador, Chief 
of Mission or Consuls General.                            
Pages S9033, S9045
  Hollings (for Torricelli) Amendment No. 1332, to earmark funds for a new 
truck safety initiative.                                  
Pages S9033, S9045
  Hollings (for Torricelli) Amendment No. 1333, to allow the City of Camden 
to retain funding from a fiscal year 1996 law enforcement grant. 
                                                       Pages S9033, S9045-46
  Hollings (for Feinstein) Amendment No. 1334, to amend the Federal Property 
and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to continue and extend authority for 
transfers to State and local governments of certain property for law 
enforcement, public safety, and emergency response purposes. 
                                                          Pages S9033, S9046
  Hollings (for Feinstein) Amendment No. 1335, to provide for expenses 
necessary to establish and implement the High Intensity Interstate Gang 
Activity Areas Program (including grants, contracts, cooperative agreements 
and other assistance).                                    
Pages S9033, S9046
  Gregg (for DeWine) Amendment No. 1336, to provide funding to the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to upgrade Great Lakes water gauging 
stations in order to ensure compliance with Year 2000 (Y2K) computer date 
processing requirements.                                  
Pages S9033, S9046
  Hollings (for Kerrey) Amendment No. 1337, to provide that the total amount 
appropriated not to exceed $550,000 shall be available to the Lincoln Action 
Program's Youth Violence Alternative Project.             
Pages S9033, S9046
  Hollings (for Kerrey) Amendment No. 1338, to provide that the total amount 
appropriated, not to

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exceed $1,000,000 shall be available to the TeamMates of Nebraska project. 
                                                          Pages S9033, S9046
  Hollings (for Schumer) Amendment No. 1339, to provide for an analysis by 
the Securities Exchange Commission of the effects of electronic 
communications networks and night trading on securities markets. 
                                                          Pages S9033, S9046
  Hollings (for Kohl) Amendment No. 1340, to provide funding for task forces 
coordinated by the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District 
of Wisconsin and the Western and Northern Districts of New York. 
                                                          Pages S9033, S9046
  Gregg (for Jeffords/Leahy) Amendment No. 1341, to allocate funds for 
Tibetan Exchange Program.                                 
Pages S9033, S9046
  Wellstone/Murray Amendment No. 1291, to amend title III of the Family 
Violence Prevention and Services Act and title IV of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 to limit the effects of domestic violence on 
the lives of children.                                 
Pages S9009-11, S9048
  Gregg (for Gorton) Amendment No. 1342, to express the sense of the Senate 
regarding the European Council noise rule affecting hushkitted and reengined 
aircraft.                                                     
Pages S9048-49
Rejected:
  By 43 yeas to 54 nays (Vote No. 217), Lautenberg Amendment No. 1302, to 
provide funds, from increases in the Department of Justice budget, for a 
media campaign to prevent alcohol consumption by individuals in the United 
States who have not attained the age of 21.            
Pages S9019-20, S9024
  Wellstone Amendment No. 1303, to clarify the treatment of juveniles and 
the mentally ill by the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995. (By 56 yeas to 
40 nays (Vote No. 219), Senate tabled the amendment.)         
Pages S9025-28
Withdrawn:
  Graham Amendment No. 1292, to clarify that nothing in the Act shall be 
construed to prevent the use of funds to recover Federal tobacco-related 
health costs from responsible third parties.                  
Pages S9011-13
  Landrieu Amendment No. 1307, to reduce amounts appropriated by the bill 
and make available funds for the international criminal tribunals for the 
former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.                                     
Page S9033
  Gregg Amendment No. 1272, to extend the Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund 
through fiscal year 2005.      
Pages S8980, S8982-83, S8988-89, S9013, S9048
  During consideration of this measure today, the following action also 
occurred:
  Senate agreed to a modification to Gregg/Hollings Amendment No. 1271, to 
make certain improvements to the bill, adopted on Wednesday, July 21, 1999. 
                                                              Pages S9047-48
  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. 1217, 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. 1217 be 
vitiated and then be indefinitely postponed.                  
Pages S9046-47
  Printing Authorization: Senate agreed to S. Res. 161, authorizes the 
printing of ``Memorial Tributes to John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr.''. 
                                                                  Page S9112
  Water Resources Development Authorization: Senate passed H.R. 1480, to 
provide for the conservation and development of water and related resources, 
to authorize the United States Army Corps of Engineers to construct various 
projects for improvements to rivers and harbors of the United States, after 
striking all after the enacting clause and inserting in lieu thereof the 
text of S. 507, Senate companion measure, as passed by the Senate on April 
19, 1999. Senate insisted on its amendment, requested a conference with the 
House thereon, and the Chair was authorized to appoint the following 
conferees on the part of the Senate: Senators Chafee, Warner, Smith (of 
N.H.), Voinovich, Baucus, Moynihan, and Boxer.                
  Pages S9112-28
Financial Services Modernization: Senate disagreed to the amendments of the 
House to S. 900, to enhance competition in the financial services industry 
by providing a prudential framework for the affiliation of banks, securities 
firms, and other financial service providers, requested a conference with 
the House thereon, and the Chair was authorized to appoint the following 
conferees on the part of the Senate: Senators Gramm, Shelby, Mack, Bennett, 
Grams, Allard, Enzi, Hagel, Santorum, Bunning, Crapo, Sarbanes, Dodd, Kerry, 
Bryan, Johnson, Reed, Schumer, Bayh, and Edwards.             
  Pages S9128-69
Juvenile Justice Agreement: Senate began consideration of the motion to 
proceed to the consideration of H.R. 1501, to amend the Omnibus Crime 
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide grants to ensure increased 
accountability for juvenile offenders; to amend the Juvenile Justice and 
Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to provide quality prevention programs 
and accountability programs relating to juvenile delinquency.     
  Page S9014
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the motion to proceed to 
the consideration of 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 Monday, July 26, 1999.                                   
Page S9014
  Subsequently, the motion to proceed was withdrawn.              
Page S9014
Enforcement of Rule 16/Agriculture Appropriations Agreement: A unanimous-
consent-time agreement was reached providing for the consideration of and 
final adoption of an original resolution (S. Res. 160) to restore 
enforcement of Rule 16, on Monday, July 26, 1999.                 
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  A further unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that when the 
Senate considers the agricultural disaster relief amendment to S. 1233, 
making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2000, that no Rule 16 point of order lie against the 
amendment, or amendments thereto, relating to the same subject.   
Page S9028
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations: Jeffrey 
Rush, Jr., of Virginia, to be Inspector General, Department of the Treasury.
                                                          Pages S9112, S9170
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations: my C. 
Achor, of Texas, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation 
for National and Community Service for a term expiring October 6, 2003.
  1 Army nomination in the rank of general.                       
Page S9170
Messages From the House:                                      
  Pages S9071-72
Measures Referred:                                                
  Page S9072
Executive Reports of Committees:                                  
  Page S9072
Statements on Introduced Bills:                               
  Pages S9073-93
Additional Cosponsors:                                        
  Pages S9093-94
Amendments Submitted:                                      
  Pages S9095-S9109
Notice of Hearings:                                               
  Page S9109
Authority for Committees:                                     
  Pages S9109-10
Additional Statements:                                        
  Pages S9110-12
Record Votes: Four record votes were taken today. (Total--220) 
                                                   Pages S9024, S9028, S9047
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 10:26 p.m., 
until 11 a.m., on Monday, July 26, 1999. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S9170.)