[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 109 (Thursday, July 29, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D885-D886]
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                                            Thursday, July 29, 1999

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S9651-S9883
Measures Introduced: Eleven bills were introduced, as follows: S. 1456-
1466.
  Pages S9743-44
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  Special Report entitled ``History, Jurisdiction, and a Summary of 
Activities of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources During the 
105th Congress''. (S. Rept. No. 106-127)
  S. 501, to address resource management issues in Glacier Bay National 
Park, Alaska, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. 
Rept. No. 106-128)
  S. 953, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain land 
in the State of South Dakota to the Terry Peak Ski Area, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 106-129)
  S. Res. 95, designating August 16, 1999, as ``National Airborne 
Day''.
  S. 1255, to protect consumers and promote electronic commerce by 
amending certain trademark infringement, dilution, and counterfeiting 
laws, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
Page S9743
Measures Passed:
  Congratulating the University of Maine Black Bears: Committee on the 
Judiciary was discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 164, 
congratulating the Black Bears of the University of Maine for winning 
the 1999 NCAA hockey championship, and the resolution was then agreed 
to.
  Page S9882
  Federal Maritime Commission Authorization: Committee on Commerce, 
Science, and Transportation was discharged from further consideration 
of H.R. 819, to authorize appropriations for the Federal Maritime 
Commission for fiscal years 2000 and 2001, and the bill was then 
passed, after striking all after the enacting clause and inserting in 
lieu thereof the text of S. 920, Senate companion measure, and agreeing 
to a committee amendment.
  Page S9882
  Subsequently, S. 920 was placed back on the calendar.
Page S9882
Budget Reconciliation: Senate continued consideration of S. 1429, to 
provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 104 of the concurrent 
resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2000, taking action on the 
following amendments proposed thereto:
  Pages S9651-S9737
Pending:
  Bingaman Amendment No. 1462, to express the sense of the Senate 
regarding investment in education.
Pages S9697-S9719
  Hutchison Modified Amendment No. 1472, to provide for the relief of 
the marriage tax penalty beginning in the year 2001.
Pages S9719-29
  Roth (for Grassley) Amendment No. 1388, making technical corrections 
to the Saver Act.
Pages S9729-30
  Roth (for Abraham) Amendment No. 1411, to provide that no Federal 
income tax shall be imposed on amounts received, and lands recovered, 
by Holocaust victims of their heirs.
Pages S9729-30
  Roth (for Sessions) Amendment No. 1412, to provide for the Collegiate 
Learning and Students Savings (CLASS) Act title.
Pages S9729-30
  Roth (for Collins/Coverdell) Modified Amendment No. 1446, to 
eliminate the 2-percent floor on miscellaneous itemized deductions for 
qualified professional development and incidental expenses of 
elementary and secondary school teachers.
Pages S9729-30
  Roth (for Abraham) Amendment No. 1455, to amend the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 to expand the deduction for computer donations to schools 
and to allow a tax credit for donated computers.
Pages S9729-30
Withdrawn:
  Breaux Amendment No. 1442, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                         Pages S9683-97
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 54 yeas to 46 nays (Vote No. 227), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected a motion to waive section 305(b)(2) of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 with respect to consideration of the Abraham 
Amendment No. 1398, to preserve and protect the surpluses of the social 
security trust

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funds by reaffirming the exclusion of receipts and disbursement from 
the budget, by setting a limit on the debt held by the public, and by 
amending the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to provide a process to 
reduce the limit on the debt held by the public. Subsequently, a point 
of order that the amendment was not germane to the bill was sustained, 
and the amendment thus fell.
Pages S9651-52
  By 42 yeas to 58 nays (Vote No. 228), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected a motion to waive section 305(b)(2) of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 with respect to consideration of the Baucus motion 
to recommit the bill to the Committee on Finance, with instructions to 
report back forthwith. Subsequently, a point of order that the motion 
was not germane to the bill was sustained, and the motion thus fell. 
                                                         Pages S9651-53
  By 46 yeas to 54 nays (Vote No. 229), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected a motion to waive section 305(b)(2) of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 with respect to consideration of the Robb Amendment 
No. 1401, to delay the effective dates of the provisions of, and 
amendments made by, the Act until the long-term solvency of social 
security and medicare programs is ensured. Subsequently, a point of 
order that the amendment was not germane to the bill was sustained, and 
the amendment thus fell.
Pages S9651, S9653
  By 46 yeas to 54 nays (Vote No. 230), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected a motion to waive section 305(b)(2) of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 with respect to consideration of the Gramm Amendment 
No. 1405, in the nature of a substitute. Subsequently, a point of order 
that the amendment was not germane to the bill was sustained, and the 
amendment thus fell.
Pages S9653-72, S9681-82
  By 45 yeas to 55 nays (Vote No. 231), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected a motion to waive section 305(b)(2) of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 with respect to consideration of the Kennedy motion 
to recommit to the Committee on Finance, with instructions to report 
back with an amendment to modernize and improve the Medicare program by 
providing a prescription drug benefit, by reducing or deferring certain 
new tax breaks. Subsequently, a point of order that the motion was not 
germane to the bill was sustained, and the motion thus fell. 
                                               Pages S9672-81, S9682-83
  A unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill and pending amendments, with votes to occur 
thereon, on Friday, July 30, 1999.
Page S9711
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for a further 
modification to Amendment No. 1472 (listed above) on Friday, July 30, 
1999.
Page S9729
Messages From the House:
  Page S9742
Communications:
  Pages S9742-43
Petitions:
  Page S9743
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S9743
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S9744-64
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S9764-65
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S9765-S9878
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S9878
Authority for Committees:
  Pages S9878-79
Additional Statements:
  Pages S9879-82
Record Votes: Five record votes were taken today. (Total--231) 
                                               Pages S9652-53, S9682-83
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 10:21 p.m., 
until 8:30 a.m., on Friday, July 30, 1999. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S9883.)