[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 119 (Tuesday, September 14, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D976-D979]
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                                        Tuesday, September 14, 1999

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                              Daily Digest


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S10793-10873
Measures Introduced: Two bills and three resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 1581-1582, S. Res. 183-184, and S. Con. Res. 56. 
                                                            Page S10852
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. 106-158) 
                                                            Page S10851
Measures Passed:
  FALN Terrorist Clemency: By 95 yeas to 2 nays (Vote No. 273), Senate 
passed S.J. Res. 33, deploring the actions of President Clinton 
regarding granting clemency to the Armed Forces of National Liberation 
(the FALN) terrorists, as modified. 
                          Pages S10801, S10804-07, S10809-13, S10815-18
Department of the Interior Appropriations: Senate continued 
consideration of H.R. 2466, making appropriations for the Department of 
the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 2000, taking action on the following amendments proposed thereto: 
                                 Pages S10793-S10801, S10820, S10828-47
Adopted:
  Gorton (for Dorgan) Amendment No. 1628, to make technical corrections 
to the National Forest-Dependent Rural Communities Economic 
Diversification Act of 1990.
Page S10828
  Gorton Amendment No. 1629, to make a technical correction to a U.S. 
Code cite.
Page S10828
  Gorton Amendment No. 1630, to provide for the Interstate 90 Land 
Exchange.
Pages S10828-29
  Gorton (for Kyl) Amendment No. 1631, to clarify that a Bureau-funded 
school may share a campus with a school that offers expanded grades and 
that is not a Bureau-funded school.
Pages S10828-29
  Gorton (for Reid) Amendment No. 1632, to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to convey certain land to Nye County, Nevada. 
                                                        Pages S10828-30
  Gorton (for Reid) Amendment No. 1633, to give the city of Mesquite, 
Nevada, the right to purchase at fair market value certain parcels of 
public land in the city.
Pages S10828, S10830
  Gorton (for Lugar) Amendment No. 1634, to provide for certain forest 
and rangeland renewable resources.
Pages S10828, S10830
  Gorton (for Murkowski) Amendment No. 1635, to prevent expenditure of 
funds that may be used to circumvent or contradict existing law and 
policy regarding the Federal government's energy efficiency programs. 
                                                   Pages S10828, S10830
  Gorton (for Breaux/Landrieu) Amendment No. 1636, to authorize the 
Fish and Wildlife Service to retain and use fees collected for certain 
damages caused to national wildlife refuge lands in Louisiana and Texas 
to assess and mitigate or restore the damaged resources, and monitor 
and study the recovery of such damaged resources. 
                                                   Pages S10828, S10830
  Gorton (for Collins) Modified Amendment No. 1613, expressing the 
sense of the Senate that the National Park Service should begin 
planning for the quadricentennial commemoration of the Saint Croix 
Island International Historic Site.
Pages S10830-32
  Gorton (for Hatch) Modified Amendment No. 1610, to ban the use of 
public funds for the study of decommissioning the Glen Canyon Dam or 
the draining of Lake Powell.
Pages S10830-32
  Gorton (for Murkowski) Modified Amendment No. 1601, to assist small 
exporters of certain animal products.
Pages S10830-32
  Gorton (for Murkowski) Modified Amendment No. 1600, making contingent 
funding plans.
Pages S10830-32
  Gorton (for Campbell) Modified Amendment No. 1595, to require the 
Forest Service to use appropriated or other funds to improve the 
control or eradication of pine beetles in the Rocky Mountain region of 
the United States.
Pages S10830-32
  Byrd (for Bryan/Reid) Modified Amendment No. 1587, to establish the 
scientific basis for noise standards applied to the Grand Canyon 
National Park.
Pages S10830-31
  Gorton (for Burns/Craig) Modified Amendment No. 1408, to prevent the 
physical reintroduction of grizzly bears into the Selway-Bitterroot 
Wilderness of Idaho and Montana in FY2000 and to allow for greater 
public involvement in the project.
Pages S10830-31
  Gorton (for Stevens) Amendment No. 1593, to provide for increased 
funding of certain programs of

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the Smithsonian Institution and the Indian Health Service. 
                                                        Pages S10830-31
  Byrd (for Durbin) Amendment No. 1371, to place a requirement on the 
use of funds for development of a resource management plan and for 
timber sales in the Shawnee National Forest, Illinois. 
                                                        Pages S10830-31
  Gorton/Levin/DeWine Amendment No. 1637, to provide funds to the U.S. 
Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Management account for grants under 
the Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Program and for spartina 
grass research.
Pages S10832-33, S10837
  Gorton (for Cochran) Amendment No. 1597, to provide an additional 
$4,000,000 for the National Endowment for the Humanities. 
                                                Pages S10832-33, S10836
  Gorton (for Bennett) Modified Amendment No. 1493, to provide 
additional funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. 
                                                        Pages S10832-35
  Gorton (for Lieberman) Modified Amendment No. 1362, to provide 
funding for the acquisition of the Weir Farm National Historic Site in 
Connecticut, with an offset.
Pages S10832-33
  Gorton (for Abraham) Modified Amendment No. 1367, to provide funding 
for facilities maintenance at Isle Royale National Park. 
                                                        Pages S10832-33
  Gorton (for Jeffords) Amendment No. 1638, to increase funding for 
weatherization assistance grants and state energy conservation grants, 
with an offset.
Pages S10832-33, S10837
  Gorton (for Crapo/Burns) Amendment No. 1639, to set aside funding for 
development of a habitat conservation plan for cold water fish in the 
States of Idaho and Montana.
Pages S10832-33, S10837
  Byrd (for Torricelli) Modified Amendment No. 1573, to provide funding 
for the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, with an 
offset.
Pages S10832-33, S10835
  Byrd (for Johnson) Modified Amendment No. 1575, to provide funding 
for tribally controlled colleges and universities. 
                                                Pages S10832-33, S10835
  Gorton (for Shelby) Modified Amendment No. 1578, to make funds 
available to the Secretary of the Interior to develop a pilot wildlife 
data system for the State of Alabama.
Pages S10832-33, S10835
  Byrd (for Inouye) Modified Amendment No. 1582, to provide funding for 
modifications to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, with an 
offset.
Pages S10832-33, S10835
  Byrd (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 1640, to increase funding for Post 
Secondary Schools funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. 
                                                Pages S10832-33, S10837
  Byrd (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 1641, to direct the Secretary of 
Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to increase the number of 
youth employed during the summer to accomplish conservation projects. 
                                             Pages S10832-33, S10837-38
  Byrd (for Kohl) Modified Amendment No. 1590, to provide that in 
return for a quit claim deed to a school building on the Lac Courte 
Oreilles Ojibwe Indian Reservation, the Secretary shall pay to U.K. 
Development, LLC the amount of $375,000 from the funds made available 
under the construction account of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. 
                                             Pages S10832-33, S10835-36
  Byrd (for Edwards) Modified Amendment No. 1592, to provide funds for 
the Forest Service to acquire lands at Lake Logan, North Carolina. 
                                                Pages S10832-33, S10836
  Gorton (for Abraham) Amendment No. 1642, to increase funding for 
payments in lieu of taxes, with offsets.
Pages S10832-33, S10838
  Gorton (for Murkowski) Amendment No. 1643, to provide funds for the 
land and water conservation fund stateside program, with offsets. 
                                             Pages S10832-33, S10838-40
  Gorton (for Stevens) Amendment No. 1644, to provide for increased 
funding of certain programs of the Smithsonian Institution and the 
Indian Health Service, with an offset for the National Park Service. 
                                                Pages S10832-33, S10840
  Byrd (for Levin) Modified Amendment No. 1606, to provide funding for 
the acquisition of new properties in Kenweenaw National Historic Park, 
Michigan, with an offset.
Pages S10832-33, S10836
  Gorton (for Collins/Snowe) Modified Amendment No. 1612, to make funds 
available for planning and development of interpretive sites for the 
quadricentennial commemoration of the Saint Croix Island International 
Historic Site, with an offset.
Pages S10832-33, S10836-37
  Byrd (for Feinstein) Modified Amendment No. 1615, to authorize the 
Forest Service to reimburse Harry Fray for the cost of his home, 
$143,406 (1997 dollars) destroyed by arson on June 21, 1990 in 
retaliation for his work with the Forest Service. 
                                                Pages S10832-33, S10837
  Byrd (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 1645, to make available funds for 
grants to municipal governments for cost-shared research projects in 
buildings, municipal processes, transportation and sustainable urban 
energy systems.
Pages S10832-33, S10840
  Byrd Amendment No. 1646, to provide funding for Wheeling National 
Heritage Area.
Pages S10832-33, S10840
  Gorton Amendment No. 1647, to provide funding for an environmental 
impact statement to be prepared by the Forest Service, as mandated by 
the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Pages S10832-33, S10840

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  Byrd (for Reid) Amendment No. 1648, to provide for a review of 
possible alternatives to the Weber Dam on the Walker River Paiute 
Reservation in Nevada.
Pages S10832-33, S10840
  Gorton (for Stevens) Amendment No. 1649, to provide funds for timber 
pipeline supply on the Tongass National Forest. 
                                                Pages S10832-33, S10840
  Gorton (for Lott) Amendment No. 1650, to set aside funding for a 
feasibility study on the preservation of certain Civil War battlefields 
along the Vicksburg Campaign Trail.
Pages S10832-33, S10840
  Gorton (for Grams/Wellstone) Amendment No. 1651, to provide for the 
conveyance of the Twin Cities Research Center. 
                                                Pages S10832-33, S10840
  Byrd (for Kerrey) Amendment No. 1652, to provide for the Boyer Chute 
National Wildlife Refuge land acquisition.
Pages S10832-33, S10840
  Gorton (for Bond) Amendment No. 1653, to make funds available for the 
Wilson's Creek National Battlefield.
Pages S10832-33, S10840
  Byrd (for Hollings) Amendment No. 1654, to make funds available for 
the acquisition of lands at Fort Sumter National Monument. 
                                                Pages S10832-33, S10840
  Gorton (for Abraham) Amendment No. 1655, to make funds available for 
the creation of a community development database at the Michigan State 
University.
Pages S10832-33, S10840
  Gorton (for Warner) Amendment No. 1656, to make funds available for 
certain water resources development programs.
Pages S10832-33, S10840
  Byrd (for Torricelli) Modified Amendment No. 1572, to provide funding 
to carry out the Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Act of 1978, with 
an offset.
Pages S10832-33, S10835
  Gorton Amendment No. 1657, to provide for certain reductions in 
budget authority for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000. 
                                             Pages S10832-33, S10840-41
  Gorton Amendment No. 1359, of a technical nature. 
                                                Pages S10832-33, S10841
Rejected:
  Bryan/Wyden Amendment No. 1623 (to Amendment No. 1588), to make 
available certain funds for survey and manage requirements of the 
Northwest Forest Plan Record of Decision. (By 54 yeas to 43 nays (Vote 
No. 272), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S10794-S10801
Pending:
  Gorton Amendment No. 1359, of a technical nature.
Page S10793
  Hutchison Amendment No. 1603, to prohibit the use of funds for the 
purpose of issuing a notice of rulemaking with respect to the valuation 
of crude oil for royalty purposes until September 30, 2000. 
                                                            Page S10793
  Bryan Amendment No. 1588, to make available certain funds, by 
reducing the subsidy for the below-cost timber program administered by 
the Forest Service and for the construction of logging roads in 
national forests, for other Forest Service programs including road 
maintenance, wildlife and fish habitat management, and for threatened, 
endangered, and sensitive species habitat management. 
                                                    Pages S10794-S10801
Transportation Appropriations: Senate began consideration of H.R. 2084, 
making appropriations for the Department of Transportation and related 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, taking action 
on the following amendments proposed thereto:
  Pages S10820-25, S10827
Adopted:
  Shelby Amendment No. 1624, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                            Page S10822
Pending:
  Wyden Amendment No. 1625, to make available funds for the 
investigation of unfair or deceptive practices and unfair methods of 
competition by air carriers, foreign air carriers, and ticket agents 
involving the failure to disclose information on the overbooking of 
flights.
Pages S10823-24
  Wyden Amendment No. 1626, to make available funds for the 
investigation of unfair or deceptive practices and unfair methods of 
competition by air carriers and foreign air carriers involving denying 
airline consumers access to information on the lowest fare available. 
                                                        Pages S10824-25
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill and pending amendments on Wednesday, 
September 15, 1999, with votes to occur thereon.
Page S10827
Appointments:
  Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance: The Chair, on 
behalf of the President pro tempore, pursuant to Public Law 99-498, 
reappointed Robert C. Khayat, of Mississippi, to the Advisory Committee 
on Student Financial Assistance for a term beginning October 1, 1999, 
and ending September 30, 2002.
  Page S10872
  Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention: 
The Chair, on behalf of the Majority Leader, after consultation with 
the Democratic Leader, pursuant to Public Law 93-415, as amended by 
Public Law 102-586, announced the appointment of Charles Sims, of 
Mississippi, to serve as a member of the Coordinating Council on 
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, vice William Keith Oubre. 
                                                            Page S10872
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:

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  Joshua Gotbaum, of New York, to be Controller, Office of Federal 
Financial Management, Office of Management and Budget.
  Joe Kendall, of Texas, to be a Member of the United States Sentencing 
Commission for a term expiring October 31, 2001.
  Michael O'Neill, of Maryland, to be a Member of the United States 
Sentencing Commission for a term expiring October 31, 2003.
  John R. Steer, of Virginia, to be a Member of the United States 
Sentencing Commission for the remainder of the term expiring October 
31, 1999.
  John R. Steer, of Virginia, to be a Member of the United States 
Sentencing Commission for a term expiring October 31, 2005.
  John Hollingsworth Sinclair, of Vermont, to be United States Marshal 
for the District of Vermont for the term of four years.
Page S10873
Messages From the House:
  Page S10850
Measures Referred:
  Pages S10850-51
Measures Placed on Calendar:
  Page S10851
Communications:
  Pages S10851-52
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Page S10852
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S10852-54
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S10856-70
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S10870
Authority for Committees:
  Page S10870
Additional Statements:
  Pages S10870-72
Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--273) 
                                                   Pages S10801, S10818
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 7:06 p.m., 
until 10 a.m., on Wednesday, September 15, 1999. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S10873.)