[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 126 (Friday, September 24, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1031-D1032]
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                                         Friday, September 24, 1999

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed VA-HUD Appropriations.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S11379-S11454
Measures Introduced: Nine bills and four resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 1633-1641, and S. Res. 185-188.              
  Page S11430
Measures Passed:
  VA-HUD Appropriations: Senate passed H.R. 2684, making appropriations 
for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban 
Development, and for sundry independent agencies, commissions, 
corporations and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, 
after taking action on the following amendments proposed thereto: 
                                                    Pages S11379-S11420
Adopted:
  By 76 yeas to 18 nays (Vote No. 292), Wellstone Amendment No. 1789, 
to express the sense of the Senate that lung cancer, colon cancer, and 
brain and central nervous system cancer should be presumed to be 
service-connected disabilities as radiogenic diseases. 
                                                        Pages S11379-80
  Kerry/Bond Modified Amendment No. 1756, to provide for an increase in 
assistance for additional public and subsidized housing units for low 
income families, and to provide for an increase in assistance for 
housing opportunities for persons with AIDS.            
Pages S11383-84
  Robb Amendment No. 1791, to express the Sense of the Senate that the 
decline in funding for aeronautics research and development should be 
reversed.                                               
Pages S11402-05
  Mikulski (for Feinstein) Amendment No. 1792, to improve the 
regulation of underground storage tanks.                
Pages S11405-06
  Stevens (for Smith of Oregon) Amendment No. 1793, to extend the 
comment period on the proposed rules related to section 303(d) of the 
Clean Water Act from October 22, 1999, for a period of not less than 90 
additional calendar days.                               
Pages S11405-06
  Mikulski (for Breaux) Amendment No. 1794, to authorize funds for 
fiscal year 2000 for the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and 
Restoration Act.                                        
Pages S11405-06
  Stevens (for Chafee) Amendment No. 1795, to restore funding for the 
Montreal Protocol Fund, with an offset.                 
Pages S11405-06
  Stevens (for Gramm) Amendment No. 1796, to provide sufficient fiscal 
year 2000 funding for the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise 
Oversight to ensure adequate oversight of government sponsored 
enterprises.                                            
Pages S11405-06
  Mikulski (for Dodd/Bennett) Amendment No. 1797, to provide assistance 
for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to carry out a Year 2000 
conversion local government emergency grant and loan program for the 
purpose of providing emergency funds for counties and local governments 
facing Year 2000 conversion failures.                   
Pages S11405-07
  Stevens (for Bond/Lautenberg) Amendment No. 1798, to provide a 
technical correction to certain provisions relating to the prohibition 
on funds being used for lobbying.                  
Pages S11405, S11407
  Stevens (for Bond) Amendment No. 1799, to prohibit the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development from reducing the staffing level at any 
HUD State or local office.                         
Pages S11405, S11407
  Stevens (for Hutchison) Amendment No. 1800, to require the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to submit to the 
Senate a report on certain matters of concern before promulgating 
stormwater regulations.                            
Pages S11405, S11407
  Stevens (for Coverdell) Amendment No. 1801, to provide that any 
assistance made available to teachers in purchasing HUD owned housing 
in economically distressed areas does not discriminate between private 
and public elementary and secondary school

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teachers and thus provides assistance to both on an equal basis. 
                                                   Pages S11405, S11407
  Stevens (for Craig) Amendment No. 1802, to delay promulgation of 
regulations of the Environmental Protection Agency requiring the 
payment of pesticide tolerance fees.               
Pages S11405, S11407
Withdrawn:
  Kerry Amendment No. 1761, to provide funding for incremental section 
8 vouchers under section 558 of the Quality Housing and Work 
Responsibility Act of 1998.                             
Pages S11384-94
  Daschle Amendment No. 1790, to express the sense of the Senate 
regarding education funding.                
Pages S11394-S11402, S11405
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By unanimous consent, Senate vitiated the September 22, 1999 adoption 
of DeWine Amendment No. 1782, to prohibit the use of funds by the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the establishment at 
any field center of a research capability that would duplicate a 
research capability that exists at another field center. Subsequently, 
the amendment was withdrawn.                                
Page S11394
  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 Bond, Burns, Shelby, 
Craig, Hutchison, Kyl, Stevens, Mikulski, Leahy, Lautenberg, Harkin, 
Byrd, and Inouye.                                           
Page S11419
  FAA Authorization: Senate passed S. 1637, to extend through the end 
of the current fiscal year certain expiring Federal Aviation 
Administration authorizations.                          
  Pages S11451-52
  National Survivors for Prevention of Suicide Day: Senate agreed to S. 
Res. 99, designating November 20, 1999, as ``National Survivors for 
Prevention of Suicide Day''.                                
  Page S11452
Education Funding Resolutions--Agreement: A unanimous-consent-time 
agreement was reached providing for the consideration of S. Res. 186, 
expressing the sense of the Senate regarding reauthorizing the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and S. Res. 187, to 
express the sense of the Senate regarding education funding, on Monday, 
September 27, 1999 at 3:30 p.m., with votes on or in relation to the 
resolutions to begin at 5:30 p.m.                           
  Page S11405
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  1 Department of Defense nomination in the rank of general.
  1 Navy nomination in the rank of admiral.
  Routine lists in the Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy. 
                                                   Pages S11451, S11454
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  A. J. Eggenberger, of Montana, to be a Member of the Defense Nuclear 
Facilities Safety Board for a term expiring October 18, 2003.
  Jessie M. Roberson, of Alabama, to be a Member of the Defense Nuclear 
Facilities Safety Board for a term expiring October 18, 2002. 
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Messages From the House                                     
  Page S11429
Measures Placed on Calendar:                                
  Page S11429
Communications:                                         
  Pages S11429-30
Executive Reports of Committees:                            
  Page S11430
Statements on Introduced Bills:                         
  Pages S11430-41
Additional Cosponsors:                                      
  Page S11441
Amendments Submitted:                                   
  Pages S11444-45
Authority for Committees:                                   
  Page S11445
Additional Statements:                                  
  Pages S11445-51
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--292) 
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Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 2:09 p.m., 
until 12 noon, on Monday, September 27, 1999. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S11452.)