[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 162 (Tuesday, November 16, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1303-D1304]
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                                         Tuesday, November 16, 1999

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S14595-S14652
Measures Introduced: Sixteen bills were introduced, as follows: S. 
1921-1936.                                                  
  Page S14612
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 1928, to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish 
a medicare subvention demonstration project for veterans. (S. Rept. No. 
106-222).
  S. Res. 200, designating the week of February 14-20 as ``National 
Biotechnology Week'', with amendments.                      
Page S14612
Bankruptcy Reform Act: Senate continued consideration of S. 625, to 
amend title 11, United States Code, agreeing to committee amendments by 
unanimous consent, taking action on the following amendments proposed 
thereto:                                                
  Pages S14605-09
Adopted:
  Leahy Modified Amendment No. 2529, to save United States taxpayers 
$24,000,000 by eliminating the blanket mandate relating to the filing 
of tax returns.                                             
Page S14608
  Grassley (for Thurmond) Modified Amendment No. 2478, to provide for 
exclusive jurisdiction in Federal court for matters involving 
bankruptcy professional persons.                            
Page S14608
Pending:
  Feingold Amendment No. 2522, to provide for the expenses of long term 
care.                                                       
Page S14605
  Hatch/Torricelli Amendment No. 1729, to provide for domestic support 
obligations.                                                
Page S14605
  Wellstone Amendment No. 2537, to disallow claims of certain insured 
depository institutions.                                    
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  Wellstone Amendment No. 2538, with respect to the disallowance of 
certain claims and to prohibit certain coercive debt collection 
practices.                                                  
Page S14605
  Feinstein Amendment No. 1696, to limit the amount of credit extended 
under an open end consumer credit plan to persons under the age of 21. 
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  Feinstein Amendment No. 2755, to discourage indiscriminate extensions 
of credit and resulting consumer insolvency.                
Page S14605
  Schumer/Durbin Amendment No. 2759, with respect to national standards 
and homeowner home maintenance costs.                       
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  Schumer/Durbin Amendment No. 2762, to modify the means test relating 
to safe harbor provisions.                                  
Page S14605
  Schumer Amendment No. 2763, to ensure that debts incurred as a result 
of clinic violence are nondischargeable.                    
Page S14605
  Schumer Amendment No. 2764, to provide for greater accuracy in 
certain means testing.                                      
Page S14605
  Schumer Amendment No. 2765, to include certain dislocated workers' 
expenses in the debtor's monthly expenses.                  
Page S14605
  Dodd Amendment No. 2531, to protect certain education savings. 
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  Dodd Amendment No. 2753, to amend the Truth in Lending Act to provide 
for enhanced information regarding credit card balance payment terms 
and conditions, and to provide for enhanced reporting of credit card 
solicitations to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System 
and to Congress.                                            
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  Hatch/Dodd/Gregg Amendment No. 2536, to protect certain education 
savings.                                                    
Page S14605
  Feingold Amendment No. 2748, to provide for an exception to a 
limitation on an automatic stay under section 362(b) of title 11, 
United States Code, relating to evictions and similar proceedings to 
provide for the payment of rent that becomes due after the petition of 
a debtor is filed.                                          
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  Schumer/Santorum Amendment No. 2761, to improve disclosure of the 
annual percentage rate for purchases applicable to credit card 
accounts.                                                   
Page S14605
  Durbin Amendment No. 2659, to modify certain provisions relating to 
pre-bankruptcy financial counseling.                        
Page S14605
  Durbin Amendment No. 2661, to establish parameters for presuming that 
the filing of a case under chapter 7 of title 11, United States Code, 
does not constitute an abuse of that chapter.               
Page S14605
  Torricelli Amendment No. 2655, to provide for enhanced consumer 
credit protection.                                          
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  Wellstone Amendment No. 2752, to impose a moratorium on large 
agribusiness mergers and to establish a commission to review large 
agriculture mergers, concentration, and market power.       
Page S14605
  Moynihan Amendment No. 2663, to make certain improvements to the bill 
with respect to low-income debtors.                     
Pages S14605-08
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the Moynihan Amendment No. 2663 (listed above), with a 
vote to occur thereon.                                      
Page S14607
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill on Wednesday, November 17, 1999. 
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Appointment:
  Parents Advisory Council on Youth Drug Abuse: The Chair, on behalf of 
the Majority Leader, pursuant to Public Law 105-277, announced the 
appointment of Deborah C. Ball, of Georgia, to serve as a member of the 
Parents Advisory Council on Youth Drug Abuse for a three-year term. 
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Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting a periodic report relative to the national emergency 
with respect to Iran which was declared in Executive Order No. 12170; 
referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM-
74).                                                        
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  Transmitting the annual report of the Federal Labor Relations Board 
for fiscal year 1998; referred to the Committee on Governmental 
Affairs. (PM-75).                                       
Pages S14610-11
  Transmitting the annual report of the Railroad Retirement Board for 
fiscal year 1998; referred to the Committee on Health, Education, 
Labor, and Pensions. (PM-76).                               
Page S14611
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  W. Michael McCabe, of Pennsylvania, to be Deputy Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency.
  Jerome F. Kever, of Illinois, to be a Member of the Railroad 
Retirement Board for a term expiring August 28, 2003.
  Virgil M. Speakman, Jr., of Ohio, to be a Member of the Railroad 
Retirement Board for a term expiring August 28, 2004.
  Janie L. Jeffers, of Maryland, to be a Commissioner of the United 
States Parole Commission for a term of six years.
  Routine lists in the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy. 
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Messages From the President:                            
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Messages From the House:                                    
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Communications:                                         
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Petitions:                                                  
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Executive Reports of Committees:                            
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Statements on Introduced Bills:                         
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Additional Cosponsors:                                  
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Authority for Committees:                                   
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Additional Statements:                                  
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Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m., and adjourned at 6:15 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m., on Wednesday, November 17, 1999. (For Senate's 
program, see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's 
Record on page S14651.)