[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 5 (Monday, January 31, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D33-D34]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                           Monday, January 31, 2000

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S121-S165
Measures Introduced: Four bills and two resolutions were introduced, as 
follows: S. 2014-2017, and S. Res. 248-249.
  Page S149
Measures Passed:
  Legal Representation:  Senate agreed to S. Res. 249, to authorize 
testimony, document production, and legal representation in Thomas 
Dwyer v. City of Pittsburgh, et al.
  Page S165
Bankruptcy Reform Act: Senate resumed consideration of S. 625, to amend 
title 11, United States Code, taking action on the following amendments 
proposed thereto:
  Pages S135-38, S140-44
Withdrawn:
  Feingold Amendment No. 2747, to protect and preserve the American 
consumers' right to take their disputes with creditors to court. 
                                                          Pages S140-43
Pending:
  Wellstone Amendment No. 2537, to disallow claims of certain insured 
depository institutions.
Page S135
  Wellstone Amendment No. 2538, with respect to the disallowance of 
certain claims and to prohibit certain coercive debt collection 
practices.
Page S135
  Schumer/Durbin Amendment No. 2762, to modify the means test relating 
to safe harbor provisions.
Page S135
  Schumer Amendment No. 2763, to ensure that debts incurred as a result 
of clinic violence are nondischargeable.
Page S135
  Feingold Modified 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.
Page S135
  Senate will continue consideration of the bill and certain amendments 
on Tuesday, February 1, 2000.
Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act: Senate began consideration of the 
motion to proceed to the consideration of S. 1287, to provide for the 
storage of spent nuclear fuel pending completion of the nuclear waste 
repository.
  Page S139
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the motion to proceed 
to 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 Wednesday, February 2, 2000.
Page S139
  Subsequently, the motion to proceed was withdrawn.
Page S139
Removal of Injunction of Secrecy: The injunction of secrecy was removed 
from the following treaty:
  Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters With France 
(Treaty Doc. No. 106-17).
  The treaty was transmitted to the Senate today, considered as having 
been read for the first time, and referred, with accompanying papers, 
to the Committee on Foreign Relations and was ordered to be printed. 
                                                              Page S165
Messages From the President: Senate received the following message from 
the President of the United States:
  Transmitting the Report to the Congress on the Strategic Concept of 
NATO (PM-79).
Pages S147-48
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Nicholas P. Godici, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Commissioner of 
Patents and Trademarks.
  Richard Court Houseworth, of Arizona, to be a Member of the Board of 
Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
  Donna Tanoue, of Hawaii, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of 
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
  Scott O. Wright, of Missouri, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees 
of the Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation.
Page S165
Messages From the President:
  Pages S147-48
Messages From the House:
  Page S148
Communications:
  Pages S148-49
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S150-58
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S158-60
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S160

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Additional Statements:
  Pages S161-64
Adjournment: Senate convened at 12 noon, and adjourned at 4:44 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m., on Tuesday, February 1, 2000. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S165.)