[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 19 (Monday, February 28, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
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                                          Monday, February 28, 2000

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S837-S898
Measures Introduced: Six bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 2107-2112, and S. Res. 263.
  Page S867
Measures Passed:
  Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act 
Amendments: Senate passed S. 400, to provide technical corrections to 
the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 
1996, to improve the delivery of housing assistance to Indian tribes in 
a manner that recognizes the right of tribal self-governance, after 
agreeing to a committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, and 
the following amendment proposed thereto:
  Pages S895-98
  Coverdell (for Campbell) Amendment No. 2855, to ensure that laws or 
regulations relating to the payment of prevailing wages that are 
adopted by Indian tribes are not superseded by certain provisions of 
Federal law.
Pages S896-97
Affordable Education Act: Senate resumed consideration of S. 1134, to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow tax-free expenditures 
from education individual retirement accounts for elementary and 
secondary school expenses, and to increase the maximum annual amount of 
contributions to such accounts, taking action on the following 
amendment proposed thereto:
  Pages S847-62
Pending:
  Collins Amendment No. 2854, to eliminate the 2-percent floor on 
miscellaneous itemized deductions for qualified professional 
development expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers and to 
allow a credit against income tax to elementary and secondary school 
teachers who provide classroom materials.
Pages S860-62
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that all 
amendments be relevant to the subject matter of education and/or 
related to education taxes with the exception of a Wellstone amendment 
regarding a report on a TANF program.
Page S853
  A further unanimous consent agreement was reached providing that the 
cloture vote, scheduled for 3:30 p.m., on Tuesday, February 29, 2000, 
be vitiated.
Page S853
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill on Tuesday, February 29, 2000.
Page S898
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Nicholas G. Garaufis, of New York, to be United States District Judge 
for the Eastern District of New York vice Charles P. Sifton, retired.
  Gerard E. Lynch, of New York, to be a United States District Judge 
for the Southern District of New York vice John E. Sprizzo, retired.
  Daniel Marcus, of Maryland, to be Associate Attorney General. 
                                                              Page S898
Communications:
  Pages S865-67
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S867-70
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S870-71
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S872-92
Authority for Committees:
  Page S892
Additional Statements:
  Pages S892-95
Adjournment: Senate convened at 12:04 p.m., and adjourned at 5:01 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m., on Tuesday, February 29, 2000. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S898.)