[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 22 (Thursday, March 2, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D151-D153]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                            Thursday, March 2, 2000

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed the Affordable Education Act.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S1045-S1157
Measures Introduced: Forty-three bills and five resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 2138-2180, S. Res. 265, and S. Con. Res. 88-
91.
  Pages S1117-18
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  Conference Report to accompany S. 376, to amend the Communications 
Satellite Act of 1962 to promote competition and privatization in 
satellite communications.
  S. 577, to provide for injunctive relief in Federal district court to 
enforce State laws relating to the interstate transportation of 
intoxicating liquor, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                             Page S1117
Measures Passed:
   Affordable Education Act: By 61 yeas to 37 nays (Vote No. 33), 
Senate passed 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, after 
taking action on the following amendments proposed thereto: 
                                                      Pages S1045-S1111
Adopted:
  By 54 yeas to 43 nays (Vote No. 22), Coverdell (for Mack/Hatch) 
Amendment No. 2827, to eliminate the marriage penalty in the reduction 
in permitted contributions to education individual retirement accounts.
                                                         Pages S1045-49
  By 59 yeas to 40 nays (Vote No. 24), Roth Amendment No. 2869, 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.
Pages S1049-54, S1068-70, S1111
  Subsequently, a unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing 
that certain technical corrections be made to Amendment No. 2869 
(listed above).
Page S1111
  Coverdell (for Hatch) Amendment No. 2824, to amend the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate the marriage penalty in the phaseout 
of the education loan interest deduction.
Pages S1082-83
  Coverdell (for Kerry) Amendment No. 2859, to exclude national service 
educational awards from the recipient's gross income.
Pages S1082-83
  Boxer Modified Amendment No. 2880, to require schools that receive 
Federal funding to notify parents of certain pesticide applications on 
school grounds.
Pages S1089-90, S1095-96
  Coverdell (for Roth) Amendment No. 2881, to provide for a Manager's 
amendment to the bill as amended by Senate Amendment number 2869 
(listed above).
Page S1096
  By 96 yeas to 1 nay (Vote No. 26), Coverdell Modified Amendment No. 
2874, to express the sense of the Senate on improving the learning 
environment by ensuring safe schools.
Pages S1071-72, S1097-98
  By 91 yeas to 7 nays (Vote No. 32), Durbin Amendment No. 2879, to 
provide for a reduction in school violence.
Pages S1083-85, S1101
Rejected:
  By 25 yeas to 73 nays (Vote No. 23), Graham Amendment No. 2870 (to 
Amendment No. 2869), to reinstate certain revenue raisers. 
                                               Pages S1049-54, S1068-70
  Dorgan Amendment No. 2871, to provide parents, taxpayers, and 
educators with useful, understandable school report cards. 
                                                  Pages S1054-57, S1070
  By 39 yeas to 60 nays (Vote No. 25), Kennedy Amendment No. 2872, to 
establish programs to enable States and local educational agencies to 
place a qualified teacher in every classroom. 
                                               Pages S1057-62, S1070-71
  By 49 yeas to 49 nays (Vote No. 28), upon reconsideration, Boxer 
Amendment No. 2873, to express

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the sense of the Senate on improving the learning environment by 
ensuring safe schools. (Earlier, the Chair incorrectly announced that 
by 49 yeas to 48 nays (Vote No. 27) the amendment was agreed to. 
Subsequently, the Chair then announced that by 49 yeas to 49 nays (Vote 
No. 27), the amendment was not agreed to. Senator Boxer then made a 
motion to reconsider the vote by which her amendment was agreed to/
rejected in the Senate.)
Pages S1062-68, S1071-72, S1098-99
  By 29 yeas to 69 nays (Vote No. 30), Wellstone Amendment No. 2878 (to 
Amendment No. 2876), to provide a limitation regarding the policy 
prohibiting social promotion.
Pages S1079-82, S1100
  By 30 yeas to 68 nays (Vote No. 31), Feinstein Amendment No. 2876, to 
provide for achievement standards and assessment of student performance 
in meeting the standards.
Pages S1073-82, S1100-01
Withdrawn:
  Landrieu Amendment No. 2867, to promote teacher and principal quality 
and professional development.
Pages S1090-92, S1095
  Kerry Amendment No. 2866, to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 
to provide scholarships for future teachers and loan forgiveness and 
cancellation.
Pages S1085-87, S1101
  Schumer Amendment No. 2868, to put teachers first by providing grants 
for master teacher programs.
Pages S1092-93, S1101
  During consideration of this measure, the Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 41 yeas to 57 nays (Vote No. 29), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected a motion to waive certain provisions of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 with respect to the consideration of Bingaman (for 
Kennedy) Amendment No. 2875, to increase funding for Federal Pell 
Grants. Subsequently, a point of order that the amendment was in 
violation of the Congressional Budget Act was sustained, and the 
amendment thus fell.
Pages S1072-73, S1098-S1100
  Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies: Senate agreed to S. Con. Res. 89, 
to establish the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies 
for the inauguration of the President-elect and Vice President-elect of 
the United States on January 20, 2001.
  Pages S1152-53
  Use of Rotunda: Inaugural Ceremonies: Senate agreed to S. Con. Res. 
90, to authorize the use of the rotunda of the Capitol by the Joint 
Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies in connection with the 
proceedings and ceremonies conducted for the inauguration of the 
President-elect and the Vice President-elect of the United States. 
                                                         Pages S1152-53
  Commending Florida State University Football Team: Senate agreed to 
S. Res. 265, commending the Florida State University football team for 
winning the 1999 Division 1-A collegiate football national 
championship.
  Pages S1153-54
  Clifford P. Hansen Federal Courthouse: Senate passed S. 1794, to 
designate the Federal courthouse at 145 East Simpson Avenue in Jackson, 
Wyoming, as the ``Clifford P. Hansen Federal Courthouse''.
  Page S1154
  Congratulating the Republic of Lithuania: Senate agreed to S. Con. 
Res. 91, congratulating the Republic of Lithuania on the tenth 
anniversary of the reestablishment of its independence from the rule of 
the former Soviet Union.
  Page S1156
  Arts Education Month: Committee on the Judiciary was discharged from 
further consideration of S. Res. 128, designating March 2000, as ``Arts 
Education Month'', and the resolution was then agreed to. 
                                                         Pages S1156-57
Orbit Bill--Conference Report: Senate agreed to the conference report 
on S. 376, to amend the Communications Satellite Act of 1962 to promote 
competition and privatization in satellite communications.
  Page S1155
FAA Authorization--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached 
providing authority for the conferees to file the conference report on 
H.R. 1000, Federal Aviation Administration Authorization, on Friday, 
March 3, 2000.
  Page S1153
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, a 6-month periodic report relative to 
the national emergency with respect to Iraq which was declared in 
Executive Order 12722 of August 2, 1990; to the Committee on Banking, 
Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM-88)
Page S1116
  Transmitting, pursuant to the Trade Act of 1974, the 2000 Trade 
Policy Agenda and the 1999 Annual Report on the Trade Agreements 
Program; to the Committee on Finance. (PM-89)
Page S1116
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Carlos Pascual, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to 
Ukraine.
  Sarah McCracken Fox, of New York to be a Member of the National Labor 
Relations Board for the term of five years expiring December 16, 2004, 
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which position she was appointed during the recess of the Senate from 
November 19, 1999, to January 24, 2000.
  Bonnie J. Campbell, of Iowa, to be United States Circuit Judge for 
the Eighth Circuit.
  Thomas P. Furey, of Oregon, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Nepal.
                                                             Page S1157
Messages From the President:
  Page S1116
Messages From the House:
  Page S1116
Measures Placed on Calendar:
  Page S1155
Communications:
  Pages S1116-17
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S1117
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S1118-27
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S1127-28
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S1131-49
Authority for Committees:
  Pages S1149-50
Additional Statements:
  Pages S1114-16
Enrolled Bills Presented:
  Page S1116
Record Votes: Twelve record votes were taken today. (Total--33) 
                           Pages S1048-49, S1070-71, S1098-S1101, S1104
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 9:50 p.m., 
until 12 noon, on Monday, March 6, 2000. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S1157.)