[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 26 (Thursday, March 9, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D185-D187]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                            Thursday, March 9, 2000

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate confirmed the nominations of Marsha Berzon and Richard 
      Paez, of California, each to be a United States Circuit Judge for 
      the Ninth Circuit.
      House committee ordered reported the Emergency Supplemental 
      Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2000.
      The House passed H.R. 3081, Small Business Tax Fairness Act.
      The House agreed to the conference report on S. 376, Open-market 
      Reorganization for the Betterment of International 
      Telecommunications (ORBIT) Act.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S1335-S1439
Measures Introduced: Twenty-three bills and ten resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 2225-2247, S. Res. 267-273, and S. Con. Res. 
93-95.                                                   
  Pages S1391-92
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 2042, to reform the process by which the Office of the Pardon 
Attorney investigates and reviews potential exercises of executive 
clemency, with amendments. (S. Rept. No. 106-231)
  S. 397, to authorize the Secretary of Energy to establish a 
multiagency program in support of the Materials Corridor Partnership 
Initiative to promote energy efficient, environmentally sound economic 
development along the border with Mexico through the research, 
development, and use of new materials, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 106-232)
  S. 503, designating certain land in the San Isabel National Forest in 
the State of Colorado as the ``Spanish Peaks Wilderness'', with an 
amendment. (S. Rept. No. 106-233)
  S. 1694, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study 
on the reclamation and reuse of water and wastewater in the State of 
Hawaii, with an amendment. (S. Rept. No. 106-234)
  S. 1167, to amend the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and 
Conservation Act to provide for expanding the scope of the Independent 
Scientific Review Panel, with an amendment. (S. Rept. No. 106-235)
  H.R. 150, to amend the Act popularly known as the Recreation and 
Public Purposes Act to authorize disposal of certain public lands or 
national forest lands to local education agencies for use for 
elementary or secondary schools, including public charter schools, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 106-236)
  H.R. 150, to amend the Act popularly known as the Recreation and 
Public Purposes Act to authorize disposal of certain public lands or 
national forest lands to local education agencies for use for 
elementary or secondary schools, including public charter schools, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 106-236)
  H.R. 834, to extend the authorization for the National Historic 
Preservation Fund, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. 
Rept. No. 106-237)
  H.R. 1231, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain 
National Forest lands to Elko County, Nevada, for continued use as a 
cemetery. (S. Rept. No. 106-238)
  H.R. 1444, to authorize the Secretary of the Army to develop and 
implement projects for fish screens, fish passage devices, and other 
similar measures to mitigate adverse impacts associated with irrigation 
system water diversions by local governmental entities in the States of 
Oregon, Washington, Montana, and Idaho, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 106-239)

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  H.R. 2368, to assist in the resettlement and relocation of the people 
of Bikini Atoll by amending the terms of the trust fund established 
during the United States administration of the Trust Territory of the 
Pacific Islands. (S. Rept. No. 106-240)
  H.R. 2862, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to release 
reversionary interests held by the United States in certain parcels of 
land in Washington County, Utah, to facilitate an anticipated land 
exchange. (S. Rept. No. 106-241)
  H.R. 2863, to clarify the legal effect on the United States of the 
acquisition of a parcel of land in the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve in the 
State of Utah. (S. Rept. No. 106-242)
  S. Res. 87, commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the International 
Visitors Program.
  S. Res. 258, designating the week beginning March 12, 2000 as 
``National Safe Place Week''.
  S. Res. 263, expressing the sense of the Senate that the President 
should communicate to the members of the Organization of Petroleum 
Exporting Countries (``OPEC'') cartel and non-OPEC countries that 
participate in the cartel of crude oil producing countries, before the 
meeting of the OPEC nations in March 2000, the position of the United 
States in favor of increasing world crude oil supplies so as to achieve 
stable crude oil prices, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute.
  S. Res. 267, An original executive resolution directing the return of 
certain treaties to the President.
  S. Res. 270, designating the week beginning March 11, 2000, as 
``National Girl Scout Week''.
  S. 1796, to modify the enforcement of certain anti-terrorism 
judgments.
  S.J. Res. 39, recognizing the 50th anniversary of the Korean War and 
the service by members of the Armed Forces during such war.
  S. Con. Res. 87, commending the Holy See for making significant 
contributions to international peace and human rights, and objecting to 
efforts to expel the Holy See from the United Nations by removing the 
Holy See's Permanent Observer status in the United Nations. 
                                                         Pages S1390-91
Measures Passed:
  Adjournment Resolution: Senate agreed to S. Con. Res. 94, providing 
for a conditional adjournment or recess of the Senate.       
  Page S1371
  National Greek Independence Day: Senate agreed to S. Res. 251, 
designating March 25, 2000, as ``Greek Independence Day: A National Day 
of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy''.            
  Page S1430
  National Girl Scout Week: Senate agreed to S. Res. 273, designating 
the week beginning March 11, 2000, as ``National Girl Scout Week''. 
                                                         Pages S1430-31
   National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Establishment Act Amendments: 
Senate passed S. 1653, to reauthorize and amend the National Fish and 
Wildlife Foundation Establishment Act.                   
  Pages S1431-34
  National Safe Place Week: Senate agreed to S. Res. 258, designating 
the week beginning March 12, 2000 as ``National Safe Place Week''. 
                                                             Page S1434
  Recognizing Tibetan People's Plight: Committee on the Judiciary was 
discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 60, recognizing the 
plight of the Tibetan people on the forty-first anniversary of Tibet's 
1959 Lhasa uprising and calling for serious negotiations between China 
and the Dalai Lama to achieve a peaceful solution to the situation in 
Tibet, and the resolution was agreed to, after agreeing to the 
following amendment proposed thereto:                    
  Pages S1434-36
  Grams (for Mack/Feinstein) Amendment No. 2884, in the nature of a 
substitute.                                                  
Page S1436
  Halabja Massacre 12th Anniversary: Senate agreed to S. Con. Res. 95, 
commemorating the twelfth anniversary of the Halabja massacre. 
                                                         Pages S1436-37
  Korean War's 50th Anniversary: Senate passed S.J. Res. 39, 
recognizing the 50th anniversary of the Korean War and the service by 
members of the Armed Forces during such war.                 
  Page S1437
Measures Indefinitely Postponed:
  National Girl Scout Week: S. Res. 270, designating the week beginning 
March 11, 2000, as ``National Girl Scout Week''.             
  Page S1431
Social Security Earnings Test Elimination: A unanimous-consent-time 
agreement was reached providing for consideration of H.R. 5, to amend 
title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the earnings test for 
individuals who have attained retirement age, on Tuesday, March 21, 
2000, at 2:15 p.m., with certain amendments to be proposed, with a vote 
to occur thereon.                                        
  Pages S1429-30
Authority for Committees: All committees were authorized to file 
legislative reports during the adjournment of the Senate on Wednesday, 
March 15, 2000, from 12 Noon until 2 p.m.                    
  Page S1436
Executive Session: During today's executive session, the Senate also 
took the following action:
  By 31 yeas to 67 nays (Vote No. EX. 39), Senate rejected the motion 
to postpone indefinitely the

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nomination of Richard A. Paez, of California, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit.                     
Pages S1336-68
Messages From the President: Senate received the following message from 
the President of the United States:
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, a report entitled the ``Twenty-Seventh 
Annual Report of the President on Federal Advisory Committees''; to the 
Committee on Governmental Affairs. (PM-92)                   
Page S1389
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  By 64 yeas 34 nays (Vote No. EX. 38), Marsha L. Berzon, of 
California, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit. 
                                                  Pages S1336-68, S1439
  By 59 yeas 39 nays (Vote No. EX. 40), Richard A. Paez, of California, 
to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit. 
                                                  Pages S1336-68, S1439
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Madelyn R. Creedon, of Indiana, to be Deputy Administrator for 
Defense Programs, National Nuclear Security Administration. (New 
Position)
  S. David Fineman, of Pennsylvania, to be United States District Judge 
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
  Mary A. McLaughlin, of Pennsylvania, to be United States District 
Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
  W. Robert Pearson, of Tennessee, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Turkey.
  2 Air Force nominations in the rank of general.
  Routine lists in the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, and Navy. 
                                                         Pages S1437-39
Messages From the President:                                 
  Page S1389
Messages From the House:                                     
  Page S1389
Measures Referred:                                       
  Pages S1389-90
Communications:                                              
  Page S1390
Executive Reports of Committees:                             
  Page S1391
Statements on Introduced Bills:                       
  Pages S1392-S1421
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S1421-22
Amendments Submitted:                                        
  Page S1428
Notices of Hearings:                                         
  Page S1428
Authority for Committees:                                
  Pages S1428-29
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S1385-89
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total--40) 
                                                             Page S1368
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned, pursuant to 
the provisions of S. Con. Res. 94, at 6:22 p.m., until 12 noon, on 
Monday, March 20, 2000. (For Senate's program, see the remarks of the 
Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S1437.)