[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 31 (Monday, March 20, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
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                                                  Monday, March 20, 2000

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate

Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S1441-S1471
Measures Introduced: Six bills and three resolutions were introduced, as 
follows: S. 2248-2253, S. Res. 274-275, and S. Con. Res. 96.
  Page S1461
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  Reported on Wednesday, March 15, during the adjournment:
  S. 2097, to authorize loan guarantees in order to facilitate access to 
local television broadcast signals in unserved and underserved areas, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 106-243) 
                                                                  Page S1461
Reported today:
  S. 408, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey a former Bureau 
of Land Management administrative site to the City of Carson City, Nevada, 
for use as a senior center. (S. Rept. No. 106-244)
  S. 1218, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to issue to the Landusky 
School District, without consideration, a patent for the surface and mineral 
estates of certain lots, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. 
(S. Rept. No. 106-245)
  S. 2251, to amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to improve crop insurance 
coverage, to provide agriculture producers with choices to manage risk.
  Report to accompany S.J. Res. 14, proposing an amendment to the 
Constitution of the United States authorizing Congress to prohibit the 
physical desecration of the flag of the United States. (S. Rept. No. 106-
246)
Page S1461
Measures Passed:
  Honoring Members of the AHEPA: Senate agreed to S. Con. Res. 96, 
recognizing and honoring the members of the American Hellenic Educational 
Progressive Association (AHEPA) who are being awarded the AHEPA Medal for 
Military Service for service in the Armed Forces of the United States. 
                                                              Pages S1470-71
Appointments:
  Russian Leadership Program Advisory Board: The Chair, on behalf of the 
President pro tempore, pursuant to Public Law 106-31, as amended by Public 
Law 106-113, appointed Senator Frist to the Russian Leadership Program 
Advisory Board.
  Page S1471
Messages from the President: Senate received the following message from the 
President of the United States:
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of the text of a proposed 
agreement between the United States and Bangladesh concerning the peaceful 
uses of nuclear energy; to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (PM-93) 
                                                                  Page S1471
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Gregory Robert Dahlberg, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of the Army.
  Bernard Daniel Rostker, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Defense for 
Personnel and Readiness.
  William A. Eaton, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of State 
(Administration), vice Patrick Francis Kennedy.
  Marc Grossman, of Virginia, to be Director General of the Foreign Service, 
vice Edward William Gnehm, Jr.
  John McAdam Mott, of the District of Columbia, to be an Associate Judge of 
the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for the term of fifteen 
years.
Page S1471
Messages From the President:
  Page S1456
Messages From the House:
  Pages S1456-57
Measures Referred:
  Page S1457
Communications:
  Pages S1457-59
Petitions:
  Pages S1459-61
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S1461-66
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S1466-68
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S1470
Additional Statements:
  Pages S1454-56
Adjournment: Senate convened at 12 noon, and adjourned at 4:20 p.m., until 
10 a.m., on Tuesday, March 21, 2000. (For Senate's program, see the remarks 
of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S1471.)