[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 41 (Wednesday, April 5, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D314-D315]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                           Wednesday, April 5, 2000

[[Page D314]]

                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      House committees ordered reported 12 sundry measures.
      The House passed H.R. 3660, Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act; H.R. 
      3671, Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Programs Improvements 
      Act.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S2145-S2267
Measures Introduced: Eleven bills and two resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 2357-2367, and S. Res. 281-282.
  Page S2233
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  Special Report of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the 
United States on the 2000 Economic Report of the President. (S. Rept. 
No. 106-255)
Page S2233
Measures Passed:
  Congratulating Michigan State University Men's Basketball Team: 
Senate agreed to S. Res. 281, to congratulate the Michigan State 
University Men's Basketball Team on winning the 2000 National 
Collegiate Athletic Association Men's Basketball Championship. 
                                                         Pages S2156-57
  Congratulating University of Connecticut Women's Basketball Team: 
Senate agreed to S. Res. 282, congratulating the Huskies of the 
University of Connecticut for winning the 2000 Women's Basketball 
Championship.
  Pages S2157-59, S2264
Congressional Budget Resolution: Senate continued consideration of S. 
Con. Res. 101, setting forth the congressional budget for the United 
States Government for fiscal years 2001 through 2005 and revising the 
budgetary levels for fiscal year 2000, taking action on the following 
amendments proposed thereto:
  Pages S2145-56, S2159-S2227, S2264-67
Adopted:
  By 99 yeas to 1 nay (Vote No. 53), Hutchison/Ashcroft Amendment No. 
2914, to express the sense of the Senate to provide for relief from the 
marriage penalty tax.
Pages S2145-56
  Domenici (for Johnson) Amendment No. 2928, to provide funding for 
certain health care programs for military retirees and their 
dependents.
Pages S2178-79
  Domenici (for Johnson) Amendment No. 2929 (to Amendment No. 2928), to 
limit the amount of the reserve fund for military retiree health care. 
                                                             Page S2179
Rejected:
  Bingaman Amendment No. 2926, to provide funding for certain education 
programs. (By 54 yeas to 46 nays (Vote No. 54), Senate tabled the 
amendment.)
Pages S2159-78, S2195-96
  Conrad Amendment No. 2935 (to Amendment No. 2906), to increase the 
amount of debt reduction contained in the resolution by $75 billion 
over 5 years. (By 52 yeas to 48 nays (Vote No. 55), Senate tabled the 
amendment.)
Pages S2190-95, S2196
Pending:
  Stevens Amendment No. 2931, to strike certain provisions relating to 
emergency designation spending point of order.
  Stevens Amendment No. 2932, to strike certain provisions relating to 
Congressional firewall for defense and non-defense spending.
  Byrd/Warner Amendment No. 2943, to express the sense of the Senate on 
the continued use of Federal fuel taxes for the construction and 
rehabilitation of our nation's highways, bridges, and transit systems. 
                                                      Pages S2197-S2206
  Roth Amendment No. 2955, to strike the revenue assumption for Arctic 
National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) receipts in fiscal year 2005. 
                                                         Pages S2206-22
  Robb Amendment No. 2965, to reduce revenue cuts by $5.9 billion over 
the next five years to help fund school modernization projects. 
                                                         Pages S2222-27
  Durbin Amendment No. 2953, to provide for debt reduction and to 
protect the Social Security Trust Fund.
Pages S2264-67

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  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 51 yeas to 49 nays (Vote No. 52), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected the motion to waive the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 with 
respect to consideration of Robb Amendment No. 2915 (to Amendment No. 
2914), to condition Senate consideration of any tax cut reconciliation 
legislation on previous enactment of legislation to provide an 
outpatient prescription drug benefit under the Medicare program that is 
consistent with Medicare reform. Subsequently, a point of order that 
the amendment was in violation of section 305(b)(2) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 was sustained, and the amendment thus 
fell.
Pages S2145-55
  By 16 yeas to 84 nays (Vote No. 56), three-fifths of those Senators 
duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, Senate 
rejected a motion to waive section 305 of the Congressional Budget Act 
of 1974 with respect to consideration of Allard/Enzi/Grams Amendment 
No. 2906, to protect social security and provide for repayment of the 
Federal debt. Subsequently, a point of order that the amendment was not 
germane to the provisions of the Budget Resolution was sustained, and 
the amendment thus fell.
Pages S2179-90, S2196-97
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the resolution on Thursday, April 6, 2000, and there 
be 8 hours and 30 minutes remaining on the resolution, with votes to 
occur on the pending Byrd/Warner Amendment No. 2943 (listed above), and 
the pending Roth Amendment No. 2955 (listed above), beginning at 10:30 
a.m.
Pages S2225, S2264
Messages From the President: Senate received the following message from 
the President of the United States:
  Transmitting the Department of Transportation's Biennial Report on 
Hazardous Materials Transportation; to the Committee on Commerce, 
Science, and Transportation. (PM-99)
Page S2232
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nomination:
  Jay A. Garcia-Gregory, of Puerto Rico, to be United States District 
Judge for the District of Puerto Rico vice Raymond L. Acosta, retired. 
                                                             Page S2267
Messages From the President:
  Pages S2231-32
Communications:
  Pages S2232-33
Petitions:
  Page S2233
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S2233
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S2234-49
Additional Cosponsors:
  Page S2249
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S2251-63
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S2263
Authority for Committees:
  Pages S2263-64
Additional Statements:
  Pages S2230-31
Privileges of the Floor:
  Page S2264
Record Votes: Five record votes were taken today. (Total--56) 
                                               Pages S2155-56, S2196-97
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:31 a.m., and adjourned at 10:33 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m., on Thursday, April 6, 2000. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S2264.)