[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 70 (Thursday, June 8, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D558-D561]
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                                             Thursday, June 8, 2000

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                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S4721-S4911
Measures Introduced: Seventeen bills and one resolution were 
introduced, as follows: S. 2693-2709, and S.J. Res. 48.
  Page S4820
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 2406, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide 
permanent authority for entry into the United States of certain 
religious workers.
Page S4820
Measures Passed:
  Harry S Truman Federal Building: H.R. 3639, to designate the Federal 
building located at 2201 C Street, Northwest, in the District of 
Columbia, currently headquarters for the Department of State, as the 
``Harry S Truman Federal Building'', clearing the measure for the 
President.
  Pages S4908-09
  Indian Land: H.R. 2484, to provide that land which is owned by the 
Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of Minnesota but which is not 
held in trust by the United States for the Community may be leased or 
transferred by the Community without further approval by the United 
States, clearing the measure for the President.
  Page S4909
  Indian Land: H.R. 1953, to authorize leases for terms not to exceed 
99 years on land held in trust for the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla 
Indians and the Guidiville Band of Pomo Indians of the Guidiville 
Indian Rancheria, clearing the measure for the President.
  Page S4909
National Defense Authorization: Senate continued consideration of S. 
2549, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2001 for military 
activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and 
for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, taking 
action on the following amendments proposed thereto: 
                                                      Pages S4721-S4809
Adopted:
  Wellstone Amendment No. 3264, to require the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services to report to Congress on the extent and severity of 
child poverty.
Pages S4765-67
  Warner (for Snowe/Kennedy) Amendment No. 3216, to ensure that 
obligations to make payments under the CVN-69 contract for a fiscal 
year after fiscal year 2001 is subject to the availability of 
appropriations.
Pages S4732-33
  Warner Amendment No. 3217, to repeal authorities to delay pay days at 
the end of fiscal year 2000.
Page S4733
  Levin (for Robb) Amendment No. 3218, to require a report on the 
Defense Travel System and to limit the use of funds for the system. 
                                                             Page S4733
  Warner/Robb Amendment No. 3219, to modify authority to carry out a 
fiscal year 1990 military construction project relating to Portsmouth 
Naval Hospital, Virginia.
Page S4733
  Warner Amendment No. 3220, to authorize the payment of $7,975 for a 
fine for environmental permit violations at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. 
                                                         Pages S4733-34
  Warner Amendment No. 3221, to strike section 344, relating to a 
modification of authority for indemnification of transferees of closing 
defense property.
Page S4734
  Warner Amendment No. 3222, to make certain technical corrections. 
                                                             Page S4734
  Warner Amendment No. 3223, to provide for future-years nuclear 
security plan.
Page S4734
  Warner Amendment No. 3224, to strike certain provisions relating to 
interim storage activities.
Page S4734
  Warner Amendment No. 3225, of a technical nature.
Page S4734
  Levin (for Cleland) Amendment No. 3226, to enhance and improve 
educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill in order to enhance 
recruitment and retention of members of the Armed Forces. 
                                                         Pages S4734-35
  Levin (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 3227, to strike section 553(c) 
which repeals authority regarding grants and contracts to uncooperative 
institutions of higher education.
Pages S4735-36

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  Warner (for McCain) Amendment No. 3228, to amend titles 10 and 38, 
United States Code, to strengthen the financial security of families of 
uniformed services personnel in cases of loss of family members. 
                                                             Page S4736
  Warner (for McCain) Amendment No. 3229, to provide an additional 
increase in military basic pay for enlisted members of the uniformed 
services in pay grades E-5, E-6, or E-7.
Pages S4736-37
  Warner (for Grams) Amendment No. 3230, to improve benefits for 
members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces and their 
dependents.
Pages S4737-38
  Levin (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 3231, to authorize the President 
to award gold and silver medals on behalf of the Congress to the Navajo 
Code Talkers, in recognition of their contributions to the Nation. 
                                                         Pages S4738-39
  Warner (for Lott) Amendment No. 3232, to revise the fee structure for 
residents of the Armed Forces Retirement Home.
Page S4739
  Levin (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 3233, to request the President to 
advance the late Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel on the retired list of 
the Navy to the highest grade held as Commander in Chief, United States 
Fleet, during World War II, and to advance the late Major General 
Walter C. Short on the retired list of the Army to the highest grade 
held as Commanding General, Hawaiian Department, during World War II, 
as was done under the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 for all other 
senior officers who served in positions of command during World War II; 
and to express the sense of Congress regarding the professional 
performance of Admiral Kimmel and Lieutenant General Short. 
                                                         Pages S4739-48
  Levin (for Biden/Roth) Amendment No. 3234, to require reports on the 
spare parts and repair parts program of the Air Force for the C-5 
aircraft.
Pages S4748-49
  Warner (for Roberts) Amendment No. 3235, to authorize a land 
conveyance at Fort Riley, Kansas.
Pages S4749-60
  Levin (for Lieberman) Amendment No. 3236, to clarify the authority of 
the director of a laboratory to manage personnel under an existing 
authority to conduct a personnel demonstration project. 
                                                         Pages S4749-60
  Warner (for Roberts) Amendment No. 3237, to authorize, with an 
offset, an additional $1,500,000 for the Air Force for research, 
development, test, and evaluation on weathering and corrosion on 
aircraft surfaces and parts (PE62102F).
Pages S4749-60
  Levin (for Conrad) Amendment No. 3238, to state the sense of the 
Senate on maintaining an effective strategic nuclear TRIAD. 
                                                         Pages S4749-60
  Warner (for Nickles) Amendment No. 3239, to require the designation 
of each government-owned, government-operated ammunition plant of the 
Army as Centers of Industrial and Technical Excellence. 
                                                         Pages S4749-60
  Levin (for Lieberman) Amendment No. 3240, to establish a commission 
to assess the future of the United States aerospace industry and to 
make recommendations for actions by the Federal Government. 
                                                         Pages S4749-60
  Warner (for Gramm) Amendment No. 3241, to guarantee the right of all 
active duty military personnel, merchant mariners, and their dependents 
to vote in Federal, State, and local elections.
Pages S4749-60
  Levin (for Feinstein) Amendment No. 3242, to modify authority for the 
use of certain Navy property by the Oxnard Harbor District, Port 
Hueneme, California.
Pages S4749-60
  Warner (for Thurmond) Amendment No. 3243, to amend title 10, United 
States Code, to increase the minimum Survivor Benefit Plan basic 
annuity for surviving spouses age 62 and older.
Pages S4749-60
  Levin (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 3244, to eliminate an inequity in 
the applicability of early retirement eligibility requirements to 
military reserve technicians.
Pages S4749-60
  Warner (for Stevens) Amendment No. 3245, to provide space-required 
eligibility for travel on aircraft of the Armed Forces to places of 
inactive-duty training by members of the reserve components who reside 
outside the continental United States.
Pages S4749-60
  Levin (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 3246, to provide additional 
benefits and protections for personnel incurring injury, illness, or 
disease in the performance of funeral honors duty.
Pages S4749-60
  Warner (for Smith-OR) Amendment No. 3247, to require a study of the 
advisability of increasing the grade authorized for the Vice Chief of 
the National Guard Bureau to Lieutenant General.
Pages S4749-60
  Levin (for Cleland) Amendment No. 3248, to exempt commanders of 
certain Air Force specified combatant commands from a limitation on the 
number of general officers while general or flag officers of other 
armed forces are serving as commander of certain unified combatant 
commands.
Pages S4749-60
  Warner (for Bond) Amendment No. 3249, to increase the end strengths 
authorized for full-time manning of the Army National Guard of the 
United States.
Pages S4749-60
  Warner (for Thompson) Amendment No. 3250, to provide compensation and 
benefits to Department of

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Energy employees and contractor employees for exposure to beryllium, 
radiation, and other toxic substances.
Pages S4749-60
  Levin Amendment No. 3251, to conform standards of judicial review of 
actions relating to selection boards; and to make a technical 
correction.
Pages S4749-60
  McCain Amendment No. 3214 (to Amendment No. 3210), to require the 
disclosure of expenditures and contributions by certain political 
organizations.
Pages S4721, S4768-87, S4808-09
  Rejected: Daschle Amendment No. 3273, to amend the Public Health 
Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to protect consumers in managed care 
plans and other health coverage (By 51 yeas to 48 nays (Vote No. 121), 
Senate tabled the Amendment.)
Pages S4787-S4808
Pending:
  Smith (of NH) Modified Amendment No. 3210, to prohibit granting 
security clearances to felons.
Pages S4721, S4760
  Warner/Dodd Amendment No. 3267, to establish a National Bipartisan 
Commission on Cuba to evaluate United States policy with respect to 
Cuba.
Pages S4767-68
  During consideration of this measure today, the Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 42 yeas to 57 nays (Vote No. 122), Senate failed to sustain a 
point of order against McCain Amendment No. 3214 (to Amendment No. 
3210), listed above, as being in violation of the United States 
Constitution.
Page S4808
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
amendments to be proposed to the bill.
Pages S4809-10
Defense Appropriations: Senate began consideration of H.R. 4576, making 
appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2001, and taking action on the following amendments 
proposed thereto:
  Pages S4810-12
Adopted:
  Stevens/Inouye Amendment No. 3278, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                             Page S4811
Pending:
  Grassley Amendment No. 3279, to require the Department of Defense to 
match certain disbursements with obligations prior to payment. 
                                                         Pages S4811-12
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill and pending amendment on Friday, June 9, 
2000, with a vote to occur on the pending amendment.
Page S4909
Messages From the President: Senate received the following message from 
the President of the United States:
  A message from the President of the United States, transmitting, 
pursuant to law, a report of the National Science Board entitled 
``Science and Engineering Indicators--2000''; to the Committee on 
Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (PM-112)
Pages S4818-19
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  John Train, of New York, to be a Member of the Federal Retirement 
Thrift Investment Board for a term expiring October 11, 2003.
  Holly J. Burkhalter, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of 
the Board of Directors of the United States Institute of Peace for a 
term expiring January 19, 2001.
  John S. W. Lim, of Hawaii, to be United States District Judge for the 
District of Hawaii.
  Gregory A. Presnell, of Florida, to be United States District Judge 
for the Middle District of Florida vice a new position created by 
Public Law 106-113, approved November 29, 1999.
  James S. Moody, Jr., of Florida, to be United States District Judge 
for the Middle District of Florida vice a new position created by 
Public Law 106-113, approved November 29, 1999.
  James A. Daley, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to Barbados, and 
to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador 
to St. Kitts and Nevis and to Saint Lucia.
  James Charles Riley, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Federal Mine 
Safety and Health Review Commission for a term of six years expiring 
August 30, 2006. (Reappointment)
  Marc Lincoln Marks, of Pennsylvania, to be a Member of the Federal 
Mine Safety and Health Review Commission for a term of six years 
expiring August 30, 2006. (Reappointment)
Pages S4910-11
Messages From the President:
  Pages S4818-19
Messages From the House:
  Page S4819
Measures Referred:
  Page S4819
Measures Placed on Calendar:
  Page S4819
Communications:
  Pages S4819-20
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S4820-54
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S4854-56
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S4856-S4907
Authority for Committees:
  Page S4907
Additional Statements:
  Page S4814-18
Privileges of the Floor:
  Page S4907-08

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Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--122) 
                                                         Pages S4807-08
Recess: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and recessed at 7:41 p.m., until 
9:30 a.m., on Friday, June 9, 2000. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S4909.)