[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 74 (Wednesday, June 14, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D591-D594]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                           Wednesday, June 14, 2000

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      House Committee ordered reported the Commerce, Justice, State, 
      and Judiciary appropriations for fiscal year 2001.
      The House passed H.R. 4577, Labor, HHS, and Education 
      Appropriations.
      The House agreed to the conference report on S. 761, Electronic 
      Signatures in Global and National Commerce.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S5059-S5163
Measures Introduced: Six bills and two resolutions were introduced, as 
follows: S. 2726-2731, S. Res. 323, and S. Con. Res. 122. 
                                                         Pages S5106-07
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  Special Report entitled ``Further Revised Allocation to Subcommittees 
of Budget Totals. (S. Rept. No. 106-308)
  Report to accompany S. 2720, an original bill making appropriations 
for the Department of Transportation and related agencies for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2001. (S. Rept. No. 106-309)
  S. Res. 303, expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the 
treatment by the Russian Federation of Andrei Babitsky, a Russian 
journalist working for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute.                     
Page S5106
Measures Passed:
  Certified Development Company Program Improvements Act: Senate passed 
H.R. 2614, to amend the Small Business Investment Act to make 
improvements to the certified development company program, after 
agreeing to a committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, and 
the following amendment proposed thereto:                
  Pages S5154-59
  Allard (for Bond) Amendment No. 3431, providing for timely 
Administration action on geographic expansion applications, use of 
unobligated funds, and the HUBZone program.                  
Page S5156
  School Governance Charter Amendment Act: Senate passed H.R. 4387, to 
provide that the School Governance Charter Amendment Act of 2000 shall 
take effect upon the date such Act is ratified by the voters of the 
District of Columbia, clearing the measure for the President. 
                                                             Page S5159
  Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Submillimeter Array Operations: 
Committee on Rules and Administration was discharged from further 
consideration of S. 2498, to authorize the Smithsonian Institution to 
plan, design, construct, and equip laboratory, administrative, and 
support space to house base operations for the Smithsonian 
Astrophysical Observatory Submillimeter Array located on Mauna Kea at 
Hilo, Hawaii, and the bill was then passed.                  
  Page S5159
  Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Land Trust: Senate passed S. 
1967, to make technical corrections to the status of certain land held 
in trust for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, to take certain 
land into trust for that Band.                           
  Pages S5159-60
  National Eat Dinner With Your Children Day: Senate agreed to S. Res. 
323, designating Monday, June 19, 2000, as ``National Eat-Dinner-With-
Your-Children Day''.                                     
  Pages S5160-61
Measure Indefinitely Postponed:
  Department of Defense Appropriations Act: S. 2593, making 
appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2001.                                          
  Page S5154
National Defense Authorization: Senate resumed 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

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for the Armed Forces, taking action on the following amendments 
proposed thereto:                              
  Pages S5059-60, S5071-83
Adopted:
  Warner (for Lott) Amendment No. 3382, to clarify the duties of the 
Chief of Naval Research as the Navy's manager of research funds. 
                                                         Pages S5071-83
  Levin (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 3383, to provide, with an offset, 
$5,000,000 for research, development, test, and evaluation Defense-wide 
for the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program for 
technologies for the detection and transport of pollutants resulting 
from live-fire activities.                               
Pages S5071-83
  Warner (for Stevens) Amendment No. 3384, to increase by $45,000,000 
the amount authorized to be appropriated for environmental restoration 
of formerly used defense sites and reduce defense-wide operations and 
maintenance accounts by $45,000,000 for mobility enhancements. 
                                                         Pages S5071-83
  Warner (for Lott) Amendment No. 3385, to set aside for 
weatherproofing of facilities at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, 
$2,800,000 of the amount authorized to be appropriated for the Air 
Force for operation and maintenance.                     
Pages S5071-83
  Levin (for Harkin) Amendment No. 3386, to remove the inclusion of 
housing in the determining of income eligibility for WIC support for 
members of the Armed Forces overseas.                    
Pages S5071-83
  Warner (for Hutchison) Amendment No. 3387, to improve access to 
health care under the TRICARE program by prohibiting a requirement for 
statements of nonavailability or preauthorization for certain services 
under that program.                                      
Pages S5071-83
  Warner (for Jeffords) Amendment No. 3388, to modify the time for use 
by members of the Selected Reserve of entitlement to certain 
educational assistance.                                  
Pages S5071-83
  Warner (for Stevens) Amendment No. 3389, to treat as veterans 
individuals who served in the Alaska Territorial Guard during World War 
II.                                                      
Pages S5071-83
  Levin (for Feingold) Amendment No. 3390, to extend to members of the 
National Guard and other reserve components not on active duty the 
entitlement to receive special duty assignment pay.      
Pages S5071-83
  Warner (for Hutchison) Amendment No. 3391, to authorize the expansion 
of service areas for transferees of former uniformed services treatment 
facilities that are included in the uniformed services health care 
delivery system.                                         
Pages S5071-83
  Warner (for Thompson) Amendment No. 3392, to refine and advance 
Federal acquisition streamlining.                        
Pages S5071-83
  Warner Amendment No. 3393, to increase by $2,500,000 the amount 
provided for the Army for operation and maintenance for the ceremonial 
rifle program; and to offset that increase by reducing by $2,500,000 
the amount provided for operation and maintenance, Defense-wide, for 
spectrum database upgrades.                              
Pages S5071-83
  Levin (for Lieberman) Amendment No. 3394, to set aside up to 
$1,000,000 for the support of programs to promote informal region-wide 
dialogues on arms control and regional security issues for Arab, 
Israeli, and United States officials and experts.        
Pages S5071-83
  Warner (for DeWine) Amendment No. 3395, to amend title 10, United 
States Code, to authorize the United States Air Force Institute of 
Technology.                                              
Pages S5071-83
  Warner (for Roberts) Amendment No. 3396 (to Amendment No. 3237--
agreed to in Senate on June 8, 2000), to make a technical correction. 
                                                         Pages S5071-83
  Warner (for Murkowski) Amendment No. 3397, to increase the TRICARE 
maximum allowable charge for physicians in rural States, and to require 
a report on nonparticipation of physicians in TRICARE in rural States. 
                                                         Pages S5071-83
  Levin (for Feingold/Thompson) Amendment No. 3398, to extend the 
authority of the Federal Government to conduct public interest law 
enforcement conveyances of surplus property.             
Pages S5071-83
  Warner Amendment No. 3399, to require a report on the status of 
domestic preparedness against the threat of biological terrorism. 
                                                         Pages S5071-83
  Levin (for Robb/Warner) Amendment No. 3400, to authorize a land 
conveyance, former National Ground Intelligence Center, 
Charlottesville, Virginia.                               
Pages S5071-83
  Warner (for Grams) Amendment No. 3401, to authorize a land 
conveyance, Army Reserve Center, Winona, Minnesota.      
Pages S5071-83
  Levin (for Edwards) Amendment No. 3402, to express the sense of the 
Senate that members of the Armed Forces who receive special pay for 
duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger should receive the same 
tax treatment as members serving in combat zones.        
Pages S5071-83
  Warner (for Hutchinson/Cleland) Amendment No. 3403, to modify the 
basic allowance for housing.                             
Pages S5071-83
  Warner (for DeWine) Amendment No. 3404, to authorize the acceptance 
and use of gifts from the Air Force Museum Foundation for the 
construction of a third building for the United States Air Force Museum 
at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.                
Pages S5071-83

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  Warner (for Inhofe/Robb) Amendment No. 3405, to require a General 
Accounting Office review of the AH-64 aircraft program of the Army. 
                                                         Pages S5071-83
  Warner (for Lott) Amendment No. 3406, to make available, with an 
offset, an additional $2,500,000 for research, development, test, and 
evaluation for the Army for Countermine Systems for research in 
acoustic mine detection.                                 
Pages S5071-83
  Warner (for Snowe) Amendment No. 3407, to permit the lease of the 
Naval Computer Telecommunications Center, Cutler, Maine, pending its 
conveyance.                                              
Pages S5071-83
  Levin (for Daschle) Amendment No. 3408, to modify the authorized 
conveyee of certain land at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota. 
                                                         Pages S5071-83
  Warner (for Gramm) Amendment No. 3409, to consent to the retransfer 
by the Government of Greece to USS LST Ship Memorial, Inc., of an 
alternative LST excess to the needs of the Government of Greece. 
                                                         Pages S5071-83
  Levin (for Conrad) Amendment No. 3410, to require a report on the 
establishment of a global missile launch early warning center. 
                                                         Pages S5071-83
  Warner Amendment No. 3411, to require a General Accounting Office 
review of the working-capital fund activities of the Department of 
Defense, including the use of carryover authority between fiscal years.
                                                         Pages S5071-83
  Warner (for Snowe/Robb) Amendment No. 3412, to impose requirements 
for the implementation of the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet. 
                                                         Pages S5071-83
  Levin (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 3413, to enhance authorities 
relating to education partnerships to encourage scientific study. 
                                                         Pages S5071-83
  Warner Amendment No. 3414, to make available, with an offset, an 
additional $5,000,000 for research, development, test, and evaluation 
for the Army for Concepts Experimentation Program for test and 
evaluation of future operational technologies for use by mounted 
maneuver forces.                                         
Pages S5071-83
  Warner/Robb Amendment No. 3415, to provide for the development of a 
Marine Corps Heritage Center at Marine Corps Base, Quantico, Virginia. 
                                                         Pages S5071-83
  Levin (for Murray) Amendment No. 3416, to require the Army National 
Guard to carry out a demonstration project to provide Internet access 
and services to rural communities that are unserved or underserved by 
the Internet.                                            
Pages S5071-83
  Warner (for Inhofe) Amendment No. 3417, to authorize, with an offset, 
$300,000 for research, development, test, and evaluation Defense-wide 
for Generic Logistics Research and Development Technology 
Demonstrations for air logistics technology.             
Pages S5071-83
  Levin (for Cleland) Amendment No. 3418, to authorize the President to 
award a gold medal on behalf of Congress to General Wesley K. Clark, 
United States Army, in recognition of his outstanding leadership and 
service during the military operations against the Federal Republic of 
Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro).                      
Pages S5071-83
  Warner Amendment No. 3419, to conform the requirement for verbatim 
records of the proceedings of special courts-martial to the increased 
punishment authority of special courts-martial.          
Pages S5071-83
  Warner (for Inhofe) Amendment No. 3420, to require the Secretary of 
Defense to prescribe policies and procedures for Department of Defense 
decisionmaking on actions to be taken in cases of false claims 
submitted to the Department of Defense.                  
Pages S5071-83
  Levin (for Edwards/Torricelli) Amendment No. 3421, expressing the 
sense of the Senate that long-term economic development aid should be 
immediately provided to assist communities rebuilding from Hurricane 
Floyd.                                                   
Pages S5071-83
  Warner (for Fitzgerald) Amendment No. 3422, to provide for the 
coverage and treatment of unutilized and underutilized plant-capacity 
costs of United States arsenals when making supplies and providing 
services for the United States Armed Forces.             
Pages S5071-83
  Levin (for Edwards/Helms) Amendment No. 3423, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Navy to convey, to the city of Jacksonville, North 
Carolina, certain land for the purpose of permitting the City to 
develop the parcel for initial use as a bike/green way trail. 
                                                         Pages S5071-83
  Warner (for Enzi/Thomas) Amendment No. 3424, to authorize, with an 
offset, $1,450,000 for a contribution by the Air National Guard to 
construction of a new airport tower at Cheyenne Airport, Cheyenne, 
Wyoming.                                                 
Pages S5071-83
Pending:
  Smith (of NH) Amendment No. 3210, to prohibit granting security 
clearances to felons.                                        
Page S5059
  McCain Amendment No. 3214, (to Amendment No. 3210), to require the 
disclosure of expenditures and contributions by certain political 
organizations.
Transportation Appropriations: Senate began consideration of H.R. 4475, 
making appropriations for the Department of Transportation and related 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, taking action 
on the following amendments proposed thereto:            
  Pages S5088-99
Adopted:
  By a unanimous vote of 97 yeas (Vote No. 129) Shelby (for Harkin/
Grassley) Amendment No. 3428, to modify a highway project in the State 
of Iowa.                                                 
Pages S5098-99

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  Shelby/Lautenberg Amendment No. 3426, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                         Pages S5088-99
  During consideration of this measure today, the Senate also took the 
following action:
  Senate sustained a point of order against Dorgan/Ashcroft Amendment 
No. 3427, to provide protection against the risks to the public that 
are inherent in the interstate transportation of violent prisoners, as 
being in violation of Rule XVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate, and 
the amendment thus fell.                                 
Pages S5094-96
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for certain 
amendments to be proposed to the bill.                   
Pages S5097-98
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill, on Thursday, June 15, 2000.       
Page S5161
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that all first 
degree amendments be filed by 11:30 a.m., on Thursday, June 15, 2000. 
                                                             Page S5154
Nomination--Agreement: A unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached 
providing for consideration of the nomination of Madelyn R. Creedon, of 
Indiana, to be Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs, National 
Nuclear Security Administration, with a vote to occur thereon, no later 
than July 12, 2000.                                      
  Pages S5064-65
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on Executive Order 12938 
relative to the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical 
weapons; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM-
114)                                                         
Page S5105
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, the President's periodic report on the 
national emergency caused by the lapse of the Export Administration Act 
of 1979 for the period August 19, 1999 through February 19, 2000; to 
the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM-115) 
                                                             Page S5105
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nomination:
  By a unanimous vote of 97 yeas (Vote No. 128), Gen. John A. Gordon, 
USAF, to be Under Secretary for Nuclear Security, Department of Energy.
                                                  Pages S5067-69, S5163
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  1 Air Force nomination in the rank of general.
  Routine lists in the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy. 
                                                         Pages S5161-63
Messages From the President:                                 
  Page S5105
Messages From the House:                                     
  Page S5106
Measures Referred:                                           
  Page S5106
Communications:                                              
  Page S5106
Statements on Introduced Bills:                          
  Pages S5107-17
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S5117-19
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S5119-38
Notices of Hearings:                                         
  Page S5139
Authority for Committees:                                    
  Page S5139
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S5103-05
Text of H.R. 4576, as previously passed:                 
  Pages S5140-54
Privileges of the Floor:                                     
  Page S5140
Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--129) 
                                                     Pages S5069, S5099
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 p.m., and adjourned at 6:47 p.m., 
until 9:45 a.m., on Thursday, June 15, 2000. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S5161.)