[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 77 (Monday, June 19, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D617-D618]
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                                              Monday, June 19, 2000

[[Page D617]]


                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S5313-S5382
Measures Introduced: Five bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 2749-2753, and S. Con. Res. 124.
  Pages S5360-61
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, and to prescribe 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, taking 
action on the following amendments proposed thereto:
  Pages S5325-56
Adopted:
  Warner (for McCain) Amendment No. 3458, to clarify the duty of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs to assist claimants for benefits. 
                                                             Page S5326
  Levin (for Dodd) Amendment No. 3459, to authorize the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to furnish headstones or markers for marked graves of, 
or to otherwise commemorate, certain individuals.
Page S5326
  Warner Amendment No. 3460, to add $30,000,000 for the Navy for the 
procurement of Gun Mount modifications; and to offset the increase by 
reducing by $30,000,000 the amount authorized to be appropriated for 
the Navy for procurement for aircraft ($13,100,000 from the amount for 
the block modification upgrade program for P-3 aircraft, $9,000,000 
from the amount for the H-1 series to reclaim and convert aircraft from 
the aerospace maintenance and regeneration center, and $7,900,000 from 
the amount for procurement of SH-60R aircraft).
Page S5326
  Levin (for Cleland/Coverdell) Amendment No. 3461, to provide, with an 
offset, $8,000,000 for research, development, test, and evaluation for 
the Air Force for Electronic Warfare Development for the Precision 
Location and Identification Program.
Pages S5326-27
  Warner Amendment No. 3462, to add $30,000,000 for the Navy for the 
procurement of CIWS MODS for block 1B modifications; and to offset the 
increase by reducing by $30,000,000 the amount authorized to be 
appropriated for the Navy for procurement for the block modification 
upgrade program for the P-3 aircraft.
Page S5327
  Levin (for Landrieu) Amendment No. 3463, to require a report on 
submarine rescue support vessels.
Page S5327
  Warner Amendment No. 3464, to require a GAO-convened independent 
study of the OMB Circular A-76 process.
Page S5327
  Levin (for Feinstein) Amendment No. 3465, to authorize a land 
conveyance, Los Angeles Air Force Base, California.
Pages S5327-28
  Warner (Santorum) Amendment No. 3466, to provide an additional amount 
of $92,000,000 for the procurement of remanufactured AV-8B aircraft for 
the Navy; and to offset the increase by reducing the amount provided 
for the procurement of UC-35 aircraft for the Navy by $33,400,000, by 
reducing the amount provided for the procurement of automatic flight 
control systems for EA-6B aircraft by $17,700,000, and by reducing the 
amount provided for engineering change proposal 583 for FA-18 aircraft 
for the Navy by $40,900,000.
Page S5328
  Levin (for Landrieu) Amendment No. 3467, to make available, with an 
offset, $5,000,000 for research, development, test, and evaluation for 
the Navy for the Information Technology Center and Human Resource 
Enterprise Strategy.
Page S5328
  Warner Amendment No. 3468, to increase the authorization of 
appropriations for the Marine Corps for procurement by $2,000,000 for 
night vision (M203 tilting brackets), by $2,000,000 for 5/4T truck high 
mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicles (including $1,500,000 for 
recruiter vehicles), and by $6,000,000 for the mobile electronic 
warfare support system; and to offset the total amount of the increase 
by reducing the authorization of appropriations for the Army for other 
procurement for the family of medium tactical vehicles by $10,000,000. 
                                                         Pages S5328-29
  Levin (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 3469 (to Amendment No. 3383, agreed 
to by the Senate on June 14, 2000), to make a technical correction. 
                                                             Page S5329

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  Warner Amendment No. 3470, to modify the management and per diem 
requirements for members subject to lengthy or numerous deployments; 
and to authorize extensions of TRICARE managed care support contracts. 
                                                             Page S5329
  Levin (for Schumer/Bennett) Amendment No. 3471, to require reports on 
the progress of the Federal Government in developing information 
assurance strategies.
                                                         Pages S5329-30
  Warner (for Thompson/Lieberman) Amendment 3472, to reform Government 
information security by strengthening information security practices 
throughout the Federal Government.
                                                         Pages S5330-32
                                                               Pending:
  Smith (of NH) Amendment No. 3210, to prohibit granting security 
clearances to felons.
                                                             Page S5325
  Warner/Dodd Amendment No. 3267, to establish a National Bipartisan 
Commission on Cuba to evaluate United States policy with respect to 
Cuba
  Levin (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 3473, to enhance Federal 
enforcement of hate crimes.
                                                         Pages S5334-38
  Hatch Amendment No. 3474, to provide for a comprehensive study and 
support for criminal investigations and prosecutions by State and local 
law enforcement officials.
                                                         Pages S5338-56
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill on Tuesday, June 20, 2000.
                                                             Page S5382
Messages From the House:
  Page S5360
Measures Placed on Calendar:
  Page S5382
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S5361-63
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S5363-64
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S5364-72
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S5372
Additional Statements:
  Pages S5358-60
Text of H.R. 4475, as Previously Passed:
  Pages S5372-82
Enrolled Bills Signed:
  Page S5360
Adjournment: Senate convened at 1 p.m., and adjourned at 6:45 p.m., 
until 9:10 a.m., on Tuesday, June 20, 2000. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S5382.)