[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 79 (Wednesday, June 21, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D633-D636]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                           Wednesday, June 21, 2000

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      House Committees ordered reported 17 sundry measures.
      The House failed to pass H.J. Res. 90, withdrawal of the United 
      States from the WTO.
      The House passed H.R. 4635, VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies 
      Appropriations.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S5479-S5581
Measures Introduced: Seven bills were introduced, as follows: S. 2759-
2765.
  Pages S5555-56
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  H.R. 642, to redesignate the Federal building located at 701 South 
Santa Fe Avenue in Compton, California, and known as the Compton Main 
Post Office, as the ``Mervyn Malcolm Dymally Post Office Building''.
  H.R. 643, to redesignate the Federal building located at 10301 South 
Compton Avenue, in Los Angeles, California, and known as the Watts 
Finance Office, as the ``Augustus F. Hawkins Post Office Building''.
  H.R. 1666, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service at 200 East Pinckney Street in Madison, Florida, as the 
``Captain Colin P. Kelly, Jr. Post Office''.
  H.R. 2307, to designate the building of the United States Postal 
Service located at 5 Cedar Street in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, as the 
``Thomas J. Brown Post Office Building''.
  H.R. 2357, to designate the United States Post Office located at 3675 
Warrensville Center Road in Shaker Heights, Ohio, as the ``Louise 
Stokes Post Office''.
  H.R. 2460, to designate the United States Post Office located at 125 
Border Avenue West in Wiggins, Mississippi, as the ``Jay Hanna `Dizzy' 
Dean Post Office''.
  H.R. 2591, to designate the United States Post Office located at 713 
Elm Street in Wakefield, Kansas, as the ``William H. Avery Post 
Office''.
  H.R. 2952, to redesignate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 100 Orchard Park Drive in Greenville, South 
Carolina, as the ``Keith D. Oglesby Station''.
  H.R. 3018, to designate the United States Post Office located at 557 
East Bay Street in Charleston, South Carolina, as the ``Marybelle H. 
Howe Post Office''.
  H.R. 3699, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 8409 Lee Highway in Merrifield, Virginia, as the 
``Joel T. Broyhill Postal Building''.
  H.R. 3701, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 3118 Washington Boulevard in Arlington, Virginia, as 
the ``Joseph L. Fisher Post Office Building''.
  H.R. 4241, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 1818 Milton Avenue in Janesville, Wisconsin, as the 
``Les Aspin Post Office Building''.
  S. 2043, to designate the United States Post Office building located 
at 3101 West Sunflower Avenue in Santa Ana, California, as the ``Hector 
G. Godinez Post Office Building''.
Page S5555
Foreign Operations Appropriations: Senate continued consideration of 
the motion to proceed to the consideration of S. 2522, making 
appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related 
programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, taking action 
on the following amendments proposed thereto:
  Pages S5482-S5547
Adopted:
  Leahy (for Harkin) Amendment No. 3499, to provide funds for the 
Secretary of State for transfer to the Department of Labor for the 
administration of the demobilization and rehabilitation of children 
soldiers in Colombia.
Pages S5484-86

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  Leahy Amendment No. 3500, to require the Secretary of State to submit 
a report concerning human rights in Colombia.
Pages S5484-86
  Leahy Amendment No. 3501, to provide not less than $35,000,000 for 
programs for the prevention, treatment, control of, and research on 
tuberculosis; and not less than $50,000,000 for the prevention, 
treatment, control of, and research on malaria.
Pages S5484-86
  Leahy Amendment No. 3502, to remove Panama from the list of countries 
subject to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on 
Appropriations.
Pages S5484-86
  Leahy Amendment No. 3503, to provide not less than $1,200,000 to 
assist blind children.
Pages S5484-86
  Leahy Amendment No. 3504, to require certification that the use of 
certain herbicides are safe and nontoxic to human health, and that such 
herbicide does not contaminate ground or surface water, prior to making 
funding available.
Pages S5484-86
  McConnell Amendment No. 3505, to provide not more than $340,000,000 
for expenses incurred by the Department of Defense during fiscal year 
2001 pursuant to section 43(B) of the Arms Export Control Act. 
                                                         Pages S5484-86
  McConnell Amendment No. 3506, to prohibit selling, or making 
available, Stinger ground-to-air missiles to any country bordering the 
Persian Gulf, unless replacing, on a one-for-one basis, previously 
furnished Stinger missiles nearing the scheduled expiration of their 
shelf-life.
Pages S5484-86
  McConnell/Leahy Amendment No. 3507, to require the Secretary of the 
Treasury to withhold ten percent of the United States portion or 
payment to International Financial Institutions until certain 
implemented reforms are certified.
Pages S5484-86
  McConnell/Leahy Amendment No. 3508, to make certain funds available 
to support the National Albanian American Council's training program 
for Kosovar women.
Pages S5484-86
  McConnell (for Gregg) Amendment No. 3509, to make certain funds 
available for a joint project developed by the University of Pristina, 
Kosova and the Dartmouth Medical School, U.S.A., to help restore the 
primary care capabilities at the University of Pristina Medical School 
and in Kosova.
Pages S5484-86
  McConnell (for Shelby) Amendment No. 3510, to require the submittal 
to the congressional intelligence committees of reports on waivers 
relating to assistance to countries providing sanctuary to indicted war 
criminals.
Pages S5484-86
  Leahy (for Baucus/Roberts) Amendment No. 3511, to make available 
certain environmental assistance funds for the People's Republic of 
China.
Pages S5484-86
  McConnell (for Brownback) Amendment No. 3512, to make available 
certain funds for education and anti-corruption programs of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961.
Pages S5484-86
  McConnell (for Lott/Cochran) Amendment No. 3513, to make certain 
funds available for the Foundation for Environmental Security and 
Sustainability to support environmental threat assessments with 
interdisciplinary experts and academicians utilizing various 
technologies to address issues such as infectious disease, and other 
environmental indicators and warnings as they pertain to the security 
of an area.
Pages S5484-86
  Sessions Further Modified Amendment No. 3492, to require the 
Secretary of State to certify that the U.S. Government publicly 
supports the military and political efforts of the Government of, and 
the rule of law in, Colombia, prior to making assistance available 
under Plan Colombia.
Pages S5483, S5508-09, S5510
  McConnell (for Stevens) Amendment No. 3519, to provide that foreign 
military financing program funds estimated to be outlaid for Egypt 
during fiscal year 2001 shall be transferred to an interest bearing 
account for Egypt in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. 
                                                         Pages S5510-11
  McConnell (for Inhofe) Amendment No. 3528, to express the sense of 
the Senate regarding United States citizens held hostage in Colombia. 
                                                         Pages S5510-11
  Leahy/Kennedy Amendment No. 3532, to provide that any national of 
Vietnam, Cambodia, or Laos who was paroled into the United States 
before October 1, 1997 shall be eligible to make an application for 
adjustment of status.
Pages S5510-11
  McConnell (for Domenici) Amendment No. 3529, to allocate development 
assistance funds for Habitat for Humanity International.
Page S5520
  Leahy (for Biden) Amendment No. 3536, expressing the sense of 
Congress with respect to the Nonproliferation, Antiterrorism, Demining, 
and Related Programs budget.
Page S5520
  Leahy (for Boxer) Amendment No. 3540, to express the sense of the 
Senate on the importance of combating mother-to-child transmission of 
HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.
Page S5520
  McConnell (for Frist) Amendment No. 3544, to require a report on the 
delivery of humanitarian assistance to Sudan.
Page S5520

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  Leahy (for Wellstone) Amendment No. 3568, to allocate funds to combat 
trafficking in persons.
Page S5520
  McConnell (for Coverdell/Leahy) Modified Amendment No. 3521, to 
review U.S. relations with Peru and to support the restoration of 
democracy in Peru.
Pages S5520-21
  McConnell (for Abraham) Modified Amendment No. 3584, to increase 
assistance for Lebanon.
Pages S5520-21
  Subsequently, the amendment was further modified.
Page S5532
  McConnell (for McCain) Amendment No. 3495, to express the sense of 
the Senate concerning the violence, breakdown of rule of law, and 
troubled pre-election period in the Republic of Zimbabwe. 
                                                         Pages S5527-28
  Leahy (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 3491, to express the sense of the 
Senate regarding the significance of the availability of certain funds 
under this Act for an acceleration of the accession of Estonia, Latvia, 
and Lithuania to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. 
                                                         Pages S5527-28
  McConnell (for Brownback) Modified Amendment No. 3539, to authorize 
non-lethal, material assistance to protect civilians in Sudan from 
attacks, slave raids, and aerial bombardment.
Pages S5527-28
  McConnell Amendment No. 3553, to provide that funds made available as 
a U.S. contribution to the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Trust Fund 
shall be subject to the regular notification procedures of the 
Committees on Appropriations.
Pages S5531-32
  Leahy (for Byrd) Amendment No. 3537, to make technical amendments to 
language limiting support for Plan Colombia.
Pages S5531-32
  McConnell (for Shelby) Amendment No. 3515, to make the limitation on 
assignment of United States personnel in Colombia inapplicable to 
certain intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United 
States Government.
Pages S5531-32
  Leahy (for Reid) Modified Amendment No. 3546, to allocate funds for 
the Secretary of State to meet with representatives of countries with a 
high incidence of the practice of dowry deaths or honor killings to 
develop a strategy for ending the practices.
Pages S5531-32
  Leahy (for Reid) Modified Amendment No. 3547, to require that funding 
for the United States Agency for International Development be used to 
develop and integrate, where appropriate, educational programs aimed at 
eliminating the practice of female genital mutilation.
Pages S5531-32
  Leahy (for Reid) Modified Amendment No. 3549, to authorize the 
Secretary of State to determine the prevalence of the practice of 
female genital mutilation and to develop recommendations for 
eliminating the practice.
Pages S5531-32
  McConnell (for Chafee) Amendment No. 3545, to express the sense of 
the Senate that the United States should authorize and fully fund a 
bilateral and multilateral program of debt relief for the world's 
poorest countries.
Pages S5531-32
  Subsequently, adoption of the amendment was vitiated.
Page S5536
  McConnell (for Helms) Modified Amendment No. 3172, relating to 
support by the Russian Federation for Serbia.
Pages S5531-32
  Leahy (for Landrieu) Modified Amendment No. 3522, to provide for the 
rehabilitation of the transportation infrastructure of Bulgaria and 
Romania.
Pages S5531-32
  McConnell (for Dodd) Amendment No. 3527, to make certain funds 
available for the Peace Corps to bring fiscal year 2001 funding up to 
fiscal year 2000 levels.
Pages S5530-31
  McConnell (for Specter) Amendment No. 3588, to make available up to 
$1,000,000 to fund the Secretary of Defense to work with the 
appropriate authorities of the Cuban government to provide for greater 
cooperation, coordination, and other mutual assistance in the 
interdiction of illicit drugs being transported over Cuba airspace and 
waters.
Pages S5532-33
  McConnell (for Edwards) Amendment No. 3589, to provide emergency 
funding to the Department of Commerce and the Department of Agriculture 
to assist communities affected by Hurricane Floyd, Hurricane Dennis, or 
Hurricane Irene.
Pages S5534-36
Rejected:
  Wellstone Amendment No. 3518, to provide additional funding for the 
substance abuse and mental health services. (By 89 yeas to 11 nays 
(Vote No. 138), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S5493-S5509
  By 19 yeas to 79 nays (Vote No. 139), Gorton Amendment No. 3517, to 
reduce the amount of funds made available for South American and 
Caribbean counternarcotics activities. 
                                        Pages S5511-15, S5525-26, S5528
  By 47 yeas to 51 nays (Vote No. 140), Dodd/Lieberman Amendment No. 
3524, to provide not less than $110,000,000 for procurement and support 
for helicopters to support missions to eradicate the cultivation and 
processing of illicit drugs in remote areas of Colombia. 
                                     Pages S5515-20, S5526-27, S5528-29
Pending:
  Helms Amendment No. 3498, to require the United States to withhold 
assistance to Russia by an amount equal to the amount which Russia 
provides Serbia.
Pages S5483-84, S5510

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  Nickles Amendment No. 3569, to provide that not less than 
$100,000,000 shall be made available by the Department of State to the 
Department of Justice for counter narcotic activity initiatives. 
                                                         Pages S5533-34
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill and pending amendments, with certain 
amendments to be proposed thereto, on Thursday, June 22, 2000. Further, 
the Senate will proceed to vote on the motion to advance the bill to 
third reading; following which, the bill will then be placed back on 
the Senate calendar, awaiting the House companion bill. 
                                                         Pages S5533-34
Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations Agreement: A unanimous-consent 
agreement was reached providing for consideration of H.R. 4577, making 
appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, 
and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2001, on Thursday, June 22, 2000.
  Page S5534
Messages From the House:
  Page S5554
Measures Read First Time:
  Page S5580
Communications:
  Pages S5554-55
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S5556-62
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S5562-63
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S5563-80
Authority for Committees:
  Page S5580
Additional Statements:
  Pages S5552-54
Privileges of the Floor:
  Page S5580
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total--140) 
                                                   Page S5509, S5528-29
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 8:14 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m., on Thursday, June 22, 2000. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S5581.)