[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 114 (Friday, September 22, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D955-D956]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                         Friday, September 22, 2000

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

       Senate agreed to the Conference Report on Defense and Security 
      Assistance Act.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S9017-S9122
Measures Introduced: Four bills were introduced, as follows: S. 3096-
3099.
  Page S9033
Measures Passed:
  Public Health Service Act Amendment: Committee on Health, Education, 
Labor, and Pensions was discharged from further consideration of H.R. 
4365, to amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to children's 
health, and the bill was then passed, after agreeing to the following 
amendment:
  Pages S9094-S9116
  Lott (for Frist) Amendment No. 4181, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                             Page S9094
  Kenai Mountains/Turnagain Arm National Heritage Area: Senate passed 
S. 2511, to establish the Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm National 
Heritage Area in the State of Alaska, after agreeing to certain 
committee amendments (committee amendments Nos. 4 and 5 were 
subsequently withdrawn), and the following amendment proposed thereto: 
                                                  Pages S9088, S9116-17
  Lott (for Murkowski) Amendment No. 4182, to make technical and 
clarifying corrections.
Page S9088
  Enrollment Correction: Senate agreed to H. Con. Res. 405, to correct 
the enrollment of H.R. 4919, Defense and Security Assistance Act. 
                                                             Page S9118
H-1B Nonimmigrant Visa: Senate agreed to the motion to proceed to the 
consideration of S. 2045, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act 
with respect to H-1B nonimmigrant aliens, and began consideration of 
the bill, taking action on the following amendments proposed thereto: 
                                                  Pages S9026-28, S9037
Pending:
  Lott (for Abraham) Amendment No. 4177, in the nature of a substitute.
                                                             Page S9028
  Lott Amendment No. 4178 (to Amendment No. 4177), of a perfecting 
nature.
Pages S9028 29
  Lott Motion to Recommit the bill to the Committee on the Judiciary, 
with instructions to report back forthwith.
Page S9028
  Lott Amendment No. 4179 (to the Motion to Recommit), of a perfecting 
nature.
Pages S9028-29
  Lott Amendment No. 4180 (to Amendment No. 4179), of a perfecting 
nature.
Page S9028
  A motion was entered to close further debate on Amendment No. 4178 
(to Amendment No. 4177) and, in accordance with the provisions of the 
Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, a vote on the cloture 
motion will occur on Tuesday, September 26, 2000.
Page S9028
National Energy Security Act: Senate began consideration of the motion 
to proceed to consideration of S. 2557, to protect the energy security 
of the United States and decrease America's dependency on foreign oil 
sources to 50 percent by the Year 2010 by enhancing the use of 
renewable energy resources, conserving energy resources, improving 
energy efficiencies, and increasing domestic energy supplies, 
mitigating the effect of increases in energy prices on the American 
consumer, including the poor and the elderly.
  Page S9029
  Senate will resume consideration of the motion to proceed to 
consideration of the bill on Monday, September 25, 2000.
Kake Tribal Corporation Land Exchange Act: Senate concurred in the 
amendment of the House to S. 430, to amend the Alaska Native Claims 
Settlement Act, to provide for a land exchange between the Secretary of 
Agriculture and the Kake Tribal Corporation, clearing the measure for 
the President.
  Page S9116
Defense and Security Assistance Act Conference Report: Senate agreed to 
the conference report on H.R. 4919, to amend the Foreign Assistance Act 
of

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1961 and the Arms Export Control Act to make improvements to certain 
defense and security assistance provisions under those Acts, to 
authorize the transfer of naval vessels to certain foreign countries, 
clearing the measure for the President.
  Page S9118
Messages From the President: Senate received the following message from 
the President of the United States:
  Transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on the emergency declared 
with respect to the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola 
(UNITA); to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM-
129)
Page S9032
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Mary Lou Leary, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Attorney General. 
                                                             Page S9122
Messages From the President:
  Page S9032
Messages From the House:
  Page S9032
Measures Referred:
  Page S9032
Measures Placed on Calendar:
  Pages S9032, S9117-18
Communications:
  Page S9033
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Page S9033
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S9036-37
Amendments Submitted:
  Page S9037
Additional Statements:
  Page S9031
Text of S. 2046, as Previously Passed:
  Page S9088
Recessed: Senate convened at 10 a.m., and recessed at 1 p.m., until 12 
noon, on Monday, September 25, 2000. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S9122.)