[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 32 (Monday, March 12, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D197-D198]
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                                             Monday, March 12, 2001

[[Page D197]]

                              Daily Digest

                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S2139-S2167
Measures Introduced: Five bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 513-517, and S. Res. 58.
  Page S2162
Measures Reported:
  S. 350, to amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to promote the cleanup and 
reuse of brownfields, to provide financial assistance for brownfields 
revitalization, to enhance State response programs, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 107-2)
Page S2162
Measures Passed:
  Printing Authority: Senate agreed to S. Res. 58, to authorize the 
printing of a collection of the rules of the committees of the Senate. 
                                                             Page S2166
Bankruptcy Reform: Senate resumed consideration of S. 420, to amend 
title 11, United States Code, taking action on the following amendments 
proposed thereto:
  Pages S2142-59
Pending:
  Schumer Amendment No. 25, to ensure that the bankruptcy code is not 
used to exacerbate the effects of certain illegal predatory lending 
practices.
Page S2142
  Feinstein Modified Amendment No. 27, to place a $2,500 cap on any 
credit card issued to a minor, unless the minor submits an application 
with the signature of his parents or guardian indicating joint 
liability for debt or the minor submits financial information 
indicating an independent means or an ability to repay the debt that 
the card accrues.
Pages S2142, S2158-59
  Leahy Amendment No. 20, to resolve an ambiguity relating to the 
definition of current monthly income.
Page S2142
  Conrad Modified Amendment No. 29, to establish an off-budget lockbox 
to strengthen Social Security and Medicare. 
                                        Pages S2142, S2153-54, S2156-57
  Sessions Amendment No. 32, to establish a procedure to safeguard the 
surpluses of the Social Security and Medicare hospital insurance trust 
funds.
Page S2142
  Wellstone Amendment No. 35, to clarify the duties of a debtor who is 
the plan administrator of an employee benefit plan.
Pages S2144-46
  Wellstone Amendment No. 36, to disallow certain claims and prohibit 
coercive debt collection practices.
Pages S2144-46
  Wellstone Amendment No. 37, to provide that imports of semifinished 
steel slabs shall be considered to be articles like or directly 
competitive with taconite pellets for purposes of determining the 
eligibility of certain workers for trade adjustment assistance under 
the Trade Act of 1974.
Pages S2144-46
  Kennedy Amendment No. 38, to allow for reasonable medical expenses. 
                                                         Pages S2147-49
  Kennedy Amendment No. 39, to remove the dollar limitation on 
retirement savings protected in bankruptcy.
Pages S2149-52, S2157
  Collins Amendment No. 16, to provide family fishermen with the same 
kind of protections and terms as granted to family farmers under 
chapter 12 of the bankruptcy laws.
Pages S2154-56, S2157
  Leahy Amendment No. 41, to protect the identity of minor children in 
bankruptcy proceedings.
Pages S2157-58
  A motion was entered to close further debate on the bill and, in 
accordance with the provisions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate, a vote on the cloture motion will occur on Wednesday, March 
14, 2001.
Pages S2146-47
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for a vote on or 
in relation to Feinstein Modified Amendment No. 27 and Kennedy 
Amendment No. 39 (both listed above), occur beginning at 11 a.m., on 
Tuesday, March 13, 2001.
Page S2159
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached that all first degree 
amendments must be filed by 1 p.m., on Tuesday, March 13, 2001. 
                                                             Page S2167
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the resolution on Tuesday, March 13, 2001. 
                                                             Page S2167

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Appointment:
  Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress: The Chair announced, 
on behalf of the Secretary of the Senate, pursuant to Public Law 101-
509, the reappointment of James B. Lloyd, of Tennessee, to the Advisory 
Committee on the Records of Congress.
  Page S2166
Executive Communications:
  Page S2162
Messages From the House:
  Pages S2161-62
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S2164-65
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S2162-64
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S2165-66
Additional Statements:
  Pages S2160-61
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S2166
Privileges of the Floor:
  Page S2166
Adjournment: Senate met at 1 p.m., and adjourned at 5:56 p.m., until 
9:30 a.m., on Tuesday, March 13, 2001. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S2167.)