[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 53 (Wednesday, April 25, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D347]
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                                          Wednesday, April 25, 2001

[[Page D347]]

                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed Brownfields Revitalization and Environmental 
      Restoration Act.
      House Committee ordered reported H.R. 10, Comprehensive 
      Retirement Security and Pension Reform Act.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3867-3931
Measures Introduced: Seven bills and three resolutions were introduced, 
as follows: S. 771-777, and S. Res. 73-75.               
  Pages S3921-22
Measures Passed:
  Commending Jim English: Senate agreed to S. Res. 73, to commend James 
Harold English for his 23 years of service to the United States Senate.
                                                             Page S3879
  Brownfields Revitalization and Environmental Restoration Act: By a 
unanimous vote of 99 yeas (Vote No. 87), Senate passed 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, after agreeing to the committee amendment in the 
nature of a substitute, and the following amendment proposed thereto: 
                                                      Pages S3879-S3912
  Smith (of NH) Amendment No. 352, to make certain improvements to the 
bill.                                                 
Pages S3896-S3904
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Lou Gallegos, of New Mexico, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
Agriculture.
  Mary Kirtley Waters, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
Agriculture.
  Timothy J. Muris, of Virginia, to be a Federal Trade Commissioner for 
the unexpired term of seven years from September 26, 1994.
  Lee Sarah Liberman Otis, of Virginia, to be General Counsel of the 
Department of Energy.
  Claude A. Allen, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of Health and 
Human Services.
  Pat Pizzella, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Labor.
  29 Air Force nominations in the rank of general.           
Page S3931
Executive Communications:                                
  Pages S3919-21
Petitions and Memorials:                                     
  Page S3921
Messages From the House:                                 
  Pages S3918-19
Measures Referred:                                           
  Page S3919
Statements on Introduced Bills:                          
  Pages S3923-27
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S3922-23
Amendments Submitted:                                        
  Page S3929
Additional Statements:                                       
  Page S3918
Authority for Committees:                                
  Pages S3929-30
Privileges of the Floor:                                     
  Page S3930
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--87)   
  Page S3907
Adjournment: Senate met at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 3:56 p.m., until 
10 a.m., on Thursday, April 26, 2001. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S3931.)