[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 78 (Thursday, June 7, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D544-D546]
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                                             Thursday, June 7, 2001

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      The House passed H.R. 1699, to authorize appropriations for the 
      Coast Guard for fiscal year 2002.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S5907-S5995
Measures Introduced: Twelve bills and one resolution were introduced, 
as follows: S. 994-1005, and S. Con. Res. 47.
  Pages S5966-67
Measures Passed:
  Copyright Infringement Exemption: Senate passed S. 487, to amend 
chapter 1 of title 17, United States Code, relating to the exemption of 
certain performances or displays for educational uses from copyright 
infringement provisions, to provide that the making of copies or 
phonorecords of such performances or displays is not an infringement 
under certain circumstances, after agreeing to the committee amendment 
in the nature of a substitute, and the following amendments proposed 
thereto:
  Pages S5988-95
  Reid (for Hatch) Amendment No. 793, to clarify the application of 
certain technological measures.
Page S5595
  Reid (for Hatch) Amendment No. 794, to amend the title.
Page S5595
Elementary and Secondary Education Act Authorization: Senate continued 
consideration of S. 1, to extend programs and activities under the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, taking action on the 
following amendments proposed thereto:
  Pages S5907-54
Adopted:
  Kennedy (for Corzine) Amendment No. 356 (to Amendment No. 358), to 
promote the concept of achieving financial literacy through the 
teaching of personal financial management skills, including the basic 
principles involved in earning, spending, saving, and investing. 
                                                         Pages S5916-17
  Subsequently, the amendment was modified.
Pages S5925-26
  Kennedy (for Reed) Amendment No. 401 (to Amendment No. 358), to 
assist parents in becoming active participants in the education of 
their children.
Pages S5916-17
  Kennedy (for Reed) Amendment No. 434 (to Amendment No. 358), to 
revise the definition of parental involvement.
Pages S5916-17
  Gregg (for Voinovich) Modified Amendment No. 513 (to Amendment No. 
358), to develop and implement effective mechanisms to assist local 
education agencies and schools in effectively recruiting and retaining 
highly qualified teachers and principals, and in cases in which a State 
deems appropriate, pupil services personnel.
Pages S5916-17
  Gregg (for Enzi) Amendment No. 642 (to Amendment No. 358), to provide 
for Indian education programs.
Pages S5916-17
  Gregg (for Enzi) Modified Amendment No. 643 (to Amendment No. 358), 
to provide rural schools with options to improve student performance 
during the reconstitution process.
Pages S5916-17
  Kennedy (for Torricelli) Modified Amendment No. 363 (to Amendment No. 
358), to enable local educational agencies to extend the amount of 
educational time spent in schools, including enabling the agencies to 
extend the length of the school year to 210 days.
Pages S5916-17
  Subsequently, the amendment was further modified.
Pages S5925-26
  Kennedy (for Nelson of FL) Modified Amendment No. 638 (to Amendment 
No. 358), to provide for an annual report to Congress on a State's 
progress in developing and implementing student assessments. 
                                                         Pages S5916-17
  Gregg (for Hatch) Modified Amendment No. 354 (to Amendment No. 358), 
to establish a study on finance disparities and the effects of 
equalization on student performance.
Pages S5916-17
  Gregg (for Hatch) Modified Amendment No. 418 (to Amendment No. 358), 
to provide for the protection of pupil rights.
Pages S5916-17

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  Kennedy (for Levin) Modified Amendment No. 633 (to Amendment No. 
358), to ensure that grant funds are available for use to enhance 
educators' knowledge in the use of computer related technology to 
enhance student learning.
Pages S5916-17
  By 96 yeas to 1 nay (Vote No. 175), Smith (of NH) Amendment No. 487 
(to Amendment No. 358), expressing the sense of the Senate to urge that 
no less than 95 percent of Federal education dollars be spent in the 
classroom.
Pages S5922-25
  Hutchison Modified Amendment No. 540 (to Amendment No. 358), to amend 
certain provisions relating to same gender schools and classrooms. 
                                                         Pages S5943-45
  Gregg (for Hutchinson) Modified Amendment No. 557 (to Amendment No. 
358), to provide additional limitations on national testing of 
students, national testing and certification of teachers, and the 
collection of personally identifiable information.
Pages S5951-54
  Kennedy (for Bingaman) Modified Amendment No. 483 (to Amendment No. 
358), to establish a National Panel on Teacher Mobility. 
                                                         Pages S5951-54
  Gregg (for Murkowski) Modified Amendment No. 404 (to Amendment No. 
358), to provide for the funding of suicide prevention programs. 
                                                         Pages S5951-54
  Gregg (for Hutchinson) Modified Amendment No. 556 (to Amendment No. 
358), to provide additional protections and limitations regarding 
private schools, religious schools, and home schools.
Pages S5951-54
  Kennedy (for Hollings) Modified Amendment No. 624 (to Amendment No. 
358), to provide for the identification and recognition of exemplary 
schools and programs such as Blue Ribbon Schools, and for demonstration 
projects to evaluate the performance of such Blue Ribbon Schools. 
                                                         Pages S5951-54
  Gregg (for Smith of NH) Amendment No. 548 (to Amendment No. 358), to 
limit the application of the bill with respect to the teaching of the 
Bible in any public school.
Pages S5951-54
  Gregg (for Domenici/Kennedy) Amendment No. 415 (to Amendment No. 
358), to establish a grant program for the integration of schools and 
mental health systems.
Pages S5951-54
Rejected:
  By 43 yeas to 55 nays (Vote No. 174), Carnahan/Nelson (of NE) 
Amendment No. 385 (to Amendment No. 358), to limit the application of 
assessment requirements based on the costs to the State in 
administering such assessments.
Pages S5917-22
  By 23 yeas to 71 nays (Vote No. 176), Wellstone Amendment No. 466 (to 
Amendment No. 358), to limit the conduct of certain assessments based 
on the provision of sufficient funding to carry out part A of title I 
of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. 
                                               Pages S5926-43, S5945-47
Pending:
  Jeffords Amendment No. 358, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                         Pages S5907-54
  Kennedy (for Dodd) Amendment No. 382 (to Amendment No. 358), to 
remove the 21st century community learning center program from the list 
of programs covered by performance agreements.
Pages S5907-08
  Biden Amendment No. 386 (to Amendment No. 358), to establish school-
based partnerships between local law enforcement agencies and local 
school systems, by providing school resource officers who operate in 
and around elementary and secondary schools.
Page S5908
  Leahy (for Hatch) Amendment No. 424 (to Amendment No. 358), to 
provide for the establishment of additional Boys and Girls Clubs of 
America.
Page S5908
  Helms Amendment No. 574 (to Amendment No. 358), to prohibit the use 
of Federal funds by any State or local educational agency or school 
that discriminates against the Boy Scouts of America in providing equal 
access to school premises or facilities.
Page S5908
  Helms Amendment No. 648 (to Amendment No. 574), in the nature of a 
substitute.
Page S5908
  Dorgan Amendment No. 640 (to Amendment No. 358), expressing the sense 
of the Senate that there should be established a joint committee of the 
Senate and House of Representatives to investigate the rapidly 
increasing energy prices across the country and to determine what is 
causing the increases.
Page S5908
  Hutchinson Modified Amendment No. 555 (to Amendment No. 358), to 
express the sense of the Senate regarding the Department of Education 
program to promote access of Armed Forces recruiters to student 
directory information.
Page S5908
  Bond Modified Amendment No. 476 (to Amendment No. 358), to strengthen 
early childhood parent education programs.
Page S5908
  Feinstein Modified Amendment No. 369 (to Amendment No. 358), to 
specify the purposes for which funds provided under subpart 1 of part A 
of title I may be used.
Page S5908
  Reed Amendment No. 431 (to Amendment No. 358), to provide for greater 
parental involvement.
Page S5908
  Dodd/Biden Further Modified Amendment No. 459 (to Amendment No. 358), 
to provide for the comparability of educational services available to 
elementary and secondary students within States.
Pages S5908-16

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  Clinton Modified Amendment No. 516 (to Amendment No. 358), to provide 
for the conduct of a study concerning the health and learning impacts 
of sick and dilapidated public school buildings on children and to 
establish the Healthy and High Performance Schools Program. 
                                                         Pages S5948-50
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  Kennedy (for Bingaman) Modified Amendment No. 791 (to Amendment No. 
358), to ensure that State applications and plans are developed and 
submitted in consultation with the Governor of the State involved 
(adopted on June 6, 2001), was further modified.
Pages S5925-26
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at 2:30 p.m., on Monday, June 11, 2001, with 
votes to occur on certain amendments beginning at 5:15 p.m. 
                                                             Page S5951
Appointments:
  U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom: The Chair, on 
behalf of the President pro tempore, upon the recommendation of the 
Majority Leader, pursuant to Public Law 105-292, as amended by Public 
Law 106-55, appointed the following individuals to the United States 
Commission on International Religious Freedom: Dr. Firuz Kazemzadeh of 
California, vice John Bolton, and Charles Richard Stith of 
Massachusetts, vice Theodore Cardinal McCarrick.
  Pages S5987-88
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Steven John Morello, Sr., of Michigan, to be General Counsel of the 
Department of the Army.
  William A. Navas, Jr., of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
the Navy.
  Sheila C. Bair, of Kansas, to be an Assistant Secretary of the 
Treasury.
  Ellen G. Engleman, of Indiana, to be Administrator of the Research 
and Special Programs Administration, Department of Transportation.
  Alex Azar II, of Maryland, to be General Counsel of the Department of 
Health and Human Services.
  Clark T. Randt, Jr., of Connecticut, to be Ambassador to the People's 
Republic of China.
  C. David Welch, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Arab Republic of 
Egypt.
Page S5995
Executive Communications:
  Pages S5962-64
Petitions and Memorials:
  Pages S5964-66
Messages From the House:
  Page S5962
Measures Referred:
  Page S5962
Measures Placed on Calendar:
  Page S5962
Measures Read First Time:
  Page S5962
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S5969-85
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S5967-69
Amendments Submitted:
  Page S5987
Additional Statements:
  Pages S5961-62
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S5987
Authority for Committees:
  Page S5987
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total--176) 
                                              Pages S5922, S5925, S5947
Adjournment: Senate met at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 5:57 p.m., until 
10:30 a.m., on Friday, June 8, 2001. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S5995.)