[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 82 (Wednesday, June 13, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D569-D571]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                           Wednesday, June 13, 2001

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      The House passed H.R. 1157, Pacific Salmon Recovery Act.
      The House passed H.R. 2052, Sudan Peace Act.
      The House agreed to H. Con. Res. 145, Condemning the Taliban 
      Regime for its Order directing Hindus to Wear a Yellow Identity 
      Symbol.
      House Committee ordered reported the following appropriation 
      bills: Interior and the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and 
      Drug Administration and Related Agencies.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S6147-S6237
Measures Introduced: Thirteen bills were introduced, as follows: S. 
1024-1036.
  Pages S6211-12
Measures Passed:
  HUD Manufacturing Fees: Senate passed S. 1029, to clarify the 
authority of the Department of Housing and Urban Development with 
respect to the use of fees during fiscal year 2001 for the manufactured 
housing program.
  Page S6236
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 S6147-S6208
Adopted:
  By 91 yeas to 8 nays (Vote No. 182), Gregg (for Santorum) Amendment 
No. 799 (to Amendment No. 358), to express the sense of the Senate 
regarding science education.
Pages S6147-53
  Landrieu Amendment No. 474 (to Amendment No. 358), to improve the 
formulas for teacher quality grants.
Pages S6155-57
  Nelson (of NE) Modified Amendment No. 533, to promote and support 
mentoring programs to assist children with greatest need. 
                                                         Pages S6169-71
  Kerry Modified Amendment No. 423 (to Amendment No. 358), to provide 
for professional development and other activities for principals. 
                                                         Pages S6172-76
  Kerry Modified Amendment No. 455 (to Amendment No. 358), to develop, 
establish, or improve alternative educational opportunities for 
chronically disruptive and violent students that include drug and 
violence prevention programs.
Pages S6172-76
  Cantwell Modified Amendment No. 630 (to Amendment No. 358), to 
provide for additional requirements with regard to the integration of 
education technology resources.
Pages S6147, S6176-79
  Kennedy (for Reed) Amendment No. 433 (to Amendment No. 358), to amend 
a definition relating to parental involvement.
Pages S6179-80
  Kennedy (for Reed) Amendment No. 436 (to Amendment No. 358), to make 
a technical correction relating to parental involvement. 
                                                         Pages S6179-80
  Reed Modified Amendment No. 431 (to Amendment No. 358), to provide 
for greater parental involvement.
Page S6147, S6179-80
  Gregg (for Specter) Amendment No. 419 (to Amendment No. 358), to 
improve the provisions related to initiatives for neglected, 
delinquent, or at risk students.
Pages S6179-80
  Dodd Modified Amendment No. 456 (to Amendment No. 358), to provide 
for early childhood educator professional development.
Pages S7183-84
  Feinstein Further 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.
Pages S6147, S6201-04
  Kennedy (for Bingaman) Modified Amendment No. 484 (to Amendment No. 
358), to amend education technology programs.
Pages S6201-04

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  Kennedy (for Lugar/Bingaman) Modified Amendment No. 441 (to Amendment 
No. 358), to provide for comprehensive school reform.
Pages S6201-04
  Kennedy (for Hagel) Modified Amendment No. 549 (to Amendment No. 
358), to provide for the awarding of school facility modernization 
grants on a competitive basis.
Pages S6201-04
  Kennedy (for DeWine) Modified Amendment No. 446 (to Amendment No. 
358), to modify provisions relating to the Safe and Drug-Free Schools 
and Communities Act of 1994 with respect to violence prevention. 
                                                         Pages S6201-04
  Hutchinson Further Modified Amendment No. 555 (to Amendment No. 358), 
to require the Secretary of Education to establish a campaign to 
educate principals, school administrators, and other educators 
regarding access to secondary schools for military recruiting purposes.
                                        Pages S6147, S6181-83, S6201-04
  Kennedy (for Feinstein) Amendment No. 609 (to Amendment No. 358), to 
require audits of local education agencies to determine how funds are 
being expended.
Pages S6201-04
Rejected:
  By 22 yeas to 78 nays (Vote No. 183), Hollings Amendment No. 798 (to 
Amendment No. 358), to permit States to waive certain testing 
requirements.
Pages S6147-53
  By 47 yeas to 51 nays (Vote No. 184), 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 S6147, S6157-68, S6179, S6180-81
  By 49 yeas to 50 nays (Vote No. 185), Domenici Modified Amendment No. 
801 (to Amendment No. 358), to express the Sense of the Senate that the 
Appropriations Committee shall fund the authorizations in this bill to 
the maximum extent possible.
Pages S6188-93
  By 49 yeas to 50 nays (Vote No. 186), Schumer/Boxer Amendment No. 800 
(to Amendment No. 358), to express the sense of the Senate that 
Congress should appropriate all funds authorized for elementary and 
secondary education in fiscal year 2002.
Pages S6185-88, S6193-94
Withdrawn:
  Specter Amendment No. 420 (to Amendment No. 358), to amend the Fair 
Labor Standards Act of 1938 to permit certain youth to perform certain 
work with wood products.
Pages S6153-54
Pending:
  Jeffords Amendment No. 358, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                      Pages S6147-S6208
  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 S6147
  Leahy (for Hatch) Amendment No. 424 (to Amendment No. 358), to 
provide for the establishment of additional Boys and Girls Clubs of 
America.
Page S6147
  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 S6147
  Helms Amendment No. 648 (to Amendment No. 574), in the nature of a 
substitute.
Page S6147
  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 S6147
  Clinton Further Modified Amendment No. 516 (to Amendment No. 358), to 
provide for the conduct of a study concerning the health and learning 
impacts of dilapidated or environmentally unhealthy public school 
buildings on children and to establish the Healthy and High Performance 
Schools Program.
Pages S6147, S6195-98
  Sessions Modified Amendment No. 604 (to Amendment No. 358), to amend 
the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regarding discipline. 
                                            Pages S6198-S6201, S6204-06
  Harkin (for Kennedy/Harkin) Amendment No. 802 (to Amendment No. 358), 
to amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regarding 
discipline.
Pages S6206-07
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  Carper Modified Amendment No. 518 (to Amendment No. 358), to promote 
parental involvement and parental empowerment in public education 
through greater competition and choice (adopted on June 12, 2001), was 
further modified.
Pages S6168-69
  Kennedy (for Stevens) Modified Amendment No. 634 (to Amendment No. 
358), to create educational, cultural and exchange programs to assist 
Alaska Natives (adopted on June 11, 2001), was further modified. 
                                                         Pages S6207-08
  A unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill at 9 a.m., on Thursday, June 14, 2001, with a 
vote to occur on or in relation to Harkin Amendment No. 802 (listed 
above) at approximately 10 a.m., to be followed by a vote on or in 
relation to Sessions

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Modified Amendment No. 604 (listed above); to be followed by further 
consideration of Helms Amendment No. 574 (to Amendment No. 358) and 
Helms Amendment No. 648 (to Amendment No. 574), both listed above. 
                                                             Page S6198
Executive Communications:
  Page S6211
Messages From the House:
  Pages S6210-11
Measures Referred:
  Page S6211
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S6213-34
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S6212-13
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S6234-35
Additional Statements:
  Pages S6209-10
Notices of Hearings:
  Page S6235
Authority for Committees:
  Pages S6235-36
Privilege of the Floor:
  Page S6236
Record Votes: Five record votes were taken today. (Total--186) 
                                    Pages S6153, S6180-81, S6193, S6194
Adjournment: Senate met at 9 a.m., and adjourned at 7:49 p.m., until 9 
a.m., on Thursday, June 14, 2001. (For Senate's program, see the 
remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S6237.)