[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 83 (Thursday, June 14, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D578-D580]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                            Thursday, June 14, 2001

[[Page D578]]

                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 
      Authorization.
      The House passed H.R. 1088, Investor and Capital Markets Fee 
      Relief Act.
      House Committee ordered reported a Supplemental Appropriations 
      for Fiscal Year 2001.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S6239-S6368
Measures Introduced: Twenty-one bills and five resolutions were 
introduced, as follows: S. 1037-1057, S. Res. 110-112, and S. Con. Res. 
49-50.                                                       
  Page S6318
Measures Passed:
  Elementary and Secondary Education Act Authorization: By 91 yeas to 8 
nays (Vote No. 192), Senate passed H.R. 1, to close the achievement gap 
with accountability, flexibility, and choice, so that no child is left 
behind, after striking all after the enacting clause and inserting in 
lieu thereof the text of S. 1, Senate companion measure, and after 
taking action on the following amendments proposed thereto: 
                                                      Pages S6239-S6305
Adopted:
  By 51 yeas to 49 nays (Vote No. 189), Helms Modified Amendment No. 
648 (to Amendment No. 574), in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                  Pages S6239, S6249-67
  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.          
Pages S6239, S6249-68
  Sessions Modified Amendment No. 604 (to Amendment No. 358), to amend 
the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regarding discipline. 
                                                         Pages S6240-48
  By 52 yeas to 47 nays (Vote No. 191), Boxer Modified Amendment No. 
803 (to Amendment No. 562), to provide that no public elementary 
school, public secondary school, local educational agency, or State 
educational agency, may deny equal access or a fair opportunity to meet 
after school in a designated open forum to any youth group listed in 
title 36 of the U.S. Code as a patriotic society, including the Boy 
Scouts of America, based on that group's favorable or unfavorable 
position concerning sexual orientation.                  
Pages S6269-75
  Boxer Amendment No. 562 (to Amendment No. 358), to express the sense 
of the Senate with regard to providing the necessary funding for after 
school programs.                                         
Pages S6269-75
  Kennedy (for Feinstein) Modified Amendment No. 571 (to Amendment No. 
358), to provide grants to States with high growth rates in Title I 
children.                                                
Pages S6279-89
  Gregg (for Kyl) Modified Amendment No. 527 (to Amendment No. 358), to 
establish an exception to the prohibition on segregating homeless 
students.                                                
Pages S6279-89
  Kennedy (for Dodd/Shelby) Modified Amendment No. 457 (to Amendment 
No. 358), to increase parental involvement and protect student privacy.
                                                         Pages S6279-89
  Gregg (for Hutchinson) Modified Amendment No. 582 (to Amendment No. 
457), to protect student privacy.                        
Pages S6279-89
  Kennedy (for Reed) Modified Amendment No. 432 (to Amendment No. 358), 
to broaden local applications.                           
Pages S6279-89
  Kennedy (for Jeffords) Modified Amendment No. 585 (to Amendment No. 
358), to improve the Early Reading First Program.        
Pages S6279-89
  Kennedy (for Jeffords) Amendment No. 586 (to Amendment No. 358), to 
improve the Pupil Safety and Family School Choice Program. 
                                                         Pages S6279-89

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  Kennedy (for Jeffords) Modified Amendment No. 587 (to Amendment No. 
358), to refine the Improving Academic Achievement Program. 
                                                         Pages S6279-89
  Kennedy (for Jeffords) Amendment No. 588 (to Amendment No. 358), to 
amend the local educational plan under section 1112(c) of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 regarding models of high 
quality, effective curriculum.                           
                                                         Pages S6279-89
  Kennedy (for Jeffords) Modified Amendment No. 589 (to Amendment No. 
358), to improve section 1116 of the Elementary and Secondary Education 
Act of 1965 regarding assessment and local educational agency and 
school improvement.                                      
                                                         Pages S6279-89
  Kennedy (for Jeffords) Amendment No. 590 (to Amendment No. 358), to 
amend the uses of funds under the Local Innovative Education Programs. 
                                                         Pages S6279-89
  Kennedy (for Jeffords) Amendment No. 591 (to Amendment No. 358), to 
amend section 1119 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
1965 regarding professional development activities.      
                                                         Pages S6279-89
  Kennedy (for Jeffords) Modified Amendment No. 592 (to Amendment No. 
358), to make certain improvements to the bill.          
                                                         Pages S6279-89
  Kennedy (for Jeffords) Amendment No. 593 (to Amendment No. 358), to 
provide for an independent evaluation that identifies the effects of 
specific activities to improve reading instruction.      
                                                         Pages S6279-89
  Kennedy (for Jeffords) Amendment No. 595 (to Amendment No. 358), to 
maintain funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. 
                                                         Pages S6279-89
  Gregg (for Cochran) Modified Amendment No. 512 (to Amendment No. 
358), to authorize education programs of national significance. 
                                                         Pages S6279-89
  Kennedy (for Reed) Modified Amendment No. 435 (to Amendment No. 358), 
to support the use of education technology to enhance and facilitate 
meaningful parental involvement to improve student learning. 
                                                         Pages S6279-89
  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.      
                                                  Pages S6239, S6279-89
  Leahy (for Hatch) Amendment No. 424 (to Amendment No. 358), to 
provide for the establishment of additional Boys and Girls Clubs of 
America.                                          
                                                  Pages S6239, S6279-89
  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 S6239, S6279-89
  Kennedy/Gregg Amendment No. 804 (to Amendment No. 358), to make 
certain improvements to the bill.                        
                                                         Pages S6279-89
  Jeffords Amendment No. 358, in the nature of a substitute. 
                                                         Pages S6239-89
                                                              Rejected:
  By 36 yeas to 64 nays (Vote No. 187), Harkin (for Kennedy/Harkin) 
Amendment No. 802 (to Amendment No. 358), to amend the Individuals with 
Disabilities Education Act regarding discipline.         
                                                         Pages S6240-48
                                                             Withdrawn:
  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.                               
                                                     Pages S6239, S6289
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 51 yeas to 47 nays (Vote No. 190), Senate agreed to a motion to 
reconsider Vote No. 188, by which Sessions Modified Amendment No. 604 
(to Amendment No. 358), to amend the Individuals with Disabilities 
Education Act regarding discipline, was rejected. (Subsequently, upon 
reconsideration, the amendment was adopted by voice vote, as listed 
above.)                                                  
                                                         Pages S6268-69
  Kennedy (for Lugar/Bingaman) Modified Amendment No. 441 (to Amendment 
No. 358), to provide for comprehensive school reform (adopted on June 
13, 2001), was further modified.                             
                                                             Page S6305
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that it be in 
order for the Clerk to make technical and conforming changes to any 
previously agreed to amendments with respect to the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act Authorization bill.                  
                                                             Page S6305
  Subsequently, the unanimous-consent agreement was vitiated. 
                                                             Page S6357
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that 
notwithstanding passage of H.R. 1, that previously agreed upon 
amendments where language was affected by amendments agreed upon later, 
that it be in order for these amendments to be included in the bill, as 
previously was the intent of the two managers.               
                                                             Page S6357

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  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that S. 1 be 
considered as having been read a third time.                 
                                                             Page S6357
  Subsequently, S. 1 was returned to the Senate calendar.
  Retirement of Sharon Zelaska: Senate agreed to S. Res. 110, relating 
to the retirement of Sharon A. Zelaska, Assistant Secretary of the 
Senate.                                                  
  Pages S6356-57
  Commending Bob Dove: Senate agreed to S. Res. 111, commending Bob 
Dove on his retirement as Parliamentarian of the Senate.     
  Page S6357
  Honoring Army's 226th Birthday: Senate agreed to S. Res. 112, 
honoring the United States Army on its 226th birthday.       
  Page S6357
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  Charles A. James, Jr., of Virginia, to be an Assistant Attorney 
General.
  Stephen L. Johnson, of Maryland, to be Assistant Administrator for 
Toxic Substances of the Environmental Protection Agency.
  James Laurence Connaughton, of the District of Columbia, to be a 
Member of the Council on Environmental Quality.      
                                                     Pages S6356, S6368
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Frances P. Mainella, of Florida, to be Director of the National Park 
Service.
  John W. Keys III, of Utah, to be Commissioner of Reclamation.
  Daniel C. Kurtzer, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to Israel.
  Russell F. Freeman, of North Dakota, to be Ambassador to Belize.
  Clark Kent Ervin, of Texas, to be Inspector General, Department of 
State.
  Richard J. Egan, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to Ireland.
  Vincent Martin Battle, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Lebanon.
  5 Army nominations in the rank of general.                 
                                                             Page S6368
Messages From the House:                                     
  Page S6317
Measures Referred:                                       
  Pages S6317-18
Measures Placed on Calendar:                                 
  Page S6318
Statements on Introduced Bills:                          
  Pages S6319-49
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S6318-19
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S6351-55
Additional Statements:                                   
  Pages S6316-17
Notices of Hearings:                                         
  Page S6356
Authority for Committees:                                    
  Page S6356
Privilege of the Floor:                                      
  Page S6356
Record Votes: Six record votes were taken today. (Total--192) 
                                 Page S6248, S6267, S6269, S6275, S6305
Adjournment: Senate met at 9 a.m., and adjourned at 8:30 p.m., until 1 
p.m., on Monday, June 18, 2001. (For Senate's program, see the remarks 
of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S6358.)