[Daily Digest]
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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Wednesday, July 17, 1996

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Daily Digest

HIGHLIGHTS

House Committee ordered reported 20 sundry measures.

Senate

Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S7921-S8064
Measures Introduced: Seven bills and one resolution were introduced, as
follows: S. 1963-1969, and S. Res. 279.
Page S8013
Measures Passed:
Commending Dr. LeRoy T. Walker: Senate agreed to S. Res. 279, to
commend Dr. LeRoy T. Walker for his service as President of the U.S.
Olympic Committee and his lifelong dedication to the improvement of
amateur athletic opportunities in the United States.
Pages S7936-37
Gambling Impact Study Commission: Senate passed H.R. 497, to create
the National Gambling Impact and Policy Commission, after striking all
after the enacting clause and inserting in lieu thereof the text of S.
704, Senate companion measure, after agreeing to a committee amendment
in the nature of a substitute, and the following amendment proposed
thereto:
Pages S7971-82
Lott (for Stevens) Amendment No. 4889, to make a technical
correction.
Page S7981
Subsequently, S. 704 was returned to the Senate calendar.
Page S7981
Filipino WWII Veterans Recognition: Committee on the Judiciary was
discharged from the further consideration of S. Con. Res. 64, to
recognize and honor the Filipino World War II veterans for their
defense of democratic ideals and their important contribution to the
outcome of World War II, and the measure was then agreed to.
Pages S8060-61
DOD Appropriations: Senate resumed consideration of S. 1894, making
appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 1997, taking action on the following amendments proposed
thereto:
Pages S7928-71, S7983-S8007
Adopted:
Stevens Amendment No. 4439, to realign funds from Army and Defense
Wide Operation and Maintenance accounts to the Overseas Contingency
Operations Transfer Fund.
Pages S7929-30
Stevens (for Inouye) Amendment No. 4589 (to Amendment No. 4439), in
the nature of a substitute.
Pages S7929-30
Stevens Amendment No. 4563, to require a study regarding the F-22
Advanced Tactical Fighter.
Pages S7930-31
Inouye (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 4489, to reduce funding for
Pentagon renovation.
Page S7931
Stevens (for Lott) Amendment No. 4566, to provide funds for the
Maritime Technology program and the Focused Research Initiatives
program.
Pages S7931-32
Inouye (for Bingaman/Domenici/Santorum) Amendment No. 4490, to make
funds available for the United States-Japan Management Training
Program.
Page S7932
Inouye (for Feinstein) Amendment No. 4462, to provide funds for the
procurement of a real-time, automatic cargo tracking and control
system.
Pages S7932-33
Stevens (for Bond/Ford/Lott) Amendment No. 4452, to prohibit the use
of funds to inactivate or reduce any unit of special operation forces
of the Army National Guard.
Pages S7933-34
Inouye (for Shelby/Heflin) Amendment No. 4572, to require the
Secretary of the Army to establish subcontracting goals for certain
procurement using funds appropriated by the bill.
Page S7934
Stevens Amendment No. 4564, to require a report from the Secretary of
the Air Force and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management
regarding individuals injured or killed while traveling on an aircraft
operated by the Government of the United States.
Pages S7934-35
Inouye (for Lautenberg) Amendment No. 4550, to require a report on
meeting Department of Defense procurements of propellant raw materials.
Page S7935

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Stevens (for Murkowski) Amendment No. 4534, to require the Secretary
of the Air Force to carry out a cost-benefit analysis of consolidating
the ground station infrastructure supporting polar orbiting satellites.
Pages S7935-36
Inouye (for Bradley) Amendment No. 4569, to impose additional
conditions on the authority to pay restructuring costs under defense
contracts.
Pages S7941-42
Stevens (for Specter) Amendment No. 4480, to provide funds for the
Intercooled Recuperated Gas Turbine Engine program.
Page S7942
Stevens (for Cochran/Lott) Amendment No. 4666, to allow the Secretary
of the Navy to lease certain property located at Naval Air Station,
Mississippi, for use by the State to construct a reserve center.
Page S7943
Stevens (for Frahm) Amendment No. 4528, to require certification of
competition prior to the appropriations of funds for the T-39N.
Pages S7943-44
Simon Amendment No. 4852, to improve the National Security Education
Program.
Pages S7945-46
Inouye (for Moseley-Braun) Amendment No. 4568, to require annual
reports on the average cost of tuition at colleges and universities
that receive federal funding.
Page S7946
McCain Amendment No. 4440, to require an audit and report on security
measures at all United States military installations outside the United
States.
Pages S7946-48
McCain/Levin Modified Amendment No. 4444, to provide funds for anti-
terrorism activities of the Department of Defense.
Pages S7948-49
McCain Amendment No. 4441, to require the submittal to Congress of
the future-years defense programs prepared by the Chief of National
Guard Bureau and the chiefs of the reserve components.
Pages S7950-51
Stevens (for Gramm) Modified Amendment No. 4582, to provide funds for
preparing the application for renewal of the use of the McCregor Range
at Fort Bliss, Texas.
Page S7954
Gorton Amendment No. 4883, to provide funds to fund 1.5 ship years in
the university research fleet under the Oceanographic and Atmospheric
Technology program.
Page S7954
Inouye (for Feinstein) Amendment No. 4884, to provide funds for the
Pulse Doppler Upgrade modification to the AN/SPS-48E radar system.
Page S7954
By a unanimous vote of 100 yeas (Vote No. 195), Nunn Amendment No.
4453, to provide funds for defending the United States against weapons
of mass destruction.
Pages S7965-68, S7970-71
Inouye (for Heflin) Amendment No. 4885, to provide funds for the
Operation Field Assessment Program.
Pages S7968-69
Stevens (for Santorum) Amendment No. 4886, to make funds available
for acceleration of a program to develop thermally stable jet fuels
using chemicals derived from coal.
Page S7969
Inouye (for Kerry/McCain) Amendment No. 4451, to make funds available
for payment to certain Vietnamese commandos captured and interned by
North Vietnam.
Page S7969
Stevens (for Bennett) Amendment No. 4887, to make funds available for
evaluation of a non-developmental Doppler sonar velocity log.
Pages S7969-70
Inouye (for Byrd) Amendment No. 4888, to make funds available for
scientific research on possible casual relationships between Gulf War
service and Gulf War syndrome.
Page S7970
Stevens (for Specter) Modified Amendment No. 4575, to provide funds
for the Super Dragon Missile System.
Page S7983
Stevens (for Helms) Modified Amendment No. 4493, to provide funds to
assist the education of certain dependents of Department of Defense
personnel at Fort Bragg and Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina.
Pages S7983-84
Inouye (for Dodd) Amendment No. 4890, to allow funds to be used to
initiate engineering and manufacturing development of the airborne mine
countermeasure system.
Pages S7984-85
Stevens (for McCain) Modified Amendment No. 4443, to reduce funds
available for environmental activities with respect to the Joint
Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, Louisiana.
Pages S7987-88
Stevens (for Johnston/Breaux) Modified Amendment No. 4448 (to
Amendment No. 4443), to restore $500,000 for environmental activities
with respect to the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk,
Louisiana.
Page S7988
Stevens (for Feingold/Kohl/Bumpers) Amendment No. 4892, to provide
for a review, analysis and estimate of production costs of the F/A-18E/
F aircraft program.
Pages S7992-94
Rejected:
Simon Amendment No. 4591, to ensure that work under Department of
Defense contracts is performed in the United States. (By 69 yeas to 29
nays (Vote No. 194), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S7937-43, S7945
McCain Amendment No. 4442, to limit the use of funds for programs,
projects, and activities not included in the most recent future-years
defense program.
Pages S7933, S7951-54
Grassley Amendment No. 4463, to prohibit the use of funds for support
of more than 68 general officers of the Marine Corps on active duty.
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yeas to 21 nays (Vote No. 196), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S7985-87, S7989
By 44 yeas to 56 nays (Vote No. 197), Bumpers Amendment No. 4891, to
reduce procurement of F/A-18C/D fighters to six aircraft.
Pages S7989-92
Pending:
Harkin/Simon Amendment No. 4492, relating to payments by the
Department of Defense of restructuring costs associated with business
combinations.
Pages S7997-S8005
Levin Amendment No. 4893, to strike funding for new production of F-
16 aircraft in excess of six, and transfer the funding to increase
funding for anti-terrorism support.
Pages S8005-07
A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further
consideration of the bill on Thursday, July 18, 1996, with final
disposition to occur thereon.
Page S7997
Budget Reconciliation: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached
providing for consideration of S. 1956, to provide for reconciliation
pursuant to section 202(a) of the concurrent resolution on the budget
for fiscal year 1997, on Thursday, July 18, 1996.
Page S7997
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages
from the President of the United States:
Transmitting the report of the President's Advisory Board on Arms
Proliferation Policy; referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (PM-
160).
Page S8011
Transmitting the report concerning the emigration laws and policies
of the Republic of Bulgaria; referred to the Committee on Finance. (PM-
161).
Pages S8011-12
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
Charles N. Clevert, Jr., of Wisconsin, to be United States District
Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
Routine lists in the Public Health Service.
Pages S8061-62, S8063
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
1 Army nomination in the rank of general.
Routine lists in the Air Force, Army, and Navy.
Pages S8062-63
Messages From the President:
Pages S8011-12
Messages From the House:
Page S8012
Measures Placed on Calendar:
Page S8012
Communications:
Pages S8012-13
Petitions:
Page S8013
Statements on Introduced Bills:
Pages S8013-27
Additional Cosponsors:
Pages S8027-28
Amendments Submitted:
Pages S8028-58
Notices of Hearings:
Pages S8058-59
Authority for Committees:
Page S8059
Additional Statements:
Pages S8059-60
Record Votes: Four record votes were taken today. (Total-197)
Pages S7945, S7970, S7989, S7992
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 8:15 p.m.,
until 9:30 a.m., on Thursday, July 18, 1996. (For Senate's program, see
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page
S8062.)