Wednesday, July 15, 1998 Daily Digest HIGHLIGHTS House Committees ordered reported three sundry measures, including the Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary appropriations for fiscal year 1999. Senate the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, taking Chamber Action action on amendments proposed thereto, as follows: Routine Proceedings, pages S8161±S8268 Pages S8161±S8236 Measures Introduced: Ten bills were introduced, as Adopted: Cochran (for Brownback/Roberts) Amendment follows: S. 2307±2316. Pages S8240±41 No. 3155, to amend the Arms Export Control Act Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows: to provide waiver authority on certain sanctions ap- S. 2307, making appropriations for the Depart- plicable to India or Pakistan. Page S8183 ment of Transportation and related agencies for the Dodd Amendment No. 3158, to exempt agricul- fiscal year ending September 30, 1999. (S. Rept. No. tural products, medicine, and medical equipment 105±249) from U.S. economic sanctions. (By 38 yeas to 60 S. 2176, to amend sections 3345 through 3349 of nays (Vote No. 203), Senate earlier failed to table title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the amendment.) Pages S8214±28 the ``Vacancies Act'') to clarify statutory require- Roberts Modified Amendment No. 3159 (to ments relating to vacancies in and appointments to Amendment No. 3158), of a perfecting nature. certain Federal offices, and for other purposes, with Pages S8214±26 amendments. (S. Rept. No. 105±250) Torricelli Amendment No. 3160 (to Amendment S. 2312, making appropriations for the Treasury No. 3158), to exclude the application of Amend- Department, the United States Postal Service, the ment No. 3158 to any country that repeatedly pro- Executive Office of the President, and certain Inde- vided support for acts of terrorism. (By 30 yeas to pendent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending Septem- 67 nays (Vote No. 204), Senate earlier failed to table ber 30, 1999, and for other purposes. (S. Rept. No. the amendment.) Pages S8226±27 Kerrey/Burns Amendment No. 3161, to ensure 105±251) Page S8240 the continued viability of livestock producers and Measures Passed: the livestock industry in the United States. (By 49 Congressional Gold Medal: Senate passed S. yeas to 49 nays (Vote No. 205), Senate earlier failed 1283, to award Congressional gold medals to Jean to table the amendment.) Pages S8228±32 Brown Trickey, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Melba Patillo Graham Amendment No. 3162, to provide assist- Beals, Terrence Roberts, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thel- ance to agricultural producers for losses resulting ma Mothershed Wair, Ernest Green, Elizabeth from drought or fire. Pages S8232±33 Eckford, and Jefferson Thomas, commonly referred Cochran (for Coverdell) Amendment No. 3163, to collectively as the ``Little Rock Nine'' on the occa- make food safety competitive research program funds sion of the 40th anniversary of the integration of the available for research on E.coli:0157H7. Pages S8233±36 Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, after Cochran (for DeWine/Hutchinson) Amendment agreeing to a committee amendment. Pages S8264±65 No. 3164, to require the Commissioner of Food and Agriculture Appropriations, 1999: Senate resumed Drugs to conduct assessments and take other actions consideration of S. 2159, making appropriations for relating to the transition from use of Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug chlorofluorocarbons in metered-dose inhalers. Administration, and Related Agencies programs for Pages S8233±36 D761 D762 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Ð DAILY DIGEST July 15, 1998 Cochran (for Harkin/Grassley) Amendment No. and operators to hay and graze on land that is sub- 3165, to provide for the construction of a Federal ject to conservation reserve contracts. Page S8124 animal biosafety level-3 containment center. Bumpers (for Durbin) Amendment No. 3144, to Pages S8233±36 prohibit the previous shipment of shell eggs under Cochran Amendment No. 3166, to provide addi- the voluntary grading program of the Department of tional funds for conservation operations. Agriculture and to require the Secretary of Agri- Pages S8233±36 culture to submit a report on egg safety and repack- Cochran (for Kempthorne/Baucus) Amendment aging. Pages S8124±25 No. 3167, to provide funding for a secondary agri- Bumpers (for Byrd) Amendment No. 3145, to culture education program. Pages S8233±36 provide funding for completion of construction of Cochran (for Bryan) Amendment No. 3168, to re- the Alderson Plant Materials Center in Alderson, quire the Secretary of Agriculture to submit to Con- West Virginia. Page S8125 gress a report concerning the market access program. Bumpers (for Lieberman/Dodd) Amendment No. Pages S8233±36 3146, to clarify the eligibility of State agricultural Cochran (for Graham/Mack) Amendment No. experiment stations for certain agricultural research 3169, to provide additional funding for fruit fly ex- programs. Pages S8128±29 clusion and detection. Pages S8233±36 Cochran (for Johnson/Burns) Amendment No. Homeowners Protection Act: Senate concurred in 3170, to require that beef or lamb be labeled as the amendments of the House to S. 318, to require United States beef or lamb or imported beef or automatic cancellation and notice of cancellation lamb. Pages S8233±36 rights with respect to private mortgage insurance Rejected: which is required as condition for entering into a Daschle Amendment No. 3146, to provide a safe- residential mortgage transaction, to abolish the ty net for farmers and consumers regarding market- Thrift Depositor Protection Oversight Board, with ing assistance loans. (By 56 yeas to 43 nays (Vote an amendment, as follows: Pages S8267±68 No. 200), Senate tabled the amendment.) DeWine (for Santorum/Specter) Amendment No. Pages S8164±83 3171, to establish that certain provisions shall not Lugar Amendment No. 3156, to provide a frame- apply to a nonprofit institution whose primary func- work for consideration by the legislative and execu- tion is to provide health care educational services tive branches of unilateral economic sanctions in that files for bankruptcy. Page S8268 order to ensure coordination of United States policy Nominations Received: Senate received the follow- with respect to trade, security, and human rights. ing nominations: (By 53 yeas to 46 nays (Vote No. 201), Senate ta- Charles R. Rawls, of North Carolina, to be Gen- bled the amendment.) Pages S8185±S8203, S8211±12 eral Counsel of the Department of Agriculture. Bryan Amendment No. 3157, to eliminate fund- Robert M. Walker, of Tennessee, to be Deputy ing for the market access program for fiscal year Director of the Federal Emergency Management 1999. (By 70 yeas to 29 nays (Vote No. 202), Senate Agency. tabled the amendment.) Pages S8203±13 George McDade Staples, of Kentucky, to be Am- Senate will continue consideration of the bill and bassador to the Republic of Rwanda. amendments to be proposed thereto, on Thursday, A routine list in the Foreign Service. Page S8268 July 16, 1998. (During consideration of this measure on Tuesday, July Messages From the House: Page S8239 14, the Senate also took the following action): Measures Referred: Page S8239 Amendments adopted: Petitions: Pages S8239±40 By a unanimous vote of 99 yeas (Vote No. 199), Modified Daschle (for Harkin/Daschle) Amendment Executive Reports of Committees: Page S8240 No. 3127, to express the sense of the Senate that Statements on Introduced Bills: Pages S8241±53 emergency action is necessary to respond to the eco- Additional Cosponsors: Pages S8253±54 nomic hardships facing agricultural producers and Pages S8254±61 their communities. Pages S8093±94, S8100±23, S8128 Amendments Submitted: Bumpers/Cochran Amendment No. 3142, to clar- Notices of Hearings: Page S8261 ify a budget request submission regarding spending Authority for Committees: Page S8261 based on assumed revenues of unauthorized user fees. Pages S8262±64 Pages S8123±24 Additional Statements: Bumpers (for Daschle) Amendment No. 3143, to Record Votes: Six record votes were taken today. establish a pilot program to permit certain owners (TotalÐ205) Pages S8183, S8212±13, S8226±28, S8232 July 15, 1998 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Ð DAILY DIGEST D763 Adjournment: Senate convened at 9 a.m., and ad- and S. 472, to provide for referenda in which the journed at 10:48 p.m., until 10 a.m., on Thursday, residents of Puerto Rico may express democratically July 16, 1998. (For Senate's program, see the re- their preferences regarding the political status of the marks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's territory, receiving testimony from Senators Record on page S8268.) D'Amato and Lieberman; Representatives Velazquez, Serrano, and Gutierrez; Puerto Rico Resident Com- Committee Meetings missioner Carlos A. Romero-Barcelo; and Jeffrey L. Farrow, Co-Chair, The President's Interagency Group (Committees not listed did not meet) on Puerto Rico. Hearings were recessed subject to call. ATM SURCHARGING Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: NOMINATION Committee concluded oversight hearings to examine a Federal Government study on the status of auto- Committee on Environment and Public Works: Commit- mated teller machine deployment and surcharge fees tee concluded hearings on the nomination of Nikki assessed by banks and thrift institutions, after receiv- Rush Tinsley, of Maryland, to be Inspector General, ing testimony from Susan S. Westin, Associate Di- Environmental Protection Agency, after the nominee rector, Financial Institutions and Markets Issues, testified and answered questions