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“Senate” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D969-D970 on Sept. 13, 1999.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Monday, September 13, 1999
Daily Digest
Senate
Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S10743-S10792
Measures Introduced: Four bills and one resolution were introduced, as follows: S. 1577-1580, and S. Res. 182.
Page S10779
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
S. 566, to amend the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to exempt agricultural commodities, livestock, and value-added products from unilateral economic sanctions, to prepare for future bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations affecting United States agriculture, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 106-157)
Page S10779
Department of the Interior Appropriations: Senate resumed consideration of H.R. 2466, making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, taking action on the following amendments proposed thereto:
Pages S10754-69, S10771-73
Pending:
Gorton Amendment No. 1359, of a technical nature.
Page S10754
Hutchison Amendment No. 1603, to prohibit the use of funds for the purpose of issuing a notice of rulemaking with respect to the valuation of crude oil for royalty purposes until September 30, 2000.
Pages S10754, S10771-73
Bryan Amendment No. 1588, to make available certain funds, by reducing the subsidy for the below-cost timber program administered by the Forest Service and for the construction of logging roads in national forests, for other Forest Service programs including road maintenance, wildlife and fish habitat management, and for threatened, endangered, and sensitive species habitat management.
Pages S10754-69
Bryan/Wyden Amendment No. 1623 (to Amendment No. 1588), to make available certain funds for survey and manage requirements of the Northwest Forest Plan Record of Decision.
Pages S10755-67
During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the following action:
By 55 yeas to 40 nays (Vote 271), three-fifths of those Senators duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate rejected a motion to close further debate on Hutchison Amendment No. 1603
(listed above).
Pages S10771-73
A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for a vote on or in relation to Bryan/Wyden Amendment No. 1623 (to Amendment No. 1588), to occur on Tuesday, September 14, 1999, at 10:30 a.m.
Page S10767
FALN Terrorist Clemency--Cloture Vote: By a unanimous vote of 93 yeas
(Vote No. 270), three-fifths of those Senators duly chosen and sworn, having voted in the affirmative, Senate agreed to a motion to close further debate on the motion to proceed to the consideration of S.J. Res. 33, deploring the actions of President Clinton regarding granting clemency to the Armed Forces of National Liberation (the FALN) terrorists.
Pages S10769-71
Commerce/Justice/State Appropriations--Additional Conferee: Senator Leahy was added as a conferee to H.R. 2670, making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000.
Page S10786
Removal of Injunction of Secrecy: The injunction of secrecy was removed from the following treaty:
Tax Convention with Slovenia (Treaty Doc. No. 106-9).
The treaty was transmitted to the Senate today, considered as having been read for the first time, and referred, with accompanying papers, to the Committee on Foreign Relations and was ordered to be printed.
Pages S10786-87
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages from the President of the United States:
A message from the President of the United States transmitting a report entitled ``United States Participation in The United Nations''; referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (PM-56).
Page S10778
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
David N. Hurd, of New York, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of New York.
Naomi Reice Buchwald, of New York, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York.
Maryanne Trump Barry, of New Jersey, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit.
Pages S10773-74, S10786, S10792
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations: John F. Potter, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences for a term expiring May 1, 2005.
Roger Walton Ferguson, Jr., of Massachusetts, to be Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for a term of four years.
Roger Walton Ferguson, Jr., of Massachusetts, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for a term of fourteen years from February 1, 2000.
William B. Bader, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of State
(Educational and Cultural Affairs).
Sim Farar, of California, to be a Representative of the United States of America to the Fifty-fourth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
1 Air Force nomination in the rank of general.
Routine lists in the Air Force, Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Marine Corps.
Pages S10787-92
Messages From the President:
Pages S10778
Messages From the House:
Page S10778
Communications:
Pages S10778-79
Petitions:
Page S10779
Statements on Introduced Bills:
Pages S10779-82
Additional Cosponsors:
Pages S10782-84
Amendments Submitted:
Page S10784
Notices of Hearings:
Page S10784
Authority for Committees:
Page S10784
Additional Statements:
Pages S10784-86
Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--271)
Pages S10771, S10773
Adjournment: Senate convened at 12 noon, and adjourned at 6:52 p.m., until 9:30 a.m., on Tuesday, September 14, 1999. (For Senate's program, see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S10787.)
