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“Highlights + Senate” mentioning the U.S. Dept of Agriculture was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D299-D300 on March 25, 1998.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Wednesday, March 25, 1998
Daily Digest
HIGHLIGHTS
House Committees ordered reported 8 sundry measures.
Senate
Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S2505-S2586
Measures Introduced: Eight bills and one resolution were introduced, as follows: S. 1856-1863 and S. Con. Res. 87.
Pages S2569-70
Measures Passed:
Enrollment Correction: Senate passed S. Con. Res. 87, to correct the enrollment of S. 419.
Page S2585
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations: Senate continued consideration of S. 1768, making emergency supplemental appropriations for recovery from natural disasters, and for overseas peacekeeping efforts, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, taking action on amendments proposed thereto, as follows:
Pages S2506-63
Adopted:
Domenici Amendment No. 2124, Domenici/Bingaman Amendment No. 2124, relating to the Petroglyph National Monument in New Mexico.
Page S2525
Bond Amendment No. 2122, to provide emergency community block grant funding to assist States in recovering from natural disasters occurring in Fiscal Year 1998.
Pages S2524, S2532-36
Bond/Mikulski Amendment No. 2123, to provide additional funding for disaster relief to aid disaster-stricken States.
Pages S2524-26, S2536-43
Wellstone Modified Amendment No. 2128, to provide for an Advisory Committee on International Monetary Policy.
Pages S2525-26, S2554-56
By 90 yeas to 10 nays (Vote No. 43), Helms Amendment No. 2130, to express the sense of the Senate that the United Nations should recognize the generous support of United States taxpayers towards international peace and security.
Pages S2543-53, S2561
Rejected:
Feingold Amendment No. 2121, to remove the emergency designation for the supplemental appropriations to fund incremental costs of contingency operations in Bosnia. (By a 92 yeas to 8 nays (Record Vote No. 41), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S2514, S2529-32
Nickles Amendment No. 2131 (to Amendment No. 2123), to ensure that additional funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency does not reduce the unified budget surplus. (By 68 yeas to 31 nays (Vote No. 42), Senate tabled the amendment.)
Pages S2538-43
Pending:
McConnell Modified Amendment No. 2100, to provide supplemental appropriations for the International Monetary Fund for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998.
Page S2506
Stevens (for Nickles) Amendment No. 2120, to strike certain funding for the Health Care Financing Administration.
Pages S2514-24, S2526-27, S2529
Enzi Amendment No. 2133, to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from promulgating certain regulations relating to Indian gaming activities.
Pages S2553-54, S2556-60
Bumpers Amendment No. 2134, to express the sense of the Senate that of the rescissions, if any, which Congress makes to offset appropriations made for emergency items in the Fiscal Year 1998 supplemental appropriations bill, defense spending should be rescinded to offset increases in spending for defense programs.
Pages S2560-61
Robb Amendment No. 2135, to reform agricultural credit programs of the Department of Agriculture.
Pages S2561-63
Withdrawn:
Hutchison Amendment No. 2083, to express the sense of the Congress that the President and Congress should create the conditions for a withdrawal by a date certain of U.S. ground combat forces in the territory of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Pages S2507-14
Faircloth Amendment No. 2103, to establish an Education Stabilization Fund to make loans to States for constructing and modernizing elementary and secondary schools.
Pages S2527-32
Gregg Amendment No. 2129 (to Amendment No. 2103), to provide for a reservation of funds for activities under part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. (The amendment fell when Amendment No. 2123, listed above, was withdrawn.
Pages S2527-28, S2530-32
Wellstone Amendment No. 2125, to encourage reform of International Monetary Fund policies.
Pages S2525-26, S2552
Wellstone Amendment No. 2126, to express the sense of Congress that the Government of Indonesia should release Muchtar Pakpahan from prison and have all criminal charges against him dismissed.
Pages S2525-26, S2552
Wellstone Amendment No. 2127, to encourage the International Monetary Fund to require burden-sharing by private creditors.
Pages S2525-26, S2552
Senate will continue consideration of the bill on Thursday, March 26, 1998.
Messages From the House:
Pages S2567-68
Measures Referred:
Page S2568
Petitions:
Pages S2568-69
Statements on Introduced Bills:
Pages S2570-74
Additional Cosponsors:
Pages S2574-75
Amendments Submitted:
Pages S2575-79
Authority for Committees:
Pages S2579-80
Additional Statements:
Pages S2580-82
Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. (Total--430)
Pages S2531-32, S2542-43, S2561
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 7:33 p.m., until 9:30 a.m., on Thursday, March 26, 1998. (For Senate's program, see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record, on page S2586.)
