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“Senate” published by Congressional Record on Sept. 26, 1995

Volume 141, No. 151 covering the 1st Session of the 104th Congress (1995 - 1996) was published by the Congressional Record.

The Congressional Record is a unique source of public documentation. It started in 1873, documenting nearly all the major and minor policies being discussed and debated.

“Senate” mentioning the Environmental Protection Agency was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1147-D1148 on Sept. 26, 1995.

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Tuesday, September 26, 1995

Daily Digest

Senate

Chamber Action

Routine Proceedings, pages S14223-S14334

Measures Introduced: Three bills were introduced, as follows: S. 1273-1275.

Page S14312

VA/HUD Appropriations, 1996: Senate continued consideration of H.R. 2099, making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, with certain excepted committee amendments, taking action on amendments proposed thereto, as follows:

Pages S14223-S14307

Adopted:

(1) Bond Amendment No. 2778, to ensure that veterans in the State of Hawaii are given appropriate and equal access to VA-funded medical care.

Pages S14228-30

(2) Stevens/Murkowski Amendment No. 2779, to provide for a 1-year exemption from the oxygenated fuel requirements of the Clean Air Act for Fairbanks, Alaska.

Pages S14246-48

(3) Chafee Amendment No. 2780 (to committee amendment on page 143, line 17 through page 151, line 10), to modify the provisions with respect to arsenic.

Pages S14248-49

(4) Jeffords Amendment No. 2783, to require the Environmental Protection Agency to give priority to small businesses in its green programs and to require the EPA to perform a study to determine the feasibility of making these programs self-sufficient.

Pages S14281-86

(5) McCain Amendment No. 2787, to require the Department of Veterans Affairs to allocate funding to insure that veterans have equal access to quality health care.

Pages S14299-S14302

Rejected:

(1) By 35 yeas to 64 nays (Vote No. 463), Bumpers Amendment No. 2776 (to committee amendment on page 158, lines 13-14), to reduce the appropriation for the implementation of the space station program for the purpose of terminating the program.

Pages S14230-46

(2) By 47 yeas to 52 nays (Vote No. 464), Mikulski Amendment No. 2781, to restore funding for national and community service programs.

Pages S14249-71

Withdrawn:

Inouye Amendment No. 2777, to make available $38,000,000 for construction at the Spark M. Matsunaga Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Hawaii.

Pages S14226-28

Pending:

Sarbanes Amendment No. 2782, to restore homeless assistance funding to fiscal year 1995 levels using excess public housing agency project reserves.

Pages S14273-79, S14281

Rockefeller Amendment No. 2784, to strike section 107 which limits compensation for mentally disabled veterans and offset the loss of revenues by ensuring that any tax cut benefits only those families with incomes less than $100,000.

Pages S14286-89

Rockefeller Amendment No. 2785 (to committee amendment on page 8, lines 9-

10), to increase funding for veterans' medical care and offset the increase in funds by ensuring that any tax cut benefits only those families with incomes less that $100,000.

Pages S14290-95

Baucus Amendment No. 2786, to provide that any provision that limits implementation or enforcement of any environmental law shall not apply if the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency determines that application of the prohibition or limitation would diminish the protection of human health or the environment otherwise provided by law.

Pages S14295-99

A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further consideration of the bill and certain amendments to be proposed thereto.

Page S14295

Senate will continue consideration of the bill on Wednesday, September 27, 1995.

Small Business Lending Enhancement Act--Conferees: Senate disagreed to the amendments of the House to S. 895, to amend the Small Business Act to reduce the level of participation by the Small Business Administration in certain loans guaranteed by the Administration, agreed to the request of the House for a conference thereon, and the Chair appointed the following conferees: Senators Bond, Burns, Coverdell, Bumpers, and Nunn.

Page S14333

Messages From the House:

Page S14309

Communications:

Pages S14309-10

Petitions:

Pages S14310-12

Executive Reports of Committees:

Page S14312

Statements on Introduced Bills:

Pages S14312-18 Additional Cosponsors:

Pages S14318-19

Amendments Submitted:

Pages S14319-21

Authority for Committees:

Page S14321

Additional Statements:

Pages S14321-24

Text of S. 1244 as Previously Passed:

Pages S14324-32

Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--464)

Pages S14246, S14271

Recess: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m., and recessed at 8:55 p.m., until 9 a.m., on Wednesday, September 27, 1995. (For Senate's program, see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on pages S14333-34.)

SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 141, No. 151