S.544 - Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1999106th Congress (1999-2000)

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03/25/1999 Returned to the Calendar. Calendar No. 28. (consideration: CR S3327)

03/25/1999 Senate incorporated this measure in H.R. 1141 as an amendment. (consideration: CR S3327)

03/23/1999 Measure ordered held at the desk pursuant to the order of March 18, 1999.

03/23/1999 Passed Senate with amendments by Voice Vote.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.142 Proposed amendment SP 142 withdrawn in Senate.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.81 Proposed amendment SP 81 withdrawn in Senate.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.124 SP 124 fell when SP 81 withdrawn.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.130 Amendment SP 130 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.130 Motion to table SP 130 rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 40-59. Record Vote No: 56.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.141 Amendment SP 141 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.140 Amendment SP 140 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.139 Amendment SP 139 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.138 Amendment SP 138 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.137 Amendment SP 137 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.136 Amendment SP 136 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.135 Amendment SP 135 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.134 Amendment SP 134 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.133 Amendment SP 133 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.132 Amendment SP 132 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.142 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Lott. To provide that the presiding officer of the Senate should apply all precedents of the Senate under rule 16, in effect at the conclusion of the 103rd Congress.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.141 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Domenici. To establish an emergency oil and gas guaranteed loan program.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.140 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Bingaman. To provide emergency relief to the domestic oil and gas industry.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.139 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Enzi. To provide emergency relief to the livestock industry.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.138 Proposed by Senator Stevens. To provide limited operational leasing authority to the Secretary of the Air Force.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.137 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Daschle. To provide that the Corps of Engineers is directed to reprogram certain funds made available for the operation of the Pick-Sloan project to perform the preliminary work needed to transfer Federal lands to the tribes and State of South Dakota, and to provide funds for the protection of certain Indian cultural sites.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.136 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Gregg. To provide for a limitation on certain fishing permits or authorizations.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.135 Proposed by Senator Stevens. To provide funds for the construction of the Pike's Peak Summit House, and for the Borough of Ketchikan to participate in a study of the feasibility and dynamics of manufacturing veneer products in Southeast Alaska.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.134 Proposed by Senator Stevens. To allow military technicians while deployed to receive per diem expenses.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.133 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Grassley. Related to climate research.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.132 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Helms. To appropriate, with a rescission, funds for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.131 Amendment SP 131 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.131 Proposed by Senator Robb. To authorize payments in settlement of claims for deaths arising from the accident involving a United States Marine Corps A-6 aircraft on February 3, 1998, near Cavalese, Italy.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.130 Proposed by Senator Murkowski. To maintain existing marine activities in Glacier Bay National Park.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.128 Amendment SP 128 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.129 Amendment SP 129 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.129 Proposed by Senator Gramm to Amendment SP 128. To eliminate any emergency designations from the bill.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.128 Proposed by Senator Gramm. To eliminate any emergency designations from the bill and provide additional offsets from unused fiscal year 1999 emergency spending.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.127 Amendment SP 127 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.126 Amendment SP 126 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.125 Amendment SP 125 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.127 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Lincoln. To provide adversely affected crop producers with additional time to make fully informed risk management decisions for the 1999 crop.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.126 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Leahy. To appropriate an additional amount to promote the recovery of the apply industry in New England, with an offset.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.125 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Bingaman. To express the sense of the Senate regarding the use of the sequential billing policy in making payments to home health agencies under the medicare program.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.124 Cloture not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 55-44. Record Vote No: 55.

03/23/1999 Cloture not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 55-44. Record Vote No: 55. (consideration: CR S3076)

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.124 Considered by Senate.

03/23/1999 S.Amdt.81 Considered by Senate.

03/23/1999 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S3065-3094, S3103-3109)

03/22/1999 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S3050-3056)

03/22/1999 S.Amdt.124 Considered by Senate.

03/22/1999 S.Amdt.81 Considered by Senate.

03/19/1999 S.Amdt.124 Cloture motion on Amdt. No. SP 124 presented in Senate.

03/19/1999 Cloture motion on Amdt. No. SP 124 presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S2995-2996)

03/19/1999 S.Amdt.124 Proposed by Senator Lott to Amendment SP 81. Prohibiting the use of funds for military operations in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) unless Congress enacts specific authorization in law for the conduct of those operations.

03/19/1999 S.Amdt.123 Amendment SP 123 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/19/1999 S.Amdt.122 Amendment SP 122 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/19/1999 S.Amdt.121 Amendment SP 121 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/19/1999 S.Amdt.123 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Daschle. To provide for the use at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, of the Amount received by the United States in settlement of claims with respect to a family housing project at Ellsworth Air Force Base, and to increas the amount of rescission of the "Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide" account of the Department of Defense.

03/19/1999 S.Amdt.122 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Coverdell. To make available funds for a scholarship fund for Zamorano Agricultural University in Honduras.

03/19/1999 S.Amdt.121 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Sessions. To improve the crop loss assistance program.

03/19/1999 S.Amdt.111 Amendment SP 111 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/19/1999 S.Amdt.111 Considered by Senate.

03/19/1999 S.Amdt.81 Considered by Senate.

03/19/1999 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S2979-2985, S2989-2990, S2995-2996)

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.120 Amendment SP 120 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.120 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Dewine. To provide authority and appropriations for the Department of State to carry out certain counterdrug research and development activities.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.119 Amendment SP 119 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.118 Amendment SP 118 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.117 Amendment SP 117 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.116 Amendment SP 116 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.115 Amendment SP 115 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.119 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Feinstein. To increase energy grants to assist low-income migrant ansd seasonal farmworkers under section 2281 of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990, and to provide for an increase in the amount of rescissions and offsets for the Food Stamp Program.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.118 Proposed by Senator Stevens. To make available certain funds to any State determined by the Secretary of agriculture to have been materially affected by the commercial fishery failure or failures declared by the Secretary of Commerce in September, 1998 under section 312(a) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.117 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Byrd. To provide funding for rural water infrastructure.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.116 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Bond. To appropriate additional funds to the fund maintained for funds made available under section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935, and to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to waive the limitation on the amount of such funds that may be devoted during fiscal year 1999 to 1 agricultural commodity or product thereof, with an offset.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.115 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Kohl. To provide funding for conservation technical assistance.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.114 Amendment SP 114 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.114 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Crapo. To transfer funds from the environmental programs and management account of the Environmental Protection Agency to the State and tribal assistance grant account.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.113 Amendment SP 113 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.112 Amendment SP 112 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.113 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Gregg. Limitation.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.112 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Dorgan. To express the sense of the Senate that a pending sale of wheat and other agricultural commodities to Iran be approved.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.111 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Enzi. To prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from promulgating certain regulations relating to Indian gaming and to prohibit the Secretary from approving class III gaming without State approval.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.110 Amendment SP 110 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.109 Amendment SP 109 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.108 Amendment SP 108 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.107 Amendment SP 107 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.106 Amendment SP 106 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.105 Amendment SP 105 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.104 Amendment SP 104 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.103 Amendment SP 103 as modified agreed to in Senate by Voice.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.102 Amendment SP 102 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.101 Amendment SP 101 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.100 Amendment SP 100 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.110 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Daschle. To provide for equal pay treatment of certain Federal firefighters under section 5545b of title 5, United States Code, and for other purposes.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.109 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Daschle. To provide relief for the White River School District.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.108 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Landrieu. To provide funds to expand the home building program for Central American countries affected by Hurricane Mitch.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.107 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Gorton. To expand the eligibility of emergency funding to replacement and repair of power generation equiptment.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.106 Proposed by Senator Stevens. Relating to commercial fishing and compensation eligibility in Glacier Bay.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.105 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Gorton. To prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from assessing a premium adjustment for club wheat when calculating loan deficiency payments and to require the Secretary to compensate producers of club wheat for any previous premium adjustment.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.104 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Lincoln. To provide for watershed and flood prevention debris removal.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.103 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Grams. To provide funding for annual contributions to public housing agencies for the operation of low-income housing projects.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.102 Amendment SA 102 proposed by Senator Stevens. To exempt non-Indian Health Service and non-Bureau of Indian Affairs funds from section 328 of the Interior Department and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for fiscal year 1999.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.101 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Roberts. To provide relief from unfair interest and penalties on refunds retroactively ordered by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.100 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Domenici. To expand the jurisdiction of the State of New Mexico portion of the Southwest Border High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) to include Rio Arriba County, Santa Fe County, and San Juan County and to provide specific funding for these three counties.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.98 Amendment SP 98 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.97 Amendment SP 97 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.96 Amendment SP 96 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.95 Amendment SP 95 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.94 Amendment SP 94 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.93 Amendment SP 93 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.98 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Levin. To authorize the disposal of the zirconium ore in the National Defense Stockpile.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.97 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Jeffords. To provide that the Agency for the International Development should undertake efforts to promote reforestation, with careful attention to the choice, placement, and management of species of trees consistent with watershed management objectives designed to minimize future stirm damage, and to promote energy conservation through the use of renewable energy and energy-efficient services and technologies.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.96 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Domenici. To rescind certain funds made available for the Lackawanna River, Scranton, Pennsylvania.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.95 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Kyl. To make available certain funds for emergency repairs to the Headgate Rock Hydroelectric Project.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.94 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Reid. To make available certain funds for technical assistance realated to shoreline erosion at Lake Tahoe, Nevada caused by high lake levels.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.93 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Helms. Relating to activities funded by the appropriations to the Central America and the Caribbean Emergency Disaster Recovery Fund.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.82 Amendment agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.92 Motion to table SP 92 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.89 Motion to table SP 89 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 69-30. Record Vote No: 54.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.92 Proposed by Senator Torricelli. To terminate the funding and investigation of any independent counsel in existence more than 3 years, 6 months after the termination of the independent counsel statute.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.89 Proposed by Senator Hutchinson. To require prior congressional approval before the United States supports the admission of the People's Republic of China into the World Trade Organization.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.88 Amendment SP 88 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.87 Amendment SP 87 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.86 Amendment SP 86 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.85 Amendment SP 85 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.84 Amendment SP 84 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.83 Amendment SP 83 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.88 Proposed by Senator Stevens. To provide that funds provided in the Department of Commerce, Justice and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (P.L. 105-277, Division A, Section 101(b)) for the construction of a correctional facility in Barrow, Alaska shall be made available to the North Slope Borough.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.87 Proposed by Senator Stevens. To provide that the taking of a Cook Inlet beluga whale under the exemption provided in section 101(b) of the Marine Mammal Protection Act between the date of the enactment of this Act and October 1, 2000 shall be considered a violation of such Act unless such taking occurs pursuant to a cooperative agreement between the National Marine Fisheries Service and Cook Inlet Marine Mammal Commission.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.86 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Frist. To increase, with a rescission, the supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 1999 for military construction for the Army National Gaurd.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.85 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Byrd. To make a technical correction.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.84 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Shelby. To make a technical correction with regard to Titl 49 Recodification.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.83 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator Grassley. To expediate adjudication of civil monetary penalties by the Department of Health and Human Services Appeal Board.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.82 Proposed by Senator Stevens for Senator McCain. To extend the aviation insurance program through May 31,1999.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.81 Proposed by Senator Hutchison. To set forth restrictions on deployment of United States Armed Forces in Kosovo.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.80 Amendment SP 80 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.80 Proposed by Senator Stevens. To defer section 8 assistance for expiring contacts until October 1,1999.

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.77 Motion to table SP 77 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 71-29. Record Vote No: 53.

03/18/1999 Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S2881-2923, S2929-2932)

03/18/1999 S.Amdt.77 Considered by Senate.

03/17/1999 S.Amdt.77 Proposed by Senator Specter. To permit the Secretary of Health and Human Services to waive recoupment of Federal government medicaid claims to tobacco-related State settlements if a State uses a portion of those funds for programs to reduce the use of tobacco products,to improve public health, and to assist in the economic diversification of tobacco farming communities.

03/17/1999 Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S2826-2836)

03/04/1999 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 28.

03/04/1999 Committee on Appropriations. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Stevens. With written report No. 106-8.

03/04/1999 Committee on Appropriations ordered to be reported an original measure.