First-degree amendments to S. 1061 (other than managers' amendments) have been limited and, by unanimous consent, no VOTES will occur before 2:15 p.m., on Tuesday. Staff should be aware that the Majority Leader has indicated that he intends to complete action on S. 1061 by close of business on Tuesday. Pending are:

• Nickles/Jeffords amendment (#1081) with a substitute Craig amendment (#1083) (with clarifying language) prohibiting the use of taxpayer funds to pay for the next Teamsters election (the last election was recently declared invalid due to corruption).

• Gregg amendment (#1070) with a nearly identical Coats 2^nd degree amendment (#1071) prohibiting use of funds not specifically authorized by Congress to promulgate any national testing scheme for reading or mathematics.

• Modified Gorton amendment (#1076) to allow States to use funds received under title XXI of the Social Security Act to provide health insurance coverage for children with incomes above the minimum Medicaid eligibility requirements.

• Durbin amendment (#1078) to repeal the tobacco industry settlement credit contained in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 as amended.

• Durbin for Levin amendment (#1086) to express the sense of the Senate that hospitals that have significant donor potential shall take responsible steps to assure a skilled and sensitive request for organ donation to eligible families.

• Durbin amendment (#1085) to provide for the conduct of a study and a report on efforts to improve organ and tissue donation.

• Harkin for Wellstone amendment (#1087) to increase funding for Head Start.

• Harkin for Wellstone amendment (#1088) to increase funding for Pell Grants.

• Harkin for Wellstone amendment (#1089) to increase funding for the Education Infrastructure Act of 1994.

• Mack/Graham amendment (#1090) to provide $5.2 million for the Mary Bethune arts center.

• McCain amendment (#1091) to strike the provision of the Balanced Budget Act to pay teaching hospitals NOT to teach nurses and doctors.

• McCain amendment (#1092) to allow the indigenous soldiers who assisted the US in the Vietnam War to be exempted from the Medicaid income cut-offs for their promised $40,000 for pay while imprisoned in Vietnam.

• Craig/Bingaman amendment (#1093) to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to adjust the maximum exemption for agriculture workers.

• Landrieu amendment (#1095) to increase state adoption incentive grants by $5 million with an equal offset in administrative expenses throughout the bill.

• Coverdell amendment (#1097) with similar 2^nd degree (#1098) that funds a $5 million study for prevention of e. coli bacteria sickness.

• Specter for Nickles amendment (#1109) to require that estimates of certain employer contributions be included in an individual's social security account statement.

• Specter amendment (#1110) to reduce unemployment insurance service administrative expenses to offset costs of administering a welfare-to-work jobs incentive.

• Specter amendment (#1111) to provide startup funding for the national Bi-partisan Commission on the Future of Medicare.

• Harkin for Daschle amendment (#1116) to express the sense of the Senate regarding Federal Pell Grants and a child literacy initiative.

• Ford 2^nd degree amendment (#1117) to the Durbin amendment that would state the Sense of the Senate that the repeal of the tobacco tax credit should consider the effect on the family farmer.

• Harkin/Bingaman amendment (#1115) regarding school testing.

• Murray/Wellstone amendment (#1118) that eliminates numerical limitations on "good cause waivers" within the domestic violence prevention program as well as establishing a Federal Parent locator system.

• Murray amendment (#1119) to provide funding for the National Institute for Literacy.

• Harkin for Bennett amendment (#1120) to award a grant to a State education agency to help pay the expense associated with exchanging State school trust lands within the boundaries of national monument for Federal land outside the boundaries of the monument.

• Ford for Kerrey amendment (#1121) to exempt States that were overpaid mandatory funds for fiscal year 1997 under the general entitlement formula for child care funding from any payment adjustment.

• Domenici for Gorton amendment (#1122) to provide certain education funding directly to local educational agencies.

• Modified Gorton amendment (#1076) to block grant most elementary and secondary Federal money.