November 20, 1986

land tour boat facility for the Fort 

Sumter National Monument, SC, and 

for other purposes.

H.R. 4302. An act to establish a commission for the purpose of encouraging and providing for the commemoration of the centennial of the birth of 

President Dwight David Eisenhower.

H.R. 4531. An act to improve the operation of certain fish and wildlife programs.

H.R. 4731. An act to enhance boating safety by requiring a report relating to the display on gasoline pumps 

of the type of alcohol, the percentage 

of each type of alcohol, and the percentage of cosolvents, if any, contained in the gasoline; to amend chapter 131 of title 46, United States Code, 

relating to recreational boating safety; 

and for other purposes.

H.R. 5420. An act to amend section 

3726 of title 31, United States Code, 

relating to payment for transportation, to permit prepayment audits for 

selected transportation bills, to permanently authorize payment of transportation audit contractors from carrier 

overpayments collected, to authorize 

net overpayments collected to be 

transferred to the Treasury, and for 

other purposes.

H.R. 5560. An act to amend title 18 

of the United States Code to ban the 

production and use of advertisements 

for child pornography or solicitations 

for child pornography, and for other 

purposes.

H.J. Res. 10. Joint resolution to designate the week beginning January 19, 

1987, as “Shays' Rebellion Week" and 

Sunday, January 25, 1987, as “Shays' 

Rebellion Day.”

H.J. Res. 67. Joint resolution calling 

for a wildlife sanctuary for humpback 

whales in the West Indies.

H.J. Res. 756. Joint resolution to 

make corrections in the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986.

On November 10, 1986:

S. 485. An act to amend the Alaska 

National Interest Lands Conservation 

Act of 1980 to clarify the treatment of 

submerged lands and ownership by the 

Alaskan Native Corporation.

S. 740. An act to promote the conservation of migratory waterfowl and to 

offset or prevent the serious loss of 

wetlands by the acquisition of wetlands and other essential habitat, and 

for other purposes.

S. 1236. An act to amend title 18 of 

the United States Code and other laws 

to make minor or technical amendments to provisions enacted by the 

Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 

1984, and for other purposes.

S. 1374. An act to establish the 

Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor in Massachusetts and 

Rhode Island.

S. 2000. An act to clarify the exemptive authority of the Securities and 

Exchange Commission.

S. 2648. An act to improve the public 

health through the prevention of injuries.

H.R. 2663. An act to amend title 5, 

United States Code, to credit time

JOURNAL OF THE SENATE

spent in the Cadet Nurse Corps during 

World War II as creditable service for 

civil service retirement; and to provide 

civil service retirement credit for certain employees and former employees 

of nonappropriated fund instrumentalities under the jurisdiction of the 

Armed Forces.

H.R. 3737. An act to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to deter 

immigration-related marriage fraud 

and other immigration fraud.

H.R. 4208. An act to authorize appropriations for the Coast Guard for 

fiscal year 1987, and for other purposes.

H.R. 4613. An act to reauthorize appropriations to carry out the Commodity Exchange Act, and to make technical improvements to that Act.

H.R. 5180. An act to designate the 

Federal Building at 111 W. Huron 

Street, Buffalo, NY, as the “Thaddeus 

J. Dulski Federal Building.”

H.R. 5595. An act to make permanent and improve the provisions of 

section 1619 of the Social Security Act, 

and for other purposes.

On November 14, 1986:

S. 991. An act to amend certain provisions of the law regarding the fisheries of the United States, and for other 

purposes.

S. 1744. An act to require States to 

develop, establish, and implement 

State comprehensive mental health 

plans.

S. 2638. An act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1987 for military activities of the Department of 

Defense, for military construction, and 

for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel 

strengths for such fiscal year for the 

Armed Forces, to improve the defense 

acquisition process, and for other purposes.

H.R. 2946. An act to establish an independent jury system for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

H.R. 3004. An act to amend section 

3006A of title 18, United States Code, 

to improve the delivery of legal services in the criminal justice system to 

those persons financially unable to 

obtain adequate representation, and 

for other purposes.

H.R. 4378. An act to provide standards for placement of commemorative 

works on certain Federal lands in the 

District of Columbia and its environs, 

and for other purposes.

H.R. 4444. An act to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act, and for 

other purposes.

H.R. 4745. An act to amend title 18, 

United States Code, with respect to 

sexual abuse.

H.R. 5028. An act entitled the 

“Lower Colorado Water Supply Act.”

H.R. 5363. An act to amend the interest provisions of the Declaration of 

Taking Act.

H.R. 5674. An act to amend title 28, 

United States Code, with respect to 

the composition of, and places of holding court in, certain judicial districts.

H.J. Res. 626. Joint resolution to approve the “Compact of Free Associa679

tion” between the United States and 

the Government of Palau, and for 

other purposes.

On November 17,1986:

H.R. 6. An act to provide for the conservation and development of water 

and related resources and the improvement and rehabilitation of the Nation's water resources infrastructure.

H.R. 5705. An act to protect and provide for the enhancement of the resources of the Columbia River Gorge, 

and for other purposes.

H.R. 5730. An act to provide for a 

land exchange in the State of Alaska.

PRESIDENTIAL DISAPPROVALS SUBSEQUENT

TO SINE DIE ADJOURNMENT

Subsequent to the sine die adjournment of the Senate,

The President of the United States, 

on Thursday, November 20, 1986,

transmitted to the Secretary of the 

Senate a record of bills disapproved by 

him on certain dates, with his reasons 

for such actions, as follows:

On October 25, 1986:

RELIEF OF MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK, MOBILE,

AL

I am withholding my approval of S. 

593, a bill for the relief of the Merchants National Bank of Mobile, Alabama.

The enrolled bill would authorize 

the payment of $809,609 to the Merchants National Bank in settlement of 

its claims against the United States relating to certain government loan 

guarantees. The compensation would 

be for losses the Bank claims were 

caused by the issuance and cancellation of a loan guarantee and the subsequent reissuance on different terms of 

a second loan guarantee.

The need to renegotiate the terms of 

the loan guarantee originally extended 

to the Merchants National Bank of 

Mobile was regrettable. However, the 

Bank's claim that it was injured as a 

result of the change is not supported 

by the facts. While the terms of the 

two guarantees were different, the 

second loan contained some provisions 

that were more advantageous to the 

Bank than those that were included in 

the first guarantee, and the Bank's 

losses did not result from the need to 

cancel the first guarantee and the issuance of a second guarantee. Under 

the circumstances that existed at the 

time the second guarantee was negotiated, this guarantee was not less advantageous to the Bank than the first, 

unauthorized guarantee. I must, therefore, withhold my approval of S. 593 

in order to prevent payment to the 

Bank of an unsupportable gratuity.

R o n a l d R e a g a n .

T h e W h i t e H o u s e , October 24, 1986.

On October 28, 1986:

AUTHORIZATION OF CERTAIN MARITIME

PROGRAMS

I am withholding my approval of 

H.R. 4175, a bill “To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1987 for certain maritime programs of the Department of Transportation and the Federal Maritime Commission.”