[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 6 (Tuesday, February 1, 1994)]
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                    Amendment No. 1343, As Modified

  Mr. HELMS. Mr. President, I send a modification to amendment No. 1343 
to the desk and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from North Carolina [Mr. Helms] proposes an 
     amendment numbered 1343, as modified.

  Mr. HELMS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that reading of the 
amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment as modified is as follows:
       At the appropriate place in the bill, add the following new 
     section--

     ``SEC.   . REPORT ON DISMANTLEMENT OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS OF THE 
                   FORMER SOVIET UNION.

       (a) Report.--In the report required by Section 1207 of 
     Title XII, PL 103-160 and due on April 30, 1994, to be 
     submitted to the President, as prepared by the Secretaries of 
     State and Defense in consultation with the Arms Control and 
     Disarmament Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency, shall 
     include the following:
       (i) The anticipated timetable for dismantlement of the 
     former Soviet Union nuclear and chemical weapons and the 
     status of stocks and production capacity in the Russian 
     Federation, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus and how 
     appropriated funds are being used to effect this purpose;
       (ii) The cost of each activity carried out to date, as well 
     as each projected activity;
       (iii) The United States agency or host country agency 
     responsible for each element of the project;
       (iv) Obstacles that might hinder the effective use of U.S. 
     funds in dismantling nuclear and chemical weapons in each of 
     the four nuclear republics of the former Soviet Union and 
     recommendations for overcoming these obstacles;
       (v) The specific impact of U.S. funds on the pace and 
     quality of nuclear and chemical weapons dismantlement in each 
     of the four republics;
       (vi) A classified appendix detailing actual reduction in 
     weapons and capabilities as a result of the expenditure of 
     U.S. funds.''

  Mr. HELMS. Mr. President, rather than run the risk of having some 
error discovered too late, I suggest the absence of a quorum while we 
check with the clerks on the numbers of some of these amendments 
because there has been a flurry of them. I do not want to put the 
clerks in an untenable position and I do not want to be in one myself.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. KERRY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. KERRY. Mr. President, regular order.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question occurs on the passage of 
amendment 1343, as modified.
  The amendment (No. 1343), as modified, was agreed to.
  Mr. KERRY. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. HELMS. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  Mr. KERRY. Mr. President, I believe if I am correct, and my good 
colleague in arms here, that we have now taken care of the large number 
of amendments which were on the list at 6 o'clock, leaving us with only 
1 amendment to vote on tomorrow morning, and then with final passage.
  Before propounding a unanimous-consent request--let me just propound 
it. I think that is better to get it out of the way and we will get 
locked in here.

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