[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 7 (Wednesday, February 2, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: February 2, 1994]
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                    GOALS 2000: EDUCATE AMERICA ACT

  The Senate continued with the consideration of the bill.
  Mr. KENNEDY. Madam President, we are in a situation where Senator 
Danforth is prepared to offer an amendment, which we are prepared to 
discuss and urge the Senate to accept. The Senator from Illinois has 
two different amendments which we would like to consider. Hopefully we 
will have an opportunity to consider both of those.
  So we have the amendment of the Senator from Illinois that is 
pending.
  So we are all prepared now to do business, and I would hope that we 
could focus on this matter that we now have before us, with all 
respect, since we are now going on into the late afternoon, and I know 
our colleagues are going to be wondering what progress we are making. I 
know there are others who want to talk about a lot of different 
measures, but we do have this extremely important matter that is before 
the Senate.
  As we all know, we are glad to do the Senate's business, and if there 
is other business, I am sure it can be worked out in the morning hour 
with the majority leader. We have not imposed the Pastore rule, that 2 
hours after we go into the session, we have to have statements and 
speeches that are relevant to the underlying business before the 
Senate.
  I do not want to get into that procedure, but I would like to see if 
we cannot move ahead. Senator Danforth I think has been here 1\1/2\ 
hours and is prepared to offer an amendment on this measure. The 
Senator from New Hampshire has been with us since before noon. We are 
prepared to move ahead. So with all respect, I see the Senator from New 
York on his feet. I would certainly hope we could at least conclude 
this part of the exchange at an early time.

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