[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 11 (Tuesday, February 8, 1994)]
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                    GOALS 2000: EDUCATE AMERICA ACT

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order, the 
Senate will now resume consideration of S. 1150, which the clerk will 
report.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 1150) to improve learning and teaching by 
     providing a national framework for education reform; to 
     promote the research, consensus building, and systemic 
     changes needed to ensure equitable educational opportunities 
     and high levels of educational achievement for all American 
     students; to provide a framework for reauthorization of all 
     Federal education programs; to promote the development and 
     adoption of a voluntary national system of skill standards 
     and certifications; and for other purposes.

  The Senate resumed consideration of the bill.
       Pending:
       (1) Coats Amendment No. 1386, to provide a low-income 
     school choice demonstration program.
       (2) Grassley Modified Amendment No. 1388, to prohibit the 
     use of certain funds for activities related to a student's 
     personal values, attitudes, beliefs, or sexual behavior 
     without certain consent, notification, access to information, 
     and an opportunity for a hearing, to provide for enforcement 
     of such prohibition, and to require the Secretary of 
     Education to designate or establish an office and review 
     board within the Department of Education.
       (3) Mack Amendment No. 1389, to achieve significant school 
     reform and innovation through empowering parents, students, 
     teachers, and local school boards.
       (4) Helms Amendment No. 1390, to prohibit the use of funds 
     to support the distribution or provision of condoms or other 
     contraception devices or drugs to an unemancipated minor 
     without the prior written consent of such minor's parent or 
     guardian.
       (5) Kennedy/Jeffords Amendment No. 1393, to ensure that all 
     federally funded programs which provide for the distribution 
     of contraceptive devices to unemancipated minors develop 
     procedures to encourage family participation in such 
     programs.
       (6) Levin Amendment No. 1394, to provide that no funds 
     shall be denied to any State or local agency because it has 
     adopted a constitutional policy relative to prayer in public 
     schools.
       (7) Jeffords/Gregg/Dodd Amendment No. 1420, to express the 
     sense of the Senate that the Federal Government should 
     provide States and communities with adequate resources under 
     the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act as soon as 
     reasonably possible, through the reallocation of funds within 
     the current budget constraints.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order, the time 
until 10 a.m. is equally divided and controlled by the Senator from 
Kansas [Mrs. Kassebaum], and the Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. 
Kennedy], or his designee.
  Who yields time?
  Mr. JEFFORDS. Madam President, I yield to the Senator from Alaska 
such time as he may consume.
  Mr. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I send an amendment to the desk and ask 
for its immediate consideration.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair advises the Senator that 
amendments are not in order.
  Mr. MURKOWSKI. Based on my understanding with the floor manager, this 
amendment had been cleared by the committee of jurisdiction, the 
Committee on Indian Affairs, and cleared as well by the Labor 
Committee. I ask the Parliamentarian to review her comments with regard 
to the amendment, because it is my understanding that it has been 
cleared by unanimous consent.
  Mr. JEFFORDS. If the Senator will yield, what bill are we amending?
  Mr. MURKOWSKI. S. 1361, the school-to-work bill.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senate is currently considering 
S. 1150.
  Mr. JEFFORDS. Madam President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. JEFFORDS. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 
ordered.
  Who yields time?
  Mr. JEFFORDS. Madam President, I yield to the Senator from Alaska 
such time as he may consume.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Alaska.
  Mr. MURKOWSKI. I would appeal again to the Parliamentarian relative 
to the amendment that I am prepared to offer. My amendment would attach 
S. 1059, the Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development Act, to S. 
1361.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. If the Senator obtains unanimous 
consent, it would be in order to offer the amendment.
  Mr. MURKOWSKI. The Senator would ask unanimous consent.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection? Without 
objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. MURKOWSKI. I thank the Chair and I thank the Parliamentarian and 
floor managers.

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