[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 14 (Friday, February 11, 1994)]
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              FEDERAL WORK FORCE RESTRUCTURING ACT OF 1993

  Mr. MITCHELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
proceed to the immediate consideration of H.R. 3345, the Federal Work 
Force Restructuring Act of 1993.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (H.R. 3345) to provide temporary authority to 
     Government agencies relating to voluntary separation 
     incentive payments, and for other purposes.

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection to the immediate 
consideration of the bill? There being no objection, the Senate 
proceeded to consider the bill.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there further debate?


                           Amendment No. 1469

  (Purpose: To amend title 5, United States Code, to eliminate narrow 
  restrictions on employee training, to provide a temporary voluntary 
             separation incentive, and for other purposes)

  Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, on behalf of Senator Roth, I send to the 
desk a substitute amendment. I ask the amendment be agreed to and the 
motion to reconsider be laid upon the table.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will report the 
amendment.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Kansas [Mr. Dole], for Mr. Roth, proposes 
     an amendment numbered 1469.

  (The text of the amendment is printed in today's Record under 
``Amendments Submitted.'')
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, the amendment is 
agreed to.
  So the amendment (No. 1469) was agreed to.


                  federal work force restructuring act

  Mr. ROTH. Mr. President, I am pleased to have helped shape this 
legislation, and I support its enactment. A great deal of work has gone 
into the shaping of the bill, but I feel my efforts have been fruitful. 
The legislation I am pleased to put before my colleagues now provides 
appropriate tools for us to begin a significant reduction in the size 
of the Federal bureaucracy, and an important restructuring of the work 
force. The amendments contained in the Roth substitute will ensure that 
the legislation works to the best interests of the American people.
  First of all, we are making sure that the budget costs associated 
with this bill, as scored by CBO, are paid for. Second, the savings 
realized from the downsizing of the Federal work force will ensure that 
the Senate-passed crime bill will be fully funded. And third, we are 
extending by 6 months, to March 31, 1995, the period of time in which 
agencies can offer the buyouts. These additions make this legislative 
mechanism more effective in reaching its primary goal--the right-sizing 
of Government--while guaranteeing that both Federal employees and the 
American taxpayers benefit.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on the engrossment 
of the amendment and third reading of the bill.
  The amendment was ordered to be engrossed and the bill to be read a 
third time.
  The bill was read a third time.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill having been read the third 
time, the question is, shall the bill pass?
  So the bill (H.R. 3345), as amended, was passed.
  Mr. MITCHELL. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote by which 
the bill was passed.
  Mr. DOLE. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.

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