[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 57 (Wednesday, May 11, 1994)]
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                      UNANIMOUS-CONSENT AGREEMENT

  Mr. SASSER. Mr. President, I have a unanimous consent request that 
has been cleared with the leadership on the other side.
  On behalf of the majority leader, I ask unanimous consent that today, 
upon disposition of S. 978, the environmental technology bill, the 
Senate then proceed to the conference report accompanying S. 2000, the 
Headstart Amendment Act, and that, without intervening action or 
debate, the Senate vote on adoption of the conference report.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. SASSER. Mr. President, I now ask unanimous consent that it be in 
order to request the yeas and nays on adoption of the conference 
report.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. SASSER. Mr. President, I now ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  Mr. SASSER. Mr. President, for the information of our colleagues, 
this unanimous-consent request that we have just approved here means 
that the Senate will conduct four back-to-back rollcall votes beginning 
at 5 o'clock this afternoon. I wanted to advise our colleagues of that 
so that they could plan accordingly.
  Mr. President, I see no other Senators on the floor at the present 
time seeking recognition. There are a number of Senators who wish to 
speak, but some of them are in committee or on their way here. So I 
will suggest the absence of a quorum and ask that the time be charged 
equally against both sides.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the time during the quorum 
call will be charged equally against both sides.
  Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, before the quorum call, I want to 
correct a statement I made before that. Near the end of my statement, I 
stated that this budget resolution changes the pay-as-you-go rule from 
what it is today, where you have to look at 10 years but each single 
year has to be totally neutral, to a situation now where it is still 10 
years, but you use 5 years at a time and accumulate them. I correct 
that, but stand on the point that that weakens the process. At least we 
are not quite sure how it will affect things. So I list it among my 
process changes that will make it easier to adopt more entitlement 
programs.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The absence of a quorum having previously been 
suggested, the clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. SASSER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Mathews). Without objection, it is so 
ordered.

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