[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 96 (Thursday, July 21, 1994)]
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                      UNANIMOUS-CONSENT AGREEMENT

  Mr. MITCHELL. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
following amendments, as contained in a list which I will send to the 
desk, be the only floor amendments remaining in order to H.R. 4603, the 
Commerce, State, Justice appropriations bill; that they may be offered 
in the first or second degree, if offered to a committee amendment; 
that second-degree floor amendments be in order provided they are 
relevant to the first-degree amendment to which offered; and provided 
further that the listed amendments must be offered by 2 p.m. on Friday, 
July 22.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Mr. DOMENICI. Reserving the right to object. I have no objection to 
any of it other than a time certain of 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. I 
do not see how we can do that with the list we have. So I object to 
that portion of the request.
  Mr. MITCHELL. Madam President, I modify my request to delete the last 
clause relating to the time certain.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The list of amendments is as follows:
       Byrd--(1) Relevant; (2) Relevant.
       Bumpers--Cut NED.
       Bradley--Relevant.
       Ford--(1) Relevant; (2) Relevant.
       Dodd--Funding for Ounce of Prevention.
       Biden--VOCA Small State minimum.
       Baucus--TV Marti.
       Pell--Relevant.
       Hollings--(1) Relevant; (2) Relevant.
       Wofford--(1) Relevant; (2) Relevant.
       Lautenberg--Relevant.
       Levin--Great Lakes Fisheries.
       Feinstein--Relevant.
       Mitchell--(1) Relevant; (2) Relevant; (3) Relevant.
       Murray--Northwest salmon.
       Kerry--Northwest salmon.


            republican amendments to state/justice/commerce

       Hutchison--Immigration.
       Stevens--International Passengers Fees; Relevant.
       Kempthorne--NMF; NMF; Relevant.
       Danforth--Refugees.
       Pressler--U.N. IG; IAEA; Buy America; U.N. contributions.
       Gregg--Law of the sea.
       Smith--Motion to recommit.
       Brown--Taiwan; NED; Relevant; Terrorism; Relevant.
       Helms--Satellite; ACDA report; Visas; CSCE; Relevant; 
     Relevant.
       Dole--Immigration; Funding; Death Penalty.
       Coats--Peacekeeping.
       Gramm--Relevant; Relevant.
       McCain--Crime victims.
       Lugar--Exchange program.
       Dole--Relevant; Relevant.
       Craig--Arms embargo.
       Domenici--SOS/Mexican relations, Relevant; Relevant.
       Roth--SOS/Child pornography.
       Nickles--Relevant.
       Hatfield--Relevant; Relevant.


                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. MITCHELL. Madam President, let me state that we will return to 
consideration of this bill at 9 a.m. tomorrow. There is a long list of 
amendments. As has become the practice here, I expect that most of them 
will not be offered. But we will remain in session tomorrow to finish 
this bill.
  There will be votes tomorrow, including procedural votes, if 
necessary. Any Senator who leaves in the expectation that he or she 
will be protected from votes by other Senators who remain runs the risk 
of missing several procedural votes, if necessary, to obtain the 
presence of Senators tomorrow.
  I thank my colleagues.
  Mr. DOMENICI. Madam President, might I say to the distinguished 
majority leader that we have every intention to cooperate with the 
leader. But that does not mean that we can guarantee anybody that we 
will be finished with all of these amendments by 5, 6, 7, 8, or even 10 
o'clock tomorrow night. But we will do our best to be cooperative. 
There is a long list of amendments, and I hope the majority leader is 
aware that the list is very long.
  Mr. MITCHELL. I am indeed aware of that. Of course, we will take that 
into account. I simply say that we are in a very difficult legislative 
period. We had no votes on Monday, no votes prior to 2:30 or after six 
on Tuesday, no votes after an early hour on Wednesday; and this is 
Thursday, the one evening we were supposed to work. But I understand 
that, and I will do my best to accommodate as many Senators as I can.
  What happens when we do not have votes on Mondays, Tuesday, and very 
few on Wednesdays, then we have votes on Friday. We will do the very 
best we can. I did not mean to suggest in my remarks that the Senator 
would not be cooperative. He has been cooperative, and I know he will 
be further. We will do the best we can. I thank my colleagues.
  Mr. SIMPSON. Madam President, on behalf of the minority leader, I say 
that we are here ready to cooperate in any way and feel that we have 
been very cooperative. We have done now 9 appropriations bills out of 
the 13. In my experience, we have never dealt with that many at this 
time of the legislative year. So I just want to be certain that we 
recognize that we are certainly all doing our share here. But I 
understand the need to move. You have been fair enough to warn that on 
Fridays there will be votes, and there is no question about that. I 
think it should be evidence that we are doing the Nation's business, 
and especially insisting on that cause from this side of the aisle.
  Mr. MITCHELL. Madam President, of course, I did not state nor imply 
any lack of cooperation. I do appreciate that we have made good 
progress on the appropriations bills, and it simply takes time because 
Senators have amendments they want to and have a right to offer. It 
means that we have to stay in session on a Friday for longer than any 
of us would like in order to get it done. But I do appreciate both the 
manager and the ranking Member for their cooperation, especially to 
enable us to get this list, as a result of which there will be no 
further rollcall votes this evening.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Mexico.
  Mr. DOMENICI. Madam President, may I say to Republican Senators I 
have a list of all their amendments but in many cases I do not have the 
amendments. I have the list of what they intend. I hope they bring the 
amendments to us by the morning so we can begin to ask some of them to 
start offering them.
  About half of the amendments that are listed are actually here in the 
form of an amendment. I urge Senators to help us in that regard, and we 
will be helpful to Senators on scheduling them appropriately.
  I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Who seeks recognition?
  The majority leader.
  Mr. MITCHELL. Madam President, I further ask unanimous consent that 
upon the disposition of the last of the amendments the amendments be 
agreed to, the bill read a third time, and the Senate vote on passage 
of the bill; that upon disposition of the bill, the Senate insist on 
its amendments, request a conference with the House on the disagreeing 
votes of the two Houses and that the Chair be authorized to appoint 
conferees, with the above occuring without intervening action.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Mr. MURKOWSKI. Madam President, may I make inquiry of the majority 
leader?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alaska is recognized.
  Mr. MURKOWSKI. If I could have the attention of the majority leader, 
the majority leader indicated he intended to continue tomorrow until we 
finish the bill. Assuming that that is the case, has the majority 
leader made any decision on Monday's schedule?
  Mr. MITCHELL. Yes, I made a decision a month ago when I wrote to 
every Senator and said there would be votes next Monday.
  Mr. MURKOWSKI. I thank the majority leader for clarifying that issue. 
It is my understanding there will be votes on Monday?
  Mr. MITCHELL. Unless an agreement to the contrary is offered and 
announced on the Senate floor. That is true of every day. I wrote to 
all Senators a month ago and placed my letter in the Congressional 
Record.
  Mr. MURKOWSKI. I got the memorandum. We will then expect votes on 
Monday?
  Mr. MITCHELL. Yes. But as the Senator knows, it is a common practice 
for the minority leader, or others, to propose a schedule which would 
facility the business in a way that does not require votes on a day 
certain--Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. I always 
consider those suggestions when making a decision on a schedule as of 
now, and that is why I say in my letter and in my many public 
statements that there will be votes on those days unless an agreement 
is reached to the contrary and announced from the floor.
  As of now, no such agreement has been reached, but for one thing we 
do not know what bill we will be on. And unless there is an agreement 
to the contrary announced there will be votes on Monday.
  Mr. MURKOWSKI. I thank the majority leader and I trust he will make 
every effort to keep us advised in advance as much time as possible.
  Mr. MITCHELL. Yes, I will assure the Senator.
  Mr. MURKOWSKI. I thank the Senator.
  Mr. MITCHELL. I renew my request.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The Senator from South Carolina.


                           Amendment No. 2350

       (Purpose: Relating to the use of funds for the relocation 
     of RFE/RL, Inc., from Munich to Prague)
  Mr. HOLLINGS. Madam President, I send an amendment to the desk and 
ask the clerk to report it.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there is no objection, the committee 
amendments are set aside, and the clerk will report the amendment.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from South Carolina [Mr. Hollings] for Mr. 
     Feingold, proposes an amendment numbered 2350.

  Mr. HOLLINGS. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
reading of the amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

       On page 110, line 25, after Public Law 103-236: add the 
     following: ``Provided further, That funds appropriated under 
     this Act used by the Board for International Broadcasting or 
     the Broadcasting Board of Governors to relocate offices or 
     operations of RFE/RL, Incorporated, from Munich, Germany to 
     Prague, Czech Republic, shall be made available only from 
     funds provided for the Board for International Broadcasting 
     in this paragraph.
       ``Provided further, That not less than the amount 
     appropriated by this Act for the Office of Inspector General, 
     Board of International Broadcasting shall be available for 
     semiannual reviews of RFE/RL, Inc. and that on-site review is 
     maintained at the current level throughout the duration of 
     the relocation transition.''

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Mexico.
  Mr. DOMENICI. Madam President, we have no objection to the adoption 
of the amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate?
  If not, the question is on agreeing to the amendment.
  The amendment (No. 2350) was agreed to.
  Mr. HOLLINGS. Madam President, I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. INOUYE. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.


                           Amendment No. 2351

              (Purpose: Study on the USIA Au Pair Program)

  Mr. HOLLINGS. Madam President, I send to the desk an amendment by the 
distinguished Senator from Vermont, Senator Leahy and ask for its 
immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The amendment will be stated.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from South Carolina [Mr. Hollings] for Mr. 
     Leahy proposes an amendment numbered 2351.

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

     SEC.  . REPORT ON AU PAIR PROGRAM.

       The Director of the United States Information Agency shall 
     submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations, within 
     90 days of enactment of this Act, containing the following:
       (1) The number of persons accepted and the number of 
     persons rejected each year for admission to the United States 
     under a J Visa as part of the au pair program;
       (2) The guidelines and/or a summary of the procedures used 
     by each au pair agency regarding screening of prospective au 
     pairs for prior criminal activity and other relevant 
     information;
       (3) the guidelines and/or a summary of the procedures used 
     by each au pair agency regarding training of au pairs in 
     child care and in relevant United States laws;
       (4) The procedures used by each au pair agency to ensure 
     that au pairs abide by local, state, and federal laws, and 
     the United States Information Agency's policies and 
     procedures for dealing with au pairs who violate such laws;
       (5) The mechanisms available to the United States 
     Information Agency to enforce compliance with au pair agency 
     guidelines and procedures;
       (6) The contractual relationship between au pair agencies 
     and individuals located overseas who select and screen 
     prospective au pairs, and the guidelines and standards which 
     apply to these individuals;
       (7) The procedures used by each au pair agency to check 
     personal character and employment references for each 
     prospective au pair; and
       (8) The procedures used by each au pair agency to deal with 
     au pairs who are determined by their host family to be 
     unsuitable.

  Mr. HOLLINGS. Madam President, this is a study on the USIA Au Pair 
Program.
  I urge adoption of the amendment. It has been cleared on both sides.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Mexico.
  Mr. DOMENICI. Madam President, we have no objection to the adoption 
of the amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate on the amendment?
  There being none, the question is on agreeing to the amendment.
  The amendment (No. 2351) was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Who seeks recognition?
  Mr. HOLLINGS. Madam President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The absence of a quorum has been suggested, 
the clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. WOFFORD. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. WOFFORD. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to proceed for 
no more than 3 minutes in morning business.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the Senator from 
Pennsylvania is recognized for 3 minutes in morning business.

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