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  DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 
                                  1995

  The Senate continued with the consideration of the bill.


                      Unanimous-Consent Agreement

  Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, the list of amendments that I see as 
possibilities, I shall read.
  Baucus, Bradley, relevant amendments; Byrd, four relevant amendments; 
DeConcini, Dorgan, Feinstein, Graham, relevant amendments, one each; 
Leahy and Lieberman, Atlantic salmon recovery; Levin, two relevant 
amendments; Metzenbaum, three relevant amendments; Mitchell, three 
relevant amendments; Nunn, an amendment on emergency funding, Georgia 
flood; Reid, two relevant amendments; Robb, two relevant amendments; 
Wellstone, two relevant amendments; Wofford, an amendment on Forest 
Service timber sales; Bond, on Bureau of Mines; Brown is shown with 
three relevant amendments; Cochran, on Forest Service timber; 
Coverdell, on disasters; Danforth, on endangered species; Dole, two 
relevant amendments; Dole or designee, two relevant amendments; Dole 
and Moseley-Braun, on historically black colleges; Domenici, an 
amendment on Southwest fishery research facilities; Gramm, two relevant 
amendments; Hatfield, a relevant amendment; Helms, a relevant 
amendment; Hutchison, two amendments on endangered species; Kempthorne, 
an amendment on endangered species; Mack, a relevant amendment; McCain, 
four relevant amendments; McConnell, a relevant amendment; Murkowski, 
an amendment on park services.
  Mr. NICKLES. Will the Senator yield?
  Mr. BYRD. Yes.
  Mr. NICKLES. Senator Murkowski would also want to have a relevant 
amendment, in addition.
  Mr. BYRD. Murkowski, a relevant amendment; Nickles, four relevant 
amendments; Stevens, an amendment on Tongass National Forest; Wallop, 
an amendment on reduction at the Interior Department; Wallop, an 
amendment to reduce National Biological Survey; Wallop, an amendment on 
National Park Service land acquisition; Wallop, an amendment on 
National Park Service wildlife units; Bingaman, an amendment on Bureau 
of Indian Affairs.
  Mr. NICKLES. Will the Senator yield?
  Mr. BYRD. Yes.
  Mr. NICKLES. Staff just asked me to try to keep the Helms amendment 
open, if you do not mind.
  Mr. BYRD. Yes.
  Helms, an amendment on the NEA.
  Mr. President, those are the amendments that we have before us. 
Staffs on both sides have prepared these lists. The distinguished 
ranking manager, Mr. Nickles, has the same list.
  I ask unanimous consent that the list of amendments that I have just 
read constitute the amendments in totality which would be eligible for 
call up on this bill.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, we have no objection to that request.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the unanimous-consent 
agreement propounded by the distinguished Senator from West Virginia is 
agreed to.
  Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
aforementioned amendments be not only the only floor amendments 
remaining in order on H.R. 4602, but that they may be offered in the 
first or second degree, if offered to a committee amendment, and that 
second-degree floor amendments be in order, provided they are relevant 
to the first-degree amendment to which offered.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I send the list to the desk for the 
convenience of those at the desk.
  Mr. NICKLES. Will the Chairman yield?
  Mr. BYRD. Yes, indeed.
  Mr. NICKLES. This also includes Senator Bradley's amendment, which 
will be pending in the morning?
  Mr. BYRD. Yes. I thought I read an amendment by Mr. Bradley. It is 
shown as a relevant amendment. It has to do with advance computation of 
technology initiative. That amendment will be called up by Mr. Bradley 
in the morning. An order has already been entered, I believe, limiting 
the time on the amendment to 50 minutes, to be equally divided. Mr. 
Bradley will call up the amendment at 9:15 a.m. If a vote is ordered 
thereon, it will occur upon the reconvening of the Senate, following 
the joint session tomorrow and the luncheon.
  Has that order been entered, Mr. President, to that effect?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Yes it has.
  Mr. BYRD. So that is the short and long of it, if I may say to my 
friend.
  It is my understanding that Mr. Burns wants an amendment added to the 
list.
  Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that a relevant amendment by 
Mr. Burns be in order.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I thank my friend, Mr. Nickles, for his 
assistance today and his leadership in securing the list. I thank our 
staffs.
  What is his feeling about the possibility of completing action on the 
bill tomorrow?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, just in response to my friend and 
colleague, the chairman of the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee, I 
hope our chances are pretty good. I think we did make good progress. 
This amendment list, which I was hoping was going to be 20 some has now 
turned into about 60. But it is my hope and expectation that many of 
these amendments will not be offered. Certainly because they are 
listed, we are not encouraging all Senators to offer these amendments. 
But if they do wish to offer these amendments, I urge them, tomorrow, 
after we reconvene after lunch, to have their amendments ready and we 
will be happy to work with them and their staffs to try to accommodate 
them if at all possible. If not, to have debate and dispose of those 
amendments one way or another.
  Having this finite list of amendments, I think makes it possible for 
us to maybe be able to finish tomorrow if we do not get involved in 
protracted debate. Looking through the list, I do not see too many 
amendments that will be that time consuming.
  Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, what the Senator has said is encouraging to 
me. He is ``a man of my kidney.''
  I hope that his prognostications prove to be true, and I believe they 
may very well be. As he has indicated, many of the amendments are 
insurance amendments, in effect. They are just put on the list for 
self-protection. I thank him and I look forward to working with him 
again tomorrow.
  As Cleopatra said to Iras, at this late hour:

       Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have
       Immortal longings in me * * *.

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