[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 107 (Friday, August 5, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 5, 1994]
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                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. MITCHELL. Mr. President, following discussions with several 
Senators, and following the reaching of certain agreements, some of 
which have been entered, and some of which I will shortly enter, I have 
decided upon the following schedule for next week:
  Beginning at 10 a.m. on Monday, the Senate will resume consideration 
of the Labor-Health and Human Services appropriations bill. Under the 
agreement previously entered, the only amendments in order will be 
those contained in a list which was presented to the chair today and 
which will be published in the Congressional Record.
  Further under that agreement, those amendments must be offered by 
noon on Monday. The managers will be present and will be prepared to 
debate any amendments that are offered by that day. Any votes which 
will be required as a result of those amendments will occur beginning 
at 10 a.m. on Wednesday morning.
  Upon the completion of the debate on amendments to the Labor-Health 
and Human Services appropriations bill, the Senate will resume 
consideration of the Department of Defense appropriations bill. The 
managers will be present and will be prepared to receive and debate 
amendments.
  On Monday, following completion of the debate on amendments to the 
Labor-Health and Human Services bill, and on Tuesday morning, it is my 
intention, and that of the managers; that action on the Defense 
Department appropriations bill will also be completed by Tuesday; and 
that any votes required on amendments to that appropriations bill will 
occur on Wednesday morning following the votes on the Labor-Health and 
Human Services appropriations bill.
  In addition, I will shortly obtain unanimous consent to agreements 
regarding consideration of the military construction appropriations 
conference report and the foreign operations conference report. Under 
these agreements, there will be brief times for debate early next week, 
and these votes will also be stacked to occur beginning Wednesday 
morning.
  So, Mr. President, there will be no rollcall votes until Wednesday 
morning beginning at 10 a.m. But Senators should be on notice that 
beginning at that time there are likely to be several votes. They will 
include all remaining votes on the Labor-Health and Human Services 
appropriations bill, all amendments to the Department of Defense 
appropriations bill, including final passage of both of those bills, 
and then votes on the two conference reports to which I have just 
referred and on which I will shortly obtain agreements--the military 
construction appropriations and foreign operations conference reports. 
So there will be several votes occurring beginning on Wednesday morning 
at 10 a.m., and every Senator is on notice to be present at that time.
  I will not entertain any requests for changing the times of those 
votes. I want to make that clear in advance. No Senator should bother 
to call me and ask to change those times. We now have 5 days notice, 
ample opportunity for Senators to be present at that time. We have a 
lot of business to conduct here.
  Finally, we will in accordance with our original schedule proceed to 
begin the debate on the health care reform bill on Tuesday. That will 
occur following completion of the amendments to the Department of 
Defense appropriations bill. There will be no votes on health care on 
Tuesday, however, and there will be no votes prior to 2 p.m. on 
Wednesday on that bill. Senators can expect soon thereafter that 
amendments will be offered, debate will occur, and votes will occur on 
those amendments beginning next Wednesday afternoon.
  Finally, I repeat what I have said on several occasions until now. We 
will remain in session next week through and including Saturday on the 
health care bill. We will return to session the following Monday, and 
then we will remain in session continuously through and including each 
Saturday until we complete action on the bill.
  I thank all of my colleagues for their cooperation and assistance.
  Mr. President, I am now going to present the unanimous consent 
request to which I referred first regarding the military construction 
appropriations bill.

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