[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 108 (Monday, August 8, 1994)]
[Senate]
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[Congressional Record: August 8, 1994]
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                                PROGRAM

  Mr. MITCHELL. Mr. President, the Senate will shortly complete its 
deliberations today and will under a previous order resume 
consideration of the Department of Defense appropriations bill at 9:30 
a.m. tomorrow. During the day tomorrow, the Senate will begin 
consideration of health care reform legislation, if I am able to obtain 
agreement to proceed to that measure, as I hope I will. I have had 
several discussions today with a number of Senators on the schedule for 
that legislation including the distinguished Republican leader, with 
whom I have just recently met. We do not yet have final agreement on 
the precise time for beginning that debate. But it will not in any 
event be until after the respective party caucuses end at approximately 
2:30 p.m. I am not certain of how soon after that we will begin. That 
will depend in part upon progress made on other matters, including the 
Department of Defense appropriations bill, and on other matters now 
being discussed among several Senators, Democratic and Republican 
Senators, the distinguished Republican leader and myself.
  So I hope that we will begin the health care reform debate tomorrow. 
It will be no earlier than 2:30, and could be a little later than that, 
depending upon how the discussions culminate and how much progress we 
make on other legislation before that.
  I hope to have a further announcement in this regard tomorrow morning 
following other meetings.
  Mr. President, I thank my colleagues for their cooperation.

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