[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 109 (Tuesday, August 9, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 9, 1994]
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                           ORDER OF PROCEDURE

  Mr. MITCHELL. Madam President, I say to Members of the Senate, I will 
shortly make an opening statement on the health care bill, following 
which the distinguished Republican leader will be making an opening 
statement.
  Under the provisions of the agreement just entered into, there will 
be a total of 4 hours for debate this evening, equally divided, 
followed by 4 hours of debate tomorrow, equally divided.
  The debate tomorrow will begin following the completion of a series 
of votes now scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. That means that at 
approximately 11:30 tomorrow morning, depending upon how many votes are 
scheduled and how many occur, the debate on health care will resume.
  We have had a lengthy series of meetings during today to discuss the 
handling of the schedule for completion of action on the health care 
bill and a number of other matters, including the pending defense 
appropriations bill. And although we are not able to reach final 
agreement on that, I think it is fair to say--and I will invite the 
distinguished Republican leader's comments after my remarks--that I 
believe we will be able to reach agreement on those other matters 
either during the evening today or tomorrow. I expect to have a further 
announcement in that regard.
  Before I proceed to make my opening remarks, I invite the 
distinguished Republican leader to make any comments he wishes with 
respect to the agreement that we have just entered into.
  Mr. DOLE. Madam President, the majority leader is correct. There are 
still a number of, I would say, fairly minor issues that we have not 
resolved. We think we can resolve those. So that in accordance with the 
wishes of both the majority leader and the minority leader, once we are 
on health care ready for amendment, we will stay on health care with 
the exception of any privileged matter that might come, and my view is 
that we will have that resolved either later tonight or sometime 
tomorrow.
  If we could reach that agreement, that would indicate we might 
complete the DOD appropriations bill and some other minor measures.

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