[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 12 (Friday, January 20, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1251-S1252]
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                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, let me just indicate for our colleagues that 
there will be a period for the transaction of morning business 
throughout the day, with Senators permitted to speak for not to exceed 
15 minutes each. And I remind Senators and members of their staff that 
under the unanimous-consent agreement entered last night, there will be 
no rollcall votes today and no rollcall votes on Monday, prior to 4 
p.m.
  Today Senators may discuss their amendments to S. 1 and have them 
printed in the Record in order to qualify them under the 3 p.m. Tuesday 
deadline. I do not know how many Senators wish to speak today, but we 
will be in for whatever period of time it may take.
  Mr. FORD. Mr. President, will the distinguished majority leader 
yield?
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The distinguished acting minority leader.
  Mr. FORD. Mr. President, I think it might be appropriate, I say to my 
friend, that we review a little bit your understanding with our leader 
as to the offering of amendments so that we will not get into--it is a 
gentlemen's agreement, and we want to uphold our part of it. But I want 
to be sure everybody understands that, if you do not mind.
  Mr. DOLE. Right. As I indicated, we entered into the agreement last 
night and we have listed in the Record all the amendments on both sides 
of the aisle. I think they total around 67 amendments. To offer the 
amendment, you simply have to send it to the desk. If there is an 
amendment pending, you have to, of course, set that amendment aside.
  We also agreed that if for some unusual circumstance someone was 
prevented on either side of the aisle from offering their amendment 
before the 3 o'clock deadline, the two leaders could agree that one of 
our colleagues, or more, could then offer the amendment, or amendments, 
in any event.
  The importance of the agreement is to get a finite list of the 
amendments. There are no time agreements on any of the amendments. I 
hope not all the amendments are offered. But even if all the amendments 
are offered--that means sent to the desk--they may not be called up. It 
is my hope we can complete action sometime maybe on Wednesday of next 
week. I suggest to my colleagues who have any other questions that in 
the Calendar of Business on pages 2 and 3, we have outlined the 
agreement.
  I think the highlights are that we will start considering S. 1 again 
on Monday at 10 a.m., with no votes until 4 o'clock, if any votes are 
ordered. There will be no business today, except you can send your 
amendments to the desk.
   [[Page S1252]] Mr. FORD. May I further ask, one of the points the 
majority leader made last evening is the fact that an amendment may be 
filed but that is not sufficient to cover the unanimous-consent 
agreement. It must be offered. It can be set aside and that constitutes 
an offering and it can be taken up later but, nevertheless, a Senator 
must offer his amendment or by unanimous-consent one of the leaders or 
the floor manager can do that.
  So there was concern last night, and I want to make that clear again 
this morning, that if an amendment has been filed for cloture, it is 
not sufficient to accommodate this unanimous-consent agreement.
  Mr. DOLE. The Senator is correct. There are a number of amendments, I 
think 117 amendments were filed when we were getting into cloture. In 
order to qualify under this agreement--Senator Byrd from West Virginia 
made it clear--the Senator himself must offer the amendment, himself. I 
think we can accommodate everyone, but hopefully they will be able to 
accommodate us, too, and not offer all these amendments.
  Mr. FORD. I have three on there that could go away. I thank the 
majority leader.

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