[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 28 (Monday, February 13, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S2533]
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                   RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY LEADER

  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The able majority leader is recognized.


                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, for the information of Members, following 
the time for the two leaders, which will be reserved, there will be a 
period for morning business not to extend beyond 1 o'clock with 
Senators permitted to speak for not to exceed 10 minutes each. At 1 
o'clock we will resume consideration of House Joint Resolution 1, the 
constitutional balanced budget amendment and the pending Reid 
amendment.
  At 5 o'clock today, there will be a rollcall vote on adopting the 
committee funding resolution, Senate Resolution 73. Further rollcall 
votes are possible today. We have not made that determination yet. We 
are trying to get an agreement to have some of those votes tomorrow 
morning to accommodate some Senators who are necessarily absent. We are 
not going to accommodate those who are just absent. But there are some 
necessarily absent. I think we can understand that on Mondays and 
Fridays we will have votes, and anybody who is not here on Monday and 
Friday will just take that risk. Certainly they have a right to do 
that.
  I also hope that we can bring to a conclusion the debate on the 
balanced budget amendment. We have been on it for 2 straight weeks. 
There has been no effort on this side to slow down the debate. We spent 
hours and hours and days and days on a couple of amendments. My view is 
that it is time that we bring this to a conclusion. We would like to do 
so before late Thursday evening.
  So I just suggest to my colleagues that there will be late sessions 
tomorrow night, Wednesday night, and Thursday night. We will not be in 
session on Friday. We will not be in session on next Monday or Tuesday. 
But we will be in session on next Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 
unless the two leaders can reach some agreement on disposition of this, 
and additional matters.
  I thank the Chair.

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