[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 43 (Wednesday, March 8, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S3664]
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       EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS AND RESCISSIONS ACT

  The Senate continued with the consideration of the bill.
  Mr. HELMS. Mr. President, what is the pending business?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The pending question is amendment No. 326 
offered by the Senator from North Carolina, to the first committee 
amendment.
  Mr. HELMS. Is it correct that the yeas and nays have been ordered on 
that amendment?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator is correct.
  Mr. HELMS. Mr. President, I am advised that a Senator on the other 
side who does not wish this amendment to pass, despite the clamor for 
it by Cuban people everywhere--and we have millions of Cubans in this 
country--I understand that the distinguished Senator is going to raise 
a point of order claiming that this amendment is legislation on an 
appropriations bill.
  Well, la-di-da. We legislate regularly on every appropriations bill. 
The Appropriations Committee itself reports out legislation on just 
about every appropriations bill. But let it be known, if such a point 
of order is raised, it is a ruse to do nothing about Fidel Castro in 
Cuba. Anybody voting to support that point of order will be voting to 
do nothing about Fidel Castro.
  True enough, sooner or later, we will get to it in the normal process 
of the Foreign Relations Committee, of which I am the Chairman. But I 
do not want to delay one more day for the removal of Fidel Castro from 
Cuba. He is a tyrant, a Communist tyrant who has been so cruel in his 
treatment of his own people.
  So I wish to forewarn Senators that any point of order based on this 
amendment's being legislation on an appropriations bill is nothing but 
a ruse. You cannot get to it any other way, so you are going to try to 
get it defeated on a point of order. I hope that the Senate will not 
buy that turkey because it is not justified. I reiterate, again and 
again as Franklin Roosevelt used to say, every appropriations bill that 
comes through this Chamber has legislation in it, often put there by 
the Appropriations Committee itself.
  So do not be deceived. A point of order is just a ruse to defeat this 
amendment when no other avenue of defeat is available to any Senator 
raising such a point of order.
  Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. GORTON. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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