[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 49 (Thursday, March 16, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S4009]
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       EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS AND RESCISSIONS ACT

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the pending business.
  The bill clerk read as follows:

       A bill (H.R. 889) making emergency supplemental 
     appropriations and rescissions to preserve and enhance 
     military readiness for the Department of Defense for the 
     fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, and for other 
     purposes.

  The Senate resumed consideration of the bill.

       Pending:
       Bumpers amendment No. 330, to restrict the obligation or 
     expenditure of funds on the NASA/Russian Cooperative MIR 
     Program.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Arkansas is recognized.
  Mr. BUMPERS. Mr. President, is there an amendment pending?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The pending amendment is amendment No. 330 
offered by the Senator from Arkansas.
  Mr. BUMPERS. Mr. President, I am prepared to go forward with that 
amendment. We have worked out a second-degree amendment that was going 
to be offered either by the Senator from California [Mrs. Feinstein] or 
the Senator from Missouri [Mr. Bond]. But neither of them is present 
right now, so I would like to just temporarily lay that amendment aside 
and, if there is something else we could get to, I would be willing to 
do it.
  Let me ask unanimous consent that the amendment be temporarily laid 
aside and allow the floor managers to go forward with any other 
amendments that are pending. And in that request, Mr. President, I am 
going to state specifically that I am not necessarily asking that this 
be the pending business after the next amendment is adopted. I will be 
around here, and I will call the amendment up at some point.
  Mr. BURNS. Will the Senator yield?
  Mr. BUMPERS. I am happy to yield.
  Mr. BURNS. Mr. President, will the Senator from Arkansas want to go 
to his wind tunnel amendment at this time?
  Mr. BUMPERS. Yes, I am prepared to do that.
  Let me remind the Senator that Senator Mikulski obviously wants to be 
in the Chamber when that is debated, and I would suggest that we try to 
contact her to see if she is available. She may be attending a 
committee hearing or something else and cannot make it right now. But I 
am prepared to go forward with that amendment.
  Mr. BURNS. I think the Senator makes a good point and maybe we should 
contact those Senators to get them involved. I think they want to be a 
part of this debate, and we would do that right away. And then maybe 
the Senator could offer his wind tunnel amendment.
  Is there any other amendment that is pending?
  Mr. BUMPERS. It is my understanding, Mr. President, that virtually 
all of these amendments except the wind tunnel amendment have been 
agreed to. Is that correct?
  Mr. BURNS. That is the information I have.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. It is the Presiding Officer's understanding 
there are some that have not been agreed to.
  Mr. BUMPERS. I am sorry, Mr. President; I did not understand the 
Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. It is the Chair's understanding that not all 
amendments have been agreed to.
  There is pending the Senator's request to lay aside the current 
amendment. Does the Senator wish to pursue that?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The Senator from Arkansas is recognized.
  Mr. PRYOR. Mr. President, I thank the Chair for recognizing me.
  Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that I may speak not to exceed 
12 minutes as if in morning business.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  (The remarks of Mr. Pryor pertaining to the introduction of S. 573 
are located in today's Record under ``Statements on Introduced Bills 
and Joint Resolutions.'')


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