[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 78 (Thursday, May 11, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S6563]
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                                PROGRAM

  Mr. CHAFEE. For the information of all Senators, the Senate will 
resume consideration of the Solid Waste Disposal Act tomorrow. A 
cloture vote will occur on the committee substitute at 10 a.m. Senators 
should be on notice that it is the hope of the leader to complete 
action on this bill on Friday. Also the leader may want to consider 
Calendar No. 92, H.R. 483, the Medicare select bill. Therefore, votes 
will occur throughout Friday's session of the Senate.
  Mr. FORD. Mr. President, will the distinguished acting floor leader 
yield for a question?
  Mr. CHAFEE. I certainly will.
  Mr. FORD. Since he is the floor manager of the bill, regardless of 
whether cloture is voted tomorrow or not, what amendments and how many 
would he think we might have? Does he have a ballpark figure? There are 
a good many amendments that have been filed. I wonder. Most of them are 
germane.
  Mr. CHAFEE. I think the bidding has changed since this last vote. I 
would expect tomorrow we would have several votes in the morning rather 
rapidly, I hope. Just call them up.
  Mr. FORD. That might be a little hard to do, call them up and vote on 
them or move to table.
  Mr. CHAFEE. I hope that they will be brought up.
  As I say, the situation has changed since this last vote. If we had 
prevailed on this last vote, I would have thought we would be able to 
finish tomorrow by 2 o'clock, something like that. Now, the situation 
has changed, so it is a little difficult to say. All I can say is we 
will move these amendments along as fast as we can.
  Mr. FORD. I understand there might be some Senators leaving at an 
early hour tomorrow and it might not be appropriate to have these votes 
when they would miss so many.
  I wonder if, after cloture, we may have one or two and that might end 
it for the day, but I see the heads are shaking, so you do not want me 
to know that tonight.
  Mr. CHAFEE. It is not a question of not wanting the Senator to know. 
If we told him something, it would be from ignorance, I am afraid.
  In any event, it would be my hope that we could finish tomorrow at a 
decent hour, but I am not so sure based on that last vote we had.

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