[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 110 (Monday, July 10, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S9597]
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                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. DOLE. Thank you, Mr. President.
  We have morning business until 1 o'clock, with Senators permitted to 
speak for up to 10 minutes each. At 1 o'clock, we resume consideration 
of S. 343, the regulatory reform bill. Under a previous order, Senator 
Abraham will be recognized to offer an amendment on small business. At 
3 o'clock, the Abraham amendment will be set aside so that Senator Nunn 
may offer an amendment with Senator Coverdell regarding regulatory 
flexibility.
  At 5:15, we begin two back-to-back votes--a vote on or in relation to 
the Abraham amendment, to be immediately followed by a vote on or in 
relation to the Nunn-Coverdell amendment. So there will be at least two 
rollcall votes today, and there could be further rollcall votes into 
the evening.
  Let me indicate to my colleagues, this is Monday morning. This is a 
very important piece of legislation. It is controversial in some 
quarters. We hope to end up with a strong bipartisan bill. But I will 
alert my colleagues, we will have long days all this week, including 
Friday. So I do not want people expecting that on Friday there will be 
no votes or maybe be one vote at 11 o'clock in the morning. That can 
change if we complete action on this bill, but I doubt that will 
happen.
  In addition, we were not able to complete action on the rescissions 
package before we left a week ago Friday. That bill will come up when 
there is an agreement without amendment to go to final passage.
  I understand there may be some discussion of that later on today. It 
is a bill that saves about $9.2 billion. It was blocked by two of my 
colleagues before the recess. I hope that their concerns may be 
satisfied by the administration. I hope the administration can deal 
with our Democratic colleagues with reference to that bill.
  It has many important items in the bill, including disaster relief 
for Oklahoma City, earthquake relief for California, and a number of 
other--in fact, there are some 30 States for which this bill includes 
some disaster money. So it is an important bill. It is one we should 
pass.
  It also saves $9.2 billion overall. It is very important that we pass 
that bill at the earliest possible time. I commend the White House for 
at least notifying the agencies not to spend any money that is not 
authorized in that rescissions bill. So that is a step in the right 
direction.
  Now, if they can convince a couple of our colleagues to let us pass 
the bill, we could do that at any time today or tomorrow if an 
agreement is reached.
  But I again indicate it is going to be a full week. We are already 
eating into the August recess. We have some ``must'' legislation we 
hope to complete between now and sometime in August. We will have a 
final schedule to all of our colleagues by the end of the week.
  Mr. President, was leaders' time reserved?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kyl). Yes, leaders' time was reserved.

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