[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 117 (Wednesday, July 19, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Pages S10259-S10260]
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                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. DOLE. I thank the President pro tempore. This morning the leader 
time has been reserved and there will be a period for morning business 
until the hour of 9:30 a.m.; and I just urge my colleagues--many always 
ask for a period of morning business, so we have 30 minutes this 
morning. I hope Senators will show up here in that time if they have 
anything to say. Then at 9:30 the Senate will resume consideration of 
S. 21, the Bosnia legislation. I assume rollcall votes can be expected 
throughout today's session of the Senate. Also, under the provisions of 
the agreement reached last evening, after a call for the regular order 
is made by the majority leader, the Senate may resume consideration of 
S. 343, the regulatory reform bill, and rollcall votes can be expected 
on that bill as well, including a third cloture vote on the Dole-
Johnston substitute. But I do not anticipate any votes on S. 343 today. 
I think there will be an effort--in fact, I know there is an ongoing 
effort already in progress of some on each side of this issue--to try 
to work out some compromises. I am not certain whether any will be 
achieved, but there is an effort made to do that.
  I hope that everybody understands the importance of the regulatory 
reform bill. In my view, it is probably the second or third most 
important piece of legislation we have considered this year. It affects 
almost every family, every small business man or woman, every rancher, 
every farmer, every big business. And we have tried to make the case. 
We made a number of concessions. We believe we have a real regulatory 
reform bill. We believe that it should be supported by 75 percent of 
the Members of this body. And we did not understand, or at least this 
Senator does not understand, the reluctance of some on the other side 
to come to the table, because this is important legislation. It is a 
battle between those in the private sector and the bureaucracy and 
those who believe in more regulation and more Government and more 
micromanagement from Washington, DC.
  That is what is at issue here. Win or lose, it will be the issue. It 
seems to me that it is our obligation to try to put this together so 
the American people are the winners. We did not have debate on this 
floor as to whether we lost or they lost or somebody else lost. But 
obviously, there are some who cannot be satisfied, some who would gut 
the so-called Dole-Johnston proposal. This is not what it is about. It 
is about real regulatory reform. So I hope that those who will be 
meeting today will keep in mind the importance of this for the American 
people, not the Senate, not the Senators, not somebody's ego, but the 
importance to the American family where it has been estimated the cost 
of regulation is about $6,000 per year, which in most cases is more 
than people pay in Federal income tax. So it is very, very important.
  I will also give a report on welfare reform. We are making progress 
on welfare reform, and we will have other meetings today throughout the 
day on welfare reform. It is still the hope of the majority leader that 
on the week of August 7, we will take up welfare reform. And again it 
is not easy. Everybody has a different view on welfare reform. We 
believe we made some progress. And I hope, if we can resolve some of 
the issues, we can start the process of drafting that legislation.
  It also will be our intent to take up gift and lobbying reform next 
Monday. We are hoping to get a time agreement. We have a draft of a 
time agreement that has not yet been given the Democratic leader. Also, 
the Ryan White bill is supposedly coming up next Monday. And then also 
we hope to have some 

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appropriations bills tomorrow and Friday. So, I just state to my 
colleagues, as far as we can determine at this point, there will be 
votes throughout the day on Friday and there will be votes on Monday. 
We will try to accommodate people on Monday by having votes occur later 
in the afternoon, but there will be votes on Monday.
  So, again, I hope we can move ahead on reg reform. It seems to me, 
rather than to just stand in recess, we might as well move on to the 
Bosnia resolution, which is highly important, as noted by the Chaplain 
this morning. There are no easy answers when it comes to this conflict. 
But it seems to me the best option at this point is to lift the arms 
embargo, give the Bosnians a right to defend themselves. They are an 
independent nation. They are a member of the United Nations. And under 
article 51, they have the right, or should have the right, of self-
defense. This is not involving American ground troops. In my view, it 
certainly does not Americanize the war. If anything, it moves us 
farther away from the conflict. I believe that would be in our interest 
and would satisfy the concerns of most Americans.
  I reserve the remainder of my leader time.

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