[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 129 (Friday, August 4, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S11437]
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                           ORDER OF PROCEDURE

  Mr. DOLE. So, Mr. President, I do not see any reason to keep my 
colleagues here any longer. But it is fairly clear to this Senator that 
for reasons stated by the Democratic leader, we will not complete 
action on this bill tonight. But it will be the intention of the 
majority leader that after, hopefully, disposition of the Treasury, 
Postal bill we will go back to this bill tomorrow afternoon.
  There will be votes tomorrow. There will be a lot of votes tomorrow. 
I do not want anybody to leave town thinking, ``Oh, well, we have got 
that taken care of.'' But, again, let me say to my colleagues, I would 
hope that we could cooperate here in the next 4 our 5 days and try to 
get out of here for at least part of the August recess. And I know 
everybody has plans or would like to have plans. Everybody asks, ``Why 
can't we say now we can leave next Friday?'' This is a good reason why 
we cannot say we can leave next Friday. We could have finished this 
bill by this morning or tomorrow afternoon, but we are told that is not 
possible. If we took all these amendments we could not go to final 
passage.
  It is pretty obvious that there may be enough Members on the other 
side to prevent us from obtaining cloture. And even if cloture is 
obtained, you have 30 hours. That would take some time.
  So there will be no more votes this evening. And we will do our best 
to proceed tomorrow on the Treasury, Postal bill.

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