[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 161 (Wednesday, October 18, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S15261]
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                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. DOLE. Let me announce to my colleagues we have morning business 
until the hour of 2 p.m. today, and then at 2 p.m. there will be a 
cloture vote on the substitute amendment to H.R. 927, the Cuba 
sanctions bill. Yesterday's vote was 59 to 36. It is our hope that we 
can invoke cloture today. This will be the third effort. And if we do, 
we will continue consideration of the bill until disposed of. Second-
degree amendments to the substitute amendment may be filed up until 1 
p.m. today.
  If cloture is not invoked, the Senate may turn to any of the 
following items:
  NASA authorization, which I understand is not controversial. We are 
close to having some consent agreement on that.
  Amtrak authorization, which may be referred to the Finance Committee 
because it has some tax provisions. Hopefully, if it is referred, it 
can be done on a limited basis so it would come back here within 2 or 3 
weeks.
  Labor, HHS appropriations. We have been precluded from bringing that 
bill to the floor. It is my hope that Senators Specter and Harkin, the 
managers of the bill, can get together to see if they cannot work out 
some agreement so we can pass Labor, HHS appropriations. Senator 
Cochran will be working on that as sort of the expediter of the 
appropriations bills. This is the last appropriations bill to leave the 
Senate, and we are locked up over a number of provisions dealing with 
abortion, others dealing with striker replacement. It is my hope we can 
resolve some of those issues, bring it to the floor, have the votes, 
and go to conference.
  State Department reorganization. Hopefully, they are about to reach 
an agreement between Senator Kerry of Massachusetts and Senator Helms, 
the chairman of the committee. It was our hope that we could have 
disposed of this matter by now. And I know there was a meeting 
yesterday. I hope we can follow up and maybe dispose of that today, and 
any available conference reports.
  I might ask the Senator from Mississippi, are there any additional 
conference reports that may be coming to the floor on appropriations 
bills?
  Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. President, if the distinguished Senator will yield, 
the Transportation appropriations conference is one that has been the 
subject of some hard work. Our chairman of the full committee, Senator 
Hatfield, is chairman of that subcommittee here, and we are hopeful 
that that bill will come to the floor in the form of a conference 
report soon.
  Energy and water is another where we are hopeful that differences can 
be resolved between the House and Senate at an early date and we can 
get that conference report before the body.
  Mr. DOLE. And the Agriculture appropriations bill has gone to the 
President?
  Mr. COCHRAN. It has gone to the President. We are happy that the 
Senate acted favorably on the report. So did the House. And that bill 
is now on its way to the President. We hope he will sign it. All 
indications are that he will. The Secretary of Agriculture indicated 
that was his strong recommendation. Others in the administration have 
likewise indicated they think the President will sign the bill.
  Mr. DOLE. I thank the Senator, my colleague.

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