[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 171 (Wednesday, November 1, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S16470]
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                           ORDER OF PROCEDURE

  Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, let me indicate to my colleagues that we are 
not going to proceed on the instructions to conferees at this point on 
the so-called reconciliation package. We may do it the next day. We may 
do it next week, but not today. It seems to me that we need to first 
talk to the President of the United States. Hopefully, we will get to 
do that this afternoon.
  One of the things the President complained about is that we are not 
passing appropriations bills. I would like to now turn to the 
conference report to accompany the foreign operations appropriations 
bill, if there is no objection.
  Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, Senator Dole, the majority leader, and I 
had the opportunity to talk yesterday. It was my understanding that we 
were going to go to the conference. I understand his reasons for 
delaying the consideration of the conference matters until a later 
time, subject to discussion with the President.
  I am disappointed that we have not had the opportunity to talk about 
this until this very moment. But I would hope that if we would go to 
the foreign operations and work through it in good faith, there is no 
reason why--I know there are some difficult issues out there that we 
are going to have to address, but I know the majority leader is 
cognizant of our schedule this evening. I hope we can accommodate that 
schedule. I will work with him to see that we can work through this 
bill and deal with the issues that we must confront prior to the time 
we resolve this matter.
  This is one of the bills that the President has indicated that he 
ought to be able to support and sign. But, obviously, there are some 
troubling issues that we have to work through, and we will do that.
  With that understanding, I have no objection to moving to the foreign 
operations legislation.
  Mr. DOLE. I appreciate the Democratic leader, Senator Daschle's 
cooperation. I was not aware of the other until about 11:50. I will 
talk to the Senator privately about it. Senator Domenici came to my 
office, and he feels that, at least as far as today is concerned, there 
is something else that is more important than discussing a motion to 
instruct conferees. So we do now have consent to go to the foreign 
operations appropriations bill. There is one amendment in disagreement.
  We will accommodate the schedule this evening, whatever happens.
  Mr. DASCHLE. I thank the majority leader.

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