[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 177 (Thursday, November 9, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S16854]
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                           ORDER OF PROCEDURE

  Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, we have been trying to reach an agreement 
the last couple of hours on the continuing resolution. We have not been 
able to do that, so I think since it may take some time and some 
debate--if we could get consent to go to the so-called CR--we should 
start as quickly as we can, because in addition to disposal of this 
legislation today we need to dispose of the debt ceiling extension, 
which will not arrive from the House until 5 o'clock.
  It is my hope we could complete action on both of those. There will 
probably be, hopefully, not many amendments, but an amendment or two, 
and we have to get it back to the House yet this evening or be here 
tomorrow, notwithstanding the fact that it is a Federal holiday.
  I hope we could have everyone's cooperation and that we can move very 
quickly on the continuing resolution, and then be in a position when 
the debt ceiling extension arrives to move quickly on that.
  The President has indicated he will veto both the continuing 
resolution and the debt extension, which I hope is not the case because 
we would have very little time to act on Monday to prevent a shutdown 
of the Government. I hope the President would understand that and 
accept these very modest proposals.

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