[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 205 (Wednesday, December 20, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S18935]
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                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, for the information of my colleagues, 
immediately we will begin consideration of Senate Resolution 199, 
regarding the Whitewater subpoena. That will start as soon as we can. 
There is no time limit on the resolution; however, we hope we will be 
able to dispose of this resolution after a reasonable amount of debate.
  Following the disposition of Senate Resolution 199, there are a 
number of possible items for consideration. We would like to complete 
action on House Joint Resolution 132. The Democratic leader objected to 
its consideration last night but indicated in a positive way that, if 
we could make one change and clear one other bill, we could probably 
pass that today. I assume there will be a request for a rollcall. It 
will have to go back to the House where I assume they would take the 
Senate amendment and send it on to the President.

  A cloture vote could occur on the motion to proceed to Labor-HHS 
appropriations. It is my hope we will get a continuing resolution today 
from the House. I am not certain what the length would be, but it could 
go until Friday, or it could go until next Tuesday or Wednesday--
probably until Friday.
  We still have three appropriations bills: D.C. appropriations, 
foreign ops, and Labor-HHS, which we are unable to bring to the floor 
because of opposition on the other side.
  So, there could be rollcall votes throughout the day. Let me indicate 
that it seems to me we ought to make a decision here that we stop the 
legislative business no later than Friday of this week. It is going to 
be difficult for those of us involved in budget negotiations if there 
is legislation every day in the next week. It is my hope we can 
complete action on a budget agreement Friday or Saturday of this week 
and that only the principals might have to return next week.
  In any event, I ask staff and others to determine if that is a 
possibility, to say--of course, we are at a point now where any one 
Senator can object to anything and it will not come up unless you have 
unanimous consent or unless it is privileged. So I hope we could take a 
look at that.
  I would just say, one thing we have agreed to--I think it is fair to 
state this--is if we do reach an agreement on sort of the format, 
framework, and scheduling, there will not be press conferences. There 
will be a news blackout, unless there is an agreement at the end of 
each day to issue a joint press statement. I think that has been part 
of the problem. There have been so many press conferences, so many 
people reacting to other people that it makes it difficult to proceed. 
So, hopefully we can work that out.

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