[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 3 (Friday, January 5, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S73]
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                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, leaders' time has been reserved.
  Mr. President, today we will be awaiting a possible House action on 
maybe one or two measures on returning Federal workers and also paying 
Federal workers who have not been paid.
  We do not expect rollcall votes to occur during today's session. We 
do not know precisely what the form of the legislation will be when it 
comes from the House. We hope to be able to pass it by unanimous 
consent. So if anybody wants to object, they ought to be letting us 
know early because we will have to give 24-hour notice to get our 
colleagues back here sometime tomorrow for that vote.
  I know that some indicated that they would have objected to the last 
UC while they were hundreds of miles away. So I want to be sure those 
people who may be out and around the country today understand that 
there may be another request for a unanimous consent, and if they wish 
to object, they had better hustle back here and do so.
  I hope, with the House apparently trying to come together on a couple 
of proposals that would enable Federal workers to return to work with 
pay, that we would not engage in rhetoric here today that might 
discourage positive action by the House.
  So it would be my hope that we would dwell on other matters, if 
necessary, and let the Senate then stand in recess subject to the call 
of the Chair awaiting House action. I do not think it is going to help 
anything if some of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle find 
it necessary to beat up House Republicans. It will only make it more 
difficult, and it should make it more difficult, frankly. So I hope we 
can avoid that rhetoric today.

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