[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 57 (Tuesday, April 30, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S4400]
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      IMMIGRATION CONTROL AND FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT OF 1996

  The Senate continued with the consideration of the bill.
  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. President, Senator Hatfield would like to speak for, 
I believe, 7 minutes on his own hour with regard to any matter that he 
might address. Then we will try to do this procedure. We have two 
Senator Kennedy amendments. I do not think there will be any 
extensive--there will be debate, 30 minutes, 40 minutes, with regard to 
those amendments. Then those two amendments will be considered and 
taken up back to back.
  Then we will lay down and proceed to the amendment, which is already 
in the mix, with regard to birth certificates and driver's licenses. I 
cannot describe when that might come to a vote, but that will be the 
matter of business.
  So I urge all who wish to be involved in that debate to please review 
the complete changed amendment. That is a very different procedure from 
what was passed out of the Judiciary Committee with regard to driver's 
licenses, birth certificates, the breeder document that causes the most 
concern.
  So that is the agenda. Then, of course, the time is running, under 
the constraints after cloture. We will simply proceed. There are many 
amendments and no time for many persons to do anything but speak very 
briefly. Some are listed with no particular topic or subject. Some 20 
are by one Senator. I hope that the breath of reality will enter the 
scene with regard to some of those.
  Mr. HATFIELD addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oregon is recognized.

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