[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 69 (Thursday, May 16, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S5177]
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                                PROGRAM

  Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, for the information of all Senators, the 
Senate will consider the budget resolution on Friday and Monday. Since 
a large number of Senators have indicated they will be available to 
offer their amendments, no votes will occur either Friday or Monday. 
Senators who have amendments must offer and debate their amendments 
either Friday or Monday. It will be the intention of the leadership to 
conclude the budget resolution by the close of business on Tuesday, if 
at all possible.
  As an example of Senators that have already indicated they will work 
with their amendments, let me state on Friday--this is not binding in 
any order--but Senator Wellstone will be here at 9:30, Senator Moseley-
Braun, somewhere around 10 o'clock, Senator Byrd somewhere around 11 
o'clock, Senator Simpson around noon, Senator Kerry has two amendments, 
somewhere around 1:30, Senator Lott in the afternoon, Senator Kyl in 
the afternoon, Senator Gramm in the afternoon, Senator Dorgan, and 
Senator Kennedy, sometime tomorrow afternoon.
  Mr. FORD. Will the Senator yield?
  Mr. DOMENICI. I am happy to yield to the Senator.
  Mr. FORD. We had worked out on this side an opportunity for the 
Senator from Washington, Senator Murray, to be somewhere between noon 
and 2 o'clock.
  Mr. DOMENICI. We will put that in between Senator Kerry and Senator 
Lott, who would go later. Senator Murray could be somewhere after 
Senator Kerry.
  Mr. FORD. We would like to reverse that, Senator, and put Senator 
Murray before Senator Kerry.
  Mr. DOMENICI. We would have Senator Murray coming ahead of Senator 
Kerry, with his two amendments.
  Mr. EXON. Mr. President, was putting Senator Murray ahead of Senator 
Kerry cleared with Senator Kerry?
  Mr. FORD. Yes, and Senator Murray will be speaking in favor of the 
amendment of Senator Kerry. She has an amendment also. It would work 
out for her travel plans. We agreed the 12 to 2 o'clock period she 
could introduce her amendment.
  Mr. EXON. This timing is getting rather complicated. Senator Kerry is 
making a special trip back from Boston and will be in Pittsburgh then 
he has to go back. He told me he would be here hopefully between 2 
o'clock and 3 o'clock. He will be very strapped for time to meet the 
connection. I simply say as nearly as possible I hope we can 
accommodate Senator Kerry when he shows up, maybe put him before or 
after. I did not know about Senator Murray.
  Mr. FORD. It is somewhere before 2 o'clock.
  Mr. EXON. All right. We will do our best to accommodate everyone. I 
think we have that general understanding.

  Mr. DOMENICI. Might I continue. On all the amendments that the 
Senator from New Mexico just listed, this is not a unanimous consent 
request, this is a bona fide effort to indicate that these Senators 
will offer their amendments tomorrow, in somewhat of the order I have 
described.
  Now, Senators are going to be accommodated. We will stay until they 
are accommodated, and try to use a substantial amount of time. I will 
not be here after 3:30 but there will be someone here so we get this 
finished.
  Now on Monday, I told the Senators we are doing well on Friday, and 
on Monday we are doing better. We do not have to have votes because we 
will have a lot of amendments and stack them in an orderly matter. 
Senator Ashcroft, Senator Kyl, Senator Harkin, Senator Bumpers, Senator 
Feingold, Senator Baucus, Senator Levin, Senator Simon, Senator Snowe. 
Senator Chafee and Senator Breaux, the full substitute, they will take 
3 hours on Monday afternoon and then they will wrap it up with 1 hour 
on Tuesday when we sequence them into a voting pattern.
  Mr. EXON. What is the time allowed for that amendment?
  Mr. DOMENICI. A total of 4 hours equally divided, 3 hours on Monday, 
and wrap it up with 1 hour on Tuesday.
  Then we have Senators Brown and Simpson who will also be ready 
Monday, Senator Ashcroft will be ready Monday. Feingold is for Monday.
  The last list, starting with Senator Harkin and ending with Senator 
Ashcroft, are Monday amendments in some kind of sequencing related to 
what I have just described.
  Again, nobody is bound to a time but I am really urging and my friend 
Senator Exon is, and the whip and the minority leader, that we appear 
and offer them, because that means we will be well on our way to a 
manageable schedule on Tuesday.
  Mr. EXON. I agree. I think it can and will work.
  Mr. FORD. May I ask one more question? I apologize for taking so 
long, but would Senator Domenici advise me about the amendment by 
Senator Nunn on long-term entitlement reform. It seems to me he and 
Senator Brown may have a joint amendment. I wanted to be sure that 
Senator Nunn was accommodated.
  Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, that is known as the Brown-Simpson-Nunn 
amendment.
  Mr. FORD. That will be sometime late Monday?
  Mr. DOMENICI. It looks like it is close to 5 o'clock.
  Mr. FORD. That would be ideal, sometime around 5 o'clock or after.

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