[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 74 (Thursday, May 23, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5508-S5509]
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                  CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate will now resume consideration of 
Senate Concurrent Resolution 57, which the clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 57) setting forth the 
     congressional budget for the U.S. Government for fiscal years 
     1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002.

  The Senate resumed consideration of the concurrent resolution.

       Pending:
       Harkin (for Specter) amendment No. 4012, to restore funding 
     for education, training, and health programs to a 
     Congressional Budget Office freeze level for fiscal year 1997 
     through an across the board reduction in Federal 
     administrative costs.
       Bumpers amendment No. 4014, to eliminate the defense 
     firewalls.
       Thompson amendment No. 3981, to express the sense of the 
     Senate on the funding levels for the Presidential Election 
     Campaign Fund.
       Murkowski amendment No. 4015, to prohibit sense of the 
     Senate amendments from being offered to the budget 
     resolution.
       Simpson (for Kerrey) amendment No. 4016, to express the 
     sense of the Senate on long term entitlement reforms.
       Chafee/Breaux amendment No. 4018, in the nature of a 
     substitute.
       Feingold amendment No. 3969, to eliminate the tax cut.
       Domenici (for McCain) amendment No. 4022, to express the 
     sense of the Senate regarding Spectrum auctions and their 
     effect on the integrity of the budget process.
       Domenici (for Faircloth) amendment No. 4023, to express the 
     sense of the Senate that any comprehensive legislation sent 
     to the President that balances the budget by a certain date 
     and that includes welfare reform provisions shall also 
     contain to the maximum extent possible a strategy for 
     reducing the rate of out-of-wedlock births and encouraging 
     family formation.
       Exon (for Roth) amendment No. 4025, to express the sense of 
     the Senate regarding the funding of Amtrak.
       Domenici amendment No. 4027 (to amendment No. 4012), to 
     adjust the fiscal year 1997 non-defense discretionary 
     allocation to the Appropriation Committee by $5 billion in 
     budget authority and $4 billion in outlays to sustain 1996 
     post-OCRA policy.

  Mr. DOMENICI addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Mexico.
  Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I do want to say to my friend, Senator 
Exon, and other Senators who might have heard my comments yesterday 
about when we would meet today, it was not in the form of a unanimous-
consent request, but I did intend and say to the Senator that we would 
start at 10. Actually, by the time the unanimous consent was proposed 
by our acting majority leader, forces beyond the Senator from New 
Mexico and Senator Exon went to work on it and it came out 12 o'clock, 
so I am very sorry about that. I had nothing to do with it, and I could 
not have prevented it, and I am not complaining. It is just that is the 
way it worked out.
  Mr. President, I understand, and I think Senator Exon agrees, that 
the next amendment we are going to take up would be the Bumpers 
amendment. That is 4014 which would abolish the firewalls.
  Mr. EXON. I say to my friend, we will get Senator Bumpers here. It 
was our understanding--and maybe once again we missed communications--
that the Senator from New Mexico was going to have an amendment.
  Mr. DOMENICI. We are going to set aside for a while Specter-Harkin 
and my second-degree amendment, with the Senator's concurrence.
  Mr. EXON. Yes. We are setting aside the amendment that we originally 
had informally intended to bring up. Is that right?
  Mr. DOMENICI. I assume so. I am not sure we had, but nonetheless we 
can go to anyone that is ready. If Senator Bumpers can get here----
  Mr. EXON. In view of the fact that the schedule has been changed 
without anybody's false intention, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  Mr. DOMENICI. I agree.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                    Amendment No. 4012, as Modified

  Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that I be 
permitted to modify my second-degree amendment in the form of technical 
changes to be considered when the Senate considers amendment 4012.
  Mr. EXON. We have no objection.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. DOMENICI. I send the modification to the desk.

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  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The amendment is so modified.
  Mr. DOMENICI. I thank the Chair.
  The amendment (No. 4012), as modified, is as follows:
       On page 25, line 17, increase the amount by $1,700,000,000.
       On page 25, line 18, increase the amount by $800,000,000.
       On page 27, line 16, increase the amount by $300,000,000.
       On page 27, line 17, increase the amount by $600,000,000.
       On page 42, line 2, decrease the amount by $3,500,000,000.
       On page 42, line 3, decrease the amount by $100,000,000.
       On page 52, line 14, increase the amount by $5,000,000,000.
       On page 52, line 15, increase the amount by $1,400,000,000.
       Notwithstanding any other provision of this resolution, on 
     page 52, line 15, the amount is deemed to be 
     $270,923,000,000. On page 4, line 8, the amount is deemed to 
     be $1,323,100,000,000.
       On page 4, line 9, the amount is deemed to be 
     $1,361,600,000,000.
       On page 4, line 10, the amount is deemed to be 
     $1,392,400,000,000.
       On page 4, line 11, the amount is deemed to be 
     $1,433,600,000,000.
       On page 4, line 12, the amount is deemed to be 
     $1,454,000,000,000.
       On page 4, line 17, the amount is deemed to be 
     $1,318,600,000,000.
       On page 4, line 18, the amount is deemed to be 
     $1,353,500,000,000.
       On page 4, line 19, the amount is deemed to be 
     $1,382,400,000,000.
       On page 4, line 20, the amount is deemed to be 
     $1,415,600,000.
       On page 4, line 21, the amount is deemed to be 
     $1,433,100,000,000.
       On page 5, line 1, the amount is deemed to be 
     $232,400,000,000.
       On page 5, line 2, the amount is deemed to be 
     $223,600,000,000.
       On page 5, line 3, the amount is deemed to be 
     $206,300,000,000.
       On page 5, line 4, the amount is deemed to be 
     $185,700,000,000.
       On page 5, line 5, the amount is deemed to be 
     $143,500,000,000.
       On page 5, line 9, the amount is deemed to be 
     $5,449,000,000,000.
       On page 5, line 10, the amount is deemed to be 
     $5,722,700,000,000.
       On page 5, line 11, the amount is deemed to be 
     $5,975,100,000,000.
       On page 5, line 12, the amount is deemed to be 
     $6,207,700,000,000.
       On page 5, line 13, the amount is deemed to be 
     $6,398,600,000,000.
       On page 5, line 14, the amount is deemed to be 
     $6,550,500,000,000.
       On page 6, line 13, the amount is deemed to be 
     $290,000,000,000.
       On page 6, line 14, the amount is deemed to be 
     $277,400,000,000.
       On page 6, line 15, the amount is deemed to be 
     $256,000,000,000.
       On page 6, line 16, the amount is deemed to be 
     $236,100,000,000.
       On page 6, line 17, the amount is deemed to be 
     $193,3400,000,000.
       On p;age 6, line 18, the amount is deemed to be 
     $155,400,000,000.
       On page 9, line 22, the amount is deemed to be 
     $14,900,000,000.
       On page 11, line 22, the amount is deemed to be 
     $16,700,000,000.
       On page 11, line 23, the amount is deemed to be 
     $16,800,000,000.
       On page 13, line 17, the amount is deemed to be 
     $3,700,000,000.
       On page 13, line 18, the amount is deemed to be 
     $3,100,000,000.
       On page 15, line 17, the amount is deemed to be 
     $21,500,000.
       On page 17, line 16, the amount is deemed to be 
     $12,800,000,000.
       On page 17, line 17, the amount is deemed to be 
     $11,000,000,000.
       On page 19, line 16, the amount is deemed to be 
     $8,100,000,000.
       On page 19, line 17, the amount is deemed to be 
     $2,400,000,000.
       On page 21, line 16, the amount is deemed to be 
     $42,600,000,000.
       On page 21, line 17, the amount is deemed to be 
     $39,300,000,000.
       On page 23, line 15, the amount is deemed to be 
     $9,900,000,000.
       On page 23, line 16, the amount is deemed to be 
     $10,800,000,000.
       On page 29, line 10, the amount is deemed to be 
     $193,200,000,000.
       On page 29, line 11, the amount is deemed to be 
     $191,500,000,000.
       On page 31, line 3, the amount is deemed to be 
     $232,400,000,000.
       On page 31, line 4, the amount is deemed to be 
     $240,300,000,000.
       On page 38, line 8, the amount is deemed to be 
     $13,700,000,000.
       On page 39, line 25, the amount is deemed to be 
     $282,800,000,000.
       On page 40, line 1, the amount is deemed to be 
     $282,800,000,000.
       On page 40, line 7, the amount is deemed to be 
     $289,400,000,000.
       On page 40, line 8, the amount is deemed to be 
     $289,400,000,000.
       On page 40, line 14, the amount is deemed to be 
     $293,200,000,000.
       On page 40, line 15, the amount is deemed to be 
     $293,200,000,000.
       On page 40, line 21, the amount is deemed to be 
     $294,700,000,000.
       On page 40, line 22, the amount is deemed to be 
     $294,700,000,000.
       On page 41, line 3, the amount is deemed to be 
     $298,900,000,000.
       On page 41, line 4, the amount is deemed to be 
     $298,900,000,000.
       On page 41, line 10, the amount is deemed to be 
     $303,400,000,000.
       On page 41, line 11, the amount is deemed to be 
     $303,400,000,000.
       On page 41, line 17, the amount is deemed to be 
     $348,234,000,000.
       On page 41, line 18, the amount is deemed to be 
     $351,240,000,000.
       On page 41, line 19, the amount is deemed to be 
     $348,465,000,000.
       On page 41, line 20, the amount is deemed to be 
     $349,951,000,000.
       On page 41, line 21, the amount is deemed to be 
     $351,311,000,000.
       On page 41, line 22, the amount is deemed to be 
     $352,765,000,000.
       On page 42, line 8, the amount is deemed to be 
     $200,000,000.
       On page 42, line 9, the amount is deemed to be 
     $100,000,000.
       On page 42, line 15, the amount is deemed to be 
     $400,000,000.
       On page 42, line 16, the amount is deemed to be 
     $300,000,000.
       On page 42, line 22, the amount is deemed to be 
     $800,000,000.
       On page 42, line 23, the amount is deemed to be 
     $800,000,000.
       On page 43, line 5, the amount is deemed to be 
     $1,200,000,000.
       On page 43, line 6, the amount is deemed to be 
     $1,100,000,000.
       On page 43, line 12, the amount is deemed to be 
     $3,700,000,000.
       On page 43, line 13, the amount is deemed to be 
     $3,700,000,000.

  Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
immediately upon the arrival of Senator Thompson proceed to the 
Thompson amendment No. 3981.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. DOMENICI. I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. EXON. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The Senator from Nebraska is recognized.
  Mr. EXON. Mr. President, the Senator from Nebraska will not interrupt 
anyone offering an amendment, but I ask I may be allowed to continue 
for about 3 minutes as in morning business.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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