[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 94 (Monday, June 24, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S6677]
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                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. LOTT. Today there will be a period of morning business until the 
hour of 2 p.m. with Senators permitted to speak for up to 5 minutes 
each. At the hour of 2, the Senate will begin consideration of S. 1219, 
the campaign finance reform bill. There will be no rollcall votes 
during today's session of the Senate, and under the consent agreement 
reached last week, a vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the bill, 
S. 1219, will occur at 2:15 tomorrow.
  Senators are reminded that in accordance with rule XXII, first-degree 
amendments may be filed until 2 p.m. today and second-degree amendments 
may be filed until 12:30 on Tuesday.
  This week the Senate will also resume consideration of the Department 
of Defense authorization bill. I hope the Senate will complete action 
on this bill as early as possible this week.
  Also, we are continuing our efforts to reach some agreement with 
regard to the consideration of the small-business tax measure and the 
minimum wage legislation. I wish to emphasize that we hope to get an 
agreement on that and complete action on the DOD authorization bill and 
move to the DOD appropriations bill.
  In order to achieve that, it is going to take a lot of cooperation 
from all the Members, all the Senators, between the two leaders, and 
those who have amendments to offer. So I emphasize once again that we 
have to move forward on the DOD authorization bill. The chairman will 
be working on that. Senator Thurmond, from South Carolina, and Senator 
Nunn, the ranking member, are intent on moving this legislation 
forward.

  I have tried to be considerate of the Senate and the Members' desires 
to have an opportunity to have supper with their families, have 
reasonable hours, but from what I saw last week and what I experienced, 
I do not know if we can continue that. We are going to make progress on 
DOD authorization on Tuesday and Wednesday. If it means staying late, 
we are going to do that.
  Again, I want to be sympathetic and cooperative with Members on their 
schedule demands and their desire to be with their families, but if 
they do not respond in kind, then I, like previous leaders, have no 
option but to force the Senate to stay late to do its work.
  Senators should expect a busy week this week with votes throughout 
the day every day, including Friday, and there will be, as I said, 
rollcall votes maybe into the evening in order to get the work done as 
necessary.
  I am pleased that we have been able to reach the unanimous-consent 
agreement with regard to the consideration of campaign finance reform 
legislation. I think it is legislation that deserves an opportunity to 
be debated. We will have that opportunity this afternoon and in the 
morning, and then we will go to a cloture vote at 2:15.
  Mr. President, I yield the floor.

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