[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 96 (Wednesday, June 26, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6945-S6947]
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        NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1997

  The Senate continued with the consideration of the bill.


                           Amendment No. 4266

  Mr. THURMOND. Mr. President, I urge the Senate to oppose the drastic 
cuts proposed by the Wellstone amendment. Senator Nunn and I had 
planned to introduce an amendment to cut the funding by $1.7 billion to 
bring the bill into compliance with the budget resolution. However, the 
Senator from Nebraska objected.
  I want to put the Senate on notice that we will introduce our 
amendment after Senator Exon completes his amendment.
  I urge the Senate to support this amendment of the Armed Services 
Committee to reduce the funding level of the bill by $1.7 billion.

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  Mr. WELLSTONE addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Minnesota is recognized for 2 
minutes.
  Mr. WELLSTONE. How much?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Two minutes.
  Mr. WELLSTONE. Mr. President, this amendment, which I offer with 
Senator Harkin, Senator Dorgan, Senator Bumpers, and Senator Feingold, 
simply says, look, we now have an authorization, roughly speaking, $13 
billion above and beyond what the Pentagon has requested, what the 
President has requested, and what the military leadership has 
requested. Too much of it is add-on projects. There is a question of 
whether or not these weapons systems are needed.
  We voted 100 to zero for the Lieberman amendment which is an 
important amendment dealing with force structure, dealing with 
modernization. Let us go through with that study but let us not start 
adding on projects. This is an amendment that really goes after some of 
the pork and add-ons. We should not be doing this.
  It is a deficit reduction amendment. It says this is a place where we 
can take $13 billion and put it into deficit reduction. That is what we 
should do.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question now occurs on agreeing to 
amendment No. 4266 offered by the Senator from Minnesota.
  Mr. THURMOND. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Arkansas [Mr. Bumpers] is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
who desire to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 34, nays 65, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 172 Leg.]

                                YEAS--34

     Baucus
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Bradley
     Brown
     Bryan
     Conrad
     Daschle
     Dorgan
     Feingold
     Glenn
     Graham
     Grassley
     Harkin
     Hatfield
     Jeffords
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Mikulski
     Moseley-Braun
     Murray
     Pell
     Pryor
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Simon
     Wellstone
     Wyden

                                NAYS--65

     Abraham
     Akaka
     Ashcroft
     Bennett
     Bond
     Breaux
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Coats
     Cochran
     Cohen
     Coverdell
     Craig
     D'Amato
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Exon
     Faircloth
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Frahm
     Frist
     Gorton
     Gramm
     Grams
     Gregg
     Hatch
     Heflin
     Helms
     Hollings
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     Johnston
     Kassebaum
     Kempthorne
     Kerrey
     Kyl
     Lieberman
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moynihan
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Nunn
     Pressler
     Robb
     Roth
     Santorum
     Shelby
     Simpson
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Warner

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Bumpers
       
  The amendment (No. 4266) was rejected.
  Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote by which the 
amendment was rejected.
  Mr. NUNN. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  Mr. LOTT addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Snowe). The majority leader.


                      Unanimous-Consent Agreements

  Mr. LOTT. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the agreement 
entered yesterday be modified to reflect that summaries of amendments 
must be submitted to the two leaders no later than 3 p.m. today; and 
further, that the two leaders now have until the hour of 4 p.m. today 
to void this agreement, with all other provisions of the consent 
agreement still in order.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. LOTT. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent, with regard to 
the pending legislation, that the pending amendments be set aside and 
that Senator Exon be recognized to offer an amendment with respect to 
funding; that there be 90 minutes for debate with the time equally 
divided and controlled in the usual form, with no amendments in order 
to the amendments or any language which may be stricken; that upon the 
use or yielding back of time, the amendment be laid aside and that 
Senator Thurmond be recognized to offer an amendment for himself and 
Senator Nunn; that there be 20 minutes for debate with the time equally 
divided and controlled in the usual form, with no second-degree 
amendments in order, nor to the language which may be stricken; that 
upon the use or yielding back of time, the amendment be laid aside and 
Senator Wellstone be recognized to offer an amendment with respect to 
funding, with 90 minutes for debate equally divided in the usual form, 
with no second-degree amendments in order, nor to any language which 
may be stricken; that upon the use or yielding back of time, the 
amendment be laid aside and the Senate then vote on or in relation to 
the amendments in the order in which they were debated, with 2 minutes 
equally divided for debate on each amendment prior to the vote, with no 
other intervening action in order.
  I finally ask unanimous consent that upon disposition of the above 
amendment, the Senate then resume consideration of the Kyl amendment 
regarding underground nuclear testing; that there be 90 minutes for 
debate prior to a motion to table, with the time equally divided and 
controlled between Senators Kyl and Exon; and that upon the use or 
yielding back of time, without intervening action, Senator Hatfield be 
recognized to move to table the Kyl amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there an objection?
  Mr. GORTON addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Washington.
  Mr. GORTON. Reserving the right to object, I should like to inform 
the majority leader that I have asked Senator Exon if he would be 
willing to defer for 10 minutes, or so, for a morning business 
statement on my part, if it is agreeable with the majority leader, 
before further debate.
  Mr. EXON. Madam President, I simply say to the majority leader, in 
order to accommodate my friend and colleague, I will delay for 10 
minutes.
  Mr. LOTT. Madam President, I modify the unanimous-consent request to 
provide for 10 minutes for Senator Gorton before we go to the lineup 
that I have described here.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Mr. NUNN. Reserving the right to object, and I hope not to object, I 
understand there is further wording on the unanimous-consent request at 
the end of everything that the majority leader enumerated that would 
add these words:

       Provided further that Senator Hatfield is permitted to move 
     to table prior to the expiration or use of all time on the 
     motion to table.

  Mr. LOTT. Madam President, I amend the unanimous-consent request to 
include that additional sentence, whereby Senator Hatfield would be 
permitted to move to table prior to the expiration or use of all time 
on the motion to table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. LOTT. I do want to say, I appreciate the cooperation of all the 
Senators on this--the chairman, the Senator from Virginia, the Senator 
from Georgia, Senator Exon and Senator Kyl. A lot of give and take was 
involved here. This helps move major portions, for needed action on 
this bill, forward. So I commend the Members. Now I hope we can get on 
these amendments and stay with them until we get them completed.
  Mr. WARNER addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Virginia.
  Mr. WARNER. Madam President, we commend the distinguished majority 
leader. He has been on this floor since early this morning endeavoring 
to help the managers, and this is clear evidence of the success he has 
had. This will get this bill passed by tomorrow night. My understanding 
is this is your goal, and it is our goal. I thank the leader.

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  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Washington.

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