[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 99 (Monday, July 8, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S7345]
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                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, today there will be a period for morning 
business until the hour of 3:30 p.m., with Senator Kennedy or his 
designee in control of the time from 12:30 to 2 p.m., and Senator 
Coverdell or his designee in control of the time from 2 until 3:30 p.m.
  Following morning business, the Senate will begin consideration of 
H.R. 3448, the small business tax package legislation. Under the 
consent agreement reached, there are a limited number of amendments in 
order to that bill and all debate time will be used today. No rollcall 
votes will occur during today's session. Therefore, any votes ordered 
on the amendments will occur at 2:15 on Tuesday.
  On Tuesday, following the completion of H.R. 3448, the Senate will 
begin consideration of S. 295, the TEAM Act. As a reminder to all 
Senators, any votes ordered on amendments to the TEAM Act will occur 
during Wednesday's session of the Senate. Senators should also be 
reminded that, under a previous order, the Senate will vote on passage 
of the Department of Defense authorization bill at 9:30 on Wednesday, 
although I should note that because of the likelihood of a signing at 
the White House of the church burning legislation, we are working to 
see if we might defer that vote until, I believe, 12 o'clock on 
Wednesday. But we will make that official later on during the day, if 
we get it all worked out.
  Immediately following that vote, the Senate will proceed to the House 
of Representatives for a joint meeting of Congress to hear an address 
by the Prime Minister of Israel. Of course, if we do not have that vote 
at 9:30, we will assemble here and we will go right to the House for 
that joint meeting.
  Due to the joint meeting, it may be necessary to postpone the vote on 
the passage of DOD until later in the afternoon on Tuesday, as I have 
already announced. We will make that announcement as soon as possible 
today.
  At noon on Wednesday, there will be a vote on the motion to invoke 
cloture on the motion to proceed to S. 1788, the National Right To Work 
Act.
  Finally, I should say the appropriations process has to move forward. 
I anticipate we will take actions this week on appropriations measures. 
The first will be the Department of Defense appropriations bill, to be 
followed by the foreign operations appropriations bill.
  All Members should plan their schedules to anticipate votes, probably 
into the early evening on Tuesday and on Wednesday, although we hope 
not to go late. Then, on Thursday, depending on what progress we have 
made on the DOD appropriations bill and the foreign ops appropriations 
bill, we could go late into the evening on Thursday.
  I yield the floor.

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