[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 102 (Thursday, July 11, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7749-S7750]
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                   UNANIMOUS-CONSENT REQUEST--S. 704

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the Senate now turn 
to the consideration of Calendar No. 449, S. 704, a bill to establish a 
gambling impact study commission; further, a managers' amendment that I 
will send to the desk be agreed to, the bill then be read a third time 
and passed, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table, and any 
statements relating to the measure appear at this point in the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, this is the first time we have had the 
opportunity to see this unanimous-consent request. Ordinarily, we are 
given unanimous-consent requests ahead of time so we can check with our 
colleagues. No one has given us this unanimous consent request. So, in 
order to clear it with our colleagues, I object at this time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard.
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I would like the Record to show, as a matter 
of fact, they did receive notice on this. We have been talking back and 
forth about it for days. I believe Senator Simon had indicated he 
thought it had been cleared. A couple of Senators who had earlier had 
reservations on the Democratic side had indicated they would not 
object. You have seen it. There is no great big surprise here. There 
was a chance, I think, 3 weeks ago, to read it and reread it.
  Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, usually we do these things leader to 
leader. I will be happy to talk to Senator

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Thomas about the legislative calendar, or I might be able to talk to 
other Members of the Senate Republican caucus, but I prefer to deal 
with the majority leader. I think we ought to see the reciprocal here. 
I have not had a chance to see it or check with my colleagues. Until 
that happens, nothing is going to get done on this side.
  Mr. LOTT. As I indicated earlier, I will be glad to try this again 
later on today once you have a chance to talk to your colleagues. I 
will be glad to come back to this at 4, 5, 6 o'clock, so we can deal 
with this issue. I know there are Senators interested in it on both 
sides. So I will put you on notice, I have tried to bring it up. I will 
try it again later. If we do not get it today, I will try it again 
tomorrow.
  At some point, I want to say this, if the objection continues to be 
heard that would bring it up under unanimous consent, then I will want 
to schedule time for it and move to bring it up, have some debate. I am 
willing to do that, too. I am just trying to find a way to get some of 
these things up and get them considered.

  Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, we might want to bring it up under 
regular order. I am told, just now, we may have amendments to the 
legislation. So that might be the most appropriate vehicle.
  Mr. LOTT. I might say, if there are going to be a lot of amendments 
to what I thought was going to be relatively noncontroversial, that 
will affect when it comes up, because we do have appropriations bills 
that take priority over everything else.

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