[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 102 (Thursday, July 11, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S7756]
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                    GAMBLING IMPACT STUDY COMMISSION

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I inquire of the Democratic leader, what is 
the status with regard to the gambling impact study commission we had 
talked earlier about? You needed time to look at that and see if there 
were any problems with it, or whether amendments are required. What has 
the Senator been able to determine?
  Mr. DASCHLE. If the majority leader will yield. As I understand it, 
we have three amendments that may be offered by one of the members of 
our caucus. At this point, he would like to be protected to offer those 
at the appropriate time.
  Mr. LOTT. Are these germane amendments?
  Mr. DASCHLE. As I understand it, they are germane amendments.
  Mr. LOTT. I would like to try again to do this in such a way that it 
would not take much of the Senate's time. In fact, I do not think we 
can do it if we cannot get it done by unanimous consent. Could we ask 
for copies of these amendments to look at the text?
  Mr. DASCHLE. Absolutely. If the majority leader will yield. I was not 
aware amendments were pending. As we tried to clear it, we were told 
that at least one Member--I think it is only one Member--has 
amendments. He said there were three. We would be happy to share them 
with you. He may be willing to agree to time agreements in an effort to 
expedite the situation.
  Mr. LOTT. I would like to say that I did advise Senators on our side 
of the aisle that if there would be amendments, we probably would not 
even be able to bring it up because we do not have the time. We have 
killed 2 days here with these issues.
  So I hope that Senators on both sides and Senators Lugar and Simon 
will work with us and see if we cannot get some sort of agreement so we 
can handle this quickly. I feel like I have fulfilled my commitment.
  I yield to the chairman.
  Mr. STEVENS. There is a managers' amendment, I point out, that 
Senator Glenn and I have worked up. So if we get a time agreement, I 
would like the managers to have the right to offer their amendment.
  Mr. LOTT. I believe that is in the unanimous-consent request.

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