[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 104 (Tuesday, July 16, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7916-S7917]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           ORDER OF PROCEDURE

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, for the information of all Senators, the 
Senate has just begun consideration of the nuclear waste bill and will 
continue with that legislation next Thursday, July 25. The Senate will 
debate the Department of Defense appropriations bill tomorrow. It is 
the intention of the majority leader to reach an agreement that would 
significantly reduce the number of amendments to be offered to the DOD 
appropriations bill by 11 a.m., Wednesday. If agreement cannot be 
reached, then it would be my intent to have the cloture vote with 
respect to that bill, which would limit debate and amendments to 30 
hours.
  I want to say that we do have, however, cooperation now from both 
sides of the aisle, by the managers of the bill and Senators that have 
amendments that would like to have them considered. We are, again, 
talking with the

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Democratic leader and trying to identify the serious amendments and see 
if we can get an agreement and deal with those in a reasonable period 
of time.
  The Department of Defense appropriations bill is very important for 
the country. We need to get that done in a reasonable time tomorrow. So 
Senators should be on notice that a late session is expected in order 
to complete action on the Department of Defense appropriations bill 
tomorrow.

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