[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 129 (Wednesday, September 18, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S10729]
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                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, this morning, there will be a period of 
morning business until the hour of 11 a.m., and the first 45 minutes of 
morning business will be under the control of Senator Hutchison, and 
the second 45 minutes will be under the control of Senator Daschle, or 
his designee.
  Following morning business at 11 a.m., the Senate will resume 
consideration of S. 1994, the FAA reauthorization bill. A unanimous-
consent agreement limiting amendments to that bill was reached last 
night. Also under the order, all amendments listed must be filed at the 
desk by 11 a.m. this morning. It is hoped that most of those amendments 
can be agreed to or not be offered at all.
  Upon disposition of the FAA bill, the Senate will be asked to turn to 
the consideration of the conference report to accompany the 
Transportation appropriations bill, if available, or the Magnuson 
fisheries bill under a previous consent agreement. In any case, there 
will probably be rollcall votes throughout the day, and Senators should 
expect those votes.
  I am pleased with the progress that has been made on the FAA 
reauthorization bill. The Senator from Arizona, Senator McCain, and the 
Senator from Kentucky, Senator Ford, have been working very hard on 
this. We need to get this done. In fact, we need to get it completed 
and we need to do it quickly so we can move on to other bills we need 
to get done. If we don't get this FAA reauthorization bill completed, 
there will be a prohibition at the end of the year on use of the 
airport trust fund. So we absolutely have to get it done.
  Also, I would like to make sure Senators are aware that we are 
considering moving to other conference reports when they are available. 
We are also considering taking up, perhaps on tomorrow and Thursday, 
the maritime legislation from the Commerce Committee that will be 
managed by the Senator from Alaska, Senator Stevens, and we are now 
beginning to see if we can clear the way on both sides of the aisle to 
take up the pipeline safety legislation, something, once again, we 
really need to do. Certainly, in America, we should make sure we have a 
program and plan for our pipelines being safe.
  Until we see if we can work out some understanding that we can do our 
appropriations bills without a lot of delay or extraneous amendments, 
we will move forward on making progress on these other bills, these 
other issues. I had hoped we could get all of the appropriations bills 
done in regular order, but that has not been the case on the last two 
bills. Rather than just a squabble back and forth, I thought we could 
go on and do the people's business in other areas. I think we can do a 
lot of good work in that area over the next 3 or 4 days.
  I yield the floor, Mr. President.

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