[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 135 (Thursday, September 26, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Pages S11446-S11447]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       MISCELLANEOUS TRADE AND TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS ACT OF 1996

 Mr. ROTH. Mr. President, I rise to notify my colleagues that, 
yesterday, the Committee on Finance completed a markup of H.R. 3815, 
respecting trade technical corrections and other miscellaneous trade 
measures. I'm pleased to inform the Senate that the committee favorably 
reported out the bill unanimously.
  I want to emphasize to those Members who expressed concern about the 
inclusion of controversial items on this legislation, that we were 
careful to craft a non-controversial bill. Any items that turned out to 
be controversial, including items I strongly supported, were either not 
included in this bill or were removed from the draft markup document. 
What we have ended up with on this bill are many worthy miscellaneous 
trade items that are of interest to many of the Members on and off the 
Finance Committee.
  Since time is obviously short, Senator Moynihan and I will seek 
Senate passage of this bill by unanimous consent as quickly as 
possible. We have been working closely with the Ways and Means 
Committee, and hope that the House could accept the current version of 
the bill by unanimous consent. With a number of additional items, the 
Finance Committee version of the bill contains all of the provisions 
that were in the House version with the exception of the hand tools 
marking provision that had considerable opposition in the Senate.
  Mr. President, in closing, I just want to emphasize that if Members 
seek to put any controversial provisions on this bill, we will not have 
time to get this bill done. Therefore, any help Members can offer to 
assure speedy passage of this meritorious, non-controversial, and 
bipartisan bill before

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the end of this Congress will be greatly appreciated.

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