[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 8 (Tuesday, January 28, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S700]
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                            SENATE SCHEDULE

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I do want to announce at this point also for 
the information of all Senators, there will be no recorded votes for 
the remainder of the day. There will be opportunity for Members to 
attend committee hearings, confirmation hearings and begin to have 
hearings on legislation, but there will be no recorded votes this 
afternoon.
  It is our hope that we will be able to have debate this afternoon on 
the nominee to be head of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development, Mr. Cuomo. We have not been able to get a time worked out 
on that, an agreement where we would be able to have a vote in the 
morning, but we would like to be able to get the debate done this 
afternoon. So any Senators who would like to speak on that may want to 
do that, and then maybe we can complete it in the morning, hopefully 
get a vote sometime early in the morning between perhaps 9:30 and 10.
  We have run into a couple little bumps in the road. We may not be 
able to get that agreement worked out, but we are still working on it. 
We also expect to be able to vote on Thursday morning then, probably 
again between 9:30 and 10 o'clock, on Mr. Daley to be the Secretary of 
Commerce.
  So we will definitely have one vote on Thursday, and we may have a 
vote on Wednesday on the other nomination. We will let Senators know 
later in the day if that is worked out. With that, Mr. President, I 
would be glad to yield the floor to the Senator from Virginia.
  Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, might I ask the leader to address one 
other scheduled vote this week. The majority leader, as a member of the 
Rules Committee, is aware the committee voted in the affirmative on the 
new Architect of the Capitol. At some point the Senate will turn its 
attention to a vote. It is historic.
  Mr. LOTT. We did not factor that into our thinking, but we would like 
to do that tomorrow if we could, I believe.
  Do we need a recorded vote on that?
  Mr. WARNER. Certainly this Senator would not so desire.
  Mr. LOTT. Let us check and see what the precedents are on whether or 
not a recorded vote is necessary. I know we have come up with a very 
strong nominee----
  Mr. WARNER. Mr. Hantman.
  Mr. LOTT. Which has been approved unanimously by the Rules Committee. 
We would like to formally complete his confirmation by the full Senate. 
We will check on when we might do that. We could do that tomorrow, but 
we might be affected by whether a recorded vote will be in order. We 
will check into it and get back to the Senator and notify all Senators 
later on today.
  Mr. WARNER. I thank the majority leader. I, too, thank him for his 
participation in the selection of the Architect of the U.S. Capitol.
  Mr. President, I would like to proceed as if in morning business for 
the stipulated period of not to exceed 10 minutes.

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