[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 73 (Monday, June 2, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5157-S5158]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, the Senate will be in session today for a 
period of morning business to give Senators an opportunity to speak.
  At 2:30 the Senate will resume consideration of S. 4, the Family 
Friendly Workplace Act. I encourage any Senator who intends to offer an 
amendment to this legislation to be prepared to offer the amendment 
during today's session. Any votes ordered on amendments offered today 
will be set aside with the possibility of votes occurring on those 
amendments after 5 p.m. today.
  In addition, a cloture motion on S. 4 will be filed today. Therefore, 
the Senate can expect a vote on cloture on S. 4 to occur on Wednesday 
morning.
  As a reminder to all Senators, tomorrow from 9:30 until 12:30 a.m. 
the Senate will honor the services of our President pro tempore, 
Senator Thurmond, the longest serving Member of the Senate. I encourage 
all Senators to participate in this important tribute on Tuesday 
morning.
  For the remainder of the week Senators can anticipate Senate action 
on the concurrent budget resolution, the supplemental appropriations 
conference report, and possibly the adoption of legislation.
  As Members are aware, this is the first week of a 4-week legislative 
period prior to the Fourth of July recess. The Senate has a number of 
important issues which need to be considered prior to that next recess. 
We anticipate action on the budget reconciliation bills, both on the 
spending side and the tax cut bill.
  The DOD authorization should be ready, and the chairman of the 
committee has asked that we try to reserve

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time in the latter part of June to do that, if at all possible.
  Product liability legislation is pending, as well as various 
appropriations bills, including the legislative branch, foreign ops, 
and Treasury-Postal Service as they become available.
  So we are looking at those three appropriations bills that we would 
like to be able to finish in the Senate before we go out for the Fourth 
of July recess.
  As all Members know, this is not an exclusive list that the Senate 
may consider. There are other issues that are pending legislatively and 
executive matters as they are cleared. For instance, I understand the 
national missile defense legislation has cleared the Armed Services 
Committee. That is an issue that we may be able to take up before the 
Fourth of July period.
  Therefore, I encourage all Members to adjust their schedules for a 
busy month of Senate work. That could very well include some votes on 
Monday afternoons late and evenings on Friday. But later on this week, 
probably tomorrow, we will try to give Senators some clear idea of what 
Mondays and Fridays they should expect to be in session. At a minimum, 
the Friday that we are scheduled to go out for the Fourth of July 
recess--that would be Friday, June 27--is clearly one that we will 
likely have to be in session to complete our work on reconciliation 
bills.

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