[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 80 (Tuesday, June 10, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5476-S5477]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             UNANIMOUS-CONSENT REQUEST--COMMITTEE MEETINGS

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I have five unanimous consent requests for 
subcommittees to meet during today's session of the Senate. I ask 
unanimous consent these request be agreed to en bloc and that each 
request be printed in the Record.
  Mr. DASCHLE. I object.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard.
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, my consent request was for the Armed 
Services Committee to meet on S. 450, the Department of Defense 
authorization bill. They are the Subcommittees on Airland Forces, 
Strategic Forces, Seapower, Acquisition, and Technology. Also, for the 
Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs and the 
Subcommittee on Foreign Relations to meet on some very important 
issues, with witnesses to be Senator Lieberman of Connecticut, Mr. 
William J. Bennett, and Michael J. Horowitz of the Hudson Institute, 
Father Keith Roderick of the Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights, 
prepared and waiting to testify before that committee.
  The second panel includes Col. Sharbel Barakat, a witness from Iran, 
and an anonymous witness from Pakistan.
  In addition to that, we asked for the Science, Technology and Space 
Subcommittee, Committee of Commerce, to meet with regard to NASA's 
international space program, which we have been working feverishly to 
make work, with other countries including Russia.
  Those are the committees that are prepared to meet this afternoon. 
They have witnesses lined up of both parties and a variety of 
positions. That has been objected to. I thought it was appropriate we 
put in the Record that objection is heard.
  Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I object.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. The clerk will continue to 
call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk continued the call of the roll.
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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