[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 83 (Monday, June 16, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S5651]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. LOTT. For the information of all Senators, the Senate will be in 
a period of morning business today until the hour of 12:30 p.m. 
Following morning business, by previous consent, the Senate will begin 
consideration of the State Department reauthorization bill. Senators 
who intend to offer amendments to that legislation should be prepared 
to offer and debate their amendments today. I understand we do have a 
couple of amendments that may be offered. We have announced earlier 
that any rollcall votes ordered on those amendments will not occur 
today but, instead, will be stacked to occur at a time to be determined 
in the morning by the two leaders. We do hope to open with some early 
votes so we can get on toward completion of the State Department 
reauthorization hopefully by tomorrow night. Senator Daschle and I 
discussed that last week before he left, and we agreed that we would 
try to complete action by Tuesday night, since we have bipartisan 
agreement on this legislation.
  Senators will be notified accordingly exactly when the rollcall votes 
will be scheduled, and we hope that we can finish the State Department 
reauthorization so that we can move on to other bills. We now have 
scheduled the Defense authorization bill for Wednesday and the 
remainder of the week. We have some other issues that we might try to 
get up, including the intelligence authorization bill.
  So I remind Senators again that there are only 2 weeks remaining 
prior to the July 4 recess. The next 2 weeks will certainly be very 
busy, and I hope Senators will continue to be cooperative as we 
schedule legislation and votes. I thank our colleagues for their 
cooperation in the Chamber. We may have to go into the night some the 
next 2 weeks in order to get through the State Department 
authorization, the Defense authorization, maybe even the intelligence 
authorization and the two reconciliation bills next week, one on the 
spending side and, of course, the tax bill. That is a big order, but 
the Finance Committee will be meeting most of the day tomorrow and 
Wednesday and Thursday to complete action on those two important 
reconciliation bills that will carry out the directions of the budget 
resolution that we agreed to.

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