[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 85 (Wednesday, June 18, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S5922]
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               DENYING VETERANS BENEFITS IN CAPITAL CASES

  Mr. SPECTER. First, Mr. President, I would like to update my 
colleagues on our efforts to have an amendment on veterans benefits 
occasioned by the conviction of Timothy McVeigh who does have veterans 
benefits. We have been working to put the legislation in final form, 
and I think we are now very close to it. If we can accomplish that, we 
still have time today to introduce the bill and, I think, to get a 
rollcall vote on it. That will be the final call, obviously, of our 
majority leader, Senator Lott, but I do think we have a chance to do 
that.
  (The remarks of Mr. Specter pertaining to the submission of Senate 
Resolution 102 are located in today's Record under ``Submissions of 
Concurrent and Senate Resolutions.'')
  Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, I yield the floor in the absence of any 
other Senator seeking recognition and suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. SPECTER. 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for the quorum call be rescinded.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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