[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 87 (Friday, June 20, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6019-S6020]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1998

  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senate will now resume consideration 
of S. 936, which the clerk will report.
  The bill clerk read as follows:


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       A bill (S. 936) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
     1998 for military activities of the Department of Defense, 
     for military construction, and for defense activities of the 
     Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for 
     such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other 
     purposes.

  The Senate resumed consideration of the bill.
  Pending:

       Cochran-Durbin amendment No. 420, to require a license to 
     export computers with composite theoretical performance equal 
     to or greater than 2,000 million theoretical operations per 
     second.


                           Amendment No. 420

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The pending question is the Cochran amendment 
No. 420.
  The Senator from South Carolina.
  Mr. THURMOND. Madam President, I would like to remind the Members of 
the Senate if they have amendments to this bill, the Defense 
authorization bill, they come down and offer them. Now is the time. 
There is no use to put it off. We have set aside this morning to 
consider these amendments, and we hope they will not delay.
  I yield to the able Senator from West Virginia.
  Mr. BYRD. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that I may speak 
out of order.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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