[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 114 (Wednesday, September 3, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S8677]
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                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. LOTT. Today the Senate will resume consideration of the Harkin 
amendment No. 1057 to the Agriculture appropriations bill. Under the 
previous order, there will be 20 minutes for debate on the amendment 
equally divided between Senator Cochran and Senator Harkin. Following 
the use or yielding back of time, a vote will occur on or in relation 
to the Harkin amendment at approximately 9:50 a.m.
  Following the disposition of the Harkin amendment and passage of the 
Agriculture appropriations bill, the Senate will resume consideration 
of S. 1061, the Labor-HHS appropriations bill.
  I remind Senators that this issue, of course, was considered in July. 
The Harkin amendment was defeated at that time, I believe, by a vote of 
52 to 48. I urge my colleagues to again vote against the Harkin 
amendment and to, of course, support passage of the Agriculture 
appropriations bill. I believe Senator Cochran in July outlined clearly 
what is involved in this issue, and I think obviously he has stated the 
position that we should support which is to defeat this Harkin 
amendment.
  Members can expect a number of amendments to be offered today and 
votes will occur throughout the day on Labor-HHS. We hope to be able to 
complete action in short order on the bill. We may not be able to do it 
tonight, but we will stay with the Labor-HHS appropriations bill until 
it is completed, either today or, if necessary, tomorrow. We will 
notify Members when votes can be expected.
  In addition, the Senate will recess at 12:30 until 2:15 for the 
weekly policy luncheons to meet. As announced earlier, Members can 
expect votes each day this week, including the very real possibility of 
at least one vote, maybe more, on Friday of this week.
  As the Senate continues the session through September and October, we 
will notify Members, after consultation with the Democratic leadership, 
when we will definitely have votes on Mondays or Fridays or if there 
will not be any votes on a particular Monday or Friday. But if we are 
going to be able to complete our work by a reasonable time this fall 
and then go back to our constituencies in our respective States, we are 
going to have to work on some Mondays and Fridays.
  I yield the floor, Madam President.

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