[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 145 (Friday, October 24, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S11174]
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        INTERMODAL SURFACE TRANSPORTATION EFFICIENCY ACT OF 1997

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the pending business.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 1173) to authorize funds for the construction of 
     highways, for highway safety programs, and for mass transit 
     programs, and for other purposes.

  The Senate resumed consideration of the bill.
  Pending:

       Chafee-Warner amendment No. 1312, to provide for a 
     continuing designation of a metropolitan planning 
     organization.
       Chafee-Warner amendment No. 1313 (to language proposed to 
     be stricken by the committee amendment, as modified), of a 
     perfecting nature.
       Chafee-Warner amendment No. 1314 (to Amendment No. 1313), 
     of a perfecting nature.
       Motion to recommit the bill to the Committee on Environment 
     and Public Works, with instructions.
       Lott amendment No. 1317 (to instructions of the motion to 
     recommit), to authorize funds for construction of highways, 
     for highway safety programs, and for mass transit programs.
       Lott amendment No. 1318 (to Amendment No. 1317), to strike 
     the limitation on obligations for administrative expenses.

  Mr. BREAUX. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent, if no one else is 
waiting to speak, that I be allowed to speak as in morning business for 
up to 3 minutes.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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