[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 155 (Friday, November 7, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Pages S11922-S11923]
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                              THE SCHEDULE

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, before we move to the Amtrak legislation, I 
want to say for the information of all Senators--and I will have more 
to say about this when we have a recorded vote at 2:15. I think at that 
time we should take the time to talk about the schedule for the 
remainder of the day and perhaps Saturday and Sunday.
  It is our intent to stay and continue working. I don't see the 
necessity for us to be late tonight. But we will be back in on 
Saturday, and again on Sunday. We hope that we will have appropriations 
conference reports, possibly the first one being the Labor-HHS 
appropriations conference report, perhaps even later on today or 
tomorrow, and the Commerce-State-Justice conference report we hope to 
have by tomorrow, and, if not then, on Sunday.
  We will continue to work on other issues, some of which may require 
votes, even on the Executive Calendar. And then when the House votes, 
of course, we would then proceed to act on fast track after the House 
has acted. Whether that is Saturday or Sunday now is not clear. But the 
House has postponed their action on fast track today. So that will not 
be taken up until Saturday or Sunday.
  So we could be voting on fast track--perhaps on final passage--later 
on this weekend. But, in the meantime, of course, when we complete 
these intervening actions, we will go back to fast track as it is now 
pending before the Senate, and amendments will be in order, and other 
amendments I am sure will be offered. We will consult with the 
interested parties about how to proceed on those amendments and what 
time votes would occur.

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  But, again, I think that during the remainder of the day it is very 
likely that we will have a minimum of two votes, and maybe even three 
or four.

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