[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 1 (Tuesday, January 27, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2-S3]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, no legislative or executive business will be 
transacted during today's session. Therefore, no votes will occur 
during the session of the Senate today. We will recess mid to late 
afternoon to reconvene at 8:30 p.m. this evening in the Chamber. All 
Members are asked to be in the Chamber at approximately 8:30 in order 
that we can go over as a body to the Hall of the House of 
Representatives to hear the President's State of the Union Address 
beginning at 9 p.m. this evening.
  During tomorrow's session we will consider three judicial 
nominations, those being Barry Silverman to be a circuit judge for the 
ninth circuit, Richard Story, to be a district judge for the northern 
district of Georgia, and Ann Aiken, to be a district judge in Oregon. 
We hope to enter into a time agreement of approximately 2 hours, with 
rollcall votes expected on each nomination. Therefore, there could be 
three votes tomorrow, Wednesday. In fact, I think the Members should 
expect that there will be three votes.
  Then on Thursday of this week we hope to consider the Ronald Reagan 
airport bill which is presently in the Commerce Committee. Amendments 
could be offered. Therefore, votes can be expected to occur on that 
item on Thursday of this week.
  The Senate will not be in session on Friday. Following the Senate's 
consideration of the Ronald Reagan bill, the Senate would proceed over 
until Monday, February 2nd. The schedule for Monday will be announced 
later in the week. However, no votes will occur during the session on 
Monday. We do expect votes, of course, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday 
of next week.
  We will be talking to committee chairmen, sponsors of bills and with 
the Democratic leadership to decide exactly what bills could come up. 
We are considering possibly the PUHCA legislation, the Public Utilities 
Holding Company Act modifications. We are still considering a cloning 
bill that I believe could be considered. We have several others that we 
are considering, as well.
  Next week we expect to take up the FEC, the Federal Election 
Commission nominees, the nomination of Mr. Satcher to be the Surgeon 
General, and possibly two more Federal judges that are now going 
through the process of being cleared.
  I do want to say, again, Mr. President, I appreciate the year we had 
last year. I thought we had a good year. I thought we accomplished a 
great deal for the American people, most of the time with very little 
rancor. I want us to continue to be able to work together for the 
interests of the people and do it in a way where Members are not 
exhausted and they can do their work during the daylight instead of 
always at night.
  I want to thank those of you that work for the Senate here in the 
Chamber. You do outstanding work and we quite often don't thank you 
sufficiently for the way you help us keep things running smoothly doing 
the people's business here in the Senate.
  I do look forward to a very active year even though we may have 
around 100 legislative days--because of the necessity of adjourning 
early in October for the election. There are several things we need to 
do and we will do for the best interests of the American people. I look 
forward to working with the

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Senate and working with the leadership on both sides of the aisle.

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