[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 9 (Tuesday, February 10, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S531]
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                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, this morning, under a previous consent, the 
Senate will debate the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of 
David Satcher to be Surgeon General until 11 a.m. At 11 the Senate will 
vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination. Under the 
agreement that we reached last week, if cloture is invoked, a second 
vote will occur immediately on the nomination itself. Therefore, 
Senators should be aware that there may be two consecutive rollcall 
votes beginning at 11 a.m.
  As under the order, from 12:30, then, to 2:15, the Senate will recess 
for the weekly policy luncheons to meet. Following the luncheons, the 
Senate may begin consideration of the nomination of Judge Massiah-
Jackson to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania. Therefore, further votes can be expected to occur 
following the one or two votes at 11 o'clock.
  Also, I want to give Senators a reminder that a cloture vote on the 
motion to proceed to the cloning bill will now occur Wednesday morning 
at 10 a.m. I thank my colleagues for their attention to this and I urge 
they pay particular attention to this cloning issue. The Senate needs 
to make a decision on whether or not we want to allow human cloning to 
go forward. There is a lot of concern about that. The President has 
indicated he is opposed to it and we need to take this issue up.
  I urge the Senate to at least vote to go to debate on the substance 
of the bill itself. The cloture motion is on the motion to proceed. I 
think we ought to have a beginning of a full discussion about this, see 
where there are disagreements and where maybe we can come to 
agreements. If we do not do that, this process will be allowed and 
there are going to be serious, I think, scientific, medical, ethical 
and moral questions that are going to be left dangling in the wind. If 
Senators have additional ideas that they would like to offer in the 
form of amendments to this human cloning issue, that is the way we 
should proceed.
  I urge the Senate to begin to pay close attention to this issue. The 
alternative is, perhaps, to do nothing, and I think that would be a 
very dangerous thing in this very important issue.
  Mr. President, I see a Senator seeks recognition. I yield the floor.

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