[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 15 (Wednesday, February 25, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S948]
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                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, the Senate will be in a period of morning 
business until 11:30 a.m. We had a number of Senators who requested 
time to speak on several important issues, including, hopefully, some 
comment about the Iraq situation.
  As under the previous agreement, at 11:30 the Senate will debate the 
veto message to accompany H.R. 2631, the military construction 
appropriations bill. Members are reminded that while there is a 2-hour 
limitation on that veto message, the vote will occur later in the day 
in order to accommodate those Members attending the funeral of former 
Senator Ribicoff, and, I believe, there is at least one other Senator 
attending another funeral. We always try to honor requests from 
Senators to accommodate the votes, the demands of their schedule, 
especially when it involves a personal matter, like a funeral of a 
loved one. Senators will be notified when a vote is scheduled. We hope 
to have the two votes stacked at around 6 o'clock. We are working on 
that. We are trying to clear it with all of the interested Senators.
  Following the debate on the veto message, we will resume debate on S. 
1663, the pending campaign finance reform legislation. Therefore, a 
vote on that, also, is likely this afternoon on the pending Snowe 
amendment. We hope that would be the second vote that will occur this 
afternoon.
  I remind my colleagues that three cloture motions were filed during 
yesterday's session of the Senate, so there is a potential for three 
back-to-back votes to occur on Thursday morning. Again, I will notify 
all Senators as to the timing of those votes, following consultation 
with the minority leader.
  I might note that we are having meetings at this time in my office 
down the hall to see if we can come to some agreement as to how we can 
proceed to the very important ISTEA, transportation bill. We have a 
bipartisan group meeting, and we are anxious to get that legislation 
ready for consideration because it will take some time. There are some 
200 amendments that have been suggested on this bill. I am sure 20 or 
more of them will have to be debated and voted on. We will need the 
time that it would take to get that legislation complete so it will be 
ready for conference when the House does act.
  I yield the floor.

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