[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 24 (Tuesday, March 10, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S1713]
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                                PROGRAM

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, tomorrow morning the Senate, as I said, will 
be in morning business for 2 hours because of requests we have had from 
Senators to speak, and also so some drafting can be done with regard to 
an amendment that will be offered later on in the day. At 11, the 
Senate will go back to the highway bill. It is hoped that the donor 
amendment will be offered at 11 a.m., to be followed by the finance 
title. Following the adoption of the Finance Committee title, it will 
be the majority leader's intention--and I have consulted with the 
minority leader and he agrees--that we should move to the cloture vote 
that had been postponed by consent from Monday afternoon. So we could 
have the three issues dealt with then in the morning: the donor 
amendment, the Finance Committee title, and then a cloture vote.
  In order to ever get to a conclusion on this legislation, we do need 
the cloture so we can identify what amendments are serious and are 
pending out there. We are still hopeful we can complete this 
legislation either Wednesday at some point or Thursday--certainly this 
week. But we will not have a true feel of what the prospects are on 
that until we get a cloture vote and we identify the amendments that 
are then pending that are serious. So Members should anticipate a busy 
day voting tomorrow, with votes all during the day, in the afternoon 
and into the early evening with the probability of at least three 
votes, and it could be four or five before the day is out.

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