[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 36 (Thursday, March 26, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S2587]
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                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. LOTT. In a moment the Senate will resume consideration again of 
S. 1768, the emergency supplemental appropriations bill. I remind my 
colleagues, this is supposed to be an emergency, urgent supplemental. 
We began it in the winter. It is now spring, and I hope we can finish 
it before summer. But the Senate will resume work in its inimitable 
way, and eventually we will get to a conclusion. I have to wonder if 
Senators are serious at all about this emergency legislation. I think 
maybe as majority leader I have learned a lesson. I will not be able to 
ever plan again on the emergency supplemental taking a day or two. I 
think I will have to plan on a week or two.
  Last night we reached a unanimous consent agreement limiting 
amendments to the bill. It is my hope--and I know it is the chairman's 
hope as well--that most amendments will not be offered that are on this 
list. We want to finish this important legislation early today so we 
can move on to other issues. Those of you that do have amendments on 
the list, if you are serious, I urge you to come over and offer those 
amendments this morning. The chairman is ready to proceed. Looking down 
the list and thinking about the time that will be needed, if Senators 
are reasonable, we should be able to complete this legislation sometime 
in the early afternoon, I hope, at the least.
  Under the order, at 10 a.m. the Senate will resume 50 minutes of 
debate on the Enzi amendment regarding Indian gaming. It is my 
understanding that amendment may not need a rollcall vote, but we will 
have to clarify that momentarily. However, there are other pending 
amendments that will require rollcall votes. Surely there will be votes 
throughout the morning and the afternoon.
  We are still hoping to reach an agreement on the Coverdell education 
savings account bill today. Senator Daschle and I continue to exchange 
suggestions. Sometimes we get very close, and then it seems to go back 
the other way. But we very well could have the second cloture vote 
sometime during the day. In addition, of course, we will consider any 
executive and legislative items cleared for action, including the 
Mexico decertification legislation which we will have to do this week. 
We must do that under the law before the end of the month. Sometime 
today, I hope under a reasonable time limit--I hope not more than 2 
hours--we could complete the Mexico decertification.
  I remind Senators, there will be votes on Friday morning, so they 
need to plan their schedules accordingly, but there will not be votes 
after 12 noon.
  I yield the floor.

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