[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 42 (Friday, April 3, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S3191]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                PROGRAM

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, we will have a period of morning business 
today until 12 noon. It is planned today to consider S. 414, the 
international shipping bill. In addition, the Senate, of course, will 
take up any executive or legislative business cleared for Senate 
action. I thank all the Senators who have been working on the 
international shipping bill, including the chairman of the 
subcommittee, Senator Hutchison; the chairman of the full Committee on 
Commerce, Senator McCain; Senator Slade Gorton of Washington, who has 
been working to address some concerns he still has, and he believes he 
may have an amendment on this later on today; and Senator Harkin and 
others who worked with us on getting this language agreed to so that we 
can take up this important legislation.
  I do confirm that there are some further nominations that we hope to 
move today. Several of them were considered and approved last night, 
but we will be going over the list in the next couple hours to see if 
there are others that can be approved. There will be no rollcall votes 
today. The next rollcall vote will occur on or in regard to the 
Coverdell A+ education savings account bill on Tuesday, April 21, at a 
time to be announced--probably in the morning, hopefully the early 
morning of Tuesday.

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