[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 77 (Monday, June 15, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S6309]
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                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, today the Senate will be in a period of 
morning business until 2 p.m. Following morning business, the Senate 
will resume consideration of the tobacco bill. As a reminder to all 
Senators, any votes ordered today with respect to the bill will occur 
at 5 p.m. this evening. I believe there is one amendment that there may 
be a vote on. We should expect a vote at 5 o'clock, and it will 
probably be very close to 5 in order to accommodate Senators who will 
have to leave shortly thereafter. It is expected that no more than two 
votes will be ordered today.
  Pending is the amendment of Senator Reed of Rhode Island regarding 
the deductibility of tobacco advertising. We hope to lock in that vote 
for 5. But we will notify Members if it is going to be any different 
from that. It is hoped that the next Republican amendment can also be 
offered today. The vote on that may follow the vote on the Reed 
amendment. But, again, that has not been locked in yet.
  We may also attempt to reach an agreement with regard to the Higher 
Education Act. We made some progress on that last week. There are some 
concerns still pending. But we will have the committee chairman and the 
Members working on the Higher Education Act. We need to get that 
completed. We have extended the time for the loans and grants under 
that act for 90 days. We don't have the July 1 deadline that would 
cause the students not to get their loans and grants, but the program 
expires July 1. We need to try to get that legislation moved as soon as 
possible.
  We also have the NASA authorization bill and the drug czar office 
reauthorization bill, as well as other legislation or Executive 
Calendar items that may be cleared for action.
  Any votes with regard to other items on the tobacco bill will occur 
then on Tuesday morning at a time to be determined by the two leaders--
probably around 9:30 or 10. But we will need to see if we have 
something ready by then.
  The official photo for the 105th Congress will take place tomorrow, 
Tuesday, June 16, at 2:15 p.m. All Senators are asked to be in the 
Chamber and seated at their desk at that time. Again, at 2:15 tomorrow, 
Tuesday, we will take the official photograph. This is the best time, 
looking at everybody's schedules and illnesses that we have been having 
to work around. But we want to get this done. We plan on doing it 
tomorrow.
  One final point: We expect that the education conference report will 
be available one day this week--maybe Wednesday. That is the Coverdell 
A+ issue with some other parts that were added to it in the Senate. I 
believe this is a conference report that will have broad bipartisan 
support. We will take that up when the conference report is available.
  Observing no Senator wishing to speak, I note the absence of a 
quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kyl). The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. BOND. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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