[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 92 (Monday, July 13, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S8049]
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   AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, AND 
               RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1999

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate now 
turn to consideration of S. 2159, the agriculture appropriations bill.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Mr. DODD. Reserving the right to object, is there a possibility where 
there might be a few minutes just to conduct some morning business 
comments that are unrelated before we move to it? I do not think----
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, responding to the Senator from Connecticut, 
we do plan to ask for a time for morning business. Senator Grassley is 
here waiting to speak in morning business, and I am sure that the 
Senator from Connecticut would go, and others might want to, but we 
have one procedure we want to go through and then go to morning 
business.
  Mr. DODD. I thank the Majority Leader.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk 
will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 2159) making appropriations for Agriculture, 
     Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
     Agencies programs for fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, 
     and for other purposes.

  The Senate resumed consideration of the bill.
  Pending:

       Daschle amendment No. 2729, to reform and structure the 
     processes by which tobacco products are manufactured, 
     marketed, and distributed, to prevent the use of tobacco 
     products by minors, and to redress the adverse health effects 
     of tobacco use.


                           Amendment No. 2729

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays on the pending 
amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  Mr. LOTT. I raise a point of order that the pending amendment 
violates section 302(f) of the Budget Act.
  Mr. DASCHLE addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Democratic leader.


                       Motion To Waive Budget Act

  Mr. DASCHLE. I move to waive the Budget Act for the amendment.
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that at 9:30 a.m. on 
Tuesday, July 14, the Senate resume debate on the pending motion to 
waive the Budget Act, with the time until 10 a.m. equally divided in 
the usual form. I further ask unanimous consent that at the conclusion 
of the debate time the Senate proceed to a vote on the motion to waive.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Mr. DASCHLE. Reserving the right to object, I know Senator Dodd had 
asked for time. I am wondering if I could ask unanimous consent that--
--
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator will suspend. I would like to get 
order in the Chamber. The Senate will please come to order.
  Mr. DASCHLE. It is not my desire to object. I was just thinking 
perhaps it might be in order that Senators Dodd, Kennedy, and Grassley 
be recognized immediately following this colloquy for purposes of 
recognition under morning business.
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, if the Senator will yield in his reservation 
to object, and if there is not objection and we get the yeas and nays 
on that, it would be my intention at that point to ask consent that we 
now have a period for the transaction of morning business right now.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, first of all, the Senator still had a 
reservation on my previous request.
  Mr. DASCHLE. My only concern was that there be an accommodation for 
all those Senators who wish to be recognized, including Senator Murray.
  Mr. LOTT. Are you asking that we get some sort of lineup as to how 
that might be?
  Mr. DASCHLE. That might be appropriate. I do not know if there are 
other Senators on the leader's side of the aisle.
  Mr. COCHRAN. Can we get the yeas and nays on the motion to waive and 
then approve this?
  Mr. DASCHLE. Assuming we get some sort of an accommodation, I have no 
objection.
  Mr. COCHRAN. I ask for the yeas and nays on the motion to waive the 
Budget Act.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I thank Senator Daschle for his cooperation 
on that.

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