[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 118 (Wednesday, September 9, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S10142]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                PROGRAM

  Mr. LOTT. For the information of all Senators, when the Senate 
reconvenes on Thursday, Senator Brownback will be recognized to speak 
in morning business until 10 a.m. Following morning business, the 
Senate will resume the McCain amendment with the time until 12:00 noon 
equally divided for debate. At noon, Senator Feingold will be 
recognized to offer a motion to table the McCain amendment. If the 
amendment is not tabled, the debate time will continue equally divided 
until 1:45 p.m. At that time, a cloture vote will occur on the McCain 
campaign finance amendment.
  Following that vote, assuming cloture is not invoked, there will be a 
brief period of morning business, and then the Senate will continue 
offering and debating amendments to the Interior bill. Therefore, 
Senators should expect rollcall votes throughout Thursday afternoon and 
into the night, with the first vote, of course, occurring at 12:00 noon 
on Thursday.
  I really hope that we can make some progress on the Interior 
appropriations bill. If Senators have amendments they would like to 
offer, I urge them to come to the floor on Thursday afternoon and 
Thursday night and we could possibly even carry over a vote or two 
until Friday and have a sequence of stacked votes. Of course, that will 
depend on what we are able to get done Thursday afternoon and Friday 
morning. This is an important bill. There are some important amendments 
that need to be debated and voted on. I hope we can get started.
  Unfortunately, it has kind of been sandwiched between campaign 
finance reform amendments and cloture votes on national missile defense 
and also bankruptcy. These are all important, but we need to get more 
focused on Interior appropriations tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow 
night.

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