[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 1 (Wednesday, January 6, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Page S6]
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                         CHANGING SENATE RULES

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, as all Members are aware, I have been 
working for some time on various rules changes that would ensure a more 
efficient process by which the Senate considers appropriations bills. 
One of our concerns has been reinstating rule XVI with respect to 
legislation on appropriations bills. I believe that many of the 
extraneous items that have been added to appropriations bills over the 
past few Congress would have been ruled out of order if the Senate 
still had the ability to raise a point of order against legislation on 
appropriations bills formerly contained in rule XVI.
  Other rule abuses occurred during the closing days of the 105th 
Congress. Consequently, I will shortly introduce five Senate 
resolutions regarding rules and budget process changes and will ask for 
their proper referral. Once the resolutions have been referred to the 
appropriate committee, it is my hope the chairmen of the committees 
will begin swift committee work on the resolutions so the committees 
can act on the changes as early as possible in the 106th Congress. I 
urge Senators to consider these resolutions and hope when the Senate 
votes on these measures they will receive huge bipartisan votes.

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