[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 1 (Monday, January 24, 2000)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1-S2]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, if Senators have statements they would like 
to make or legislation they would like to introduce, we will have a 
time for doing that today. I have talked to a number of Senators this 
morning, including my counterpart on the Democratic side, Senator 
Daschle, and everybody seems to be in good spirits and ready to go to 
work. We do have a lot of legislation that is pending, that has been 
reported out of committees and we hope to move to very quickly. We have 
a number of bills in conference that we hope to have started right away 
to move toward getting a conference report. I believe the Federal 
Aviation Administration conferees will meet, in fact, on Thursday to 
begin to do some work there. This week we have scheduled action on the 
bankruptcy reform bill. We spent a lot of time at the end of the 
session last year on that bill--in fact, I think it was over a week. We 
went through over 100 amendments. We have narrowed the list down to a 
relatively small number. I visited with Senator Daschle about this 
legislation, and we will have some decision, some announcements we will 
make later on today about exactly how to proceed on bankruptcy reform.
  In addition to that, we will have legislation that will be pending 
after today under rule XIV with regard to the situation of Elian 
Gonzalez, the young boy from Cuba. The legislation advocated by Senator 
Mack, Senator Torricelli, Senator Graham, and others would grant 
citizenship to this young boy and therefore have the matter of his 
situation determined by a custody court proceeding rather than 
Immigration. When that would come up will depend on a number of other 
things, but it could be available as early as Wednesday or it could be 
acted on instead next week.

  I remind my colleagues that there will be no rollcall votes during 
today's session. I am sure many Senators will be in the Chamber to make 
statements and introduce bills. We will be taking legislative action on 
Tuesday and Wednesday, with the potential of a number of votes 
occurring Tuesday afternoon and/or Wednesday. On Thursday, we will have 
a conference retreat for Republicans at the Library of Congress so we 
will not be in session during the day. As a reminder, the State of the 
Union Address will be that night, Thursday, January 27, at 9 p.m., and 
therefore the Senate will convene at 8:40 p.m. in order to proceed to 
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House of Representatives for that Address.
  Finally, for the remainder of this week, I hope we will look at 
exactly when we will take up the nuclear waste legislation. I presume 
that some action will be taken either late this week or early next week 
which will guarantee a vote.
  I appreciate my colleagues' attention and say again I look forward to 
working with Senators on both sides of the aisle.
  In order to confirm that the Senate is prepared to begin business in 
the second session of the 106th Congress, I now suggest the absence of 
a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Bunning). The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. DASCHLE. 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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