[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 48 (Tuesday, March 25, 2003)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4334-S4372]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2004

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will now 
resume consideration of S. Con. Res. 23, which the clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res 23) setting forth the 
     congressional budget for the United States Government for 
     fiscal year 2004 and including the appropriate budgetary 
     levels for fiscal year 2003 and for fiscal years 2005 through 
     2013.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, for the information of our colleagues, the 
managers will be here shortly. They are looking at the amendments. As I 
said earlier, the Democrats have developed 40 amendments and the 
Republicans have 17 amendments. Once we start voting on these 
amendments, I expect they will be rapid-fire today. Once again, I 
request the presence of all Senators on the floor once that voting 
begins.
  I will expect the first vote to begin close to 9:45 or 9:50. Both 
managers are working at this point to develop the order of those 
amendments as we go forward.
  With that, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                           Amendment No. 401

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I call up Specter amendment No. 401.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the amendment.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Tennessee [Mr. Frist], for Mr. Specter, 
     proposes an amendment numbered 401.

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that further 
reading of the amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

  (Purpose: To increase discretionary health spending for fiscal year 
  2004 by $2,800,000,000 and make an offsetting reduction in overall 
                        administrative expenses)

       On page 27, line 11, increase the amount by $2,800,000,000.
       On page 27, line 12, increase the amount by $2,800,000,000.
       On page 42, line 2, decrease the amount by $2,800,000,000.
       On page 42, line 3, decrease the amount by $2,800,000,000.

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, all time is yielded back.
  I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The question is on agreeing to amendment No. 401.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu), 
the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman), and the Senator from 
Georgia (Mr. Miller) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 96, nays 1, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 80 Leg.]

                                YEAS--96

     Akaka
     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Chafee
     Chambliss
     Clinton
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Conrad
     Cornyn
     Corzine
     Craig
     Crapo
     Daschle
     Dayton
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Dole
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham (FL)
     Graham (SC)
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Hollings
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lincoln
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Nickles
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Santorum
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stabenow
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Warner
     Wyden

                                NAYS--1

      
     Voinovich
       

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Landrieu
     Lieberman
     Miller
  The amendment (No. 401) was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Democratic leader.
  Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, I just had a conversation with the 
distinguished manager of the bill. We are now prepared to go through 
the list of amendments.


                           Amendment No. 324

  Under the agreement, I call up our first amendment, amendment No. 
324.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from South Dakota [Mr. Daschle], for Mrs. 
     Lincoln, for herself, Ms. Landrieu, and Mr. Pryor proposes an 
     amendment numbered 324.

  Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the reading 
of the amendment be dispensed with.

[[Page S4335]]

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

   (Purpose: To allow full access to Tricare for National Guard and 
Reserve personnel and their families on a continual basis, offset with 
                       reductions to the tax cut)

       On page 45, line 24, decrease the amount by 
     $20,279,000,000.
       On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $343,000,000.
       On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $919,000,000.
       On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $1,604,000,000.
       On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by $1,968,000,000.
       On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by $2,151,000,000.
       On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by $2,311,000,000.
       On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by $2,475,000,000.
       On page 3, line 17, increase the amount by $2,648,000,000.
       On page 3, line 18, increase the amount by $2,832,000,000.
       On page 3, line 19, increase the amount by $3,028,000,000.
       On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by $343,000,000.
       On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by $919,000,000.
       On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by $1,604,000,000.
       On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by $1,968,000,000.
       On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by $2,151,000,000.
       On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by $2,311,000,000.
       On page 4, line 7, increase the amount by $2,475,000,000.
       On page 4, line 8, increase the amount by $2,648,000,000.
       On page 4, line 9, increase the amount by $2,832,000,000.
       On page 4, line 10, increase the amount by $3,028,000,000.
       On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by $426,000,000.
       On page 4, line 16, increase the amount by $1,055,000,000.
       On page 4, line 17, increase the amount by $1,768,000,000.
       On page 4, line 18, increase the amount by $2,059,000,000.
       On page 4, line 19, increase the amount by $2,205,000,000.
       On page 4, line 20, increase the amount by $2,360,000,000.
       On page 4, line 21, increase the amount by $2,525,000,000.
       On page 4, line 22, increase the amount by $2,701,000,000.
       On page 4, line 23, increase the amount by $2,888,000,000.
       On page 4, line 24, increase the amount by $3,088,000,000.
       On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by $343,000,000.
       On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by $919,000,000.
       On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by $1,604,000,000.
       On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by $1,968,000,000.
       On page 5, line 9, increase the amount by $2,151,000,000.
       On page 5, line 10, increase the amount by $2,311,000,000.
       On page 5, line 11, increase the amount by $2,475,000,000.
       On page 5, line 12, increase the amount by $2,648,000,000.
       On page 5, line 13, increase the amount by $2,832,000,000.
       On page 5, line 14, increase the amount by $3,028,000,000.
       On page 9, line 2, increase the amount by $426,000,000.
       On page 9, line 3, increase the amount by $343,000,000.
       On page 9, line 6, increase the amount by $1,055,000,000.
       On page 9, line 7, increase the amount by $919,000,000.
       On page 9, line 10, increase the amount by $1,768,000,000.
       On page 9, line 11, increase the amount by $1,604,000,000.
       On page 9, line 14, increase the amount by $2,059,000,000.
       On page 9, line 15, increase the amount by $1,968,000,000.
       On page 9, line 18, increase the amount by $2,205,000,000.
       On page 9, line 19, increase the amount by $2,151,000,000.
       On page 9, line 22, increase the amount by $2,360,000,000.
       On page 9, line 23, increase the amount by $2,311,000,000.
       On page 10, line 2, increase the amount by $2,525,000,000.
       On page 10, line 3, increase the amount by $2,475,000,000.
       On page 10, line 6, increase the amount by $2,701,000,000.
       On page 10, line 7, increase the amount by $2,648,000,000.
       On page 10, line 10, increase the amount by $2,888,000,000.
       On page 10, line 11, increase the amount by $2,832,000,000.
       On page 10, line 14, increase the amount by $3,088,000,000.
       On page 10, line 15, increase the amount by $3,028,000,000.
       On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by $426,000,000.
       On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by $343,000,000.
       On page 47, line 14, increase the amount by $1,055,000,000.
       On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by $919,000,000.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Who yields time?
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I yield time to the Senator from Arkansas.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator is recognized for 1 minute.
  Mrs. LINCOLN. Mr. President, I rise very proudly today on behalf of 
the men and women who serve this great Nation as members of the 
National Guard and the Reserve units in all of our 50 States. We have 
an opportunity today to put ourselves, and I hope each of my colleagues 
in the Chamber will put themselves, in the shoes of these proud men and 
women who serve our country from the National Guard and the Reserves, 
to understand what it means not only when they are called up but when 
they are at home waiting to serve their country.
  Well over 20 percent of the Reserve and National Guardsmen in this 
country do not have health insurance when they are called up to active 
duty. We have to spend a tremendous amount of money simply getting them 
to a health condition that actually allows us to activate them and send 
them into harm's way.
  I think it is essential that this amendment be passed. I am proud to 
be joined by Senators Landrieu, Feingold, Pryor, Mikulski, and Kennedy.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator's time has expired.
  Mrs. LINCOLN. I do not think it is too much to ask of this great 
Nation to find them health care.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I urge our colleagues to vote in 
opposition to this amendment. I understand from the Armed Services 
Committee they are opposed to this amendment. This amendment portends 
that it would increase funding for this particular purpose, but it does 
not. All any amendment says is, for this one function, we will increase 
it.
  The Armed Services Committee has not requested this. The President 
has not requested this. As a former National Guardsman who served, one 
does not receive health care for basically serving one weekend a month. 
When they are activated, they receive health care services.
  This function would increase spending, as well as taxes. The cost is 
an estimated $7,000 or $8,000 per year per guardsman or reservist. I 
urge my colleagues to vote no on the amendment.
  I ask unanimous consent that the rollcall vote be limited to 10 
minutes on all subsequent votes and that the 10 minutes be strictly 
enforced.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. CONRAD. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The question is on agreeing to amendment No. 324. The clerk will call 
the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu), 
the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman), and the Senator from 
Georgia (Mr. Miller) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cornyn). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 46, nays 51, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 81 Leg.]

                                YEAS--46

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Clinton
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Daschle
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Graham (FL)
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lincoln
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Wyden

                                NAYS--51

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Campbell

[[Page S4336]]


     Chafee
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham (SC)
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Voinovich
     Warner

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Landrieu
     Lieberman
     Miller
  The amendment (No. 324) was rejected.
  Mr. BOND. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. SANTORUM. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I inquire from the Presiding Officer, how 
much time elapsed on that rollcall?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Sixteen minutes.
  Mr. NICKLES. Just for the information of our colleagues, we are going 
to be tightening down substantially. I don't want people coming up and 
being mad at Senator Conrad and myself or Senator Frist or Senator 
Daschle if they missed a vote, but we are going to start cutting off 
these votes, just for your information.
  I yield to my colleague to call up the next amendment.
  Mr. CONRAD. I ask unanimous consent there be 2 minutes equally 
divided on this amendment--for all of them.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. That is already provided.
  Mr. CONRAD. I yield to Senator Baucus.


                           Amendment No. 348

  Mr. BAUCUS. Mr. President, I call up amendment 348.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Montana (Mr. Baucus) proposes an amendment 
     numbered 348.

  Mr. BAUCUS. I ask unanimous consent the reading of the amendment be 
dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

 (Purpose: To ensure that a prescription drug benefit is available to 
   all medicare beneficiaries on an equal basis, including those who 
        choose to remain in the current fee-for-service program)

       On page 61, line 12, insert ``on an equal basis with 
     respect to benefit level regardless of whether such 
     beneficiaries remain in the traditional medicare fee-for-
     service program under parts A and B of such title or enroll 
     in a private plan under the medicare program'' after 
     ``prescription drugs''.

  Mr. BAUCUS. Mr. President, I ask I be notified when I have consumed 1 
minute.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator has 1 minute.
  Mr. BAUCUS. The administration's drug plan essentially abandons the 
89 percent of senior citizens who are now on fee-for-service. How? By 
providing that seniors who stay in fee-for-service get catastrophic 
benefits and a discount card but they do not get additional drug 
benefits. However, if you are a senior and enroll in managed care, you 
are going to get a drug benefit, therefore, forcing seniors out of fee-
for-service, into managed care.
  I might add this will also not save money. The managed care programs 
we have in our country are costing more than fee-for-service. They are 
costing more than the Federal Employees Health Benefit package. And 
seniors are dropping out of managed care because they are not getting 
the benefits they deserve.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The time of the Senator has expired.
  Mr. BAUCUS. I urge Members to vote for this amendment which provides 
all seniors get the same drug benefit.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.
  Mr. NICKLES. The Budget Committee should not be trying to write the 
prescription drug bill. Our colleague from Montana is on the Finance 
Committee. That is where this bill should be written.
  I yield to the chairman of the Finance Committee.
  Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, obviously, like on so many issues, I 
happen to agree with my friends on the other side of the aisle. But 
where do you make this decision? You don't make it on the Budget 
Committee. You make it on the Finance Committee.
  I am committed to having a drug benefit for all seniors. We developed 
such a bill last year, so we have the capability of doing it. We are 
going to do it this year. I do not want this decision made here. I do 
not want to curb the freedom of the Finance Committee.
  I argued the same point on an issue that friends on the other side of 
the aisle would have agreed with me, on a Medicaid issue, that would 
have been in this budget that is not in the budget.
  Leave these issues to a committee of competence, the Senate Finance 
Committee.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time has expired.
  Mr. BAUCUS. Mr. President, I have an additional minute, I believe?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator only had 1 minute.
  Mr. NICKLES. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There is a 
sufficient second.
  The question is on agreeing to amendment No. 348.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu), 
the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman), and the Senator from 
Georgia (Mr. Miller) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 46, nays 51, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 82 Leg.]

                                YEAS--46

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Clinton
     Collins
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Daschle
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Graham (FL)
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lincoln
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Wyden

                                NAYS--51

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Bennett
     Bond
     Breaux
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham (SC)
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Voinovich
     Warner

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Landrieu
     Lieberman
     Miller
  The amendment (No. 348) was rejected.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, parliamentary inquiry: How much time was 
spent on that vote?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Fourteen minutes.
  Mr. NICKLES. For the information of our colleagues, I am going to try 
to tighten this down closer and closer to 10 minutes, and we are going 
to cut people off. I don't want people to be upset, but we are going to 
have to do this. We made a commitment to plow through these amendments. 
I told our colleagues that is what we are going to do, and that is what 
we are going to do. So I urge my colleagues to stay on the floor.


                           Amendment No. 411

                   (Purpose: To provide a substitute)

  Mr. President, this next amendment is a very important amendment. It 
is the substitute proposal offered by my colleague, Senator Conrad.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from North Dakota.
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, this is a whole substitute.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the amendment.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from North Dakota [Mr. Conrad] proposes an 
     amendment numbered 411.

  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that further 
reading of the amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

[[Page S4337]]

  (The amendment is printed in today's Record under ``Text of 
Amendments.'')
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, this is a substitute amendment that has 
$1.2 trillion less in deficits than the President's plan. It also 
provides the funding for the war supplemental. It provides for 
additional funding for homeland security of $80 billion over the 
baseline. It provides $194 billion of additional funding for 
prescription drugs, which is still well short of what would be needed 
to give Americans the kind of coverage we, as Members of Congress, 
have. It provides $73 billion to keep the promise made by Congress to 
States on funding for that program. It provides $71 billion for 
transportation infrastructure, $13 billion for veterans, and balances 
in 2011, as compared to the underlying resolution of balancing in 2012, 
and the President's budget which never balances.
  Colleagues, I urge you to support this substitute which is the 
priorities of the American people.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I compliment my colleague for having a 
proposal. Last year, we did not get to vote on a Democrat alternative; 
today, we will. It greatly increases taxes and greatly increases 
spending.
  I call upon my colleague from Nevada.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nevada.
  Mr. ENSIGN. Mr. President, the Democrat substitute increases taxes by 
$1.24 trillion over 10 years relative to the budget assumptions. It 
increases total spending by $113 billion in 2004 over the budget 
assumptions and by $458 billion over the 10 years.
  I think there is a clear difference pointed out between our budget 
and this budget from a philosophical standpoint. There is only $60 
billion in a growth package allowed under this budget. I think this 
budget does not provide for the economic growth we need to get this 
economy going so there will be jobs for our military people when they 
get home. Our budget provides for that; their budget does not.
  I urge a ``no'' vote on this budget.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator's time has expired.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The question is on agreeing to amendment No. 411.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Miller), is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Enzi). Are there any other Senators in the 
Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 43, nays 56, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 83 Leg.]

                                YEAS--43

     Akaka
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Clinton
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Daschle
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Graham (FL)
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Wyden

                                NAYS--56

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Bennett
     Bond
     Breaux
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham (SC)
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Lincoln
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nelson (NE)
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Voinovich
     Warner

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Miller
       
  The amendment (No. 411) was rejected.
  Mr. GREGG. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. NICKLES. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma is recognized.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I appreciate the cooperation of the 
Chair. We are going to have a lot of votes, so it is going to be 
important for us to keep order in the Senate at all times.
  We are ready to consider an amendment by the Senator from Michigan.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Michigan is recognized.


                           Amendment No. 372

  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, I call up amendment No. 372, which is at 
the desk.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Michigan [Mr. Levin] proposes an amendment 
     numbered 372.

  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that further 
reading of the amendment be dispensed with.
  The amendment is as follows:

  (Purpose: To end the abusive use of offshore tax havens (ending tax 
advantages for corporate inversions and closing the Bermuda reinsurance 
 loophole) and use the half of the resulting revenues of $4.7 billion 
 over ten years to reduce the deficit and half to restore funding for 
  education, with the education increases to be split evenly between 
IDEA, school construction and modernization, and after-school programs)

       On page 3, line 9, increase the amount by $38,000,000.
       On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $130,000,000.
       On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $153,000,000.
       On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $268,000,000.
       On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by $321,000,000.
       On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by $385,000,000.
       On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by $460,000,000.
       On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by $551,000,000.
       On page 3, line 17, increase the amount by $658,000,000.
       On page 3, line 18, increase the amount by $785,000,000.
       On page 3, line 19, increase the amount by $936,000,000.
       On page 3, line 23, increase the amount by $38,000,000.
       On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by $130,000,000.
       On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by $153,000,000.
       On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by $268,000,000.
       On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by $321,000,000.
       On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by $385,000,000.
       On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by $460,000,000.
       On page 4, line 7, increase the amount by $551,000,000.
       On page 4, line 8, increase the amount by $658,000,000.
       On page 4, line 9, increase the amount by $785,000,000.
       On page 4, line 10, increase the amount by $936,000,000.
       On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by $272,000,000.
       On page 4, line 16, increase the amount by $269,000,000.
       On page 4, line 17, increase the amount by $269,000,000.
       On page 4, line 18, increase the amount by $267,000,000.
       On page 4, line 19, increase the amount by $262,000,000.
       On page 4, line 20, increase the amount by $253,000,000.
       On page 4, line 21, increase the amount by $240,000,000.
       On page 4, line 22, decrease the amount by $220,000,000.
       On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by $193,000,000.
       On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by $156,000,000.
       On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by $11,000,000.
       On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by $187,000,000.
       On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by $255,000,000.
       On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by $267,000,000.
       On page 5, line 9, increase the amount by $262,000,000.
       On page 5, line 10, increase the amount by $253,000,000.
       On page 5, line 11, increase the amount by $240,000,000.
       On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by $220,000,000.
       On page 5, line 13, decrease the amount by $193,000,000.
       On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by $156,000,000.
       On page 5, line 17, decrease the amount by $38,000,000.
       On page 5, line 18, decrease the amount by $119,000,000.
       On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by $34,000,000.

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       On page 5, line 20, decrease the amount by $13,000,000.
       On page 5, line 21, decrease the amount by $54,000,000.
       On page 5, line 22, decrease the amount by $123,000,000.
       On page 5, line 23, decrease the amount by $207,000,000.
       On page 5, line 24, decrease the amount by $311,000,000.
       On page 5, line 25, decrease the amount by $438,000,000.
       On page 6, line 1, decrease the amount by $592,000,000.
       On page 6, line 2, decrease the amount by $780,000,000.
       On page 6, line 5, decrease the amount by $38,000,000.
       On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by $157,000,000.
       On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by $124,000,000.
       On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by $137,000,000.
       On page 6, line 9, decrease the amount by $191,000,000.
       On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by $314,000,000.
       On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by $520,000,000.
       On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by $832,000,000.
       On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by $1,270,000,000.
       On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by $1,862,000,000.
       On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by $2,642,000,000.
       On page 6, line 18, decrease the amount by $38,000,000.
       On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by $157,000,000.
       On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by $124,000,000.
       On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by $137,000,000.
       On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by $191,000,000.
       On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by $314,000,000.
       On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by $520,000,000.
       On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by $832,000,000.
       On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by $1,270,000,000.
       On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by $1,862,000,000.
       On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by $2,642,000,000.
       On page 25, line 16, increase the amount by $275,000,000.
       On page 25, line 17, increase the amount by $14,000,000.
       On page 25, line 20, increase the amount by $275,000,000.
       On page 25, line 21, increase the amount by $193,000,000.
       On page 25, line 24, increase the amount by $275,000,000.
       On page 25, line 25, increase the amount by $261,000,000.
       On page 26, line 3, increase the amount by $275,000,000.
       On page 26, line 4, increase the amount by $275,000,000.
       On page 26, line 7, increase the amount by $275,000,000.
       On page 26, line 8, increase the amount by $275,000,000.
       On page 26, line 11, increase the amount by $275,000,000.
       On page 26, line 12, increase the amount by $275,000,000.
       On page 26, line 15, increase the amount by $275,000,000.
       On page 26, line 16, increase the amount by $275,000,000.
       On page 26, line 19, increase the amount by $275,000,000.
       On page 26, line 20, increase the amount by $275,000,000.
       On page 26, line 23, increase the amount by $275,000,000.
       On page 26, line 24, increase the amount by $275,000,000.
       On page 27, line 2, increase the amount by $275,000,000.
       On page 27, line 3, increase the amount by $275,000,000.
       On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by $3,000,000.
       On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by $3,000,000.
       On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by $6,000,000.
       On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by $6,000,000.
       On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by $6,000,000.
       On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by $6,000,000.
       On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by $8,000,000.
       On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by $8,000,000.
       On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by $13,000,000.
       On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by $13,000,000.
       On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by $22,000,000.
       On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by $22,000,000.
       On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by $35,000,000.
       On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by $35,000,000.
       On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by $55,000,000.
       On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by $55,000,000.
       On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by $82,000,000.
       On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by $82,000,000.
       On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by $119,000,000.
       On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by $119,000,000.
       On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by $275,000,000.
       On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by $14,000,000.
       On page 47, line 14, increase the amount by $275,000,000.
       On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by $193,000,000.
       At the appropriate place insert the following:

     SEC.   . SENSE OF THE SENATE ON CORPORATE TAX HAVEN LOOPHOLES

       (a) Findings.--Congress finds that companies are taking 
     advantage of loopholes in the United States tax code to 
     direct taxable income to tax haven jurisdictions, some of 
     which have excessive bank secrecy laws and a poor record of 
     cooperation with United States civil and criminal tax 
     enforcement.
       (b) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate 
     that the Senate should act to stop companies from avoiding 
     paying their fair share of United States taxes by--
       (1) addressing the problem of corporations that have 
     renounced their United States citizenship (``inverted'') by 
     relocating their headquarters to tax haven jurisdictions 
     while maintaining their primary offices and production or 
     service facilities in the United States; and
       (2) addressing the problem of Bermuda-based insurance 
     companies that are using reinsurance agreements with their 
     subsidiaries to direct property and casualty insurance 
     premiums out of the United States into Bermuda to reduce 
     their United States taxes in a way that places United States 
     property and casualty insurance companies at a competitive 
     disadvantage.

  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, while young men and women are putting their 
lives on the line for us, for our country, some corporations are 
stiffing our country, renouncing their citizenship, going through phony 
reincorporations in Bermuda. There are other tax haven countries, so-
called inverting themselves in order to avoid taxes. This is one of the 
most egregious of all of the tax haven abuses that we know about--just 
a shell headquarters being opened, but all of the benefits of living in 
America continue.
  These corporations continue to use our roads, use our law 
enforcement, use our education system, and so forth.
  It is unfair to the taxpayers who are left holding the bag. It is 
unfair to U.S. competitors. It is something we ought to end. I hope we 
will end it today with the adoption of this amendment, particularly at 
a time when young American men and women are giving their all for us.
  It is time for Congress to get serious about closing tax haven 
loopholes. This amendment is aimed at closing two of those loopholes 
that would raise $4.7 billion over 10 years. It proposes that we take 
half of that $4.7 billion to reduce the deficit over 10 years and half 
to increase funding over 10 years for the following education 
initiatives: one, special education; two, after-school programs; and 
three, school construction and modernization grants.
  First, we need to stop corporate inversions, and do it in a way that 
will not permit those that started the inversion pretense to enjoy 
billions in future tax benefits that will continue to disadvantage 
their U.S. competitors. The companies targeted by this measure are 
those which have, in essence, pretended to move their headquarters to a 
tax haven when, in reality, their primary offices and production or 
service facilities remain right here in the United States. By opening 
shell headquarters in a tax haven, companies that got their start in 
this country, do most of their work here, and benefit from U.S. roads, 
banks, patents, computers, law enforcement, fair trade laws, its 
educated workforce, and much more, avoid contributing their fair share 
to pay for those benefits. A bill I have introduced along with Senators 
Reid, Durbin, and Kennedy is designed to stop this abusive practice. 
Last year, the Joint Committee on Taxation analyzed an almost identical 
bill and estimated that it would raise $4 billion over 10 years.
  Second, we need to close the Bermuda reinsurance tax loophole. 
Utilizing the U.S. tax code, a number of Bermuda-based property and 
casualty insurance companies are placing American-owned property and 
casualty insurance companies at a severe competitive disadvantage by 
ducking U.S. taxes that U.S. insurers are required to pay. Through 
reinsurance agreements

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with their subsidiaries, Bermuda insurance companies operating in the 
United States are using their U.S. subsidiaries to send U.S. insurance 
premiums out of this country and into Bermuda, where interest can be 
earned on the premiums tax-free. By sending the premiums offshore, the 
U.S. subsidiary of the Bermuda parent is able to reduce the amount of 
its income in the United states and, accordingly, reduce its U.S. 
taxes. Comparable U.S.-owned insurance companies cannot operate in the 
same way and, as a result, operate on an uneven playing field. 
Legislation has been developed to correct this inequity and level the 
playing field for U.S. property and casualty insurers. The Joint 
Committee on Taxation last year estimated the bill seeking to close 
this tax haven loophole would produce about $700 million over ten 
years.
  These are not the only tax haven abuses we need to address; there are 
others. We need to eliminate tax breaks for U.S. taxpayers that do 
business in uncooperative tax havens that fail, in the judgment of the 
U.S. government, to provide information needed in U.S. tax enforcement 
efforts. Since the 9/11 tragedy, the importance of financial 
transparency and cooperative information exchange among international 
law enforcement agencies has increased, not only to fight money 
laundering and other crimes, but also to understand financial 
transactions that my involve tax evasion or other illegal conduct. But 
a handful of tax haven jurisdictions continue to employ secrecy laws 
that impede U.S. tax enforcement or provide lackadaisical or 
ineffective responses to U.S. requests for information needed in 
criminal and civil tax matters. Legislation has been developed that 
would restrict the tax benefits that a U.S. taxpayer could claim from 
business transacted in one of these uncooperative jurisdictions. This 
legislation would produce not only new tax revenues, but also a 
powerful incentive for the targeted jurisdictions to reform their 
abusive policies. The funds that would be raised by such a provision 
are not included in the $4.7 billion at issue in this amendment due to 
our inability to obtain a timely revenue estimate, but this tax haven 
issue--and others like it--need to be addressed.

  We should use half of the $4.7 billion that would be raised by 
closing the inversion and Bermuda reinsurance loopholes to reduce the 
deficit and increase our commitment to education, which has been 
underfunded in this budget resolution. The budget resolution proposes 
funding that is almost $10 billion below the 2004 amount authorized in 
the No Child Left Behind Act, and includes funding levels that will 
reduce funding for after school centers and eliminate over 40 education 
programs, including programs relating to rural education, school 
counselors and teaching standards. It also would provide no funds for 
school modernization and construction grants and reduced funding for 
Teacher Quality State Grants, resulting in fewer teachers receiving the 
high-quality training they need.
  This amendment would increase education funding by over $2 billion 
over ten years, and proposes that the funds be evenly divided between 
special education programs, afterschool programs and school 
construction and modernization.
  The increased funding for special education will help to ensure that 
more students with disabilities get the public education they deserve, 
and that school districts will have additional funds to provide needed 
services without dipping even further into their general education 
budgets. School superintendents, school board members, teachers and 
parents in my state of Michigan and all across America have attested to 
the fact that the shortfall in federal support has placed a severe 
strain on local education budgets. It is clear that additional 
resources are necessary to help provide a quality education to all 
special needs children.
  Additional funds are also necessary to support after-school programs. 
The development of our nation's children does not start and end in our 
nation's classrooms. It is important to give all children safe, 
enriching environments in which they can spend their time when the 
school day ends. Juvenile crime hits its peak after children leave 
school and before their parents arrive home. Between 5 and 15 million 
children have nowhere to go after school. Research indicates that 
between the hours of 3 and 7 p.m., children are more likely to engage 
in at-risk behavior, including abusing drugs or alcohol or engaging in 
sexual activity, or become the victims of crime. 21st Century Community 
Learning Centers provide after school educational, recreational, 
cultural, health and social services to youth in many communities. The 
additional funds in this amendment will help to ensure that we do not 
leave these children behind when the school day ends.
  We also are faced with startling statistics about the state of 
America's public school facilities. Record enrollments and growing 
communities are causing severe overcrowding in many public schools. The 
average public school facility in America is over 40 years old. 
Approximately 46 percent of all public schools lack the electrical and 
communication wiring necessary to utilize today's computer systems and 
to prepare our children for today's technologically-based society. 
Recent surveys by the General Accounting Office and the National 
Council for Education Statistics, NCES, have placed cost estimates of 
school construction needs between $112 billion to $127 billion. Sixty 
to 70 percent of Michigan's schools reported having six or more 
insufficient technology elements. In this Congress and the last I 
supported grants and school bond tax provisions for the construction, 
rehabilitation, or repair of school facilities. The additional funds 
this amendment provides will help to ensure that no student is denied 
access to the Internet because a school does not have the physical 
infrastructure to use computers or other technology.
  Support for this amendment indicates support for three things--
closing two egregious tax haven loopholes, increasing funding for 
education, and paying down the deficit. I urge my colleagues' support.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator's time has expired.
  The Senator from Oklahoma.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, we do not rewrite the Tax Code in this 
bill. A lot of people have implied we do, but we do not. We have no 
objections to the amendment of the Senator from Michigan.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time has expired.
  The question is on agreeing to amendment No. 372.
  The amendment (No. 372) was agreed to.
  Mr. LEVIN. I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. REID. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Senator Reid 
of Nevada be listed as a cosponsor of this amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The Senator from Oklahoma.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I yield to my friend and colleague from 
North Dakota to call up an additional amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from North Dakota.
  Mr. CONRAD. I ask the Senator from Nevada if he is ready to consider 
his amendment.
  Mr. REID. I am.
  Mr. CONRAD. I yield to the Senator from Nevada.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nevada.


                           Amendment No. 341

  (Purpose: To increase new budget authority and outlays for National 
   Defense (050) in order to permit phased-in concurrent receipt of 
  retired pay and veterans' disability compensation for veterans with 
     service-connected disabilities rated at 60 percent or higher)

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, the next amendment in order to be called up 
is No. 341.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Nevada [Mr. Reid] proposes an amendment 
     numbered 341.

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the reading of 
the amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  (The amendment is printed in the Record of Thursday, March 20, 2003 
under ``Text of Amendments.'')

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  Mr. REID. Mr. President, as many of my colleagues know, over the last 
several years we worked hard to make veterans eligible for the 
concurrent receipt of retirement pay and disability benefits.
  Under current law, most veterans, except those who were disabled as a 
result of combat, are prevented from receiving the pay and benefits 
they have rightly earned while serving this Nation. This is something 
the Armed Services Committee, with Senators Warner and Levin, worked on 
with me last year, and we got this done. It was a big step forward, but 
we need to do more.
  My amendment adjusts the budget resolution to pay for phased-in 
concurrent receipt for veterans with service-related disabilities rated 
at 60 percent or higher. Although it is not full concurrent receipt, 
this one change would help tens of thousands of veterans.
  I hope everyone supports this most worthy amendment.
  Ms. CANTWELL. Mr. President, I rise to support Senate amendment No. 
341, an amendment to provide partial concurrent receipt for veterans.
  I would like to thank my colleague from Nevada for his unwavering and 
tireless support of veterans throughout the country. My constituents 
are aware of his advocacy for full concurrent receipt and appreciate 
his support.
  Mr. President, as you know, our current military benefits system 
requires disabled military retirees who have a service-connected 
disability to deduct their disability compensation from the funds they 
would otherwise receive as retirement pay. This requirement unfairly 
merges two distinct programs and forces many disabled retirees to 
forfeit a significant portion of their well-deserved retirement pay.
  The retirement benefit is an entitlement granted to all members of 
the U.S. Armed Forces who dedicate 20 or more years to providing our 
Nation's defenses. Disability compensation, on the other hand, is 
awarded as a compensation for personnel who are injured in the line of 
duty. I believe veterans should receive each payment separately. 
Allowing disabled veterans to receive their full military retired pay 
and disability compensation will restore fairness and common sense to 
U.S. military retirement policy.
  Last year, President Bush signed compromise legislation that provides 
concurrent receipt to two veterans groups: one, any retiree receiving 
disability compensation, of at least 10 percent, whose disability was 
combat-related and for which the retiree was awarded the Purple Heart; 
and two, any retiree with a service-connected disability rated at 60 
percent or higher incurred as a direct result of armed conflict, while 
engaged in hazardous service, in the performance of duty under 
conditions simulating war, or through an instrumentality of war.
  Although this compromise was an important first step, it remains an 
insufficient remedy to a persisting inequity in our veterans benefits 
system. Senate Amendment No. 341 would expand concurrent receipt to 
include veterans who have a service-connected disability of at least 60 
percent. This is another important step in what will continue to be a 
long battle to provide concurrent receipt to all eligible veterans--a 
battle that I remain committed to fighting.
  Again, I thank the Senator from Nevada for his leadership on this 
issue. I encourage my colleagues to support this amendment and look 
forward to working with them to provide full concurrent receipt for all 
veterans.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, last year the Armed Services Committee 
did a lot of good work in this field, and I compliment my colleague 
from Nevada and also the chairman from the Armed Services Committee and 
the Senator from Michigan for the great work they did last year.
  Concerning the pending amendment by my friend and colleague from 
Nevada, we have no objection to accepting the amendment by voice vote.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is time yielded back?
  Mr. REID. It is.
  Mr. NICKLES. I yield back the remainder of time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time having been yielded back, the 
question is on agreeing to amendment No. 341.
  The amendment (No. 341) was agreed to.
  Mr. REID. I move to reconsider the vote, and I move to lay that 
motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I am prepared to yield to Senator Byrd for 
his amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from West Virginia.
  Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to proceed for 5 
minutes on each side on this amendment.
  Mr. NICKLES. I object.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard.


                           Amendment No. 412

(Purpose: To foster greater debate in the Senate and to prevent further 
increases in the deficit by striking the reconciliation instructions to 
                       the Committee on Finance)

  Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I send an amendment to the desk.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from West Virginia [Mr. Byrd] proposes an 
     amendment numbered 412.
       On page 45, strike beginning with line 20 through page 46, 
     line 2.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from West Virginia.
  Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, my amendment will strike the reconciliation 
instructions to the Finance Committee that would shield the President's 
$726 billion tax cut from a thorough debate in the Senate. To use 
reconciliation to increase the deficit is an abuse of the budget 
process.
  The Budget Act framers did not contemplate that reconciliation would 
ever be used to produce $726 billion in tax cuts that would be financed 
through Social Security surpluses and an increasing debt. The Budget 
Act includes explicit and implicit language underscoring that the 
purpose of reconciliation is for deficit reduction.
  If the reconciliation instructions were removed from the pending 
budget resolution, the Senate could still pass any economic stimulus 
plan it chose. To limit debate on such legislation is irresponsible, 
particularly when the administration has not even explained how it 
intends to pay for the cost of the war.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator's time has expired.
  Mr. BYRD. I ask for an additional 30 seconds.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, if this budget resolution passes with these 
reconciliation instructions included, the American people, through 
their elected representatives in Congress, will be denied their right 
to have a full debate upon the budgetary priorities of the Nation.
  I urge my colleagues to support this amendment and a vote to strike 
the reconciliation instructions to the Finance Committee from this 
budget resolution.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Who yields time? The Senator from New Mexico.
  Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, the Budget Act is 25 years old and 22 
times we have used reconciliation, and of that 22 times, 18 have had 
instructions to change, alter, or amend tax laws, change, alter, or 
amend programs such as Medicare, entitlement programs. We have done 
that. It has become an integral part of the Budget Act of the United 
States. Without that, you could take the Budget Act and say it is for 
nought. It would accomplish nothing.
  It would be an exercise in debating and then later on we would have 
as much time as we wanted on every bill. There would be filibusters on 
every bill and, as contemplated by the Framers, we would get no budget 
activity in the United States.
  Reconciliation includes minimum debate. Without minimum debate, 
nothing will be done of a budgetary nature for the United States. The 
Senator understands that. That is why he offers

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it. The budget will be a shell meaning nothing. I suggest we defeat the 
amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator's time has expired.
  The question is on agreeing to amendment No. 412.
  Mr. NICKLES. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Jeffords) and 
the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Miller) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 46, nays 52, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 84 Leg.]

                                YEAS--46

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Chafee
     Clinton
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Daschle
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Graham (FL)
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Wyden

                                NAYS--52

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Bennett
     Bond
     Breaux
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Campbell
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham (SC)
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nelson (NE)
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Voinovich
     Warner

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Jeffords
     Miller
       
  The amendment (No. 412) was rejected.
  Mr. CONRAD. I yield to the Senator from Massachusetts.


                           Amendment No. 315

  Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, I call up my amendment on the 
unemployment benefits extension and ask for its consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. Kennedy] for himself, 
     Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. Reed, Mr. Durbin, Mrs. Clinton, and Ms. 
     Cantwell, proposes an amendment numbered 315.

  Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent reading of the 
amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:
       On page 3, line 9, increase the amount by $6,525,000,000.
       On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $9,895,000,000.
       On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $90,000,000.
       On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $45,000,000.
       On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by $10,000,000.
       On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by $10,000,000.
       On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by $15,000,000.
       On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by $45,000,000.
       On page 3, line 23, increase the amount by $6,525,000,000.
       On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by $9,895,000,000.
       On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by $90,000,000.
       On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by $45,000,000.
       On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by $10,000,000.
       On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by $10,000,000.
       On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by $15,000,000.
       On page 4, line 7, increase the amount by $45,000,000.
       On page 4, line 14, increase the amount by $6,525,000,000.
       On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by $9,773,000,000.
       On page 4, line 16, decrease the amount by $8,000,000.
       On page 4, line 17, decrease the amount by $12,000,000.
       On page 4, line 18, decrease the amount by $15,000,000.
       On page 4, line 19, decrease the amount by $16,000,000.
       On page 4, line 20, decrease the amount by $18,000,000.
       On page 4, line 21, decrease the amount by $21,000,000.
       On page 4, line 22, decrease the amount by $23,000,000.
       On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by $24,000,000.
       On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by $25,000,000.
       On page 5, line 4, increase the amount by $6,525,000,000.
       On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by $9,773,000,000.
       On page 5, line 6, decrease the amount by $8,000,000.
       On page 5, line 7, decrease the amount by $12,000,000.
       On page 5, line 8, decrease the amount by $15,000,000.
       On page 5, line 9, decrease the amount by $16,000,000.
       On page 5, line 10, decrease the amount by $18,000,000.
       On page 5, line 11, decrease the amount by $21,000,000.
       On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by $23,000,000.
       On page 5, line 13, decrease the amount by $24,000,000.
       On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by $25,000,000.
       On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by $122,000,000.
       On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by $98,000,000.
       On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by $57,000,000.
       On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by $25,000,000.
       On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by $26,000,000.
       On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by $33,000,000.
       On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by $66,000,000.
       On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by $23,000,000.
       On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by $24,000,000.
       On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by $25,000,000.
       On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by $122,000,000.
       On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by $220,000,000.
       On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by $277,000,000.
       On page 6, line 9, decrease the amount by $302,000,000.
       On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by $328,000,000.
       On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by $361,000,000.
       On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by $427,000,000.
       On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by $450,000,000.
       On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by $474,000,000.
       On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by $499,000,000.
       On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by $122,000,000.
       On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by $220,000,000.
       On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by $277,000,000.
       On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by $302,000,000.
       On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by $328,000,000.
       On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by $361,000,000.
       On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by $427,000,000.
       On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by $450,000,000.
       On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by $474,000,000.
       On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by $499,000,000.
       On page 30, line 23, increase the amount by $6,525,000,000.
       On page 30, line 24, increase the amount by $6,525,000,000.
       On page 31, line 2, increase the amount by $9,775,000,000.
       On page 31, line 3, increase the amount by $9,775,000,000.
       On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by $2,000,000.
       On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by $2,000,000.
       On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by $8,000,000.
       On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by $8,000,000.
       On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by $12,000,000.
       On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by $12,000,000.
       On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by $15,000,000.
       On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by $15,000,000.
       On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by $16,000,000.
       On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by $16,000,000.
       On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by $18,000,000.
       On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by $18,000,000.
       On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by $21,000,000.
       On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by $21,000,000.

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       On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by $23,000,000.
       On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by $23,000,000.
       On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by $24,000,000.
       On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by $24,000,000.
       On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by $25,000,000.
       On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by $25,000,000.
  Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, how could we in good conscience deny 
unemployment benefits to the long-term unemployed at the same time we 
are considering more than $1.3 trillion in additional tax cuts 
disproportionately benefiting the wealthiest taxpayer? That is exactly 
what this budget does. This amendment will extend and expand 
unemployment benefits for the millions of workers who need them. It 
will cost just $16 billion, about 1 percent of the cost of the tax cut. 
That should not be too much to ask for those families who need our help 
the most. More than 4 million Americans will be unemployed with no 
Federal benefits after June 1 under the current law. These men and 
women have worked hard for years, paid into the unemployment fund, and 
now find themselves without a job through no fault of their own. They 
are victims of the stagnant economy, and the economic news is not 
getting any better.
  Where is our concern for these 4 million Americans? Where is our 
sense of fairness? I hope Members will support this amendment.
  Mr. SARBANES. Mr. President, I rise today in support of amendment No. 
315 of which I am a proud cosponsor. The purpose of this amendment is 
to accommodate in the budget an extension of unemployment insurance 
benefits. Currently, extended unemployment insurance benefits are 
scheduled to expire at the end of May. Beginning June first, 
individuals whose regular unemployment benefits expire will no longer 
be eligible for extended benefits.
  This amendment sets aside the necessary funds, $16 billion, to extend 
the existing unemployment insurance benefits program for an additional 
6 months. That is estimated to provide assistance to between 2 to 2.5 
million working Americans who have lost their job through no fault of 
their own. The amendment takes the money from the proposed $1.5 
trillion dollars in tax cuts. This raises the very fundamental question 
of what our priorities are.
  I am convinced that we are going to still be in very difficult shape 
when the current extension of unemployment insurance benefits expires 
at the end of May, and I think we will need to extend it. There is 
little chance that the labor market will significantly improve for 
unemployed workers between now and the end of May. There is growing 
evidence that the labor market is still deteriorating. The Federal Open 
Market Committee's most recent statement on interest rates concluded 
that, ``recent labor market indicators have proven disappointing.''
  That is an understatement. It was reported yesterday that the 4-week 
average of initial jobless claims rose to a 10-month high of 429,500. 
Last month we lost 308,000 jobs and the unemployment rose last month to 
5.8 percent. The unemployment rate is higher today than when extended 
benefits were first enacted in March 2002. Over 3.4 million Americans 
are drawing unemployment benefits today a 4-month high. It would take 
private sector job creation of over 100,000 per month, every month, for 
the next 2-years, in order for the economy to recoup the 2.5 million 
private sector jobs that have been lost since President Bush took 
office.
  The labor market remains weak because the overall economy remains 
weak. Last week the Federal Reserve released a report stating that, 
``growth in economic activity remained subdued in January and February. 
. . . Consumer spending remained weak,'' and ``business spending was 
very soft, with little change in capital spending or hiring plans.'' 
Little change in business hiring is horrible news for would be job 
seekers who are caught in what the New York Times called the ``Worst 
Hiring Slump in 20 Years.'' And this hiring slump has been very tough 
on those who are of moderate means. Witness the Baltimore Sun's recent 
story entitled ``Jobs for poor few in a weak economy.''
  You have a situation where people are unemployed: Over 8.5 million 
unemployed Americans, over 22 percent of which, 1.87 million, have been 
unemployed for more than 26 weeks, are looking for work, and can't find 
a job because there are no jobs to be had. This is the highest 
percentage--of long-term unemployed our economy has witnessed since 
1992. In situations like this, the Congress has always provided 
extended unemployment benefits. In the last recession these benefits 
were provided for 29 months. During the recession before that, they 
lasted for 33 months. In both of those recessions extended benefits 
were discontinued only after a pronounced strengthening in the labor 
market.
  Today these benefits are set to expire after only 15 months, well 
before the labor market has improved. If this happens, it will mark not 
only a departure from prudent fiscal policy that has been implemented 
in a bipartisan fashion in the past but will also harm economic growth 
and hurt millions of Americans. Extended unemployment insurance 
benefits, already enacted by the Congress, have assisted 4.7 million 
workers and provided $12 billion of stimulus into the economy. Federal 
Reserve Chairman Greenspan has testified that ``extended unemployment 
insurance provided a timely boost to disposable income.''
  This amendment will allow for up to an additional $16.3 billion in 
stimulus to be provided precisely to those Americans who need it the 
most. In fact, that is why it is so effective as economic stimulus--
those who receive unemployment benefits, by definition, are in such a 
precarious fiscal position that they must spend every dollar of 
benefits, which are far less than what they used to earn in their 
previous job. The $16 billion would allow for the program not only to 
be extended as it is, but to provide for all Americans who qualify to 
receive an additional 13 weeks of benefits. This would include the 1 
million workers who have already exhausted their extended benefits. 
These workers need help. They want to find work but cannot find a job 
because there are simply no jobs to be had.
  I know that some of my colleagues oppose providing extended benefits 
for more than 13 weeks to anyone. I have a differing view point. I 
point out that at this state of the last recession, a minimum of 20 
weeks of additional Federal benefits were provided for all Americans in 
every State. Under normal circumstances with a growing labor market, 
there is a strong case to be made that providing too long of a duration 
of unemployment insurance benefits would be harmful. However, in times 
when the labor market is weak and the job base is shrinking, the 
situation is very different. Even Fed Chairman Greenspan acknowledged 
this in testimony before the Joint Economic Committee, stating: ``in 
periods like this [a shrinking labor market], that the economic 
restraints on the unemployment insurance system almost surely ought to 
be eased.''
  In the previous recession and jobless recovery, extended unemployment 
insurance benefits lasted for 29 months and for much of that time 
provided benefits for 26 to 33 weeks. In this recession and jobless 
recovery, benefits are scheduled to expire after only 15 months and 
have provided only 13 weeks of extended benefits to the vast majority 
of Americans. Even if you still cling to the idea that we should have 
no more than 13 additional weeks, passing this amendment does not 
itself extend these benefits. it only allows the Senate the flexibility 
to address this issue when the time comes without having a budget point 
of order raised. The amendment sets aside the necessary funds, $16.3 
billion--which I point out are more than covered by the $21 billion in 
the unemployment insurance trust funds today--to provide for whatever 
form of extended benefits the Senate should chose to pass. Hold the 
debate on how to structure the program until then. What we cannot 
afford to do today is to pass a budget that contains nothing to provide 
for extension of benefits which may be critically needed in only a few 
months time.
  Last year this issue was not properly dealt with, and as a result 
millions of Americans suffered through the holiday season believing 
that their benefits were going to expire. Yet when Congress reconvened, 
extended benefits were retroactively restored, 11 days after they had 
expired. Let's not put

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these people through this again. Let's act now and set aside in this 
budget the resources necessary to do the job that we, in my view, will 
have to do between now and the end of May.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, we are making good progress. I am a 
little concerned about bouncing around on which amendment is next.
  I urge my colleagues to vote no on this amendment. We have only voted 
on this particular amendment two or three times, maybe four or five 
times if you go back to last year.
  This would double the program from a 13-week program to a 26-week 
program. It would cost billions, $16.6 billion, I believe, in probably 
a year. According to GAO, there is $6.6 billion of an $8 billion block 
grant we gave to the States that they have not used. This is a very 
expensive amendment, in my opinion, not well thought out, not 
coordinated with States. High unemployment States already get up to 65 
weeks in benefits under present law. This would extend it. It is very 
expensive. I urge my colleagues to vote no.
  Mr. CONRAD. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There is a 
sufficient second. The question is on agreeing to the amendment No. 
315.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. REID: I announce that the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Miller), is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 48, nays 51, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 85 Leg.]

                                YEAS--48

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Clinton
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Daschle
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Graham (FL)
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Wyden

                                NAYS--51

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham (SC)
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Voinovich
     Warner

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Miller
       
  The amendment (No. 315) was rejected.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I think we will offer an amendment now. 
It will be the second one we have offered today. It will be offered by 
the Senator from New Hampshire, the chairman of the Health and 
Education Committee.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Hampshire.


                           Amendment No. 414

  Mr. GREGG. Mr. President, I call up an amendment. I believe it is at 
the desk, or I will send it up.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The senior assistant bill clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. Gregg] proposes an 
     amendment numbered 414.

  Mr. GREGG. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that reading of the 
amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

(Purpose: To provide $2 billion for education block grants to states to 
 be allocated to local educational agencies for any of the purposes of 
 the No Child Left Behind Act, Individuals with Disabilities Education 
  Act, or Vocational Education Programs by reducing spending on other 
             government programs by a commensurate amount)

       On page 25, line 16, increase the amount by $2,000,000,000.
       On page 25, line 17, increase the amount by $40,000,000.
       On page 25, line 21, increase the amount by $1,400,000,000.
       On page 25, line 25, increase the amount by $500,000,000.
       On page 26, line 4, increase the amount by $60,000,000.
       On page 42, line 2, decrease the amount by $2,000,000,000.
       On page 42, line 3, decrease the amount by $40,000,000.
       On page 42, line 7, decrease the amount by $1,400,000,000.
       On page 42, line 11, decrease the amount by $500,000,000.
       On page 42, line 15, decrease the amount by $60,000,000.

  Mr. GREGG. Mr. President, this amendment adds an additional $2 
billion into our educational accounts. We already increased educational 
spending last week. We are increasing it here again. The practical 
effect of what we are doing is that we will have seen a 91-percent, or 
$3.2 billion, increase in Head Start as a result of this amendment and 
the additional amendments we passed. We will have seen over a 333-
percent increase in funding in special education in the last few years 
as a result of this amendment and others and a 90-percent increase in 
funding in title I as a result of this amendment and others.
  With this amendment, we will have again dramatically increased the 
funding for both preschool and general education activities at the 
elementary and secondary level, and I believe we should have pretty 
much filled up the bucket in those accounts.
  Mr. President, I yield back the rest of my time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from North Dakota.
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, we are prepared to take this amendment. We 
are ready to go to a voice vote on this amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The time is yielded back.
  The question is on agreeing to amendment No. 414.
  The amendment (No. 414) was agreed to.
  Mr. BOND. I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. SANTORUM. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I yield to the Senator from Connecticut, 
Mr. Dodd, for an amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Connecticut.


                           Amendment No. 415

  Mr. DODD. Mr. President, I send an amendment to the desk and ask for 
its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The senior assistant bill clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Connecticut [Mr. Dodd] proposes an 
     amendment numbered 415.

  Mr. DODD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that further reading 
of the amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

 (Purpose: To increase funding for after-school programs to the levels 
  promised by the No Child Left Behind Act to serve 1.6 million more 
children in FY 2004 and to increase funding for Head Start to serve 80 
percent of eligible 3 and 4 year olds and increase the number of infant 
             and toddlers served and for deficit reduction)

       On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $1,155,000,000.
       On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $3,891,000,000.
       On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $5,806,000,000.
       On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by $7,666,000,000.
       On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by $8,818,000,000.
       On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by $9,195,000,000.
       On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by $9,455,000,000.
       On page 3, line 17, increase the amount by $9,694,000,000.
       On page 3, line 18, increase the amount by $9,900,000,000.
       On page 3, line 19, increase the amount by $10,164,000,000.
       On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by $1,155,000,000.
       On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by $3,891,000,000.
       On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by $5,806,000,000.
       On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by $7,666,000,000.
       On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by $8,818,000,000.
       On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by $9,195,000,000.
       On page 4, line 7, increase the amount by $9,455,000,000.
       On page 4, line 8, increase the amount by $9,694,000,000.

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       On page 4, line 9, increase the amount by $9,900,000,000.
       On page 4, line 10, increase the amount by $10,164,000,000.
       On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by $2,140,000,000.
       On page 4, line 16, increase the amount by $2,655,000,000.
       On page 4, line 17, increase the amount by $3,363,000,000.
       On page 4, line 18, increase the amount by $4,098,000,000.
       On page 4, line 19, increase the amount by $3,934,000,000.
       On page 4, line 20, increase the amount by $3,768,000,000.
       On page 4, line 21, increase the amount by $3,583,000,000.
       On page 4, line 22, increase the amount by $3,379,000,000.
       On page 4, line 23, increase the amount by $3,111,000,000.
       On page 4, line 24, increase the amount by $2,915,000,000.
       On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by $567,000,000.
       On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by $1,869,000,000.
       On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by $2,690,000,000.
       On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by $3,423,000,000.
       On page 5, line 9, increase the amount by $3,752,000,000.
       On page 5, line 10, increase the amount by $3,660,000,000.
       On page 5, line 11, increase the amount by $3,486,000,000.
       On page 5, line 12, increase the amount by $3,278,000,000.
       On page 5, line 13, increase the amount by $3,031,000,000.
       On page 5, line 14, increase the amount by $2,787,000,000.
       On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by $588,000,000.
       On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by $2,022,000,000.
       On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by $3,117,000,000.
       On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by $4,243,000,000.
       On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by $5,066,000,000.
       On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by $5,534,000,000.
       On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by $5,969,000,000.
       On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by $6,416,000,000.
       On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by $6,869,000,000.
       On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by $7,377,000,000.
       On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by $588,000,000.
       On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by $2,610,000,000.
       On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by $5,727,000,000.
       On page 6, line 9, decrease the amount by $9,970,000,000.
       On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by $15,036,000,000.
       On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by $20,570,000,000.
       On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by $26,539,000,000.
       On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by $32,954,000,000.
       On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by $39,823,000,000.
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  Mr. DODD. Mr. President, I have combined two amendments. This is both 
the afterschool program and Head Start. We were going to do it 
separately, but to move things along I decided to combine them.
  This is a 10-year proposal since much of this budget proposal covers 
10 years. It amounts to about $18 billion for afterschool programs and 
$24 billion for Head Start. As a result of this amendment, we would 
actually increase from 850,000 under this budget to 2.5 million the 
number of children who would take advantage of afterschool programs 
this year.
  Mr. President, 2,000 prosecutors and police chiefs have endorsed this 
amendment.
  On Head Start, we would go from roughly 850,000 kids to approximately 
1 million, 1.2 million. That is an increase of 20 percent over the next 
10 years for Head Start. We pay for it by reducing the tax cut of $1.73 
trillion by about $42 billion. It is a tiny fraction of that tax cut, 
to serve kids in preschool and the afterschool programs.
  Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that relevant material be 
printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

               [From the Washington Post, Mar. 23, 2003]

                        Cutbacks to Our Children

                          (By David S. Broder)

       Under the shadow of war with Iraq, the House and the Senate 
     last week fought a series of skirmishes over the federal 
     budget for next year. One big, overriding question was at 
     stake: Would President Bush and the Republican majorities in 
     Congress step up to the costs of battle, of homeland defense 
     and of national obligations at home, or would they pass the 
     costs on to future generations?
       The answer, sadly, is that youngsters yet to be born will 
     see their choices limited and their prospects blighted by the 
     decision of today's politicians to press ahead with an 
     unaffordable tax cut even while the costs of war and 
     reconstruction make earlier spending estimates wildly 
     unrealistic.
       The possible doubling of the national debt in the next 
     decade will drive up interest costs that must be paid every 
     year--billions of dollars that will not be available for 
     Social Security; Medicare or any of the myriad 
     responsibilities of the government here and abroad.
       But the squeeze is not all prospective. Some dangerous 
     economies are being forced this year--cutbacks that will have 
     long-term damaging consequences for American society.
       This was brought home to me from an unexpected source in a 
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     week with six state attorneys general--four Democrats and two 
     Republicans--who were in Washington for a professional 
     conference. Their theme was one I had heard before, not just 
     from social workers, academics and supposed bleeding-heart 
     liberals but from police chiefs, prosecutors and other hard-
     nosed denizens of the criminal justice system.
       It is the irrefutable evidence that the most effective 
     anti-crime strategies--and the least expensive--are early 
     childhood education, after-school programs and serious 
     mentoring of youngsters who otherwise are almost certainly 
     fated to be dropouts, delinquents and, yes, prison inmates.
       Larry Long, the South Dakota attorney general and a 30-year 
     career prosecutor, put it this way. ``I can tell you that by 
     the time kids of 12 or 14 are brought into the juvenile 
     justice system, they are lost. All I can do is warehouse 
     them--at huge expense. The sooner and faster we reach kids, 
     the better the chance of their being saved.''
       Long and his counterparts from Colorado, Delaware, Maine, 
     Montana and New Mexico described what they are doing to reach 
     vulnerable youngsters--especially those being raised by 
     single mothers still in their teens--and to help those 
     parents stabilize lives often blighted by drugs or other 
     addictions. But they also confirmed that many of their 
     initiatives are on the chopping block, as states struggle 
     with declining revenue and runaway health care costs for the 
     elderly.
       ``These are proven programs that work,'' said Montana 
     Attorney General Mike McGrath, ``but our budget crisis is so 
     severe we may not be able to meet the federal matching 
     requirement''--the dollars a state must put up to qualify for 
     a grant from Washington.
       That is why they express such dismay at what they are 
     hearing out of the Washington budget proceedings. The 
     briefing paper that all the state law enforcement officials 
     were given by the advocacy group Fight Crime: Invest in Kids 
     spelled out some of the cuts included in the Bush budget.
       Funds for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers 
     after-school program would be cut from $1 billion to $600 
     million. The memo to the attorneys general says that cutback 
     would take a half-million children each year out of a those 
     centers, even though unsupervised youngsters make the hours 
     from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. the peak time for serious and violent 
     juvenile crime.
       The Bush budget increases Head Start funding by $148 
     million, just about enough to keep pace with inflation, but 
     the program now serves only six out of 10 preschoolers who 
     are eligible. Several other early childhood block grants and 
     programs are ticketed for reduction or elimination.
       The picture is similar for other Justice Department and 
     Education Department program aimed at preventing juvenile 
     delinquency.
       ``This is so shortsighted,'' said Maine Attorney General 
     Steven Rowe. ``For $300 billion, one-fifth the [10-year] cost 
     of the new tax cut, we could fully fund all of these 
     programs'' for the next decade.
       That kind of investment would not only save lives, the 
     attorneys general said. It would save money. ``We are 
     spending $75,000 a year every time we incarcerate someone 
     under 18,'' said Delaware Attorney General Jane Brady. ``We 
     have to jail them, educate them, counsel them and try to 
     rehabilitate them. It would be so much better to help them 
     while they are young.''
       It's another example of the long-term costs will incur 
     today's budget decisions.
                                  ____


                [From the Washington Post, Mar. 7, 2003]

                             The 3 to 6 Gap

                         (By E.J. Dionne, Jr.)

       The phrase ``balancing work and family'' is abstract. 
     Here's the concrete part: Kids' school schedules are out of 
     sync with their parents' work schedules. It is plain dumb 
     that from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday, we just 
     let kids loose.
       Yes, many families make heroic efforts to deal with this 
     problem. But many others--especially in households that 
     desperately need two incomes--are put in a terrible dilemma. 
     Filling the 3 to 6 gap is one of our most urgent social 
     needs, a point made regularly by law enforcement officials.
       Some politicians understand it, too. ``After-school 
     programs keep kids safe, help working families and improve 
     academic achievements,'' said the most prominent one of them 
     all. ``They engage students in service and ensure that youth 
     have access to anti-substance abuse programs. For America's 
     working parents, they provide the confidence that their 
     children are well cared for after the school day ends.''
       Excellent points. President Bush made them in a letter he 
     wrote on Oct. 4, 2002, to a group called the Afterschool 
     Alliance. So why, exactly, has the president proposed to cut 
     federal spending on after-school care by 40 percent? Under 
     Bush's budget, federal spending on 21st Century Community 
     Learning Centers would drop from $1 billion this year to $600 
     million next year.
       Rep. George Miller, a California Democrat who worked with 
     Bush on the education bill, notes that the program now covers 
     about 1.5 million kids. The program's advocates estimate that 
     at least 500,000 would be affected by the cut.
       This cut, alas, perfectly embodies what's wrong with the 
     way this administration is doing business. The dissonance 
     between the president's moderate, compassionate words and his 
     spending priorities is jarring.
       Moreover, the federal government is pulling away from a 
     problem at exactly the moment when giant budget deficits are 
     forcing states to do less themselves. In Maryland, for 
     example, Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., a Republican, has 
     proposed cutting the Maryland After School Opportunity Fund 
     in half, from $10 million to $5 million. Afterschool Alliance 
     reports similar cuts in at least four other states and 
     expects more to follow.
       Bush speaks constantly of making it easier for faith-based 
     groups to get federal funds. The 21st Century program was 
     opened to such organizations last year. Does it help faith-
     based groups to let them into the program and then dry up the 
     funding?
       Miller is not alone in suspecting that this program was 
     vulnerable because it happened to be one of former president 
     Bill Clinton's more popular initiatives. ``There's obviously 
     been a search-and-destroy mission against anything that was 
     Clinton,'' he says.
       Oh, yes, Bush says we have to make these hard budget 
     choices, but he has refused to put a price tag on the war 
     with Iraq (it could easily run to $100 billion) and insists 
     we need his huge tax cuts for the wealthy. Let's see: We have 
     to cut $400 million from after-school program to pay for the 
     elimination of the dividends tax, which will eventually cost 
     the government $50 billion a year in revenue?
       Most remarkable, the administration has justified this cut 
     as good government. It cites a recent study by Mathematica 
     Policy Research showing, as the administration's budget 
     documents put it, that ``the centers funded in the program's 
     first three years are not providing substantial academic 
     content and do not appear to have a positive impact on 
     students' behavior.''
       The Mathematica study did find some positive effects from 
     the program, and some of its criticisms were disputed by 
     after school advocates. But let's assume that the report was 
     sound and that these programs would do well to beef up their 
     academic content. That's still no excuse for using a single 
     report as a rationale for cutting the federal government's 
     commitment to helping kids between the hours of 3 and 6. We 
     need to build on the after-school experience, not retreat. 
     And, by the way, does the administration have one standard 
     for social programs--a little bad news and they're slashed--
     and another for tax cuts and, say, missile defense?
       To challenge these cutbacks, I nominate a good Republican 
     known as The Terminator. Last fall, Arnold Schwarzenegger led 
     the fight for Proposition 49 in California, a ballot measure 
     that will eventually provide about $430 million for after-
     school programs. It passed with 57 percent of the vote. ``My 
     hope is that, as goes California, so goes the rest of the 
     nation,'' he declared. Arnold, where your priorities are 
     concerned, your president is saying, ``Hasta la vista, 
     baby.''
                                  ____


                [From the New York Times, Feb. 13, 2003]

                             Heavy Lifting

                            (By Bob Herbert)

       He's at it again.
       President Bush traveled to Nashville on Monday to talk, 
     among other things, about compassion, which is a topic this 
     president probably should leave alone. Mr. Bush's idea of 
     compassion tends to send a shiver of dread through those who 
     are disadvantaged.
       But there he was in Nashville at the National Religious 
     Broadcasters convention, exhorting his audience to ``rally 
     the armies of compassion so that we can change America one 
     heart, one soul at a time.''
       The president said religious organizations had a 
     responsibility to assist the poor and those who are 
     suffering, and to help alleviate the ``artificial divisions'' 
     of race and economics.
       ``I welcome faith to help solve the nation's deepest 
     problems,'' he said.
       If religious leaders take up the challenge they will have 
     to do some awfully heavy lifting, because Mr. Bush's domestic 
     policies--instead of easing suffering--are all but guaranteed 
     to provide an ever-swelling stream of people in need of help.
       Everywhere you turn, support programs for the poor, the 
     ill, the disabled and the elderly are under attack. 
     Children's services are being battered. As Mr. Bush smiles 
     and talks about compassion, funding for programs large and 
     small is being squeezed, cut back, eliminated.
       The day after, Mr. Bush's upbeat speech to the religious 
     broadcasters, The Times's Robert Pear revealed that the 
     administration was proposing a change in federal law that 
     would result in rent increases for thousands of poor people 
     receiving housing aid.
       The administration has proposed a restructuring of Medicare 
     that would curtail, rather than enhance, delivery of health 
     services to the elderly.
       In the $2.2 trillion budget that Mr. Bush sent to Congress 
     last week was an unconscionable proposal that would eliminate 
     after-school programs for 500,000 children. In the arena of 
     bad ideas, that one's a champion. It would result not just in 
     hardship, but tragedy. For one thing, the peak hours for 
     juvenile crime are 3 p.m. to 8 p.m., with the biggest, most 
     dangerous burst coming in the very first hour after school. 
     That is also the time of day in which most teenage girls 
     become pregnant.
       Mr. Bush has proposed cuts in juvenile delinquency 
     programs, public housing assistance, children's health 
     insurance and on and on. He's even undermined the funding for 
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     own highly touted school reform program, the No Child Left 
     Behind Act.
       Senator Edward Kennedy, who had worked closely with the 
     president on the school reform legislation, said yesterday, 
     ``As soon as the Klieg lights were off and the bunting came 
     down, the Bush administration turned its back on school 
     reform and America's children.''
       Looming over this calculated assault on programs of crucial 
     importance to millions of Americans is Mr. Bush's colossal 
     accumulation of tax cuts for the wealthy and an endless 
     mountain range of federal budget deficits. The ideologues on 
     the right are close to realizing their dream of crippling 
     social services by starving the government of revenues.
       Dr. J. Lawrence Aber, director of the National Center for 
     Children in Poverty at Columbia University, said yesterday:
       ``These cuts are tearing at what was emerging as a 
     bipartisan consensus at the end of the last administration 
     that the unfinished agenda on welfare reform was to create 
     the work and family supports necessary to continue to help 
     people move from welfare to work.''
       Tip O'Neill once said of Ronald Reagan, ``He has no 
     concern, no regard, no care for the little man of America.''
       George W. Bush is making the Gipper look like a softy.
       Policies that affect the poor and working poor seldom get 
     sustained attention. In an atmosphere of terror and impending 
     war, Mr. Bush's approach to social services is getting even 
     shorter shrift than usual. The policies he is attempting to 
     put in place would largely overturn the notion we've had of a 
     federal responsibility for programs to help struggling 
     Americans. Mr. Bush would turn much of that responsibility 
     over to the states, which are struggling with backbreaking 
     budget problems of their own that are forcing drastic 
     reductions in state services.
       The collective result would be a long-term abandonment of 
     the most needy among us. It's difficult to square that with 
     the idea of compassion, conservative or otherwise.
                                  ____

                                                   March 24, 2003.
     Hon. Christopher Dodd (D-CT),
     U.S. Senate.
       Dear Senator Dodd: The Afterschool Alliance is pleased to 
     endorse your proposed amendment to the fiscal year 2004 
     Senate Budget Resolution providing the fully authorized 
     funding level for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers 
     Program. More than 15 million school aged children lack a 
     safe, supervised place to spend their aftershcool hours--
     where they can get academic support and have the opportunity 
     to take part in art, music, athletic and other enrichment 
     activities. The 21st Century Community Learning Centers 
     Program provides critical support to communities throughout 
     the nation to create and expand high quality afterschool 
     programming.
       According to the law enforcement community, the afterschool 
     hours are when youth are most at risk. Juvenile crime triples 
     between the hours of 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. Studies show that 
     students who have no access to extracurricular activities are 
     much more likely to get involved with drug use and become 
     teen parents.
       Beyond safety, high quality afterschool programs are 
     helping kids learn new skills and perform better in schools. 
     A study just released by The Afterschool Corporation reported 
     that 84 percent of principals in New York credited 
     afterschool programs with improved overall effectiveness of 
     their schools.
       Afterschool programs are increasingly popular among parents 
     and other community leaders. Nine out of ten voters think 
     that all children should have access to afterschool programs. 
     Nationally, more than 50 percent of teens wish there were 
     more afterschool programs available as well. In other words, 
     afterschool programs work and are popular with the people who 
     need them most.
       At a time when safety is high on everyone's list of 
     concerns, funding for the 21st Century Community Learning 
     Centers Program should continue to grow--not be the target of 
     deep cuts in the federal budget. The 40% cut proposed by the 
     President in his fiscal year 2004 budget would deny 570,000 
     children and youth the afterschool programming they now 
     receive. It would hurt them, their families and their 
     communities. Support for the Dodd Afterschool/Headstart 
     amendment is a vote in favor of kids, working families and 
     local schools and communities.
           Sincerely,
     Judy Samelson.
                                  ____



                                  Fight Crime: Invest in Kids,

                                   Washington, DC, March 24, 2003.
       Dear Senator: On behalf of the thousands of sheriffs, 
     police chiefs, prosecutors and crime victims who constitute 
     the national anti-crime group Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, we 
     urge you to support amendments to the Fiscal Year 2004 budget 
     resolution that increase funding for key investments that can 
     keep kids from growing up to become criminals.
       Specifically, we urge you to support the amendment offered 
     by Sen. Christopher Dodd to increase funding for Head Start 
     and the 21st Century Community Learning Centers and the 
     amendment offered by Sen. Jeff Bingaman to increase funding 
     for the Child Care and Development Block Grant by $4.6 
     billion over five years (to the level in the tri-partisan 
     reauthorization bill reported out of the Finance Committee 
     last year), as well as any other amendments supporting 
     similar investments.
       As leaders on the front-line in the battle against crime, 
     our members know that the best way to prevent crime is to 
     invest in programs that keep kids from becoming criminals in 
     the first place. Research and experience prove that crime and 
     violence can be greatly reduced through quality early 
     childhood and after-school programs.
       For example, a study published in the Journal of the 
     American Medical Association of the Chicago Child-Parent 
     Centers early childhood education program found that children 
     left out of the program were 70% more likely to be arrested 
     for a violent crime by age 18. A study of the Quantum 
     Opportunities after-school program showed that boys left out 
     of the program averaged six times more criminal convictions 
     in their high school years than the boys who attended the 
     after-school program.
       Unfortunately, programs that support these types of 
     activities are drastically under-funded. Only six in ten 
     children eligible for Head Start can participate in the 
     program, only one in seven eligible for the Child Care and 
     Development Block Grant can receive subsidies, and less than 
     5% of eligible kids can participate in Early Head Start. In 
     addition, 75% of the requests for 21st Century Community 
     Learning Centers after-school grants have to be turned down 
     due to a lack of funding, leaving more than 10 million 
     children and teens home alone after school on a regular 
     basis.
       Investing in children is the most effective investment that 
     our nation can make in long-term growth, and will pay off in 
     crime reduction and other benefits for years to come. These 
     programs not only better the lives of children and prevent 
     crime, but also save money and help grow the economy in the 
     long run. The Chicago Child-Parent Centers saved the public 
     $7 for every $1 invested, and the Quantum Opportunities 
     program saved the public $3 for every $1 invested.
       Please support crime-reducing amendments to the budget that 
     will provide more families with access to quality early 
     education and care and force fewer parents to leave their 
     child unattended during the peak hours of juvenile crime from 
     3-6 p.m.
       If you have any questions, please contact us at 202-776-
     0027 ext. 143.
           Sincerely,
     Sanford A. Newman,
       President.
     Miriam A. Rollin,
       Federal Policy Director.
  Mr. DODD. Mr. President, I urge adoption of the amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator's time has expired.
  Who yields time?
  The Senator from New Hampshire.
  Mr. GREGG. Mr. President, in the Head Start and early education 
programs, we have increased those by 800 percent--800 percent--in the 
last decade. In this budget, we have a significant increase in Head 
Start. In fact, we are putting so much money into Head Start already 
that about 7 percent of the slots in Head Start are not even filled. We 
have so much money in this program, in a number of parts of this 
country they cannot find the kids to put into the programs.
  It is really inappropriate for us to fund it in a way which is 
excessive. We are doing a strong and effective job in the area of 
funding Head Start and early education programs. I hope we defeat this 
amendment as spending which is unnecessary at this time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is all time yielded back?
  Mr. GREGG. I yield back my time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time has been yielded back.
  Mr. DODD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent for 10 additional 
seconds.
  Kids are being----
  Mr. NICKLES. Regular order.
  Mr. DODD. There is a huge need for this program in the country.
  I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas and nays have been requested.
  Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The question is on agreeing to amendment No. 415.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Miller), is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 48, nays 51, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 86 Leg.]

                                YEAS--48

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Clinton
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Daschle
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin

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     Edwards
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Graham (FL)
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Wyden

                                NAYS--51

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham (SC)
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Voinovich
     Warner

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Miller
       
  The amendment (No. 415) was rejected.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from North Dakota is recognized.
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Senators be 
able to file documents supporting their amendments as we go throughout 
the day.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Who yields time?
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I yield time to the Democratic leader.


                           Amendment No. 361

  (Purpose: To fulfill the U.S. commitment to provide health care to 
                  American Indians and Alaska Natives)

  Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, I call up amendment No. 361.
  The senior assistant bill clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from North Dakota [Mr. Daschle], for himself, 
     Mr. Inouye, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. Dorgan, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Wyden, 
     Mr. Johnson, Mr. Leahy, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. Reid, Mr. Kennedy, 
     Mr. Lieberman, and Mr. Campbell, proposes an amendment 
     numbered 361.

  Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that further 
reading of the amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  (The amendment is printed in the Record of Thursday, March 20, 2003, 
under ``Text of Amendments.'')
  Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, Native Americans and Alaskan Natives have 
a guarantee under law and treaty that we provide health benefits to 
them and to their families. They are not getting it today. In fact, we 
are falling dramatically short of the budget required to buy them the 
services that they must now have. In fact, we are so short that we are 
now under a life or limb test. Unless your life is threatened, unless 
you may chance the loss of a limb, you are deferred treatment in most 
Indian health care facilities today.
  This amendment would simply provide clinical services funding for any 
current users--not for anybody who is currently ineligible, but only 
for those who are eligible today. We must provide this health care 
under the law. This amendment would do it.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma is recognized.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, for the information of colleagues, we 
were prepared to offer a second-degree amendment, but at the request of 
the minority leader we will not do that.
  I ask unanimous consent that the second-degree amendment we have 
prepared be eligible to be considered as an amendment on or in relation 
to immediately following the Daschle amendment.
  Mr. CONRAD. We agree to that.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I urge our colleagues to vote against 
this amendment. I understand there are a lot of problems in Indian 
Health Service. We have some of those in my State as well. It doesn't 
solve it by saying we should have an 86 percent increase in growth in 
this function. I understand the demands and needs, but percentage-wise 
this is too great.
  The amendment to be offered by Senator Murkowski will have at least a 
10-percent increase. We have increased this function by millions of 
dollars in the last couple of years. I understand the demand.
  I urge colleagues to vote no on this amendment and in favor of the 
subsequent amendment to be offered by the Senator from Alaska.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is all time yielded back?
  Mr. CONRAD. Yes.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to amendment No. 
361.
  Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Miller), is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Alexander). Are there any other Senators 
in the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 48, nays 51, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 87 Leg.]

                                YEAS--48

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Clinton
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Daschle
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Graham (FL)
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Wyden

                                NAYS--51

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham (SC)
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Voinovich
     Warner

                             NOT VOTING--1

      
     Miller
      
  The amendment was rejected.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.


                           Amendment No. 416

  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I send an amendment to the desk on behalf 
of Senator Campbell, the chairman of the Indian Affairs Committee, and 
Senator Murkowski.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Oklahoma [Mr. Nickles], for Mr. Campbell, 
     for himself, and Ms. Murkowski, proposes an amendment 
     numbered 416.
       On page 27, line 11, increase the amount by $292,000,000.
       On page 27, line 12, increase the amount by $256,000,000.
       On page 27, line 16, increase the amount by $17,520,000.
       On page 27, line 20, increase the amount by $8,760,000.
       On page 27, line 24, increase the amount by $5,840,000.
       On page 42, line 2, decrease the amount by $292,000,000.
       On page 42, line 3, decrease the amount by $256,960,000.
       On page 42, line 7, decrease the amount by $17,520,000.
       On page 42, line 11, decrease the amount by $8,760,000.
       On page 42, line 15, decrease the amount by $5,840,000.
       At the appropriate place insert:
       It is the Sense of the Senate that Congress has recognized 
     the importance of Native American health. In 1997, Congress 
     enacted a program to spend $30 million a year on research and 
     treatment on diabetes in the Native American community. This 
     amount was increased to $100 million a year in 2000 and 
     further increased to $150 million a year in 2002. This is a 
     500% increase since 1997. This priority focuses on prevention 
     and treatment for a major disease in the Native American 
     community.

[[Page S4348]]

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Who yields time? The Senator from Colorado.
  Mr. CAMPBELL. Mr. President, first let me thank Senator Daschle for 
his concern about the health of American Indians. For many of us, it is 
not really a front burner issue on our agendas as we face the war and 
so many other things, but to a lot of people whose health problems are 
between 5 and 10 times the national average, it is very important. So I 
thank Senator Daschle for doing that.
  Unfortunately, the amount seemed to exceed what we are able to 
support. The amount under this amendment increases IHS by 10 percent, 
or $292 million, bringing the total funding for the Indian Health 
Service to $3.208 million for facilities and services. In addition, it 
includes a sense of the Senate that Congress recognizes the need for 
prevention and research for a major disease in the Native American 
community, which is diabetes.
  As the Chair might know, some tribes suffer a 50-percent rate of 
diabetes among their members. Since 1997, Congress has increased Native 
American diabetes research and treatment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator's time has expired.
  Mr. CAMPBELL. In closing, this is a marked improvement over what we 
have done. I wish it could have been more, and I do thank Senator 
Daschle for bringing this to the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Democratic leader.
  Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, I have great admiration for the Senator 
from Colorado. There is no one who is more sensitive to many of these 
issues than is he. He has led us well in the Indian Affairs Committee.
  This amendment still leaves us over $2.6 billion short in providing 
health care services. Under the life and limb test: Your life has to be 
threatened or you are going to lose a limb to even walk in the front 
door. We are going to be $2.6 billion below that level right now if 
this amendment passes. That is No. 1.
  No. 2, this 10 percent is taken out of other Indian Health programs, 
other Indian education programs and other priorities. So we are really 
taking----
  Mr. NICKLES. No.
  Mr. DASCHLE. One dollar out of one pocket and putting it in the 
pocket of the other side, and we are not accommodating the real need or 
real commitment in health care that is so desperately needed right now.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, for the information of our colleagues, it 
is taken out of general government, not out of any health service. I do 
not know if a vote is necessary on this. I urge the adoption of the 
amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to amendment No. 
416.
  The amendment (No. 416) was agreed to.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. CRAIG. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from North Dakota.
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I yield to the Senator from Vermont, Mr. 
Leahy.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Vermont.


                           Amendment No. 318

  Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The bill clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Vermont [Mr. Leahy], for himself, Mr. 
     Daschle, Mr. Reid, Mr. Biden, Mr. Schumer, Mrs. Clinton, Mr. 
     Dayton, and Mr. Byrd, proposes an amendment numbered 318.

  Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the reading of 
the amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

  (Purpose: To increase the level of funding in fiscal year 2004 for 
 first responders by $3,000,000,000 (to a total of $6,500,000,000) to 
  support their efforts to protect homeland security and prevent and 
respond to acts of terrorism and to reduce tax reductions for taxpayers 
 with annual incomes greater than $300,000, and provide an additional 
                 $3,000,000,000 for deficit reduction)

       On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $2,100,000,000.
       On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $2,100,000,000.
       On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $1,200,000,000.
       On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by $600,000,000.
       On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by $2,100,000,000.
       On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by $2,100,000,000.
       On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by $1,200,000,000.
       On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by $600,000,000.
       On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by $2,981,000,000.
       On page 4, line 16, decrease the amount by $75,000,000.
       On page 4, line 17, decrease the amount by $127,000,000.
       On page 4, line 18, decrease the amount by $162,000,000.
       On page 4, line 19, decrease the amount by $179,000,000.
       On page 4, line 20, decrease the amount by $190,000,000.
       On page 4, line 21, decrease the amount by $201,000,000.
       On page 4, line 22, decrease the amount by $212,000,000.
       On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by $224,000,000.
       On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by $236,000,000.
       On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by $1,031,000,000.
       On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by $975,000,000.
       On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by $473,000,000.
       On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by $138,000,000.
       On page 5, line 9, decrease the amount by $179,000,000.
       On page 5, line 10, decrease the amount by $190,000,000.
       On page 5, line 11, decrease the amount by $201,000,000.
       On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by $212,000,000.
       On page 5, line 13, decrease the amount by $224,000,000.
       On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by $236,000,000.
       On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by $1,069,000,000.
       On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by $1,125,000,000.
       On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by $727,000,000.
       On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by $462,000,000.
       On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by $179,000,000.
       On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by $190,000,000.
       On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by $201,000,000.
       On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by $212,000,000.
       On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by $224,000,000.
       On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by $238,000,000.
       On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by $1,069,000,000.
       On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by $2,194,000,000.
       On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by $2,921,000,000.
       On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by $3,383,000,000.
       On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by $3,562,000,000.
       On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by $3,752,000,000.
       On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by $3,953,000,000.
       On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by $4,165,000,000.
       On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by $4,389,000,000.
       On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by $4,625,000,000.
       On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by $1,069,000,000.
       On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by $2,194,000,000.
       On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by $2,921,000,000.
       On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by $3,383,000,000.
       On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by $3,562,000,000.
       On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by $3,752,000,000.
       On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by $3,953,000,000.
       On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by $4,165,000,000.
       On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by $4,389,000,000.
       On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by $4,625,000,000.
       On page 36, line 15, increase the amount by $3,000,000,000.
       On page 36, line 16, increase the amount by $1,050,000,000.
       On page 36, line 20, increase the amount by $1,050,000,000.
       On page 36, line 24, increase the amount by $600,000,000.
       On page 37, line 3, increase the amount by $300,000,000.
       On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by $19,000,000.
       On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by $19,000,000.
       On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by $75,000,000.

[[Page S4349]]

       On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by $75,000,000.
       On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by $127,000,000.
       On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by $127,000,000.
       On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by $162,000,000.
       On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by $162,000,000.
       On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by $179,000,000.
       On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by $179,000,000.
       On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by $190,000,000.
       On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by $190,000,000.
       On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by $201,000,000.
       On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by $201,000,000.
       On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by $212,000,000.
       On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by $212,000,000.
       On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by $224,000,000.
       On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by $224,000,000.
       On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by $236,000,000.
       On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by $236,000,000.
       On page 45, line 24, decrease the amount by $6,000,000,000.
       On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by $3,000,000,000.
       On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by $1,050,000,000.
       On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by $1,050,000,000.
       On page 79, after line 22, add the following:

     SEC. 308. PROVIDING GRANTS TO SUPPORT FIRST RESPONDERS IN 
                   THEIR EFFORTS TO PROTECT HOMELAND SECURITY AND 
                   PREVENT AND RESPOND TO ACTS OF TERRORISM.

       (a) Findings.--The Senate finds that--
       (1) since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, our 
     Nation has asked State and local responders (firefighters, 
     law enforcement officers, and emergency personnel) to defend 
     Americans as never before on the front lines in the war 
     against terrorism;
       (2) on March 17, 2003, the Department of Homeland Security, 
     in consultation with the Homeland Security Council, raised 
     the national threat level from an ``Elevated'' to ``High'' 
     risk of terrorist attack (Level Orange) because the 
     intelligence community believes that terrorists will attempt 
     multiple attacks against United States and Coalition targets 
     worldwide in the event of a military campaign against Saddam 
     Hussein led by the United States;
       (3) Level Orange indicates a high probability of a 
     terrorist attack and requires additional precautions by first 
     responders at public events;
       (4) this is the third time since the Federal Homeland 
     Security Advisory System was created on March 12, 2002, that 
     State and local first responders have been kept on Orange 
     Alert, including--
       (A) September 10 to September 24, 2002; and
       (B) February 7 to February 27, 2003;
       (5) notwithstanding the periods listed under paragraph (4), 
     the Nation has continuously been at Yellow Alert (an 
     ``elevated'' threat level declared when there is a 
     significant risk of terrorist attacks), which has required 
     increased surveillance of critical locations for State and 
     local first responders;
       (6) the National Governors' Association estimates that 
     States incurred about $7,000,000,000 in homeland security 
     costs in the past year for State and local first responders; 
     and
       (7) as a result of the elevated and high national threat 
     alerts and other Federal homeland security requirements, 
     State and local governments have been subject to unfunded 
     Federal mandates.
       (b) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate 
     that--
       (1) the funding levels in this resolution assume a total of 
     at least $6,500,000,000 for fiscal year 2004 for the Office 
     of Domestic Preparedness through the Department of Homeland 
     Security to provide direct funds to support first responders 
     nationwide in their efforts to protect homeland security and 
     to prevent and respond to acts of terrorism.

  Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, the budget resolution now provides less 
funding to our Nation's first responders in the next fiscal year than 
it does in the current one. My amendment, which is cosponsored by 
Senators Daschle, Reid, Biden, Schumer, Clinton, and Dayton, will 
increase the level of direct funding for fiscal year 2004 for first 
responders by $3 billion to support their efforts to protect homeland 
security and respond to acts of terrorism. This will bring the total 
funding for our State and local first responders to at least $6.5 
billion for the first fiscal year.
  When one calls 9-1-1, they get the State and local; they do not get 
Washington. They need the money.
  We offset this by reducing tax reductions by $3 billion for taxpayers 
with annual incomes greater than $300,000, and we provide an additional 
$3 billion for deficit reduction. I hope we can support our Nation's 
police officers, firefighters, and emergency personnel by passing this 
amendment.
  Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that my name be 
added as a cosponsor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. LEAHY. I thank the distinguished senior Senator from West 
Virginia.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator's time has expired.
  The Senator from Mississippi.
  Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. President, my good friend from Vermont has told us 
what the amendment provides in way of an increase in spending. But what 
he did not tell us is it increases taxes by $6 billion over the period 
of 2004 through 2007. It increases the spending caps and it changes the 
reconciliation instructions.
  What also is contained in this budget resolution is $28 billion in 
discretionary spending for the homeland security function. This 
amendment is aimed at one small part of the budget resolution, and it 
increases that account, though, by 85 percent.
  Today, we have received from the President a supplemental budget 
request for homeland security asking for an additional $4.2 billion. 
The administration is making a very strong effort, under the competent 
leadership of Secretary Tom Ridge, to have a coordinated national 
strategy. While this amendment is well intended and we all support the 
goal of strengthening our effort to deliver the safety and health 
assistance that is needed at the local levels, this amendment is 
unnecessary and the bill takes care of the problem.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The time has expired.
  Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The question is on agreeing to amendment No. 318.
  The clerk will call the roll
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. McCONNELL. I announce that the Senator fro Mississippi (Mr. Lott) 
is necessarily absent.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Miller) is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 47, nays 51, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 88 Leg.]

                                YEAS--47

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Clinton
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Daschle
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Graham (FL)
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Wyden

                                NAYS--51

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham (SC)
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nelson (NE)
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Voinovich
     Warner

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Lott
     Miller
       
  The amendment (No. 318) was rejected.


                             Change of Vote

  Mr. BREAUX. Mr. President, on rollcall vote No. 88, I was recorded as 
voting no. I intended to vote yes. I ask unanimous consent to change my 
vote, which would not change the outcome.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  (The foregoing tally has been changed to reflect the above order.)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from North Dakota.
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I yield now to the Senator from Iowa, Mr. 
Harkin, for the presentation of an amendment.


                           Amendment No. 396

  Mr. HARKIN. Mr. President, I have an amendment at the desk. I ask for 
its

[[Page S4350]]

immediate consideration, amendment No. 396.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Iowa [Mr. Harkin], for himself and Mrs. 
     Murray, Mr. Kohl, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. Johnson, 
     Mr. Dorgan, and Mr. Inouye, proposes an amendment numbered 
     396.

  Mr. HARKIN. I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment 
be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

 (Purpose: To help rural health care providers and hospitals receive a 
fair reimbursement for services under Medicare by reducing tax cuts to 
                     the wealthier income brackets)

       On Page 3, line 10, increase the number by $1,000,000,000.
       On Page 3, line 11, increase the number by $1,500,000,000.
       On Page 3, line 12, increase the number by $2,000,000,000.
       On Page 3, line 13, increase the number by $2,500,000,000.
       On Page 3, line 14, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 3, line 15, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 3, line 16, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 3, line 17, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 3, line 18, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 3, line 19, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 4, line 1, increase the number by $1,000,000,000.
       On Page 4, line 2, increase the number by $1,500,000,000.
       On Page 4, line 3, increase the number by $2,000,000,000.
       On Page 4, line 4, increase the number by $2,500,000,000.
       On Page 4, line 5, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 4, line 6, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 4, line 7, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 4, line 8, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 4, line 9, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 4, line 10, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 4, line 15, increase the number by $1,000,000,000.
       On Page 4, line 16, increase the number by $1,500,000,000.
       On Page 4, line 17, increase the number by $2,000,000,000.
       On Page 4, line 18, increase the number by $2,500,000,000.
       On Page 4, line 19, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 4, line 20, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 4, line 21, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 4, line 22, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 4, line 23, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 4, line 24, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 5, line 5, increase the number by $1,000,000,000.
       On Page 5, line 6, increase the number by $1,500,000,000.
       On Page 5, line 7, increase the number by $2,000,000,000.
       On Page 5, line 8, increase the number by $2,500,000,000.
       On Page 5, line 9, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 5, line 10, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 5, line 11, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 5, line 12, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 5, line 13, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 5, line 14, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 29, line 6, increase the number by $1,000,000,000.
       On Page 29, line 7, increase the number by $1,000,000,000.
       On Page 29, line 10, increase the number by $1,500,000,000.
       On Page 29, line 11, increase the number by $1,500,000,000.
       On Page 29, line 14, increase the number by $2,000,000,000.
       On Page 29, line 15, increase the number by $2,000,000,000.
       On Page 29, line 18, increase the number by $2,500,000,000.
       On Page 29, line 19, increase the number by $2,500,000,000.
       On Page 29, line 22, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 29, line 23, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 30, line 2, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 30, line 3, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 30, line 6, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 30, line 7, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 30, line 10, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 30, line 11, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 30, line 14, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 30, line 15, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 30, line 18, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 30, line 19, increase the number by $3,000,000,000.
       On Page 61, beginning with ``or promotes'' on line 12 
     strike all through ``$400,000,000,000'' on line 19 and insert 
     ``and promotes geographic equity payments of which 
     $25,000,000,000 shall be for legislation reducing the 
     geographic disparity in Medicare reimbursement payments to 
     health care provers and hospitals, the chairman of the 
     Committee on the Budget, may revise committee allocations for 
     that committee and other appropriate budgetary aggregates and 
     allocations of new budget authority (and the outlays 
     resulting therefrom) in this resolution by the amount 
     provided by that measure for that purpose, but not to exceed 
     $425,000,000,000''.
  Mr. HARKIN. Mr. President, what we have is a very unfair system on 
reimbursement for beneficiaries. Here is a chart that shows the 
national average is about $5,490 per beneficiary in reimbursement. 
There are 34 States below that. My State of Iowa is $3,000 per 
beneficiary per year; New Mexico, $3,700. You can see all these States 
down here; we pay the same taxes, we pay the same Medicare taxes as 
every other State, yet Iowa receives $4,300 per beneficiary less than 
the top State in the Nation. All this amendment does is it provides $25 
billion over 10 years to the Finance Committee to bring up these 
States. It does not take from the States at the top; it only adds to 
the States at the bottom, and even some of the States at the top will 
be helped because it helps the rural-urban inequity. So some of the 
States at the top that have rural areas will actually benefit, but this 
brings up the bottom States.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.
  Mr. NICKLES. I urge our colleagues to vote ``no'' on this amendment. 
This amendment doesn't do anything to help the rural areas. All it does 
is say let's increase, in the resolution, the amount from $400 billion 
to $425 billion in the area of Medicare. Under the resolution we 
passed, we said there would be $400 billion in the Medicare reserve 
fund to strengthen and enhance Medicare, improve access for 
beneficiaries under that program to prescription drugs and promote 
geographic equity payments.
  That was included because Senator Grassley wanted to make sure we 
dealt with the inequities that were just described by my friend from 
Iowa. We are going to address that when we take up Medicare in the 
Finance Committee, which is where it should be addressed, not on a 
budget resolution that wouldn't have the impact. When we draft a 
Medicare bill that we are going to have on the floor this year, we can 
deal with some of these inequities.
  I urge my colleagues to vote no on the amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the amendment.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll.
  Mr. McCONNELL. I announce that the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. 
Lott) is necessarily absent.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Miller) is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Chambliss). Are there any other Senators 
in the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 49, nays 49, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 89 Leg.]

                                YEAS--49

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Clinton
     Collins
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Daschle
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Graham (FL)
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Wyden

                                NAYS--49

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback

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     Bunning
     Burns
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham (SC)
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Voinovich
     Warner

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Lott
     Miller
       
  The amendment (No. 396) was rejected.


                             Change Of Vote

  Ms. LANDRIEU. Mr. President, on rollcall vote No. 89, I voted nay. It 
was my intention to vote yea. I ask unanimous consent that I be 
permitted to change my vote. It will not change the outcome of that 
vote.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  (The foregoing tally has been changed to reflect the above order.)
  Mr. GRASSLEY. I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. GREGG. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.


                           Amendment No. 417

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Mexico.
  Mr. BINGAMAN. Mr. President, I send an amendment to the desk and ask 
for its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from New Mexico [Mr. Bingaman] proposes an 
     amendment numbered 417.

  Mr. BINGAMAN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that reading of 
the amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

  (Purpose: To increase Mandatory Child Care Spending by $4.6 billion 
  over five years and $9.1 billion over ten years by reducing the tax 
                                  cut)

       On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $750,000,000.
       On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $835,000,000.
       On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $879,000,000.
       On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by $893,000,000.
       On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by $901,000,000.
       On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 3, line 17, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 3, line 18, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 3, line 19, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by $750,000,000.
       On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by $835,000,000.
       On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by $879,000,000.
       On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by $893,000,000.
       On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by $901,000,000.
       On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 4, line 7, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 4, line 8, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 4, line 9, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 4, line 10, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 4, line 16, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 4, line 17, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 4, line 18, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 4, line 19, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 4, line 20, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 4, line 21, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 4, line 22, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 4, line 23, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 4, line 24, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by $750,000,000.
       On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by $835,000,000.
       On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by $879,000,000.
       On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by $893,000,000.
       On page 5, line 9, increase the amount by $901,000,000.
       On page 5, line 10, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 5, line 11, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 5, line 12, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 5, line 13, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 5, line 14, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 31, line 2, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 31, line 3, increase the amount by $750,000,000.
       On page 31, line 6, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 31, line 7, increase the amount by $835,000,000.
       On page 31, line 10, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 31, line 11, increase the amount by $879,000,000.
       On page 31, line 14, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 31, line 15, increase the amount by $893,000,000.
       On page 31, line 18, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 31, line 19, increase the amount by $901,000,000.
       On page 31, line 22, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 31, line 23, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 32, line 2, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 32, line 3, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 32, line 6, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 32, line 7, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 32, line 10, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 32, line 11, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 32, line 14, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
       On page 32, line 15, increase the amount by $900,000,000.
  Mr. BINGAMAN. Mr. President, I am offering this amendment on behalf 
of myself and Senator Dodd. It is an amendment that would increase the 
mandatory funding for childcare by approximately $900 million per year 
or $4.6 billion over 5 years. The amendment is paid for by lowering the 
amount of the unreconciled tax cuts that are contemplated in the 
pending budget. I emphasize, the unreconciled tax cuts. The issue is 
very simple. We need to at least maintain current childcare services. 
The Congressional Budget Office has done an estimate that determines we 
need to raise the level of spending to the amount called for in the 
amendment in order to maintain the current level of childcare services. 
This is particularly important in light of the fact that we have the 
proposal by the administration, which many of us support, to increase 
work-related requirements for welfare recipients. Clearly, if we are 
going to do that, the demand for childcare would increase.
  I urge my colleagues to support the amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Hampshire.
  Mr. GREGG. Mr. President, I rise in opposition to the amendment. We 
have increased childcare assistance by 250 percent since 1996. We 
doubled the number of children in childcare programs. This budget 
resolution alone increases childcare assistance by 7.3 percent in the 
mandatory accounts, 10 percent in the discretionary accounts, for a $5 
billion increase. All of this has been done while welfare rolls have 
dropped by 54 percent. We are putting a dramatic increase in money in 
fewer children who are even qualified for the money which means, as a 
practical matter, that we are certainly making an extra effort in these 
accounts. This increase is excessive in light of the amount of the 
increases already in the bill, which are dramatic in and of their own 
right.
  I yield the balance of my time.
  Mr. BINGAMAN. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be.
  The question is on agreeing to amendment No. 417. The clerk will call 
the roll.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Miller) is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 49, nays 50, as follows:

[[Page S4352]]

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 90 Leg.]

                                YEAS--49

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Clinton
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Daschle
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Graham (FL)
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Snowe
     Stabenow
     Wyden

                                NAYS--50

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham (SC)
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Voinovich
     Warner

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Miller
       
  The amendment (No. 417) was rejected.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. CONRAD. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from North Dakota is recognized.
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I yield now to the Senator from 
Connecticut, Mr. Dodd.


                           Amendment No. 419

  Mr. DODD. Mr. President, I send an amendment to the desk and ask for 
its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The bill clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Connecticut [Mr. Dodd] proposes an 
     amendment numbered 419.

  Mr. DODD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that further reading 
of the amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

  (Purpose: To increase the budget authority for Federal ``FIRE Act'' 
   grants and to express the sense of the Senate that from the total 
    funding provided for Federal ``FIRE Act'' grants, not less than 
$1,000,000,000 per year will be used for grants to local governments to 
 hire additional firefighters and not less than $750,000,000 per year 
for the purchase of firefighting equipment and training, and to provide 
                    for a reduction in the deficit)

       On page 3 line 10, increase the amount by $550,000,000.
       On page 3 line 11, increase the amount by $1,511,000,000.
       On page 3 line 12, increase the amount by $2,416,000,000.
       On page 3 line 13, increase the amount by $2,590,000,000.
       On page 3 line 14, increase the amount by $2,642,000,000.
       On page 3 line 15, increase the amount by $2,694,000,000.
       On page 3 line 16, increase the amount by $2,748,000,000.
       On page 3 line 17, increase the amount by $2,803,000,000.
       On page 3 line 18, increase the amount by $2,860,000,000.
       On page 3 line 19, increase the amount by $2,917,000,000.
       On page 4 line 1, increase the amount by $550,000,000.
       On page 4 line 2, increase the amount by $1,511,000,000.
       On page 4 line 3, increase the amount by $2,416,000,000.
       On page 4 line 4, increase the amount by $2,590,000,000.
       On page 4 line 5, increase the amount by $2,642,000,000.
       On page 4 line 6, increase the amount by $2,694,000,000.
       On page 4 line 7, increase the amount by $2,748,000,000.
       On page 4 line 8, increase the amount by $2,803,000,000.
       On page 4 line 9, increase the amount by $2,860,000,000.
       On page 4 line 10, increase the amount by $2,917,000,000.
       On page 4 line 15, increase the amount by $1,245,000,000.
       On page 4 line 16, increase the amount by $1,243,000,000.
       On page 4 line 17, increase the amount by $1,213,000,000.
       On page 4 line 18, increase the amount by $1,166,000,000.
       On page 4 line 19, increase the amount by $1,112,000,000.
       On page 4 line 20, increase the amount by $1,053,000,000.
       On page 4 line 21, increase the amount by $989,000,000.
       On page 4, line 22, increase the amount by $919,000,000.
       On page 4, line 23, increase the amount by $843,000,000.
       On page 4, line 24, increase the amount by $760,000,000.
       On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by $270,000,000.
       On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by $724,000,000.
       On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by $1,120,000,000.
       On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by $1,134,000,000.
       On page 5, line 9, increase the amount by $1,080,000,000.
       On page 5, line 10, increase the amount by $1,020,000,000.
       On page 5, line 11, increase the amount by $955,000,000.
       On page 5, line 12, increase the amount by $885,000,000.
       On page 5, line 13, increase the amount by $808,000,000.
       On page 5, line 14, increase the amount by $724,000,000.
       On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by $280,000,000.
       On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by $787,000,000.
       On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by $1,296,000,000.
       On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by $1,456,000,000.
       On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by $1,562,000,000.
       On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by $1,674,000,000.
       On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by $1,793,000,000.
       On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by $1,918,000,000.
       On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by $2,052,000,000.
       On page 6 line 2, increase the amount by $2,193,000,000.
       On page 6 line 6, decrease the amount by $280,000,000.
       On page 6 line 7, decrease the amount by $1,067,000,000.
       On page 6 line 8, decrease the amount by $2,363,000,000.
       On page 6 line 9, decrease the amount by $3,819,000,000.
       On page 6 line 10, decrease the amount by $5,382,000,000.
       On page 6 line 11, decrease the amount by $7,056,000,000.
       On page 6 line 12, decrease the amount by $8,849,000,000.
       On page 6 line 13, decrease the amount by $10,767,000,000.
       On page 6 line 14, decrease the amount by $12,818,000,000.
       On page 6 line 15, decrease the amount by $15,011,000,000.
       On page 6 line 19, decrease the amount by $280,000,000.
       On page 6 line 20, decrease the amount by $1,067,000,000.
       On page 6 line 21, decrease the amount by $2,363,000,000.
       On page 6 line 22, decrease the amount by $3,819,000,000.
       On page 6 line 23, decrease the amount by $5,382,000,000.
       On page 6 line 24, decrease the amount by $7,056,000,000.
       On page 6 line 25, decrease the amount by $8,849,000,000.
       On page 7 line 1, decrease the amount by $10,767,000,000.
       On page 7 line 2, decrease the amount by $12,818,000,000.
       On page 7 line 3, decrease the amount by $15,011,000,000.
       On page 23 line 19, increase the amount by $1,250,000,000.
       On page 23, line 20, increase the amount by $275,000,000.
       On page 23, line 23, increase the amount by $1,275,000,000.
       On page 23, line 24, increase the amount by $756,000,000.
       On page 24, line 2, increase the amount by $1,301,000,000.
       On page 24, line 3, increase the amount by $1,208,000,000.
       On page 24, line 6, increase the amount by $1,327,000,000.
       On page 24, line 7, increase the amount by $1,295,000,000.
       On page 24, line 10, increase the amount by $1,353,000,000.
       On page 24, line 11, increase the amount by $1,321,000,000.
       On page 24, line 14, increase the amount by $1,380,000,000.
       On page 24, line 15, increase the amount by $1,347,000,000.
       On page 24, line 18, increase the amount by $1,408,000,000.
       On page 24, line 19, increase the amount by $1,374,000,000.
       On page 24, line 22, increase the amount by $1,436,000,000.
       On page 24, line 23, increase the amount by $1,402,000,000.
       On page 25, line 2, increase the amount by $1,465,000,000.
       On page 25, line 3, increase the amount by $1,430,000,000.
       On page 25, line 6, increase the amount by $1,494,000,000.
       On page 25, line 7, increase the amount by $1,458,000,000.
       On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by $5,000,000.
       On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by $5,000,000.

[[Page S4353]]

       On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by $32,000,000.
       On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by $32,000,000.
       On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by $88,000,000.
       On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by $88,000,000.
       On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by $161,000,000.
       On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by $161,000,000.
       On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by $241,000,000.
       On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by $241,000,000.
       On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by $327,000,000.
       On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by $327,000,000.
       On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by $419,000,000.
       On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by $419,000,000.
       On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by $517,000,000.
       On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by $517,000,000.
       On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by $622,000,000.
       On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by $622,000,000.
       On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by $734,000,000.
       On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by $734,000,000.
       On page 45, line 24, decrease the amount by 
     $23,731,000,000.
       On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by $1,250,000,000.
       On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by $275,000,000.
       On page 47, line 14, increase the amount by $1,275,000,000.
       On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by $756,000,000.
       On page 79, after line 22, insert the following:

     SEC. 308. GRANTS FOR FIREFIGHTERS.

       It is the sense of the Senate that the funding levels in 
     this resolution assume that under section 33 of the Fire 
     Prevention and Control Act of 1974--
       (1) not less than $1,000,000,000 will be used annually to 
     provide grants to local governments for the sole purpose of 
     hiring additional firefighters; and
       (2) not less than $750,000,000 will be used annually to 
     provide grants to local governments for the purchase of 
     firefighter emergency response equipment and training.

  Mr. DODD. Mr. President, this is the FIRE Act. I introduced this with 
Senator DeWine in 1999. It became law in the year 2000. Senator Warner 
and I were able to get $100 million for our 20,000 fire departments 
across the country. One million people serve in our fire services. We 
had a number--about $750 million--which this budget rolls back to $500 
million for these firefighters across the country for the basic 
homeland security issues of first responders.
  This amendment would restore that number to $750 million, and over 10 
years it would be $1 billion a year, which is paid for by reducing the 
tax cut.
  I do not need to tell my colleagues how important this is to the 
million firefighters in 20,000 departments across this country. They 
need equipment. They need personnel. Many of their members are off in 
the Persian Gulf as I speak because they have been called up in the 
National Guard and Reserve services. These dollars would provide for 
new firefighters, replacements, as well as safety equipment. Two-thirds 
of all departments are badly understaffed and too many still do not 
have the basic safety equipment. This amendment allows for those 
numbers to be restored to the numbers we appropriated and agreed to 
last year. I urge the adoption of the amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator's time has expired.
  The Senator from Mississippi.
  Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. President, we are all very concerned about making 
adequate funds available for this account, but we also have in the 
budget--and Senators should recognize this--$28 billion in 
discretionary spending in the homeland security function of the budget 
resolution.
  What the Senator from Connecticut did not let you know was--and I am 
sure he will be glad to admit this is the case--this amendment would 
cause taxes to go up. The amendment increases taxes by $23.7 billion 
over the period of time from 2004 to 2007. It increases the spending 
caps, and it changes the reconciliation instructions.
  We just received from the President today a supplemental budget 
request for homeland security in the amount of $4.2 billion. The 
President is giving strong leadership on this issue, trying to organize 
a national strategy to help not only first responders, firefighters, 
and others, but have a national strategy for making our homeland safer 
and our people more secure.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator's time has expired.
  Mr. COCHRAN. I hope Senators will vote against the amendment.
  Mr. DODD. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The question is on agreeing to amendment No. 419. The clerk will call 
the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. McCONNELL. I announce that the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) 
is necessarily absent.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Miller) is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 48, nays 50, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 91 Leg.]

                                YEAS--48

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Clinton
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Daschle
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Graham (FL)
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Wyden

                                NAYS--50

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham (SC)
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Voinovich

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Miller
     Warner
       
  The amendment (No. 419) was rejected.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from North Dakota.
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I now yield time to the Senator from New 
York, Mrs. Clinton.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New York.


                           Amendment No. 418

  Mrs. CLINTON. Mr. President, amendment No. 418 is at the desk, and I 
ask unanimous consent that Senators Leahy, Schumer, Lieberman, Corzine, 
Dayton, and Sarbanes be added as cosponsors to my amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk 
will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from New York [Mrs. Clinton], for herself, Mr. 
     Leahy, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Lieberman, Mr. Corzine, Mr. Dayton, 
     and Mr. Sarbanes, proposes an amendment numbered 418.

  Mrs. CLINTON. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the reading 
of the amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

(Purpose: To raise the caps and provide direct first responder funding 
   to localities and for high threat areas through the Department of 
 Homeland Security's Office of Domestic Preparedness in 2003 and 2004, 
 to restore funding for the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law 
Enforcement Act (``Byrne Grant'' program) and the Local Law Enforcement 
Block Grant Program, and to reduce the deficit, by reducing the size of 
                        newly proposed tax cuts)

       On page 3, line 9, increase the amount by $700,000,000.
       On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $3,157,000,000.
       On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $2,213,000,000.
       On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $1,460,000,000.
       On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by $1,225,000,000.
       On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by $245,000,000.
       On page 3, line 23, increase the amount by $700,000,000.

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       On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by $3,157,000,000.
       On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by $2,213,000,000.
       On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by $1,460,000,000.
       On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by $1,225,000,000.
       On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by $245,000,000.
       On page 4, line 14, increase the amount by $997,000,000.
       On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by $3,461,000,000.
       On page 4, line 16, decrease the amount by $116,000,000.
       On page 4, line 17, decrease the amount by $179,000,000.
       On page 4, line 18, decrease the amount by $230,000,000.
       On page 4, line 19, decrease the amount by $264,000,000.
       On page 4, line 20, decrease the amount by $283,000,000.
       On page 4, line 21, decrease the amount by $300,000,000.
       On page 4, line 22, decrease the amount by $317,000,000.
       On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by $334,000,000.
       On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by $352,000,000.
       On page 5, line 4, increase the amount by $347,000,000.
       On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by $1,540,000,000.
       On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by $991,000,000.
       On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by $552,000,000.
       On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by $382,000,000.
       On page 5, line 9, decrease the amount by $143,000,000.
       On page 5, line 10, decrease the amount by $283,000,000.
       On page 5, line 11, decrease the amount by $300,000,000.
       On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by $317,000,000.
       On page 5, line 13, decrease the amount by $334,000,000.
       On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by $352,000,000.
       On page 5, line 17, increase the amount by $353,000,000.
       On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by $1,617,000,000.
       On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by $1,222,000,000.
       On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by $908,000,000.
       On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by $843,000,000.
       On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by $388,000,000.
       On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by $283,000,000.
       On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by $300,000,000.
       On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by $317,000,000.
       On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by $334,000,000.
       On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by $352,000,000.
       On page 6, line 5, decrease the amount by $353,000,000.
       On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by $1,969,000,000.
       On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by $3,191,000,000.
       On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by $4,100,000,000.
       On page 6, line 9, decrease the amount by $4,943,000,000.
       On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by $5,331,000,000.
       On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by $5,614,000,000.
       On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by $5.914,000,000.
       On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by $6,231,000,000.
       On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by $6,565,000,000.
       On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by $6,917,000,000.
       On page 6, line 18, decrease the amount by $353,000,000.
       On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by $1,969,000,000.
       On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by $3,191,000,000.
       On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by $4,100,000,000.
       On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by $4,943,000,000.
       On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by $5,331,000,000.
       On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by $5,614,000,000.
       On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by $5,914,000,000.
       On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by $6,231,000,000.
       On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by $6,565,000,000.
       On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by $6,917,000,000.
       On page 23, line 15, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 23, line 16, increase the amount by $350,000,000.
       On page 23, line 19, increase the amount by $2,450,000,000.
       On page 23, line 20, increase the amount by $1,453,000,000.
       On page 23, line 24, increase the amount by $813,000,000.
       On page 24, line 3, increase the amount by $468,000,000.
       On page 24, line 3, increase the amount by $245,000,000.
       On page 24, line 3, increase the amount by $121,000,000.
       On page 36, line 15, increase the amount by $1,050,000,000.
       On page 36, line 16, increase the amount by $126,000,000.
       On page 36, line 20, increase the amount by $294,000,000.
       On page 36, line 24, increase the amount by $263,000,000.
       On page 37, line 3, increase the amount by $367,000,000.
       On page 40, line 2, decrease the amount by $3,000,000.
       On page 40, line 3, decrease the amount by $3,000,000.
       On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by $39,000,000.
       On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by $39,000,000.
       On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by $116,000,000.
       On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by $116,000,000.
       On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by $179,000,000.
       On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by $179,000,000.
       On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by $230,000,000.
       On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by $230,000,000.
       On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by $264,000,000.
       On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by $264,000,000.
       On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by $283,000,000.
       On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by $283,000,000.
       On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by $300,000,000.
       On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by $300,000,000.
       On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by $317,000,000.
       On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by $317,000,000.
       On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by $334,000,000.
       On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by $334,000,000.
       On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by $352,000,000.
       On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by $352,000,000.
       On page 46, line 20, increase the amount by $1,000,000,000.
       On page 46, line 21, increase the amount by $350,000,000.
       On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by $3,500,000,000.
       On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by $1,579,000,000.
       On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by $1,107,000,000.
  Mrs. CLINTON. Mr. President, I rise to offer this amendment because 
it fully funds the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law 
Enforcement Act, the Byrne Grant Program, named for a New York City 
police officer, and the Local Law Enforcement Block Grant Act, by 
providing a respective $650 million and $400 million in funding in 
fiscal year 2004.
  In addition, this amendment raises the discretionary cap for fiscal 
year 2003 by $1 billion and fiscal year 2004 by $2.5 billion to provide 
direct homeland security first responder funding to localities and for 
high threat areas such as New York City through the Department of 
Homeland Security's Office of Domestic Preparedness. This amendment is 
paid for by the nonreconciliation part of the tax cut.
  In addition, we are still not adequately funding homeland security 
directly where it needs to go to the people on the front lines in our 
cities. Just because we now have new terrorist threats does not mean we 
can let our guard down when it comes to drug dealers, violent crimes, 
the kinds of things that we have successfully dealt with over the last 
decade.
  I ask my colleagues to cast this vote for our police officers, our 
firefighters, and our emergency responders.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The time of the Senator has expired.
  Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. President, the resolution already provides $2.1 
billion for a variety of local law enforcement grant programs, as well 
as an additional $500 million at the Department of Homeland Security 
specifically for grant programs to local law enforcement entities.
  Under an arrangement at the Department, Governor Ridge has made clear 
that discretionary funds going to the States are passed through to 
local governments and localities.
  One thing the Senator did not point out was if this amendment is 
adopted, it is going to increase taxes by $9 billion over the period 
from 2003 to 2007. It will also increase the spending caps.
  This resolution we have before us already provides for funding for 
the strategy for making our homeland

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safer and our people more secure. I urge Senators to vote against this 
amendment.
  Mrs. CLINTON. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The question is on agreeing to amendment No. 418.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Miller) is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Voinovich). Are there any other Senators 
in the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 49, nays 50, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 92 Leg.]

                                YEAS--49

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Clinton
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Daschle
     Dayton
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Graham (FL)
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Wyden

                                NAYS--50

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     Dole
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham (SC)
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Voinovich
     Warner

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Miller
       
  The amendment (No. 418) was rejected.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. CONRAD. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from North Dakota.
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I yield to the Senator from Louisiana, Mr. 
Breaux.


                           Amendment No. 420

  Mr. BREAUX. Mr. President, I send an amendment to the desk and ask 
that it be reported.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Louisiana [Mr. Breaux] proposes an 
     amendment numbered 420.

  Mr. BREAUX. I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment 
be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

 (Purpose: To redirect $396 billion into a reserve fund to strengthen 
          the Social Security trust funds over the long term)

       On page 3, line 9, increase the amount by $10,433,000,000.
       On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $33,015,000,000.
       On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $27,962,000,000.
       On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $22,167,000,000.
       On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by $16,893,000,000.
       On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by $16,183,000,000.
       On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by $15,879,000,000.
       On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by $15,992,000,000.
       On page 3, line 17, increase the amount by $52,874,000,000.
       On page 3, line 18, increase the amount by $79,512,000,000.
       On page 3, line 19, increase the amount by $105,090,000.
       On page 3, line 23, increase the amount by $10,433,000,000.
       On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by $33,015,000,000.
       On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by $27,962,000,000.
       On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by $22,167,000,000.
       On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by $16,893,000,000.
       On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by $16,183,000,000.
       On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by $15,879,000,000.
       On page 4, line 7, increase the amount by $15,992,000,000.
       On page 4, line 8, increase the amount by $52,874,000,000.
       On page 4, line 9, increase the amount by $79,512,000,000.
       On page 4, line 10, increase the amount by 
     $105,090,000,000.
       On page 4, line 14, decrease the amount by $77,000,000.
       On page 4, line 15, decrease the amount by $899,000,000.
       On page 4, line 16, decrease the amount by $2,687,000,000.
       On page 4, line 17, decrease the amount by $4,364,000,000.
       On page 4, line 18, decrease the amount by $5,762,000,000.
       On page 4, line 19, decrease the amount by $7,003,000,000.
       On page 4, line 20, decrease the amount by $8,294,000,000.
       On page 4, line 21, decrease the amount by $9,640,000,000.
       On page 4, line 22, decrease the amount by $12,035,000,000.
       On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by $16,276,000,000.
       On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by $22,175,000,000.
       On page 5, line 4, decrease the amount by $77,000,000.
       On page 5, line 5, decrease the amount by $899,000,000.
       On page 5, line 6, decrease the amount by $2,687,000,000.
       On page 5, line 7, decrease the amount by $4,364,000,000.
       On page 5, line 8, decrease the amount by $5,762,000,000.
       On page 5, line 9, decrease the amount by $7,003,000,000.
       On page 5, line 10, decrease the amount by $8,294,000,000.
       On page 5, line 11, decrease the amount by $9,640,000,000.
       On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by $12,035,000,000.
       On page 5, line 13, decrease the amount by $16,276,000,000.
       On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by $22,175,000,000.
       On page 5, line 17, increase the amount by $10,511,000,000.
       On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by $33,914,000,000.
       On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by $30,648,000,000.
       On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by $26,532,000,000.
       On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by $22,654,000,000.
       On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by $23,186,000,000.
       On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by $24,173,000,000.
       On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by $25,632,000,000.
       On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by $64,909,000,000.
       On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by $95,788,000,000.
       On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by $127,265,000,000.
       On page 6, line 5, decrease the amount by $10,511,000,000.
       On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by $44,425,000,000.
       On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by $75,073,000,000.
       On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by $101,605,000,000.
       On page 6, line 9, decrease the amount by $124,259,000,000.
       On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by 
     $147,445,000,000.
       On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by 
     $171,619,000,000.
       On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by 
     $197,250,000,000.
       On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by 
     $262,159,000,000.
       On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by 
     $357,947,000,000.
       On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by 
     $485,217,000,000.
       On page 6, line 18, decrease the amount by $10,511,000,000.
       On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by $44,425,000,000.
       On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by $75,073,000,000.
       On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by 
     $101,605,000,000.
       On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by 
     $124,259,000,000.
       On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by 
     $147,445,000,000.
       On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by 
     $171,619,000,000.
       On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by 
     $197,250,000,000.
       On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by $262,159,000,000.
       On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by $357,947,000,000.
       On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by $685,217,000,000.
       On page 40, line 2, decrease the amount by $77,000,000.
       On page 40, line 3, decrease the amount by $77,000,000.
       On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by $899,000,000.
       On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by $899,000,000.
       On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by $2,687,000,000.
       On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by $2,687,000,000.
       On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by $4,364,000,000.
       On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by $4,364,000,000.

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       On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by $5,762,000,000.
       On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by $5,762,000,000.
       On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by $7,003,000,000.
       On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by $7,003,000,000.
       On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by $8,294,000,000.
       On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by $8,294,000,000.
       On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by $9,640,000,000.
       On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by $8,640,000,000.
       On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by 
     $12,035,000,000.
       On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by 
     $12,035,000,000.
       On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by 
     $16,276,000,000.
       On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by 
     $16,276,000,000.
       On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by 
     $22,175,000,000.
       On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by 
     $22,175,000,000.
       On page 45, line 24, strike the amount and insert 
     $322,524,000,000.

     SEC.   . RESERVE FUND TO STRENGTHEN SOCIAL SECURITY.

       If legislation is reported by the Senate Committee on 
     Finance, or an amendment thereto is offered or a conference 
     report thereon is submitted that would extend the solvency of 
     the Social Security Trust Funds, the Chairman of the Senate 
     Committee on the Budget may revise the aggregates, functional 
     totals, allocations, and other appropriate levels and limits 
     in this resolution by up to $396,000,000,000 in budget 
     authority and outlays for the total of fiscal years 2003 and 
     through 2013.

  Mr. BREAUX. Mr. President, cutting taxes when you have a $5.6 
trillion surplus in the Treasury is one thing. Cutting taxes by $1.3 
trillion--which is where we are right now--when you do not have a 
surplus but in fact you have a $300 billion deficit, and, added to 
that, we are at war and we don't know how much it is going to cost, is 
not good public policy.
  The amendment at the desk reduces the reconciled tax cut to $350 
billion. It takes $120 billion of the tax cut outside of reconciliation 
and creates a Social Security reserve account. That Social Security 
reserve account will be for reforming Social Security. If we don't get 
around to doing it, the money will go to reduce the deficit. This 
amendment has a $350 billion tax cut which is protected by budget 
reconciliation. The remaining funds will be used for a Social Security 
reserve fund.
  This amendment is an amendment that was previously considered by the 
Budget Committee, which did not pass it, and we are offering it on the 
floor now.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, this is an amendment on which we voted on 
Friday. The amendment was defeated 62 to 38. Maybe it is another reason 
we should have finished the entire bill on Friday, the initial bill.
  I urge my colleagues to vote no on this amendment. I have a couple of 
comments about it.
  The thing that is different about it, that now there is a Social 
Security reserve fund, that is bogus. There is no money going into the 
Social Security reserve fund because on the other hand they say the 
money goes toward deficit reduction. It can't go into both.
  This amendment would cut the growth package in half. It would cut the 
growth out of the growth package. We need to be growing our economy. 
Our economy is really going through a difficult time. The President has 
a package that will help create jobs, put people to work, encourage 
investment, and encourage real growth in our economy. We need that. I 
am afraid if we pass this amendment, we will just be cutting it in half 
and end up with a package that is $323 billion of tax cuts over a total 
of $28 trillion over that 10-year period of time.
  I urge my colleagues to vote no on the amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to amendment No. 
420.
  Mr. BREAUX. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Miller) is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 51, nays 48, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 93 Leg.]

                                YEAS--51

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Chafee
     Clinton
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Daschle
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Graham (FL)
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Snowe
     Stabenow
     Voinovich
     Wyden

                                NAYS--48

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Campbell
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham (SC)
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Warner

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Miller
       
  The amendment (No. 420) was agreed to.
  Mr. INOUYE. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. NICKLES. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.


                           Amendment No. 413

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I believe the Senator from Kentucky has 
the next amendment.
  Mr. BUNNING. Mr. President, I call up amendment No. 413.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. Bunning] proposes an 
     amendment numbered 413.

  Mr. BUNNING. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that reading of 
the amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  (The amendment is printed in today's Record under ``Text of 
Amendments.'')
  Mr. BUNNING. Mr. President, this amendment is a much needed 
amendment. It repeals the Clinton tax increase on Social Security 
benefits that passed by one vote in 1993. Before 1993, seniors were 
taxed on 50 percent of their Social Security benefits if their incomes 
were above $25,000 for individuals and $32,000 for couples. After the 
increase, individuals who made over $34,000 and couples who made over 
$44,000 paid taxes on 85 percent of their Social Security income.
  These figures have not been adjusted for inflation for the past 10 
years. The tax hike was unfair in 1993. It is unfair today. On the one 
hand, we tell the seniors to plan and save for retirement. On the other 
hand, we tax them for doing just that. That doesn't make any sense. We 
ought to repeal this tax. Some of us have been trying to undo this 
mistake for 10 years. The amendment would allow the Finance Committee 
to finally finish the job. I urge support for the amendment to end this 
unfair tax on seniors and their Social Security benefits.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Who yields time? The Senator from North 
Dakota.
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, let us be clear, the budget resolution 
does not make the determination for the Finance Committee on how this 
additional tax cut will be used. This amendment is very simple. It 
increases the tax cut by $146 billion. It does absolutely nothing about 
the Social Security tax--nothing--because a budget resolution does not 
make the specific determination. All we decide is what the instruction 
is to the Finance Committee for raising money and the Appropriations 
Committee to spend money. So this has absolutely nothing to do with the 
Social Security tax. The only effect of this amendment is to raise the 
tax cut $146 billion to over $1 trillion, all of it borrowed, every 
penny.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays on the 
amendment.

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  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The question is on agreeing to amendment No. 413. The clerk will call 
the roll.
  The senior assistant bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Miller) is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 48, nays 51, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 94 Leg.]

                                YEAS--48

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Campbell
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Graham (SC)
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Warner

                                NAYS--51

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Chafee
     Clinton
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Daschle
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Frist
     Graham (FL)
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Voinovich
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Miller
       
  The amendment (No. 413) was rejected.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I enter a motion to reconsider the last 
vote.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion is entered.
  The Senator from North Dakota.
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, a number of times it has been indicated 
that the various amendments have been to increase taxes. Let us just be 
clear that all the amendments heretofore have been to reduce the tax 
cut, not to increase taxes.
  I now yield time to the Senator from Delaware, Mr. Carper.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Delaware.


                           Amendment No. 330

  Mr. CARPER. Mr. President, amendment No. 330 is at the desk, and I 
ask for its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The senior assistant bill clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Delaware [Mr. Carper], for himself, Mr. 
     Chafee, and Mrs. Feinstein, proposes an amendment numbered 
     330.

  Mr. CARPER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the reading 
of the amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  (The amendment is printed in the Record of Thursday, March 20, 2003, 
under ``Text of Amendments.'')
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Delaware.
  Mr. CARPER. Mr. President, I offer this amendment on behalf of 
Senator Chafee, Senator Feinstein, and myself, and I thank Senator 
Landrieu and Senator Lincoln for joining us as cosponsors.
  Mr. President, if my colleagues are looking for a balanced approach 
to balancing the budget by 2009, this is it. If my colleagues are 
looking for tax cuts that would be effective immediately, this 
amendment does that.
  This amendment takes the 10 and 20 percent bracket cuts and makes 
them effective immediately. The estate tax exclusion is set permanently 
at $6 million per family. We grow the child credit. We eliminate the 
marriage penalty. We allow small business to expense their equipment 
purchasing at $75,000 for this year and for next. We pay for that by 
deferring further cuts in the 35 and 38.5 percent rate until we balance 
the budget.
  We also work on the spending side. We adopt the committee's increased 
defense numbers. We use about an $80 billion offset with the 
President's numbers to actually add to domestic discretionary spending. 
We put back in place controls that have been allowed to lapse: Pay-go 
controls and reinstatement controls. It is a good, balanced approach. 
We would appreciate your support.
  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, while I oppose the level and distribution 
of funding in this amendment, it is no worse than what is in the 
current budget resolution, and it proposes a tax cut plan which is 
superior to the one before us. While it is a better alternative if it 
is substituted for the resolution before us, I would vote against it on 
final passage because it still underfunds too many of our nation's 
priorities.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator's time has expired. The Senator 
from Oklahoma.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I yield our time to the Senator from 
South Carolina.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from South Carolina.
  Mr. GRAHAM of South Carolina. Mr. President, I ask my colleagues to 
oppose this amendment. This is basically the Blue Dog budget in the 
House. The net impact: Versus our budget, there would be an increase of 
$1.25 trillion over the next 10 years. The growth package goes to $50 
billion. Here is the net effect. We are going to take $27.8 trillion 
from the American taxpayers over the next 10 years to run this 
Government. Mr. President, $50 billion represents .18 percent, less 
than two-tenths of one penny; $323 billion is about one penny on the 
dollar. Surely to goodness this body can afford to give 1 cent on a 
dollar, 2 cents on a dollar, maybe .18 of a penny on a dollar back to 
the American taxpayer. Do we have to keep all the $27.8 trillion?
  On top of that, our friends on the other side want to add $990 
billion today. People are crying uncle. They need a little bit of help. 
We are not helping very much. I ask my colleagues to oppose this 
amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Time has expired. The question is on agreeing 
to amendment No. 330.
  Mr. CONRAD. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Miller) is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Crapo). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 42, nays 57, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 95 Leg.]

                                YEAS--42

     Akaka
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Chafee
     Clinton
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Daschle
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Graham (FL)
     Harkin
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Pryor
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Wyden

                                NAYS--57

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Bennett
     Bond
     Breaux
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham (SC)
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hollings
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nelson (NE)
     Nickles
     Reed
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Voinovich
     Warner

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Miller
       
  The amendment (No. 330) was rejected.


                           Amendment No. 422

  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I believe we are ready to consider and we 
will accept the amendment of the Senator from Wisconsin.
  Mr. REID. I yield to the Senator from Wisconsin.
  Mr. FEINGOLD. On behalf of myself, Senator Chafee, and Senator 
Carper, I send an amendment to the desk and ask for its immediate 
consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.

[[Page S4358]]

  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Wisconsin [Mr. Feingold], for himself, Mr. 
     Chafee, and Mr. Carper, proposes an amendment numbered 422.

  The amendment is as follows:

           (Purpose: To extend the pay-as-you-go requirement)

       On page 57, lines 3 through 5, strike ``as adjusted for any 
     changes in revenues or direct spending assumed by such 
     resolution'' and insert ``based on laws enacted on the date 
     of adoption of that resolution as adjusted for up to $350 
     billion in revenues or direct spending assumed by section 104 
     of this resolution''.
  Mr. FEINGOLD. This is the pay-as-you-go amendment. We extend the pay-
as-you-go system that has been in place since 1990 as adjusted for the 
reconciled levels just adopted in the Breaux amendment. This amendment 
says tax cuts or entitlement spending increases, if they are beyond the 
$350 billion for which the Senate just voted, do have to be deficit 
neutral.
  This is a system that has worked well since 1990. It has helped keep 
deficits in check. It was suspended in times of surplus, and we got 
ourselves into the current deficit jam. The budget resolution before 
the Senate, however, creates a giant exception to pay-as-you-go for 
everything the budget assumes. Basically, it says pay-as-you-go, but 
for the first $900 billion they are free, they are on the house.
  They are not free. We should not take money from Social Security 
revenues. We should not just bill our children's generation, robbing 
them of their choices. We need to return to the ethic that we will pay 
for what we get.
  I urge my colleagues to support the amendment. I thank the Senator 
from Oklahoma for his willingness to accept the amendment.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, there are bound to be a few people in 
this body, and probably fewer in the country, who understand pay-go. I 
compliment my colleague from Wisconsin. I am not sure the amendment is 
perfect, but I will work with him and others. I have no objection to 
the amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the amendment.
  The amendment (No. 422) was agreed to.


                           Amendment No. 421

(Purpose: To increase funding to implement the No Child Left Behind Act 
                                in 2004)

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, the Senator from North Dakota, Mr. Conrad, 
authorized me to yield to the Senator from Washington, Mrs. Murray, for 
the next amendment.
  Mrs. MURRAY. Mr. President, I call up amendment No. 421 and ask for 
its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Washington [Mrs. Murray], for herself, Mr. 
     Kennedy, and Mr. Harkin, proposes an amendment numbered 421.

  (The amendment is printed in today's Record under ``Text of 
Amendments.'')
  Mrs. MURRAY. The amendment before the Senate stops at the No Child 
Left Behind Act. It is an issue this Senate supports, the House and 
Senate supported, and the President signed it into law, putting in new 
accountability measures for all public schools. There were two promises 
in that bill: One that would require accountability for our students; 
second, that we will pay for the resources so they can meet the 
standards we had set.
  The amendment before the Senate puts $2 billion from the tax cut into 
the No Child Left Behind Act so we can begin to follow up on the 
promise made by Senators in this body to the children in our country. 
This is an extremely important amendment as many of our States are 
suffering from very difficult budget crises. We cannot put on them 
another unfunded mandate under the guise of No Child Left Behind. This 
amendment makes sure we provide some of the resources that we required 
when we passed that bill a year and a half ago. I ask for all of our 
colleagues to support it.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, we have accepted a lot of education 
amendments. I believe now, after consulting with Senator Gregg, 
chairman of the committee, we will even be beyond the education level 
as proposed by Senator Conrad in last year's budget for 2004.
  We have no objection to this amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the amendment.
  The amendment (No. 421) was agreed to.
  Mr. REID. I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. NICKLES. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.


                           Amendment No. 395

  Mr. REID. On behalf of Senator Conrad, I yield to Senator Dorgan for 
amendment No. 395.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Senator Dorgan is recognized.
  Mr. DORGAN. I send an amendment to the desk for myself, Mr. 
Brownback, Mr. Hagel, and Mr. Johnson, and ask for its immediate 
consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The senior assistant bill clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from North Dakota [Mr. Dorgan] for himself, Mr. 
     Brownback, Mr. Hagel, and Mr. Johnson, proposes an amendment 
     numbered 395.

  Mr. DORGAN. I ask unanimous consent the reading of the amendment be 
dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

  (Purpose: To increase budget authority and outlays in Function 450 
   (Community and Regional Development) and Function 500 (Education, 
Training, Employment, and Social Security) to establish a New Homestead 
  Venture Capital Fund to make equity and near equity investments in 
 start-up and expanding businesses located in high out-migration rural 
 counties and to repay up to 50% of college loans (up to $10,000) for 
  recent graduates who live and work in such counties for five years, 
respectively; and to express the sense of the Senate that any economic 
  stimulus or other revenue measure passed by Congress in the future 
   should include tax incentives designed to address the devastating 
 problem of chronic out-migration from rural communities in America's 
                               Heartland)

       On page 23, line 19, increase the amount by $260,000,000.
       On page 23, line 20, increase the amount by $18,000,000.
       On page 23, line 23, increase the amount by $260,000,000.
       On page 23, line 24, increase the amount by $299,000,000.
       On page 24, line 2, increase the amount by $260,000,000.
       On page 24, line 3, increase the amount by $242,000,000.
       On page 24, line 6, increase the amount by $260,000,000.
       On page 24, line 7, increase the amount by $257,000,000.
       On page 24, line 10, increase the amount by $260,000,000.
       On page 24, line 11, increase the amount by $260,000,000.
       On page 24, line 14, increase the amount by $260,000,000.
       On page 24, line 15, increase the amount by $260,000,000.
       On page 24, line 18, increase the amount by $260,000,000.
       On page 24, line 19, increase the amount by $260,000,000.
       On page 24, line 22, increase the amount by $260,000,000.
       On page 24, line 23, increase the amount by $260,000,000.
       On page 25, line 2, increase the amount by $260,000,000.
       On page 25, line 3, increase the amount by $260,000,000.
       On page 25, line 6, increase the amount by $260,000,000.
       On page 25, line 7, increase the amount by $260,000,000.
       On page 25, line 16, increase the amount by $660,000,000.
       On page 25, line 17, increase the amount by $561,000,000.
       On page 25, line 20, increase the amount by $60,000,000.
       On page 25, line 21, increase the amount by $150,000,000.
       On page 25, line 24, increase the amount by $60,000,000.
       On page 25, line 25, increase the amount by $60,000,000.
       On page 26, line 3, increase the amount by $60,000,000.
       On page 26, line 4, increase the amount by $60,000,000.
       On page 26, line 7, increase the amount by $60,000,000.
       On page 26, line 8, increase the amount by $60,000,000.
       On page 26, line 11, increase the amount by $60,000,000.
       On page 26, line 12, increase the amount by $60,000,000.
       On page 26, line 16, increase the amount by $60,000,000.
       On page 26, line 16, increase the amount by $60,000,000.

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       On page 26, line 19, increase the amount by $60,000,000.
       On page 26, line 20, increase the amount by $60,000,000.
       On page 26, line 23, increase the amount by $60,000,000.
       On page 26, line 24, increase the amount by $60,000,000.
       On page 27, line 2, increase the amount by $60,000,000.
       On page 27, line 3, increase the amount by $60,000,000.
       On page 42, line 2, decrease the amount by $920,000,000.
       On page 42, line 3, decrease the amount by $579,000,000.
       On page 42, line 6, decrease the amount by $320,000,000.
       On page 42, line 7, decrease the amount by $449,000,000.
       On page 42, line 10, decrease the amount by $320,000,000.
       On page 42, line 11, decrease the amount by $302,000,000.
       On page 42, line 14, decrease the amount by $320,000,000.
       On page 42, line 15, decrease the amount by $317,000,000.
       On page 42, line 18, decrease the amount by $320,000,000.
       On page 42, line 19, decrease the amount by $320,000,000.
       On page 42, line 22, decrease the amount by $320,000,000.
       On page 42, line 23, decrease the amount by $320,000,000.
       On page 43, line 2, decrease the amount by $320,000,000.
       On page 43, line 3, decrease the amount by $320,000,000.
       On page 43, line 6, decrease the amount by $320,000,000.
       On page 43, line 7, decrease the amount by $320,000,000.
       On page 43, line 10, decrease the amount by $320,000,000.
       On page 43, line 11, decrease the amount by $320,000,000.
       On page 43, line 14, decrease the amount by $320,000,000.
       On page 43, line 15, decrease the amount by $320,000,000.
       On page 79, after line 22, insert the following:

     SEC.   . SENSE OF THE SENATE ON PROVIDING TAX AND OTHER 
                   INCENTIVES TO REVITALIZE RURAL AMERICA.

       It is the Sense of the Senate that if tax relief measures 
     are passed in accordance with the assumptions in the budget 
     resolution in this session of Congress, such legislation 
     should include tax and other financial incentives, like those 
     included in the New Homestead Act (S. 602), to help rural 
     communities fight the economic decimation caused by chronic 
     out-migration by giving them the tools they need to attract 
     individuals to live and work, or to start and grow a 
     business, in such rural areas.

  Mr. DORGAN. My understanding is this amendment has been accepted on 
both sides. On behalf of Senator Brownback, myself, Senator Hagel, 
Senator Johnson, and others, we are offering an amendment that deals 
with the issue of outmigration in the heartland of our country and 
provides incentives to provide tools to those involved in economic 
development to try to stem the outmigration. This is an important 
amendment. I believe it is bipartisan. I appreciate the work of both 
the chairman and ranking member of the Budget Committee to accept this 
amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I am thankful for the cooperation of our 
colleague from North Dakota. Also I wish to acknowledge the hard work 
of Senator Brownback. He has been talking to me about this amendment 
for a long time. We are happy to accept the amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time has been yielded back. The question 
is on agreeing to the amendment.
  The amendment (No. 395) was agreed to.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. NICKLES. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, on behalf of Senator Conrad, I yield to the 
Senator from New Jersey, Mr. Corzine.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Jersey.


                           Amendment No. 423

  Mr. CORZINE. Mr. President, I send an amendment to the desk and ask 
for its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the amendment.
  The senior assistant bill clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from New Jersey [Mr. Corzine], for himself, Mr. 
     Kerry, Mr. Lautenberg, Mrs. Murray, Mrs. Clinton, Mr. 
     Jeffords, Mrs. Boxer, and Mr. Sarbanes, proposes an amendment 
     numbered 423.

  Mr. CORZINE. I ask unanimous consent the reading of the amendment be 
dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

(Purpose: To provide increased funding for environmental protection and 
                    natural resources conservation)

       On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $378,000,000.
       On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $660,000,000.
       On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $896,000,000.
       On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by $1,139,000,000.
       On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by $1,173,000,000.
       On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by $1,208,000,000.
       On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by $1,245,000,000.
       On page 3, line 17, increase the amount by $1,282,000,000.
       On page 3, line 18, increase the amount by $1,320,000,000.
       On page 3, line 19, increase the amount by $1,360,000,000.
       On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by $378,000,000.
       On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by $660,000,000.
       On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by $896,000,000.
       On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by $1,139,000,000.
       On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by $1,173,000,000.
       On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by $1,208,000,000.
       On page 4, line 7, increase the amount by $1,245,000,000.
       On page 4, line 8, increase the amount by $1,282,000,000.
       On page 4, line 9, increase the amount by $1,320,000,000.
       On page 4, line 10, increase the amount by $1,360,000,000.
       On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by $1,081,000,000.
       On page 4, line 16, increase the amount by $1,113,000,000.
       On page 4, line 17, increase the amount by $1,147,000,000.
       On page 4, line 18, increase the amount by $1,181,000,000.
       On page 4, line 19, increase the amount by $1,217,000,000.
       On page 4, line 20, increase the amount by $1,253,000,000.
       On page 4, line 21, increase the amount by $1,291,000,000.
       On page 4, line 22, increase the amount by $1,329,000,000.
       On page 4, line 23, increase the amount by $1,369,000,000.
       On page 4, line 24, increase the amount by $1,410,000,000.
       On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by $378,000,000.
       On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by $660,000,000.
       On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by $896,000,000.
       On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by $1,139,000,000.
       On page 5, line 9, increase the amount by $1,173,000,000.
       On page 5, line 10, increase the amount by $1,208,000,000.
       On page 5, line 11, increase the amount by $1,245,000,000.
       On page 5, line 12, increase the amount by $1,282,000,000.
       On page 5, line 13, increase the amount by $1,320,000,000.
       On page 5, line 14, increase the amount by $1,360,000,000.
       On page 16, line 11, increase the amount by $1,081,000,000.
       On page 16, line 12, increase the amount by $378,000,000.
       On page 16, line 15, increase the amount by $1,113,000,000.
       On page 16, line 16, increase the amount by $660,000,000.
       On page 16, line 19, increase the amount by $1,147,000,000.
       On page 16, line 20, increase the amount by $896,000,000.
       On page 16, line 23, increase the amount by $1,181,000,000.
       On page 16, line 24, increase the amount by $1.139,000,000.
       On page 17, line 2, increase the amount by $1,217,000,000.
       On page 17, line 3, increase the amount by $1,173000,000.
       On page 17, line 6, increase the amount by $1,253,000,000.
       On page 17, line 7, increase the amount by $1,208,000,000.
       On page 17, line 10, increase the amount by $1,291,000,000.
       On page 17, line 11, increase the amount by 
     $,1,245,000,000.
       On page 17, line 14, increase the amount by $1,329,000,000.
       On page 17, line 15, increase the amount by $1,282,000,000.
       On page 17, line 18, increase the amount by $1,369,000,000.
       On page 17, line 19, increase the amount by $1,320,000,000.
       On page 17, line 22, increase the amount by $1,410,000,000.
       On page 17, line 23, increase the amount by $1,360,000,000.
       On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by $1,081,000,000.

[[Page S4360]]

       On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by $378,000,000.
       On page 47, line 14, increase the amount by $1,113,000,000.
       On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by $660,000,000.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Jersey.
  Mr. CORZINE. This amendment which I offer today with Senators Kerry, 
Jeffords, Murray, Lautenberg, Clinton, Boxer, and Sarbanes, increases 
funding for environmental protection and natural resource conservation. 
Cleanup of brownfields, Superfund sites, MTBE, contaminated water 
supplies are a national and a bipartisan objective. These environmental 
challenges to public health stand as roadblocks to economic development 
and economic renewal across America. Addressing these issues with 
efficacy requires a constancy of purpose and funding. The amendment 
does just that.
  In addition, this amendment provides resources to fund parks, open 
space acquisition, wildlife habitat, and beach conservation. These 
should not be shortchanged. They are investments in the future of 
America, not just for today's generation but future generations. 
Funding for the amendment adds $1.1 billion in fiscal year 2004 and the 
same amount in future years adjusted for inflation. The funding is 
offset by a corresponding reduction in the nonreconciled tax cut.
  I ask for the support of my colleagues to be sure we protect our 
environment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, in debate last Friday we agreed to the 
amendment of Senators Crapo and Sarbanes which added $3.5 billion. I 
think that would be more than adequate. We are way over the President's 
budget, considering that amendment.
  I yield to my colleague from Oklahoma.
  Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, our brownfield legislation was very 
successful. Nothing is adequately funded, but this comes very close to 
being adequately funded. We put out an amendment to include the 
petroleum sites which doubles the scope of the brownfields program.
  As chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, I do not 
believe it is necessary to have this additional amount of money. I ask 
you to defeat the amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time is yielded back. The question is on 
agreeing to amendment No. 423.
  Mr. CORZINE. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Miller), is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 47, nays 52, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 96 Leg.]

                                YEAS--47

     Akaka
     Bayh
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Chafee
     Clinton
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Daschle
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Graham (FL)
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Wyden

                                NAYS--52

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Baucus
     Bennett
     Bond
     Breaux
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Campbell
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham (SC)
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Voinovich
     Warner

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Miller
       
  The amendment (No. 423) was rejected.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. BURNS. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.


                           Amendment No. 357

  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I believe the Senator from Massachusetts 
has an amendment. We are prepared to accept the amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Massachusetts.
  Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, I call up amendment No. 357 on behalf of 
myself, Senators Bingaman, Johnson, and others.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. Kennedy] proposes an 
     amendment numbered 357.

  Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that reading of 
the amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

  (Purpose: To increase the funds provided to expand coverage for the 
    uninsured from the $50 billion currently included inthe budget 
resolution to the $88 billion recommended in the President's budget and 
  offset the cost by reducing the unreconciled portion of the tax cut)

       On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 3, line 17, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 4, line 7, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 4, line 8, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 4, line 16, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 4, line 17, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 4, line 18, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 4, line 19, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 4, line 20, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 4, line 21, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 4, line 22, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 5, line 9, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 5, line 10, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 5, line 11, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 5, line 12, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 27, line 11, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 27, line 12, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 27, line 15, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 27, line 16, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 27, line 19, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 27, line 20, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 27, line 23, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 27, line 24, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 28, line 2, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 28, line 3, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 28, line 6, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 28, line 7, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 28, line 10, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 28, line 11, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.

[[Page S4361]]

       On page 28, line 14, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 28, line 15, increase the amount by $4,750,000,000.
       On page 62, line 12, increase the amount by 
     $38,000,000,000.

  Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, outside of the education of children, 
American families are most concerned about whether they have health 
insurance coverage. President Bush, in his budget, requested of the 
Congress some $89 billion. In the budget before us now, it has only $50 
billion. This amendment brings the budget up to what President Bush had 
asked for. It makes no judgment about the form of any health insurance 
program. I am hopeful we can put this on our agenda and respond to an 
overwhelming concern of American families. This would provide an 
important downpayment to make sure we had some resources to begin that 
process.
  I appreciate the fact that the chairman of the Budget Committee is 
willing to accept it.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, we are very grateful to the Senator from 
Massachusetts for bringing this to our attention. We are supportive of 
the President and his budget. I know it has happened time and time 
again, and we welcome his support. We have no objection to the 
amendment.
  Mr. KENNEDY. I have a couple of others.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the amendment.
  The amendment (No. 357) was agreed to.


                           Amendment No. 408

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from North Dakota.
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I yield to the Senator from New Jersey, 
Mr. Lautenberg.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Jersey.
  Mr. LAUTENBERG. Mr. President, I call up amendment No. 408 and ask 
for its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the amendment.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from New Jersey [Mr. Lautenbert], for himself, 
     Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Corzine, Mr. Reed, Mr. Sarbanes, and Mrs. 
     Murray and others, proposed an amendment numbered 408.

  Mr. LAUTENBERG. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that reading 
of the amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

   (Purpose: To require polluters to pay for clean up of toxic waste 
          sites, by reinstating the original superfund taxes)

       On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $1,081,000,000.
       On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $1,349,000,000.
       On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $1,443,000,000.
       On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by $1,505,000,000.
       On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by $1,568,000,000.
       On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by $1,620,000,000.
       On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by $1,667,000,000.
       On page 3, line 17, increase the amount by $1,721,000,000.
       On page 3, line 18, increase the amount by $1,777,000,000.
       On page 3, line 19, increase the amount by $1,833,000,000.
       On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by $1,081,000,000.
       On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by $1,349,000,000.
       On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by $1,443,000,000.
       On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by $1,505,000,000.
       On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by $1,568,000,000.
       On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by $1,620,000,000.
       On page 4, line 7, increase the amount by $1,667,000,000.
       On page 4, line 8, increase the amount by $1,721,000,000.
       On page 4, line 9, increase the amount by $1,777,000,000.
       On page 4, line 10, increase the amount by $1,833,000,000.
       On page 4, line 15, decrease the amount by $20,000,000.
       On page 4, line 16, decrease the amount by $84,000,000.
       On page 4, line 17, decrease the amount by $168,000,000.
       On page 4, line 18, decrease the amount by $260,000,000.
       On page 4, line 19, decrease the amount by $358,000,000.
       On page 4, line 20, decrease the amount by $465,000,000.
       On page 4, line 21, decrease the amount by $581,000,000.
       On page 4, line 22, decrease the amount by $704,000,000.
       On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by $837,000,000.
       On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by $980,000,000.
       On page 5, line 5, decrease the amount by $20,000,000.
       On page 5, line 6, decrease the amount by $84,000,000.
       On page 5, line 7, decrease the amount by $168,000,000.
       On page 5, line 8, decrease the amount by $260,000,000.
       On page 5, line 9, decrease the amount by $358,000,000.
       On page 5, line 10, decrease the amount by $465,000,000.
       On page 5, line 11, decrease the amount by $581,000,000.
       On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by $704,000,000.
       On page 5, line 13, decrease the amount by $837,000,000.
       On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by $980,000,000.
       On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by $1,101,000,000.
       On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by $1,433,000,000.
       On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by $1,611,000,000.
       On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by $1,765,000,000.
       On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by $1,926,000,000.
       On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by $2,085,000,000.
       On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by $2,248,000,000.
       On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by $2,425,000,000.
       On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by $2,614,000,000.
       On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by $2,813,000,000.
       On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by $1,101,000,000.
       On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by $2,534,000,000.
       On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by $4,145,000,000.
       On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by $5,910,000,000.
       On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by $7,836,000,000.
       On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by $9,921,000,000.
       On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by $12,169,000,000.
       On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by $14,594,000,000.
       On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by $17,208,000,000.
       On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by $20,022,000,000.
       On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by $1,101,000,000.
       On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by $2,534,000,000.
       On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by $4,145,000,000.
       On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by $5,910,000,000.
       On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by $7,836,000,000.
       On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by $9,921,000,000.
       On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by $12,169,000,000.
       On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by $14,594,000,000.
       On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by $17,208,000,000.
       On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by $20,022,000,000.
       On page 40, line 6, decrease the amount by $20,000,000.
       On page 40, line 7, decrease the amount by $20,000,000.
       On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by $84,000,000.
       On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by $84,000,000.
       On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by $168,000,000.
       On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by $168,000,000.
       On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by $260,000,000.
       On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by $260,000,000.
       On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by $358,000,000.
       On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by $358,000,000.
       On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by $465,000,000.
       On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by $465,000,000.
       On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by $581,000,000.
       On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by $581,000,000.
       On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by $704,000,000.
       On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by $704,000,000.
       On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by $837,000,000.
       On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by $837,000,000.
       On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by $980,000,000.
       On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by $980,000,000.
  Mr. LAUTENBERG. Mr. President, I offer this amendment for myself, 
Senators Boxer, Corzine, Chafee, Reed, Sarbanes, and Murray.

[[Page S4362]]

  In short, if we believe that polluters should pay for the 
contamination they cause, everybody ought to vote for this amendment. 
It will restate the original taxes created to support the Superfund 
trust fund as well as two additional taxes signed into law by President 
Ronald Reagan in 1986. It also increases the total Federal revenues by 
at least $15 billion over 10 years and will reduce the deficit 
accordingly.
  Without the tax, the general fund will have to contribute $1.5 
billion to continue the Superfund Program. We cannot afford that. But 
we cannot abandon Superfund either.
  I urge my colleagues to vote for the polluter-pays approach.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Who yields time?
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I yield to my colleague from Oklahoma.
  Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, of all the amendments we have been talking 
about, this probably is the broadest tax increase of any of them. This 
is a tax increase on every business regardless of what business they 
are in, if their income tax shows $2 million or more. It has nothing to 
do with polluters. It also has a tax increase of 9.7 percent per barrel 
in excise oil and somewhere between 50 cents and $10 a ton in 
feedstocks. Right now we are getting the highest amount of cleanups and 
yet we have the lowest amount in the fund. It is really not needed now. 
This is not polluters pay. This is not a tax on polluters. This is a 
tax on people who do not pollute. The responsible parties are being 
held liable today.
  We had a hearing on it in our Environment and Public Works Committee. 
They are all being held responsible. They are cleaning up the 
pollution. I urge a ``no'' vote on this tax increase proposal of 
Senator Lautenberg.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time on the amendment has expired. The 
question is on agreeing to amendment No. 408.
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the 
roll.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Miller), is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 43, nays 56, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 97 Leg.]

                                YEAS--43

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Biden
     Boxer
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Chafee
     Clinton
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Daschle
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Graham (FL)
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Wyden

                                NAYS--56

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Bayh
     Bennett
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Breaux
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Campbell
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham (SC)
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Lincoln
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nelson (NE)
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Voinovich
     Warner
       

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Miller
       
  The amendment (No. 408) was rejected.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Alexander). Without objection, the clerk 
will call the roll.
  The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I yield to the Senator from New York, Mrs. 
Clinton, for an amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New York.


                           Amendment No. 424

  Mrs. CLINTON. Mr. President, I call up amendment No. 424, which is at 
the desk.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The bill clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from New York [Mrs. Clinton], for herself and 
     Mr. Bingaman, proposes an amendment numbered 424.

  Mrs. CLINTON. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the reading 
of the amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:
       On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $16,000,000.
       On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $245,000,000.
       On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $315,000,000.
       On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by $338,000,000.
       On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by $345,000,000.
       On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by $351,000,000.
       On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by $359,000,000.
       On page 3, line 17, increase the amount by $369,000,000.
       On page 3, line 18, increase the amount by $379,000,000.
       On page 3, line 19, increase the amount by $386,000,000.
       On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by $16,000,000.
       On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by $245,000,000.
       On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by $315,000,000.
       On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by $338,000,000.
       On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by $345,000,000.
       On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by $351,000,000.
       On page 4, line 7, increase the amount by $359,000,000.
       On page 4, line 8, increase the amount by $369,000,000.
       On page 4, line 9, increase the amount by $379,000,000.
       On page 4, line 10, increase the amount by $386,000,000.
       On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by $326,000,000.
       On page 4, line 16, increase the amount by $333,000,000.
       On page 4, line 17, increase the amount by $340,000,000.
       On page 4, line 18, increase the amount by $346,000,000.
       On page 4, line 19, increase the amount by $352,000,000.
       On page 4, line 20, increase the amount by $361,000,000.
       On page 4, line 21, increase the amount by $371,000,000.
       On page 4, line 22, increase the amount by $382,000,000.
       On page 4, line 23, increase the amount by $387,000,000.
       On page 4, line 24, increase the amount by $405,000,000.
       On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by $16,000,000.
       On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by $245,000,000.
       On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by $315,000,000.
       On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by $338,000,000.
       On page 5, line 9, increase the amount by $345,000,000.
       On page 5, line 10, increase the amount by $351,000,000.
       On page 5, line 11, increase the amount by $359,000,000.
       On page 5, line 12, increase the amount by $369,000,000.
       On page 5, line 13, increase the amount by $379,000,000.
       On page 5, line 14, increase the amount by $386,000,000.
       On page 25, line 16, increase the amount by $326,000,000.
       On page 25, line 17, increase the amount by $16,000,000.
       On page 25, line 20, increase the amount by $333,000,000.
       On page 25, line 21, increase the amount by $245,000,000.
       On page 25, line 24, increase the amount by $340,000,000.
       On page 25, line 25, increase the amount by $315,000,000.
       On page 26, line 3, increase the amount by $346,000,000.
       On page 26, line 4, increase the amount by $338,000,000.
       On page 26, line 7, increase the amount by $352,000,000.
       On page 26, line 8, increase the amount by $345,000,000.
       On page 26, line 11, increase the amount by $361,000,000.
       On page 26, line 12, increase the amount by $351,000,000.
       On page 26, line 15, increase the amount by $371,000,000.
       On page 26, line 16, increase the amount by $359,000,000.
       On page 26, line 19, increase the amount by $382,000,000.
       On page 26, line 20, increase the amount by $369,000,000.

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       On page 26, line 23, increase the amount by $387,000,000.
       On page 26, line 24, increase the amount by $379,000,000.
       On page 27, line 2, increase the amount by $405,000,000.
       On page 27, line 3, increase the amount by $386,000,000.
       On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by $326,000,000.
       On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by $16,000,000.
       On page 47, line 14, increase the amount by $333,000,000.
       On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by $245,000,000.

  Mrs. CLINTON. Mr. President, this amendment, offered by myself and 
Senator Bingaman, will restore funding for vocational education to its 
2003 appropriations level for the next 10 years. The chairman's mark 
cuts this program by 25 percent from its 2003 level.
  We often talk about education, and many times we act as if every 
single child in this country is going to go to college and graduate 
school, and we do not pay enough attention or give due regard to those 
people who do the technical work that keeps this country going from day 
to day.
  The President has proposed a new vocational educational program which 
will place many new demands on the technical training infrastructure. 
These lofty goals deserve an adequate investment. Slashing funding by 
one-quarter will undermine the chances of our high schools and 
community colleges being able to fulfill their obligations to these 
students. Therefore, I urge my colleagues to cast this vote in favor of 
technical vocational education and to support the infrastructure in our 
high schools and community colleges.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Hampshire.
  Mr. CREGG. We are now participating in the theater of uncontrolled 
spending. We have already added to education--we are $4 billion above 
where the Democratic budget was last year. We have a spending bill 
which is presently $8 billion above the actual appropriation level for 
last year. We are at a number which is 15.3 percent over what was spent 
last year. We have added massive amounts of money into the educational 
spending accounts at a level which can only be concluded as being not 
only reasonable but maybe even beyond our capacity to get the money out 
to the school districts and the people who are involved in this area.
  To continue to add money to these educational accounts is really the 
theater of uncontrolled spending. By ``theater,'' I mean in the term of 
show because it is not substance any longer that we are dealing with; 
it is simply the purposes of show. Let's try to be fiscally responsible 
and defeat this amendment.
  Mrs. CLINTON. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The question is on agreeing to amendment No. 424. The clerk will call 
the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Miller) is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 49, nays 50, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 98 Leg.]

                                YEAS--49

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Clinton
     Collins
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Daschle
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Graham (FL)
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Wyden

                                NAYS--50

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham (SC)
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Voinovich
     Warner
       

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Miller
       
  The amendment (No. 424) was rejected.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. GREGG. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  Mr. NICKLES. I believe the chairman of the Foreign Relations 
Committee, Mr. Lugar, has an amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Indiana.


                           Amendment No. 400

  Mr. LUGAR. Mr. President, I ask amendment No. 400 at the desk be 
reported.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the amendment.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Indiana [Mr. Lugar], for himself, Mr. 
     Biden, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. DeWine, Mr. Hagel, Mr. Chafee, Mr. 
     Smith, Mr. Jeffords, and Mr. Kennedy, proposes an amendment 
     numbered 400.

  Mr. LUGAR. I ask unanimous consent the reading of the amendment be 
dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:
       On page 10, line 23, increase the amount by $1,115,000,000.
       On page 10, line 24, increase the amount by $675,000,000.
       On page 11, line 2, increase the amount by $834,000,000.
       On page 11, line 3, increase the amount by $830,000,000.
       On page 11, line 6, increase the amount by $560,000,000.
       On page 11, line 7, increase the amount by $641,000,000.
       On page 11, line 10, increase the amount by $294,000,000.
       On page 11, line 11, increase the amount by $392,000,000.
       On page 11, line 14, increase the amount by $28,000,000.
       On page 11, line 15, increase the amount by $130,000,000.
       On page 11, line 18, decrease the amount by $242,000,000.
       On page 11, line 19, decrease the amount by $130,000,000.
       On page 11, line 22, decrease the amount by $505,000,000.
       On page 11, line 23, decrease the amount by $397,000,000.
       On page 12, line 2, decrease the amount by $767,000,000.
       On page 12, line 3, decrease the amount by $656,000,000.
       On page 12, line 6, decrease the amount by $1,034,000,000.
       On page 12, line 7, decrease the amount by $924,000,000.
       On page 12, line 10, decrease the amount by $1,298,000,000.
       On page 12, line 11, decrease the amount by $1,188,000,000.
       On page 42, line 2, decrease the amount by $1,115,000,000.
       On page 42, line 3, decrease the amount by $675,000,000.
       On page 42, line 6, decrease the amount by $834,000,000.
       On page 42, line 7, decrease the amount by $830,000,000.
       On page 42, line 10, decrease the amount by $560,000,000.
       On page 42, line 11, decrease the amount by $641,000,000.
       On page 42, line 14, decrease the amount by $294,000,000.
       On page 42, line 15, decrease the amount by $392,000,000.
       On page 42, line 18, decrease the amount by $28,000,000.
       On page 42, line 19, decrease the amount by $130,000,000.
       On page 42, line 22 increase the amount by $242,000,000.
       On page 42, line 23 increase the amount by $130,000,000.
       On page 43, line 2 increase the amount by $505,000,000.
       On page 43, line 3 increase the amount by $397,000,000.
       On page 43, line 6 increase the amount by $767,000,000.
       On page 43, line 7 increase the amount by $656,000,000.
       On page 43, line 10 increase the amount by $1,034,000,000.
       On page 43, line 11 increase the amount by $924,000,000.
       On page 43, line 14 increase the amount by $1,298,000,000.
       On page 43, line 15 increase the amount by $1,188,000,000.
  Mr. LUGAR. Mr. President, I ask Senator Biden be added as a 
cosponsor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The Senate will be in order.
  Mr. LUGAR. Mr. President, I thank the cosponsors of this amendment:

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Senators Biden, Feinstein, DeWine, Hagel, Chafee, Smith, Jeffords, and 
Kennedy.
  My amendment would increase the foreign affairs account by $1.15 
billion, using section 920 of the budget as an offset. This would 
restore foreign affairs spending to the amount requested by President 
Bush.
  We are engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism and a regional 
war against Iraq. We should grant the Commander in Chief's funding 
requests for the accounts that pay for our diplomats' assistance to key 
allies, food aid, nonproliferation efforts, public diplomacy, and other 
tools that will contribute to victory now and a better world later. I 
ask the Senate to join me in restoring the funds the President has 
requested.
  Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Mr. President, I rise today to express my support for 
the amendment offered by myself and my colleague from Indiana, Senator 
Lugar, to restore the international affairs function 150 account to the 
President's request. I firmly believe that if we are to win the war 
against terror and decrease global poverty, we must use every tool at 
our disposal to do so.
  At the constituent breakfasts I hold every Thursday in Washington, 
DC, for visiting Californians, I often ask: ``What percentage of the 
Federal Budget do you think we spend on foreign aid?'' The answers are 
fascinating and thought provoking: Some say 10 percent, others offer 15 
percent, and even some think 20 percent is the right answer.
  My constituents are surprised--even shocked--when I tell them that, 
in fact, the United States spends less than 1 percent of our budget on 
foreign aid. That is less than half of what it was just 15 years ago 
and it is barely 0.1 percent of GDP. The United States spends less than 
$30 a year for each of its citizens helping those in the developing 
world, compared with a median per capita of $70 by other industrialized 
nations.
  In fact, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and 
Development, the United States in recent years ranks next to last among 
21 industrialized donor countries in per capita foreign assistance.
  Most Americans, however, recognize the benefits of foreign aid and 
support a robust international assistance package. A survey conducted 
by the Program on International Policy Attitudes of the University of 
Maryland found that, on average, Americans believe that 14 percent is 
an appropriate percentage of the Federal budget for foreign aid.
  While we are far from that mark, I was pleased that President Bush 
announced last year before a summit in Monterrey, Mexico, an important 
new initiative to begin to restore the foreign aid budget to the high 
water mark of the cold war years and increase foreign assistance 
spending by $5 billion over the next 3 years
  In announcing the program he stated,

       The advancement of development is a central commitment of 
     American foreign policy . . . We work for prosperity and 
     opportunity because they are right. It's the right thing to 
     do. We also work for prosperity and opportunity because they 
     help defeat terror.

  I and a bipartisan group of 35 other Senators wrote to President Bush 
to express our strong support for his initiative and to urge him to 
make a substantial first commitment to that effort in his fiscal year 
2004 budget request.
  That request, announced in February, contained $28.5 billion for the 
international affairs budget, including increased spending for the 
fight against HIV/AIDS and $1.3 billion for the proposed millennium 
challenge account.
  I was disappointed, then, that the budget resolution passed out of 
the Budget Committee cut $1.15 billion from the President's request and 
reduced funding for the millennium challenge account to $300 million. 
Senator Lugar and I have drafted an amendment to restore the 
President's request of $28.5 billion.
  In fact, I strongly believe that the United States should devote 
additional funds above the President's request to the international 
affairs budget. However, under the current fiscal circumstances and in 
the context of this budget, I understand that meeting the President's 
request is the best opportunity to make a statement about the 
importance of increasing foreign assistance.
  I understand that the offset used in this amendment--the function 920 
account--is not ideal, but we must move forward on our commitment to 
build a robust international affairs budget, and the Lugar/Feinstein 
amendment is the best vehicle to do so at this time.
  Restoring the President's international affairs budget request is key 
to protecting our national security and our standing as a leader in the 
effort to reduce global poverty. The Senate, by accepting this 
amendment, will rise to the challenge.
  As the men and women of our Armed Forces prepare to go into harm's 
way, we are reminded once again about the serious costs--in financial 
and human terms--of military conflict and postwar reconstruction. We 
will be doing our soldiers, sailors, and airmen a grave disservice if 
we do not make every effort to avoid the need for such conflicts in the 
future.
  Our foreign aid budget, at a dramatically smaller cost and loss of 
life, can protect our national interests and the safety and security of 
all Americans.
  One of the tragic mistakes of the post-cold-war era was the fact that 
the United States turned its back on Afghanistan after the collapse of 
the Soviet Union. We shifted our attention elsewhere, and the Taliban 
and al-Qaida moved in. The Afghan people, especially women and girls, 
suffered under a brutal dictatorship and terrorist camps flourished.
  We are all aware of the consequences. We spent billions to remove the 
Taliban from power and it will cost billions more to rebuild 
Afghanistan. However costly an aid package would have been for the 
people of Afghanistan at the end of the cold war, it certainly would 
not have compared with the costs we have met so far.
  No one doubts the strength of our Armed Forces. Our service men and 
women are the best in the world and the military component is key to 
defeating al-Qaida and other international terrorist organizations. Yet 
our troops cannot do the job on their own and we will not win the war 
on terror without making use of all the tools at our disposal to 
provide safety and security for all Americans.
  By fulfilling President Bush's request and increasing the foreign aid 
budget, we will attack the conditions that foster terrorism in the 
developing world: poverty, hunger, illiteracy, and illness.
  Terrorists prey on the hopelessness, anger, fear, and alienation of 
the poor and provide an easy way out of the misery of the developing 
world. Foreign aid by providing education, health care, shelter, and 
food promotes tolerance, understanding, and political stability.
  Such attitudes and conditions are crucial if we are to help build 
prosperous democracies who will then become important allies and 
partners in facing a wide range of global challenges in addition to 
terrorism: Narcotics trafficking, the spread of weapons of mass 
destruction, aiding refugees, and building market economies. And we can 
build such allies far cheaper through a robust foreign aid budget than 
through costly military interventions.
  Foreign aid not only protects our national security, it promotes the 
best of America and American values and sustains our influence in the 
world. Simply put, it brings out the best of who we are as a people.
  Imagine a child in the developing world who attends a school built 
with American assistance, who studies textbooks purchased with American 
assistance, and who eats a meal provided by American assistance. How 
effective will the words of terrorists be on such a child? How prone to 
anti-Americanism will that child be?
  Former German Chancellor Helumt Kohl often spoke of his memories as a 
child in postwar Germany, receiving soup off of an army truck from an 
American soldier. This is what foreign aid does: It gives hope to those 
who have none and shows them that Americans care.
  In the days and weeks ahead, we will witness the power of our Armed 
Forces. By passing this amendment, the Senate will demonstrate the 
power of American goodwill and our commitment to helping those in need 
and safeguarding our own interests. This is a significant first step 
for the United States to reclaim its status as a leader in providing 
foreign assistance, and I look

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forward to working with my colleagues and the administration to build 
on this initiative.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from North Dakota.
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I yield to the Senator from California, 
Mrs. Feinstein.
  Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Mr. President, I urge everyone to vote for this 
amendment. This would restore the President's number for the Millennium 
Challenge account. This account is very specific. It is to go for 
economic assistance and improvements in undeveloped countries. I think 
all of us know that our budget in this area is surprisingly small. We 
rank next to last in industrialized countries. As Mr. Lugar has so ably 
pointed out, the Iraq war should show us the need, indeed, is great.
  I hope everyone on this side of the aisle will vote to restore this 
$1.15 billion and offset it with the account 920.
  I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time has expired.
  Mr. SARBANES. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to be added as a 
cosponsor of the amendment and urge its support.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The question is on agreeing to the amendment.
  The amendment (No. 400) was agreed to.
  The Senator from North Dakota.
  Mr. CONRAD. I yield to the Senator from Iowa, Mr. Harkin, for the 
purpose of offering an amendment.
  Mr. GRASSLEY. Which amendment is this?
  Mr. NICKLES. Education.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Iowa.


                           Amendment No. 425

  Mr. HARKIN. Mr. President, I have an amendment I send to the desk and 
ask for its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the amendment.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Iowa [Mr. Harkin] proposes amendment No. 
     425.

  Mr. HARKIN. I ask unanimous consent the reading of the amendment be 
dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

                  (Purpose: To restore education cuts)

       On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $114,000,000.
       On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $1,565,000,000.
       On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $2,110,000,000.
       On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by $2,258,000,000.
       On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by $2,305,000,000.
       On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by $2,352,000,000.
       On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by $2,405,000,000.
       On page 3, line 17, increase the amount by $2,461,000,000.
       On page 3, line 18, increase the amount by $2,518,000,000.
       On page 3, line 19, increase the amount by $2,572,000,000.
       On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by $114,000,000.
       On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by $1,565,000,000.
       On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by $2,110,000,000.
       On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by $2,258,000,000.
       On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by $2,305,000,000.
       On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by $2,352,000,000.
       On page 4, line 7, increase the amount by $2,405,000,000.
       On page 4, line 8, increase the amount by $2,461,000,000.
       On page 4, line 9, increase the amount by $2,518,000,000.
       On page 4, line 10, increase the amount by $2,572,000,000.
       On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by $2,180,000,000.
       On page 4, line 16, increase the amount by $2,224,000,000.
       On page 4, line 17, increase the amount by $2,272,000,000.
       On page 4, line 18, increase the amount by $2,317,000,000.
       On page 4, line 19, increase the amount by $2,365,000,000.
       On page 4, line 20, increase the amount by $2,419,000,000.
       On page 4, line 21, increase the amount by $2,476,000,000.
       On page 4, line 22, increase the amount by $2,535,000,000.
       On page 4, line 23, increase the amount by $2,585,000,000.
       On page 4, line 24, increase the amount by $2,656,000,000.
       On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by $114,000,000.
       On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by $1,565,000,000.
       On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by $2,110,000,000.
       On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by $2,258,000,000.
       On page 5, line 9, increase the amount by $2,305,000,000.
       On page 5, line 10, increase the amount by $2,352,000,000.
       On page 5, line 11, increase the amount by $2,405,000,000.
       On page 5, line 12, increase the amount by $2,461,000,000.
       On page 5, line 13, increase the amount by $2,518,000,000.
       On page 5, line 14, increase the amount by $2,572,000,000.
       On page 25, line 16, increase the amount by $2,180,000,000.
       On page 25, line 17, increase the amount by $114,000,000.
       On page 25, line 20, increase the amount by $2,224,000,000.
       On page 25, line 21, increase the amount by $1,565,000,000.
       On page 25, line 24, increase the amount by $2,272,000,000.
       On page 25, line 25, increase the amount by $2,110,000,000.
       On page 26, line 3, increase the amount by $2,317,000,000.
       On page 26, line 4, increase the amount by $2,258,000,000.
       On page 26, line 7, increase the amount by $2,365,000,000.
       On page 26, line 8, increase the amount by $2,305,000,000.
       On page 26, line 11, increase the amount by $2,419,000,000.
       On page 26, line 12, increase the amount by $2,352,000,000.
       On page 26, line 15, increase the amount by $2,476,000,000.
       On page 26, line 16, increase the amount by $2,405,000,000.
       On page 26, line 19, increase the amount by $2,535,000,000.
       On page 26, line 20, increase the amount by $2,461,000,000.
       On page 26, line 23, increase the amount by $2,585,000,000.
       On page 26, line 24, increase the amount by $2,518,000,000.
       On page 27, line 2, increase the amount by $2,656,000,000.
       On page 27, line 3, increase the amount by $2,572,000,000.
       On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by $2,180,000,000.
       On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by $114,000,000.
       On page 47, line 14, increase the amount by $2,224,000,000.
       On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by $1,565,000,000.

  Mr. HARKIN. Mr. President, the budget resolution before us eliminates 
46 important education programs, programs such as rural education, 
dropout prevention, arts education, the Carol M. White Physical 
Education for Progress, Gifted and Talented, Ready To Learn, the 
National Writing Project, Parental Assistance Information Centers, a 
number of them--46 programs that have been broadly supported by both 
the House and the Senate on the Republican and Democratic sides.
  These are programs that go to meet certain specific kinds of needs 
like rural education, where small schools do not have the wherewithal 
to get in grants. They do not have the economies of scale. They have 
specific transportation needs.
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, may we have order?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate will be in order. The Senator is 
entitled to be heard.
  The Senator from Iowa.
  Mr. HARKIN. Mr. President, what this amendment will do--it does not 
add any money. It simply restores these programs. It would be $2.2 
billion the first year, $24 billion over 10 years, offset by a 
reduction in the tax cut. All it does is simply restore the programs.
  I assume some of these will be restored as we go through the process. 
But if we don't have it in the budget, that means we are going to take 
it out of title I, we are going to take it out of special education, 
and other areas. Let's put the money in there now to pay for these 
programs.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Hampshire.
  Mr. GREGG. Mr. President, as the Senator from Iowa well knows, this 
bill does not eliminate any programs. As the Senator from Iowa well 
knows, this bill sets a number, a gross number, that we will spend on 
education. However, what the Senator from Iowa doesn't appear to know 
is that this bill is already $8.1 billion above where his bill was when 
he reported it out of committee just 3 months ago.
  I am wondering why we need to continue to put money into programs to

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which there is a significant commitment already. It is time to bring 
down the curtain on this theater of spending.
  I yield the remainder of my time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the amendment.
  Mr. CONRAD. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Miller), is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 46, nays 53, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 99 Leg.]

                                YEAS--46

     Akaka
     Bayh
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Clinton
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Daschle
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Graham (FL)
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Wyden

                                NAYS--53

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Baucus
     Bennett
     Bond
     Breaux
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham (SC)
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Voinovich
     Warner
       

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Miller
       
  The amendment (No. 425) was rejected.
  Mr. NICKLES. I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. CONRAD. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from North Dakota.
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I yield to the Senator from Massachusetts, 
Mr. Kerry.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Massachusetts.


                           Amendment No. 397

  Mr. KERRY. Mr. President, I call up amendment No. 397.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The bill clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. Kerry] proposes an 
     amendment numbered 397.

  Mr. KERRY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that further 
reading of the amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

  (Purpose: To provide for a $150 billion revenue stimulus for fiscal 
       years 2003 and 2004 without adding to the long-term debt)

       On page 3, line 9, decrease the amount by $63,441,000,000.
       On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $65,685,000,000.
       On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $97,978,000,000.
       On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $77,675,000,000.
       On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by $59,192,000,000.
       On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by $56,706,000,000.
       On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by $55,640,000,000.
       On page 3, line 16, increase the amount by $56,036,000,000.
       On page 3, line 17, increase the amount by 
     $185,271,000,000.
       On page 3, line 18, increase the amount by 
     $278,611,000,000.
       On page 3, line 19, increase the amount by 
     $294,654,000,000.
       On page 3, line 23, decrease the amount by $63,411,000,000.
       On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by $65,685,000,000.
       On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by $97,978,000,000.
       On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by $77,675,000,000.
       On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by $59,192,000,000.
       On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by $56,706,000,000.
       On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by $55,640,000,000.
       On page 4, line 7, increase the amount by $56,036,000,000.
       On page 4, line 8, increase the amount by $185,271,000,000.
       On page 4, line 9, increase the amount by $278,611,000,000.
       On page 4, line 10, increase the amount by 
     $294,654,000,000.
       On page 4, line 14, decrease the amount by $3,943,000,000.
       On page 4, line 15, decrease the amount by $613,000,000.
       On page 4, line 16, decrease the amount by $7,650,000,000.
       On page 4, line 17, decrease the amount by $12,304,000,000.
       On page 4, line 18, decrease the amount by $16,253,000,000.
       On page 4, line 19, decrease the amount by $20,366,000,000.
       On page 4, line 20, decrease the amount by $24,295,000,000.
       On page 4, line 21, decrease the amount by $27,358,000,000.
       On page 4, line 22, decrease the amount by $33,124,000,000.
       On page 4, line 23, decrease the amount by $59,290,000,000.
       On page 4, line 24, decrease the amount by $77,387,000,000.
       On page 5, line 4, decrease the amount by $3,943,000,000.
       On page 5, line 5, decrease the amount by $613,000,000.
       On page 5, line 6, decrease the amount by $7,650,000,000.
       On page 5, line 7, decrease the amount by $12,304,000,000.
       On page 5, line 8, decrease the amount by $16,523,000,000.
       On page 5, line 9, decrease the amount by $20,366,000,000.
       On page 5, line 10, decrease the amount by $24,295,000,000.
       On page 5, line 11, decrease the amount by $27,358,000,000.
       On page 5, line 12, decrease the amount by $33,124,000,000.
       On page 5, line 13, decrease the amount by $59,290,000,000.
       On page 5, line 14, decrease the amount by $77,387,000,000.
       On page 5, line 17, decrease the amount by $59,498,000,000.
       On page 5, line 18, increase the amount by $66,298,000,000.
       On page 5, line 19, increase the amount by 
     $105,628,000,000.
       On page 5, line 20, increase the amount by $89,979,000,000.
       On page 5, line 21, increase the amount by $75,715,000,000.
       On page 5, line 22, increase the amount by $77,072,000,000.
       On page 5, line 23, increase the amount by $79,935,000,000.
       On page 5, line 24, increase the amount by $83,394,000,000.
       On page 5, line 25, increase the amount by 
     $218,395,000,000.
       On page 6, line 1, increase the amount by $337,901,000,000.
       On page 6, line 2, increase the amount by $372,041,000,000.
       On page 6, line 5, increase the amount by $59,498,000,000.
       On page 6, line 6, decrease the amount by $6,800,000,000.
       On page 6, line 7, decrease the amount by $112,428,000,000.
       On page 6, line 8, decrease the amount by $202,408,000,000.
       On page 6, line 9, decrease the amount by $278,122,000,000.
       On page 6, line 10, decrease the amount by 
     $355,194,000,000.
       On page 6, line 11, decrease the amount by 
     $423,129,000,000.
       On page 6, line 12, decrease the amount by 
     $518,523,000,000.
       On page 6, line 13, decrease the amount by 
     $736,919,000,000.
       On page 6, line 14, decrease the amount by 
     $1,074,820,000,000.
       On page 6, line 15, decrease the amount by 
     $1,446,861,000,000.
       On page 6, line 18, increase the amount by $58,498,000,000.
       On page 6, line 19, decrease the amount by $6,800,000,000.
       On page 6, line 20, decrease the amount by 
     $112,428,000,000.
       On page 6, line 21, decrease the amount by 
     $202,408,000,000.
       On page 6, line 22, decrease the amount by 
     $278,122,000,000.
       On page 6, line 23, decrease the amount by 
     $355,194,000,000.
       On page 6, line 24, decrease the amount by 
     $435,129,000,000.
       On page 6, line 25, decrease the amount by 
     $518,523,000,000.
       On page 7, line 1, decrease the amount by $736,919,000,000.
       On page 7, line 2, decrease the amount by 
     $1,074,820,000,000.
       On page 7, line 3, decrease the amount by 
     $1,446,861,000,000.
       On page 30, line 23, decrease the amount by $4,380,000,000.
       On page 30, line 24, decrease the amount by $4,380,000,000.
       On page 31, line 2, decrease the amount by $1,111,000,000.
       On page 31, line 3, decrease the amount by $1,111,000,000.
       On page 31, line 6, decrease the amount by $4,586,000,000.

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       On page 31, line 7, decrease the amount by $4,586,000,000.
       On page 31, line 10, decrease the amount by $4,165,000,000.
       On page 31, line 11, decrease the amount by $4,165,000,000.
       On page 31, line 14, decrease the amount by $3,833,000,000.
       On page 31, line 15, decrease the amount by $3,833,000,000.
       On page 31, line 18, decrease the amount by $3,698,000,000.
       On page 31, line 19, decrease the amount by $3,698,000,000.
       On page 31, line 22, decrease the amount by $3,511,000,000.
       On page 31, line 23, decrease the amount by $3,511,000,000.
       On page 32, line 2, decrease the amount by $2,192,000,000.
       On page 32, line 3, decrease the amount by $2,192,000,000.
       On page 32, line 6, increase the amount by $26,000,000.
       On page 32, line 7, increase the amount by $26,000,000.
       On page 32, line 10, decrease the amount by 
     $11,458,000,000.
       On page 32, line 11, decrease the amount by 
     $11,458,000,000.
       On page 32, line 14, decrease the amount by 
     $10,901,000,000.
       On page 32, line 15, decrease the amount by 
     $10,901,000,000.
       On page 40, line 2, increase the amount by $437,000,000.
       On page 40, line 3, increase the amount by $437,000,000.
       On page 40, line 6, increase the amount by $498,000,000.
       On page 40, line 7, increase the amount by $498,000,000.
       On page 40, line 10, decrease the amount by $3,064,000,000.
       On page 40, line 11, decrease the amount by $3,064,000,000.
       On page 40, line 14, decrease the amount by $8,139,000,000.
       On page 40, line 15, decrease the amount by $8,139,000,000.
       On page 40, line 18, decrease the amount by 
     $12,690,000,000.
       On page 40, line 19, decrease the amount by 
     $12,690,000,000.
       On page 40, line 22, decrease the amount by 
     $16,668,000,000.
       On page 40, line 23, decrease the amount by 
     $16,668,000,000.
       On page 41, line 2, decrease the amount by $20,784,000,000.
       On page 41, line 3, decrease the amount by $20,784,000,000.
       On page 41, line 6, decrease the amount by $25,166,000,000.
       On page 41, line 7, decrease the amount by $25,166,000,000.
       On page 41, line 10, decrease the amount by 
     $33,150,000,000.
       On page 41, line 11, decrease the amount by 
     $33,150,000,000.
       On page 41, line 14, decrease the amount by 
     $47,832,000,000.
       On page 41, line 15, decrease the amount by 
     $47,832,000,000.
       On page 41, line 18, decrease the amount by 
     $66,486,000,000.
       On page 41, line 19, decrease the amount by 
     $66,486,000,000.
       Strike section 104(b)
  Mr. KERRY. Mr. President, as we all know, consumer confidence is at 
its record lowest level in 10 years. There are 300,000 Americans who 
lost their jobs in February alone--2.5 million in the last 2 years. 
State and local governments are in trouble. Families and businesses are 
having trouble. We are running Federal deficits as far as the eye can 
see. And we are at war.
  My amendment tries to avoid saddling the next generations with debt 
by offering a $150 billion tax cut to average Americans over the course 
of the next 2 years, contemplating a payroll tax holiday, paid for in 
the outyears.
  It will strengthen our economy by putting money as a stimulus into 
the pockets of Americans now. And it does not take a dime out of Social 
Security or Medicare.
  We can give every American worker $750 this year. If you are married 
with children and are both working, you would get $1,500, which is more 
than with the Bush tax cut, without any of the negative impact in the 
long run.
  It does not raise taxes. It simply avoids going forward with the 
worst components of the President's proposal. It is not a tax increase; 
it is simply not giving the cut, which is unwise and nonstimulative and 
takes from our children.
  I hope my colleagues will support it.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator's time has expired.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, the amendment offered by the Senator from 
Massachusetts would not only gut the growth package, it would gut the 
amended growth package, the Breaux bill. It cuts it in half. I urge our 
colleagues to vote no.
  I yield the remainder of our time to the Senator from New Hampshire.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Hampshire.
  Mr. SUNUNU. I thank the chairman.
  Mr. President, for anyone to believe repealing a tax cut already 
signed into law is not a tax increase is a serious mistake.
  Second, this is a provision that would cut payroll taxes. To suggest 
that will not undermine the strength of the Social Security trust fund 
is also a mistake. We cannot pretend that payroll taxes do not go into 
the Social Security trust fund.
  And third, if my colleagues are really concerned about deficits, then 
we need to do two things: We need to encourage economic growth, and 
this amendment will not do that; second, we need to control spending.
  As my colleague from New Hampshire has made clear, we are in a 
theater of spending right now: increasing spending, increasing debts, 
and deficits. This isn't the approach we should be taking.
  I urge my colleagues to reject the amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator's time has expired.
  The Senator from Oklahoma.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays on the 
amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The question is on agreeing to amendment No. 397.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Miller), is 
absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Dole). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 37, nays 62, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 100 Leg.]

                                YEAS--37

     Akaka
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Byrd
     Carper
     Chafee
     Clinton
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Daschle
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Graham (FL)
     Harkin
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Wyden

                                NAYS--62

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Bennett
     Bond
     Breaux
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Campbell
     Cantwell
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     Dayton
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham (SC)
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hollings
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Lincoln
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Nickles
     Pryor
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Voinovich
     Warner
       

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Miller
       
  The amendment (No. 397) was rejected.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from North Dakota.
  Mr. CONRAD. I yield to the Senator from New York, Mr. Schumer.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New York.


                           Amendment No. 285

       (Purpose: To express the sense of the Senate that economic 
     stimulus legislation enacted pursuant to the instructions 
     contained in this concurrent resolution on the budget should 
     include provisions to make higher education affordable)

  Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, I call up amendment No. 285.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from New York [Mr. Schumer], for himself, Mr. 
     Smith, and Mr. Biden, proposes an amendment numbered 285.

  (The amendment is printed in the Record of Wednesday, March 19, 2003, 
under ``Text of Amendments.'')
  Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, this amendment, which is a bipartisan 
amendment, cosponsored by Senator Biden of Delaware, Senator Snowe of 
Maine, Senator Smith of Oregon, Senator Bayh of Indiana, and myself is 
simply a sense-of-the-Senate amendment that when we come back with a

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tax proposal, it ought to increase the deductibility of college 
tuition.
  As you know, we worked 2 years ago and this year for the first time 
tuition is deductible, $3,000. It goes up to $4,000 in 2004.
  This amendment is a sense of the Senate, a bipartisan amendment that 
urges that tuition deductibility be raised from $3,000 to $8,000 in the 
year 2003, and from $4,000 to $12,000 in the year 2004 and the years 
thereafter. The high cost of tuition, we know, is a huge burden, 
particularly on middle-class families.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator has used 1 minute.
  Mr. SCHUMER. I urge the adoption of the amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.
  Mr. NICKLES. Madam President, as Senator Conrad and I both stated a 
couple times, we do not write the tax bill. That is going to be up to 
the Finance Committee. That being said, we have no objection and are 
happy to accept the amendment by voice vote.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate on the amendment? If 
not, the question is on agreeing to the amendment.
  The amendment (No. 285) was agreed to.
  Mr. REID. I move to reconsider the vote, and I move to lay that 
motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  Mr. NICKLES. Madam President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the clerk will call the 
roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. CONRAD. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. CONRAD. Madam President, I yield to the Senator from Indiana, Mr. 
Bayh.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Indiana.


                           Amendment No. 426

(Purpose: To express the sense of the Senate on low income programs and 
          the income tax on certain Social Security benefits)

  Mr. BAYH. Madam President, I send an amendment to the desk for 
immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The senior assistant bill clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Indiana [Mr. Bayh], for himself, Mr. 
     Schumer, and Mrs. Lincoln, proposes an amendment numbered 
     426.

  Mr. BAYH. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the reading 
of the amendment be dispensed with.
  Mr. NICKLES. I object.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will continue with the reading of 
the amendment.
  The senior assistant bill clerk continued with the reading of the 
amendment, as follows:

(Purpose: To express the sense of the Senate on low income programs and 
          the income tax on certain Social Security benefits)

     SEC.  . SENSE OF THE SENATE ON FUNDING FOR LOW INCOME 
                   PROGRAMS AND THE INCOME TAX ON CERTAIN SOCIAL 
                   SECURITY BENEFITS.

       It is the sense of the Senate that the final budget 
     conference report should not include any net reduction in 
     funding below current baseline levels for programs that 
     assist low income working families, and that repeal of the 
     1993 tax increase on Social Security benefits can be 
     accommodated within the revenue totals and instructions of 
     this resolution, in a manner that does not reduce the 
     solvency of the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund (Part 
     A of Medicare.).

  Mr. BAYH. I offer this amendment on behalf of myself, Senator 
Schumer, and Senator Lincoln. This expresses the sense of the Senate 
that the 1993 tax increase on Social Security benefits should be 
repealed. It is similar to the amendment offered by Senator Bunning 
because it accomplishes this objective in a more fiscally responsive 
way because it instructs the Finance Committee to accomplish this 
within the context of the current tax cut rather than adding to it.
  It helps Social Security beneficiaries, it cuts taxes, and it does so 
in a fiscally responsible way. I ask for its immediate adoption.
  Mr. NICKLES. Madam President, we already dealt with whether we should 
tax Social Security. I call upon my colleague from Kentucky.
  Mr. BUNNING. Madam President, this is an absolute zero amendment. It 
is a sense of the Senate, which means nothing in law. The amendment we 
voted on earlier had the direct effect on $146 billion which is the 
amount of money that would have been reduced from the tax base if we 
did what we said we were going to do on the Social Security reduction 
from 85 percent to 50 percent, with the instructions to the Finance 
Committee to do just that. This amendment does absolutely nothing to 
correct that situation.
  Mr. NICKLES. Madam President, the pending amendment offered by our 
colleague from Indiana, Mr. Bayh, proposes to create a sense of the 
Senate which is precatory and thus not germane. This language is not 
germane to the measure now before the Senate. Therefore, I raise a 
point of order under section 305(b)(2) of the Congressional Budget Act 
of 1974.
  Mr. BAYH. To offer any language that is precatory pursuant to section 
904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, I move to waive the 
applicable sessions of that act for purposes of the pending amendment.
  I ask for the yeas and nays, and I thank my colleagues for their 
courtesy.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The question is on agreeing to the motion of the Senator from 
Indiana.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Miller) is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 50, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 101 Leg.]

                                YEAS--49

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Chafee
     Clinton
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Daschle
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Graham (FL)
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Wyden

                                NAYS--50

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Campbell
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham (SC)
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Voinovich
     Warner

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Miller
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 49, the nays are 50. 
Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in 
the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The point of order is 
sustained and the amendment falls.
  The Senator from Oklahoma.
  Mr. NICKLES. Madam President, for the information of our colleagues, 
I thank all Members of the Senate, Democrats and Republicans, for 
working together. Senator Conrad should be complimented as well. We 
worked hard to finish the resolution under the agreement we made to 
finish it by 4 o'clock tomorrow, and we will finish it by 4 o'clock 
tomorrow. We may well finish it before 4 o'clock. I thank all 
colleagues for their cooperation in doing so.
  For the information of colleagues, we will have one additional 
rollcall vote tonight, an amendment by Senator Cantwell. That will be 
the last rollcall for tonight. We will announce the schedule tomorrow 
after consulting with the majority and minority leaders. But I do thank 
all our colleagues for their cooperation. It has been a very productive 
day.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from North Dakota.
  Mr. CONRAD. Madam President, I yield to Senator Cantwell for the 
purpose of offering an amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Washington.

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                           Amendment No. 382

  Ms. CANTWELL. Madam President, I call up amendment No. 382.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The senior assistant bill clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Washington [Ms. Cantwell], proposes an 
     amendment numbered 382.

  Ms. CANTWELL. I ask unanimous consent the reading of the amendment be 
dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

     (Purpose: To restore funding for programs under the Workforce 
                        Investment Act of 1998)

       On page 3, line 10, increase the amount by $87,000,000.
       On page 3, line 11, increase the amount by $391,000,000.
       On page 3, line 12, increase the amount by $129,000,000.
       On page 3, line 13, increase the amount by $34,000,000.
       On page 3, line 14, increase the amount by $17,000,000.
       On page 3, line 15, increase the amount by $20,000,000.
       On page 4, line 1, increase the amount by $87,000,000.
       On page 4, line 2, increase the amount by $391,000,000.
       On page 4, line 3, increase the amount by $129,000,000.
       On page 4, line 4, increase the amount by $34,000,000.
       On page 4, line 5, increase the amount by $17,000,000.
       On page 4, line 6, increase the amount by $20,000,000.
       On page 4, line 15, increase the amount by $678,000,000.
       On page 5, line 5, increase the amount by $87,000,000.
       On page 5, line 6, increase the amount by $391,000,000.
       On page 5, line 7, increase the amount by $129,000,000.
       On page 5, line 8, increase the amount by $34,000,000.
       On page 5, line 9, increase the amount by $17,000,000.
       On page 5, line 10, increase the amount by $20,000,000.
       On page 25, line 16, increase the amount by $678,000,000.
       On page 25, line 17, increase the amount by $87,000,000.
       On page 25, line 21, increase the amount by $391,000,000.
       On page 25, line 25, increase the amount by $129,000,000.
       On page 26, line 4, increase the amount by $34,000,000.
       On page 26, line 8, increase the amount by $17,000,000.
       On page 26, line 12, increase the amount by $20,000,000.
       On page 47, line 5, increase the amount by $678,000,000.
       On page 47, line 6, increase the amount by $87,000,000.
       On page 47, line 15, increase the amount by $391,000,000.

  Ms. CANTWELL. Madam President, this is a very important amendment 
that would restore $678 million to workforce training programs that is 
vital to America in a time of high unemployment. The underlying bill 
basically cuts these funds and, instead, gives them to a tax cut for 
the wealthiest Americans.
  What is really important for us to understand is that we have had 
report after report that in the Information Technology area there are 
more jobs to be had if we had skilled workers who had the training to 
work in this areas, and the same is true for the nursing and health 
care fields. According to the American Hospital Association there are 
over 126,000 openings in nursing, yet we are cutting the training 
programs that could retrain thousands of unemployed workers who could 
fill these openings. By cutting funding for workforce training, we are 
eliminating the opportunity for 65,000 Americans to receive training.
  So where do these jobs go instead, I know because I have had 
firsthand experience as an employer. You go find the workers and 
sometimes they are from overseas. So by cutting workforce training, we 
are sending a message that instead of retraining our dislocated and 
unemployed workers we would rather have the Department of Labor issue 
more labor certifications so that these jobs can be filled by 
foreigners.
  Please vote for this amendment to restore the funds so that the 
workforce level in this country will at least be at 2002 levels.
  I urge my colleagues to support this amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.
  Mr. NICKLES. Madam President, this amendment would increase spending 
by $678 million. I might mention, we have $6.6 billion of $8 billion in 
a block grant that has not even been used yet by the States.
  Madam President, I yield the remainder of my time to the Senator from 
Pennsylvania.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Pennsylvania.
  Mr. SANTORUM. Madam President, much has been made about deficits. I 
just want to know what the Senate has accomplished today--I should 
argue, what the Democrats have tried to accomplish.
  As you can see from these charts, this is a list of the Democratic 
amendments that were voted on today. They add up to a 10-year cost of 
$666 billion in brand new Federal spending, for which, as you can see 
by these votes, the vast majority of Democrats voted. If this amendment 
is agreed to, at least on the Democratic side, that number will go to 
$675 billion in new spending over the next 10 years.
  Compare that to what we want to do, which is a very modest reduction 
in taxes over those 10 years, and you see the same spending priorities 
versus giving money back to taxpayers--the same amount of money.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time has expired.
  The question is on agreeing to the amendment.
  Mr. HOLLINGS. Will the distinguished Senator yield?
  We had not gotten up to $726 billion. We had it paid for until you--
--
  Mr. NICKLES. Regular order.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time has expired.
  The question is on agreeing to amendment No. 382.
  The Senator from North Dakota.
  Mr. CONRAD. Madam President, I request the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Miller) is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Chafee). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced-- yeas 51, nays 48, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 102 Leg.]

                                YEAS--51

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Chafee
     Clinton
     Collins
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Daschle
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Graham (FL)
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Snowe
     Stabenow
     Wyden

                                NAYS--48

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Campbell
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham (SC)
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Voinovich
     Warner

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Miller
       
  The amendment (No. 382) was agreed to.
  Ms. CANTWELL. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. NICKLES. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, Senator Conrad and I would now like to 
see if we can clean up a couple other amendments that we have basically 
agreed to. I believe the Senator from Ohio, Mr. DeWine, has a couple 
sense-of-the-Senate amendments that we are willing to accept.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Ohio.


                           Amendment No. 354

  Mr. DeWINE. Mr. President, I call up amendment No. 354.

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  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Ohio [Mr. DeWINE] proposes an amendment 
     numbered 354.

  Mr. DeWINE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that reading of 
the amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

  (Purpose: To express the sense of the Senate concerning funding for 
                 children's graduate medical education)

         At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ____. SENSE OF THE SENATE CONCERNING CHILDREN'S GRADUATE 
                   MEDICAL EDUCATION.

         (a) Findings.--The Senate finds that--
         (1) children's hospitals provide excellent care for 
     children;
         (2) the importance of children's hospitals extends to the 
     health care of all children throughout the United States;
         (3) making up only 1 percent of all hospitals, 
     independent children's hospitals train almost 30 percent of 
     all pediatricians and 50 percent of all pediatric 
     specialists;
         (4) children's hospitals provide over 50 percent of the 
     hospital care in the United States for children with serious 
     illness, including needing cardiatric surgery, children with 
     cancer, and children with cerebral palsy; and
         (5) children's hospitals are important centers for 
     pediatric research and the major pipeline for future 
     pediatric researchers.
         (b) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate 
     that, for fiscal year 2004, children's graduate medical 
     education should be funded at $305,000,000.

  Mr. DeWINE. Mr. President, I ask my colleagues to support my Sense of 
the Senate amendment, advocating full fiscal year 2004 funding--$305 
million--for children's hospitals graduate medical education programs.
  This funding for pediatric GME is a vital part of our efforts to 
protect children's health. Today, children's hospitals--though they 
represent only one percent of all hospitals--train 30 percent of all 
pediatricians and 50 percent of all pediatric specialists. And, they 
also provide hospital care to almost 50 percent of seriously ill 
children. Furthermore, children's hospitals serve as the healthcare 
safety net for low-income children in their respective communities and 
are often the sole regional providers of many critical pediatric 
services.
  These children's hospitals are often the only source of many 
pediatric specialty services. And it is their graduate training 
programs that make these services possible. Funding for this training--
funding for pediatric graduate medical education--helps provide our 
Nation with highly qualified pediatricians, who can properly treat and 
care for our children when they are sick.
  Congress took a remarkable step when it fully funded this program in 
FY2002 and again in FY2003. Now, for the first time, the independent 
children's hospitals have the same Federal support for their teaching 
programs that other teaching hospitals were receiving through Medicare. 
It has saved many children's hospitals from being forced to reduce 
their physician training or cut other services.
  Clearly, funding for GME in children's hospitals is a sound 
investment in children's health and provides stability for the future 
of the pediatric workforce. Please join me in support of continued full 
funding for children's hospitals graduate medical education.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, we have no objection to the amendment. I 
urge my colleagues to vote in favor of it.
  Mr. CONRAD. We have no objection on this side.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the amendment.
  The amendment (No. 354) was agreed to.


                           Amendment No. 355

  Mr. DeWine. Mr. President, I call up amendment No. 355.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Ohio [Mr. DeWINE] proposes an amendment 
     numbered 355.

  Mr. DeWINE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that further 
reading of the amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

    (Purpose: To express the sense of the Senate that the programs 
  authorized under the Crime Identification Technology Act of 1998 to 
     improve the justice system will be fully funded at the levels 
       authorized for each of the fiscal years 2004 through 2007)

       On page 79, after line 22, add the following:

     SEC. 308. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON FUNDING FOR CRIMINAL 
                   JUSTICE.

       (a) Findings.--The Senate finds that--
       (1) bipartisan efforts have led to success in the fight 
     against crime and improvements in the administration of 
     justice;
       (2) Congress steadily increased funding for crime 
     identification technologies between 1994 and 2003; and
       (3) a strong commitment to improve crime identification 
     technologies is still needed.
       (b) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate 
     that the funding levels in this resolution assume that the 
     programs authorized under the Crime Identification Technology 
     Act of 1998 to improve the justice system will be fully 
     funded at the levels authorized for each of the fiscal years 
     2004 through 2007.
  Mr. DeWINE. Mr. President, I ask my colleagues to join me in support 
of an amendment that Senator Leahy and I are offering to express the 
Sense of the Senate that we should fund the Crime Identification 
Technology Act at its authorized level of $250 million through the year 
2007.
  CITA provides State and local law enforcement with the much-needed 
resources to make improvements in anti-crime technology. CITA has 
streamlined a patchwork of Federal funding programs, giving the 
Department of Justice greater flexibility to make grant awards to 
States and localities for their specific anti-crime technology needs. 
What we are talking about is DNA items. We are talking about 
ballistics. We are talking about all kinds of crime technology items 
that really go to the heart and soul of our fight against crime today.
  This single Federal funding stream allows States and localities to 
make improvements in 17 different areas relating to crime-fighting 
technology, including automated fingerprint background checks, 
ballistics testing, DNA-testing, domestic violence information systems, 
and automated criminal history systems.
  Quick and efficient access to information is crucial to solving and 
preventing crimes and protecting our communities. And access to state-
of-the-art technology means access to information. Whether it's 
matching fingerprints or DNA samples or bullets from a gun, law 
enforcement personnel--police officers and prosecutors and scientists 
in crime labs--all rely on technology to do their jobs.
  America can no longer afford to fight 21st Century crime with 20th 
Century tools and technology. This amendment would demonstrate our 
support for giving our State and local law enforcement access to the 
practical tools they need to do their jobs. I urge my colleagues to 
support this amendment.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I compliment my colleague from Ohio for 
his amendment. I urge my colleagues to accept it.
  Mr. CONRAD. We are willing to take the amendment on this side as 
well.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the amendment.
  The amendment (No. 355) was agreed to.


                           Amendment No. 427

  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I send an amendment to the desk on behalf 
of Senators Hatch and Levin.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The senior assistant bill clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Oklahoma [Mr. Nickles], for Mr. Hatch and 
     Mr. Levin, proposes an amendment numbered 427.

  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that further 
reading of the amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

  (Purpose: To express the sense of the Senate that of the functional 
  totals in this resolution assume that up to $20,000,000 from funds 
designated, but not obligated, for travel and administrative expenses, 
  from drug interdiction activities should be used for drug addiction 
 treatment programs that utilize substances that block the craving for 
 heroin and that are newly approved for such use by the Food and Drug 
                            Administration)

       At the end of title III, add the following:

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     SEC. ____. SENSE OF THE SENATE CONCERNING FUNDING FOR DRUG 
                   TREATMENT PROGRAMS.

       It is the sense of the Senate that the functional totals in 
     this resolution assume that up to $20,000,000 from funds 
     designated, but not obligated, for travel and administrative 
     expenses, from drug interdiction activities should be used 
     for service-oriented targeted grants for the utilization of 
     substances that block the craving for heroin and that are 
     newly approved for such use by the Food and Drug 
     Administration.

  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, this is a sense-of-the-Senate amendment 
stating that $20 million in drug interdiction funds shall be used for 
drug addiction treatment programs that utilize substances that block 
the craving for heroin and that are newly approved for such use by the 
FDA.
  Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I rise to speak in favor of a bipartisan 
sense-of-the-Senate amendment that Senator Levin and I are offering. 
Here is what the amendment does:
  We ask that it be the sense of the Senate that up to $20 million of 
any unused travel or other administrative funds designated, but not 
obligated, for drug interdiction activities be used for a grant program 
that helps disseminate innovative anti-heroin medications recently 
approved by the FDA.
  Not one penny of drug interdiction funds will be taken away; our 
amendment only asks the Senate to go on record as supporting the use of 
unobligated drug interdiction travel or administrative funds to help 
distribute and get out the word on a new class of drug addiction 
treatments.
  This amendment builds upon the Drug Addiction Treatment Act that 
allows qualified doctors the ability to treat a limited number of 
heroin addicts in an office setting. This sense-of-the-Senate amendment 
will send a signal to the private sector to invest in developing new 
drug treatments.
  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, the amendment Senator Hatch and I have 
offered, which the Senate has adopted, is a life-saving amendment. It 
will help to mend broken lives and shattered families that are living 
with the scourge of drug addiction and are struggling to rid themselves 
of this dreadful disease. Our sense of the Senate amendment supports 
$20 million in fiscal year 2004 for drug treatment programs that 
utilize a newly FDA approved substance called buprenorphine, which 
blocks the craving for heroin.
  The costs of substance abuse treatment are minimal when compared to 
the resulting savings. According to a national study of treatment 
programs that are funded by HHS's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, 
the average savings per individual in the year after treatment was 
approximately $9,200--more than three times the average cost of one 
treatment period. Another study by the RAND Corporation found that 
treatment is 10 times more cost effective than interdiction in reducing 
societal costs of certain illegal drugs.
  The U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) has estimated 
that 57 percent of those who need drug treatment do not receive it, 
despite its proven cost effectiveness over criminal justice approaches 
in reducing drug abuse and related social costs. Another ONDCP study, 
released in January of 2002, found that illegal drugs drain $160 
billion a year from the American economy; and that the majority of 
these costs, $98.5 billion, stem from lost productivity due to drug-
related illnesses and deaths, as well as incarcerations and work hours 
missed by victims of crime. The report also found that illegal drug use 
cost the health-care industry $12.9 billion in 1998. The $20 million 
assumed in our amendment pales in comparison to these sums, yet this 
modest funding will reap huge benefits in lowering illicit drug use, by 
providing funding for up to 60 new drug treatment projects, utilizing 
new FDA approved substances that block the craving of heroin.
  Again, I am pleased that the Senate has adopted our much-needed 
amendment. It has the potential of opening the door to tens of 
thousands of individuals who seek to rid themselves of their addiction 
to heroin, through the use of the anti-addiction medication called 
buprenorphine, which was approved last year by the Food and Drug 
Administration.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I urge my colleagues to support this 
amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the amendment.
  The amendment (No. 427) was agreed to.
  Mr. NICKLES. I thank my colleagues.
  Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, just before the last amendment, the 
Senator from Pennsylvania held up a series of charts purporting to be 
total spending advocated by our side of the aisle during the budget 
consideration. I have no idea where he got those numbers from because 
they bear no relationship to what has been offered on this side.
  No. 1, we did not offer a package of spending increases. We offered a 
series of amendments that were offered one at a time to increase 
resources for education, for homeland security, for national defense, 
and a series of other national priorities. Again, they were not offered 
as a package.
  Even if one were to consider them a package, they do not add up to 
$675 billion or $650 billion or $400 billion or $300 billion. It is 
$231 billion--$231 billion--all of it paid for by reducing the size of 
the tax cuts being proposed by the other side. The President proposed 
$1.6 trillion in tax cuts. The budget resolution offered over $1.3 
trillion out of the committee. It was over $1.3 trillion.
  The budget substitute I offered on our side reduced the deficit 
included in the President's budget by over $1.2 trillion. Yes, we had 
some additional spending, very modest. Over the 10 years, we would go 
to a total spending as a percentage of GDP at 19.3 percent compared to 
the budget resolution offered by our colleagues on the other side of 
18.8 percent, so slightly more spending over the years for education, 
for homeland security, for national defense, and we paid for the war in 
our substitute.
  This series of charts that were held up by the Senator from 
Pennsylvania bear no relationship in fact to amendments that were 
offered today by our side. I repeat, those amendments were not offered 
as a package. They were offered individually. Even if you count them 
all, they add up to $231 billion. Again, you cannot do that either 
because they were not offered as a package. Many of them were defeated. 
So if you offer a subsequent amendment, you cannot then add that to a 
defeated amendment.
  I do not know where he ever came up with the number $675 billion 
because it bears absolutely no relationship to what occurred today.
  I thought it was important to set the record straight, Mr. President. 
I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I might later go into what the amendments 
were. I think right now I would like to complete this day. It has been 
a long day, but a productive day at least, working our way through the 
amendments.
  For the information of our colleagues, I believe there are eight 
amendments still pending on the Democratic side. We worked through 32 
amendments. We still have a few amendments pending on the Republican 
side. I am not sure if any of those will require a rollcall vote--
possibly one or two, maybe more, but I doubt it. So we are well 
positioned to complete action, as we committed to do, by 4 o'clock 
tomorrow afternoon.
  I thank all of our colleagues. I think the tenor of the debate was 
positive. I did not agree with the outcome on one or two of the 
amendments, but that is part of the legislative process.


                           Amendment No. 425

  Mr. BAUCUS. Mr. President, I rise today to comment briefly on my vote 
against Senator Harkin's amendment this afternoon. I do so because I 
was faced with a very difficult decision. I care very deeply about the 
education programs that would be funded through this amendment, 
programs that include afterschool programs and vocational education 
programs. These are

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critical programs in schools across my State, and I hope we find a way 
to fund them.
  But I am forced to vote against this amendment because of another 
concern--my concern with mounting deficits.
  The budget resolution brought before us includes tax cuts that total 
$1.3 trillion. The budget also proposes that $725 billion of these tax 
cuts be enacted immediately, under the reconciliation process.
  Two years ago, we passed a $1.3 trillion tax cut. I supported that 
tax cut. But those were different times. We had a surplus. We did not 
foresee the significant decline in revenues, or the deficits that 
followed.
  This is not the time to reduce revenues by $725 billion. It would 
hurt our budget and our economy.
  Why is $725 billion in tax cuts inappropriate at this time?
  The most crucial problem is that it is not paid for. The budget 
resolution brought before us forecasts enormous deficits for almost the 
next decade. Reducing revenues by $725 billion adds to the already 
mounting deficits.
  In order to prevent the passage of tax cuts that would drive up the 
deficit and hurt our economy, I believe that we must reduce the size of 
this tax cut.
  I joined three of my colleagues in a letter that laid out these 
concerns--we pledged that we would not agree to tax cuts above $350 
billion. This is crucial. The Budget Committee approved $725 billion in 
tax cuts, and brought it to the Senate floor. Along with my colleagues, 
I promised to vote to bring this number down by $375 billion.
  In a narrowly divided Senate, it is important that both parties work 
together to come up with the appropriate spending and revenue targets 
for the budget. That is why I worked with both Democrats and 
Republicans. Together, we came up with a target of $350 billion for 
this tax cut, and we agreed that we would all stick to that number.
  As part of our commitment to try to reduce the size of the tax cut 
approved by the Budget Committee, we also agreed that we would not try 
to reduce the size of the tax cut below $350 billion. That means I am 
forced to make difficult decisions. In order to keep my commitment to a 
more responsible tax cut, I have to vote against funding priorities 
like the one presented by Senator Harkin.
  During tough times, we must make tough choices. I chose to commit to 
a responsible tax cut. A tax cut that will prevent worsening deficits 
that would hurt our economy.

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