[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 13708]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. LOTT. Today the Senate will resume consideration of the State 
Department authorization bill under a previous order. A cloture vote on 
the motion to proceed to H.R. 975, the steel import limitation bill, 
will take place at 12:15, with 40 minutes of debate on the motion prior 
to the vote.
  Following that vote, the Senate will stand in recess until 2:15 p.m. 
so the weekly party caucuses can meet. It is our intention to complete 
action on the State Department reauthorization bill during today's 
session of the Senate and to resume consideration of the agriculture 
appropriations bill.
  I thought we had reached an agreement as to exactly how to complete 
the State Department authorization bill late yesterday afternoon, but 
because of the absence of some Senators who needed to be consulted, we 
were not able to lock in the procedure and the time for completing that 
action. I hope we can complete it this morning and have a vote or votes 
on or in relation to the State Department authorization bill after the 
party caucuses at 2:15. When we go back to the agriculture 
appropriations bill, we would expect a number of votes this afternoon.
  Unfortunately, the Democratic leadership has chosen to confuse the 
issue and delay action on the agriculture appropriations bill by 
offering the Patients' Bill of Rights to this very important bill. We 
could work out an agreement otherwise, if they would be reasonable as 
to how we might consider that issue. But for now it is pending to the 
agriculture appropriations bill, and I would expect there would be a 
couple of votes on or in relation to that issue also.

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