[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 17598]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, the Senate will immediately begin debate on 
the resolution to reinstate rule XVI. By a previous order, there will 
be 6 hours of debate on the resolution with one amendment in order 
regarding scope in conference.
  As a reminder, a cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the 
House-passed juvenile justice bill was filed also on Thursday. That 
vote, then, will take place in a series of stacked votes this afternoon 
at 5:30, along with the rule XVI resolution and the amendment regarding 
scope in conference.
  Further, it is the intention of the majority leader to begin debate 
on the Interior appropriations bill, and the reconciliation legislation 
will also come up this week, probably on Wednesday. Of course, under 
the rules, 20 hours of debate is permitted, and I am sure there will be 
a number of amendments, so we will have to begin on that promptly 
sometime early Wednesday morning.
  Senators should be prepared to vote throughout each day and into the 
evenings, although we probably will not go late into the evening today 
other than the three stacked votes. But on Tuesday, Wednesday, and 
Thursday late evenings should be anticipated in order to get this 
important work done.


                                Rule XVI

  This is a day I have been waiting for because we have needed for some 
time now to reinstate rule XVI which would make a point of order in 
order against legislation on an appropriations bill.
  More and more, the Senate has been abusing that process, making it 
very difficult to move the appropriations bills through the Senate, 
even though there is a lot of work done on both sides of the aisle by 
the leadership. For an example, last Thursday we would not have 
completed the State-Justice-Commerce appropriations bill had it not 
been for the dedicated efforts of Senator Reid in his position as whip 
on the Democratic side, working with the chairman of the committee and 
the ranking member of the committee to get that legislation through. 
This is a responsible thing to do; the Senate will run better and we 
will still have the opportunity to offer amendments on legislative 
issues. So I hope, when the day is over, we will have reinstated rule 
XVI, and we will all be better off because of it.
  Mr. President, I yield the floor.

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