[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Page 21357]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



  DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 
                            2000--Continued

  Mr. GORTON. Mr. President, I have now cleared the following request.
  I ask unanimous consent that no further amendments be in order to the 
pending Interior bill other than the managers' amendment or amendments 
on motions relative to the Hutchison royalties amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is 
so ordered.
  Mr. GORTON. Mr. President, I should like to make the following 
announcement. We will have that managers' amendment--I think there is 
only one that is possible; it may be in two sections--ready within the 
next half hour or so to present. It does represent an accommodation of 
the requests of many Members, with the understanding of all Members.
  I think it will take only a very few minutes to present and to have 
it accepted. At that point, we will have only the Hutchison amendment 
outstanding. The majority leader has reserved the right to ask for 
reconsideration of the cloture motion that was defeated yesterday. I 
suspect when he chooses to do that, we will in a relatively short 
period of time finish debate and dispose of the Hutchison amendment one 
way or another and then go to final passage of the Interior 
appropriations bill.
  That means, as far as I am concerned, I am going to vacate the floor 
at this point. Whenever the chairman of the Subcommittee on 
Transportation wants to start his bill, he can do so. I will ask him 
for the right to interrupt at some point when I am ready with the 
managers' amendment and present it then. I see no reason to keep the 
Senate from moving forward now.
  I yield the floor and I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. SHELBY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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