[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Page 21770]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]





                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, this week we have some legislation we must 
complete because we do have a Jewish holiday Monday and Tuesday, with 
the first vote not occurring until next Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. Then we 
have to do the HUD and Veterans appropriations bill next week, which I 
am sure will take at least the remainder of that week, 3 days.
  So here is what we have to do today and tomorrow if necessary. We 
will vote at 10:10 on the Treasury-Postal Service appropriations 
conference report. We hope to be able to stack at that time a second 
vote on the Transportation appropriations bill now pending before the 
Senate. Senator Shelby is here and working on an amendment or 
amendments we may have to deal with. So we will just have to see how 
that is going to work out. But we want to complete all amendments and 
have final passage on the Transportation appropriations bill, and 
probably we need to have a recorded vote on that so we will not be 
faced with having to find time for a recorded vote after it comes back from conference.
  Then we will probably move to the Defense authorization conference 
report which was completed by the House just yesterday. The conferees 
did a great job. This is a good bill, and we need to get that vote 
established.
  We also have pending the District of Columbia conference report. I 
understand some time may be needed to talk about it and a recorded vote 
will be required, but we will do that today or tomorrow if that is 
necessary.
  In addition, we are working to clear three judges. One of them may 
require some time, but we can do that today and tonight or tomorrow.

  If the weather does become a concern later on in the day, 
midafternoon, and it is necessary for us to quit early because of the 
concern for safety, we will be back at 9:30 Friday to complete this 
list of items. I would like to be able to say let's take a rain day and 
go home, but we do not have the time to do that. I do not think it is 
really necessary. So we will begin immediate consideration of the 
Transportation appropriations bill, and when the amendments are worked 
out and a final vote can occur on final passage, we will notify the 
Members, but we will have a vote at 10:10. We do expect votes 
throughout the day. We will watch the weather. And we do have the 
option of being in from 9:30 until noon tomorrow.
  I thank the Chair. I yield the floor. I understand we have some 
morning business requests.

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