[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Page 24095]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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           UNANIMOUS-CONSENT AGREEMENT--S. 1650 AND H.R. 2606

  Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, we are trying to move this bill on 
Health,Health Human Services, and Education. We are seeking short time 
agreements so we can finish this bill by the close of business 
tomorrow. Senator Harkin and I, Senator Reid and Senator Coverdell's 
staff, are trying to get that done. We have not been able to move ahead 
at the moment because we cannot get consent to set aside the pending 
Nickles amendment, second-degree amendment. We are going to proceed now 
to foreign operations. We have consent on a proposal, which I am about 
to make.
  I ask unanimous consent the pending first- and second-degree 
amendments be laid aside and the Senate now proceed to the conference 
report to accompany the foreign operations bill and there be 1 hour for 
debate equally divided; the conference report should be considered 
read.
  I further ask the votes in relation to the pending amendment and the 
conference report occur following the use or yielding back of the time, 
and the votes occur in a stacked sequence with the second vote to be 10 
minutes in duration.
  Mr. REID. Reserving the right to object, and I shall not object, it 
is my understanding, then, we would vote first on the foreign 
operations conference report or the amendment of Senator Nickles? Which 
do you want to vote on first?
  Mr. SPECTER. Vote first on the conference report, since we will be 
taking that up.
  Mr. REID. No objection.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, therefore Senators may expect votes to 
occur perhaps as early as 11:45. We have lost about a half hour waiting 
for this transition, so it is my hope that although we have the 
unanimous consent agreement for 1 hour, we might accomplish the debate 
in a half hour and finish at 11:45, where we could then be expected to 
proceed to a vote. If the managers insist on taking the full hour, then 
the vote will start at 12:15. But it is hoped, so we can move this bill 
along, to repeat, that we can have the time yielded back and start the 
vote as early as 11:45.

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