[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 46]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                  UNANIMOUS CONSENT AGREEMENT--S. 625

  Mr. GRAMS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the agreement 
with respect to the bankruptcy bill be vitiated at the request of the 
majority leader or minority leader up to the hour of 12 noon on 
Tuesday.
  Mr. REID. Reserving the right to object.
  Mr. President, this new unanimous consent request literally just came 
to our attention. I want the record to be very clear that the minority, 
the Democrats, have worked very hard throughout today to obtain the 
unanimous consent we have already agreed to. If the bankruptcy bill 
does not go forward, it is not the fault of the minority.
  We have done everything we can. We have spent all day coming up with 
a unanimous consent agreement. I have talked to Senators literally all 
over the country, getting them to agree to the unanimous consent which 
has already been agreed to and is now spread across the record of this 
Senate.
  In short, I hope that the majority leader would not object to the 
unanimous consent agreement that is already in the record. I 
acknowledge that the majority leader wants permission, and we are going 
to grant him that permission, to vitiate the unanimous consent 
agreement prior to noon tomorrow. I hope he does not do that. It would 
be a shame for this body and a shame for the country if this objection 
is made because it will take down the bankruptcy bill for the rest of 
the year. That would be a shame because we have already worked too hard 
in the effort to get this legislation passed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. GRAMS. I thank the Senator from Nevada for all his efforts.

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