[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 57]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                       ORDER FOR RECESS TOMORROW

  Mr. LOTT. I also ask unanimous consent that the Senate stand in 
recess on Wednesday from the hours of 12:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. so that 
the weekly party conferences can meet.
  Those conferences would have occurred, I believe, today--I know in 
our case; I think with the Democrats, too. But in view of the weather, 
we will reschedule them for tomorrow, and thus the necessity of this 
recess.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 
ordered.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, if I could through you to the majority 
leader indicate that certainly the right decision was made today. I 
think we have become kind of spoiled back here in Washington; we have 
had such mild winters. If we reflect back on the days of our service in 
the House, which was not too long ago, I say to the majority leader, it 
seems to me we used to have bad weather and we had to make preparations 
for snow days. I remember the Reagan inaugurations; those were bitter 
cold events about this time of year. So the right decision was made. I 
look forward to working with the leader and the majority in moving 
legislation along. We have made great progress on the bankruptcy bill, 
and I look forward to completing that in the near future.
  Mr. LOTT. Let me say to the Senator, being from the Mississippi gulf 
coast, I am not quite sure I know how to appreciate all this white 
stuff since we do not have it, but I think we made the right decision, 
a safe decision, for our colleagues and for our staffs.
  I thank the Senator for the work he has done on the bankruptcy bill. 
Without the work of the Senator last year, we would not be in the 
position of being able to finish the pending amendments and, hopefully, 
the entire bill by tomorrow. I know the Senator is still working on it. 
We did vitiate the cloture vote yesterday so that that will not occur, 
and we did lock in an agreement as to how to go forward, what 
amendments would be considered and voted on, to complete its 
consideration. I know the Senator has indicated he thinks we can do 
that. So has Senator Daschle. And we will work with the Senators to try 
to make that occur.
  I thank the Senator for his effort. I hope he will continue to do 
that.

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