[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 14603]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                                PROGRAM

  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I would like to put all Members on notice 
that just under 40 amendments were filed on the marriage penalty 
reconciliation bill. Those votes will occur in stacked sequence 
beginning at 6:15 p.m. on Monday. Therefore, all Senators should 
prepare for a late night session on Monday with a lot of recorded 
votes.
  Mr. REED. Mr. President, if I could ask my friend to yield, we have 
40 amendments filed. I hope the Senator will work on his side as we 
will on our side. There is some duplication. It may not be necessary to 
have votes on each amendment. There may be other things that develop 
during Monday. We may not need all of those votes.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I concur with my friend and colleague 
from Nevada. I think for a lot of these amendments recorded votes are 
not necessary. A lot of these amendments will fall on procedure because 
they won't be germane to the reconciliation bill.
  I will work with my friend from Nevada energetically to reduce the 
number of amendments on this side, as I am sure he will on the other 
side, to see if we can't expedite the matter and finish this 
reconciliation bill to provide marriage penalty relief for married 
couples, and hopefully complete it on Monday evening.
  Mr. President, as a reminder, stacked votes are scheduled also for 
9:45 a.m. on Tuesday with respect to the Interior bill. Therefore, 
Members should plan to stay in or around the Senate Chamber for those 
stacked votes on Tuesday morning as well. It is our intention to 
complete the interior bill on Tuesday and move to other matters.
  We are going to have a busy couple of weeks. We had a fruitful week 
this week. We passed the Defense authorization bill. We almost 
completed the Interior bill. We completed the repeal of the death tax 
bill. This has been a good week. We have 2 more weeks prior to the 
August recess, which are going to be very aggressive. Next week we plan 
to take up the energy and water appropriations bill and the Agriculture 
appropriations bill.

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