[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15851]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                           ORDER OF BUSINESS

  Mr. LOTT. Madam President, we have worked this morning, in some ways 
long distance because Senators who have been involved in these 
discussions are on their way back, and we have been trying to get 
agreements on how to proceed. We have not gotten it worked out yet. But 
in a full measure of precaution, because we want to make sure we are 
doing everything we can to complete our work this week, it is necessary 
for me to go ahead and move to call up an appropriations bill and the 
intelligence authorization bill and file cloture. They would then be 
ripened on Wednesday. We would be prepared to vote on cloture, if 
necessary, on Wednesday.
  It is my hope that, through communications and meetings that will 
take place--perhaps later on this day or in the morning--we will be 
able to vitiate that because there is no need, really, to have to 
invoke cloture on the motions to proceed. But it is the only way I can 
begin the discussion and be assured that we get to the substance of 
these two bills some time this week.

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