[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 17572]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. HAGEL. Mr. President, today the Senate will resume debate on the 
China PNTR legislation. Under the order, the time until 10 a.m. will be 
equally divided for closing remarks on the Byrd amendment regarding 
subsidies. Therefore, the first vote of the day will occur at 10 a.m. I 
understand there may be a possibility that Senator Byrd will request a 
voice vote rather than a rollcall vote. But depending on that request, 
following the vote, debate will resume on the Thompson amendment No. 
4132. The Senate will recess for the weekly party conferences from 
12:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. At 2:15, Senator Helms will be recognized to 
offer an amendment which will be debated at that time. Further 
amendments are anticipated; therefore, Senators can expect votes 
throughout the day and into the evening.
  I thank my colleagues for their attention.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nevada.
  Mr. REID. I say, through the Chair to my friend from Nebraska, we 
were also informed that Senator Byrd would agree to a voice vote on 
this. So I think it would be to everyone's best interests that those 
who have amendments to offer would offer the amendments as quickly as 
possible.
  When Senator Byrd gets here, it is my understanding he wants to say a 
few words prior to the voice vote on his amendment. But I think it 
would be appropriate that the Senate be advised that there likely will 
not be a recorded vote at 10 o'clock this morning, so Senators should 
be about their other business.
  I also say to the acting leader, we hope those who are managing the 
various appropriations bills that have passed the Senate and have 
passed the House would do whatever they can to get the conference 
process underway. We have a tremendous amount of work to do. And while 
we are not debating appropriations bills in the evening, as we were 
last week, there is still a lot of work to be done on those. We hope 
the conferences, including engaging the administration, would be 
ongoing at this time so we can have an end game around here to complete 
those bills.

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