[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Page 25087]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, today the Senate will resume debate on the 
tax legislation. Debate will take place throughout the morning with a 
vote expected in the early afternoon. The Senate is also expected to 
have a vote on the motion to proceed to the conference report to 
accompany the D.C. appropriations bill, which contains the Commerce-
Justice-State appropriations language. A short time agreement on the 
conference report is anticipated with a vote on adoption to occur 
today.
  A vote on the continuing resolution will also be necessary prior to 
today's adjournment. Therefore, Senators can expect up to four votes 
during this afternoon's session of the Senate.
  I thank my colleagues for their attention.
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Nevada is recognized.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I say through the Chair to my friend from 
Oklahoma, it would seem, based upon the complexity of the tax bill and 
the difficult problems that we have with the Commerce-State-Justice 
bill, that this debate is not going to take place in a couple of hours. 
I think it is going to take a long time. I have to give some assurance 
to the people on our side of the aisle that I would say it is going to 
be a long day. I very seriously doubt there will be votes early this 
day.
  I suggest to my friends on the minority side, and I think it should 
have some resonance on the majority side, it is very likely we will be 
doing things here tomorrow. Remember, we have, among other things, a 
24-hour CR and we have some of the most important measures we have had 
to deal with this entire Congress; that is, this $250 billion tax bill, 
plus Commerce-State-Justice, which is about $40 billion. A vast 
majority of the issues have not been debated on the Senate floor. These 
are ``first impression'' for most of us. So I think we are going to 
have to talk about them to some degree.

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