[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 1469]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. BROWNBACK. Mr. President, today the Senate will immediately 
proceed to a rollcall vote on final passage of H.R. 1883, the Iran 
Nonproliferation Act of 1999. Following the vote, the Senate will 
resume consideration of S. 1134, the education savings account 
legislation. It is hoped that an agreement regarding relevant 
amendments will be made in order to have a substantive debate on that 
tax legislation.
  In addition, the Senate may consider other legislative or executive 
items available for action; therefore, Senators can expect further 
votes this afternoon. As previously announced, there will be no votes 
on Friday. I thank my colleagues for their attention.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nevada.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, before the roll is called, I would like to 
make a comment.
  Representative James Garfield, who later became President of the 
United States, in trying to get a bill through Congress, said in a 
letter to an adviser:

       When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional 
     election is lifted, we shall, I hope, be in a better temper 
     to legislate.

  I hope that we would all keep that in mind. We have congressional 
elections and we have a Presidential election upcoming. I hope we can 
work our way through to get to some of the issues we need to be talking 
about. I hope that the majority would allow us, if we are going to talk 
about education, to go to an education bill and offer amendments and 
work our way through the process. The fact that we are in the midst of 
Presidential primaries and congressional elections coming should not 
prevent us from going to the things we need to be doing. Education is 
certainly one of them. I hope we could do that in a full and fair 
debate on education.

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