[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Page 7136]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES ACT--Continued

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alaska.


                           Amendment No. 3139

    (Purpose: To provide for early learning programs, and for other 
                               purposes)

  Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I have an amendment at the desk and ask 
for its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the amendment.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Alaska [Mr. Stevens], for himself, Mr. 
     Kennedy, Mr. Jeffords, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Domenici, Mr. Bond, Mr. 
     Kerry, Mr. Voinovich, Mr. Lautenberg, Mrs. Murray, Mr. 
     Cochran, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. Smith of Oregon, Mr. Durbin, Mr. 
     L. Chafee, Mr. Baucus, Mr. Murkowski, Mr. Robb, Mr. 
     Rockefeller, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Wellstone, Mrs. Feinstein, Ms. 
     Mikulski, Ms. Snowe, Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Kerrey, Mr. Specter, and 
     Mr. Warner proposes an amendment numbered 3139.

  Mr. STEVENS. I ask unanimous consent reading of the amendment be 
dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  (The text of the amendment is printed in today's Record under 
``Amendments Submitted.'')
  Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I yield to the Senator from West Virginia 
to make a short statement.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from West Virginia.

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