[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Page 23615]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                      ISSUES IN THE LOTT AMENDMENT

  Mr. BROWNBACK. Mr. President, I would like to take a few minutes to 
speak in morning business on the issue of human cloning. On Monday, 
there will be a vote on the issue of the Lott amendment that contains 
the energy package that has been put forward by Senator Murkowski, and 
the moratorium on human cloning, the 6-month moratorium on human 
cloning that I put forward. Several colleagues have sponsored both of 
these amendments. It has been put together. There will be a cloture 
vote on this on Monday.
  I am asking our colleagues to support us being able to get this issue 
before the body for a final vote, to vote for cloture on the Lott 
amendment so we can get this issue in front of the body and get it 
decided.
  These are two critical issues. The issue of energy and our dependence 
on foreign oil sources is becoming more and more obvious to people 
around the country and around the world. We are just too dependent on 
other places, places that are not reliable suppliers to the United 
States.
  Oil from Iraq, as Senator Murkowski has talked about frequently, is 
certainly not a reliable supply to the United States. Yet we are 
dependent on it. There are growing questions about Saudi Arabia, about 
the reliability of Saudi Arabia and the oil resources from there. 
Clearly, we should be having an energy policy and an energy strategy to 
remove ourselves from some of the dependency, particularly in the 
Persian Gulf region, for our oil and natural gas supplies. We need to 
do this energy policy, and do it now.

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