[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Page 6476]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. DeWINE. Mr. President, on behalf of Majority Leader Lott, I have 
the following announcement.
  Today the Senate will be in a period for morning business until 3 
p.m. Following morning business, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Senate resume consideration of the majority leader's motion to proceed 
to S. 1, the education reform bill.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 
ordered.
  Mr. DeWINE. Mr. President, again on behalf of Majority Leader Lott, 
Senators are reminded that cloture was filed on the motion to proceed 
to the education bill last week. That vote will occur at 9:30 a.m. 
tomorrow. Following the vote, the Senate is expected to begin the 30 
hours of postcloture debate. It is hoped that the debate time will not 
be necessary and that the Senate can begin action on that bill during 
Tuesday's session. Senators are further advised that they should be 
prepared for votes throughout the week.
  Mr. REID. Will the Senator yield?
  Mr. DeWINE. I certainly will yield.
  Mr. REID. I stated before the distinguished Senator from Ohio 
arrived, I think there should be some consideration given to vitiating 
the cloture vote. I hope the Senator will transfer that information to 
the majority leader.
  Mr. DeWINE. I will, indeed.
  Mr. REID. We believe, on this side on the substantive issues, 
everybody is almost there. It appears the only difference we have is 
with the dollar numbers. The motion to proceed will be agreed to 
overwhelmingly anyway. It seems to me it will set the wrong tone for 
this important legislation if we have to go to it by a cloture motion 
having been filed.
  Mr. DeWINE. I thank my colleague.

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