[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 3953]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  NATIONAL LABORATORIES PARTNERSHIP IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 2001--Continued

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I call for the regular order relating to the 
Feinstein amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The amendment is now pending.


                Amendment No. 3079 To Amendment No. 2989

                   (Purpose: To provide a substitute)

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I send an amendment to the desk.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Nevada [Mr. Reid], for himself and Mr. 
     Crapo, proposes an amendment numbered 3079 to amendment No. 
     2989.

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, 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 ``Text 
of Amendments.'')
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I have offered this amendment. I wish to 
make a brief statement in regard thereto. But my friend, the minority 
assistant leader, is in the Chamber. We have some business we would 
like to transact.

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