[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 21]
[Senate]
[Page 29069]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   UNANIMOUS-CONSENT REQUEST--S. 2217

  Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
proceed to the immediate consideration of S. 2217, a bill to extend the 
taxable income limit on percentage depletion allowance for oil and 
natural gas produced from marginal properties, and that the bill be 
read a third time and passed. I further ask that the bill then be held 
at the desk until the House companion arrives and that all after the 
enacting clause be stricken, the text of the Senate-passed bill be 
inserted, and the House bill, as amended, be read a third time and 
passed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Mr. BAUCUS. Mr. President, reserving the right to object, I make the 
same request of the Senator from Oklahoma.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from Oklahoma so agree?
  Mr. INHOFE. Same response.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Montana.
  Mr. BAUCUS. Hearing the Senator's response to this long litany of 
requests of tax measures, which the Senator knows can in no way be 
passed in the Senate in this way, but also knows that many will be 
acted upon later this year, I must object.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard.
  The Senator from Oklahoma.

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