Robert Dole

Mr. DOLE

Mr. DOLE. No second-degree amendments will be in order.

Mr. DOLE. I move to lay that motion on the table. The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.

Mr. DOLE. As I understand, the Senator from Arizona, Senator McCain, is prepared to accept the 20 minutes equally divided time agreement; so I ask unanimous consent that Senator McCain be recognized to offer his amendment regarding the Olympics, and there be 20 minutes equally divided prior to a motion to table, and that no second-degree amendments be in order prior to the vote on the motion to table.

Mr. DOLE. After that, as I understand it, the Senator from Vermont is prepared; if not, the Senator from Wisconsin is prepared to proceed.

Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, let me indicate there are two more votes in this series. Under the order, there will be 4 minutes, if necessary. Most of us were here and heard the debate. I do not see why it is necessary to have 4 minutes. Maybe somebody wants to take the 4 minutes and have 2 minutes on each side to review the amendment before the vote. We will move to table the Levin amendment. But before we do that, I wanted to indicate that there have been a number of us here through the evening trying to determine how many more amendments will be offered by Members on this side of the aisle and on that side of the aisle so we can put together a finite list. We started off with 185 this morning. We have worked through a number of those. There are 26, I think, now in the process of being cleared, and 16 have been cleared, and there are 10 in the process. There may be additional amendments that can be cleared. We are trying to determine whether we want to stay all night and finish this, if it is possible to finish it if we stay until 5 or 6 o'clock, or whether we can work out some agreement here and get some smaller list, stack some votes and have those votes following disposition of the Treasury-Postal appropriations bill tomorrow. There are a lot of people--probably 50, 60, or 75 relevant amendments-- Republicans and Democrats who have put ``relevant.'' We do not know what the amendments are or whether they intend to be offered. We learned from one Senator who has six, he is going to offer all six. I hope he wins the prize so somebody else will not try to be 100 percent. But, in any event, during these next two votes, if people have amendments they are going to offer, I wish they would tell Senator Nunn or Senator Thurmond so we can make some announcement following the last vote. Amendment No. 2122

Mr. DOLE. We will work that out if we can. What is your time agreement?

Mr. DOLE. There may be a second-degree amendment to yours. Is that a problem?

Mr. DOLE. Can I get back to the Senator from Vermont?

Mr. DOLE. So, following the debate on the Kohl amendment, but prior to the vote, we will take up the amendment of the Senator from California, Senator Boxer; 10 minutes equally divided. Then we will have back-to-back rollcall votes.

Mr. DOLE. The time starts to run for 30 minutes.

Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.

Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.

Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, we are going to get time agreements on three amendments here so that some of our colleagues who have obligations off the Hill for the next hour and a half can do that and come back and have the votes stacked at that time. First, I ask unanimous consent that the amendment of the Senator from Iowa, [Mr. Harkin], concerning burden sharing be considered under the following time limits: 35 minutes; 25 minutes to Senator Harkin and 10 minutes to Senator Thurmond; and further, that no second-degree amendments be in order prior to a motion to table.

Mr. DOLE. The Levin amendment on the Guard-Reserve package I ask unanimous consent be considered under the following time limitation: 30 minutes; 20 minutes to the Senator from Michigan, Senator Levin, and 10 minutes to Senator Thurmond; and that no second-degree amendment be in order prior to a motion to table.

Mr. DOLE. And Senator Glenn from Ohio wanted an hour, so I ask unanimous consent the amendment of the Senator from Ohio, Senator Glenn, concerning service academies be considered under the following time limitation: 40 minutes, divided between Senator Glenn, who has 30 minutes, and then Senator Thurmond has 10 minutes; and no second-degree amendments be in order prior to a motion to table.

Mr. DOLE. Madam President, I wonder if I might, without taking any time from anybody--I will take it out of my leader time--propound a unanimous-consent request that has been cleared on each side.

Mr. DOLE. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that at 9 a.m. on Saturday, the Senate begin consideration of H.R. 2020, Treasury, Postal Service appropriations bill, and at that time the pending business be the committee amendment on page 76, line 10 through page 76 line 17, and that it be limited to the following: 3 hours to be equally divided between Senators Nickles and Mikulski, or their designees; and that following the conclusion or yielding back of time, the Senate proceed to vote on or relation to the committee amendment, and that no amendments be in order during the pendency of the committee amendment.

Mr. DOLE. I move to lay that motion on the table. The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.

Mr. DOLE. So could I send this to the desk and say this is the new-- do we have any amendments on this side? Are there any amendments to add to this?

Mr. DOLE. Madam President, will the Senator yield?

Mr. DOLE. The time has not started running until you offer the amendment.

Mr. DOLE. We are making an inquiry.

Mr. DOLE

Mr. DOLE. The amendment by Senator McCain will be next. That will be second-degreed by Senator Dodd. Following disposition of that, it will be Senator Bumpers' amendment, 30 minutes. Following that will be the DOE amendment which will take about 2 hours.

Mr. DOLE. If I can get consent, Senator Bumpers offers his amendment regarding export loan guarantees. There will be 30 minutes for debate divided in the usual form, with no second-degree amendments to be in order, and following the conclusion or yielding back of the time the Senate lay aside the amendment. That will follow the amendments by Senator McCain and----

Mr. DOLE. Hopefully you are working it down. [[Page S 11297]]