Pete Domenici

Mr. DOMENICI

Mr. DOMENICI. I yield the floor.

Mr. DOMENICI. I thank the Senator.

Mr. DOMENICI. I thank the Senator. Mr. CONRAD addressed the Chair.

Mr. DOMENICI. May I ask the Senator: The other part of the Government that has basic science research is the Department of Energy. I understand that you included that in the triad. We have done NSF and the National Institutes of Health. You have added for the National Science Foundation and added $469 million for DOE basic research. Is that correct?

Mr. DOMENICI. May we have order, Mr. President.

Mr. DOMENICI. Before yielding to Senator Mikulski, may I ask the Senator a question?

Mr. DOMENICI. We plan to have a second degree. We will have to work on it in due course. But we will have a second-degree amendment to that. We don't have any formal agreement, excepting that a series of Senators are going to be recognized--bipartisan or otherwise--to send an amendment to the desk and talk about it and be limited to 15 minutes so we can have enough time to get them all in. We are going to yield 12 minutes for your team. Is that satisfactory?

Mr. DOMENICI. I don't want anybody to think we round out those big numbers. But sometimes we refer to $93.75 billion as a hundred.

Mr. DOMENICI. We will go 12. That is fine. Mr. President, I want to make sure there is no misunderstanding. Just because we are not offering a second-degree amendment, we are not precluded from offering a second-degree amendment before we vote, from everything I understand. If anybody on the other side has a contrary reading, I wish they would raise that issue now. Let me ask one simple question of the distinguished Senator from New Jersey. Does this amendment take $100 billion out of the tax cut and put $50 billion of it against the debt and $50 billion of it for increased spending in various environmental areas?

Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I know Senators Bond and Mikulski are ready to proceed under our previous arrangement. I say to Senator Bond that he is going to have 10 minutes on his amendment. I would like to take a couple of minutes now to explain something about the process, but I don't want to take away from anybody else's time.

Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, if we had time on this amendment, we yield it back.

Mr. DOMENICI. Sure. We will try to accommodate all the Senators, saying no more than 15 minutes on each of the amendments. I yield the floor. Amendment No. 215

Mr. DOMENICI. I ask the ranking member, we read off seven names, you added an eighth; can we say the eighth is Senator Wellstone?

Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I understand the distinguished Senator from Delaware wants to speak for 5 minutes with the time coming off the resolution. That is all right with me. Can we propose the following, not as a UC, but as a planning tool? We have done it before. Senator Frist on HIV and Senator Corzine on energy; Senator Bond, Senator Mikulski, Senator Dodd on child care; Senator Voinovich on process; Senator Hollings on stimulus; Senator Allen and Senator Brownback on process. That is what we are trying to accomplish.

Mr. DOMENICI. I thank the Senator for reminding us of that. Senators should know that.

Mr. DOMENICI. That is correct.

Mr. DOMENICI. Wraparound right.

Mr. DOMENICI. Yes, both the minority and majority have an opportunity at the end, in the order stated, in the order of minority, majority leader--in that sequence--but they both have that right.

Mr. DOMENICI. Yes, it is. We hope to make some impression on our friends that we do not have to do them all. The Senator is correct.

Mr. DOMENICI. That is correct.

Mr. DOMENICI. Yes, I will. I ask unanimous consent that disposition of the last two amendments by the two leaders and final vote on the concurrent resolution occur no earlier than 2:30 p.m., Friday, April 6, 2001--tomorrow.

Mr. DOMENICI. The Senator is correct.

Mr. DOMENICI. No, it does not.

Mr. DOMENICI. That is correct. That is what it says, but if it needs to be further clarified, I accept that clarification.

Mr. DOMENICI. That is correct.