Pete Domenici

Mr. DOMENICI

Mr. DOMENICI. No, Senator; we want to wait until the time has expired. You want to get the yeas and nays now?

Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, on behalf of the leader, I propound the following unanimous consent request, and it has been cleared on both sides. It has nothing to do with the amendment that is pending. I ask unanimous consent the pending motion and any motions or amendments regarding the appointment of conferees to the budget resolution be stacked to occur in the order in which they were offered at the conclusion or yielding back of time on the motions. I further ask that there be 2 minutes before each vote for the explanation and the votes in the sequence after the first vote be limited to 10 minutes.

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Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary, be authorized to hold an Executive business meeting during the session of the Senate on Thursday, March 25, 1999, at 10:00 a.m. in Room 226 of the Senate Dirksen Office Building.

Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Subcommittee on Public Health, be authorized to meet for a hearing on Bioterrorism during the session of the Senate on Thursday, March 25, 1999, at 9:30 a.m.

Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent on behalf of the Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia to meet on Thursday, March 25, 1999, at 10:00 a.m. for a hearing on Multiple Program Coordination in Early Childhood Education.

Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Thursday, March 25, 1999 at 10:00 am to hold a hearing.

Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources be granted permission to meet during the session of the Senate on Thursday, March 25, for purposes of conducting a full committee hearing which is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. The purpose of this oversight hearing is to receive testimony on the economic impacts of the Kyoto Protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on March 25, 1999, to conduct a hearing on ``Bankruptcy Reform: Financial Services Issues.''

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Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the vote occur on the first of the stacked amendments, and that the first vote be a 20-minute vote instead of 15, thus making up for the 5 minutes we might have misled people on.

Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays on the amendment.

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

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

Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, Senator Specter is not here. I know he would move to waive the point of order. So in his behalf, I move to waive the point of order and ask for the yeas and nays.

Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote, and I move to lay that motion on the table.

Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, before you call up the vote, I remind Senators that vote was supposed to be over 15 minutes ago. It is almost 30 minutes. This one is supposed to be 10 minutes under the unanimous consent agreement. I am going to work very hard to see that we stick to 10. The next one right after it is 10 minutes. If we are here in 10, we will get two of them done in 20 minutes. So if we call the regular order, don't be surprised if you miss a vote. amendment no. 176, as modified

Mr. DOMENICI. Senator Roth has 1 minute and the other side has 1 minute.

Mr. DOMENICI. I move to lay that motion on the table. The motion to lay on the table was agreed to. Amendment No. 177

Mr. DOMENICI. I ask unanimous consent that Senator Ashcroft be made a cosponsor of the Abraham amendment.

Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, first, this is an anti-tax-relief amendment. Secondly, compared to the resolution, we increase taxes $320 billion. And there is absolutely no relationship between this amendment and Medicare, no matter how much the distinguished Senator from Massachusetts wants to say that there is. There is no relationship. This money sits around, can be spent. It is applied to the debt. We already apply more of the surplus to the debt than the President did with the Kennedy amendment. And last, we have already voted on it. We voted on Conrad. It is almost identical. Having said that, I move to table and ask for the yeas and nays.

Mr. DOMENICI. That is correct.

Mr. DOMENICI. We did not get a UC.

Mr. DOMENICI. I was not here.

Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President and Senators, I was not here, but I do not challenge what anybody has said. Somebody else was here in my stead. I think it was--no. Was I here?

Mr. DOMENICI. OK. My recollection is getting weaker by the hour here.

Mr. DOMENICI. But if you let me try to fix it, just give me a moment. How much time is left on the amendment that is known as the Ashcroft- Gorton?