Chuck Grassley

Mr. GRASSLEY

Mr. GRASSLEY. I announce for the leader that in light of this agreement, there will be three rollcall votes between noon and 1:00 p.m. tomorrow.

Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, as in executive session, I ask unanimous consent that on Wednesday, following the vote in relation to the drug amendment to the bankruptcy bill, the Senate proceed to executive session for the consideration of calendar Nos. 399 to 400, the nomination of Carol Moseley-Braun to be ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa. I further ask unanimous consent that the Senate then immediately proceed to a vote on the confirmation of the nomination and, following the vote, the President then immediately be notified of the Senate's action, and the Senate then proceed to the nomination of Linda Morgan and, following that confirmation vote, the President be immediately notified and the Senate then resume executive session.

Mr. GRASSLEY

Mr. GRASSLEY. I ask for the yeas and nays.

Mr. GRASSLEY. Is the Durbin amendment the first vote?

Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I will yield the Senator 1 more minute, the Senator from Pennsylvania 2 minutes, and the Senator from Alabama 3 minutes. That will be the remainder of our time.

Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I yield 5 minutes to the Senator from Texas.

Mr. GRASSLEY. The Senator's 15 minutes are coming within the framework of our voting at 5 o'clock.

Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, will the Senator yield for a question?

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Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I yield 20 minutes to the Senator from North Carolina.

Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, how much time do we have on our side?

Mr. GRASSLEY. OK. I will withhold and yield the floor.

Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, another request. After the 5 p.m. votes, on behalf of the prime sponsor of the pending second-degree amendment, No. 2518, I ask unanimous consent to withdraw the amendment in order for the Senator from Texas, Mrs. Hutchison, to offer a second-degree amendment.

Mr. GRASSLEY. Yes. Those are the amendments you spoke to me about this morning, banking amendments?

Mr. GRASSLEY. Yes. We will have equal time on our side for this Senator to allocate to you.

Mr. GRASSLEY. I think it would be fair, for the purpose of our responding to the desires of your side to have time for your folks who are offering the amendments to have adequate time, that we not let the Senator from New York go beyond what we have agreed to, or then I am going to be subject to criticism at 5 o'clock that somebody on your side did not get enough time to offer their amendment.

Mr. GRASSLEY. It says here you shall have up to 2 minutes on the amendment, then lay it aside.

Mr. GRASSLEY. Yes.

Mr. GRASSLEY. And we had not had debate on them either. So Members on that side of the aisle would be secure that they had an opportunity to thoroughly debate their amendments, that is why we reserved this time.

Mr. GRASSLEY. We are suggesting for the Schumer amendment, according to the agreement, because the other side of the aisle had suggested in the preliminary negotiations that we had on this--negotiations which fell through--that it was very necessary to have a lot of time to devote to debate these amendments on which we had not had votes.

Mr. GRASSLEY. Yes.

Mr. GRASSLEY. We will modify the request accordingly. Mr. DODD addressed the Chair.

Mr. GRASSLEY. To answer your question with a further question, this would be to call up, spend a little bit of time explaining them, and lay them aside?

Mr. GRASSLEY. After the votes.

Mr. GRASSLEY. We have it stated here.

Mr. GRASSLEY

Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Governmental Affairs Committee be authorized to meet on Tuesday, November 9, 1999, at 10:00 a.m., for a hearing entitled ``Private Banking and Money Laundering: A Case Study of Opportunities and Vulnerabilities.''