Judd Gregg

Mr. GREGG

Mr. GREGG. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the full Committee on Environment and Public Works be granted permission to meet to consider pending business Wednesday, July 22, 1998, at 9:00 a.m., hearing room (SD-406).

Mr. GREGG. 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 Wednesday, July 22, for purposes of conducting a full committee hearing which is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. The purpose of this hearing is to consider the nomination of Bill Richardson to be Secretary of Energy.

Mr. GREGG. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Rules and Administration be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Wednesday, July 22, 1998 at 2 p.m., to vote on the nominations of: Scott E. Thomas, of the District of Columbia, to be a member of the Federal Election Commission for a term expiring April 30, 2003 (reappointment); David M. Mason, of Virginia, to be a member of the Federal Election Commission for a term expiring April 30, 2003, vice Trevor Alexander McClurg Potter, resigned; Darryl R. Wold, of California, to be a member of the Federal Election Commission for a term expiring April 30, 2001, vice Joan D. Aikens, term expired; and, Karl L. Sandstrom, of Washington, to be a member of the Federal Election Commission for a term expiring April 30, 2001, vice John Warren McGarry, term expired.

Mr. GREGG. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Labor and Human Resources be authorized to meet in executive session during the session of the Senate on Wednesday, July 22, 1998, at 9:30 a.m.

Mr. GREGG. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and the House Committee on Resources be authorized to meet during open session on Wednesday, July 22, 1998 at 9 a.m., to conduct a Joint Hearing on S. 1770, to elevate the Director of the Indian Health Service to Assistant Secretary for Health & Human Services; and H.R. 3782, Indian Trust Fund Accounts. The hearing will be held in room 106 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

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Mr. GREGG. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes it business today, it stand in adjournment until 9 a.m., Thursday, July 23. I further ask that when the Senate reconvenes on Thursday, immediately following the prayer, the routine requests through the morning hour be granted and the Senate then resume consideration of the Craig amendment to S. 2260, the Commerce-State- Justice appropriations bill.

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

Mr. GREGG. Mr. President, I remind the Members, this is a 10-minute vote, and the faster we can get it done, the faster we can get out.

Mr. GREGG. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent at this time that the Senator from South Carolina be recognized for the purposes of debate only, and that immediately upon the conclusion of his remarks the floor be returned to me.

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

Mr. GREGG. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote by which the amendment was agreed to.

Mr. GREGG. Mr. President, I believe there is no further debate on this amendment. I urge simply a voice vote.

Mr. GREGG. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.

Mr. GREGG. I asked that the time that is now running be allocated equally against both sides.

Mr. GREGG. I ask that the time run equally against both sides.

Mr. GREGG. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that all time be yielded on the McCain amendment.

Mr. GREGG. That is correct. That is my intention.

Mr. GREGG. My expectation is that we will be voting until 11 p.m. on this sequence, and further debate on Kyl-Craig, which I presume will take another hour, and we will be voting on that, unless we can get agreement on unanimous consent requests, which the Senator from South Carolina and I have asked both our colleagues to support us on, which would be to allow debate on all pending amendments, of which we have a list, tonight with votes to occur stacked tomorrow morning.

Mr. GREGG. It is my hope--I know it is the hope of the ranking member--that we can work out a unanimous consent to be more accommodating to our colleagues. But that unanimous consent has not been agreed to. Our hope would be to get a unanimous consent where all the pending amendments to the bill, of which we have agreements on the list, to be debated tonight and then voted tomorrow. However, as of now there are objections to that unanimous consent. As long as there are objections, it is my intention to proceed on with votes.

Mr. GREGG. It is my expectation that what will occur is we will have maybe a minimum of five votes during this sequence, and potentially six. At the completion of that, we will go back to the Kyl amendment, as amended, by Craig. We will debate that until it is in a position to be voted on. Then we will vote on it. Then we will go on to the next amendment on this bill, and we will vote on that.

Mr. GREGG. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that after the completion of the McCain amendment that votes on further amendments that are in this stacked group be limited to 10 minutes in duration.

Mr. GREGG. Yes. I ask unanimous consent that, upon completion of the final vote in the series of votes beginning at 9:30, we return to the Kyl amendment, as amended by Craig.

Mr. GREGG. If the Senator will yield, I recognize there is a considerable need for more debate on this. I don't plan to vote on this issue at 9:30. After we finish the votes in order, we will come back to the Kyl amendment, as amended by Craig, and go forward from there.

Mr. GREGG. Mr. President, we are now in order to go to Senator Kyl.

Mr. GREGG. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote.