Tom Harkin

Mr. HARKIN

Mr. HARKIN. No.

Mr. HARKIN. During that 45 days, I say to my friend, during the 45 days--he should know this; I am sure he does--during the 45 days there is an Individualized Education Program, an IEP, developed during that 45 days. That IEP will address behavior modification, therapy services, and intervention to make sure the behavior does not occur again. This IEP protects not just the child but protects the school. The only way a school needs to let a kid back in is if that kid is meeting the objectives in the IEP and the school wants them back in. That is the process.

Mr. HARKIN. Sure. I would be glad to yield.

Mr. HARKIN. Everyone hears talk about school shootings and school violence. As I have pointed out, as I said to my friend from Utah, there have been eight school shootings in 39 months and 27 have been killed. Not one of those involved a kid with a disability. Not one. Two years? We spent 3 long years, and I spent years before that, working with IDEA. We spent 3 years hammering out an agreement because there was this clash between the school boards and the principals and the teachers and the parents of kids with disabilities--3 years we sat in rooms around here.

Mr. HARKIN. I yield without losing my right to the floor.

Mr. HARKIN. I am just not certain how much time it is going to take me. That is why---

Mr. HARKIN. I have my amendment filed.

Mr. HARKIN. I have my amendment filed.

Mr. HARKIN. I have my amendment filed.

Mr. HARKIN. I can get it up anytime.

Mr. HARKIN. I still have the right to the floor. I yield, again, without losing my right.

Mr. HARKIN. I reserve the right to object, and I say this----

Mr. HARKIN. I understand. I am saying if there is a vote on the Frist amendment, then what kind of time is allotted to the Senator from Iowa for his amendment?

Mr. HARKIN. You are just setting the order.

Mr. HARKIN. Will you read that again?

Mr. HARKIN. I think there may be some people here who may want--I don't know what the majority leader's predisposition is on this. Maybe some people want to move to Wellstone and vote on that before they get to this. I hate to preclude that possibility with a unanimous-consent request that this is the only order we will take. I would object to that.

Mr. HARKIN. Only if that order is locked in totally.

Mr. HARKIN. You say that upon completion of a vote on the Frist- Ashcroft amendment----

Mr. HARKIN. Then I have a right.

Mr. HARKIN. Don't put it in that wording because that locks in the order and because there may be votes before the Frist amendment.

Mr. HARKIN. Then I object.

Mr. HARKIN. We may want to lay it aside and go to another amendment.

Mr. HARKIN. Actually, it does not do away with it. It modifies it; it does not do away with it.

Mr. HARKIN. I don't know that it makes a lot of difference.

Mr. HARKIN. Well----