Don Nickles

Mr. NICKLES

Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the amendment be considered agreed to, the bill be deemed read the third time, passed, as amended, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table, and that any statements relating to the bill be placed at the appropriate place in the Record.

Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Energy Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. 1899, and further that the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.

Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that reading of the amendment be dispensed with.

Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I send an amendment to the desk on behalf of Mr. Murkowski and ask for its immediate consideration.

Mr. NICKLES

Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table, and that any statements relating to the resolution appear at the appropriate place in the Record.

Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar Order No. 463, Senate Resolution 271.

Mr. NICKLES. I ask unanimous consent that the bill be deemed read the third time, passed, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table, and that any statements relating to the bill be placed in the appropriate place in the Record.

Mr. NICKLES

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 President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.

Mr. NICKLES

Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar Order No. 399, H.R. 2853.

Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the bill be deemed read a third time, passed, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table, and that any statements relating to the bill be placed at the appropriate place in the Record.

Mr. NICKLES

Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar Order No. 465, House Concurrent Resolution 160.

Mr. NICKLES

Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the report 104-80 to accompany S. 141 be star printed with the changes that I understand are at the desk.

Mr. NICKLES

Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the committee amendments be agreed to, the bill be deemed read the third time, passed, and the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table, and that any statements relating to the bill be placed at the appropriate place in the Record.

Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to immediate consideration of Calendar order No. 441, H.R. 2739.

Mr. NICKLES

Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, just a comment to follow up on the minority leader's comment on the judges, as the minority leader is aware, we have a new leadership team on this side. And to say the least, we have had our hands full the last couple weeks--not even 2 weeks yet, I think. We have made some progress, but it has not been easy. We made progress as I mentioned earlier, and I complimented the minority leader for his assistance in making this happen. We finally were able to bring to closure the Department of Defense authorization bill. After long, difficult negotiations, it looks as if we are on our way towards finalizing action on the minimum wage. Some of us are very frustrated on this side, though, that Members on the Democrat side of the aisle have objected to appointing conferees on the health bill. That is unprecedented. It is 40-some-odd days, I think about 45 days since we requested conferees be appointed. We would like to have that resolved. And so my point being, there are frustrations maybe on both sides. This side was prepared and willing to move on several judges, and I am sure that this will still be pending when we return early in July. I will look forward to working with the minority leader to see if we cannot come up to a successful resolution. The new leadership team, though, I will tell you, because we spent so much time in working on the DOD authorization bill, working on the health bill, working on the minimum wage agreement, which included the TEAM Act and other provisions, we really have not had time to focus on these nominations. So I just mention that.

Mr. NICKLES

Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the bill be deemed read the third time, passed, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table, and that any statements relating to the bill be placed at the appropriate place in the Record.

Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar Order No. 469, H.R. 1508.

Mr. NICKLES

Mr. NICKLES. Also, as a reminder to all Senators, there will be a cloture vote on the motion to proceed to S. 1788, the right-to-work bill, at the hour of 12 noon on Wednesday, July 10. Finally, I remind Senators that the vote on passage of the DOD authorization bill will occur at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 10. I further ask unanimous consent that following the vote on the right- to-work bill, the Senate proceed to vote on amendments and passage with respect to the TEAM Act in the order in which they were offered and debated on Tuesday.

Mr. NICKLES. I further ask unanimous consent that following the votes scheduled to begin at 2:15 on Tuesday, the Senate begin consideration of the TEAM Act under a previous consent agreement.

Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, for the information of all Senators, under the previous order the Senate will be debating the small business tax package when the Senate reconvenes from the Independence Day break. When the Senate completes all debate on Monday, July 8, we will recess over until Tuesday at 9:30 a.m., at which time the Senate will resume consideration of the small business tax package. Under the order, the Senate will begin voting at 2:15 p.m. on Tuesday on amendments offered to H.R. 3448. I now ask unanimous consent that the votes occur in the order in which the amendments were offered.

Mr. NICKLES

Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it stand in adjournment under the provisions of House Concurrent Resolution 192 until the hour of 12:30 p.m. on Monday, July 8; further, that immediately following the prayer, the Journal of proceedings be deemed approved to date, no resolutions come over under the rule, the call of the calendar be dispensed with, the morning hour be deemed to have expired, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, and that there then be a period for morning business until the hour of 3:30 p.m. with Senators permitted to speak for up to 5 minutes each with the following Senators in control of the stated time: Senator Kennedy, or his designee, from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m.; Senator Coverdell, or his designee, from 2 p.m. until 2:30 p.m. I further ask unanimous consent that at 3:30 p.m. the Senate begin consideration of H.R. 3448, the small business tax package, as under a previous consent agreement.

Mr. NICKLES

Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from Oregon [Mr. Hatfield] and the Senator from Oklahoma [Mr. Inhofe] are necessary absent.

Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from Oregon [Mr. Hatfield] and the Senator from Oklahoma [Mr. Inhofe] are necessarily absent.

Mr. NICKLES

Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I now ask the Senate stand in adjournment under the provisions of House Concurrent Resolution 192, the adjournment resolution. Thereupon, the Senate, at 5:58 p.m., adjourned until Monday, July 8, 1996, at 12:30 p.m.

Mr. NICKLES

Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate go into executive session to consider calendar No. 563, the nomination of Christopher Hill; that the Senate proceed to a vote on the nomination, and following the vote, the President be immediately notified of the Senate's action, and the Senate immediately return to legislative session.