Samuel Nunn

Mr. NUNN

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 President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.

Mr. NUNN

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

Mr. NUNN. Mr. President, on behalf of Senator Sarbanes, I offer an amendment which would authorize the Secretaries of the military departments and the Secretary of Transportation to carry out a food donation program at the service academies, under their respective jurisdiction. I believe this amendment has been cleared on the other side.

Mr. NUNN. I move to lay that motion on the table. The motion to lay on the table was agreed to. Amendment No. 4066 (Purpose: To authorize the Secretaries of the military departments and the Secretary of Transportation to carry out a food donation pilot program at the service academies)

Mr. NUNN. I urge adoption of the amendment.

Mr. NUNN. Mr. President, on behalf of Senator Byrd, I offer an amendment that would make technical corrections to the references to the annual report required to be submitted by the Reserve Forces Policy Board and establish that the annual report be a separate report submitted in conjunction with the annual report of the Secretary of Defense. This has been cleared on the other side of the aisle.

Mr. NUNN. I urge adoption of the amendment.

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

Mr. NUNN. Mr. President, I urge its adoption.

Mr. NUNN. I urge its adoption.

Mr. NUNN. I do not have any objection. Mr. President, I add one other thing to the unanimous-consent request--that is, with the understanding that there be no second-degree amendments to the McCain amendment.

Mr. NUNN. Reserving the right to object, and I hope we will not have to object. We have not seen any of those amendments. I am not sure what the unanimous-consent request is.

Mr. NUNN. I believe the Senator from Idaho has the explanation.

Mr. NUNN. Mr. President, I urge support of this amendment. It would clarify the Senate's intention on how the Navy should spend funds and implement recommendations of the DOD's report on nuclear attack submarine procurement and technology. This is an important effort to begin to address inefficiencies that have been identified in previous attack submarine R&D programs.

Mr. NUNN. I move to lay that motion on the table. The motion to lay on the table was agreed to. Amendment No. 4072 to Amendment No. 4061

Mr. NUNN. Mr. President, has the second-degree amendment been accepted?

Mr. NUNN. Mr. President, I urge adoption of the amendment.

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

Mr. NUNN. I urge its immediate adoption.

Mr. NUNN. Mr. President, if the Senator from South Carolina propounds the unanimous-consent request, I believe it will be agreed to now. I know the Senator from Arkansas first would like to make his position clear, and perhaps if he is recognized at this point for that, he can make his brief statement and then the Senator from South Carolina can propound the unanimous=consent request, and I believe it will be agreed to.

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

Mr. NUNN. I move to lay that motion on the table. The motion to lay on the table was agreed to. Amendment No. 4076 (Purpose: To amend the reporting requirement under demonstration project for purchase of fire, security, police, public works, and utility services from local government agencies)

Mr. NUNN. The only suggestion I would make, unless we can get an amendment up that is one that is going to be debated as a rollcall vote, I would suggest--I could take no more than 30 seconds for my comments, and we could perhaps move that timeframe up a bit. That gives us a better chance of either one of two things: If we are not going to have other rollcalls, it would allow Members to be able to go back to their families earlier; if there are, we can get started on that debate. I do not know what other amendments are going to come up requiring rollcalls tonight.

Mr. NUNN. Mr. President, may I inquire of the Senator from Virginia whether he anticipates other rollcall votes tonight beyond this one?

Mr. NUNN. Mr. President, I am informed that what we have tried to apply here is the McCain-Glenn criteria, which is for construction projects. All the projects that were listed by the Senator from Arizona were planning and design money, which is not part of the McCain-Glenn criteria. We have followed those criteria, but there is no 5-year defense plan for planning and design money. That is lump-sum money.