John Warner

Mr. WARNER

Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, it is my understanding that the time is equally divided between the distinguished Senator from Oregon on this side and the Senator from Massachusetts on the other. Am I correct on that?

Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, the distinguished Senator from Michigan does raise a valid point. I will provide the Senate with the individual that controls the opponents' time momentarily.

Mr. WARNER

Mr. WARNER. I thank the Presiding Officer. I think we will go to the standing order to place the Senate in recess.

Mr. WARNER

Mr. WARNER. Well, I am going to rely on your assurances.

Mr. WARNER. If he will withdraw it, we can include it in the unanimous consent tonight.

Mr. WARNER. We will work this out tonight, hopefully.

Mr. WARNER. I just want to treat--Senator Reed was here momentarily, and we worked with him. Anyway, I want to be fair to all Senators.

Mr. WARNER. We get so many gatekeeping amendments up here we could encounter difficulty tomorrow morning.

Mr. WARNER. This amendment would then have the same status of being a pending amendment.

Mr. WARNER. What was the decision we made with respect to Senator Reed? We have to have some equality of how we are handling these things.

Mr. WARNER. I was under the understanding we would do it differently. I have not had a chance to discuss this with Senator Levin. I understood you were just going do speak to this and not propose it. What is done, is done.

Mr. WARNER. I wonder if the Senator might withhold until Senator Reid, with whom I am working tonight, will give me some advice. What we will be doing--Senator Reid could draw his up--we are going to incorporate this into the agreement.

Mr. WARNER. Would the Senator from Illinois clarify this?

Mr. WARNER

Mr. WARNER. If the Senator will yield, yes, the Senator has very carefully recrafted the amendment. That is the reason we will be able to accept it on this side.

Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I wonder if the Senator from Michigan would look at the preamble. It states ``and the Army Guard.'' That would be the Army National Guard.

Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, on behalf of Senator Domenici, I call up amendment No. 3167, which requires the Secretary of Defense to submit a report on potential missile defense test ranges.

Mr. WARNER. I move to lay that motion on the table. The motion to lay on the table was agreed to. Amendment No. 3167

Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, on behalf of Senator McConnell and Senator Graham of South Carolina, I call up amendment No. 3435 which would authorize the Secretary of the Navy to convey land at the Naval Weapons Station in Charleston, S.C.

Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I now understand that the amendment will be accepted in due course, but I am anxious to hear the perspectives of the other cosponsor. I thank my colleagues for their courtesy.

Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the managers of the bill may proceed to do cleared amendments, and for that purpose I ask unanimous consent that all amendments be laid aside.

Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, the distinguished leader made that very clear to me. It is just the Leahy amendment which caught me somewhat unprepared. I would hope I would have a chance to look at it.

Mr. WARNER. Now we will turn to this side of the aisle for an amendment and then come back to the other side.

Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, on behalf of Senator Collins and Senator Levin, I send an amendment No. 3224 to the desk which would provide Federal employees with bid protection rights and actions under the OMB Circular 876 process.

Mr. WARNER. Right.

Mr. WARNER

Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I further ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate, and that any statements relating to the measure be printed in the Record.