July 29, 1976
Page 24551
UNANIMOUS CONSENT AGREEMENT — S. 3219
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I am now about to propound the following unanimous consent request covering the Clean Air Act, which was the pending business this morning and has been for the past four mornings:
Ordered, That commencing not later than 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday next, during the further consideration of S. 3219, on every amendment or motion, except a Gary Hart and a Packwood amendment upon which 2 hours will be provided, and a William L. Scott amendment upon which 1½ hours will be provided with 1 hour to Senator WILLIAM L. SCOTT and one half hour to the opponents thereof, the time shall be limited to 1 hour to be equally divided and controlled in the usual manner; and provided further
That immediately upon the further consideration of S. 3219 on Tuesday next, the amendments of the Senator from Utah (Mr. Moss) shall be considered en bloc and made the pending amendments to the bill; that the vote on the Moss amendments en bloc shall occur no later than 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday next
Provided further, That at any time during the consideration of the Moss amendment, a William L. Scott amendment may be offered; and debate allocated to the proponents of the William L. Scott amendment to the Moss amendment shall be limited to 2 hours; and
Provided further, That the Senator from Maine (Mr. MUSKIE) shall be allocated 1 hour in opposition to either of those amendments; and
Provided further, That the vote on final passage of S. 3219 shall occur no later than 1:45 p.m. on Thursday next;
Provided, however, That S. 3219 shall have been pending before the Senate for a period of 15 hours commencing with its consideration on Tuesday next, including the consideration of the above described amendments and amendments of Senators GRAVEL, RANDOLPH, GARY HART, HATFIELD, NELSON, STEVENS, and MORGAN; and
Provided further, That the Senator from Alabama (Mr. ALLEN) will be reserved 2 hours included within the 15 hours for the purpose of offering his amendments and motions.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection.
Mr. MUSKIE. Mr. President, reserving the right to object, and I shall not object, with respect to the Scott and Moss amendments, the manager of the bill is limited to less time than the proponents, which is something that I have agreed to; but I want it clearly understood that with respect to all other amendments the time is to be equally divided, with the manager of the bill having half the time.
Mr. MANSFIELD. The Senator is correct.
Mr. PACKWOOD. Mr. President, reserving the right to object, regarding the 15 hours, does that include the Moss amendment and any amendments to the Moss amendment?
Mr. MANSFIELD. Yes.
Mr. PACKWOOD. It looks as though we have more remaining amendments than we have remaining time.
Mr. MANSFIELD. No; as a matter of fact we have more time than amendments; and if we have to, we will come in at 8 o'clock, and we will probably have to on one or two of those mornings.
But within those 18 hours, the Senator's time will be fully protected.
Mr. PERCY. Mr. President, reserving the right to object, and I shall not, as I understand, on Tuesday the first vote will not occur before 10 o'clock at the earliest?
Mr. MANSFIELD. Oh, probably later.
Mr. MOSS. Probably later.
Mr. President, reserving the right to object, and I shall not object, I want to say I appreciate the efforts of the majority leader, and especially the efforts of the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. RANDOLPH), chairman of the Committee on Public Works, in working this out. It was a difficult parliamentary situation. I appreciate what has been done, and I think I can live with the proposal.
Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, reserving the right to object, and I shall not object, would the majority leader indicate his plans with regard to the tax bill as well?
Mr. MANSFIELD. Yes.
Mr. KENNEDY. I do not want to complicate this, but I would like to have some idea.
Mr. MANSFIELD. It would be the intention — and this meets with the approval of the distinguished chairman of the committee — to spend all day tomorrow on the tax bill. Then I would like to call up, on Monday, the defense appropriation bill.
On Tuesday, the division of time starts to go back, on that day, to the 2 o'clock time for the beginning of debate on the tax bill, and I would like to, with the Senator's approval, on next Friday set aside the whole day again for consideration of the tax bill, which should be finished that afternoon.
Mr. KENNEDY. Just on this point, I think it would be useful tomorrow, for debate on the tax bill, to get into title VIII. If we are not going to get into title VIII, there may be other amendments other Senators have, but I think the Senate may be spinning its wheels, if we do not get into title VIII.
Mr. MANSFIELD. Will the Senator let us get this cleared up, and not get it too much mixed up with the tax bill? We had a hard time getting this worked out.
Mr. ALLEN. Mr. President, reserving the right to object, and I shall not object, I would like to state to the distinguished majority leader that for 2 days I have been discussing an amendment I had planned to offer to the Randolph amendment, which is amendment No. 2101. I would like to have an opportunity to offer that amendment prior to the time of drawing down the Randolph amendment, so that my amendment will appear in the RECORD. Could that be arranged?
Mr. MANSFIELD. It is my understanding that the Randolph amendment will follow the disposal of the Moss amendment.
Mr. ALLEN. Well, I would like to have it, though, since I have been stating I was going to present it, I would like to have that opportunity prior to the time of it being — it is the pending business now, and has not been withdrawn. I would like to have an opportunity of offering my amendment.
Mr. MANSFIELD. Would the Senator consider doing it after the Randolph amendment? Because we have made a quasi-commitment that it would follow the Moss amendment.
Mr. ALLEN. I wonder if we could not just get it in now.
Mr. MANSFIELD. Oh, yes.
Mr. ALLEN. May I ask unanimous consent that that amendment be called up and offered to the Clean Air Act?
Mr. MANSFIELD. Yes, but it would not be called up until after we got through with SCOTT and Moss.
Mr. ALLEN. No, I want to call it up at this time, or prior to it being withdrawn, because I have stated here on the floor that it was my intention to offer that amendment.
Mr. MANSFIELD. But not today.
Mr. ALLEN. Well, I would like to have it offered before the RANDOLPH — I am not going to say a word on it, but I would like to have it offered to appear in the RECORD, because I have been discussing this amendment for hours, and it has not yet been offered. I would like an opportunity of offering it.
Mr. MANSFIELD. Well, all right.
Mr. BUMPERS. Mr. President, reserving the right to object, and I shall not, could I have the manager tell us when we will get to title VIII?
Mr. LONG. Not at the moment.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from Montana also include in the request that the provisions of rule XII be waived?
Mr. MANSFIELD. Rule XII, yes.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the request of the Senator from Montana?
Without objection, it is so ordered.