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Vol. 141 WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1995 No. 73 

House of Representatives 

The House was not in session today. Its next meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 9, 1995, at 12:30 p.m. 

Senate 

THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1995 

(Legislative day of Monday, May 1, 1995) 

The Senate met at 9:30 a.m., on the 

expiration of the recess, and was called 

to order by the President pro tempore 

[Mr. THURMOND]. 

PRAYER

The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John 

Ogilvie, offered the following prayer: 

Let us pray: 

Almighty God, on this National Day 

of Prayer, we join with millions across 

our land in intercession and supplication to You, the Sovereign Lord of 

the United States of America. As we 

sound that sacred word Sovereign, we 

echo Washington, Jefferson, Madison, 

and Lincoln along with other leaders 

through the years, in declaring that 

You are our ultimate ruler. We make a 

new commitment to be one Nation 

under You, God, and we place our trust 

in You. 

You have promised that if Your people will humble themselves, seek Your 

face and pray, You will answer and 

heal our land. Lord, as believers in 

You, we are Your people. You have 

called us to be salt in any bland neglect of our spiritual heritage and light 

in the darkness of what contradicts 

Your vision for our Nation. Give us 

courage to be accountable to You and 

Your Commandments. We repent for 

the pride, selfishness, and prejustice 

that often contradict Your justice and 

righteousness in our society. 

Lord of new beginnings, our Nation 

needs a great spiritual awakening. May 

this day of prayer be the beginning of 

that awakening with each of us in this 

Senate. We urgently ask that our honesty about the needs of our Nation and 

our humble confession of our spiritual 

hunger for You may sweep across this 

Nation. Hear the prayers of Your people and continue to bless America. In 

Your holy name. Amen. 

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RECOGNITION OF THE ACTING 

MAJORITY LEADER 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The 

acting majority leader is recognized. 

SCHEDULE

Mr. THOMAS. Mr. President, this 

morning the leader time has been reserved and there will be a period for 

morning business until the hour of 

11:30, with Senators permitted to speak 

up to 5 minutes each; at 11:30 today, 

the Senate will resume consideration 

of H.R. 956, the product liability bill. 

Under the provisions of the agreement reached last night, there will be a 

series of four consecutive rollcall votes 

beginning at 12:15 today. The fourth 

vote in the series will be on invoking 

cloture on the Gorton substitute 

amendment; therefore, Senators should 

be aware that second-degree amendments to the Gorton substitute must 

be filed 1 hour prior to that vote; further rollcall votes can be expected 

throughout today’s session of the Senate. 

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RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME 

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. 

CAMPBELL). Under the previous order, 

leadership time is reserved. 

MORNING BUSINESS 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under 

the previous order, there will now be a 

transaction of morning business for not 

to extend beyond the hour of 11:30 a.m, 

with Senators permitted to speak 

therein for not to exceed 5 minutes 

each; under the previous order, the 

Senator from Wyoming, [Mr. THOMAS], 

is recognized to speak for up to 30 minutes. 

The Senator from Wyoming is recognized. 

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FRESHMAN AGENDA 

Mr. THOMAS. Members will be relieved to know that there will be others joining me during this 30 minutes, 

other Members from our freshman 

group, to continue our discussion about 

the agenda for the Senate, the agenda 

for the Republicans, and of course the 

agenda for this country. 

We feel very strongly, of course, that 

this is a great opportunity to move forward on the issues that were the issues 

talked about and voted on by Americans in the 1994 November election. 

This is the greatest opportunity that 

we have had for a number of years to 

evaluate programs that have been in 

place, rather than continuing to simply 

put more money into programs when 

the results have not been what we expected. Now is an opportunity to take 

a look at the programs and see, in fact, 

if there can be changes made, to see if 

in fact, there are programs that do not 

need to be continued, that could better 

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