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United States

of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 104th CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION

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Senate

(Legislative day of Monday, May 1, 1995)

Vol. 141 WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1995 No. 76

The Senate met at 9:15 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:

Gracious God, our Father, help us to

get inside what is happening in others

so that we may see things with their

eyes, think things with their minds,

and feel things with their hearts.

Strengthen us to be as kind to others

as we wish them to be to us. Empower

us by Your Spirit to be as faithful to

others as You have been to us in spite

of our shortcomings and failures.

Help us to make the same allowances

for others as we would wish them to

make for us.

Help us to express the same empathy

for others as we would want them to

have for us, when we hurt.

Help us to have the same respect and

tolerance for the beliefs and ideas of

others as we would wish them to have

for ours.

Help us to understand others as we

would wish to be understood.

So we commit this day to seek to be

to others the giving and forgiving love

You have been to us. Through Him who

taught us the secret of serving others.

Amen.

RECOGNITION OF THE ACTING

MAJORITY LEADER

fThe PRESIDENT pro tempore. The

acting majority leader is recognized.

SCHEDULE

Mr. THOMAS. Mr. President, this

morning the time for the two leaders

has been reserved and there will now be

a period for the transaction of morning

business not to extend beyond the hour

of 10:30 a.m., with Senators permitted

to speak for up to 5 minutes each.

At the hour of 10:30 a.m., the Senate

will begin the first of two stacked rollcall votes. The first vote is on the confirmation of John Deutch, to be Director of the CIA. The second vote is on

the motion to invoke cloture on the

Coverdell-Dole amendment. Senators

should also be aware that they have

until 10:15 a.m. to file first- and seconddegree amendments to the CoverdellDole amendment.

The Senate will recess today between

the hours of 12:30 p.m. and 2:15 p.m. for

the weekly policy luncheons.

WAIVING MANDATORY LIVE

fQUORUM

Mr. THOMAS. Mr. President, I now

ask unanimous consent that the mandatory live quorum be waived for the

purpose of this morning’s cloture vote.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under

MORNING BUSINESS

fthe previous order, the Senate will now

proceed to a period of morning business.

The Democratic leader, or his designee, is recognized to speak for up to

20 minutes.

Under the previous order, the Senator from Wyoming [Mr. THOMAS] is

recognized to speak for up to 20 minutes.

Under the previous order, the Senator from Michigan [Mr. LEVIN] is recognized to speak for up to 20 minutes.

Under the previous order, the Senator from Pennsylvania [Mr.

SANTORUM] is recognized to speak for

up to 10 minutes.

Mr. THOMAS. Mr. President, I would

FRESHMAN FOCUS

flike to use our time this morning as a

followup on the freshman focus that we

have been carrying on for several

weeks and attempt to continue. Some

of my colleagues will join later in the

morning and then again on Thursday.

As you know, the freshman class has

made an effort to talk about the issues

that are before the American people,

that are before this Congress, and to

focus on solving these problems, to

focus on the notion that we need to

find solutions—solutions that will help

us to deliver services more efficiently,

will help us to reduce the cost of Government, and will help us to be more

effective in dealing with the problems

of this country and, at the same time,

reduce the size of Government.

So we are interested in exercising the

first opportunity that we have had for

a number of years to really analyze

programs that have been in effect, in

many cases, for 30 to 40 years. Frankly,

the effort that has been made during

that time was simply to add more

money to the same program. I think

most now would agree that it is time

to analyze the effect, the impact, and

the product of those programs. And we

have, for the first time, a chance to do

that.

We have a chance to change some of

the efforts that have not succeeded—

and there are some—so they are done

in a different way. We hope our efforts

will help us move forward in the Senate and in the Congress, to solving

problems rather than to obstruct or

just set down political issues for elections.

Today we want to talk about two issues that are very compelling which

are before us and, frankly, issues that

we have no alternative other than to

solve. One is the budget; the other is

Medicare.

Our purpose this week is to talk

largely about Medicare. It is clearly related to the budget and, as a result, the

two must be talked about together.