S6576 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE May 12, 1995

I thank the Chair for the opportunity

to announce these hearings.

I suggest the absence of a quorum.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The

clerk will call the roll.

The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.

Mr. THURMOND. Mr. President, I

ask unanimous consent that the order

for the quorum call be rescinded.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without

objection, it is so ordered.

INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION OF

MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE ACT

fThe Senate continued with the consideration of the bill.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under

CLOTURE MOTION

fthe previous order, the hour of 10

o’clock having arrived, the clerk will

report the motion to invoke cloture.

The assistant legislative clerk read

as follows:

CLOTURE MOTION

We, the undersigned Senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule XXII of the

Standing Rules of the Senate, hereby move

to bring to a close debate on the pending

committee substitute amendment to S. 534,

the solid waste disposal bill

John H. Chafee, Bob Dole, Bob Smith,

Jim Jeffords, Hank Brown, Kit Bond,

Orrin Hatch, Spencer Abraham, Jon

Kyl, Larry E. Craig, Kay Bailey

Hutchison, Trent Lott, R.F. Bennett,

Pete V. Domenici, Dirk Kempthorne,

The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanJesse Helms.

CALL OF THE ROLL

fimous consent, the quorum call has

been waived.

fVOTE

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The

question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the pending committee substitute amendment to S. 534,

the solid waste disposal bill, shall be

brought to a close? The yeas and nays

are required. The clerk will call the

roll.

The legislative clerk called the roll.

Mr. LOTT. I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania [Mr. SPECTER]

and the Senator from Virginia [Mr.

WARNER] are necessarily absent.

Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. PELL] is

necessarily absent.

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr.

INHOFE). Are there any other Senators

in the Chamber who desire to vote?

The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 50,

nays 47, as follows:

[Rollcall Vote No. 165 Leg.]

YEAS—50

Abraham

Ashcroft

Bennett

Bond

Brown

Burns

Campbell

Chafee

Coats

Cochran

Cohen

Coverdell

Craig

DeWine

Dole

Domenici

Faircloth

Frist

Gramm

Grams

Grassley

Gregg

Hatch

Hatfield

Helms

Hutchison

Inhofe

Jeffords

Kassebaum

Kempthorne

Kyl

Lott

Lugar

Mack

McCain

McConnell

Murkowski

Nickles

Packwood

Pressler

Roth

Santorum

Shelby

Simpson

Smith

Snowe

Stevens

Thomas

Thompson

Thurmond

NAYS—47

Akaka

Baucus

Biden

Bingaman

Boxer

Bradley

Breaux

Bryan

Bumpers

Byrd

Conrad

D’Amato

Daschle

Dodd

Dorgan

Exon

Feingold

Feinstein

Ford

Glenn

Gorton

Graham

Harkin

Heflin

Hollings

Inouye

Johnston

Kennedy

Kerrey

Kerry

Kohl

Lautenberg

Leahy

Levin

Lieberman

Mikulski

Moseley-Braun

Moynihan

Murray

Nunn

Pryor

Reid

Robb

Rockefeller

Sarbanes

Simon

Wellstone

NOT VOTING—3

Pell Specter Warner

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Threefifths of the Senators duly chosen and

sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to.

Mr. CHAFEE. Mr. President, many

people have asked what is going to happen for the remainder of the day. What

we would very much like to do is get

these amendments disposed of as

quickly as possible. I know that many

people have plans. We would like to see

how many amendments there are

around here. I think most of the players are here. If people could tell us who

has an amendment, then we could figure where we go from here.

Now, who has an amendment? All

right. Senator COATS. We are conscious

of his. Senator GORTON. We are conscious of his. That is the same one as

Senator MURRAY’s, right?

Mr. GORTON. That is correct.

Mr. CHAFEE. Who else? Senator

DORGAN has an amendment. I hope people will speak up because we would like

to close out the amendments, if possible, if we can get an agreement. Senator BOXER, I am sure, has one. We are

not seeking a big list. I know Senator

BOXER has an amendment. Senator

D’AMATO.

Mr. D’AMATO. I may have some very

comprehensive, exhaustive amendments. I hope I do not have to offer

them.

Mr. CHAFEE. We hope you do not,

too. If you can check with your Cloakroom and see, we will do the same. We

want to press this along and hopefully

finish today. We know a lot of people

have engagements.

Mr. MURKOWSKI addressed the

Chair.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alaska.

Mr. MURKOWSKI. I have a very brief

statement with regard to the legislation. If you are looking for a few moments of free time, I could do that.

Mr. CHAFEE. If the Senator could

withhold for a minute.

Mr. MURKOWSKI. Sure.

Mr. CHAFEE. Is Senator DORGAN

ready to go?

This would involve a rollcall vote on

Senator DORGAN’s amendment, if he

proceeds with it.

Mr. MURKOWSKI. My statement is

very short and is on the bill.

Mr. CHAFEE. Mr. President, I ask if

we could give 30 seconds or 1 minute to

the Senator from Alaska to make a

statement, and then if I could have the

floor again, we will return to Senator

DORGAN’s amendment.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alaska [Mr. MURKOWSKI] is

recognized.

AMENDMENT NO. 861

Mr. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I

want to thank Senator CHAFEE, and

Senator BAUCUS, the floor managers;

Senator SMITH, the subcommittee

chairman; and Senator KEMPTHORNE

for accepting my amendment last night

which extends the efforts of Senator

KEMPTHORNE, who amended the interstate waste disposal act to provide for

practicable solid waste regulations

that take into account the remote nature of Alaska Native villages—that is,

relief from covering landfills, controlling access to landfills by an operator,

et cetera—to cover all Alaska villages.

This provision is not a blanket exemption from all landfill standards for

these facilities; rather, the governor of

Alaska will have flexibility to set appropriate standards based on local conditions.

My amendment provides for workable

solid waste regulations for all Alaska

villages. The problems faced by Native

village landfills are the same as those

faced by other small, remote villages;

both need regulatory relief.

I have a list of Alaskan villages not

classified as Native villages’’ under the

Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.

I ask unanimous consent that it be

printed in the RECORD.

There being no objection, the list was

ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as

follows:

NON-ANSCA VILLAGES

Paxson.

Seward.

Chicken.

Seward.

Skwentna.

Healy.

Kupreanof.

Tok.

Elfin Cove.

Siana.

Central.

Medfra.

Wiseman.

Houston.

Willow.

Tonsina.

Northway Junction.

Tenakee Springs.

Circle Hot Springs.

Gustavus.

Coffman Cove.

Ft. Glenn.

Talkeetna.

McCarth.