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Vol. 141 WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1995 No. 87 

Senate 

(Legislative day of Monday, May 15, 1995) 

The Senate met at 8 a.m., on the expiration of the recess, and was called to 

order by the President pro tempore 

[Mr. THURMOND]. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The 

prayer this morning will be led by the 

guest Chaplain, the Reverend Ralph E. 

McCormack, of Danville, VA, guest of 

Senator BYRD. 

PRAYER

The Reverend Ralph E. McCormack, 

pastor of Burton Memorial Presbyterian Church, Danville, VA, offered 

the following prayer: 

Let us pray: 

Gracious God, we invoke Thy presence with us here in this place. 

We pray for these U.S. Senators. We 

pray that they may have wisdom in 

their deliberations. We pray that their 

decisions will continue to keep our Nation strong and safe for all people. 

We pray for all of us here and for our 

families. If there is sickness, we pray 

for better health. If there is unhappiness, we pray for reasons for joy. If in 

our families, there is ill feeling, we 

pray for peace and harmony. If in our 

families there is any problem or any 

cause for worry, we pray for a good resolution of the difficulty. 

Help us to honor Thee with our lips 

and with our lives. Amen. 

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CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON 

THE BUDGET 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The 

Senate will resume consideration of 

Senate Concurrent Resolution 13. 

The clerk will report the pending 

business. 

The legislative clerk read as follows: 

A concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 13) 

setting forth the congressional budget for 

the United States Government for the fiscal 

years 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002. 

The Senate resumed consideration of 

the concurrent resolution. 

Pending: 

(1) Harkin-Bumpers amendment No. 1126, 

to reduce unnecessary military spending, 

holding military spending to a freeze in overall spending over 7 years protecting readiness and modernization activities and shifting the savings to education and job training, restoring a portion of the reductions 

proposed for those programs in the resolution. 

(2) Feingold-Hollings amendment No. 1127, 

to strike the budget surplus allowance provision (Section 204) from the resolution to 

eliminate the use of the fiscal dividend for 

further tax cuts. 

(3) Snowe amendment No. 1128, to increase 

funding for mandatory spending in function 

500 (Education). 

(4) Bumpers amendment No. 1130, to strike 

the proposed change in the budget process 

rules which would permit the scoring of revenue derived from the sale of federal assets. 

AMENDMENT NO. 1128

Mr. EXON. Mr. President, I would 

ask my chairman of the committee if 

it would be in order for me at this time 

to yield 10 minutes off the bill in opposition to the Snowe amendment to the 

Senator from Massachusetts? 

Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, parliamentary inquiry. 

How much time remains on the 

Snowe amendment? 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Senator SNOWE has 67 minutes; the opposition has 35 minutes. 

Mr. DOMENICI. I would prefer to 

yield 10 minutes off the opposition to 

the amendment. Is that what the Senator wanted? 

Mr. EXON. The Senator from Ohio 

wants 10 minutes. 

I would start out today by saying to 

all the Senators that we are extremely 

strapped for time. Five minutes here, 

ten minutes there, under ordinary circumstances would be in order. I think 

we have about what—4 hours maximum 

left? How much time is remaining? 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Three 

hours and 45 minutes. 

Mr. EXON. Mr. President, 3 hours and 

45 minutes, with about 70 amendments. 

We will have to extremely limit our 

time. I think that the requests—may I 

suggest that we yield 8 minutes to the 

Senator from Massachusetts and 8 minutes to the Senator from Ohio. 

Mr. DOMENICI. And 8 minutes to the 

senior Senator from Ohio. 

Mr. WELLSTONE. I might ask if I 

could have 4 minutes. 

Mr. DOMENICI. Let me see how the 

opposition goes. I have none for myself 

at this point. Then I will see. 

I yield 8 minutes to Senator KENNEDY, 8 minutes to the junior Senator 

from Ohio, and 8 minutes to the senior 

Senator from Ohio. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The 

distinguished Senator from Massachusetts is recognized. 

Mr. KENNEDY. Thank you, Mr. 

President. I yield myself 8 minutes. 

Mr. President, one of the most important aspects of the whole budget resolution is what it does in the areas of 

higher education, as well as education 

generally. 

I took a few moments of the Senate’s 

time just 3 days ago to outline where I 

thought we were on the whole issue of 

education in this country. We take 

pride in our higher education system. 

Of the top 149 universities worldwide, 

127 of them are here in the United 

States. Our system works well. We provide superb higher education in this 

country. If there is a basic problem, it 

is the cost of higher education. We 

have tried to address this problem at 

the Federal level. 

Our Federal education policies have 

been worked out in a bipartisan way 

over the period of years since the early 

1960’s when a judgment was made that 

it was in the national interest to support higher education. 

Individual contributions, private sector contributions, and Federal assistance have created the world’s best education system. Together, we support 

educational opportunities for our Nation’s citizens, and at the same time, 

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