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“SCHEDULE” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Energy was published in the Senate section on pages S8817 on July 20, 1999.
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SCHEDULE
Mr. LOTT. Today the Senate will resume debate on the motion to proceed to the intelligence authorization bill with the cloture vote occurring at 10:30 a.m. Following the vote, Senator Smith of New Hampshire will be recognized to make a motion to discharge from the Finance Committee S.J. Res. 28 regarding the trade status with Vietnam. Therefore, Senators can expect an additional vote prior to the weekly party caucus meetings. The Senate will recess from 12:30 to 2:15 so that the party conferences can meet and have lunch. Senator Smith will again be recognized under a privileged resolution at 2:15 to offer a second motion to discharge from the Finance Committee S.J. Res. 27 regarding trade status with China. There will be 1 hour of debate on the motion with the vote occurring at approximately 3:15 p.m. Senators may also expect further action on the intelligence authorization bill or any appropriations bills on the calendar during today's session.
Intelligence Authorization
Mr. President, there was debate yesterday on the intelligence authorization bill. Senator Shelby, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, and Senator Kerrey, the ranking member, spoke on the importance of intelligence authorization. They have been doing good work together in a bipartisan way, as they should on matters of intelligence. This is a very important bill, one we should move forward as expeditiously as we can. Of course, the issue that is still being debated in connection with this intelligence authorization bill is, how do we deal with reorganizing the Department of Energy so we can stop the leaks that have been occurring at our labs.
There was a report in the papers just this morning that while some progress has been made in some areas, the necessary actions to stop these leaks and make sure they don't happen in the future haven't even begun. Senator Domenici, Senator Kyl, and Senator Murkowski have done real good work in this area. This should be a bipartisan solution where we get the focus at the Department of Energy rearranged in such a way that there is direct reporting so we have a quasi-autonomous agency within the Department of Energy. I hope we can still find a way to get this done because the American people understand that real damage has already been done. We should make sure, at the minimum, that it will not continue in the future.
I thank my colleagues for their attention. I yield the floor.
Mrs. BOXER addressed the Chair.
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Voinovich). The Senator from California.
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