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“NATIONAL LABORATORIES PARTNERSHIP IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 2001--Continued” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Energy was published in the Senate section on pages S2936 on April 18, 2002.
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NATIONAL LABORATORIES PARTNERSHIP IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 2001--Continued
Mr. BAUCUS. What is the business of the Senate?
The PRESIDING OFFICER. S. 517 is the pending business.
Mr. BAUCUS. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that there be a time limitation of 1 hour equally divided between myself and Senator Grassley for debate on the Finance Committee energy tax amendment; that no amendments be in order to my amendment except a second-degree amendment by Senator Grassley; that at the conclusion or yielding back of the time, the Senate vote in relation to Senator Grassley's second-
degree amendment and to my Finance Committee amendment.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
Mr. LOTT. Reserving the right to object, I supported this tax section that Senator Baucus is trying to add to the energy bill at this time when we had it in the Finance Committee. Obviously, there are some things in there that I would prefer not be in there. But we had an overwhelming vote out of the Finance Committee in support of this package.
An energy policy that does not include a tax section is not a complete policy. We have to have some incentives for these hybrid cell vehicles and to try to get marginal wells back in production, to encourage biomass, to do everything we can, along with the policy that is included in this bill, to also encourage more energy production and more energy conservation through the Tax Code.
I support this. I will be glad to work with Senator Baucus to see that we get it included in the Senate package or certainly in the conference when a conference is completed. We have to do that.
But at this time, we do have an objection from our side of the aisle. And on behalf of a Senator who has a tax provision in which he is very interested, I am constrained to object.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard.
The Senator from Montana.
Mr. BAUCUS. Madam President, I hear the distinguished Senator from Mississippi. I very much understand the reasons for his objection. I deeply appreciate his statement in support of the Finance Committee title that we hope to offer to this bill.
The provisions in the Finance Committee title total roughly $15 to
$16 billion over 10 years. The Senate hopefully will pass the Senate-
passed version of tax incentives. It will be incentives for production, conventional production, renewables, unconventional production, for conservation. The House passed a tax title to their energy bill which totals about $30 billion.
I fully agree with the distinguished Senator that the Finance Committee provisions, which will help wean us away from OPEC by providing incentives on matters that I suggested, are vitally important. And I hope--in fact, I expect--that the Senate, before it passes an energy bill, will also include these provisions because they are such an integral and vital part of the bill.
I thank all concerned, particularly my good friend from Mississippi.
I yield the floor and suggest the absence of a quorum.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
Mr. REID. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
The Senator from Nevada is recognized.
Cloture Motion
Mr. REID. Madam President, I send a cloture motion to the desk.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.
The 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 the debate on the Daschle/Bingaman substitute amendment No. 2917 for Calendar No. 65, S. 517, a bill to authorize funding for the Department of Energy and for other purposes:
Jeff Bingaman, Jean Carnahan, Edward Kennedy, Pattie
Murray, Mary Landrieu, Byron L. Dorgan, Robert
Torricelli, Bill Nelson, John Breaux, Tom Carper, Tim
Johnson, Hillary R. Clinton, Jon Corzine, John
Rockefeller, Daniel Inouye, Max Baucus, Harry Reid, and
Maria Cantwell.
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