SENATE-Monday, July 28, 1986

17820 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE July 28, 1986 SENATE-Monday, July 28, 1986 The Senate met at 12 noon and was ously, we can use the time or yield it work that out with the minority called to order by the President pro back. I hope we will not take 12 hours. leader. tempore CMr. THURMOND]. This is Monday, July 28, and it is Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, if the dis still our intention to meet the August tinguished majority leader will yield, PRAYER 15 recess deadline, as previously an with respect to the schedule, the prob The Chaplain, the Reverend Rich nounced. I do not know how to state lem immediately, as I see it, is in the ard C. Halverson, D.D., offered the fol it-I do not want to appear to be fact that we have before the Senate lowing prayer: threatening-but we do have a lot of the debt limit extension; but we have Let us pray. work to do, to say it as honestly as I as an amendment to that debt limit • • •let us love one another: for love can. There is a lot of work to do, and extension, or a series of amendments is of God; and everyone that loveth is many Members have amendments to thereto, the proposed changes in the born of God and knoweth God. He that the debt ceiling bill. We hear that Gramm-Rudman legislation. Nobody loveth not knoweth not God; for God is there may be an amendment with re can call up any other amendment to love.-I John 4:7-8. spect to South Africa; there will be the debt limit extension unless con Father God, whose love is uncondi Contra aid; maybe a SALT resolution sent can be gotten that the Gramm tional, universal, infinite, and eternal of some kind. All those matters would Rudman amendments be set aside we thank You for loving us. Thank take a considerable length of time. temporarily. You for love which is unequivocal, cer There is also some hope that we can So there we are-we are stuck. Those tain, and dependable. Help us to com work out an agreement, as I said who are the principals in working out prehend the profound reality that before-sort of a tripartite agree some changes in the Gramm-Rudman there is nothing we can do to make ment-involving SALT, South Africa, legislation do not want those amend You love us more than You do-and and Contra aid, whereby we could ments set aside for the time being. there is nothing we can do to make have a certain amount of time set It seems to me that unless those You love us less than You do. Thank aside for each of those issues. If we amendments can be set aside tempo You for the perfect peace, perfect ac can do that prior to the recess, that rarily, the Senate is not going to be ceptance, perfect security we enjoy in will be fine with me. able to consider any other amend Your love. Forgive us, patient Father, In addition, we have the Gramm ments to the debt limit legislation for our indifference to Your love-our Rudman "fix." I understand that some until final action on those amend rejection-our failure to reciprocate. agreement may have been reached be ments is gotten. This would appear to Help us to love You and one another tween Senator DoMENICI with Sena me to preclude any other action prior and, in so doing, fulfill the royal law tors RUDMAN, GRAMM, and HOLLINGS to, say, Wednesday of this week at for the honor of Your name. Amen. on their amendment to the debt ceil best, because tomorrow will be utilized ing. If that is the case, maybe we can in the debate on TV coverage of move more rapidly on that. Senate debates and deliberations. RECOGNITION OF THE So there are a number of very criti I certainly would support the distin MAJORITY LEADER cal matters we need to resolve before guished majority leader in pressing for The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The August 15. action on Fridays and Mondays now. able and distinguished majority Having said that, I know the phone We are within only 3 weeks of the leader, Senator ROBERT DoLE, is recog will be ringing-"What about Friday?" Labor Day recess as previously sched nized. I can only tell my colleagues on both uled, and so Mondays and Fridays Mr. DOLE. I thank the distin sides that I expect that we will be here cannot be excluded if the Senate is to guished Presiding Officer, Senator on Friday. We might be here on Satur deal with the major amendments and THURMOND, the President pro tempore. day, because we have this weekend issues that need to be called up. and next weekend, and we will be out I hope that the distinguished major the following Friday until September ity leader will call up the DOD author SCHEDULE 8, if everything goes as planned. So I ization bill. Senator NUNN, who is the Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, under the just cannot tell anyone at this time. ranking minority member on the standing order, the leaders have 10 But I want to at least hold out, not a Armed Services Committee, is ready to minutes each. Then we will have spe threat, but the possibility, in the real proceed to debate that measure and cial orders for Senators PRESSLER, world, that unless something starts to actually is urging that the measure be PROXMIRE, and LEvIN for not to exceed happen fairly soon, we could be here called up. 5 minutes each. late several nights this week and could I believe that if we cannot get action Then there will be routine morning be here part of the weekend. soon on the Gramm-Rudman legisla business, not to extend beyond 1 I also indicate that we have made tion, at least the Senate could begin o'clock. good progress on the Executive Calen its debate on the DOD authorization if After that, we will resume consider dar. I think we can probably clear up the distinguished majority leader ation of House Joint Resolution 668, all but a couple of those nominees this would see fit to bring up that legisla the debt limit extension. week. tion because it does need to be dealt We also may be asked to turn to the There are two treaties dealing with with. It needs to be dealt with prior to consideration of TV in the Senate, Denmark. I understand that the dis the action on the military construc pursuant to the provisions of Senate tinguished Senator from Ohio CMr. tion appropriation bill, and it seems to Resolution 28, in order to use up some METZENBAUM] may have a problem me that if the Senate is going to be of the 12 hours of debate allotted to with those. He was trying to reach me stymied on the . Gramm-Rudman the resolution, if it is going to take 12 on Friday, and we missed each other. amendment to limit legislation, at hours. In visiting with Senators MA We will do the best we can to accom least we could be spending our time THIAS and FORD, I think their recom modate Members. I know that some well in debating the DOD authoriza mendation is that the Rules Commit Members will be necessarily absent to tion bill, and I would hope that the tee will not take much time. So, obvi- morrow for some time, and we can distinguished majority leader would e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. July 28, 1986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 17821 give some consideration to scheduling tinued detention. And we can only In short, the Sandinistas have aban that bill soon. hope that the freeing of Father Jenco doned their own revolution, sup Barring that, I would hope that the is the signal for the imminent return pressed their own people and are in distinguished majority leader would of all the hostages now being held in the process of irretrievably wrecking see if something could be done to set Lebanon. their own country. That is the real aside the Gramm-Rudman roadblock Mr. President, I also want to join record-and that ought to be the real so that Senators can call up other President Reagan in acknowledging issue-in Nicaragua. amendments to the debt limit legisla the help of the Syrian Government in SANDINISTAS HELLBENT ON AGGRESSION AND tion. the safe transport of Father Jenco to SUPPRESSION I thank the distinguished majority American authorities in Damascus. We have given the Sandinistas every leader for considering these sugges And I urge that the Syrian Govern chance to do what they ought to do tions. ment use all its good offices to help to live up to their own promises-in Mr. DOLE. I thank the distin with the release of the remaining hos their country, and in the region. They guished minority leader and I think so tages. far there has not been much holding have turned a "deaf ear"-to us, to the up. I do not disagree with what the mi OAS, to the Contadora process, and to nority leader has just indicated. THE RETURN OF COMRADE the pleas of their own people. They If they cannot resolve this Gramm ORTEGA remain hellbent on the course of ag gression and suppression, and have ar Rudman matter, then I am going to ORTEGA IN NEW YORK make an effort to set it aside and go rogantly boasted that nothing will Mr.

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