E PL UR UM IB N U U S Congressional Record United States th of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 106 CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION Vol. 146 WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2000 No. 86 House of Representatives The House was not in session today. Its next meeting will be held on Monday, July 10, 2000, at 12:30 p.m. Senate FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2000 The Senate met at 9:31 a.m. and was PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE in the Chamber during votes in order called to order by the President pro The Honorable LINCOLN D. CHAFEE, a to expedite the conclusion of the pro- tempore [Mr. THURMOND]. Senator from the State of Rhode Is- ceedings. land, led the Pledge of Allegiance, as f PRAYER follows: RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under Ogilvie, offered the following prayer: United States of America, and to the Repub- the previous order, the leadership time Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on lic for which it stands, one nation under God, is reserved. this Senate Chamber, enter the mind indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. and heart of each Senator, and reign as f f Sovereign over all that is said and done RECOGNITION OF THE ACTING MEASURE PLACED ON this day. We confess that it is some- MAJORITY LEADER CALENDAR—H.R. 4680 times easier to use pious words to pray The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. L. Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, before about Your presence and power than it CHAFEE). The Senator from Pennsyl- we proceed to the Wellstone amend- is to turn over the control of our lives vania. ment, I understand there is a bill at and our work to You. We are strong f the desk due for its second reading. willed people, we want things done our The PRESIDING OFFICER. The SCHEDULE way, and often we are better at manip- clerk will report. ulation than meditation and medi- Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, on be- The legislative clerk read as follows: ation. Built right into our two party half of the majority leader, I have been A bill (H.R. 4680) to amend title XVIII of system is the potential for discord and asked to announce, as manager of the the Social Security Act to provide for a vol- the lack of civility. It is so easy for us bill, that the Senate will immediately untary program for prescription drug cov- to get suited up like mountain climb- resume consideration of H.R. 4577, the erage under the Medicare Program, to mod- ers and then scramble over molehills. Labor, Health and Human Services, ernize the Medicare Program, and for other Procedures can become more impor- and Education appropriations bill. purposes. tant than progress and winning more Under the previous order, there are Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, on be- crucial than being willing to work to- several votes remaining on amend- half of the majority leader, I object to gether. Now at the beginning of this ments to the bill, including the further proceedings on that bill at this day remind the Senators and all of us Wellstone amendment regarding drug time. who serve with them that this is Your pricing, the Helms amendment regard- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under Senate, that we are accountable to ing school facilities, the Harkin the rule, the bill will be placed on the You, and that we could not breathe our amendment regarding IDEA, and any calendar. next breath without Your permission. amendment that is not cleared within (Action taken on June 29, 2000 but Keep our attention on what needs to be the managers’ package, and disposition not printed in that edition of the done now rather than on how what is of the point of order, along with a vote RECORD.) said and done now will impact the No- on final passage of the Labor-HHS ap- f vember election. In our mind’s eye we propriations bill, and possibly a vote picture a day in which we put You and on the adoption of the conference re- MEASURE PLACED ON our Nation first. We humble ourselves port to accompany the military con- CALENDAR—S. 2808 lest we be humiliated by missing the struction appropriations bill. Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I under- call to greatness. In Your all powerful The leader has asked that I pass on stand there is a bill at the desk due for name. Amen. his message to urge Senators to remain its second reading. ∑ This ‘‘bullet’’ symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. S6185 . VerDate Mar 15 2010 23:41 Dec 04, 2013 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4637 Sfmt 0634 E:\2000SENATE\S30JN0.REC S30JN0 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S6186 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE June 30, 2000 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The minutes for explanation prior to a vote Mr. REID. I announce that the Sen- clerk will report. on Wellstone amendment No. 3698. ator from California (Mrs. BOXER), the The legislative clerk read as follows: Mr. WELLSTONE. Mr. President, Senator from Hawaii (Mr. INOUYE), the A bill (S. 2808) to amend the Internal Rev- this amendment reinstates the Bush Senator from Vermont (Mr. LEAHY), enue Code of 1986 to temporarily suspend the administration’s policy of requiring a and the Senator from New York (Mr. Federal fuels tax. reasonable pricing clause in the NIH MOYNIHAN) are necessarily absent. Mr. FRIST. I object to further pro- drug patent licensing agreements and The result was announced—yeas 56, ceedings on this bill at this time. cooperative research agreements with nays 39, as follows: The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill pharmaceutical companies unless [Rollcall Vote No. 168 Leg.] will be placed on the calendar. waived on public interest grounds. It YEAS—56 f does not apply to universities. A very Abraham Enzi McCain THE DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, similar amendment passed by a 2-to-1 Allard Fitzgerald McConnell Ashcroft Frist HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, margin in the House of Representa- Murkowski tives. Bennett Gorton Nickles AND EDUCATION, AND RELATED Biden Gramm All this says is, when it is our public Roberts AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS, 2001 Bond Grams Santorum dollars—taxpayer money, our constitu- Breaux Hagel The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under Sessions ents’ money—we expect that the drug Brownback Helms Shelby Bunning Hutchinson the previous order, the Senate will now companies, when they benefit from all Smith (NH) Burns Hutchison resume consideration of H.R. 4577, Smith (OR) this, will agree to charge our constitu- Campbell Inhofe Snowe which the clerk will report. ents a reasonable price. Cochran Kerrey The legislative clerk read as follows: I think this is an amendment that Collins Kyl Specter Stevens A bill (H.R. 4577) making appropriations should command widespread support. I Coverdell Landrieu for the Departments of Labor, Health and Craig Lautenberg Thomas have offered this amendment with Sen- Thompson Human Services, and Education, and related Crapo Lieberman Thurmond agencies for the fiscal year ending Sep- ator JOHNSON. It has support from the DeWine Lott National Council of Senior Citizens, Dodd Lugar Torricelli tember 30, 2001, and for other purposes. Domenici Mack Warner Pending: Families USA, and the Committee to NAYS—39 Helms amendment No. 3697, to prohibit the Preserve Social Security and Medicare. expenditure of certain appropriated funds for I also want to say that I think Sen- Akaka Feingold Lincoln ator LEVIN, last night, hit the nail on Baucus Feinstein Mikulski the distribution or provision of, or the provi- Bayh Graham Murray sion of a prescription for, postcoital emer- the head when he said: It is bad enough Bingaman Grassley Reed gency contraception. that we have exorbitant prices. It is Bryan Gregg Reid Wellstone amendment No. 3698, to provide worse when we actually subsidize the Byrd Harkin Robb for a limitation on the use of funds for cer- research, and then we do not ask any- Chafee, L. Hollings Rockefeller tain agreements involving the conveyance of Cleland Jeffords Roth licensing of a drug. thing in return from these companies. Conrad Johnson Sarbanes Harkin amendment No. 3699, to fully fund The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Daschle Kennedy Schumer the programs of the Individuals with Disabil- ator from Pennsylvania. Dorgan Kerry Voinovich ities Education Act. Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, the ob- Durbin Kohl Wellstone Edwards Levin Wyden Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, one jective of the Wellstone amendment is item came up in the course of the con- laudable in trying to have reasonable NOT VOTING—5 sideration of the bill on which I com- prices. The difficulty is that this was Boxer Inouye Moynihan Hatch Leahy mented I would respond to regarding tried 7 or 8 years ago and was found to the increase in this bill over last year’s be very counterproductive. Instead of The motion to table was agreed to. bill. encouraging tests and development of Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, I move This year’s bill contains a program pharmaceutical products, it discour- to reconsider the vote. level of $104.5 billion for fiscal year aged them. We have already adopted Mr. McCONNELL. I move to lay that 2001. This is a $7.9 billion increase over the Wyden amendment which provides motion on the table. fiscal year 2000, which had a program for a study on this issue. The motion to lay on the table was level of $96.6 billion. When assertions There are some very important mat- agreed to. have been made that the bill has grown ters raised by the Senator from Min- AMENDMENT NO.