Under my reservation, I note there is a great deal of difference between going to the budget resolution and having full consideration, and agreeing to a number and enforcement numbers on supplemental appropriations. I am prepared to try to help find a solution, to have some limits and some enforcement mechanisms, but obviously the way it has been done for the past 25 years is to have a budget resolution. I do think it is the right thing to do, to go to this death tax issue, and I do want us to continue to work on that. We are going to get an agreement on how to proceed to the cloning issue because I made that commitment some time ago, as did Senator Daschle, to Members on both sides of the issue and on both sides of the aisle. I think we are very close. I ask to be added to this unanimous consent agreement that following the disposition of this death tax issue, H.R. 8, the next order of business be the Defense authorization bill, which is S. 2514.
Trent Lott: “Under my reservation, I note there is a great deal of difference between going to the budget resolution and having full…”
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Discussing budget resolutions and legislative priorities, including the death tax and defense authorization.
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