Mike Levin

As I understand it, national cemeteries, Federal cemeteries are governed by the amendment. With those changes, we will not object to the amendment. In fact, I think there will be good support for it. Senator Mikulski, as I understand, is a…

And the Ensign amendment as well. I have talked to Senator Craig and you have apparently.

I hope we could stack votes at some point, including a vote on the Inhofe amendment with a second-degree possibility and also----

To be more helpful, the Dorgan amendment has been filed. There is a likelihood there will be a Durbin amendment on Guard and Reserve which also has been filed. I don't want to lock that in as one because we are still juggling. That has…

So this restatement of policy is not intended to modify this in any way. But as I understand it, what the good Senator from Nevada is saying is that some people in the Government have interpreted Executive Order 11850 differently from the…

Is it the intention of the amendment, then, to state the policy of the United States as reflected in Executive Order 11850?

So there is no effort, no intent in the statement of policy on line 4 on page 1 through line 6 on page 2, to in any way modify the policy set forth in that Executive Order 11850?

I wish to clarify a question the chairman of the committee asked. I think I heard the answer, but I was not 100 percent sure. Is the amendment intended to state the current policy of the United States? When it says on line 1 of page 1…

There is an objection. We reversed the order, No. 1, and there needs to be time for debate before one of those amendments. I urge there be a unanimous consent agreement entered into now that after this vote we proceed immediately to a vote…

I hope not, but we have not agreed with that yet. We have to clear that with our leader.

The vote on my amendment immediately as we agreed upon, and then we go immediately to the Byrd amendment. Between the vote here on my amendment and the Byrd amendment, we work on a unanimous consent relative to the other amendment.

Is it my understanding the Senator from West Virginia would accept a voice vote?

I am wondering if we have the time on the Nelson of Florida amendment. I do not have the number.

I wonder if we could get a list of pending amendments made, unless the chairman has already done that, as to what amendments are already pending and how much time is left on those amendments.

That certainly is fine with me. I always welcome the opportunity to hear from our colleagues. I understand there are a number of amendments on the side of the Senator from Virginia that may be ready to go this afternoon. We believe we have…

I do appreciate that, and I will take 1 minute to respond. The chairman very properly points out that there was a Schlesinger panel. That panel said the following relative to the lack of cooperation from the CIA with the panel, which is…

As the Senators from Michigan and South Dakota have noted, many soldiers returned from the gulf war with a variety of symptoms that have no discernible cause. Although environmental exposure in the gulf war cannot be ruled out as a cause…

But in terms of the representation of what was in the package, it did not contain in packages 1 and 2 anything relative to the Energy and MILCON bills. The effort of this printed package is to make sure the proposed amendments to your…

To try to clarify this, what the Senator from Virginia calls part 3 is a skinned-down version of 1 and 2, eliminating from 1 and 2 those provisions which might violate the understanding which existed that there would not be any provisions…

And that the purpose of this package is to remove any amendments relating to those two subjects from the managers' package.

I am happy to yield 5 minutes. Does the Senator from Rhode Island want any time?

The term ``gross negligence'' is defined in my amendment as the term is defined in 42 United States Code 1791(B), and the term ``reckless'' has the meaning given under section 2(A)1.4 of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. So we do define…

I wonder if the Senator will withhold that objection for 30 more seconds so I can respond to one point the good Senator said.

Is it not also true that these amendments, plus many others, have been offered, and people would have been perfectly happy to have votes on them if they were permitted, but votes were not permitted, so they had to be temporarily laid aside…

The reason this comes up is those words have now been utilized by a witness, by somebody who has made investigation. So I want to be as precise as I can, in my question, about whether it would be the belief of the Senator from South…