Bob Dole: “So, I would say hopefully on Tuesday, then, we can obtain cloture. Then we will decide how to deal with the TEAM Act and…”

“So, I would say hopefully on Tuesday, then, we can obtain cloture. Then we will decide how to deal with the TEAM Act and minimum wage. They are still floating around out there, or will be. We are still prepared, I think, as Senator Lott has had a couple of meetings today, to pick a time certain, sometime in June--or maybe, if we can, do it before the recess--to take up those questions. There has also been a question raised. I have written a letter to the Senator from North Dakota, Senator Dorgan, to see if he had any suggestion, because he was concerned if we did repeal the gas tax it would not reach the consumers. I was asked in a press conference yesterday about a statement by ARCO, Atlantic Richfield Co., that maybe they would not be passed on to consumers. But I now have statements from bus and trucking groups who say they would pass along the savings from the repeal to their customers in the form of lower travel costs. And I also have a statement from ARCO and Exxon and others.”