As I said, Mr. President, there will be two rollcall votes. The first vote is on cloture of the Reed amendment. If cloture is not invoked, there will be a second cloture on the underlying bill. We hope to be able to work something out for Senator Baucus's nomination to be ambassador to China this afternoon. Measure Placed On The Calendar--S. 1996
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