Arlen Specter: “I call up Senator Enzi's amendment No. 2295, as modified. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The assistant…”

“I call up Senator Enzi's amendment No. 2295, as modified. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Pennsylvania [Mr. Specter], for Mr. Enzi, proposes an amendment numbered 2295, as modified. The amendment is as follows: On page 115, strike lines 15 and 16, and insert the following: under title I of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, or to modify, through regulatory or administrative action, the procedure for redesignation of local areas as specified in subtitle B of title I of that Act (including applying the standards specified in section 116(a)(3)(B) of that Act, but notwithstanding the time limits specified in section 116(a)(3)(B) of that Act), until such time as legislation reauthorizing the Act is enacted. Nothing in the preceding sentence shall permit or require the Secretary of Labor to withdraw approval for such redesignation from a State that received the approval not later than October 12, 2005 or to revise action taken or modify the redesignation procedure being used by the Secretary in order to complete such redesignation for a State that initiated the process of such redesignation by submitting any request for such redesignation not later than October 26, 2005. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate on the amendment? If not, the question is on agreeing to amendment No. 2295, as modified. The amendment (No. 2295), as modified, was agreed to. Amendment No.…”