TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1989 12:15 P.M. - S-230 RANKING MEMBERS MEETING get Cheney! [illegible] uphill Dole :selected: Armstrong :selected: Chafee :selected: Cochran :selected: {circled: Nickles] :selected: Simpson :selected: Boschwitz :selected: Cohen :selected: Danforth :selected: Domenici :selected: {circled: Garn] - no speech {circled: Hatch] Hatfield :selected: Heinz :selected: {circled: Helms] {circled: Lugar] - no conflict McCain :selected: McClure :selected: {circled: Murkowski] - no conflict :selected: Packwood :selected: {circled: Roth] - no conflict Rudman :selected: Stevens :selected: Thurmond :selected: Warner :selected: 70/30 DISCUSSED 1 [illegible] Nomination 2 FSX vote 3 drugs/Byrd Byrd will add to state/justice RUDMAN .225 reduction against bill $600M or so Domenici - argues for staying clear of Byrd - but talk. Nickles: we need to make sure issues in [illegible] control Pkg. addressed 4 Catastrophic Packwood:, trying to get rid of drugs [illegible] SNF 5 appropriations all but defense will be on [illegible] of cmte. this week def. delayed 43 25 18 :selected: {page 2} TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1989 12:15 P.M. - S-230 RANKING MEMBERS MEETING :selected: Dole :selected: Armstrong :selected: Chafee :selected: Cohcran :selected: Nickles Simpson :selected: Boschwitz :selected: Cohen :selected: Danforth :selected: Domenici Garn - no speech Hatch :selected: Hatfield :selected: Heinz Helms Lugar - no conflict :selected: McCain :selected: McClure :selected: Murkowski - no conflict :selected: Packwood Roth - no conflict :selected: Rudman :selected: Stevens :selected: Thurmond :selected: Warner {page 3} TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1989 12:15 P.M. - S-230 RANKING MEMBERS MEETING Dole Armstrong Chafee Cohcran Nickles Simpson Boschwitz Cohen Danforth Domenici Garn - no speech Hatch Hatfield Heinz Helms Lugar - no conflict McCain McClure Murkowski - no conflict Packwood Roth - no conflict Rudman Stevens Thurmond Warner {page 4} -2- AGENDA Week of September 11 1. Gregg nomination, 4 hour time agreement. Vote 6:15 p.m. 2. FSX Vote, Wednesday 3. Appropriations Bills (likely Transportation, D.C., Labor/HHS, VA.,HUD, Foreign Operations, Commerce/State/Justice, Military Construction - these could spill over to next week) 4. S. 1163, Job Training Partnership Act Amendments - likely to be consent item. 5. Solid Rocket Motor Bill - some controversey (Rudman) Week of September 18 1. Appropriations Bills (likely Defense) OTHER ISSUES Drugs Republican Initiatives: Byrd funding amendment Catastrophic (ask Packwood to comment) Finance markup continuing - no consensus yet, but clear Republican oppostion to new funding sources. Continues to be controversial Reconciliation (ask Domenici, Packwood to comment) CONGRESS MUST COMPLETE ACTION PRIOR TO OCTOBER 15 to avoid sequester. At the moment Finance & Agriculture are the only two Committees who have yet to complete action. Finance has been insructed to achieve $2.7 billion in reductions and $5.3 billion in revenues. Agriculture has been instructed to achieve $1 billion in deductions. {page 5} TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1989 12:15 P.M. - S-230 RANKING MEMBERS MEETING Dole Armstrong Chafee Cohcran Nickles Simpson Boschwitz Cohen Danforth Domenici Garn - no speech Hatch Hatfield Heinz Helms Lugar - no conflict McCain McClure Murkowski - no conflict Packwood Roth - no conflict Rudman Stevens Thurmond Warner {page 6} -2- AGENDA Week of September 11 1. Gregg nomination, 4 hour time agreement. Vote 6:15 p.m. 2. FSX Vote, Wednesday 3. Appropriations Bills (likely Transportation, D.C., Labor/HHS, VA., HUD, Foreign Operations, Commerce/State/Justice, Military Construction - these could spill over to next week) 4. S. 1163, Job Training Partnership Act Amendments - likely to be consent item. 5. Solid Rocket Motor Bill - some controversey (Rudman) Week of September 18 1. Appropriations Bills (likely Defense) OTHER ISSUES Drugs Republican Initiatives: Byrd funding amendment Catastrophic (ask Packwood to comment) Finance markup continuing - no consensus yet, but clear Republican oppostion to new funding sources. Continues to be controversial Reconciliation (ask Domenici, Packwood to comment) CONGRESS MUST COMPLETE ACTION PRIOR TO OCTOBER 15 to avoid sequester. At the moment Finance & Agriculture are the only two Committees who have yet to complete action. Finance has been insructed to achieve $2.7 billion in reductions and $5.3 billion in revenues. Agriculture has been instructed to achieve $1 billion in deductions. {page 7} WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1989 12:15 P.M. - LUNCH WITH PRESIDENT AND BOB MICHEL WHITE HOUSE {crossed out: Week of September 6 (this week) 1. Legislative Appropriations O amendment to take money from franking for war on drugs 2. Elizabeth Morgan Bill (likely by consent) M 3. Americans With Disabilities Act} Week of September 11 {crossed out: (next week)} 1. Gregg nomination 4 hour time agreement. Vote 6 15 pm. 2. FSX Vote, Wednesday 3. Appropriations Bills (likely: DC., Transportation {transportation is circled and an arrow points from it to before DC}, Labor/HHS, VA, HUD, Foreign Operations, Commerce/State/Justice, Military Construction - these could spill over to next week) ) 4. S. 1163, Job Training Partnership Act Amendments - likely to be {illegible} item. 5. Solid Rocket Motor Bill - some controversy (Rudman) over financing. Week of September 18 1. Appropriation Bills (likely Defense) OTHER ISSUES Catastrophic (ask Packwood to comment) Finance markup {crossed out: tomorrow} continuing - no consensus yet, but clear Republican opposition to new funding sources. {crossed out: Likely} Continues to be controversial Reconciliation (ask Domenici, Packwood, Lugar to comment) CONGRESS MUST COMPLETE ACTION PRIOR TO OCTOBER 15 to avoid sequester. At the moment Finance and Agriculture are the only two Committees who have yet to complete action. Finance has been instructed to achieve $2.7 billion in reductions and $5.3 billion in revenues. Agriculture has been instructed to achieve $1. billion in deductions. {page 8} Subject: Ranking Members DATE: Tuea, Sept. 12, 1989 TIME: 12:15. LOCATION: 5-230 REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP Senator Position Invited Yes :selected: No Armstrong Policy Chairman :selected: Chafee Conference :selected: :selected: Cochran Conference Secretary Ико. :selected: :selected: Dole Republican Leader :selected: :selected: Nickles Senatorial Committee web :selected: :selected: Simpson Asst. Republican Leader Rob :selected: :selected: RANKING COMMITTEE MEMBERS Senator Ranking Member Invited :selected: Yes No Boschwitz Small Business 10 cb :selected: Chafee Environment Cohen Intelligence wcb :selected: :selected: Danforth Commerce :selected: :selected: Domenici Budget :selected: :selected: :selected: Vspeech Garn Banking :selected: :selected: Hatch Labor :selected: :selected: Hatfield Appropriations :selected: :selected: Heinz Special-Aging :selected: :selected: Helms Foreign Relations web :selected: :selected: not sure conflict Lugar Agriculture W.c.b. :selected: :selected: McCain Select-Indian Affairs 10cb :selected: :selected: McClure Energy w.c.b. :selected: :selected: :selected: Murkowski Veterans Affairs Card Donna :selected: will try ? Packwood Finance web. :selected: :selected: Roth Govt. Affairs & Jt Eco. Cmte. :selected: :selected: hearing maybe Rudman Select-Ethics web :selected: :selected: Stevens Rules & Administration :selected: :selected: Thurmond Judiciary :selected: :selected: Warner Armed Services - web :selected: :selected: REPUBLICANS Bond Kassebaum Burns Kasten Coats Lott D'Amato Mack Durenberger McConnell Gorton Pressler Gramm Specter Grassley Symms Humphrey Wallop Jeffords Wilson OTHERS: DEMOCRATS Adams Kennedy Baucus Kerrey Bentsen Kerry Biden Kohl Bingaman Lautenberg Boren Leahy Bradley Levin Breaux Lieberman Bryant Matsunaga Bumpers Metzenbaum Burdick Mikulski Byrd Mitchell Conrad Moynihan Cranston Nunn Daschle Pell DeConcini Pryor Dixon Reid Dodd Riegle Exon Robb Ford Rockefeller Fowler Sanford Glenn Sarbanes Gore Sasser Graham Shelby Harkin Simon Heflin Wirth Hollings Inouye Johnston GPO: 1989 92-509 (m)