Speech #890310688

As long as I am on the floor during the consideration of any unanimousconsent request affecting Senate bills. I shall Interpose an objection. During the consideration yesterday afternoon of the conference report on the Cuban refugee matter and the adjustment of the status of Cuban refugees in this country. your House conferees made a bargain or struck an agreement with the conferees of the other body respecting legislation. private in nature. which is pending in the other body authored by some 34 Members of this House. in which case a single individual Member of the other body had been given the authority to hold up private legislation passed by this body until this body sees fit to give clearance to a legislative matter. which Is private in nature. that this particular Member of the other body has Introduced and to which up to this time this body or its appropriate committee has not seen fit to act favorably. The Member of the other body involved agreed in conference in consideration of the willingness of our House conferees to cooperate on certain areas of the Cuban refugee bill. After having struck the bargain in conference on the Cuban refugee legislation in which the conferees of this body gave up a measure of the bill which was passed by the House in order to arrive at an agreement for which the other body agreed to permit the 34 individual private bills which were being summarily--and I say in an act of retaliationheld up by the actions of a single Member of the other body. I find now that after the conferees of this body have signed the Cuban refugee conference report that the Member of the other body has now seen fit again to act in a very arbitrary manner and act again in retaliation. refusing the carry out his bargain made with the House conferees and is still not permitting the consideration by the other body of these 34 bills that this House has given its approval. I had waited for the appropriate time for a Senate bill to come up with a unanimousconsent request. Therefore.