10 University Daily Kansan Nation/World Friday, Nov. 1, 1985 Senator says time is wasted United Press International WASHINGTON — The Senate has spent six weeks in do-not-quorum calls and 2½ weeks in drawn-out votes since the start of the session, Sen. David Pryor, D-Ark., said yesterday. Pryor said that as of last Friday, the Senate had consumed 247 hours on quorum calls, or 23 percent of the time it was in session, and 100 hours on roll call votes, adding another 9 percent. "These figures are astonishing," Pryor said. "It seems to me that we should consider changes in the Senate rules and attempt to be more efficient." Quorums, the number of people necessary to transact business, are used to keep the Senate in session to bridge action on bills or speeches. The rules stipulate that roll call votes last 15 minutes, but Pryor said that more than 36 of the 100 hours spent on balloting exceeded that amount because the Senate was "waiting on members to come to the floor." Pryor said the average length of a roll call vote has been 23.6 minutes. Thirteen have lasted longer than half an hour and one went on for 61 minutes. "Part of the problem, quite frankly, is because of the attempt of the leadership, on both sides of the aisle, to accommodate the schedules of individual senators," Pryor said. "I suppose some of this is necessary. "But when the efforts to accommodate members reaches the point where the legislative train runs off the track and we can't do our work, I believe it's time to look at the rules and see what changes can be made." Pryor said. He said that of the 258 roll call votes taken, only 6 came on Monday and 31 on Friday, and while 26 occured before noon, 74 were after 6 p.m. "This means that fully 30 percent of the votes in the Senate were in the evening." Pryor said. Pryer's research also bore out that the Senate is a nocturnal creature that is most prolific on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. "We should probably declare Mondays and Fridays national holidays since significant, substantive business rarely occurs on these days," he said. "And, more and more, it seems that most of the work of the Senate occurs after 6 p.m." Farm bill debated in Senate United Press International WASHINGTON -- Republican leaders circulated a new farm package yesterday, but Sen. James Exon, D-Neb., said that the package would abandon small farms and that it would block action with a Bristolter. The new GOP proposal, a variation of one narrowly defeated Wednesday, made the rounds of Republicans and Democrats as State Sen. Robert Dole, Senate majority leader, hunted hard for a winning combination. Exon, a ranking farm state senator, said the new Republican proposal was even worse than the one defeated Wednesday, which would have provided a one-year freeze on crop subsidies and would have allowed authorization to reduce subsidies 5 percent a year in each of the following three years. The new Republican proposal incorporates the one-year freeze and the 5 percent cuts, but provides wheat growers with a variable program and incorporates "lock, stock and barrel" the money-saving provisions included in a Democratic alternative. The bill the Senate Agriculture Committee sent to the Senate floor would freeze subsidies for four years. Republicans, surprised and elated by the narrowness of their initial defeat, sought a combination that would provide a major. Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., said the Senate had taken "a major step toward achieving a farm bill agreement this year." The narrowness of the defeat, 51-48, encouraged the Republicans, leading Lugar to say that the close vote paved the way for "a major compromise. Many thought we could only get 30 votes." Busy with off-the-floor negotiations, the Republicans refused to permit any move on the floor by Democrats. Dole said the GOP would offer its alternative first — "We're the majority." But Exon said, "If we think they have the votes for the bill they have out there, we're going to fillhuster. We're ready to go. We want to delay action as long as possible." Exon charged that Dole was trying to split wheat state senators from corn state senators and was holding out new concessions to cotton and rice state senators. But Exon said Democrats, opposing the Dole-Lugar plan, had not budged. NRA,ACLU oppose plan to file names United Press International WASHINGTON — The National Rifle Association has joined the American Civil Liberties Union in an unusual alliance opposing a Justice Department plan to place the names of white-collar crime suspects and their associates in the FBT's super crime computer. In a letter to Attorney General Edwin Meese, the NRA said it had serious questions about the plan to list white collar suspects that have not been convicted of any crime in the FBI's National Crime Information Center. The NRA joined the ACLU in opposing the proposal, which is being studied by the government. The two groups rarely see eye to eye on legal issues, especially on gun control efforts. In letters to Meese, the NRA, the American Bankers Association and the Securities Industry Association raised questions about the government's plan to expand the NCIC, which currently lists information about those convicted of crimes. The letters were made available Wednesday to United Press International by congressional sources. The FBI's NCIC was set up in 1967 as a central depository for criminal justice information. It currently contains 17 million records about convicted individuals and is available to 64,000 criminal justice agencies. The Justice Department revealed recently it is working on a plan to place the names of people who are suspected of committing white collar crimes, but have not been convicted, in the files. 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