[Senate Calendars for May 23, 2006 - 109th Congress, 2nd Session]
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                       SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                       ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS

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   FIRST SESSION  convened january 4, 2005          DAYS OF SESSION 159
                  adjourned december 22, 2005
  SECOND SESSION  convened january 3, 2006          DAYS OF SESSION 65
                    

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                          CALENDAR OF BUSINESS

                          Tuesday, May 23, 2006

                                     

                      SENATE CONVENES AT 9:45 A.M.






                            PENDING BUSINESS

                         S. 2611 (ORDER NO. 414)

    A bill to provide for comprehensive immigration reform and for other 
purposes. (May 15, 2006.)



                  (Pending Business Continued on P. 2)

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           PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF EMILY J. REYNOLDS,
                         SECRETARY OF THE SENATE

                 By David J. Tinsley, Legislative Clerk

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                            PENDING BUSINESS

                         S. 1955 (ORDER NO. 417)

    A bill to amend title I of the Employee Retirement Security Act of 
1974 and the Public Health Service Act to expand health care access and 
reduce costs through the creation of small business health plans and 
through modernization of the health insurance marketplace. (May 10, 
2006.)

                      UNANIMOUS CONSENT AGREEMENTS

                         S. 2611 (ORDER NO. 414)

    1.--Ordered, That on Tuesday, May 23, 2006, at 9:45 a.m., the Senate 
resume consideration of S. 2611, a bill to provide for comprehensive 
immigration reform and for other purposes; provided that there be 60 
minutes for debate with the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) in 
control of 30 minutes, the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter) in 
control of 20 minutes, and the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy) 
in control of 10 minutes; further, that at the expiration of that debate 
the Senate proceed to a vote on Amdt. No. 4087, offered by the Senator 
from California (Mrs. Feinstein), that no second degree amendments be in 
order to the amendment, and that no further intervening action or debate 
be in order; provided further, that the filing deadline for first degree 
amendments under Rule XXII be 2:30 p.m., on Tuesday, May 23, 2006.
    Ordered further, That when the Senate agrees to a request for a 
conference or the Senate requests a conference on S. 2611 or a House 
bill, as amended with the language of S. 2611, as amended, if amended, 
the Chair be authorized to appoint conferees on the part of the Senate 
with the ratio of conferees being 14 to 12; provided further, that from 
that ratio, the first 7 Republican Senators from the Committee on the 
Judiciary and the first 5 Democratic Senators from the Committee on the 
Judiciary be conferees; further, that the Majority Leader select the 
final 7 conferees for the Majority side and the Democratic Leader select 
the final 7 conferees for the Minority side.
    Ordered further, That relative to the cloture motion filed on S. 
2611, the mandatory quorum required under Rule XXII be waived. (May 11, 
22, 2006.)

                                 H.R. 22

    2.--Ordered, That with respect to H.R. 22, an act to reform the 
postal laws of the United States, provided it shall not be in order for 
the Senate to consider any conference report or any House amendments to 
H.R. 22, if it would cause a net increase in on or off budget direct 
spending in excess of $5 billion in any of the four 10-year periods 
beginning in 2016-2055, as estimated by the Congressional Budget Office. 
(Feb. 9, 2006.)

                                 S. 295

    3.--Ordered, That the Majority Leader, after consultation with the 
Democratic Leader, shall no later than September 29, 2006, or the last 
day of the second session of the 109th Congress, whichever is earliest, 
call up S. 295, a bill to authorize appropriate action if the 
negotiations with the People's Republic of China regarding China's 
undervalued currency are not successful; provided that if the bill has 
not been reported by then by the Committee on Finance it be discharged 
at that time and the Senate proceed to the consideration thereof; that 
there be 2 hours for debate equally divided between the Senator from 
Iowa (Mr. Grassley) and the Democratic Leader, or his designee, that no 
amendments or motions be in order, including committee amendments, that 
after the use or yielding back of time, the bill be read a third time 
and the Senate proceed to a vote on passage of the bill, with no 
intervening action or debate. (July 1, 2005, Mar. 29, 2006.)

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     November, 01, 02, 03, 04, 07, 08, 09, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18.
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