[Senate Calendars for May 24, 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 66
                    

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                          CALENDAR OF BUSINESS

                         Wednesday, May 24, 2006

                                     

                      SENATE CONVENES AT 8:30 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 Wednesday, May 24, 2006, at 8:30 a.m., the 
Senate resume consideration of S. 2611, a bill to provide for 
comprehensive immigration reform and for other purposes; provided, that 
the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell) be recognized to offer Amdt. 
No. 4085, and that the time until 9:30 a.m. be equally divided between 
the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell) and the Senator from Nevada 
(Mr. Reid), or his designee; provided further, that at 9:30 a.m. the 
Senate proceed to a vote in relation to Amdt. No. 4085 and that no 
second degree amendments be in order to the amendment prior to the vote; 
further, that following the vote on Amdt. No. 4085, the Senate proceed 
to a vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the bill; further, that the 
filing deadline for second degree amendments under Rule XXII be no later 
than 10:00 a.m., on Wednesday, May 24, 2006.
    Ordered further, That relative to the cloture motion filed on S. 
2611, the mandatory quorum required under Rule XXII be waived.
    Ordered further, That following the vote on the motion to invoke 
cloture on the bill, the next first degree amendment in order shall be 
Amdt. No. 4036, offered by the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman); 
provided further, that following Amdt. No. 4036, the next first degree 
amendments in order be the following:
      Gregg--Amdt. No. 4114
      Hutchison--Amdt. No. 4101
      Burns--Amdt. No. 4124
      Chambliss--Amdt. No. 4084
      Cornyn--Amdt. No. 4097
      Sessions--Amdt. No. 4108
      Kyl--Amdt. No. 4134.
    Ordered further, That it be in order to have first degree amendments 
offered by the Democratic Leader or his designee between each of these 
Republican amendments; further, that if cloture is invoked on the bill 
and if any of the above listed amendments have not been offered prior to 
the expiration of time under Rule XXII, then it be in order to call up 
any such amendment prior to the third reading of the bill; provided 
further, that notwithstanding the provisions of Rule XXII it be in order 
at any time during the consideration of these amendments to consider a 
managers' amendment which has been cleared by both managers.
    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. (May 11, 22, 23, 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

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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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