[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 111 (Thursday, August 2, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Page S8629]
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                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, today, the Senate will resume consideration 
of the VA-HUD Appropriations Act under the able leadership of the two 
managers, Senators Mikulski and Bond. The first matter of business 
today will be an amendment of Senator Nelson of Florida. There will be 
rollcall votes on amendments to this bill throughout the day. When I 
say ``throughout the day,'' we have every expectation this bill will 
end sooner rather than later. We need very badly to get back on the 
Agriculture emergency bill. We hope to do that very soon.
  Cloture was filed on the Agriculture supplemental, so all first-
degree amendments must be filed prior to 1 p.m. today. I have conferred 
with the Democratic manager, Senator Mikulski, and both her staff and 
the staff of Senator Bond have looked at their amendments and are in a 
position to make a determination as to these amendments. We hope, as I 
have indicated, there will be just a few amendments offered today. We 
know Senator Kyl of Arizona has an amendment, perhaps two amendments he 
will offer, but hopefully we can wrap up this bill quite soon.

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