[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 125 (Monday, September 24, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Page S9679]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, today there will be 2 hours of debate on the 
Jordan Free Trade Area Implementation Act. We are going to have our 
first rollcall vote at or near 2 p.m. today on the nomination of Kirk 
Van Tine to be the general counsel at the Department of Transportation.
  Following that, the Senate is going to resume consideration of the 
Department of Defense authorization bill. I have had a number of 
conversations this morning with the chairman of the committee and the 
majority leader, Senator Daschle and Senator Levin. Although I have not 
spoken to Senator Warner, I am confident he also believes we should 
complete this legislation as quickly as possible. It is the intent of 
the leader to finish this legislation tomorrow. There are a number of 
amendments that need to be brought forward, one of which deals with 
base closings, and we would hope that could be done as quickly as 
possible.
  Also, Mr. President, the two managers of the bill will ask for a time 
for disposing of the amendments, either a finite list or something that 
would give the managers of the bill some idea of what amendments 
Members are wanting to offer. Also, because of this very short week 
which is going to end Wednesday at 2 o'clock because of the Jewish 
holiday, Yom Kippur, it is important we complete the continuing 
resolution to get us through the first couple weeks of next month so we 
can go forward working on appropriations bills.

  I am happy to report to the membership that the House has appointed a 
number of conference committees on the appropriations bills, and that 
is a good sign that we can move forward in the usual process. I hope by 
the time we have run out of time on the continuing resolution, we will 
have made great progress in our appropriations bills. We would ask 
cooperation of all Members. This is going to be a very jampacked week. 
The leader has indicated there may be other things he wishes to bring 
up in addition to the CR and the Defense bill.

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