[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 126 (Tuesday, September 25, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Page S9763]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, the Senate is going to resume consideration 
of the Department of Defense authorization bill. There will be 15 
minutes of closing debate on the Bunning base closure amendment. The 
debate will be evenly divided between the proponents and the opponents 
of that matter. This debate will be followed by a vote on a motion to 
table the amendment.
  There are going to be additional rollcall votes during the day. After 
this vote takes place, there will be a unanimous-consent request 
offered to again try to get a finite list of amendments. It is still 
the hope of the majority leader that we can complete this legislation 
by tomorrow. It would be great if we could do it tonight, but certainly 
by tomorrow we should be able to do that.
  In addition to this very important legislation, before we finish 
tomorrow at 2 o'clock, we really need to take up the continuing 
resolution. We have a lot to do today. The Senate will be in recess 
from 12:30 until 2:15 for our party conferences.
  There are a lot of very important hearings going on today. The 
Attorney General is here at 10 o'clock. The Secretary of State is here 
later in the day.
  People are going to have to work with us so we can have votes on 
these important amendments that are coming up on this legislation, some 
of which have already been filed.

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