[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 158 (Thursday, November 15, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Page S11886]
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                           ORDER OF PROCEDURE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
stand in recess from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. today. There is already an 
order in existence that the time we are in be morning business.
  Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, reserving the right to object, I certainly 
don't want to be an impediment to what the distinguished majority whip 
is trying to do. I do have a couple of speeches I want to make. I will 
go down to my office to get them. One has to do with Thanksgiving. The 
other has to do with another matter of great importance.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, if I could amend that request, we have from 
3 to 4 o'clock for which the Chaplain has arranged for the Senate 
family to be together in the Russell Rotunda.
  I amend that request so that we end at 2 o'clock, or whenever Senator 
Byrd completes his remarks.
  I was present last year and the year before when Senator Byrd gave 
his Thanksgiving speech. I hope I can be present this year when the 
speech is given. It is something I look forward to. It has become, at 
least for me, kind of a Thanksgiving tradition to hear the things for 
which Senator Byrd is thankful because they always trigger in my mind 
the things I am thankful for, or that I should be thankful for.
  I renew my request.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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