[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 39 (Thursday, April 11, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Page S2507]
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                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, as the Chair announced, the Senate is now 
resuming the consideration of the energy reform bill. We expect the 
Senator from California to be here momentarily to offer an amendment. I 
believe the subject matter of that will deal with ethanol. This will be 
offered, I hope, within the next few minutes.
  The consideration of this legislation will be interrupted as a result 
of the unanimous consent request granted last night. The Senate is 
slated to resume the election reform measure at 11:30 a.m. today, with 
30 minutes of debate remaining prior to the Senate conducting up to 
three rollcall votes at 12 noon today. That 30 minutes will be equally 
divided between Senator Dodd and Senator McConnell. Once the election 
reform measure has been disposed of, the Senate will resume 
consideration of the energy bill with other votes this afternoon and 
this evening.
  I say to all Senators, we need to move this legislation along. I 
sound like a broken record. We have been told on several occasions that 
the ANWR amendment was going to come forward. It will come forward 
today in some fashion or form. I think it is fair to say if this is not 
offered by Senator Murkowski or someone of his choosing, either I or 
someone else will offer it. ANWR must come before the Senate and we 
must debate this issue; I hope everyone understands. Whoever wants to 
offer it wants it just right, and I think the just right time has 
arrived. We need to have this amendment before the Senate. As was 
indicated yesterday, it may become necessary to offer the same language 
in the House bill so we can get this debate underway and this 
legislation completed.

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