[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 68 (Thursday, May 23, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Page S4741]
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                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Madam President, you are going to announce shortly that we 
will be in a period of morning business until 10:30 this morning with 
the time equally divided. At 10:30, we are going to resume 
consideration of the trade act. All time will run out on the trade bill 
at around 6 o'clock this evening.
  I indicate to all Senators, we now have a finite list of amendments 
that will be voted on if the Senators want votes on those amendments. 
It is about nine amendments, as I recall. We are going to try to work 
out a timely order to handle those. If we do not, then, no matter what 
happens, we finish at 6 o'clock anyway, and there will be a final vote 
on this bill, unless something untoward occurs. So there is still a lot 
of work to do.
  The leader has indicated not only does he want to complete work on 
this trade bill, but there is bioterrorism legislation. The House did 
not move the supplemental yesterday. They quit at about 10 o'clock last 
night without having brought up a single amendment. So they are going 
to work their way through that today.
  The order that has been entered in the House does not allow many 
amendments, so they can probably move the bill fairly quickly, as I 
understand it. Whether it will get here in time for us to do anything 
is something we just have to wait and see. Senator Byrd also would like 
to finish that before we leave.




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