[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 131 (Tuesday, September 23, 2003)]
[Senate]
[Page S11771]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, this morning, the Senate will conduct a 
period for morning business to allow Senators to speak. Following 
morning business, at approximately 10:30 a.m., the Senate will resume 
consideration of the Interior appropriations bill. Under the order from 
last night, there will be 10 additional minutes for debate in relation 
to Senator Daschle's amendment on Indian health care. Therefore, the 
first vote of today's session will occur at approximately 10:45 a.m. 
Following that vote, we hope to be in a position to schedule additional 
votes on some of the other pending amendments.
  We will recess from 12:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. for the weekly party 
luncheons to meet, and it is our hope to have additional votes prior to 
that recess.
  We do expect to finish the appropriations bill today or this evening, 
if necessary. Once completed, we will continue with other 
appropriations bills, possibly the DC appropriations legislation.
  I also remind Members once again that we will be scheduling votes on 
available judicial nominations and others throughout the week.
  Over the course of the last 24 hours, people have been recovering in 
the region from the natural disaster we had last week. Our thoughts and 
prayers go out to them, of course. There are many people, including 
many people in this body, who do not have electricity or are having 
water problems. We had rain last night, so we have continued problems. 
We will continue to work together to get people back to normal lives, 
but our thoughts and prayers are with them.
  Lastly, as I mentioned yesterday, this week is a very busy week in 
addressing the request for $87 billion to further the war against 
terrorism, and our goal is to have a good debate, good exchange of 
information, asking the tough questions. That started yesterday 
afternoon with some fantastic hearings chaired by the President pro 
tempore, who is in the Chair now, that went into last evening. Hearings 
will be held by a number of other committees over the course of this 
week, both in the Senate and the House of Representatives.
  Next week, I hope to be able to address the request on the floor of 
the Senate. I would like to aim for having that request completed by 
the end of next week and before we go out for the following week.

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