[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 154 (Wednesday, October 29, 2003)]
[Senate]
[Pages S13483-S13484]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           ORDER OF PROCEDURE

  Mr. FRIST. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that following my 
remarks, and another unanimous consent request by my colleague from 
Kentucky, that we then proceed to the consideration of S. 139, as 
provided under the previous order.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Mr. REID. Madam President, reserving the right to object.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nevada.
  Mr. REID. Madam President, it is my understanding Senator Frist and 
Senator Daschle have agreed there would be 3 hours of debate on that 
matter tonight and 2 hours tomorrow, so I would ask the leader to 
modify his request accordingly.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
  Mr. FRIST. Madam President, first of all, let me make a couple 
comments about tonight's and tomorrow's schedule to make it clear.
  First of all, the understanding is 3 hours tonight on the climate 
change bill and then 2 hours in the morning. To put everything in 
perspective, because we are dealing with about four different issues 
now on the floor of the Senate--it has worked very well, and I 
appreciate the consideration and cooperation of everybody, because to 
some it might look confusing in terms of the order and the sequencing 
of what we are doing. We made huge progress today on the Healthy 
Forests legislation we have been working on now for the last 6 hours. 
The managers have done a superb job. We have traction. We have had a 
number of amendments, and we will continue on that later tomorrow.
  We will have no more votes tonight. We will move, as I just 
mentioned, to the climate change bill, with the 3 hours tonight, 2 
hours tomorrow.
  Tomorrow we will have debate and then an early cloture vote on the 
Pickering nomination at about 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
  We will then resume the climate change bill for 2 hours.
  Then we will return to the Healthy Forests legislation. Once we 
return to the Healthy Forests bill, I expect we will be able to finish 
that bill.
  Following that--Members can refer to the unanimous consent request by 
my colleague--the plan will be to return at that point in time to 
foreign operations that we will be able to complete at that juncture. 
That is the general layout of tonight and tomorrow.

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  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The Senator from Nevada.
  Mr. REID. Before the majority leader goes to the next item, it is 
going to be extremely difficult to finish this most important bill 
tomorrow. Senator Wyden has worked so hard on this with others. Senator 
Boxer, Senator Feinstein, a number of other people on our side of the 
aisle have worked very hard. We are going to send out a hotline in the 
morning to find out what amendments are around. We already have some 
knowledge of the amendments, but it is going to take a lot of 
cooperation and a lot of people cutting down speeches tomorrow if we 
are going to finish this bill tomorrow night, which is the desire of 
the two leaders.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Kentucky.

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