[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 30 (Wednesday, March 10, 2004)]
[Senate]
[Page S2585]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                PROGRAM

  Mr. NICKLES. Madam President, tomorrow the Senate will resume 
consideration of the budget resolution. When the Senate resumes debate, 
we will have 14 hours remaining under the time limit. It is my 
expectation to yield back some time. I think we made very good progress 
on the resolution today. We had a lot of rollcall votes. We disposed of 
several amendments. The ranking member and I will return to the floor 
tomorrow morning and continue to work through amendments on the 
resolution.
  Again, it is my intention to yield back some time. Our colleagues 
should know, we are going to have a lot of votes tomorrow. I would urge 
colleagues not to offer amendments that have already been offered. We 
don't need to vote on the same thing four and five times. It is 
important for us to finish this resolution.
  We have had good debate on a variety of big issues covered in the 
budget. I would hope we could conclude by late tomorrow evening or 
possibly on Friday. I will work with all of our colleagues to try to 
make that happen.

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