[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 56 (Wednesday, April 28, 2004)]
[Senate]
[Page S4624]
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                                PROGRAM

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, tomorrow morning, following morning 
business, the Senate will resume consideration of the Internet tax 
bill. There will be up to 1 hour of debate prior to the cloture vote on 
the Daschle amendment on renewable fuels. If all time is used, the 
cloture vote on the Daschle amendment will occur at approximately 12 
tomorrow, and that will be the first rollcall vote of the day. If 
cloture is not invoked on the Daschle amendment, the Senate will 
immediately proceed to a cloture vote on Domenici amendment No. 3051 on 
energy policy. If cloture fails on the Domenici amendment, the Senate 
will proceed to a cloture vote on the pending McCain substitute. 
Therefore, up to three rollcall votes are possible beginning at 12 
tomorrow.
  It is my hope we will be able to make progress on the bill tomorrow. 
If we are able to invoke cloture, we would move forward with Internet-
tax-related amendments.
  Senators should therefore anticipate additional votes during 
tomorrow's session.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The assistant Democratic leader.
  Mr. REID. I chose not to object to the unanimous consent request 
dealing with what we are going to be doing tomorrow. We would just hope 
that the good offices of the majority leader would allow, if, in fact, 
cloture is not invoked on Daschle or Domenici, and we have to go to 
McCain, that we could have some arrangement that we could have a little 
bit of debate before voting on the McCain cloture because we have our 
party policy luncheon tomorrow. It may not be a bad idea, and we can 
certainly discuss this with others on the majority side, for Senator 
McCain and others, if, in fact, cloture is not invoked on those first 
two motions that have been filed, that we have a little time to get rid 
of the two energy matters and get back on Internet and discuss that, 
and that would put us with just a short debate of maybe an hour or so 
into the end of the policy luncheon.
  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I understand their policy luncheon is 
tomorrow, and clearly we will make every consideration for them to 
continue with that. We will schedule the votes--it depends on how each 
of these cloture votes go--after discussion over the course of the 
morning. Again, the first rollcall vote will begin at approximately 
noon tomorrow.

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