[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 59 (Monday, May 3, 2004)]
[Senate]
[Page S4778]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                PROGRAM

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, tomorrow, following morning business, 
the Senate will resume consideration of the JOBS bill. The chairman and 
ranking member of the Finance Committee will be here throughout the day 
tomorrow to work through additional amendments. Rollcall votes should 
be expected throughout the day tomorrow as the Senate continues the 
amending process on the JOBS bill. Senators will be notified when the 
first vote is scheduled. However, no votes are expected prior to the 
policy luncheon recess.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nevada.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, if the Senator will yield for a question, 
tomorrow we have our usual party luncheons, as has already been 
announced. We also have the First Lady's dinner that we will go to on a 
bipartisan basis tomorrow evening, starting at about 6:30, so it is 
going to be a short day tomorrow.
  The overtime issue has been kicking around here for a while. That 
amendment has been laid down with a couple of others. I am wondering if 
the Senator from Kentucky is going to be in a position to offer a 
companion to the overtime amendment that we have offered so we can vote 
on those sometime tomorrow.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I say to my friend from Nevada, it is 
likely there will be a side-by-side amendment offered. It is also 
likely we will get to vote on both of those amendments tomorrow. I 
would not want to call it a guarantee at this point, but I think it 
extremely likely we will be able to vote on both tomorrow.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I say to my friend, if we could get rid of 
the overtime issue and move on to some of the other matters, I think we 
can move through these amendments. As the Senator will recall, we had 
18 on our side originally that we had whittled down to. When the 
majority came back with a larger number, we added some to it. But I 
still think we have 18 amendments, and maybe even that is a puffy 
number. We also, on the 18, had time agreements on every one of them. 
So we are ready to move through those. The managers have indicated they 
could probably accept some of our 18.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I know I am safe in saying the majority 
leader wants to finish this bill this week. I do understand that part 
of the problem lies on this side of the aisle with the proliferation of 
amendments prior to the agreement we entered into limiting the 
amendments. We will be working hard on this side of the aisle to narrow 
the list and put us in a position to complete action on this bill this 
week.

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