[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 67 (Thursday, May 13, 2004)]
[Senate]
[Page S5485]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                PROGRAM

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, tomorrow the Senate will be in a period for 
the transaction of morning business throughout the day. There will be 
no rollcall votes tomorrow. As I mentioned, we will begin consideration 
of the Department of Defense authorization bill next week. Members 
should expect the next rollcall vote on Monday at approximately 5:30 
p.m. The chairman and ranking member will be here Monday to work 
through amendments, and they have indicated they will be prepared for a 
vote on an amendment at 5:30 p.m.
  We are also working on an agreement for consideration of the 
bioshield bill. We hope we will be able to lock in an agreement for 
that bill's consideration on Monday, and I will provide an update on 
that effort during tomorrow's session. We would debate that bill on 
Monday and have the vote on passage on Tuesday.
  Also, as a reminder, we reached an agreement on the bill related to 
campaign medals for Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi 
Freedom. That bill will be completed during Tuesday's session.
  We are also expecting to begin consideration of some of the available 
judicial nominations that are on the Executive Calendar. Discussions 
are still underway as to how best to proceed to those nominations, and 
we will have more to say on this tomorrow.
  I also congratulate Senator Judd Gregg and the ranking member for 
passage of the IDEA reauthorization 95 to 3. It is a very important 
bill. We were able to deal with that bill in a very short period of 
time and in a very orderly way. I appreciate them bringing that to 
conclusion today.




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