[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 84 (Thursday, June 17, 2004)]
[Senate]
[Page S6968]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                PROGRAM

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, tomorrow the Senate will resume 
consideration of the Defense authorization bill. As I mentioned 
earlier, we intend to complete action on this bill early next week. The 
chairman and ranking member of the Armed Services Committee have done a 
superb job in moving this bill forward, and as I commented a couple of 
hours ago on the floor, we made real progress over the last 48 hours. 
We will maintain that momentum and that effort over the course of 
tomorrow's session.
  As I stated, I vitiated the scheduled cloture vote in anticipation of 
further cooperation and with the view of finishing the bill on Tuesday. 
I also stated earlier that we would not have rollcall votes tomorrow, 
although a number of Senators have expressed an interest in offering 
their amendments, and a number have said they still want to offer an 
amendment. If that is the case, I ask that they contact the managers so 
that we can proceed in that fashion tomorrow.
  The next votes will occur Monday at approximately 5:30, and there 
will likely be a number of votes after 5:30 on Monday night, given that 
we will be voting on some of the amendments considered tomorrow as well 
as Monday during the day.
  Finally, as a reminder, the resolution we just adopted moments ago 
provides for the official photograph of the Senate to occur on Tuesday, 
June 22. Members are asked to be at their desk at 2:15 sharp that day 
for this photograph.




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