[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 98 (Thursday, July 15, 2004)]
[Senate]
[Page S8141]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, today's session will begin with a period 
for morning business for up to 60 minutes. Following morning business, 
we will proceed to the FSC/ETI or the JOBS bill as the order from last 
night provides. That agreement allows for one amendment to be 
considered under a 3-hour time agreement.
  Following the disposition of that DeWine-Kennedy amendment, we will 
proceed to passage of the bill and then request a conference with the 
House. I do want to express my appreciation to everyone for last night 
as we reached this agreement well into the evening. With the tariff's 
increasing impact on our manufacturers, it is imperative that we get 
this bill to conference so we can finally produce a bill to send to the 
President.
  Again, I want to thank the Senators on both sides of the aisle, 
especially the Democratic leadership, working with our leadership in 
bringing this bill to conference.
  Today we will also consider another important bill, the Australia 
free-trade bill, under the statutory time limit of 20 hours. Several 
Senators spoke on that issue yesterday, and I hope that on both sides 
we will be able to yield back a lot of that time and complete this bill 
at an early hour today. We will stack the vote in relation to the FSC/
ETI amendment for later this afternoon, possibly with a vote on passage 
of the Australia free-trade measure. The timing for those votes will be 
discussed and we will let our colleagues know a little bit later this 
morning.
  Senators should therefore expect votes later this afternoon, those 
two votes for sure.
  I yield the floor.

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