[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 33 (Thursday, March 17, 2005)]
[Senate]
[Page S3092]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                PROGRAM

  Mr. FRIST. On Monday, the Senate will convene for a short period of 
morning business. There will be no rollcall votes, although we hope to 
finish our business with respect to the legislation relating to my 
comments on the Theresa Marie Shiavo case.
  I want to take this opportunity to thank Chairman Gregg and Senator 
Conrad for the tremendous, outstanding work on the budget resolution 
this week. Today alone, we conducted 25 votes to complete this 
resolution. Although it was not a record in terms of votes in 1 day, I 
would guess that we broke the land speed record as to the greatest 
number of votes in the shortest timeframe. We started voting at 1:17 
and finished our last vote just after 10 p.m. It is ironic, but last 
night, I believe, on the floor in the evening we predicted--and it is 
rare to predict--that we would finish sometime around 10 p.m. tonight, 
and indeed we may have missed it by a couple of minutes.
  I thank all of our colleagues for their patience and endurance. I 
hope we finish our work on the Schiavo issue early next week and, if 
so, we will begin the Easter break.

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