[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 69 (Monday, May 23, 2005)]
[Senate]
[Page S5715]
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                           ORDER OF PROCEDURE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, through the Chair to the distinguished 
Republican leader, does the leader have an indication of when you may 
be in a position to indicate how late we would go tonight?
  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, through the Chair, I expect, because of the 
large amount of interest, that we will stay here until everybody does 
have that opportunity to speak. We will have the cloture vote, and you 
and I can discuss shortly the timing. But likely we will do the cloture 
vote possibly late tomorrow morning. We do want to give people an 
opportunity. We have spent 26 hours over the course of 3 days, but in 
all likelihood it will be a very late night tonight.
  Mr. REID. And we would continue dividing the time?
  Mr. FRIST. I think for planning purposes, that has worked out well 
for the last 26 hours. If over the course of the morning and afternoon 
we jointly agree, we can continue that as late as necessary tonight or 
into the hours of the morning. As I mentioned, debate has been very 
orderly and very constructive. We will continue with that constructive 
debate over the course of today and tonight.

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