[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 164 (Sunday, December 18, 2005)]
[Senate]
[Pages S13971-S13972]
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                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, we have returned this evening to session 
awaiting various conferences to finish their work and for House action 
on the remaining conference reports. We need to remain in session this 
evening in case those conference reports do become available. When we 
are certain one way or the other on the timing of the Defense 
conference reports, we will make a decision on the length of the 
session. Certainly if the conference report will not be available 
before midnight, then I do not anticipate a late evening. We should 
know something about that within the next couple of hours.
  We cannot rule that in or out at this point. Therefore, we will 
monitor the timing closely and then make further announcements.
  For tomorrow, we continue to try to set votes on seven district 
judges who are on the calendar. If we are not able to reach an 
agreement for that shortly--I hope we can set those votes for a time 
certain so we can alert Members. I will be discussing this shortly with 
the Democratic leader. Again, we will be doing our best to get word to 
the Senators shortly as to the schedule for this evening and tomorrow.
  People have worked through last night and throughout today on these 
conference reports and there has been a lot of activity in the last 
hour or hour and a half. Shortly, I will come back to the floor with 
something more certain in terms of the schedule for later tonight as 
well as tomorrow.

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