[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 9 (Tuesday, January 31, 2006)]
[Senate]
[Page S381]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                PROGRAM

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, we have had a very productive day with the 
Senate confirming the nominations of Samuel Alito as an Associate 
Justice of the Supreme Court and Ben Bernanke as Chairman of the 
Federal Reserve. The Senate will recess until 8:35 tonight and, just 
after that, we will proceed as a body to the House for a joint session 
of Congress to hear the President's State of the Union Address. 
Tomorrow the Senate will begin consideration of the tax reconciliation 
bill. We have already passed this bill once and had hoped that we could 
expedite the process of sending the bill to conference and resolving 
our differences with the House. Unfortunately, it appears that this 
will be a somewhat lengthy process, and it will take several days and 
multiple votes. We will finish it this week.

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