[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 63 (Friday, May 19, 2006)]
[Senate]
[Page S4845]
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PROGRAM
Mr. FRIST. Madam President, the Senate has made a lot of progress on
the immigration bill. After spending almost 2 weeks on the bill a month
ago, we brought the bill back this week, and not knowing exactly what
to expect, I set out with a pretty high watermark, a pretty high goal,
and that is to consider a number of amendments in an open and free
debate and have those amendments voted upon. We have accomplished
exactly what I had set out to do.
We are going to have another busy week. We have a recess, Memorial
Day recess, after next week, so we have Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, and Friday to conduct a lot of business. Senators are using
the day today--some of them have come to the floor to speak and to
debate and talk about the various issues. Others are using it to study
amendments for next week. Our next voting will be with two rollcall
votes on Monday, at least two votes, maybe others, beginning at 5:30.
The chairman will be here Monday working through the afternoon,
working with Senators on their proposed amendments. It is important
that we have the language on amendments people might be offering.
We have a lot of other work to do. The supplemental bill is currently
in conference. Our colleagues are working very hard, in the House and
Senate, so that we can complete that supplemental bill before the
Memorial Day recess. The nomination of Brett Kavanaugh also is pending.
Brett Kavanaugh has been nominated to the circuit court, and we need to
bring him to the floor before we depart for that Memorial Day recess.
A lot of other issues are underway. The pensions conference report is
being worked on aggressively, day in, day out, and I look forward to
having that completed so when it is available we will be able to take
it to the floor.
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