[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 53 (Tuesday, March 27, 2007)]
[Senate]
[Page S3781]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, we are going to proceed to a period of 
morning business now. It will be for 60 minutes. The time is divided 
between both the majority and the minority. The Republicans are 
controlling the first 30 minutes. Following morning business, the 
Senate will resume consideration of H.R. 1591, which is the 
supplemental appropriations bill. We will interrupt consideration of 
the supplemental at 11:50 in order to debate a judicial nomination. A 
vote on confirmation of the nomination of George Wu to be a U.S. 
district judge will occur around 12:10 or thereabouts. The vote will be 
the first vote today. After that vote, we will recess until 2:15 p.m. 
in order to permit the regular Tuesday meeting of the respective party 
conferences.
  As a reminder, cloture was filed last evening on the supplemental 
appropriations bill. Members have until 2:30 today to file first-degree 
amendments.
  We are conferring with the Republicans--Senator McConnell and I have 
spoken on a number of occasions, not this morning yet but yesterday--to 
try to arrange votes on a number of amendments, one of which is the one 
filed by Senator Cochran. We are going to try to work out an orderly 
process to go to an amendment relating to minimum wage. There are, 
perhaps, some other amendments the Republicans want to do dealing with 
strikes, dealing with the funding of this bill. There is an issue which 
is important to both Democrats and Republicans dealing with county 
payments and payment in lieu of taxes.
  At this stage, that is the universe of the matters we will work on 
and try to get time agreements to proceed to the cloture vote, which 
will occur in the morning. Hopefully, we can work toward that end and 
get a lot of it done today.
  We all recognize the importance of this legislation, not only from 
the aspect of the military, but there are other matters in the bill 
that are extremely important.

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