[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 73 (Friday, May 4, 2007)]
[Senate]
[Page S5613]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, the Senate will be in a period of morning 
business today. There are no rollcall votes. Yesterday, cloture was 
filed on the substitute amendment to S. 1082, the FDA bill, and cloture 
was filed on the bill. In addition, cloture was filed on the motion to 
proceed to H.R. 1495, the Water Resources Development Act. Votes will 
begin Monday at about 4 p.m., and there will be several votes at that 
time. We are disappointed we were not able to finish FDA yesterday, as 
anticipated. I am confident we can finish it Monday night or Tuesday.
  We have a lot to do next week. As I have indicated, I am going to 
move to the immigration bill on Wednesday so debate on that can start 
on the following Monday. We also have the opportunity to complete our 
budget for the year. I have spoken to Senator Conrad on a number of 
occasions. I have spoken to the Speaker on this issue. It is very close 
to being in a position that we can bring it to the floor. It is my 
understanding the House will appoint conferees on Monday, and we will 
do that on the next day. It is a privileged motion. There is 10 hours 
of debate, and there are some procedural issues dealing with motions to 
instruct. We will find out how many there will be on either side. That 
will take up a lot of time.
  The WRDA bill is extremely important. It passed overwhelmingly in the 
House. I hope we can do the same here.

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