[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 123 (Monday, July 30, 2007)]
[Senate]
[Page S10209]
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 until 3 p.m. The time will be equally controlled between the 
two leaders. At 3 p.m., the Senate will resume consideration of the 
motion to proceed to H.R. 796, with the time until 5:30 to be equally 
divided and controlled between Senators Baucus and Grassley or their 
designees.
  At 5:30, the Senate will proceed to vote on the motion to invoke 
cloture on the motion to proceed. If cloture is invoked, we can proceed 
to this very important legislation quickly.
  For all Members of the Senate, last week we accomplished a lot. Here 
are the ``must dos'' this week: SCHIP and lobbying and ethics reform. 
There are other things we would like to do and, if we can get consent, 
we will do them.
  The competitiveness conference report is completed. I hope we can do 
that by unanimous consent. The WRDA bill is completed, and we hope to 
be able to do that by unanimous consent. We also, again, later today, 
will offer a unanimous consent request to do the Freedom of Information 
Act improvements. This is an extremely important piece of legislation. 
It has bipartisan support and Senators Leahy and Cornyn are the 
sponsors. I hope we can complete this before we leave. The Republicans 
raised an objection last week when we raised this by unanimous consent. 
I hope that problem is now taken care of.
  So that is what we have to do. I will repeat, we must complete SCHIP 
and lobbying and ethics reform, and the other matters would be icing on 
the cake if we can do them.

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