[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 191 (Thursday, December 13, 2007)]
[Senate]
[Page S15380]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, this morning the Senate will immediately 
resume consideration of the farm bill and conduct a period of debate 
until 9:15. This debate time is equally divided between the leaders or 
their designees.
  At 9:15 the Senate will conduct two back-to-back rollcall votes. The 
first vote will be in relation to the Dorgan-Grassley payment 
limitations amendment. That amendment is subject to a 60-vote 
threshold.
  The second vote will be a cloture vote on the motion to concur to an 
amendment to H.R. 6, the Energy bill.
  Mr. President, we will continue with other amendments and votes with 
respect to the farm bill today, so Members can expect other votes.
  I would remind all Members that we will likely be in recess from 2 to 
3 p.m. because Admiral McConnell and Attorney General Mukasey will 
conduct a secret briefing in room 407. This is prefatory to the debate 
that will take place soon on the FISA bill.
  We are going to do our very best to finish the farm bill today. We 
have 23 amendments left on the farm bill. We have a lot to do. We are 
going to do everything we can do so that we do not have to be in 
session this weekend. It will take cooperation from Members because 
there are a number of issues that we have to deal with.
  We are going to try to finish the farm bill and the Energy bill 
today. We have a lot of other things to do today. Hopefully, we can get 
agreement.
  I would also say this to all Senators: We are past the point where 
you can just have your staff call the cloakroom and say: I have a 
Senator who objects. If somebody wants to object, we are not going to 
take cloakroom calls during these last few days of the session. We are 
not going to accept that.

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