[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 22 (Monday, February 11, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Pages S824-S825]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           ORDER OF BUSINESS

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, we have a very busy week ahead. We are going 
to finish, as I have indicated, the debate on FISA tonight. We will 
have a series of votes. We have about seven or eight votes we have to 
complete tomorrow. We have postcloture debate tomorrow. We need to 
finish this bill tomorrow, and we will finish it tomorrow. We will 
complete it.
  We are going to take a run at the Indian health bill. I spoke with 
Senator Dorgan this morning. He said he has had a good working 
relationship with Jon Kyl and they are very close to being able to 
finish this bill.
  We are going to bring up the conference report on intelligence 
authorization this week. The legislation contains an important 
provision that would ensure one standard of interrogation across the 
U.S. Government requiring the CIA to abide by the Army Field Manual 
dealing with interrogation techniques.

  That matter has, it appears, a 60-vote point of order against it. We 
understand that. I hope we don't have to file

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cloture on it. I recognize we have that one vote, and I am happy to 
arrange a convenient time for everyone to vote. We could move that very 
quickly, but it is important we do this work.
  We have other things we are looking forward to. I am going to meet 
with the Republican leader as soon as we finish here to talk about 
other things we can do so we can be keyed up to work when we come back. 
We have 3 weeks when we come back after the Presidents Day recess. The 
last week of that work period we will be dealing with the budget. After 
that, we are out for the recess for Easter. Then we come back and have 
an 8-week work period. So we have a lot to do. We think we can do all 
that, plus more.
  It is going to be a short but very issue-packed time this year. We 
have the Presidential elections that are winding down, at least the 
nomination process, and then we have all the senatorial elections 
around the country that also take a little extra time. Hopefully, we 
can join together and get some things done.

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