[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 111 (Tuesday, July 8, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Page S6371]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, following the leader remarks, the Senate 
will be in a period of morning business for an hour, with Senators 
permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each during that morning hour. 
Following morning business, the Senate will resume consideration of the 
FISA legislation. We will offer and debate amendments to the bill today 
and begin voting sometime tomorrow morning. When we come in tomorrow 
morning, there will be 105 minutes left of debate time.
  As previously announced, to accommodate Senators wanting to attend 
the funeral of Jesse Helms, there will be no votes today. We do that to 
honor our departed friend Jesse Helms. So there will be no votes today. 
That will work out just fine. It is appropriate that we do that and 
have no votes today.
  We will be in recess from 12:30 to 2:15 today to allow our weekly 
Democratic caucus luncheon. Republicans, who normally have theirs the 
same time we do, will have theirs tomorrow. I have indicated to the 
Republican leader that we will protect his caucus. There will be no 
votes tomorrow during that period of time. Having said that, we are 
going to do everything we can to complete all the votes before the 
Republican caucus tomorrow. If we do not finish, we may have a vote 
after lunch. We will do that.
  Around 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, we are going to have another 
vote on the Medicare doctors fix, which is so important to our country. 
We hope by 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon we will pick up another vote, 
that we will have the 60 votes. That certainly would be good news for 
senior citizens, all those people on Medicare, and the doctors who want 
to take care of those patients.

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