[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 114 (Friday, July 11, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Page S6612]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                PROGRAM

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, we are going to be on this global AIDS bill, 
and I would hope that Senators Biden, Lugar, and anyone else who wants 
to give a statement regarding this matter do that Monday afternoon. If 
there are amendments people want to offer, they can do that. We should 
finish this bill, I hope, relatively soon. We have a finite list of 
amendments.
  Even though this has been a very grueling process, hopefully--with 
all the concern we have had the last several months with, in effect, 
not getting along with the Republicans and vice versa--I hope the work 
that was put in this week in the Senate, where we have been able to 
accomplish some difficult issues--Medicare, FISA, housing, and moving 
forward on this legislation--I hope it paves the way for us, during the 
next 3 weeks, 4 weeks, to complete even more for the American people.
  We know that gas prices are on the minds of everyone, and we hope 
even next week to have some bipartisan legislation on energy that I 
think would help stop some of the hemorrhaging going on with the 
problems we have dealing with energy.
  We will have no votes on Monday. We will have some votes Tuesday 
morning.

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