[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 142 (Tuesday, September 9, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Page S8145]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, the distinguished Republican leader and I 
are going to shortly have a conversation that will hopefully help us as 
a body to determine which direction we are going to go over the next 
few days. We have before us the Defense authorization bill; 30 hours 
postcloture is running now. We have our regular caucuses this 
afternoon, as we always do, and hopefully this afternoon we will start 
legislating.
  Following the statement I just completed, there will be a period of 
morning business, with Senators allowed to speak for 10 minutes each, 
with the Republicans controlling the first half and Democrats 
controlling the second half. Following that, we will resume 
consideration of the motion to proceed to S. 3001, the Defense 
authorization bill. The Senate will recess, as I have indicated before, 
from 12:30 until 2:15 today to allow for the weekly caucus luncheons to 
occur.

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