[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 149 (Thursday, September 18, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Page S9003]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           ORDER OF BUSINESS

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, for the information of Senators, we are 
trying to work things out here. It has been very difficult. At this 
stage, it appears that the vote on cloture on the Coburn package will 
be vitiated. We will not have that vote tonight or in the morning.
  We are now waiting to see if we can work out an agreement on the 
extenders. This has been something that the chairman of the committee 
has worked on all day, and it has been very difficult. We thought we 
had it worked out on a couple different occasions, and we did not. We 
now are told that one Senator who had a problem with it is reading the 
new language. We hope that can be done fairly quickly. That being the 
case, we will be back and report to the Senate again, hopefully in the 
next half hour or so.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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