[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 149 (Thursday, September 18, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Pages S9167-S9168]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          THE STIMULUS PACKAGE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, we are going to move to next week. We have 
business we need to conduct. We have had a very busy day. We have been 
at an event with the Secretary of Treasury and Chairman of the Fed and 
a number of others. Next week should be very interesting.
  We have an agreement where we are going to finish the extenders now. 
We have a decision to be made on what we are going to do on the 
stimulus package but certainly, with what has gone

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on in our country the last several weeks, we need a stimulus package 
more than ever. So we will see what we can get done on that next week 
and fund the Government until, hopefully, next year.

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