[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 155 (Saturday, September 27, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Page S9881]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, following the remarks of the leaders, if 
any, the Senate will proceed to the consideration of the House message 
to accompany H.R. 2638, the continuing resolution. The time until 10 
a.m. will be equally divided and controlled between the leaders or 
their designees. At exactly 10 a.m., the Senate will proceed to a 
rollcall vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to concur 
in the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 2638.
  As those of us here have seen, in trying to make entry to the 
Capitol, there is something of a bicycle race or performance of some 
kind. It has really slowed things up, so we are not going to terminate 
the vote in the normal 15-minute time schedule. We are going to make 
sure people have an opportunity to get here.
  I say to all Members, unless something can be resolved by consent, we 
are going to file cloture today on the Department of Defense 
authorization bill, which will be a Monday vote. Hopefully, there does 
not have to be a vote tomorrow. Thirty hours after cloture was invoked 
on this matter will be sometime tomorrow afternoon. There are a number 
of ways we can do that. People wanting the extra 30 hours could waive 
that or they could let us have a voice vote tomorrow. As I understand 
it, there is only one Senator holding up this bill now. We will work on 
that during the next hour or so. It appears we may have to be in 
session tomorrow, with a vote on Monday. I know there is a holiday on 
Monday starting at sundown and going to sundown on Tuesday.
  The staff worked until about 3 a.m. this morning on the bailout. They 
made significant progress. There are probably 15 issues still left 
outstanding. Senators are going to have to get together and resolve 
those. We hope sometime tomorrow evening we can announce that there has 
been some kind of an agreement in principle so the only thing that will 
have to be done is to write the legislation. We are still a long way 
from completing it, but we have made significant progress, as I just 
indicated. We will keep Senators advised on a timely basis as well as 
we can.

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