[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 177 (Thursday, November 20, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Page S10681]
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                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, following leader remarks the Senate will 
proceed to a period of morning business. Senators will be allowed to 
speak for up to 10 minutes each.
  Following morning business, the Senate will resume the motion to 
proceed to H.R. 6867, which is the emergency unemployment compensation 
legislation. Yesterday, cloture was filed on that motion to proceed to 
the measure. Senators will be notified when a vote is scheduled. 
Senators should be prepared for a rollcall vote today--or maybe votes.
  We are in a situation where we do not know, procedurally, what we are 
going to be able to accomplish today. This doesn't ripen until 
tomorrow. So we could pass unemployment compensation legislation today, 
to give relief to people who are desperately in need of these checks. 
But we may not be able to do that until tomorrow. We hope that at least 
on this measure we would be able to get consent to pass this.
  After that, we have some procedural roadblocks. I have spoken to a 
number of Senators today. Of course, the desire is we complete all of 
our actions until we come back on January 6, but that may not be 
possible. We have the Thanksgiving recess. I have had calls from staff 
and Senators. They are having trouble making new arrangements, if, in 
fact, we have any to be made. So it may be necessary that we come back 
after Thanksgiving. I have not had an opportunity to converse with my 
Republican counterpart, but I will do that. I have a meeting scheduled 
later today with the Speaker.
  Everyone stay tuned, and we will do the very best we can to let 
Senators know where we are at any given time.

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