[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 10 (Friday, January 16, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Page S633]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, today the Senate will be in a period of 
morning business, with Senators allowed to speak for up to 10 minutes 
each. Senator Salazar will be recognized to speak up to whatever time 
he wishes to take.
  At 11 o'clock today, Senator-appointee Ted Kaufman, will become a 
Senator, replacing Vice President-elect Biden, from the State of 
Delaware.
  There will be no rollcall votes today. When the Senate convenes on 
Tuesday afternoon after the inauguration, we hope to clear a number of 
President Obama's nominations, but we do not expect any rollcall votes. 
If any nominations require votes, we will schedule them for the next 
day.
  Yesterday, we were able to adopt the motion to proceed to the Lilly 
Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. We have one amendment pending to the bill. 
Additional amendments are expected to be offered and debated. We hope 
to finish the bill on Wednesday.
  I have spoken to a number of Senators, both on the Democratic side 
and Republican side. We are not encouraging amendments, but certainly 
we are not discouraging amendments. As to anyone who cares to offer an 
amendment, they should be prepared to do that. We asked for people to 
be ready to offer some today, and we did not have any takers. But we 
would hope Wednesday people would be here bright and early to start 
offering amendments. There will be rollcall votes on Wednesday.

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