[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 23 (Thursday, February 5, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Page S1615]
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                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, we are going to go back to work immediately 
on H.R. 1, the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
  Yesterday, we reached an agreement on a number of amendments, and 
that was certainly done. After we completed the voting last night, the 
managers of the bill moved a number of other pieces of legislation. 
Senator McCain is going to offer the first amendment today. This will 
be the 14th amendment that is pending, and I think we need to dispose 
of all or part of these amendments before we start adding more 
amendments. We are happy that was the agreement made last night--for 
Senator McCain to offer his amendment. It is an important amendment, 
one that needs to be debated, and we look forward to that.
  However, I would tell Senators, I think we should dispose of some of 
these amendments before we start on any more after Senator McCain. 
There will be plenty of time to do that. Everyone has agreed to time 
agreements on these amendments, is what I am told, and I am confident 
that is right.

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