[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 35 (Friday, February 27, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Page S2577]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, following leader remarks, if any, the Senate 
will proceed to a period of morning business, with Senators permitted 
to speak for up to 10 minutes each.
  We are going to move to the omnibus spending bill, which is a bill to 
fund the Government until October 1. The committees of jurisdiction in 
the House and the Senate, the Appropriations Committees, have worked 
very hard to come up with bipartisan legislation. No one can ever 
suggest there was not participation by Democrats and Republicans on 
this legislation. We hope to be able to move to that Monday. We are 
going to move to it Monday. We hope to do it without having to have a 
cloture vote. If we cannot get consent to move to the matter within the 
next few hours, we will file cloture on the motion to proceed to that 
bill. That will occur early in the morning on Monday. We have to do 
that so that we can have the 30 hours run as quickly as we can. We have 
to finish the bill next week because the funding runs out on March 6. 
So we hope that can be accomplished. If we can move to the bill, then 
we would leave Monday for the opportunity for people to speak about the 
legislation.
  The bill would be managed, of course, by Senators Inouye and Cochran, 
two of the most experienced legislators we have. Monday would give us 
an opportunity for people to offer amendments, and we would be able to 
have those votes prior to the regular caucus luncheon on Tuesday. So we 
will await as to what happens during the day to determine what is going 
to happen on Monday. We could have a Monday morning cloture vote if we 
cannot get permission to move to that. If we do get permission, then we 
will have no votes on Monday and have that for debate and offering 
amendments, no votes.

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