[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 39 (Thursday, March 5, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Page S2779]
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                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, following our remarks, there will be a 
period of 1 hour for Senators to speak in morning business. I have had 
numerous requests this week by Republicans and Democrats to speak on 
issues they want to address. I hope they now will come.
  Following morning business, the Senate will be back on the 
appropriations bill we have worked on this week. I filed cloture on the 
bill last night and announced to the Senate that we will continue work 
on this until we finish it one way or the other. I hope we work out 
something to vote tonight. If we can't, we will do it in the morning. 
The filing deadline for first-degree amendments is 1 p.m. today. 
Rollcall votes in relation to pending amendments, of which we now have 
six, are expected to occur throughout the day. As those who were here 
last night will remember, I indicated that we had covered a wide 
universe of amendments. I had spoken to Senator Kyl, the assistant 
Republican leader, and a number of other Senators--Mr. Crapo and Mr. 
Inhofe--who wanted to offer amendments. We agreed to do those. We have 
six amendments pending. We will see how we do disposing of amendments 
today. I hope we can move through them fairly quickly. I look forward 
to doing what I can to finish as quickly as we can.

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