[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 45 (Monday, March 16, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Page S3097]
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                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, following leader remarks, the Senate will 
resume consideration of the motion to proceed to H.R. 146, which is the 
legislative vehicle for the lands bill. At 5:30 p.m. today, we will 
have a cloture vote on the motion to proceed.
  On the lands bill issue, Dr. Coburn is supposed to give me some 
amendments today that we will take a look at and see whether we are 
going to be able to work something out to have some amendments offered. 
As my colleagues know, we are back again with this issue. This 
represents a number of bills that have been held up--a number of these 
bills have been held up for some time over the past year. In the House, 
an issue came up, and they amended it and put it on the consent 
calendar, and it failed by two votes. They didn't get the two-thirds, 
so it comes back here. I hope we can work something out; otherwise, we 
will just proceed as we have in the past. Sometime tomorrow, we will be 
on the bill, probably at about 4 o'clock. We will offer an amendment at 
that time and proceed to do what we need to do. Dr. Coburn has 
indicated to me that he won't require reading of the amendment, which 
could take a lot of time, but we will see what we can work out with him 
and move forward as quickly as we can.

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