[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 74 (Thursday, May 14, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Page S5459]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Madam President, following the remarks of Senator McConnell 
and myself, there will be a period of morning business for up to an 
hour. Senators will be allowed to speak for up to 10 minutes each, with 
the exception of Senator Feinstein, who will control the full 30 
minutes on the Democratic side. The next 30 minutes will be under the 
control of the Republicans. Following morning business, the Senate will 
resume consideration of the credit card legislation.
  Last evening, I filed cloture on the substitute amendment and on the 
underlying bill. That was under rule XXII. Because of that, the filing 
deadline for germane first-degree amendments is at 1 p.m. today. I hope 
we can reach agreement to have that cloture vote today. It is scheduled 
for the morning. If we can't do it in the morning, we will have to do 
it Tuesday morning because of the Senate schedule. If we complete that 
cloture vote tonight, we would be able to finish the germane amendments 
Tuesday morning and move on to other matters we have to do next week 
before we take our Memorial Day recess. We want to be able to leave 
here, if at all possible, on Thursday of next week. People have things 
scheduled. But we may have to work into Friday. I hope not. I hope we 
don't have to work into Saturday. But we have to do this credit card 
legislation, the financial fraud. We have been in contact with 
Republicans. They will have a number of amendments. They want it to 
come back from the House. There will be some amendments in order. I 
have spoken to the Republican leader on that, and they are going to try 
to get us those amendments as quickly as possible. Hopefully this 
morning we can set that up to complete that legislation quickly.
  Then, of course, we have to do the supplemental appropriations bill. 
I hope that is not going to be controversial. It will be marked up in 
the Senate today, and then we will have the ability to look at what the 
House and Senate did before it comes to the floor here.
  There are a number of issues that will be discussed. I hope there 
aren't any that should take a lot of time, but we will see.
  That is our workload this work period. I hope we can work through 
this, as much as we can get done today. If not, we can complete a lot 
of the work on tomorrow and Monday even though there will be no votes 
on those days.

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