[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 87 (Thursday, June 11, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Page S6523]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           ORDER OF BUSINESS

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, this will be the last vote of the week. We 
have a lot of work going on in the committees and that will continue on 
Monday. The next vote will be Tuesday morning. I will confer with the 
distinguished Republican leader as to what time we will do that and 
what it is going to be on for sure. We think we know, but there will be 
a vote Tuesday morning.
  Everyone has been notified, but to make sure that people understand, 
when we come back after the July 4 recess, we are going to be in 
session for 5 weeks. The House will be in session for only 4 weeks. We 
have 5 weeks and we are going to work very hard during that period of 
time. I have had requests from the managers of the bill, the health 
care bill, Senator Baucus and Dodd, that we need every day of that 
break so there is only going to be 1 day that there will be no votes--
Mondays and Fridays there will be votes--which is Friday, July 17.
  The first day we get back we are going to have a Monday morning vote, 
to show everybody we are serious about this. So the day we get back 
there will be a Monday morning vote. We have a tremendous amount of 
work to do. We not only have health care, which is going to take so 
much of our time, but we are in the appropriations process. The House 
is going to pass all their appropriations bills by the end of the July 
recess. I don't know if we can meet that schedule--it is somewhat 
doubtful--but we are going to pass some bills. We are going to try to 
get to one this work period.
  Without going into more detail, the next work period is going to be 
extremely long, arduous, and extremely important.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Will the leader withhold his request for a 
quorum call?
  Mr. REID. I withhold.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Mexico is recognized.

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