[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 12 (Thursday, January 28, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Page S273]
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                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, following leader remarks, there will be a 
period for the transaction of morning business for 1 hour. The time 
will be controlled by the two leaders or their designees. Senator 
Sanders is going to control 15 minutes of the majority time. We have a 
half hour. So he will have 15 minutes of that time.
  Following morning business, the Senate will resume consideration of 
H.J. Res. 45, the debt limit legislation, and proceed to a series of 
votes in relation to the following items: Brownback amendment; 
Sessions/McCaskill amendment; Reid amendment; Baucus for Reid 
amendment; and passage of H.J. Res. 45.
  Following those votes, there will be 1 hour of debate prior to a 
cloture vote on the nomination of Ben Bernanke to be Chairman of the 
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. We are going to try to see 
if we can work with both Democrats and Republicans to have more time to 
debate prior to a vote on Ben Bernanke. If we can work that out, we 
will have an extended period of time, whatever Senators want, prior to 
Mr. Bernanke, and then we would have cloture and perhaps final passage. 
We don't have that worked out. At least the order before the Senate is 
that following the series of five votes, there will be an hour of 
debate prior to a cloture vote on Ben Bernanke.
  Mr. President, I see the distinguished Judiciary chairman here. We 
have a half hour of time, and I will be happy to give to my friend 
whatever time he desires.
  How much time does my friend need?
  Mr. LEAHY. Ten minutes.
  Mr. REID. Ten minutes to the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Pat 
Leahy. I have already indicated Senator Sanders will have 15 minutes of 
our time.

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